Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty minutes. This year Lightning, built by a smartphone company, did it in fifty minutes. The human record was fifty-two. Forty percent of the three hundred robots on the course ran without a technician or controller anywhere nearby.

That is one story. The other is a Samsung concept robot sitting on your kitchen counter conducting every smart device in your home like an orchestra. The third is Prego, the pasta sauce company, selling a dinner table microphone for twenty dollars bundled with spaghetti.

Tech is moving in three directions at once this week and Kris Abel has all of them.

Topics: humanoid robots 2026, robot marathon China, Samsung home robot concept, Prego dinner recorder, autonomous humanoid robots

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Originally aired on 2026-04-21