Tesla’s Optimus V3 robot is stepping into the ring with some fancy new moves and taking on Unitree’s G1 with a flair that’s hard to ignore. It starts with a basic fist touch, just like human sparring partners do before a match. This sets the stage for a 36 second video that shows the robot getting progressively more fluid with a human partner.
Charlotte is basically an eight legged robot made with Earthbuilt Technology that doesn’t use hammers or pull beams; it builds walls layer by layer, turns dirt and waste into homes before sunset twice.
DoorDash just unveiled Dot, a tiny red robot who will deliver your food across town. This four-wheeled wonder can go up to 20 mph, weaving through highways, bike lanes, sidewalks and even tight driveways with ease. Dot weighs 350 pounds and is 4.5 feet tall by 3 feet wide, and besides the bright red paint job, her face has huge LED eyes as well as a swinging mouth that opens to discharge cargo—up to 30 pounds of it, or six stacked pizza boxes if you’re ordering for the block party.
Field Station: Dinosaurs, the weird New Jersey attraction in Overpeck County Park, Leonia, is closing its doors for good on November 9, 2025 after 14 years. This is a once in a lifetime chance for dinosaur enthusiasts, collectors or anyone with a big backyard to buy a life-sized animatronic T-Rex, Spinosaurus or Velociraptor off Facebook Marketplace.
Kepler Robotics has started mass production of its K2 Bumblebee, a humanoid robot that’s ready to ship to customers. Based in Shanghai, the company announced it with a video showing the bot from concept to manufacturing lines, including footage of it folding clothes and sorting crates. Thousands of pre-orders are in, and at $30,000 this is the first robot you can buy off the shelf rather than waiting for some distant future promise.
A team from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University created a soft robot that defies all expectations, crawling across floors and climbing walls like a caterpillar. SPARC (Soft, Proprioceptive, Agile Robot for 3D Climbing) is a soft robot that uses origami-inspired designs to move as precisely as rigid robots while carrying loads more than twice as heavy.
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 models are a huge step toward robots that think, plan, and act intelligently, potentially changing how machines interact with our world.
Engineers at Unitree decided to test their latest robot upgrades the old fashioned way: by hitting it in the face. In a recent demo, the company’s G1 humanoid robot gets a chest-high kick and back shove, and falls each time but gets up before the dust settles. That’s thanks to a new feature called Anti-Gravity mode, which improves the robot’s balance.
