World Humanoid Robot Games show runners held the second edition in Beijing and displayed humanoid robots sprinting, performing skills, and doing practical tasks, with videos showing both crashes and robots breaking or catching fire. The event ran from August 22–26. Organizers used these results to highlight humanoid robots’ commercial potential while also showing they struggle with stopping quickly and keeping up with human working speeds.
Ropedia launched HOMIE Gen2, a head-mounted wearable that records egocentric human movement data to train robotic AI models. The device synchronizes four camera streams, spatial audio, and inertial data to within 50 microseconds. HOMIE Gen2 enables faster and cheaper deployment than the previous generation, with deployment said to be 10 times faster and costing about one-12th the price of a full lab capture.
OpenAI product lead Thibault Sottiaux discussed expanding ChatGPT Work with AI agents beyond technical users while aiming for a simpler, safer experience and arguing that diffusion is now ready for broader audiences. OpenAI said it reached 20 million users for ChatGPT Work. As a result, ChatGPT Work is positioned for wider rollout across everyday professional tasks while OpenAI pursues lower costs and ongoing model efficiency improvements.
Google Labs launched “Play with Putty,” its 14th launch from the group. The release is the 14th launch from Google Labs. It introduces a real-time collaborative “vibe coding” environment that uses AI to help people build with less disruption to their creative flow.
Neno, a Dutch AI-native financial services startup, raised €6.6M in seed funding to develop its platform and expand accounting and tax services into more European markets. The company says its AI-native workspace can complete reconciliation and VAT preparation up to five times faster and cut customers’ monthly admin time by 8 hours on average. It will launch Neno Labs for Ambient AI R&D, add team capacity, and target more European market entry in 2027.
Nimble launched Web Search Agents, self-learning web research and retrieval agents for specific domains. The launch is dated “today.” The tool is positioned to automate deeper crawling and source selection based on a link provided for onboarding.
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