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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company's keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated)

Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ10 robotics reference design.

A Qualcomm exec suffered from one of the most disastrous tech demos we’ve ever seen live on stage at Computex 2026 this summer. In what should have been a wow moment during a press event in Taipei, Qualcomm hardware partner NEURA Robotics’ 4NE-1 humanoid robot quickly shifted gears from being a technical tour de force to a crashing mechanical shambles.

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