🤖 The World’s First Sporting Event for Humanoid Robots

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🥊The World’s First Sporting Event for Humanoid Robots

• 🪦AI Won’t Actually Kill Our Jobs?

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

HUMANOID ROBOTS

🥊The World’s First Sporting Event for Humanoid Robots

China hosted the first “World Humanoid Robot Games,” where over 500 humanoid robots grouped into 280 teams from 16 countries competed in dance battles, martial arts, and soccer.

Key Details:

• Unitree H1 / H1-2 won four gold medals in events like the 400-meter (m) sprint. So, what made this humanoid robot the best?

• It’s equipped with three sensors:

  1. Gyroscopes: Measure rotational orientation to indicate changes in tilt and velocity.

  2. Accelerometers: Measure linear acceleration to indicate changes in speed and direction.

  3. Force Feet Plates: Measure ground contact to detect pressure shifts and maintain balance.

• It also boasts 34 Joint Position Encoders (JPEs). The Joint refers to mechanical parts that resemble a knee, elbow, or shoulder. The Position refers to the angular orientation of the Joint. Encoders convert mechanical motion into electrical signals.

• It leverages AI-powered algorithms to capture, interpret, and act on data collected from the three sensors and 34 JPEs, enabling precise motion control and rapid balance adjustments.

Why It’s Important:

• Are humanoid robots equipped with arms, legs, and hands controlled by AI-powered brains on their way to work in stores and factories? Not yet, but the market for them could be twice the size of the auto industry within the next few decades.

• Morgan Stanley (MS&Co.) estimates the humanoid robot market will likely reach $5 trillion by 2050. In other words, there could be more than 1 billion humanoid robots in use by 2050.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

GOLDMAN SACHS

🪦AI Won’t Actually Kill Our Jobs?

Goldman Sachs recently released “How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce?,” arguing that the impact of AI adoption on employment levels may not be as severe as we think.

Key Details:

• If AI were aggressively adopted today in a worst-case scenario situation, it would displace up to 7% of the U.S. workforce.

• While that percentage seems alarming, Macro Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs Sarah Dong explained: “Predictions of technology reducing the need for human labor have a long history but a poor track record.”

• Approximately 60% of U.S. workers today are employed in job roles that didn’t even exist in 1940, implying that more than 85% of all employment growth in the last 80 years has been driven by new technologies.

• Goldman Sachs expects AI to follow the same historical pattern, only causing a period of temporary job loss, where the U.S. Unemployment Rate (UR) briefly increases by just 0.5 percentage points. So, what does that even mean?

• Imagine a coffee shop that usually has 4 customers waiting in line. Suddenly, a fancy new espresso machine is added. At first, the barista doesn’t know how to use it, so the line slows down a bit, and about 4.5 customers have to wait. Once the barista figures out how to use the fancy new espresso machine, everything goes back to normal.

Why It’s Important:

• AI can only automate select tasks within daily workflows, not entire job roles, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. This means job roles are only at risk if they involve repeatable steps that can be automated by software.

• Goldman Sachs believes AI will automate parts of jobs, especially for accountants, computer programmers, and legal assistants. However, the U.S. workforce will only experience temporary unemployment before new job roles emerge. Why?! Historically, technological advancements have created new job roles rather than eliminating work altogether.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

xAI’s Grok Website accidentally exposed the chatbot’s “AI Personas,” which include a “Crazy Conspiracist” designed to have an “ELEVATED and WILD voice.”

ByteDance Seed introduced “M3-Agent,” a multimodal AI framework that processes real-time audio inputs and video inputs to recognize objects, people, and places.

NVIDIA released “Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2,” which excels at solving complex mathematical problems that require logical reasoning while balancing time, cost, and accuracy.

Meta plans to launch “Hypernova,” a pair of AI-powered smart glasses equipped with a neural wristband that interprets electrical signals from muscles to transform hand movements into digital commands.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Firecrawl raised a $14.5M Series A to turn websites into LLM-ready datasets.

• Protege closed a $25M Series A to curate datasets built specifically for AI training.

• Eight Sleep secured a $100M Series D for AI-powered covers that help you wake up energized.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Anduril (Costa Mesa, CA): Systems Engineer Intern, Summer 2026

• Applied Intuition (Mountain View, CA): Software Engineer, Entry-Level

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): AI Engineer, Data Scaling, Self-Driving, Mid-Level

• Anthropic (New York City, NYC): Social Media Lead, Senior-Level

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