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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 16, 2026 · Conference · posted
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Emotional the next morning. I'm in my Model 3. I haven't been looking at the road; I've been looking at videos, reading X, and trying to catch up on AI. I'm heading to a humanoid robotics conference in San Francisco where, let's be honest,… |
Humanoid robots can walk, lift boxes and impress us in videos. But how close are they to doing many different jobs without constant human help? We ranked 14 robot and AI model pairings using public evidence. Figure leads the leaderboard,… |
シーバとザランド、返品物流に双腕AIロボット-https://t.co/iSyGYavToB セリアクト、ザランド、シーバ・ロジスティクスは、ドイツとポーランドの物流拠点でAIを活用した返品処理を自動化。双腕ロボットで返品商品の把持・識別・仕分けを効率化する。 |
Figure 02 marked several milestones for Figure, including its first BMW deployment, the introduction of Helix, household tasks, and logistics work. As the F.03 fleet expanded, the company decided to retire F.02. To protect proprietary… |
I’ve watched a lot of robot videos. This one is different. Figure 02 spent its final minutes walking toward a 75-ton furnace filled with molten steel. Yes, this actually happened. Figure is retiring most of its F.02 fleet as the company… |
Figure just gave its retired humanoid robots a very different final mission. 🔥🤖 Figure decommissioned its F.02 fleet by having the robots autonomously jump into a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Imatra, Finland. The reason? Figure says… |
Humanoid robots are already clocking up operating hours in real-world factory settings. Here are six examples: • CATL’s Galbot S1 handles material transport and order picking on battery module and pack production lines. It can carry up to… |
GOOD NEWS 🇨🇳 The Tesla Cybercab tour just touched down in Shenyang, China 😍 Shenyang serves as Northeast China's core industrial and automotive powerhouse, most notably hosting BMW's largest production base worldwide 🔥 Bringing the… |
BMW is launching its first humanoid robot pilot in Germany with Hexagon’s AEON. Read the story: https://t.co/WQ6B151SzY Subscribe for free for more humanoid robotics news. #BMW #Hexagon #AEON #HumanoidRobots |
BMW is launching its first humanoid robot pilot in Germany with Hexagon’s AEON. 🤖🇩🇪 Read the story: https://t.co/WQ6B151SzY Subscribe for free for more humanoid robotics news. #BMW #Hexagon #AEON #HumanoidRobots |
Humanoid robots aren't a future concept anymore - they're already on production lines. Figure robots have logged nearly a year on BMW's assembly floor, and global humanoid shipments more than tripled year over year in the first half of… |
At the new RTLS Alliance Ecosystem Factory Intelligence Pavilion at The ASSEMBLY Show, manufacturers will be able to see multiple RTLS technologies and talk directly with Philips and BMW. https://t.co/ZyoU8M9pqI. #RTLS #Manufacturing… |
humanoids raised $4.3b in 2025. tesla said they'd put 5,000 optimus units in their own factories. came in somewhere under a few hundred. musk clarified on the q4 call — the robots were "not in usage in our factories in a material way."… |
Kepler got acquired in May 26 at an implied $106m valuation. Compared to Unitree ($29bn), Ubtech ($5bn), Galbot ($3bn) - $106m is a steep discount. Despite Kepler having partnerships with SAIC-GM and BMW where it actually deploys its… |
This Chinese robot is designed to mimic Tesla's Optimus form factor It can lift 30kg, has 8hr battery life and can walk rough terrain High endurance robot designed to work on industrial environments and is already deployed in BMW China's… |
After my last post showing @Figure_robot robots walking around their office in San Jose, I got a lot of hate -apparently they're "too slow," "barely moving," "still at some weird early stage." Well, take a look at this video. These same… |
BMW cut 600 meters of wiring and 150 fuses from the Neue Klasse by consolidating vehicle compute into four superbrains. That is the exact E/E architecture i would have fought for during my years running technology at Nissan. The catch sits… |
Figure 02 supported 30,000 vehicles at BMW Spartanburg. Scale requires clean labeling before training, and process ownership before deployment. The robots only move because the shop floor telemetry layer was already in place. |
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… |
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… |
@Figure_robot robots sort thousands of packages without getting tired or needing breaks - this is one of the main tasks where they’re being tested. And the most important: The company partners with BMW - Figure robots are already deployed… |
Four years ago, Figure didn’t have a robot. Today it’s valued at $39B and has already shipped 1,000+ humanoids. CEO Brett Adcock says the real advantage isn’t the AI it’s that hardware, models, and manufacturing all sit under one roof, one… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Biti8 on X: "Four years ago, @Figure\robot didn’t even have a robot. Today, it’s valued at $39B, has built 1,000+ humanoids, deployed robots at BMW, built its own AI models, manufacturing infrastructure and a… |
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… |
Matilde Alves (31 Aug 2026): BYD and PaXini Tech (both Shenzhen) signed a strategic cooperation agreement Aug 25 and announced it Monday. PaXini will deploy production-focused robots inside BYD factories and use line data to train embodied… |
We are starting to see the humanoid robot story is getting more interesting than just the demos. Hyundai is talking about U.S. robot production at 30,000 units a year by 2028. BMW has already put humanoids through thousands of hours of… |
La industria del automóvil tiene que reinventarse y los humanoides son una gran oportunidad Opción 1: crea tu propio robot Tesla → Optimus XPENG → IRON BYD → Xiao Di CHERY → Mornine Rivian → Mind Opción 2: invierte en empresas de robots… |
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… |
FIGURE 03 JUST ENTERED THE BMW FACTORY. 🤖🏭 Figure 02 helped build 30,000+ BMW X3s in 2025. Now Figure 03 is taking over — and its job is getting much harder. Not just moving parts. It sorts unordered components, sequences them, and pulls… |
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Post Log in Sign up Post Brett Adcock on X: "We are now on a path to 100x, and are committed to spend over $1B the next 12 months on data and compute Index is laying the groundwork for ordering robots as a service. Today, you have people… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Lucian Fogoros on X: "Figure AI's Figure 02 logged 1,250+ hours at BMW Spartanburg loading sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures, achieving 90,000+ parts at over 99% placement accuracy. Agility Robotics Digit… |
Post Log in Sign up Post - Theo Gage @realtheogg 3 Billion Humanoid Robots Could Exist. The Question Nobody Is Asking Is Where They’ll Live. Bank of America thinks the world will have 3 billion humanoid robots by 2060 Read that again. Not… |
Press-Information June 25th 2026 BMW Group advances the use of Physical AI in production with Figure 03 project in Spartanburg - Figure AI demonstrates Figure 03 humanoid robots in new use case at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. - Robot… |
The Robot Report Continue to Site Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Share Figure 03 adds tactile-sensor hands, palm cameras, wireless charging, and speech-to-speech audio over its predecessor. \| Source: BMW Group BMW Group is doubling… |