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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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Oct 22, 2026 · Post · posted
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Thank you to Forbes and John Koetsier for taking a closer look at Sanctuary AI’s expanded approach to Physical AI with our CEO, Daniel Friedmann. The article explores how we’re deploying Physical AI on existing industrial robotic systems… |
Big parts. Low volumes. Real variation from machine to machine. @johnkoetsier on why AGCO’s Hesston, Kansas, plant is a harder test for a humanoid than an auto line, and a truer one: https://t.co/HjseAEGRJh https://t.co/xqTP6ejlQW |
FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @origin_autonomy on September 9th. 36 days later: $20M seed co-led by @accel and @ZacuaVentures 🫡 https://t.co/Gcaw3jsged https://t.co/hUCmrGZbpM |
Scaling humanoid fleets is an automotive-grade industrial challenge. The bottleneck is not capital or ambition, but qualifying multi-tier actuator supply chains and passing plant-level functional safety audits. https://t.co/74KjQn0k4J |
Super-impressed: Nature Will releases 50-billion parameter general foundation model for robot intelligence The big question: Is the robotics industry wasting billions on training as the frontier models & this foundation model get better… |
The thinking cap is here. Will you get a BCI? I will. https://t.co/2K9YQOuKd7 |
A thinking cap. BCIs are coming. https://t.co/2K9YQOucnz |
The biggest thing between humanoid robots and real work isn't intelligence, or better hands, or a bigger battery. It's a fence. Digit 5 is being built to take it away, to notice people and yield to them, and work in the same space they do.… |
A standing ovation is nice. A repeat order is better. 🤖 Humanoid robots have five potential markets: research, AI training, industry, homes and defense. Shipments show who’s buying. Repeat deployments will show where the robots earn their… |
6 months of work, done in 1 weekend. Haiqu CTO Mykola Maksymenko says an AI agent rebuilt his PhD research and found a bug. He's combining LLMs, agents, and quantum computing. The result: "weak AGI." All in my latest story at Forbes.… |
I’m proud to announce that Antioch has raised $32 million in Series A funding, led by @GreylockVC with participation from @A_StarVC, @Category_VC, @BoxGroup, @IcehouseVenture, and angels. Physical AI is the defining technological and… |
So that massive Figure $3.5 billion deal for AI compute with Nscale ... Figure has raised $1.9 billion. How can it spend $3.5B? And promise up to $6 billion? Here's my thinking from my latest story at Forbes, and it involves -- of course… |
Forge Global Apptronik private-share page (Forge Price updated Aug 31, 2026): Forge Price $36.97, -$3.19 (-7.94%); Forge Price valuation $5B. Total funding listed $964.7M. Funding table: Series A-X1 02/11/2026 $441.21M at $36.97/share, $5B… |
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… |
Skip to content Sanctuary AI has deployed technology developed alongside its Phoenix humanoid on an industrial wire insertion task, reporting a success rate above 99.5% and a 2.54 second cycle time. The trial used robotic hands rather than… |