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General

No one else will do: What a pair of figure skaters can teach us about familiarity in Japanese

Japan Times Technology·Apr 18, 2026

An Olympic duo illustrates how honorifics and in-group dynamics can signal closeness across different contexts.

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General

Former death row inmate's sister slams Japan's retrial review plan

Japan Times Technology·Apr 18, 2026

Iwao Hakamata's elder sister called for public prosecutors to be barred from appealing court decisions granting retrials.

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Humanoid

​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 14, 2026

The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask prop…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 3, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Humanoid

Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 2, 2026

In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multiyear, multimillion-dolla…

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Research

Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 2, 2026

Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. They hope the receiver might be part of a wire…

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Humanoid

30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Mar 25, 2026

When you hear the term humanoid robot, you may think of C-3PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to ass…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Feb 20, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Humanoid

Tech Is Taking Over Olympic Curling

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Feb 18, 2026

At this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy, the controversy began with a fingertip.A disputed double-touch—whether a curler had brushed a movi…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Robot Collective Stays Alive Even When Parts Die

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Feb 13, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Autonomous Robots Learn By Doing in This Factory

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Feb 6, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jan 30, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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