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After Using AI In Its Photos, BMW Now Has Robots That'll Likely End Up Build ingMotorcycles

BMW seems to want to be on the forefront of new technologies, including using AI-generated images in its press photo materials. Now the company is touting its use of full-scale humanoid robots, and I'm not sure that's a great idea.

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Before The Matrix and The Terminator, there was 'The Creation of the Humanoids' — how an obscure 1962 B-movie set the scene for robot takeover and introduced the concept of centralized intelligence

Before modern robots, a 1962 B-movie and 1990s MIT research reshaped machine intelligence.

TechRadar

8 Ways AI Can Help You On Your Next Shopping Trip

Shopping no longer runs on instinct alone. Algorithms now shape prices, surface deals, predict trends, and even suggest what ends up in a cart. Artificial intelligence doesn’t just power futuristic robots or complicated data labs; it quietly sits inside favorite apps, websites, and even store loyalty programs.

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All the robots I met at MWC 2026, Europe’s largest tech show

Mobile World Congress 2026, Europe’s largest tech show, had no shortage of robotic entities roaming the floor, including both cute and utterly terrifying models.

Tom’s Guide

Scientists taught robots to swim through mazes using Einstein's relativity

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.

LiveScience

Is Europe losing the robotics race to China, and does it matter?

Chinese firms like Unitree and Agibot are dominating the global robotics market.

Euronews

Practical Ways AI Is Improving Transportation and Logistics Efficiency

AI is no longer a futuristic nice-to-have in the logistics sector. By 2026, it will have become the fundamental operating system for the global supply chain.

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Top AI economist who found 'significant and disproportionate impact' on entry-level jobs finds link between robots and minimum wage hikes

If you raise the minimum wage 10%, then robot adoption goes up 8%, research looking at data from 1992 to 2021 shows.

Fortune

Will AI drones, robots and wearable sensors revolutionize workplace safety?

Around 60 per cent of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement, rather than replace, their work. For some, it could prevent illness, injury or death.

The Conversation

Spain: From AI assistants to humanoid robots, 5G dominates MWC Barcelona

Spain’s MWC in Barcelona showcases real-world AI and 5G, from humanoid robots to connected ambulances.

Euronews

China's economic ambitions hit limits to growth as its national congress meets

China’s progress in building a modern economy, evident in its kung-fu fighting robots and self-parking cars, is hitting limits as a downturn in its housing industry drags on and young people struggle to find jobs

The Independent UK

5 Stocks Racing Ahead as AI Supercharges Robotics

AI is accelerating robotics adoption across industries. These five stocks spanning EVs, chips, farming, testing, and surgery are positioned to benefit most.

MarketBeat

Elon Musk's Bold Predictions: 10 Milestones He Says Will Happen by 2030

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and Neuralink, has made a series of ambitious forecasts about technology, society and humanity's future, many targeting the end of this decade.

International Business Times

‘The cows beat the shit out of the robots the first day’: the tech revolution designed to improve dairy farming

Automated milking systems are recognised as a more humane solution for both cows and farmers – but they take some getting used to

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 199 — The Obsolete Astronaut?

On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better —and more safely —than humans in space.

Fortune

Something big is happening in AI, but panic is the wrong reaction

The robots are coming, the robots are coming ... just like they have been for a long, long time.

Fortune

Meet your new robot fry cooks: Inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box

Miso Robotics’ Flippy slung chicken tenders and Tater Tots at Dodger Stadium, and CEO Rich Hull has bigger ambitions for the tech.

Fortune

An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’

Rodney Brooks said future “humanoid” robots will have wheels and multiple arms.

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Is this the future of train travel? Robot dogs and drones take over a metro station in China

China's first full-space "robot cluster" is designed to support staff, speed up important train inspections, and make metro travel safer.

PC Gamer

Guy accidentally takes command of 7,000 robots in the homes of 7,000 strangers while trying to control his vacuum with a gamepad

Oops.

The Conversation

China’s dancing robots are a wake-up call for Australia on policy and productivity

Chinese state television rang in the Year of the Horse with humanoid robots doing kung fu, comedy sketches and mass choreography. They made complex martial arts choreography look easy. Social media was flooded with memes about “machines replacing humans”.

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Uber Wants To Win The Autonomous Vehicle Race. So It's Betting On All Of The Horses [Update]

The company has made deals with some 20 different self-driving startups around the world. But can it catch Waymo?

The Guardian - UK

The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots

When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the implications could be mind-boggling

GamesRadar

As Arc Raiders enters a peaceful era of jolly cooperation, I'm begging Embark Studios to make the robots terrifying again

Opinion | An occasional excess of pigeons isn't yet enough to turn around a game that's becoming less threatening every day

TechRadar

Amazon cans a major warehouse robotics project — but Blue Jay will live on, with new robots set to come soon

Amazon’s Blue Jay robotics project ended quickly, but Vulcan demonstrates advanced dual-arm AI handling.

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