Top 7 must-read humanoid robot stories of 2025 – Interesting Engineering
If 2025 proved anything, it’s that humanoid robots are no longer content to stand still. This was the year they learned to walk like us, flexed synthetic muscles, clocked factory hours, and stared back at us with eerily expressive faces.
Some moments were practical, others viral, and a few genuinely unsettling. But all of them pointed in the same direction.
Humanoid robots are no longer just experimental platforms. They’re becoming physical systems tested against the real world.
From factories and border crossings to research labs and social media feeds, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid robotics.
1. China’s ultra-realistic humanoid with expressive “human-like” face
2. UBTech to deploy humanoids on the China-Vietnam border ……
World’s largest nuclear plant set to restart in Japan nearly 15 years post-Fukushima
Japan took a major step toward reviving its nuclear energy program on Monday, as the Niigata region approved the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
The move marks nearly 15 years since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, which forced the shutdown of most of the country’s reactors. The plant is located about 136 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Tokyo and is the world’s largest nuclear facility.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was among 54 reactors closed after the earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Since then, Japan has restarted 14 of the remaining 33 operable reactors to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels. This restart will be the first for a facility operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the company behind the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
TEPCO is reportedly planning to reactivate the first of seven reactors at the site on January 20, according to public broadcaster NHK.
“We remain firmly committed to never repeating such an accident and ensuring Niigata residents never experience anything similar,” said TEPCO spokesperson Masakatsu Takata, who declined to comment further on timing…..
“Fulton County is Totally Corrupt” – They ADMITTED Cheating, Certified 315,000 Early Voters
Fulton County admits ballots were mishandled during the 2020 election, raising questions about voter fraud and corruption. From missing signatures to procedural violations, insiders break down how these lapses went unnoticed and why the system is still under scrutiny.
Pfizer and BioNTech deny liability in tragic teen vaccine death lawsuit
Rebel News journalist Tamara Ugolini discusses how Pfizer and BioNTech are denying any wrongdoing in the tragic death of 17-year-old Sean Hartman just weeks after his first COVID-19 vaccination in September 2021.
Trump admin increases offer to $3K for illegal migrants to voluntarily leave US by end of this year
The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its offer for illegal migrants to voluntarily leave the U.S. by the end of the year.
The payout for the so-called “exit bonus” is now $3,000, up from the initial $1,000, according to CBS News. Applicants must register with the federal government to be eligible to receive the money.
The deadline to leave is Dec. 31, 2025, and those who qualify for the money must apply through the CBP Home app, and they also will receive free airfare to their home countries and be waived of certain civil fines or penalties tied to remaining illegally in the U.S., the news outlet also reports.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem old CBS News those who do not take advantage of the temporary incentive will be “found,” “arrested” and “never return” to the U.S.
MS-13 assassin arrested in Nebraska as attacks against law enforcement continue
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement partners continue to arrest MS-13 Salvatrucha Salvadoran transnational gang members and violent illegal foreign nationals in Nebraska.
The latest MS-13 arrest this month was of a man known internationally as “Fantasma” (ghost), an alleged member of an MS-13 assassination squad in Honduras. He was wanted by Honduran authorities for a quadruple homicide after he escaped from prison and illegally entered the U.S. through the southwest border during the Biden administration.
He evaded capture in Honduras and in the U.S. until a multiagency investigation located him and ICE arrested him in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Honduran national Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 at the southwest border and obtained a California’s driver’s license, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
This was after he was arrested, charged and detained on firearms offenses and a quadruple homicide. He allegedly bribed his way out of a Honduran jail and was wanted by authorities, DHS said.
DOJ is suing both red and blue states to force them to clean voter rolls for 2026 midterms
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, says the lawsuits she is bringing against both red and blue states over voter list maintenance will help clean voter rolls for the 2026 midterm elections.
With the congressional elections coming up next year, the DOJ said it is trying to ensure that only eligible voters are on states’ voter rolls. While some states have voluntarily complied with the DOJ’s requests for voter registration data or are cleaning the voter rolls themselves, others are refusing to hand over the information, citing privacy concerns.
In a Just the News and Real America’s Voice special report Wednesday with the Association for Mature American Citizens titled “Top Priorities for 2026,” Dhillon said this Trump administration marks the first time that states have been sued to ensure their voter rolls are maintained.
