AIDOL is apparently Russia’s first domestically produced AI-powered humanoid robot … but hopefully it won’t be the last.
Making its debut at a special event in Moscow this week, AIDOL tottered onto a stage to the Rocky theme. And then promptly fell over.
Truth be told, AIDOL didn’t look too steady from the moment that it appeared. The AI-powered robot was all over the place. It looked like it’d been on the bottle. After a few wobbly steps, it attempted to wave at the audience. But seconds later, its legs gave way, causing it to crash to the floor.
Assistants ran onto the stage and tried to hold a sheet over AIDOL in an apparent bid to preserve its dignity, but even that went wrong as the sheet became tangled and ended up covering nothing. Instead, we got to see AIDOL being unceremoniously dragged off the stage, presumably back to the workshop (or possibly the nearest garbage can).
The company behind AIDOL, also called AIDOL, remained positive following the unfortunate hiccup.
Its CEO, Vladimir Vitukhin, told the Russian state news agency Tass that AIDOL was still at a learning stage, adding, “I hope this mistake will turn into an experience.”
According to the company’s website, AIDOL features advanced dialogue generation, emotion recognition, and highly expressive facial capabilities with 19 servo motors enabling at least 12 basic emotions and hundreds of micro-expressions. Yes, it seems like the team has concentrated on its face at the expense of its legs.
AIDOL is designed to operate fully offline with on-device voice processing, and can run autonomously for up to six hours on a 48-volt battery. And on a good day, it can apparently walk at speeds of up to 3.7 mph (6 kph).
Looking ahead (well ahead), the robot is intended for positions in manufacturing, logistics, banks, airports, and other public spaces, though let’s hope there’s a chair involved.
With rival firms like Figure, Xpeng, Unitree, and Boston Dynamics clearly well ahead in the humanoid robotics space, it’s uncertain whether AIDOL will ever be able to catch up.
We look forward to seeing version 2.
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OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland.
Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two prices are not directly comparable because ASUS’s European figure includes VAT.
Anthropic has officially filed to go public, and buried inside its S-1 is a blunt warning about the technology at the center of its business. The maker of Claude AI says advanced AI could cause everything from large-scale cyberattacks and geopolitical instability to catastrophic or even existential risks for humanity.
The warnings take up a surprisingly large part of the filing. Axios notes that more than 90 pages, or roughly a third of the prospectus, focus on risk factors. Many of them warn about what could happen as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.