Sunday's lineup is a study in contrasts: humanoids gaining a pit crew and a place on the factory floor, while autonomy keeps colliding with the messy realities of streets, farms, and privacy. From a robot ambulance in Japan to a Waymo that dialed 911 on its own passengers, today's stories track machines earning trust one incident at a time.

In today’s roundup

• 911 for humanoids: Japan debuts first-ever ‘robot ambulance’ to provide on-site repairs — Interesting Engineering
  GMO's on-site repair service hints that keeping humanoids running may become as important a business as building them in the first place.
• 7 humanoid robot makers taking over real-world factories — Interesting Engineering
  A useful roundup of the makers actually putting humanoids into factories, warehouses, and service roles rather than just demo reels.
• How autonomous fleets are changing what’s possible in American agriculture — The Robot Report
  ASI's tractor partnership with U.S. Sugar shows autonomous fleets tackling labor-intensive fieldwork where the business case is clearest.
• Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun — The Verge
  A robotaxi flagging armed juveniles and summoning police raises fresh questions about what autonomous vehicles are watching for and reporting.
• Your car is selling your data — The Verge
  As cars grow more autonomous and connected, the data they quietly collect and sell becomes a privacy story worth reading closely.
• Police officer faces misconduct hearing after drone hits child — DroneDJ
  A UK officer's misconduct hearing after a drone struck a child is a sobering reminder that operator accountability matters as aerial policing expands.
• Learn how AVs and robotics are laying the groundwork for field deployments at RoboBusiness — The Robot Report
  ASI's Mel Torrie makes the case at RoboBusiness that the AV-robotics crossover is where real field deployments get built.

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