When Ai Lin bought his first humanoid robot last year, he wasn’t thinking about how it could make his life easier by doing his dishes. He instead rented it out.

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In the race to commercialize humanoid robots, companies are increasingly looking beyond hardware demonstrations toward systems that continuously interact with people and collect real-world data.

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Engineers are betting on a fully autonomous robot team that can one day defeat the World Cup champions. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There is a whirr, a flurry of dust, a pause as the grainy image recalibrates, and then a devastating blast. Underground, dozens of miles away, veterans of the most brutal urban battles in Ukraine, of ...