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A humanoid plays competitive tennis

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UBTECH's Walker S2 is playing competitive tennis, and Figure predicts humanoids will run unsupervised multi-day household tasks within the year.

Reporting date: 2026-01-02 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 2, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A humanoid plays competitive tennis
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Reporting date: 2026-01-02
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-02-walker-s2-plays-tennis
Claim: UBTECH's Walker S2 is playing competitive tennis, and Figure predicts humanoids will run unsupervised multi-day household tasks within the year.
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- Welcome to January 2, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-2-2026
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