Shengshi Technology: Plans to Establish Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Shengqiao Robot Company to Advance Humanoid Robot Business

Shengshi Technology (002990.SZ) announced that on September 12, 2025, the company held a board meeting where it approved the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Shenzhen Shengqiao Robot Co., ...
The Robot Report

Rethink Robotics shuts down — again

By September 2024, United Robotics Group ( URG ) relaunched Rethink and returned the company from Germany to the U.S. However ...
New York Post

Humanoid robots guided by AI set to compete in first 3-on-3 soccer game

Soccer is getting a high-tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend, and the players aren’t just fast — they’re fully robotic. The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the ...

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.
CNN

Robots race, play football, crash and collapse at China’s ‘robot Olympics’

China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries. Robots competed in ...