Beijing's Noetix Robotics unveiled Bumi, the world's first high-performance humanoid robot priced under $1,400 USD (9,988 yuan). Standing 3 feet 1 inch (94 cm) tall and weighing 26.5 pounds (12 kg), this compact robot features at least 21 degrees of freedom, enabling smooth walking, running, and dance routines—ideal for safe family interaction. Designed for kids and education, Bumi offers intuitive drag-and-drop graphical programming for custom actions and voice interaction for companionship tas

Developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center in collaboration with Peking University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the World-Omniscient World Model (WoW) is the world's first self-evolving multimodal world model system. It combines a physical simulation model with a vision-language model, enabling robots to "imagine, verify and self-correct," and achieve human-like physical intuition through autonomous learning. #humanoidrobot | CGTN

This time, with feeling: Robots with emotional intelligence are on the way. Are we ready for them?

New AI humanoid robot learns to mimic human emotions and behavior in real time