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I’ve been watching Physical AI data scale from tens of thousands of hours to millions. But seeing that Maxinsights has collected 2 million hours of people doing chores in real homes genuinely surprised me. I haven’t seen many teams build a… |
🇺🇸@ElonMusk revealed on @Tesla’s Q3 earnings call that the company is building an “Optimus Academy” where 10,000-20,000 humanoid robots will practice real-world tasks through self-play and learn from their mistakes to generate training… |
4NE1 Gen 4 is already making its mark on the world stage. 🤖 Today, we unveiled the next generation of our humanoid robot on two major stages. First, at the opening of the TUM RoboGym powered by NEURA in Munich, built in collaboration with… |
POV: You just built your own humanoid robot https://t.co/3nsexo4Urr https://t.co/18MpvnOuWv |
Just left a positive review in Ethos for @menloresearch, a very promising robotics company from Singapore. They built Asimov 1, a humanoid robot you can assemble at home for around $20K. If you're into robotics, go follow them!… |
Micro Center should sell humanoid robot parts. https://t.co/0XCVpzBsrl https://t.co/bznBY27Suj |
Everything you need to build a humanoid robot from scratch -> https://t.co/cOA9iWI1SX https://t.co/z0OzmQm0Zg https://t.co/ydPKdxa47H |
MicroDuck looks like a cute desk toy. The hardware tells a different story. At just 25 cm tall and around 780 g, this small robotic duck packs a surprising amount of engineering into its body. Here’s what’s inside: • 15 motors controlling… |
Culture is the moat. Who has the most diverse factory in the world? Talked to a robotics entrepreneur today who explained this process to me while standing out front of the Physical AI event at Fort Mason. Stealth Mode. Building a robot… |
🤝 Physical AI for industrial production: Schaeffler and Wandelbots have entered into a technology partnership. Together, we will further develop the open Wandelbots NOVA platform for industrial and humanoid robotics. ➡️ Press release:… |
GOOD NEWS 🚨 @Tesla is reportedly investing ₩1.1 trillion (approximately $780 million) in Samsung Electro-Mechanics to secure a long-term supply of advanced AI chip substrates, according to an exclusive report from South Korea’s Maeil… |
How do you teach a humanoid robot to walk without programming every move? Reinforcement learning step by step 1. Build a simulation (MuJoCo or NVIDIA Isaac Lab) with joints motors sensors and a physics model. 2. Define the task: walk… |
The company’s Q3 2026 update marks a manufacturing milestone. But California remains in “Early Ramp,” Texas is under construction, and Tesla has disclosed no output totals or customer operating results. Repeatable assembly matters. It can… |
Unitree Flags Commercialization Risk After Share Rally https://t.co/yHh8beilX7 #Humanoid #Humanoids #HumanoidRobotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #HumanoidAnalytics |
Who should you follow on China tech? One great place to start is the brilliant guests who’ve been on my High Capacity podcast—now at 20 episodes! Here they are and the topics we covered: 1. Georg Stieler (@GeorgStieler) — China’s… |
BOOM 🆘 2027 is shaping up to be the brilliant year that Tesla's AI ambitions become real 🔥 On the Q3 earnings call, Elon and the team put dates on almost everything enthusiasts have been waiting for, and the biggest one is about the car… |
Unitree has introduced the H2-X “Kung Fu Legend Guardian,” a humanoid robot demonstrated performing martial-arts movements, jumping from a 4 m platform, protecting a person from an attacker, and lifting a vehicle in a simulated rescue.… |
You're not ready for this. One of the most human-like humanoid robots has just entered production. Tesla says Optimus production has started on its high volume manufacturing lines in Fremont with the first production quality units coming… |
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 |
Most people just saw a humanoid robot throwing kicks and flipping off cars. But the H2-X has some technical details worth looking at. Here’s what the footage and the available specifications tell us about Unitree’s Kung Fu Legend Guardian.… |
$TXN sees $500-$1000 content per humanoid. They anticipate 2027 being a ramp year for robotics. https://t.co/Pvi1faBSaC |
