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Four Days Inside Xpeng: The Self-Driving Car That Fooled a 10-Year Skeptic

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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the […]

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Qualcomm’s Computex spread runs from $300 laptops to humanoid robot brains

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Qualcomm came to Computex with two announcements that sound like they belong to different companies. One is a chip platform for $300 Windows laptops. The other is a ready-made brain for humanoid and industrial robots. The thread connecting them is Qualcomm’s pitch that intelligence now has to run everywhere, from the cheapest laptop to a

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Home Robots in 2026: What’s Shipping, What’s Vaporware

Home Robots in 2026 What's Shipping, What's Vaporware

January’s CES floor was thick with home robots. Booths lined up humanoids, rolling AI projectors, and dual-armed butlers, and every press release headline read some variant of “available in 2026.” Six months later, almost none of them sit in actual living rooms. Three units clear the bar as of May 2026. 1X NEO is open

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Best of MWC 2026: The Tech That Actually Stopped Us in Barcelona

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Most years, you leave Barcelona with a notebook full of announcements and a mental list of things you’ll forget by April. Incremental updates dressed up as revolutions. Concept phones that will never ship. Folding screens nobody asked for, made slightly less fragile than the ones from the year before. This year felt different. A few

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Every Pool Robot Needs Cleaning, Except This One

Beatbot AquaSense X robotic pool cleaner docked at the AstroRinse self-cleaning station beside a residential swimming pool

Pool robots have come a long way. They scrub floors, climb walls, skim surfaces, and map your pool like a self-driving car navigates a highway. But every single one of them shares the same dirty secret: you still have to clean the cleaner. Every cycle ends the same way. You pull the robot out, pop

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AGIBOT’s X2 did a full split at MWC 2026 and you can already rent one

AGIBOT X2 humanoid robot demonstration at MWC 2026 Barcelona showing extreme flexibility and full split

ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the

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