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A humanoid butler you can control remotely from 9,000 KM away. Munich-based robotics company Devanthro has rebranded as Plim Robotics and introduced Plim, a wheeled humanoid designed for home care. Plim takes a hybrid approach: AI handles…

A big problem with VR is lack of content and things to do/experience. VCs/investors don’t like investing in content businesses. Especially when the user base is small. I heard the same at the @TheHumanoidHub conference yesterday.…

🚨 BREAKING: @origin_autonomy just emerged from stealth with $20M to automate the work that happens inside buildings, and it’s already running at three times human speed. Co-led by @Accel and @ZacuaVentures, with angels from Anduril, Skild…

I listened to @radbackwards give a talk about @1x_tech’s design, then hung out with him in the lobby while he held court with a variety of people. The more I hear him the more excited I get about humanoid robots’ future. But the real…

A strong speaker lineup, live robot demos, and lots of robotics folks coming together... this should be fun. https://t.co/uyWCS3yBOK

Most robotics talks are about capability. This one is about character. Do Park (@alrightdo ), Head of Design at @lightberry, opens the Humanoid Hub Conference with "From Pixar to the Physical World: Designing the World's Most Interactive…

Speakers from 1X, Dyna Robotics, Skild AI, Google DeepMind, Physical Intelligence and more. Humanoid robots, dexterous hands and more cool robotics demos on the floor. The robotics community in one floor, and four NVIDIA Jetsons to give…

Most "general" robot models quietly settle for simple grippers. Nature Will went the hard way. Natura-1: a 50B mixture-of-experts model trained on 1 million hours of human video, driving 20-DoF five-finger dexterous hands at a 100ms…

How far are we from truly general-purpose robots? Kanishka Rao (Director, Robotics, @GoogleDeepMind) and Eric Jang @ericjang11 (Robotics Researcher, formerly VP of AI at 1X) are taking that question on stage at the Humanoid Hub Conference.…

Another Nordic country, early humanoid restocker In 2021,Halodi Robotics (now 1X) teamed up with Norwegian retail tech company StrongPoint to build a shelf-restocking robot on the early wheeled EVE. Grocery stores/supermarket spend ~30% of…

Before long, a humanoid will do your Saturday chores In the demo, a clothed Unitree G1 works through the chores on its own...Corn out of the fridge into the air fryer. Jeans folded. Duvet spread across the bed--It feel like a household…

Robotics' biggest bottleneck? Data. Mecka AI is cashing in with human motion data for robots. • $100M annual revenue run rate • $300M projected 2026 revenue • $500M valuation • $68M raised Backers include Sequoia, NVIDIA, Microsoft,…

Robotics Treasury Report Vol. 2 is now available. Current exposure spans 9 robotics companies, including @Apptronik, @1x_tech, @NEURARobotics, and @Figure_robot The report covers portfolio holdings, governance activity, treasury…

Different bets. Same outcome. Figure. Apptronik. 1X. Agility. NEURA. Sanctuary. Humanoid robotics at scale. The thesis behind each one ↓ https://t.co/PtVRLhgtXI

Tesla is redesigning the memory configuration of its AI chips for Optimus production. Elon said AI5 was initially planned with 144GB of RAM, then cut to 72GB LPDDR5( later nudged up to 96GB). AI6 is set at 144GB LPDDR6. Elon also says…

Speaker announcement. Dar Sleeper (@radbackwards), Chief Designer at 1X. Capabilities matter, but the robots we live with will be judged as much on how they make us feel. Dar will share the inspiration and process behind designing a…

The prices of humanoid robots vary widely. This comparison illustrates the price range in 2026, spanning from budget-friendly entry-level platforms to much more advanced, full-sized systems. From lowest to highest price: Noetix BUMI:…

End-to-end whole body mobile manipulation on @agilityrobotics Digit. We ran this demo for ~12 hours at IROS earlier this week video is 1x speed, autonomous, in a previously-unseen location (not in training data). https://t.co/9ITEl03vEZ

Humanoid shipments increased 432% year over year in H1 2026. China produced more than 95% of them. Figure, Apptronik, Agility and 1X are still building toward volume. This market is early, and the race is far from one dimensional. 2027…

Atlas has new hands ... Boston Dynamics skipped the pinky. 13 degrees of freedom (up from 7) 4 fingers, no pinky Sealed motors at every joint Backdrivable, for touch & toughness Built for sim-to-real RL 1X, Tesla and Genesis are at 20+ DOF…

