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Shanghai Robot Lifts 5,000 kg, Doubles the Guinness Load Record
Technology

Shanghai Robot Lifts 5,000 kg, Doubles the Guinness Load Record

Shanghai Chaifu's CR5000-3700 industrial robot hoisted over 5,000 kilograms in Jinshan district, setting a new Guinness World Record and more than doubling the 2016 mark.

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AI Breakthrough Cuts Energy Use 100x Without Losing Accuracy
Technology

AI Breakthrough Cuts Energy Use 100x Without Losing Accuracy

A Tufts University team showed that pairing classic symbolic logic with neural networks can match or beat large vision-language models on robotic tasks while using up to 100 times less energy.

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Tufts AI Cuts Energy Use 100x by Reasoning Like a Human
Technology

Tufts AI Cuts Energy Use 100x by Reasoning Like a Human

Tufts engineers built a robot brain that combines neural networks with old-school symbolic reasoning, slashing energy use by up to 100x while improving accuracy on real-world tasks.

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Robot Beats Human Half-Marathon Record in 50 Minutes
Technology

Robot Beats Human Half-Marathon Record in 50 Minutes

A humanoid robot named Lightning blazed through Beijing's half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — nearly seven minutes faster than the human world record.

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GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things
Technology

GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things

Generalist's new physical AI model can fold laundry, pack phones, and service vacuums at production-level accuracy — and recover from mistakes on its own.

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Disney's Walking, Talking Olaf Robot Steals the Show at NVIDIA GTC 2026
Technology

Disney's Walking, Talking Olaf Robot Steals the Show at NVIDIA GTC 2026

A real-life Olaf from Frozen walked onstage alongside Jensen Huang at GTC 2026, previewing autonomous Disney theme park characters powered by open-source AI and physics simulation.

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