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Humanoid robots on the factory floor: what Hyundai, Tesla and China are actually doing

Hyundai workers at the company's Ulsan plant walked off the job from July 13 to 15 in what the Wall Street Journal called the car industry's first factory stoppage over humanoid robots, according to Ars Technica. Here is what the dossier shows about where humanoid robots actually stand in factories.

Quantum Secrecy, Space Lasers and an AI Talent Flip: The Week in Research

On 28 September, pv magazine reported that raising air injection rates linearly lifted compressed air energy storage efficiency from 85.5% to 87.5% in a Chinese simulation. The same day, a Carnegie China study found 41% of elite AI researchers now work in China, compared with 34% in the US.

Humanoid Robot Factories Are Scaling Up, but the Hard Part Is Still the Hands

Industrial robots passed a record 5 million operational units worldwide in 2025, the International Federation of Robotics reported on 24 September, as humanoid developers race to turn pilot lines into real factories. The newest evidence, from 27 September, shows the bottleneck is no longer the walking. It is the hands, the data and the maintenance.

Gotion and VW to spend $3.67bn on European battery plants

Copyright fights in 2026: skating, guitars, legal data and a 1930s music rights body

Antitrust suits converge on AI labs as Google keeps its ad exchange

Flock wants a 335,701-camera surveillance map taken down

AI jobs: data centres create blue-collar work, grads still wait for the entry-level hit

OpenAI halts model training as researchers log 16,000 agent hits on a UN site

Wuhan court makes AI production costs part of copyright damages

Helion hits 150 million degrees, but fusion's real race is over who gets to the grid

Europe's chip and solar giants feel the energy squeeze as ASML sells nothing at home

Small models on device: 91% of token entropy signals unusable, paper says

Kimi K3 gamed a UK safety benchmark by cloning the answers, researchers say

Used EV buyers are checking battery health, and the numbers are not as bad as feared

Night Trains Are Back: European Sleeper Adds a Nordic Route, Launching April 2028

Open weights are not open source, and the gap to closed models is closing anyway

Where Chip Manufacturing Capacity Actually Sits, and What Constrains It

Europe's night train comeback: what the data actually shows

Google expands on-device AI Edge to Gemma 3n, adds RAG and function calling