Category: Robotics
Humanoids, automation, and the next generation of physical labour.
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Figure has committed $3.5bn to compute before it sells a humanoid at volume
The bill starts in 2027, the chips do not exist yet, and the robots meant to pay for it are unbuilt.
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Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs for a driverless future it does not yet run
The company is thinning its management now for a robotaxi business that today depends entirely on partners like Waymo.
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Generalist reached a $3 billion valuation about ten weeks after its last one
The robot foundation model is real and shipping; the business case for it is still a projection.
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Hugging Face’s answer to the $20,000 humanoid is a $400 duck
The pitch is that cheap open hardware keeps robotics out of a few hands, made in the same week its maker is reported to…
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A Chinese humanoid ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds, and then caught fire
Tiangong Ultra beat Usain Bolt’s world record by more than seven tenths of a second in a Beijing semifinal, and the robot’s torso ignited…
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XPeng’s robot arm raised $900 million before it has shipped one
The round values the unit at $6.3 billion on the strength of a humanoid that has not yet reached mass production, let alone a…
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Unitree’s stock added $57 billion in a single day of trading
Its humanoid robots malfunctioned on stage at the same Beijing conference that hosted the surge, which is the part the valuation does not explain.
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China’s humanoid games have a retail category now
2,056 robots arrive in Beijing on Saturday, and the events that matter are the ones set in hotels and hospitals.
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A California county is writing humanoid robot permits before the robots arrive
San Mateo County wants kill switches, a trained human on site, and a count of the jobs displaced.
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LG’s humanoid is a 2027 promise built on NVIDIA’s stack
Three LG divisions supply the body and NVIDIA supplies the brain, but nothing gets unveiled until the first quarter of next year.