Midea’s 6-armed robot signals 2026 price war
Why function beats form PLUS: First fully robotic microsurgery in the US
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Surgeon performs cancer surgery from 5,000km away
PLUS: Medtronic and CMR break Intuitive’s US monopoly, Surgerii raises $100M, CES 2026 preview
New e-skin lets humanoids feel pain, react instantly
PLUS: China’s humanoid standards, Richtech’s CES debut, and Ukraine’s robot repair lines
Boston Dynamics targets brownfield factories with electric Atlas
PLUS: Why humanoids 'suck', Vicarious Surgical pivots, DEEP Robotics wins CES
‘Dark factories’ cut operating costs by 60%
PLUS: Japan’s physical AI deficit, Unitree clarifies viral kick, GITAI’s moon rover
Zerith mass produces $13k humanoid at 100/month
PLUS: UBTech’s $237M acquisition, Waymo vs 7,000 dark signals, Robot sabotage
Boston Dynamics to debut next-gen Atlas at CES
PLUS: Humanoids enter chip factories, rover changes its own tires
Morgan Stanley: China leads US 5-to-1 in humanoid patents
PLUS: Musk praises concert bots, Da Vinci 5 surgery, $5.8B milking market
CATL achieves world’s first scale deployment of humanoids
PLUS: RealMan open-sources robot dataset, China’s robot bubble fears, and Moon Surgical adds Nvidia AI
