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The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on 14 August 2025, bringing hundreds of humanoid robots and teams from more than a dozen countries into competition across athletic, performance and workplace-style scenario events.
In July 2025 Unitree began IPO coaching with CITIC Securities and said it expected to file listing documents between October and December, against 2024 sales of 23,700 quadruped robots and 1,500 humanoid robots.
In April 2025 twenty humanoid robot teams raced a half marathon in Beijing on the same 21.0975 km course used by human runners. Tiangong Ultra won in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds.
On August 13, 2024, OpenAI released SWE-bench Verified, a 500-sample human-validated subset of SWE-bench built with the benchmark's original authors from Princeton, after filtering ambiguous tasks and unreliable tests.
An IMF staff analysis published in January 2024 estimated that almost 40 percent of global employment is exposed to AI, with effects uneven across income levels and a risk of widening inequality.
UBTECH, a Chinese robot maker founded in 2012, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board on 29 December 2023 at HK$90 per share; the company calls itself the first humanoid robot company on the exchange.
A Goldman Sachs research note published in March 2023 estimated that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation and add 7% to global GDP over a decade.
On 28 July 2022, DeepMind and EMBL-EBI expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from nearly 1 million to over 200 million predicted protein structures, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.
Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO formally retired on 31 March 2022, after a final demonstration at Honda's Tokyo headquarters; Honda said it would focus on remotely controlled avatar robots instead.
On 10 April 2012 DARPA announced a challenge to build ground robots that can carry out complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-built environments, backing it with a $2 million prize and a list of tasks from driving a vehicle to closing a valve.
In 2011 Microsoft Research reported that modelling thousands of senones with deep neural networks, trained on GPUs, sharply cut word errors compared with conventional Gaussian-mixture systems in large-vocabulary speech recognition.
In 2011 ACM gave Judea Pearl the A.M. Turing Award for a calculus of probabilistic and causal reasoning, work that began with his invention of Bayesian networks and later produced the do-calculus for causal inference.
In 2007 IBM Research began building a computer that could take on Jeopardy! champions. The project produced the DeepQA architecture and Watson, which beat the show's two top-ranked players in 2011.
Geoffrey Hinton dated the current popularity of "deep learning" to a 2006 paper on deep belief nets, but the same words had earlier uses, including Rina Dechter's work in 1986.
On 1 November 2001 the W3C started the Web Ontology Working Group, which developed OWL and saw it become a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 2004, before closing in May 2004 having completed its charter.
