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Samsung Galaxy Glasses (Android XR): Two models, 50 grams, and Google’s entire AI stack on your face
Samsung’s COO Seong Cho confirmed it on an earnings call — Galaxy Glasses ship H2 2026. Two models leaked under SM-O200P and SM-O200J: one with a microLED in-lens display for navigation and live translation, one audio-only with mics, speakers, and a camera. Both run Android XR with Gemini baked in. Qualcomm AR1 chip, 12MP autofocal… Continue reading
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SwitchBot Onero H1: A 22-DOF Home Robot for $1,500 — With Full API Access
SwitchBot — the company behind those $30 smart curtain motors — showed up at CES 2026 with a wheeled humanoid robot. The Onero H1 stands 1.3m tall, has 22 degrees of freedom in its dual arms, and runs OmniSense VLA on-device — fusing visual, depth, and tactile data from Intel RealSense cameras. It folds laundry,… Continue reading
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Amazon Paid $50,000-Per-Unit for This 3.5-Foot Humanoid — Fauna Robotics Sprout Is Now an Amazon Robot
Amazon didn’t buy Fauna Robotics for the robot. It bought the tooling to build one. The Sprout — a 107cm, 22.7kg bipedal humanoid with a sage-green foam shell — shipped its Creator Edition in January 2026 at $50,000 a pop. Two months later, Amazon acquired the entire company. Disney and Hyundai were already customers. The… Continue reading
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Alibaba Qwen Smart Glasses (G1 & S1): $275 AI glasses with swappable batteries and a Qwen API backend
Alibaba shipped AI smart glasses. Not a concept, not a dev kit — retail units on sale in China since March 8, starting at 1,899 yuan ($275) for the G1. That’s $100 less than Meta Ray-Ban. Two models. The G1 is camera-only: Sony IMX681 sensor, 12MP, 109-degree FOV, 3K video at 30fps with AI upscaling… Continue reading
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Shield AI V-BAT / X-BAT: $2B Raised, 130+ Combat Sorties, and a Drone That Flies Without GPS
Shield AI just closed $2 billion in funding at a $12.7 billion valuation — more than doubling in twelve months. The money is for two autonomous VTOL drones: the V-BAT and the upcoming X-BAT. V-BAT is a tail-sitting, ducted-fan drone — 12.5 ft wingspan, 161 lbs gross weight, 12+ hours endurance, 40 lb payload capacity.… Continue reading
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Huawei AI Glasses launch April 21 — 11-hour battery, built-in camera, and a HarmonyOS SDK play
Huawei’s consumer boss He Gang posted real camera samples from the company’s first camera-equipped smart glasses on April 8. The photos blew up across Chinese tech media overnight. The hardware drops April 21 alongside the Pura 90 phone line. The Hardware AI smart glasses. Aerospace-grade titanium alloy frame, roughly 30g. Built-in camera for first-person photo… Continue reading
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Serve Robotics Maggie: The Delivery Robot That Talks Back
Serve Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV) just showed off Maggie at NVIDIA GTC 2026 — a sidewalk delivery robot that can hold a real-time conversation with pedestrians. Not pre-recorded voice lines. Actual conversational AI, processed at the edge. What Makes Maggie Different Serve already has 2,000+ robots rolling across the US, delivering for 3,600+ restaurants through Uber… Continue reading
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NEURA Robotics 4NE1 Mini: A Porsche-Designed Humanoid Robot for EUR 19,999
Porsche designed a humanoid robot. Not a concept — a 132cm, 36kg compact humanoid that starts shipping this month at EUR 19,999. The NEURA Robotics 4NE1 Mini is one of the first consumer-accessible humanoids to actually leave the factory, and robotics communities can’t stop talking about the price. What You Get Studio F.A. Porsche —… Continue reading
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EngineAI T800 powers URKL — 16 teams fight for a 10 kg gold belt worth $1.4M
Shenzhen-based EngineAI launched the world’s first commercialized humanoid robot combat league. URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend) opened global registration on April 3. Deadline: April 30. The champion walks away with a solid gold belt — 10 kg, valued at roughly $1.45M. Top 16 teams each receive a T800 robot for continued R&D. The Hardware The… Continue reading
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Snap Specs signs multiyear Qualcomm deal — consumer AR glasses with OpenAI and Gemini ship H2 2026
Snap spun out its AR glasses into a standalone subsidiary (Specs Inc.) in January. Now it locked in the silicon: a multiyear Qualcomm deal to run Snapdragon XR inside consumer Specs shipping second half of this year. Snap stock popped on the news. The Hardware Standalone see-through AR glasses. Dual Snapdragon processors, four cameras (two… Continue reading
