Samsung vs Tesla: The robot wars begin

Plus: Robot teacher debuts in Germany.

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Amandeep Singh
January 03, 2025

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  • 🤖 Captcha, the first humanoid teaching high school.

  • 👀 Caught you, Siri! Apple pays $95M for recording scandal.

  • 💰 Samsung joins robot wars with Rainbow deal.

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Samsung

The robotics race just got more intense, and Samsung is all in.

With a bold move, Samsung Electronics has announced a massive investment in Rainbow Robotics, signaling its commitment to shaping the future of humanoid robots and challenging industry heavyweights.

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What’s happening?

  • Samsung is investing $181 million to take a controlling stake in Rainbow Robotics, a leader in bipedal robotics technology.

  • A Future Robotics division has been established, reporting directly to Samsung's CEO, with robotic pioneer Dr. Jun-Ho Oh at the helm.

  • This partnership fuses Samsung's AI expertise with Rainbow's cutting-edge robotics, including their work on the Hubo bipedal robot.

  • Beyond humanoid robots, Samsung aims to deploy Rainbow’s systems in its manufacturing plants, accelerating automation innovation.

Why should you care?

The stakes in robotics are higher than ever. Samsung’s entry into the field could redefine the consumer robotics market. With its tech prowess and ecosystem of devices, the company is uniquely positioned to make humanoid robots more accessible and practical for everyday use.

The future? A world where robots aren’t just sci-fi—they’re standing in your kitchen, brewing coffee.

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Trending Today

  • Samsung is about to release its first Rollable phone, rumored to be called Galaxy Z roll to the consumers in mid 2025. It will be expected to retract and extend automatically up to 12.4 inches..

  • ByteDance researchers just published 1.58-bit FLUX, a new approach to AI model compression that dramatically reduces the computational demands of state-of-the-art image generation while maintaining output quality to three simple values (positive, negative, or zero) instead of complex numbers, reducing storage by 8x.

  • LG introduced its new line of AI-powered gram laptops, featuring both on-device and cloud-based AI capabilities — with the 2025 lineup including new Pro models powered by Intel’s next-gen processors and Microsoft’s Copilot+.

  • An AI-powered robot named Captcha became the first humanoid to teach a class, taking students at a high school in Germany through a day of lectures and debates.

  • Apple has agreed to pay $95M to resolve a decade-long lawsuit, accusing its virtual assistant, Siri, of listening to and recording users' conversations, confidential conversations without being activated by its wake word “Hey Siri,” without permission, and handing that information over to third-party advertisers (an accusation Google is also currently facing).

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