AI and Humanoids
Artificial Intelligence may prove to be a more significant milestone than the harnessing of fire, or the invention of the wheel. It's the fastest-evolving technology the world has ever seen, with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots. It's the first invention that threatens to be superior to humans in nearly every conceivable way, perhaps sooner than we thought.
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EngineAI's T800 humanoid robot, backed by 1-billion yuan in funding, boasts acrobatic combat skills, human-like agility, modular batteries, and advanced AI. Mass production begins in 2026, aiming to revolutionize industrial applications worldwide. -
Researchers from Swiss university EPFL have removed the AI middle-man. There's reportedly no need to access Big Data centers, as their new downloadable Anyway Systems software can handle your AI processing needs locally. -
How are you using new AI technology? Surely you're only deploying things like ChatGPT to summarize long texts or draft up mindless emails. But what are you losing by taking these shortcuts? And is this tech taking away our ability to think?
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April 19, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonA field of robots competing in a half marathon demonstrated how frighteningly fast the technology has developed in 12 months. Even if one bot had a race to forget, smashing into pieces at the starting line, Honor's Lightning instead smashed records. -
April 19, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonIf it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because they've developed a model that "evolves" on its own, creating better versions of itself with each self-analytical loop. -
April 13, 2026 | Omar KardoudiAn AI-powered suit developed by PhD students at the University of Chicago teaches physical skills by literally moving your muscles for you with electrical pulses. No pre-programming needed – it reads the situation and adapts on the fly. -
March 23, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalElon Musk has previously promised the fully autonomous Teslas and ultrafast Hyperloop transport – both of which are yet to materialize. For his next trick, he plans to build an enormous chip manufacturing plant to accelerate humanity's future. -
March 19, 2026 | Loz BlainA new real-time video AI model was demonstrated yesterday, capable of generating its first frame in less than a tenth of a second. If you feel like the world's out of control right now and full of AI bullshit, just wait for what's coming. -
March 19, 2026 | Loz BlainThis ain't teleoperation. Chinese researchers have tested a new, much quicker and easier method of teaching robots to play tennis, and the results look like a breakthrough in machine learning and real-world AI. -
March 14, 2026 | Michael FrancoTexas Instruments has teamed up with NVIDIA to link technologies designed to "accelerate the path from simulation to the safe deployment of humanoid robots in the real world." The partnership fuses real-world sensing tech with massive computing power. -
March 07, 2026 | Michael FrancoBMW is expanding its investigation of humanoid robotic workers at its factories. The automaker has just announced that it will trial a set of physical AI bots made by Hexagon for the first time at one of its European plants. -
February 08, 2026 | Chelsea HaneyResearchers have developed an electronic skin that allows humanoid robots to distinguish everyday touch from damaging force. That ability, once reserved for living nervous systems, could reshape how robots interact with the physical world and with humans. -
February 07, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalTerrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a bonkers idea, so let's unpack what it's all about. -
February 04, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonShanghai robotics startup DroidUp has launched what it calls "a beautifully designed and expressive bionic robot" that is touted as "the world's first highly bionic robot that deeply integrates human aesthetics and advanced humanoid movement." -
January 30, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalGoogle's just begun opening up access to an AI model I can actually get behind. This one lets you generate a virtual world of any kind and travel through it with a vehicle or character like in a video game – all with a simple text prompt. -
January 29, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonAI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how difficult it is to put "creativity" in a measurable box. -
January 29, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalTesla just wrapped up its earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year, in which it recorded that its year-on-year profits dropped by nearly half. Its next plan: take over the world with humanoid robots that do household chores and help factory workers. -
January 23, 2026 | Rich HaridyUse AI long enough and eventually you lose the ability to communicate your inner thoughts. You think in terms of LLM prompts. And if our inner thoughts then resemble LLM outputs does that mean the computer is getting smarter, or we are getting dumber?
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