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5 storiesLatest: Sep 18, 2026

Toyota's ELEY humanoid robot, a white and black machine with two human-like arms, shown from the front

Sep 18, 2026

Toyota Plans 400,000 Humanoid Robots for Its Factories and a ¥1 Trillion-a-Year Rebuild

Toyota will field roughly 400,000 in-house robots across its plants, group companies and suppliers from 2028, funded by about ¥1 trillion a year in factory renewal.

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Agility Robotics' Digit 5 humanoid robot standing against a studio background, with a teal torso, black joints and a sensor head

Sep 17, 2026

Agility's Digit 5 Wants to Work Beside People, With No Safety Cage in Between

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid built to detect people and stop or sit still when they get close, and the company says it has $300 million in pre-orders.

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Aerial view of Apple Park, Apple's ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino

Sep 10, 2026

Apple Finally Folds: iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro Arrive in a Split Launch

Apple's first foldable is the iPhone Duo, not the iPhone Ultra. It headlines a September event that also brought the 2nm iPhone 18 Pro and a price hike.

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Extreme macro photograph of a microchip die with bond wires

Sep 10, 2026

Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X Lands in October: the Local-AI PC War Is On

Nvidia confirmed its Arm-based N1X superchip ships in laptops and mini-desktops next month with up to 128GB of unified memory. AMD answered days later with a 'personal supercomputer' of its own.

By TPW Editorial4 min read