Why is nobody talking about this? ToddlerBot is a 0.56 m, 3.4 kg humanoid robot built at Stanford by Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Shuran Song and C. Karen Liu. Its goal is to make robot learning cheap and easy to reproduce. The full hardware… |
BOOOM 🚨 $TSLA's Q3 2026 update is out. Non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.48, ahead of the roughly $0.43 to $0.45 analysts expected 🔥 But the most revealing parts of the deck have little to do with EPS. They show a company steadily shifting its… |
Q3 Shareholder Update → https://t.co/u0UcDOuMNa Highlights – FSD Supervised attach rate grew to over 75% of new vehicle deliveries in NA – Unveiled the next-gen Roadster – Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan & Taiwan – Tesla Semi… |
Generative Bionics and AMD are building a Physical AI data factory Generative Bionics is partnering with AMD to build a 5,000㎡ Physical AI Data Factory in Italy. The first facility is scheduled to begin operations in Q4 2027. The goal is… |
Samsung is testing a humanoid designed for 24/7 operations. The bipedal robot is being trained for navigation and material handling at Samsung’s R&D center in Seoul, with staff and partners monitoring its operation in shifts. (see a bit in… |
🤖 Meet the Unitree H2-X: the Kung Fu Legend Guardian. Unitree is showcasing a humanoid robot built for powerful performance, with a claimed endurance of approximately 8 hours. From kung fu-inspired movements to real-world service and… |
Google DeepMind tested Gemini 4 Argon by having it watch a human play cornhole and simulate the movements for Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot. Using MuJoCo simulations, Apollo successfully made seven consecutive shots in the real world.… |
Imagine AMRs moving parts through a factory while humanoid robots handle components or tend machines. In a shared workspace, a robot needs to make sense of more than what’s in front of it. It has to connect what it sees now with what it… |
With the Lighthouse Factory in Taicang, Schaeffler has created something unique in its global network: a closed-loop manufacturing process in which humanoid robots assemble components for other humanoid robots. Find out more here.… |
Chinese robotics company Ahead Form has unveiled its Elf-Xuan 2.0 humanoid robot styled after the Skyborne elf race from World of Warcraft: Forever. The robot features expressive facial movements and natural eye movements, bringing the… |
You can build your own humanoid robot. https://t.co/2qoiOa3Xb8 https://t.co/JEMl3VewMt |
POV: You realize you can actually learn humanoid robotics online. https://t.co/0zVUu5AHZg https://t.co/anmkQcuCXN |
Unitree showcases a new humanoid robot with superhero-like strength and the potential to save lives in emergencies. https://t.co/NXryKL33AY https://t.co/3HquETbHQ2 |
A new humanoid platform for robotics research is coming out of Germany. Agile Robots has introduced Agile ONE SN with NVIDIA, combining Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T and two WUJI Hand 2s. Production is planned to begin this year, with up to… |
Expert Takeaways: Humanoids > Optimistic 2027 shipment forecast for humanoid robots stands at ~500,000 units. > Today, full-size robots sell for $60,000 - $70,000 in low volume production. Unit prices are projected to drop to $30,000 -… |
Humanoids building parts for humanoids. Schaeffler says six robots now assemble joint components at its Taicang factory. From partnerships with multiple humanoid developers to its own production lines, the strategy is clear: supply the… |
Future Battery Technologies for Humanoid Robots: While lithium-ion batteries have been key to the demonstration and development of humanoid robots as an emerging technology,…… |
Generative Bionics plans a 5,000 m² Physical AI Data Factory in Italy, combining real-world humanoid training, digital twins and AMD Helios computing. The first of three planned facilities is targeted to open in Q4 2027.… |
NVIDIA announces new Isaac tools for agents as Agile Robots unveils Agile ONE SN, a reference humanoid for robotics research. 🦾 Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and powered by Jetson Thor, Agile ONE SN gives researchers and developers an… |
Generative Bionics plans a 5,000 m² humanoid training hub in Italy, targeting Q4 2027. Powered by AMD Helios, it would combine real-world GENE.01 robot training with digital-twin simulations—the first of three planned facilities.… |