Starts at $18K…🤯 Astribot T1 just appeared at IROS 2026 and officially went on sale. They also brought their full robotics stack, including the in-house Lumo-2 model. T1 is built for precise manipulation: a cable-driven body, 23 DoF…

1X’s goal is to ship 50,000 NEO humanoid robots in 2027, according to CEO Bernt Børnich in an interview with Ti Morse on the Relentless podcast, posted on September 18, 2026. Børnich said the hardest part is not making 50,000 robots, but…

Spent the afternoon at @mundanebot Why call it that? It is going after mundane dangerous jobs. Things like working on electrical lines. What they showed me is the best teleoperation system I have seen. A worker jumps into an exoskeleton…

General world models could overtake specialized vision-language-action models around 2027. @1x_tech founder @BerntBornich made this specific prediction in his interview with @ti_morse Key highlights: 1. Data diversity is the constraint.…

Figure tested robots in 30 unfamiliar homes. They completed 56% of the chores. How close are humanoids to everyday usefulness? This week’s briefing: Figure’s results, 1X’s 50,000-robot ambition, Atlas at Hyundai—and a human vs. humanoid…

Humanoid robotics engineering salaries are getting serious in 2026. Some current US salary ranges: • Figure AI — Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning $200K–$400K • Apptronik — Staff Software Engineer, Humanoid Controls $300K–$350K • Tesla…

Biggest takeaways from 1X CEO Bernt Børnich's interview with Relentless - They're targeting 50,000 robots shipped in 2027. - 1X's Hayward factory is built for ~10,000 units/year and will be fully ramped by the end of 2026, though they…

1X wants to ship 50,000 robots next year. CEO Bernt Børnich says the real challenge is “ensuring that you don’t get them back.” In this interview with @ti_morse, he explains why scaling production means uncovering problems that never…

These hands might be some of the most human-like robot hands I’ve seen. First is Xynova Flex 2. It has 23 DoF and weighs around 400 g. Xynova uses a hybrid tendon and direct-drive system, with position repeatability rated at ±0.1 mm. The…

These might be some of the most human looking robots being built right now. The closer you look the impressive it gets. Skin texture blinking eye movement facial muscles lip movement and even tiny expressions are now being engineered into…

daaamn, just realised this is on 1x speed smoooth https://t.co/guGXHddXGe

Dexterous hands, different approaches: ✸ 1X NEO | quasi-direct tendon drive ✸ Sharpa Wave | proprietary actuators ✸ Linker L30 | tendon-driven ✸ Shadow Hand | tendon-driven https://t.co/VWqujXv98V

XMAQUINA is steadily building exposure to the robotics stack, not just one type of humanoid. Nine private robotics companies are now in the portfolio, spanning humanoids and the infrastructure needed to deploy them. $DEUS at 1.1x mNAV…

Nine private robotics companies now sit within the XMAQUINA portfolio. $DEUS is trading at 1.1x mNAV The portfolio continues to expand across humanoid robotics and the infrastructure enabling its deployment. 📊 Track the portfolio →…

Agility Robotics' S-4 is public, and it's the first hard look at the numbers behind the $2.5B valuation. 2025 net sales: $1.78M. Net loss: $138.1M. Gross margin: -151%. Management concludes substantial doubt exists about the company's…

🤖 ROBOT RANKINGS — Week of September 7 September was the month Tesla guided to ~1,000 Optimus units a week. Production hasn't started. Tesla's own capacity table lists Optimus as "Construction" — no figure at either site. Tesla ▼1 → #8.…

The humanoid hand debate is focused on the wrong bottleneck. The usual argument is about where to put the motor. Tendon-driven hands keep the actuators upstream and pull the fingers with cables. Tesla's Optimus ($TSLA) and 1X's NEO broadly…

OpenAI is officially entering the humanoid robotics race. Sam Altman confirmed that the company will definitely build a humanoid robot, alongside other robotic form factors. And the goal isn’t just a robot for the home. OpenAI is first…

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الصناعة في مجال الروبوتات الشبيهة بالإنسان (Humanoid Robots) منقسمة حاليًا بين طريقتين لتصميم اليد: 1. اليد المدفوعة بالأوتار (Tendon-driven) الموتورات تكون في الساعد، والكابلات (مثل الأوتار في جسم الإنسان) تسحب الأصابع. المميزات: •الأصابع…

