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robot manufacturing1,000,000 units“what happens if we really try to build millions of robots a year.”DeReK WaTSoN on X: "Everyone is watching Optimus, Figure and Unitree. I went looking at what actually goes inside the bloody things. Motors. Bearings. Roller screws. Precision gears. Encoders. Force sensors. Magnets. Actuators. Then I looked at who makes them, how difficult they are to manufactu… / X

TRON 21 units“TRON 2 serves as a modular and extensible embodied robotic platform for multi-tool, multi-step tasks across large workspaces.”LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, includi… / X

Actuator BOM contribution40 units“Actuators can potentially represent ~40–60% of a humanoid's BOM.”@santoshsingh1 on X

Gearbox cost contribution30 units“the gearbox itself can represent roughly 30–50% of actuator cost.”@santoshsingh1 on X

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6:00 PM ET	@MatthewChang	Foxconn	@MatthewChang6:00 PM ETFoxconn @MatthewChang on X Well said Yeok! -your neighborhood engineer who is also a licensed engineer in China H/t: @walterpchen https://t.co/fVZHeRylPh @yeokch· Oct 17, 2026 I've spent years in China building robots. I can tell you this playbook won't work: Pre-seed $: Invent the ultimate actuator. Seed $$: Figure out mass production. The hard part isn't inventing a beautiful topology. It's process engineering. The real delta between the US and China is the ability to execute the enormous amount of physical x mental work required to iterate thousands of times on product designs and manufacturing processes. Partly because much of the tacit knowledge / management systems has left the US, but also because of the sheer human labor required. This isn't something you can solve by buying traditional automation lines either. It requires: 1. Ideation driven by human intuition. Walking up and down the line, talking to assembly workers, and developing hypotheses about what and where improvements can be made. Raw human hours and attention spent understanding a specific manufacturing process. 2. Large batches of experiments across multiple variables. Coordinating experiments that can easily involve 50+ people, issuing instructions, and tracking the execution and results of each experiment. 3. Purpose-built test design to identify key metrics. For example, a change in gear hobbing profile might require accelerated aging tests on a dyno, while a change in bearing tolerance might require NVH testing. 4. Data + human intuition-driven analysis. Interpreting test results and deciding whether to implement a process change or run the next set of experiments. 5. Strict process control. Reissuing work instructions to the line and ensuring every process is followed to the letter. The best manufacturers in Asia, from Foxconn to TSMC, have built their competitive advantage on systematically turning thousands of physical experiments into better manufacturing processes. Their moat isn't just production scale. It's the organizational machinery that makes manufacturing learn and improve faster than anyone else. I don't think most people in SF clock this. Say you're manufacturing actuator gears in-house in the US. After you've made your first article, will you hire a team of 10 process engineers to coordinate the 50 technicians running concurrent experiments with designs, processes, and materials? To understand wear patterns across every pin in a cycloidal drive after 10,000 hours? To reduce backlash from 15 arcmin to 5, then to 1? Just to keep pace with China's progress over the next few years? Do you have the skill set and management systems in place to do this? That's why our approach isn't just to automate manufacturing. It's to automate the process of learning how to manufacture better. Automate simulation and design optimization. Automate assembly and physical testing. Automate the design and execution of process experiments. Feed real-world experimental data back into simulation to continuously improve sim-to-real accuracy. The goal is to turn what currently takes 50 engineers coordinating thousands of experiments into a closed-loop system that continuously learns and improves. Then the same robotic line mass-manufactures the product. PS: Coming back to actuator design, many actuator designs are already commoditized in China. The project in the video is open source, and CNC machining cost in China is just $27 (watch the video). I hope people understand this reality. I'll link more examples in the replies.	Actuation
8:16 AM ET	@a3automate		@a3automate8:16 AM ET @a3automate on X Jagdeep Singh says teaching a robot to decant ball bearings took roughly 10–20 hours of task-specific video, building on training from hundreds of millions of internet clips. More from Automated with Brian Heater. #Robotics #PhysicalAI…	Physical AI
7:32 PM ET	@AGkorthos	Schaeffler	@AGkorthos7:32 PM ETSchaeffler @AGkorthos on X Schaeffler updated its humanoid robotics components business today; orders on hand are now ~€400M (~$448M) https://t.co/MYPb403KoT https://t.co/PWJWaIqpMZ @AGkorthos· Oct 13, 2026 Supply chain intelligence for robotics From materials to machines; humanoids and more 🔗https://t.co/FZakOJLArJ https://t.co/KFUMEJ2I91	Humanoids
