Tag: humanoid-robots
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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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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…
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Agility’s new humanoid can lift 50 pounds for 20 hours and recharges in nine minutes
Digit 5 is built to work next to people with no cage around it, and customers have already put down $300 million before a…
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A startup that films people doing chores is nearing a $500 million valuation
Sequoia is said to be close to leading the round, but three months after its last raise Mecka AI still will not say how…
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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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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…