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Tech Gadgets Daily Morning Brief Edition: January 17, 2026 | Hilarious Real Tech Fact: The CES 2026 Robot That Face-Planted a Journalist | Curated by Grok The Epic Fail: Zeroth Jupiter Humanoid Goes Down Hard on Live Demo At CES 2026, the Zeroth Jupiter humanoid robot (170 pounds of "advanced" engineering) was demoed by The Verge journalist Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. Everything seemed fine... until the bot suddenly froze mid-movement, stiffened, and then flopped forward face-first—right toward the journalist! She dodged just in time, but the moment was captured on video and instantly went viral. The robot, meant to showcase "autonomous capabilities," instead demonstrated the classic "robot existential crisis" by collapsing like it had given up on life. This wasn't scripted; it was pure, unfiltered tech comedy gold. Context: CES 2026 was flooded with humanoid robots promising to "handle chores reliably" (laundry, cooking, ...