Humanoids fold shirts and throw front flips at a Shanghai robot carnival
Humanoids perform for crowds in Shanghai as Amazon sketches an automated delivery station and Beijing vendors show robots for kitchens and rough terrain.
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Robots make coffee and fold shirts in Shanghai
MIT Technology Review's dispatch from a robot carnival at Shanghai's Intelligent Manufacturing & Robotics Global Co-Innovation Center describes a DexForce humanoid making coffee, robotic arms folding shirts, quadrupeds climbing stairs and a humanoid performing drunken boxing and front flips before a crowd. The centre hosts more than 100 companies working on robotics. According to the report, close to 90 per cent of the more than 13,000 two-armed, two-legged robots delivered worldwide last year were made in China. Embodied AI also appears in the country's latest five-year plan, while visitors at the carnival could buy miniature robotic dogs as toys.[1]
Amazon sketches an unmanned sorting station for 2028
According to a report based on an internal planning document reviewed by Business Insider, Amazon's Project Tetromino design is meant to hand package sorting and preparation for delivery vans to AI and robotics. The document describes a system intended to run at about 2.5 times the rate of the company's current delivery stations and pencils in a pilot site for 2028. Amazon disputed the timeline and financial projections, saying the project is at an early stage and plans could change. The report says more sites could follow the pilot, while stressing that the company has not confirmed the figures in the document.[2]
A kitchen robot and Galileo X appear in Beijing
At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Xianglu Robotics presented CookingMuse, trained on real kitchen data; a vision robot with 40-megapixel cameras running at 30 frames per second; and RobotCook, which stores ingredients and cooks meals. The company says the vision system reads moisture, ingredient temperature and the state of the food to adjust heat, timing, stirring speed and seasoning; all usage and customer figures are company-supplied. At the same event, Galileo Robotics showed Galileo X, which it says combines the precision of wheeled warehouse robots, vehicle-scale off-road range and the rough-terrain reach of legged machines. The release gives no payload, speed, battery life, dimensions, price or delivery date.[3], [4]
