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The Robots Had Their Biggest Week Yet — Record-Breaking Games, a Viral $399 Duck, and Billion-Dollar Bets

Robotics stopped feeling like a side story this week and started feeling like the main event, with humanoid machines breaking human athletic records, a tiny desktop robot going viral, and investors…

  • Robots set world records at China's Humanoid Robot Games, outperforming human reflexes
  • Microduck desktop robot sells over $1M worth, coinciding with Nvidia-Hugging Face acquisition talks

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