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Robots

August 2026

  • Dave Schilling

    If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid

    Dave Schilling
    A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom. Is this our educational future?

July 2026

  • Multiple white humanoid robots with black accents stand in formation inside a modern showroom

    US bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’

    Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the US
  • A humanoid robot in glasses and suit jacket 'speaks' into microphone in front of branded backdrop

    New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash

    Salamanca City Central says it is pausing project with Realbotix as it addresses concerns including data privacy

    • ‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

    • TV review
      Ann Droid review – Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful

    • China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

June 2026

  • John McEnroe serving in the 1980 Wimbledon men's final against Bjorn Borg

    Wimbledon guests chance their arm against robot mimicking stars’ serves

    Tournament’s serving machine can deliver balls in the style of anyone from John McEnroe to Elina Svitolina
  • A six-wheel Starship delivery robot on a suburban street, with a sticker that reads: 'Yup, I deliver groceries!'

    ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes

    Starship Technologies six-wheelers could soon become a more familiar sight across the country under new laws
  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace

    Heather Stewart
    As technology advances quickly, firms should not lose sight of what qualities humans bring to jobs

May 2026

  • Honor's Lightning humanoid robot from team Qitian Dasheng (Great Sage) crosses the finish line during the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-marathon on April 19, 2026 in Beijing, China.

    Science Weekly
    Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast

    Podcast17:07
  • A pink Coco delivery robot with an orange flag waits at a street corner by a crosswalk

    Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

  • visitors meet with robots on stage at Galaxy Robot Park

    K-pop androids and automated artists: welcome to South Korea’s strange and ambitious robot theme park

  • A tall prototype robot stands on two legs in a lab.

    AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder

  • I, robe-ot: the android monk working to reboot the faith of South Korea’s Buddhists

  • Robo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion

    Emma John

April 2026

  • A humanoid robot pushes a cargo container during a media demonstration at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Monday

    Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

    Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
  • An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line. Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside China’s robotics revolution – podcast

    How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out

    By Chang Che. Read by Vincent Lai
    Podcast43:25

    • ‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

    • AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players

    • My best shot
      Emma the joke-telling robot cracks up the care home: Paula Hornickel’s best photograph

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