What if warehouse automation focused on the task, not the human form? 📦 At an Arvato logistics warehouse, Reflex Robotics demonstrates a wheeled robot that picks boxes from pallets and places them onto a conveyor. Instead of copying human… |
Humanoid robots have already surpassed the physiological limits of humans…(Look at the World Humanoid Robot Games 2026) Yet, it is precisely this limit that can save lives. It would come as no surprise to see the H2 guard mode--deployed… |
Unitree casts the new H2-X as a robot superhero: confronting a knife-wielding intruder, lifting a car to free a dummy and pushing a child-sized doll out of traffic. These are, of course, staged scenes, not proof of autonomous rescue… |
Unitree H2 is like superhero Fending off an intruder armed with a knife Lifting a car to rescue someone trapped underneath Pushing a pedestrian out of the path of an oncoming vehicle … In a chaotic and complex real world, Humanoid robots… |
Wanted a personal bodyguard? @UnitreeRobotics might have one for you. Meet the H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, built for powerful performance with up to 8 hours of endurance. Just imagine having a humanoid bodyguard that looks like it walked… |
IIT Roorkee has proudly secured prestigious honors at the CII Design Awards 2026, recognising the institute’s contributions to engineering and product innovation. Prof. Sneha Singh (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering)… |
Asimov 1 is the most open humanoid robot. https://t.co/qp1Etq9rzs https://t.co/PxT0rxaQRp |
Are humanoid robots joining workforce? China’s 2025 humanoid robot shipments: 🔬 Research & education | 42% 🎭 Entertainment & interaction | 35% 🗄️ Data collection | 19% 🏭 Industry & logistics | 4% Only 4% were shipped for industrial and… |
What does it take to build a humanoid robot that can walk without falling? Dropbear recorded 128 walking tests with zero falls. But every test ran in simulation, with external pushes turned off. Developed by Hyperspawn and Point Blank,… |
"When will we be able to see a general purpose humanoid do an 8 hour job?" "Next year." https://t.co/vzrBdd464F |
If your robot can climb stairs like this, what can it do next? 🤖 Mondo Robotics is showcasing a compact, wheeled robot tackling steps with a design that looks closer to a real product than a lab experiment. Robots do not always need… |
Humanoid robot market: $5.41B in 2026 → $50.27B by 2035. That’s a projected CAGR of 28.1%. Asia-Pacific held 42.6% of the market in 2025, ahead of North America at 29.3%. Key application areas include manufacturing logistics healthcare and… |
We’re hiring a Global Supply Manager, Cable Harnesses. Lead global sourcing for the cable harnesses, wire assemblies, and interconnects behind a humanoid robot already operating in production facilities. 5+ years in supply chain or… |
Asimov 1 is an open-source humanoid robot. Everything that's open on Asimov 1: - Bill of materials - Mechanical CAD - Electrical schematics and PCBs - Fabrication manifest - Assembly manual - Wiring harness - Edge, the onboard runtime -… |
A very cute Z-legged home humanoid. NYC-based Tuesday Labs’ Voxel is designed for everyday household tasks--tidying up, finding lost items, fetching things, and watering plants… I love the design choices. The bright orange makes it feel… |
We believe solving dexterous manipulation is one of the largest opportunities in robotics. That’s why we're thrilled to lead Eka Robotics’ Series A. Much of the world's physical economy still depends on people using their hands, and that… |
Ropedia just released W0, an open world model trained on ~10,000 hours of egocentric human video. One set of weights predicts first-person views for humans, robot arms, and humanoids (Unitree G1, Fourier GR-1) using a shared camera +… |
This is really cool an open-source tactile manipulation dataset for humanoid robots Real-robot tactile data is scarce. Sharpa has released SharpaDex v1.0 on Hugging Face: 28,993 real-robot teleoperated demonstrations across 59 bimanual… |
After its stock surge, Unitree is urging caution. The company warns that humanoid robotics is still in the early stages of commercialization—and slower adoption could hit growth and valuations. https://t.co/jOydm9p01u |
Researchers have developed PingpongDuo, a system that enables two humanoid robots to play table tennis doubles through coordinated movements and shot planning. It combines AI-based planning, agile footwork, and precise racket control to… |
