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American Airlines has joined United, Delta, and Southwest in explicitly banning humanoid and animal-like robots from commercial flights, citing the severe fire hazards posed by massive lithium-ion batteries.
Software giant SAP is partnering with a slate of robotics firms, including Humanoid and Neura Robotics, to give robots "business context awareness." New pilots at BITZER and Martur Fompak show robots taking orders directly from SAP''s warehouse management software.
Chinese startup Noetix Robotics has unveiled Bumi, a 94 cm bipedal robot priced under $1,370, aiming to bring humanoid machines into education and home settings.
The new 1-meter-tall K1 platform from Booster Robotics targets education and R&D with a sub-$5,000 price tag, an open development environment, and a championship-winning pedigree from RoboCup 2025.
A secretive, sold-out event in San Francisco called the Silicon Colosseum featured humanoid robots, including one from K-Scale Labs, engaging in combat. The event has sparked online conversation about what it means to build a "real product" in the robotics industry.
