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Qingbao's video from weibo Source: weibo.com/tv/show/1034...

Closeup on NOETIX (@TheRealNoetix) head Source: www.douyin.com/video/747520...

This head by "Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence" previously appeared in a video from an exhibition, but here is it close-up with behind-the scenes. (Cut from the original video to fit one minute limit) Source: www.douyin.com/video/746486...

Enchanted Tools @enchantedtools.bsky.social posted an announcement with a promotional video of them highlighting Mirokaï in a cafe environment. (1 minute cut from the original video from x.com/enchantedtoo...) enchanted.tools/robot/

The mechanical doll from the clock painting in quote tweet bsky.app/profile/voka...

Qingbao's coffee + android setup video from a random account on douyin. Source: www.douyin.com/video/747564...

Chinese government media put up a few more photos of UBTECH Una, apparently exhibited at a place called "Robot World" (机器人大世界) in Beijing or "Beijing World of Robots" as rendered by some of English pages. Source: www.news.cn/photo/202502...

MaSiRo is now in Nagoya x.com/A_says_/stat...

The supposedly oldest video file in my "video" folder where I keep videos saved from the internets, is called "wolfears.avi" and is labeled 1 August 2002. I have no idea of the context and source.

This was unexpected, "You're under arrest" anime in the second season episode twelve deals precisely with what is my master's degree (disaster robotics), and that episode is from 2001.

Latest video by Rozen Zebet (ローゼン・ゼベット) for the "cat day" 22-2 Source: x.com/DancingDoll_...

Short news clip featuring Hiroshi Ishiguro and androids for Expo 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXl...

Crossover of Adaichi Rei and Clonerobotics's robot by "jet @natwjeq" x.com/natwjeq/stat...

The spooky music is a questionable decision, but it is impressive to see the project finally approaching the full body prototype www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dh...

MaSiRo of @masiro-project.bsky.social turned seven years x.com/A_says_/stat...

Nadine at Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumForum (on the left, on the right is Nostalgia Nerd, in android robotics this kind of distinctions are helpful to write)

As can be noticed from the latest video by @nostalgianerd.com (currently available for patrons) one of Nadine androids is still installed at Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum, although not sure if operational or not.

Recently I stumbled upon a new android robotics developer in China, 云幕智造 "Yunmu Intelligent Manufacturing". They, like "AheadForm" seem to focus on realism of the sculpt. Their latest robot "YMbot - C" is full scale lookalike to Zheng He. Source: www.douyin.com/video/747048...

The continuation of research which begun with "Sawarimoto" paper: researchgate.net/publication/388788117_Developing_a_Vision_and_Contact_Sensor-Based_Android-to-Human_Touch_System_that_Enables_Face_and_Arm_Touch

This kind of research I sometimes ponder about "what if I make a PhD out of it" — investigating different attitudes to android robots in different cultures. Unfortunately I find that the video with facial animation only and teleoperation is quite basic, two data points (Japan&Dubai) is too few.

Recent video by EX Robot of their wheeled-platform based android. Source: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1hYK...

Today I learned that (a) there is an organization in Japan which promotes robot accessibility (i.e. accessibility of locations for robots) x.com/RobotFriendl... (b) and Expo 2025 FAQ has a specific page about accessing with robots faq.expo2025.or.jp/hc/ja/articl...

Adorable robot bird with candies Source: x.com/LEGHORNsROOM...

I'm more into android robotics, and while it wasn't as "big" as in humanoid robotics or software side of things, it feels like both r&d is picking up (there was a sort of a slump in the field ever since it became obvious Toshiba failed with their project five or so years ago)

This PDF about Dentaroid aka Hanako Showa 2 highlights the previous projects of theirs www.u-presscenter.jp/item/7132.pdf

A couple of videos of CST (aka 火星美女机器人) robots, from Douyin Source: v.douyin.com/iPPXTsTR