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How China’s hyper-realistic humanoid robot achieved its eerily human walk

Rather than pushing a futuristic, machine-forward aesthetic, XPENG leans into recognisable visual cues such as body shape, ...
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This $175K Robot Is Almost Human. We Interviewed It at CES 2025

Robots were around every corner during CES 2025 this week, but there was one that got very close to sounding and looking like an actual human. CNET's Jesse Orrall interviewed Realbotix's Aria, a blond ...
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Chinese EV company ‘forced’ to cut open realistic AI robot to ‘prove’ it isn’t human

Technology company, Xpeng, unveiled its second-generation humanoid robot, IRON, at its AI Day in Guangzhou, China last week, rivalling Tesla’s Optimus robots. Powered by a solid-state battery and ...
Ars Technica

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the ...
Times of San Diego

Movie Review: ‘Companion’ Pairs Alluring Female Robot with a Misogynist Human

Feminine artificial intelligence is a trope that’s not uncommon in fiction by now, especially in film and on television. Take a hot female robot and a misogynistic male human and you’ve got a typical ...