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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.
Sep 26, 2026 · Funding · posted
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Humanoid robots have a truly insatiable appetite for data. Midcentury, another New York-based physical AI company, claims to have surpassed the milestone of 2 million hours of human first-person behavioral data: > It covers over 50… |
Midcentury's stealth launch for robotics infrastructure is a critical unlock for physical AI. Scaling LLMs relied on massive internet-scale datasets and evaluation. Robotics has lacked that. Building the world's largest egocentric dataset… |