Stats time! Humanoid robot startups raised $8.6B this year. Almost none of them ship robots. The company shipping 44% of the world's humanoids is worth a fraction of the one still running pilots. Here's the humanoid money board, valuation…

TradingView (Aug 31, 2026, 18:14 GMT-4): Weekly recap of SoftBank Group (9984) 'negotiating a roughly $6B implied bid for humanoid-robotics firm 1X Technologies'; talks ongoing and terms may change. Cites Reuters. Same item also notes SB…

ICYMI SoftBank in Talks to Buy Majority Stake in Humanoid Maker 1X at $6 Billion Valuation In October, 1X began taking $20,000 pre-orders for its svelte robot, Neo, for delivery in 2026. It received over 10,000 orders within the first…

Back to feed Public Preview SoftBank in talks for majority stake in humanoid maker 1X at $6bn valuation Team S ·2 days ago SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in humanoid robotics company 1X Technologies at a $6 billion…

Back to feed Public Preview SoftBank in talks for majority stake in humanoid maker 1X at $6bn valuation Team S ·2 days ago SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in humanoid robotics company 1X Technologies at a $6 billion…

Startup Fortune (Aug 31, 2026, 9:06 AM ET): Recap of The Information Aug 27 report that SoftBank is in talks for a majority stake in OpenAI-backed 1X Technologies at about a $6 billion valuation. Piece says 1X tried last fall to raise $1…

Genesis Auction Wave 2! Launches June 24 Get DEUS homeDAO Portal How Figure Became the Biggest Name in Robotics Color theme: Four years, three generations of humanoids, a $39 billion valuation and now one of the largest physical AI data…

🚨 WHEN ENGINEERS ARE ALLOWED TO COOK - THIS ROBOT HAND HAS 22 DEGREES OF FREEDOM 1X's NEO humanoid hand, tendons moving like human muscles, picking up everything from eggs to tools 🤖✋ What most don't know: NEO hand = 22 motors, force…

AI is still so early, but so bullish. We're witnessing a huge unlock of economic value with the adoption of AI models like Claude, and more recently, agents like Grok Bot. This then filters down into the most bullish of bull points for AI.…

$CCXI valuation is being disrespected right now and I see asymmetry in the trade. Humanoid valuations (Aug 2026): Tesla Optimus — no standalone; Tesla ~$1.38T Figure AI — $39B Unitree — public, ~$33–37B NEURA — ~$7B Apptronik — ~$5.5B 1X —…

Post Log in Sign up Post Digita on X: "SoftBank wants to buy a majority stake in a robot that has never shipped to a single customer, and it's willing to value the company at $6 billion to do it. The target is 1X Technologies, a Norwegian…

@theinformation SoftBank is set to acquire humanoid robot developer 1X, valued at approximately $6 billion, in a deal backed by OpenAI.

Exclusive: SoftBank could take control of humanoid robot developer 1X in a deal valuing the OpenAI-backed startup at about $6 billion. Full story: https://t.co/n5H4NSRY6d

Luke Lango / InvestorPlace (dated Aug 2026; Firecrawl news dated it ~1 day before Aug 31): Cites JPMorgan: humanoid operating cost ~$10-$12/hour vs ~$30 human factory labor; currently ~2 humanoids to match one human; capable humanoid…

SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible, but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years. The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is…

Silicon Valley is having its biggest shopping spree in history 🛒 💰 Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B 🤖 SoftBank circling humanoid maker 1X at $6B ⚡ Cursor at $60B, OpenRouter ~$8B, Decart $6B+ The pattern: nobody is buying revenue.…

SoftBank Eyes Controlling Stake in Humanoid Robot Maker 1X SoftBank is negotiating to acquire a controlling interest in humanoid robotics company 1X at a valuation around $6 billion, focusing on residential applications.

SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot maker 1X Technologies at a valuation of about $6 billion. https://t.co/hQDfAfdaeX

🚨BREAKING NEWS SoftBank is reportedly in talks to acquire a majority stake in @1x_tech at a $6B valuation. If the deal happens, it would be another major signal that serious capital is moving deeper into humanoid robotics. 1X already has…

Categories: Premium Subscription Updates / General Market Commentary Topics: Digital Dispatch / General Market Commentary- BW The Humanoid Race Is Moving From Lab to Factory Shares Share Post Share Email While American investors remain…

10,000 humanoid robots sold out in 5 days generating $200,000,000+ in pre-orders overnight OpenAI backed 1X Technologies just proved consumer demand for home bots is officially reaching mass hysteria with NEO: • Price: $20,000 flat (or…

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@theinformation One thing worth watching here: $6B for 1X implies SoftBank is pricing humanoid robots on AI-adjacent multiples, not on any demonstrated unit economics. That bet may eventually be right, but the sequencing matters — Son has…

$6B. For 1X ! In this market. That'd be daylight robbery. SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies at a ~$6B valuation, per The Information. The part that stands out from the report: OpenAI reportedly discussed…

🚨 BREAKING: @SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in @OpenAI-backed humanoid robot startup 1X at a $6 BILLION valuation. 🤖💰 @1x_tech is building NEO, a humanoid designed to live in your home, fold laundry, make coffee, vacuum,…

Skild AI released their new model S1, Figure introduced a new way of collecting data, 1X in talks with SoftBank & much more...

Post Log in Sign up Post Humanoids daily on X: "SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X at $6B, per The Information. Last September, 1X was reportedly seeking $1B at a $10B+ valuation. Control normally trades at a premium, not a…

Starting to think this is actually bullish for $CCXI 🤖 @agilityrobotics as they are way further ahead in commercialization and just $2.5 billion pre-money valuation *SOFTBANK IN TALKS TO ACQUIRE MAJORITY STAKE IN HUMANOID ROBOT MAKER 1X…

Post Log in Sign up Post Ismail \| SinyalKatmanı \| on X: "SoftBank, humanoid robot üreticisi 1X’te çoğunluk hissesi için $6B değerleme üzerinden görüşüyor. NEO için 10K' dan fazla sipariş var. Son, OpenAI ve AI infra sonrası fiziksel AI’a…

Post Log in Sign up Post Humanoid Investing on X: "SoftBank Negotiating Majority Stake In Humanoid Maker 1X At $6 Billion Valuation" - Humanoid Investing @HumanoidInvest SoftBank Negotiating Majority Stake In Humanoid Maker 1X At $6…

$CCXI SoftBank paying $6B for control of 1X is a category green light. Masa is buying physical AI. That lifts every credible humanoid name. 1X is the home bet: $20k NEO, 10k pre-orders. Home is the hardest environment. SoftBank still wants…

SOFTBANK IN TALKS TO BUY MAJORITY STAKE IN 1X AT ~$6B VALUATION SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot maker 1X, per The Information. 1X previously tried to raise $1B at a $10B valuation but raised…

Post Log in Sign up Post Odd Diligence on X: "“SoftBank in Talks to Buy Majority Stake in Humanoid Maker 1X at $6 Billion Valuation” SoftBank also has position in Agility Robotics $CCXI … maybe throw them some more $$ someday?" - Odd…

*SOFTBANK IN TALKS TO ACQUIRE MAJORITY STAKE IN HUMANOID ROBOT MAKER 1X AT $6B: THE INFORMATION *OPENAI SCRAPPED PREVIOUS PLANS TO ACQUIRE HUMANOID ROBOT STARTUP 1X *1X ROBOTICS FACES DOWN-VALUATION TO $6B AFTER UNSUCCESSFUL $10B FUNDRAISE…

SoftBank Negotiating Majority Stake In Humanoid Maker 1X At $6 Billion Valuation, The Information Says

SoftBank Negotiating Majority Stake In Humanoid Maker 1X At $6 Billion Valuation, The Information Says

Sam Altman told TIME that by the end of this year, OpenAI will have an internal system he would call AGI. A few other eye-opening quotes from the interview: "I expect this will be the first model where the model actually invents new things…

Post Log in Sign up Post May on X: "I calculated BMI for 11 humanoid robots. The results are counterintuitive: Leanest: 1X NEO (BMI 10.7, 30kg) Heaviest: Atlas (90kg, built for industrial work) Only "overweight" one: Fourier GR-3 (BMI…

Post Log in Sign up Post Melvin Schwarz on X: "We deployed humanoid robots into a real factory in under 90 days! Today, we are coming out of stealth with Nucleus. Our team previously worked on some of robotics’ toughest challenges at 1X,…