Category: Robotics
Humanoids, automation, and the next generation of physical labour.
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RobCo is worth $1 billion nine months after it was worth $500 million, and its headline robot is not on sale yet
The deal that set the price was largely employees selling shares, and the product behind the pitch launches in March.
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Nearly 25,000 humanoid robots shipped in six months, and more than 95 percent were made in China
IDC’s count makes humanoids look like a booming market, and a Chinese one, but says nothing about what the machines are doing.
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The world bought about 7,000 humanoid robots last year, and many of them are not doing any work
Service robots grew 24 percent to almost 250,000, while the humanoids at the centre of the hype were largely bought to collect data.
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Tesla lined up $30 billion in credit for Cybercab and Optimus, and the filing mentions neither
Tesla has about $40 billion in cash and says it will not touch the new money this year, which leaves the question of what…
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A robot changed all four tyres on a car in Calgary in under 15 minutes
PitPro’s first production unit is working in a real tyre bay, where the hard part may be the bay rather than the tyres.
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Zoox grounded its Atlanta test fleet after as many as 40 workers may have breathed toxic gas
Federal safety officials have closed their inquiry, but Zoox has not said what was getting into its cars.
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Waymo will now drive 13-year-olds across Nashville with no adult in the car
Teen accounts have reached a second city and Waymo promises many more, though it has not said how it checks who is actually riding.
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Hyundai is training 25,000 humanoid robots before it puts one on the line
Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas school sits inside a working car plant, but the robots stay off the production floor itself until 2028 at the…
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China is quietly freezing humanoid robot IPOs after its biggest one lost half its value
Unitree’s stock is down 55 percent from its Shanghai debut, and regulators now want to know how much of the industry’s revenue is actually…
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Japan’s answer to the humanoid labour shortage has wheels, not legs
ugo built a government-commissioned robot that teleoperators drive by hand, on the theory that every task it performs is training data for the model…