Anyone can build a humanoid robot. We built a G1-class humanoid, because the G1 doesn't let developers own the stack from first principles. So we made Asimov 1 and open-sourced it. Start building. The road becomes clear once you're moving.… |
The real race in robotics may not be about who builds the best humanoid, but who builds the brain that powers them all. That’s the bet @SkildAI is making with Skild Brain. One intelligence layer designed to work across different robot… |
🤖 Humanoids making humanoids: Today Schaeffler opened a state-of-the-art lighthouse factory for humanoid robotics in Taicang, China. Curious? Read the full press release here: https://t.co/LFIdOQyAqP #Wepioneermotion… |
🇺🇸 Figure AI's F.03 humanoid robot has now walked for 9 straight days without stopping, covering 348 miles and taking 1.2 million+ steps on a treadmill. Founder Brett Adcock says the experiment started as a side project to see how long… |
What if robotic hands could be built like human connective tissue? 🤖 @AllonicRobotics is using 3D Tissue Braiding to weave high-strength fibers around a minimal rigid skeleton, creating robotic hands that are strong, compliant, and… |
Heavy object handling while walking still has to keep balance when arm forces hit the legs and torso, and when vision has to close the loop on placement. KAIST Humanoid v0.9 (DRCD Lab, arms with RAILAB) used onboard visual feedback to push… |
Every great machine begins on a workbench. Now you can build a humanoid robot on yours. https://t.co/PIeuEBx6CM https://t.co/yn0LMuxbD0 |
STRONG SIGNAL 🤖 Tesla’s latest filing reveals the ultimate skin in the game: key employee equity awards are now explicitly tied to the factory rollout of Optimus 🔥 Tucked inside the October 19 proxy statement is a clear signal that Tesla… |
BOOM 🚨 ARK Invest just published an updated valuation model for $TSLA, and according to their latest projections, Tesla’s expected share price in 2031 is about $4,400 🔥 The bear case is around $3,300 and the bull case is around $5,000.… |
Heavy lifting—with a moonwalk to finish. KAIST’s humanoid v0.9 pushes objects weighing up to 35 kg and lifts up to 20 kg to spell out “KAIST,” using onboard vision, reinforcement learning and learning from human demonstrations.… |
Your phone probably costs more than this humanoid robot. Zeroth 01 is an open source humanoid 40 cm tall with a parts list starting at $350. Most of the frame is 3D-printed Feetech servos drive the joints and you control it in Python. One… |
Understanding the physical world is one thing. Predicting how it changes when you walk, reach, and grab is another. That’s where world models come in. For Day 1 of Ropedia Super Week, @ropedia_ai introduces Ropedia W0, a cross-embodiment… |
Building a humanoid robot is becoming a lot more accessible. @menloresearch has released the Asimov 1 user manual, giving people a guide to building their own humanoid instead of just watching robotics companies do it. Curious to see how… |
Chinese robotics company Ahead Form has unveiled Elf Xuan 2.0, an upgraded humanoid robot with more natural waist and arm movements. Its lifelike silicone face features over 30 degrees of freedom to recreate realistic human expressions.… |
3 Humanoid Robots Join a Surgical Team Samsung Medical Center in South Korea demonstrated how humanoids could assist a surgeon during a simulated gallbladder operation using goat liver tissue. Three humanoid robots. One surgical team: >one… |
A humanoid robot carrying an 800-watt-hour battery pack faces an unforgiving duty cycle. Walking unladen consumes 250 watts. Lifting twenty-kilogram totes every forty seconds pushes consumption past 700 watts. At production takt times,… |
Is the humanoid robot trade coming back in China? Unitree, China's most famous robot maker, jumped more than 11% today to about ¥476 a share. That pushed its market value back above ¥190 billion but zoom out. Unitree opened at ¥1,100 on… |
Japan’s JR West is adding two new railway maintenance robots, including a giant semi-humanoid with a large gripper and a chainsaw. The dual-arm ZX-3 is mounted on a maintenance vehicle’s boom and can cut branches up to 15 meters (49 ft)… |
Presenting the all-new Asimov 1 User Manual. Everything you need to build your very own humanoid. https://t.co/PIeuEBx6CM https://t.co/30NdkE6oGK |
