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It's day four of our CES coverage and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. I'm more machine than man now. Twisted and evil, but I know you guys want that Tech News Robots Nvidia's keynote focused on AI and robotics with a handful of robot cameos, but how about everyone else's bots? Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack built to power everything from home robots to industrial machines and of course, humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots around the CES show floor? This year LG showed off their Cloyd home robot designed to help with household chores and now it can also recognize faces. Cloyd. That's my worst uncle. If he tries to high five you, you just roll away, pal. Stiff that guy. Not to be outdone, SwitchBot unveiled Oneiro H1 Another Robot Butler, but this one comes with modular attachments and it's got a bit of a slow moving Slenderman vibe to it, which I'm sure someone somewhere might want. Don't fret. Robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff. They're also taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point, Boston Dynamics Production ready Atlas, which can now carry heavier components while maintaining balance and is powered by Google's Gemini AI. This brick house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 to start building cars, making it even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs. Outside ces, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and playing SOC are really showing how fast this tech is advancing, so athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon too. I'm sorry LeBron, you might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. Did you see the Oneiro H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. It wasn't just human looking robots that we got at ces, we also saw a bunch of oddball droids built for doing chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro all terrain robot is meant to do. It actually won an Innovation award. And although it might just seem like a robot dog that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump on a set of stairs like something of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, screw it, give this thing a trophy. As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Eufy S2 robot vacuum, which doubles as an aromatherapy diffuser so your house will smell clean and smell nice. La dee da. That's very fancy. But can it climb stairs? Because Roborock's new experimental Soros Rover certainly can. And look at those legs. Damn, maybe this thing can ball too. Speaking of stupid, sexy Robots, Mammotion's Spino S1 Pro Pool Cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a bong girl. Or Bond himself. You remember those little shorts intel and AMD have been exchanging words this week after intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first built on their new 18, a process one of their execs told PC World that AMD is selling ancient silicon While we're selling up to date processors specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. AMD's Raul Tiku fired back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons not even a fair fight since intel compared their highest end chip to to AMD's mid tier. He also called Panther Lake a Swiss army knife that carries all of this baggage from its chiplet architecture, implying it's not purpose built for handhelds like AMD's Z series. But you know what that ancient silicon is actually selling? AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, just outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month, moving nearly 2,000 units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, people are happy to build ancient AM4 systems. After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the next gen AI chip arena with Nvidia. Lisa Su gave us a glimpse of AMD's Mi 500 series performance, claiming a 1000 times performance uplift over their older Mi 300X. Uh oh, look out Nvidia AMD is a thousand times better. Except maybe it's not. Those numbers are comparing an 8 GPU Mi 300x node to an entire Mi 500 rack with how many GPUs? Nobody knows. Basically, AMD is that kid you in high school who had a girlfriend who lives in Canada. Turns out Canada is actually a real place and if you visit you can use our sponsor Saily. Hi, I'm a Terminator sent back to protect John Connor and yes, I'll be back online instantly with Saily. My mission can't be compromised by suspicious SIM dealers lurking outside terminals. They could be t1000s. I downloaded the esim and that's it. I stay connected as I move through countries like a machine on a mission. Staley will be useful if John Connor decides to check out the hot News Tech at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. I think some of my ancestors will be there get it because I'm a robot from the future. No roaming chaos, no searching for wi fi when time is critical. Global plans keep me operational everywhere. I'm a learning computer on iPhone or Android with a chat Support system available 24. 7. The future is not set. But with Saily, staying connected is so say Hastra la Vista baby to bad coverage. Get an exclusive 50% discount on saily ESIM data plans by downloading the Saily app and using code techlinked at checkout. The quickest bits are the friends we made along the way. Transient, meaningful, and still your friend on Facebook 15 years later, Shanghai is gearing up to mass produce chips made from molybdenum disulfide, a 2D material just a few atoms thick. Why does it matter? As silicon chips shrink, they hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 2D materials let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. The wuji chip packs 5,900 transistors, which is nothing compared to the billions in your phone. But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was 115, so they just 50x the technology. Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production line fully operational by June 2026, with targets of 90 nanomet equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by 2027 and 5 or 3 nanometer by 2028. For reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently 3 nanometers. So if China's timeline holds, which is a big if, they could have a fundamentally different approach to chip making that sidesteps the silicon limits everyone else is running into. Then again, remember how hype we were for graphene? OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health this week. It's a non HIPAA compliant, non end to end encrypted health assisted. All you have to do is connect it with b well and give Sam Altman access to your complete medical history and all your device data. In exchange, you get health advice that OpenAI explicitly says is not intended to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just became the first state to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. For $4 per prescription, Doctronics Chatbot can renew 190 different chronic condition meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. One called it a complicated and unnecessary solution since pharmacists could just renew scripts themselves. Another said it's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me. While that sounds bad, according to Doctronic's own non peer reviewed study, their AI matches real doctors diagnoses 81% of the time, so only 1 in 5 of you might have a problem. Pretty good for our audience, honestly. Google announced Gmail's quote unquote biggest update in 20 years and surprise, it's all AI. Front and center is AI overviews in email Search Remember how hard it was to hit Control f or use the search bar? Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. All you have to do is let Google read all of your emails and then you can ask Gemini, who have I told you that I have a girlfriend up in Canada? And Gemini will dig through your inbox and let you know all the people you've lied to in your life. There's Also a new AI inbox view that prioritizes your to DOS and identifies your VIPs. If users don't want the service, then they have to opt out of it. Users have to opt out, not in. And if you don't, then Google's gonna read all your emails. I mean, they probably already were, but now they're gonna be weird about it. Bose is officially letting its soundtouch smart speakers reach their end of life and will shut down cloud support this spring. But instead of just bricking them all like most companies do these days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. Now developers and enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. Bose is apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, and local app control working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this. It's crazy that Bose looks like an absolute hero for just not bricking something that people have paid for. We're living in the age of the bare minimum level of decency here. It's so depressing. Thank you both. After several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. The company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use chat. Users have to let the app scan their face, then it'll guess their age and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only communicating with other people their age. Which means teenagers could end up chatting with Jennifer Aniston Keanu Reeves or other time travelers. Roblox claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. Despite this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety concerns. Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing content cop, but with a lot less explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended around 80 to 90 repositories from 40 to 50 developers making mods for adult games and sex toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. GitHub updated its acceptable use policy in October to ban sexually themed content, but hasn't clarified how that applies to code for vibrator plugins. Some accounts were mysteriously reinstated after a journalist started asking questions. Still with no explanation, though effective developers are now migrating to alternatives like Git Goon, which is exactly what it sounds like. And if you don't know, please don't ask because I can't explain more or YouTube will demonetize us with explanation. Speaking of YouTube, please come back to it tomorrow for the last of our five days in a row of CES tech news. Who knows what kind of crazy could happen? I certainly don't, and Lord knows I'm confused and scared as hell. I heard Rally will be here though.
