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Agility Robotics Digit adds a dead-lift skill: 65 lbs, zero hardware changes
Agility’s bipedal humanoid Digit just learned to dead-lift a 65-lb (29.5 kg) object with dynamic whole-body balance. No new actuators, no mechanical upgrades. The entire policy was trained in simulation, then dropped onto the real robot. Keep in mind — Digit is the only humanoid currently on a payroll, already moving totes at GXO Logistics… Continue reading
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DoorDash Dot: the first delivery robot cleared for sidewalks, bike lanes AND public roads
DoorDash Labs’ in-house bot Dot is running commercial orders across Tempe, Mesa and two other Phoenix suburbs. About 1/10 the size of a car, top speed 20 mph. Unlike Starship (sidewalks only) or Nuro (roads only), Dot switches freely between sidewalks, bike lanes and public streets. That’s the unlock — and why April’s CBS segment… Continue reading
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Pophie (by InsBotics) hits Kickstarter April 26 — $300 for a desktop robot calling itself an AI lifeform
InsBotics puts its desktop companion robot on Kickstarter April 26, 2026, priced $300-400. Small round body, HD circular face screen, 360° rotatable vision sensor. The “world’s first AI lifeform” tagline is bold marketing for what’s essentially a webcam, screen and mic wrapped around a multimodal model. What the hardware actually does The 360° camera gives… Continue reading
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Elgato Stream Deck (MCP-enabled) becomes the first consumer hardware to speak Model Context Protocol
A physical OLED keypad now takes orders from Claude Elgato pushed Stream Deck 7.4 with a native Model Context Protocol server baked into the firmware. The hardware hasn’t changed — same 15-key OLED console streamers have had on their desks for years — but every button is now a tool any MCP-capable agent can enumerate… Continue reading
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Honor Lightning ran Beijing’s half marathon in 50:26 — 7 minutes faster than the human world record
A 90-cm robot built by a smartphone company outran Jacob Kiplimo this morning in Beijing. Honor — yes, the Huawei spin-off — sent its Lightning humanoid to the second E-Town half marathon and finished in 50 minutes 26 seconds on full autonomous navigation. Kiplimo’s human world record from last month: 57:20. Honor took the whole… Continue reading
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Physical Intelligence π0.7 controls UR5e, Franka, and PI Droid from one cloud API
Physical Intelligence dropped π0.7 on April 16. The viral demo: a UR5e bimanual arm folding laundry with zero training data on that exact hardware. The same weights also pull espresso shots, bag groceries, and figure out an air fryer that appeared in training exactly twice. Dumb arms, cloud brain π0.7 isn’t a robot — it’s… Continue reading
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Toyota CUE7 sinks threes from 25 meters on two wheels — 46kg lighter than CUE6
Toyota wheeled CUE7 onto the floor at Tokyo’s Toyota Arena on April 12, 2026, and the robotics crowd noticed. 219cm tall, 74kg — down from the 120kg CUE6 a year earlier. And it’s hitting three-pointers from 25 meters. The hardware CUE7 ditches bipedal legs for an inverted two-wheel chassis, which is why it shed nearly… Continue reading
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GEODASH Aerosystems vs DJI Agras: map-free spraying drones target oil palm plantations
Paul Yam, CEO: “Agriculture does not need bigger drones — it needs smarter ones.” GEODASH Aerosystems, the Singapore JV between DroneDash Technologies and GNSS network GEODNET, went public April 15. Industrial AI spraying drone. Commercial launch Q3 2026. Why map-free matters Every DJI Agras or XAG job starts the same way: fly a survey drone,… Continue reading
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Ecovacs DEEBOT X12 OmniCyclone (with AGENT YIKO 2.0) lands April 14 at $1,499, pre-dissolves stains before it mops
Ecovacs launched the DEEBOT X12 OmniCyclone in the US and Canada on April 14, 2026. It is a bagless robot vacuum-and-mop with 22,000Pa blast suction, 22 L/s airflow, and an onboard AI agent called AGENT YIKO 2.0. This isn’t a new hero robot — it’s the X12 chassis with a smarter stain pipeline and a… Continue reading
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Olares One (April shipping batch) ships — RTX 5090 Mobile + 96GB RAM for 70B local LLMs on your desk
Olares crushed its Kickstarter goal. $2.3M from 800+ backers. The April shipping batch is landing on desks right now. This isn’t a NUC, it’s not a hobby Pi — it’s a full AI desktop built to replace your cloud LLM bill. What’s actually in the box NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile GPU. Intel Core Ultra… Continue reading
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