When humanoid robot police appear on the streets… This is Fuxi--an anti-riot humanoid robot developed by China’s NORINCO (伏羲-- named after a figure from ancient Chinese mythology, the first of the "Three Sovereigns"). Equipped with a… |
A new humanoid robot has arrived in Dubai. 🤖 Robot Story is showcasing the AGIBOT A3, highlighting the growing demand for humanoid robots in real-world applications. The robot is available for rental and sale, opening the door for… |
Why does every joint of this $5,000 humanoid hide a cycloidal gearbox? Because 3D-printed plastic can't take concentrated loads. Spreading the force over many contact points is what makes it work. Full breakdown of Berkeley Humanoid Lite… |
A-Useless- Humanoid Companion Came across Codey, a child-sized humanoid from US startup Mind Children, designed to keep older adults and people living alone company. Its demos range from chatting(pharmacy web searches and medication… |
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 robot that packs boxes won’t go viral like a humanoid doing backflips, but businesses will pay for results. Roba Tech lets you describe a task and get the BOM, wiring, CAD and firmware. Then Roba Compute gives you a way to validate the… |
Cutting a cucumber sounds easy. For a humanoid robot, it requires vision, precise movements and control of force. Yet this robot handles the task very well. Here’s what happens behind the scenes. First, computer vision helps the robot… |
Leave the High Work to Giant Humanoid Railway crews still lose people and time to falls, shocks, and the need to climb before they can even judge the job… JR West is putting two machines into service this fall to cut crew size on those… |
You don’t need to build a humanoid robot from scratch to start exploring robotics. This open source robot is available on GitHub. You can study the design explore the code and see how the different parts work together. For robotics… |
Europe wants its place in the humanoid race, and @NEURARobotics is aiming high. The 4NE-1 is designed for both factories and homes, with tactile sensors, AI-powered perception and a platform that could let robots learn new skills through… |
Wandercraft has opened a new 4,300 m² production site in Paris as it prepares to scale its Calvin-40 humanoid. The company has reported 12 industrial customers, while partner Renault is targeting 350 robots across its factories by the end… |
They say robotics moved west, but Boston didn’t get the memo. 🦞 The Massachusetts ecosystem is one of the world's leading hubs for robotics, combining top research, companies, and deep-tech investment. At its core are Massachusetts… |
Warcraft Fans, rejoice--Azeroth comes to life World of Warcraft has teamed up with China's AheadForm to bring a Skyborne Elf character into the real world. Pale blue hair, pointed ears, lifelike skin, gaze tracking and subtle facial… |
RoboParty just open-sourced RP1, a high-performance humanoid platform for embodied AI research. RP1 uses RoboParty’s own ROMOMO actuators. The release covers mechanical and electrical designs, low-level control, simulation, training and… |
Actuation represents ~50% of humanoid robot system cost. Embodied AI hardware sounds simple until lab prototypes meet factory floor tolerances. Precision gears, middleware, and EDA tools will bottleneck before the robots themselves do.… |
A true super-humanoid hero I first saw Neo1 at WRC 2026 and was genuinely impressed. The 4-meter, 1.2-ton humanoid from Beijing-based NeodraDynamics has returned at CIIF 2026. Neo1 is built for 4D work-- heavy assembly, deep-sea… |
Meet the CubeMars AKE50-8 KV110 — compact power for your next robotic application. 🤖⚙️ Designed for space-conscious robotic systems, this QDD actuator combines a compact form factor with high torque density, making it a great option for… |
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… |
Here’s something worth watching in robotics. Humanoid robots are learning to play football. They still struggle with balance ball control and coordination so they’re far from competing at a real match level. But seeing how far robotics has… |
China’s humanoid robots are getting BIG. 🤖 A newly unveiled machine is reportedly 13 feet tall, weighs 2,400 pounds, and can lift over 1,100 pounds. That is a whole new scale for humanoid robotics. But would a robot this size be practical… |