Global fast-food giant McDonald’s is testing humanoid service robots at a restaurant in Shanghai, as part of an early-stage effort to explore automation in customer-facing environments. According to reports from tech publications including T3 and Digital Trends, the pilot involves robots developed by Keenon Robotics performing a range of front-of-house tasks.

A hot pot restaurant in Cupertino that, true to its Silicon Valley location, uses a humanoid robot to take orders from customers and also features it dancing in the dining room, lost control of that robot and it started making a serious mess.

Humanoid robot learns impressive tennis skills from imperfect human motion  Tech Xplore.

Humanoid Robots: Two-Way Empowerment Through Investment and Cooperation, Driving a New Phase of Industrial Synergy  ARC Advisory.

Atlas’ Evolution From Research Robot to Industrial Humanoid  Boston Dynamics.

Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics Soars to $30 Billion Valuation as Humanoid Robots Drive Investor Frenzy  kmjournal.

US tech firms, including Boston Dynamics, push for curbs on Chinese robot makers over alleged 'security risks'; Chinese experts say claims reflect anxiety, envy  Global Times.

China opens ‘robot schools’ to train humanoids for factory and logistics work  Interesting Engineering.

RealSense Unveils First-of-its-Kind Humanoid Autonomous Navigation at NVIDIA GTC, Reinforcing Its Leadership in Vision AI and Human-Robot Safety  Business Wire.

Is this the world’s first robot ARREST? Bizarre moment humanoid is detained by police after ‘harassing elderly woman’  the-sun.

This weird-looking humanoid robot could help China conquer the moon: scientists  South China Morning Post.

Physical AI is rapidly evolving, from next-generation software-defined autonomous vehicles (AVs) to humanoid robots.

Tencent (TCEHY) Brings AI Agents to WeChat’s 1 Billion Users as Alibaba and Baidu Race Ahead  TipRanks.

OpenAI Is Toning Down The Cringe Factor Of ChatGPT But Those Smarmy AI Responses Will Still Make You Shudder  Forbes.

AI abundance promises free everything through massive centralized infrastructure. Whoever controls the energy and AI factories dictates distribution terms and user autonomy.

SF protesters call for AI pause at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI as White House pushes national framework, Trump seeks liability limits  ABC7 San Francisco.

The Meta co-founder is reportedly working on a personal AI agent to bypass management layers as Meta pushes employees to adopt agentic tools.

BMG Sues Anthropic Over Alleged Use of Copyrighted Lyrics in AI Training  Law Commentary.

OpenAI’s new frontier models mark a huge change in how AI will be built  Fast Company.

Acalvio debuts 360 Deception platform to counter agentic AI, erode speed and trust advantage held by modern attackers  Industrial Cyber.

GPT-5.4 mini brings some of the smarts of OpenAI's latest model to ChatGPT Free and Go users  Engadget.

AI autonomy governance (a governance framework for agentic AI ): enabling safe, accountable, and scalable autonomous intelligence  TMForum - Inform.

Andrej Karpathy Says AI Agents Are Rewriting How Software Gets Built, Adds He Hasn't Typed 'A Line Of Code Probably Since December,'  Benzinga.

Manifold Announces $8M Seed Funding Round to Secure Autonomous Endpoint AI Agents at Runtime  AI Insider.

Orbital UAV expands global defence drone footprint with new engine, diagnostics order and NATO-aligned MoU  TipRanks.

RAF downs Iranian drone as UK escalates support for US operations against Iran — Araghchi issues stark warning  Gulf News.

U.S. Army awards $52 million contract to Skydio for over 2,500 X10D tactical drones in rapid procurement  Defence Industry Europe.

Ukrainian mid-range drones are consistently wiping out Russian air defences: results over the past year  Українська правда.

U.S. Speeds MADIS Counter-Drone Deployment to Marines Against Low-Cost UAV Threats  Army Recognition.

ADF drone pilots clinch sixth consecutive win at Military International Drone Racing Tournament  defenceconnect.com.

Emirati and Kuwaiti air defences responding to missile fire early Friday, authorities in the Gulf states say, while Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted drone attacks. | via Agence France-Presse  facebook.

North moves to integrate conventional, nuclear forces with latest tank, drone, rocket drills  Korea JoongAng Daily.

Anduril begins production of autonomous military drones amid tech and workforce expansion  10TV.

$20,000 Iranian Kamikaze Drone Destroys $2M Saab Giraffe Radar at U.S.

Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft feared destroyed in Iran drone strike on UAE air base  Aerospace Global News.

Nigerian soldiers repel drone attack on military base and kill 80 Islamic extremists, army says  New York Post.

With last-mile delivery company RIVR now at Amazon, could we soon see quadrupeds delivering our Amazon packages? The post Amazon acquires robotic doorstep delivery provider RIVR appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Bull Case For Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Could Change Following Targeted Cybersecurity Breach Disclosure – Learn Why  simplywall.

Tesla FSD Poised To Win European Approval. But TSLA Stock Completes A Round Trip.

Uber and Rivian Partner to Deploy up to 50,000 Fully Autonomous Robotaxis  RivianUber to invest up to $1.25 billion in EV maker Rivian in deal to launch 50,000 robotaxis  CNBCUber Is Cozying Up With Rivian. Does This Make Either Stock a Buy?

Tesla’s Full-Self Driving faces escalated U.S.

Auddia Inc. Unveils LT350 as Infrastructure Solution for Autonomous Vehicle Technology  Quiver Quantitative.

Nvidia pushes further into the autonomous vehicle space to compete with Tesla and Waymo  Sherwood News.

As Waymo prepares to launch its robotaxis in 20 cities this year, we're likely going to hear more stories of Waymo passengers who become the unwitting victims of anti-AI rage.

Nvidia Expands Autonomous Driving Push With Hyundai, Nissan, BYD, and Geely as Robotaxi Race Intensifies  Tekedia.

NVIDIA’s Alpamayo Brings Reasoning to Self‑Driving Tech  Technology Magazine.

Nvidia added two leading Chinese automakers, BYD and Geely, to its robotaxi program, as the chipmaker seeks to put its stamp on the growing autonomous vehicle market worldwide.

An upgraded Serbian MiG-29 was recently photographed with Chinese CM-400 supersonic standoff missiles. Images appeared on Mar. 10, 2026, on social media showing a Serbian Air Force and Air Defense (Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazduhoplovna odbrana Vojske Srbije) MiG-29SM Fulcrum carrying two Chinese CM-400 Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM).

Lucid Unveils Steering Wheel-Free Robotaxi Concept, Taking Aim at Tesla’s Cybercab  Claims Journal.

Nvidia GTC 2026: What to expect from Nvidia's biggest event of the year  Yahoo FinanceNvidia's GTC will mark an AI chip pivot.