At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot

The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.

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Elon Musk Sees ‘Rough’ Times Ahead

Shares in Tesla were down in premarket trading as the carmaker lays out the risks from President Trump’s tariffs and his scrapping of tax credits.

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Inside the Reindustrialize Summit and Its Push to Revive U.S. Manufacturing

Trump cabinet officials mingled with tech investors and manufacturers in an effort to supercharge factories.

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Your Job Interviewer Is Not a Person. It’s A.I.

You thought artificial intelligence was coming for your job? First, it’s coming for your job interviewer.

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Hard Fork Live, Part 2: CEOs of Stripe and Skip

More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.

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These Robots Do Windows

Ozmo, a system for washing windows, is safer and faster than humans, its company president says.

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Waymo Limits Service in San Francisco as LA Protests Spread

The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.

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Ispace of Japan’s Resilience Lander Heads to the Moon: How and When to Watch

Ispace crashed on the moon in 2023. Its second spacecraft, Resilience, aims in the hours ahead to succeed where its predecessor failed.

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China to Launch Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

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Elon Musk Warns China’s Rare Earth Restrictions May Delay Tesla Robots

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots.

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