ROBOTS IN ACTION
Click here to watch reporters interview a trilingual humanoid robot at the SCO summit. Source: Getty Images
Ambassador GPT: China rolled out a trilingual humanoid robot receptionist to greet world leaders and journalists at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. When pressed about India-China relations, the robot had the diplomatic wherewithal to play it safe, refusing to comment on politics. See it get interviewed by reporters here.
Dish It Out: Figure has posted a video of its 02 humanoid robot stacking, sorting, and loading dishes in a dishwasher with centimeter-scale precision. Using the same Helix AI model that already powers towel folding and package sorting, the robot learned the new skill purely through new training data rather than task-specific programming — a sign that the company’s general-purpose architecture is scaling exactly as intended.
Droid of the Deep: UK and Brazilian researchers have unveiled a tentacle-armed robot designed to inspect offshore infrastructure at crushing depths of nearly 10,000 feet. The flexible robot can withstand forces up to 300 g while maintaining precision — a potential game-changer for an industry facing over $100B in decommissioning costs by 2030.