11:50 AM ET	@AGkorthos		@AGkorthos11:50 AM ET @AGkorthos on X Supply chain intelligence for robotics From materials to machines; humanoids and more 🔗https://t.co/FZakOJLArJ https://t.co/KFUMEJ2I91	Humanoids
5:30 AM ET	@tslaming	Tesla	@tslaming5:30 AM ETTesla @tslaming on X ENGINEERING NEWS ⚙️ Tesla has engineered a fearless little pump: it drowns its own electronics in oil to keep them cool 🆒 Tucked inside every electric drive unit is a small oil pump whose sole job is keeping the motor and gearbox from…	Actuation
2:47 PM ET	@oprydai	Actuat Inc.	@oprydai2:47 PM ETActuat Inc. @oprydai on X Actuat Inc. — Motion hardware for intelligent machines.	Actuation
3:15 PM ET	@techniahqrobot		@techniahqrobot3:15 PM ET @techniahqrobot on X Humanoid robots are creating a new supply chain race around actuators. Actuators can account for up to 60% of a humanoid robot’s cost. Every shoulder elbow hip knee and ankle needs compact joints that can deliver high torque while staying…	Humanoids
2:50 PM ET	@boxcardavid		@boxcardavid2:50 PM ET @boxcardavid on X Ball screw bearing circuits are a psyop, there’s no way this is how the world really works https://t.co/kTc8jwCpHM https://t.co/WDHM41YRJA	Actuation
11:09 AM ET	@michellelsun		@michellelsun11:09 AM ET @michellelsun on X A humanoid actuator is a global supply chain in miniature. This is a map of suppliers across motors, magnets, reducers, roller screws, encoders, bearings and drives. What did I miss? Read more in Part 3 of the Business of Actuators…	Actuation
7:16 AM ET	@WevolverApp	Planar Motor	@WevolverApp7:16 AM ETPlanar Motor @WevolverApp on X No arms. No rails. No contact. For decades, moving a wafer meant a robot arm: joints, belts, bearings. Every arm is a particle source, a maintenance item, and a constraint on tool placement. Magnetically levitated XBots: six degrees of…	Hands
11:23 AM ET	@techniahqrobot		@techniahqrobot11:23 AM ET @techniahqrobot on X A 5-axis robotic arm gets much easier to understand when every joint is pulled apart like this. This STM32-based design uses five motions across the arm base rotation, upper-arm pitch, elbow pitch, wrist pitch and end-effector rotation.…	Hands
12:38 AM ET	@techniahqrobot		@techniahqrobot12:38 AM ET @techniahqrobot on X This slide gets into the part I like most in a robotic hand: the finger itself. Each standard finger combines a tendon driven structure with a distal, middle and proximal phalanx, plus an FSR pressure sensor in the fingertip and a Hall…	Hands
7:00 AM ET	@SchaefflerGroup	Schaeffler Group	@SchaefflerGroup7:00 AM ETSchaeffler Group @SchaefflerGroup on X 🚀 We're heading to Industry Space Days 2026! At Schaeffler, space is nothing new. With more than 40 years of experience in space applications, including bearing solutions for turbopumps and reaction wheels, we bring proven expertise to…	Actuation
3:25 PM ET	@techniahqrobot	TQ-RoboDrive	@techniahqrobot3:25 PM ETTQ-RoboDrive @techniahqrobot on X People talk about humanoid AI all day, but a robot still has to move 50–70 kg of hardware through dozens of joints without cooking itself. That makes the motor and joint stack one of the most important parts of the whole machine. I went…	Humanoids
5:08 AM ET	@smsehy		@smsehy5:08 AM ET @smsehy on X Low-cost open-source hardware democratizes reinforcement learning experimentation, but transitioning from hobbyist platforms to industrial automation requires hardened bearings, precision reducers, and high-reliability motor drivers.…	Actuation
3:19 AM ET	https://x.com/derek__Watson		https://x.com/derek__Watson3:19 AM ET DeReK WaTSoN on X: "Everyone is watching Optimus, Figure and Unitree. I went looking at what actually goes inside the bloody things. Motors. Bearings. Roller screws. Precision gears. Encoders. Force sensors. Magnets. Actuators. Then I looked at who makes them, how difficult they are to manufactu… / X Post Log in Sign up Post DeReK WaTSoN on X: "Everyone is watching Optimus, Figure and Unitree. I went looking at what actually goes inside the bloody things. Motors. Bearings. Roller screws. Precision gears. Encoders. Force sensors.…	Actuation
1:30 AM ET	youtube.com		youtube.com1:30 AM ET [音楽] 中国の代表的なヒューマノイドロボット UNIT3G1 おなんだこれもすごよくできてますね。信じられない。その構造を探るべく日経クロステックは分解を試みました。 [音楽] 複数のベアリングを使用し、ロッドの動きに合わせて… [音楽] 中国の代表的なヒューマノイドロボット UNIT3G1 おなんだこれもすごよくできてますね。信じられない。その構造を探るべく日経クロステックは分解を試みました。 [音楽] 複数のベアリングを使用し、ロッドの動きに合わせて足首の角度を変える仕組みとなっています。すでに中国のロボット開発は、え、見せるだけという段階を、え、超えてき[音楽]ているようです。部品の 1つ1つを見ていくと、中国のロボット開発[音楽]の現在地が見えてきました。…	Humanoids
10:31 PM ET	https://x.com/LimX_Dynamics	ZiNovaLabs	https://x.com/LimX_Dynamics10:31 PM ETZiNovaLabs LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, includi… / X Post Log in Sign up Post LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for…	Humanoids
10:56 AM ET	@santoshsingh1		@santoshsingh110:56 AM ET @santoshsingh1 on X 4/11 – What is the key question: ❌ Which humanoid robot will win? Tesla? Unitree? Figure? Someone else? ➡️What does EVERY humanoid robot need? Because the winner may change. The supply chain doesn't. Actuators can potentially represent…	Humanoids

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