“There had been no prior lawsuits to enforce states’ requirement to keep their voter rolls clean for all federal election rolls, which is basically they keep the same rolls for state and federal elections for the most part,” Dhillon said.
She explained that the DOJ brought the lawsuits after requesting the states turn over their voter registration lists.
“Six states did voluntarily comply with our data requests and have shared their information with us,” Dhillon said. “Some states are voluntarily – now that the president has lifted a fee that was associated with cleaning their data through the federal SAVE database – some are doing that on their own, and we’re helping, in coordination with other agencies, make sure that they have the data they need to take dead people off the voter rolls, people who are not citizens off the voter rolls, etc.”…..
315,000 Georgia Votes Lacked Certifying Signatures in 2020 Election, Records Show
After five years of trying, a citizen investigator has finally uncovered proof of widespread irregularities in the 2020 election results for Fulton County, Ga., and he wants accountability. After obtaining nearly all the county’s election records through an open records request, David Cross discovered that signatures were missing on no less than 134 tabulator tapes, representing some 315,000 votes.
“This is not partisan. This is statutory,” Cross argued in a hearing earlier this month before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB). “When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.”
Cross said that the signature block was blank on every single tabulator tape the county produced for early voting (some tabulator tapes appear to be missing entirely, which is its own issue). These tapes account for just over 60% of the votes cast in 2020 in Georgia’s most populous county.
Even besides the missing signatures, Cross found multiple other red flags in the records he reviewed. “We found identical protective counters across several different polling places, polls that were opened eight days late, polls closed at impossibly late hours, like 2:09 a.m. in the morning, and poll closing times that do not match the tapes,” he listed. “We found duplicated scanner serial numbers where the memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”
To these challenges, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, effectively pleaded “no contest.”
“I’ve not seen the tapes myself,” she responded, “but we do not dispute that the tapes were not signed. It was a violation of the rule. … We don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.”….
Illegal alien truck driver walks out of jail after allegedly killing American — and sanctuary policies appear to be to blame
Kamalpreet Singh, an Indian national who illegally entered the U.S. in 2023, is accused of causing a deadly multi-vehicle wreck on a Washington freeway on December 11.
The Department of Homeland Security stated that the Biden administration released Singh into the country despite his illegal entry. He obtained his commercial driver’s license in California, according to Fox News.
Singh allegedly rear-ended a Mazda driven by Robert Pearson, a 29-year-old American. The Mazda was pushed into a Peterbilt truck, causing the car to catch fire, Fox News reported.
Pearson died at the scene. Singh and the driver of the Peterbilt were not injured.
The semitruck driver reportedly spent just one day in King County jail before being released after posting $100,000 bond. The news outlet claimed that the bond money was returned to Singh after the arresting authority, the Washington State Patrol, failed to pursue a case for prosecution.
A WSP spokesperson told Blaze News, “In the course of our investigations, we have found [an] additional detail and needed to withdraw the original complaint so we can refile in the near future with that additional detail included. The case remains under active investigation.”
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a detainer against Singh, it was not honored due to the state’s sanctuary policies…..
Matt Gaetz: Ted Cruz’s Delusional 2028 Bid, the ADL, and Identity Politics Taking Over the Right
How did we wind up with identity politics and censorship again? Didn’t we just vote against all of that? Matt Gaetz explains.
December 21, 2025 Cover Story Medical Fraud
Today, we track what has to be one of the most alarming and egregious cases of a doctor putting profits over patients.
It’s the shocking case of a Virginia OB-GYN who charmed his way into families’ lives only to betray them for money—performing needless surgeries that scarred women forever, often at taxpayer expense.
The broken trust raises an important question: how such a doctor managed to thrive in the U.S. medical system for so many decades despite the red flags.
US pauses five offshore wind projects after Pentagon flags radar interference
The pause takes effect immediately. Federal officials said the Interior Department will work with the Defense Department and other agencies to assess and reduce potential risks linked to the projects.
The move targets some of the largest offshore wind developments in the country. All five projects already hold federal leases and are in various construction stages.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum framed the decision as a security-driven step, not an energy policy shift.
“The prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people,” Burgum said in a statement.
“Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers.”
Officials did not specify how long the pause will last. The administration said agencies will review mitigation options before deciding next steps.
Interior oversees offshore wind leasing and permitting. Defense officials flagged the issue during interagency consultations, according to the statement…..
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