Wild Dog just announced Japanese Ramen Simulator, a Steam management sim scheduled for September 2026 that puts as many as six people behind one counter. Players run the entire shop. Prep work, broth, noodles, toppings, service, conversation with guests, and cleanup all happen on the same shift. Orders arrive in a steady stream. Noodle texture, broth temperature, aroma, umami, and how long the bowl waits on the pass all affect the result.
People keep saying the same thing about the Skyrover X1, priced at $699 (was $819), is that it’s a DJI Mini 4 Pro with a different badge. That rumor isn’t just forum gossip because fans have discovered code that still points to DJI cloud services, encryption keys that match DJI software, and FlySafe references that have been awkwardly renamed. The arms fold in the same way. Sensor windows are in the same locations. If you’re looking for a compact travel drone that you can still order in the United States, this might be it.
Galbot spent three years putting wheeled machines to work in Chinese pharmacies and convenience stores, picking products and handing them to riders on real shifts. In August the Beijing company, founded in 2023 by Peking University professor He Wang, rolled out its first machine that stands on two legs. ET1 debuted at the World Robot Conference and then walked onto a court at the World Humanoid Robot Games, where Galbot machines held live rallies against people.
Bandai Spirits spent decades teaching die-cast robots how to fold, lock, and present themselves. That same workshop just pointed those skills at a conference-table object almost nobody talks about. Mobile Stationery Automatic Transformation Card Case is the first product in a new adult line called Mobile Stationery, priced at 3,300 yen including tax, roughly twenty dollars. Japanese shop reservations opened August 27, 2026, while October is the planned arrival.
Most fish-inspired robots arrive locked to one length and one job. Scale them up for a lake or down for a creek and the whole machine usually has to be designed again from scratch. Engineers working between NYU Tandon and EPFL have shown a way around that limit with ScaFi, a compliant robot modeled on the tail-heavy swimming of fish such as cod and mackerel. Those species keep most of their body bend toward the rear, a style that works across a wide range of real animal sizes. ScaFi copies the same idea with a rigid motor-driven front and a flexible tail of fiberglass rods wrapped in red fabric. A single motor pulls two tendons that cross near the tail tip, forcing the familiar S-curve that pushes water backward.