Harmonic Drive
What changed, and what is the evidence.
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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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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 6, 2026 · Deployment · posted
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Actuation is humanoid robotics’ largest hardware cost block. Volume production will turn that into a major precision manufacturing opportunity. Omdia put global humanoid shipments at roughly 13,000 units in 2025. The industry is still… |
Compute and telemetry can be scaled with capital, but precision actuator tooling, harmonic drive yields, and thermal management require rigorous mechanical execution. Hardware reliability remains the hard constraint on commercial… |
Sam Altman is saying that OpenAI plans to build a humanoid robot, along with other designs because the world around us was built for humans (Save this). Doors, stairs, computers, tools, kitchens, vehicles, and factory equipment are all… |
- Global Robotics Industry Converges on Japan for Humanoids Summit Tokyo 2026 Share Leaders across robotics, physical AI, and automation gather in Tokyo this May Download media TOKYO--( BUSINESS WIRE)--Tokyo is emerging as a global center… |
Two weeks ago I posted Harmonic Drive's (TSE: 6324) order book by region, after getting an earlier claim about it wrong. China was the only region where orders fell. The company has now put a five-year plan beside it. AI and humanoid… |
Elon Musk thinks humanoid robots could become a bigger industry than almost anyone expects (Save this). @elonmusk said the usefulness of a humanoid robot depends on three factors, the quality of its artificial intelligence software, the… |
Robotics deep dive: HUMANOID CHOKEPOINTS Almost every supply-chain post about humanoids has one country in it. Trace five critical inputs one at a time and they land in four different places. Magnets first, because that is where the… |
Skip to content IHR006 \| Monthly Insight \| August 2026 Unitree Robotics Soars 460% in Shanghai STAR Market Debut Unitree Robotics made a striking debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market, underscoring strong investor enthusiasm for China’s… |
@Yuvelir_22 wild how a blender render gets the inertia looking effortless, then you watch a $150k humanoid spend 45 seconds trying to lift an empty mug because the harmonic drive overheated. |
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Scaling production is the correct framing. But the binding constraint is not the assembly line. It is the actuator supply chain. Each humanoid needs 20 to 30 precision reducers. Nabtesco and Harmonic Drive control 75% of that market… |
The supply chain concentration in precision reducers is the part most people underestimate. Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco built their positions over decades of iteration on gear tooth profiles, lubrication, and thermal management at the… |
The picks and shovels framing is right but most people name the wrong shovels. NVIDIA gets the attention. Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco in Japan control roughly 75% of global precision reducers. Every humanoid joint, every collaborative… |
@PepInvestStocks @agilityrobotics Already you forgot the biggest potentiel of all the market #humanoid man $6324 Harmonic Drive System it s not indi 😂 HDS has a fucking MONOPOLE 80% and cost to build 1 robots 🤖 = 40/50% Harmonics man… |