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Humanoid

Siemens and Humanoid test HMND 01 Alpha for logistics tasks

The Robot Report·Apr 17, 2026

Siemens tested the Humanoid mobile manipulator using NVIDIA simulation and development tools at its electronics factory in Erlangen, German…

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General

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

The Verge AI·Apr 17, 2026

{"#text":"Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus acros…

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Scores of Chinese women smuggled into Germany for massive prostitution ring: prosecutors

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 17, 2026

Scores of Chinese women were brought to Germany without valid residency permits for sex work across the country, prosecutors in Frankfurt a…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Deadlift

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 17, 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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General

Pie Day 2026

MIT Technology Review·Apr 17, 2026

Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https:…

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Manipulation

Robot Talk Episode 152 – Dexterous robot hands, with Rich Walker

Robohub·Apr 17, 2026

Claire chatted to Rich Walker from Shadow Robot Company about their advanced robotic hands for research and industry. Rich Walker has been…

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General

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

MIT Technology Review·Apr 17, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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General

Chef Robotics completes 100M meal servings milestone

The Robot Report·Apr 17, 2026

Chef Robotics hits 100 million servings, using real-world physical AI to automate high-volume meal production across the globe. The post Ch…

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Research

How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

MIT Technology Review·Apr 17, 2026

Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they…

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Manipulation

The case for fixing everything

MIT Technology Review·Apr 17, 2026

The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series…

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Startup

China’s 3-satellite surveillance network, Hong Kong’s inflation surge: SCMP’s 7 highlights

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 17, 2026

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…

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Humanoid

AGIBOT deploys semi-humanoid robots in electronics manufacturing

The Robot Report·Apr 16, 2026

Longcheer has integrated multiple AGIBOT G2 robots into its tablet production lines, and plans to deploy 100 by Q3 2026. The post AGIBOT de…

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Skild acquires Fetch Robotics assets from Zebra

The Robot Report·Apr 16, 2026

Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics arm to deploy its hardware-agnostic "brain" and automate end-to-end warehouse fulfillment. T…

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Startup

Antioch raises funding to bring ‘software speed’ to robot development

The Robot Report·Apr 16, 2026

Antioch has raised money to scale its team and apply simulation to accelerate robotics testing and validation. The post Antioch raises fund…

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General

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks f…

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Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, govern…

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The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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General

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This…

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General

The quest to measure our relationship with nature

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosyste…

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The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

MIT Technology Review·Apr 16, 2026

When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world…

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General

Russian missiles and drones kill at least 17 across Ukraine in worst attack this year

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 16, 2026

Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 17 people, includi…

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Ukraine robot combat unit says it launched over 100 attacks on Russia’s forces

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 15, 2026

A Ukrainian unit said on Wednesday that it has carried out more than 100 attacks on the front using ground robots, after President Volodymy…

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General

Stereotaxis to acquire Robocath for up to $45M

The Robot Report·Apr 15, 2026

Stereotaxis says the acquisition strengthens its position as “a leading platform for the full spectrum of endovascular procedures.” The pos…

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AMR

Tesla to share roadmap for building AMRs at Robotics Summit & Expo

The Robot Report·Apr 15, 2026

Joshua Joseph, an AMR Deployment Engineer at Tesla, will present a roadmap for deploying AMRs in legacy manufacturing environments. The pos…

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