🇨🇳 LATEST: China's UBTECH unveils the U1 Pro, a full-size humanoid robot with a built-in emotional AI model and customizable appearance.

Could the first goal of the 2026 World Cup be scored by the Atlas humanoid robot? With smooth movement, precision, balance, and power, Atlas shows impressive whole-body coordination even in simple soccer drills. --- (Tremble, humans…humanoid robots may soon dominate the pitch)

Remember the humanoid robot used for hotel cleaning? Customers are already using it. Zerith Robotics, a startup from Hefei, has deployed multiple Zerith H1 robots in shopping malls, office buildings, and supermarkets in cities like Hefei Airport, Hefei Gas Building, and Shenzhen MixC, acting as cleaners and sales assistants. The Zerith H1 can autonomously perform cleaning tasks such as cleaning toilets, mopping floors, and wiping sinks. In supermarkets, it carries a shopping basket, autonomously picks up snacks, and automatically processes orders. From experimentation to trial use and real-world deployment, Zerith has built it into a commercial humanoid robot service solution, already used in over 20 landmark locations, and plans to expand to more cities like Hangzhou and Shanghai. From a commercial service reliability perspective, wheeled humanoid robots are being prioritized by customers. It is worth mentioning that Zerith was officially established in January of this year by a young team from the Tsinghua AI Robotics Laboratory. Last year, they successively launched Zerith Z1 (bipedal) and Zerith H1 (wheeled).

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Robot Dogs Get a Language Brain for Real-World Jobs Deep Robotics' DeepVLA 1.0 is here: The AI brain that finally gets robot dogs off the leash. The new Vision-Language Embodied Navigation System uses LLMs and real-time semantic vision to push quadruped robots from lab demos to daily life. It solves critical challenges for civilian use in community delivery, inspection, and building services: ► Natural Language Control: Users can guide the robot using simple commands, like "go to building 5." ► Semantic Navigation: Understands the environment to build smart, traversable routes, actively preventing things like "trampling the grass." ► Door-to-Door Precision: Navigates complex, dynamic environments (crowds, bikes) outdoors and indoors.