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NVIDIA Cosmos vs Saturn ARC: better robot training data, not more?
31 oktober 2026 · 24 min
Can a robotics world model run at 250 frames per second while NVIDIA's Cosmos runs at roughly 1 FPS? Saturn Dynamics CEO Elisa Seghetti says her company's ARC technology can do exactly that. Lees meer
In this episode, we explore how world models could transform robot training, why high-quality industrial data might outperform massive datasets, and what it will actually take to get humanoid robots working reliably in factories.
We discuss:
- 250 FPS vs. 1 FPS: Saturn's claimed performance advantage over competing world models
- World models vs. simulators: How ARC differs from NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac Sim
- Reinforcement learning: Moving robots from 70–80% success rates toward industrial reliability
- Edge AI: Why trillion-parameter models don't make economic sense for robot deployments
- Humanoid robots: Why wheeled humanoids and mobile manipulators may make more sense in factories
- The robotics supply chain: Why today's vertically integrated robot companies may eventually resemble the automotive industry
- Robot training data: Why Saturn is betting on high-quality industrial demonstrations instead of egocentric data
Seghetti also shares her predictions for the next 12–18 months, including why the robot data provider market could shrink as better models learn from fewer demonstrations.
00:00 Introduction: the race to train robots
01:00 Meet Saturn Dynamics CEO Elisa Seghetti
01:45 The different approaches to robot training
03:45 Can frontier AI models control robots?
05:20 How world models work
07:30 Making robots easier to train
09:15 Saturn ARC vs. NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac Sim
11:10 Where humanoid robots fit in
13:45 Are robotics companies wasting money on training?
15:00 Why robotics needs a supply chain
17:20 Vertical integration and robot AI security
19:00 Safety, guardrails, and industrial deployment
21:20 The next 18 months for Saturn Dynamics
22:40 Will the robot data market shrink?
23:40 Closing thoughts
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You can now vibe code a robot: Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard
15 oktober 2026 · 12 min
What if you could program an industrial robot just by talking to it? Lees meer
That's what Standard Bots is making possible with a new generation of AI-powered robot training tools. In this episode of Humanoid (almost) Daily, I talk with Evan Beard, co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots, about making industrial robots as easy to use as an iPhone ... and why he believes this could help bring about the ChatGPT moment for physical AI.
Standard Bots is announcing three new capabilities that dramatically simplify robot deployment and training:
- Agent: Vibe code your robot using natural language. Tell it what you want to automate, and AI helps build the program.
- Locate: Train computer vision models to recognize and locate objects in seconds, without expensive custom engineering.
- Inspect: Working with Roboflow, train AI models to identify defects, scratches, and other quality issues.
We also discuss Showpath, a beta capability that allows robots to learn new tasks from just a few demonstrations. Evan explains why traditional industrial automation is so expensive and brittle, why most robots still require specialized engineers to program them, and how AI could make automation accessible to smaller businesses.
The bigger vision?
Building the Anthropic of the physical world — and making robots intelligent enough to adapt when real-world conditions change.
In this conversation:
- Why deploying industrial robots traditionally costs so much
- How natural-language programming changes robot automation
- Training robot vision models in seconds instead of weeks
- Teaching robots new tasks through demonstrations
- Why flexible AI-powered automation could deliver better ROI
- The possibility of a ChatGPT moment for robotics
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The future of humanoid robots isn't JUST human: Haomiao Huang, Matter Venture Partners
13 oktober 2026 · 32 min
The future of humanoid robots might not look human at all. In fact, the "humanoid robots" of the future could have wheels instead of legs, four arms instead of two, or even look more like spiders than people. Lees meer
That's the provocative argument from Haomiao Huang, founding partner of Matter Venture Partners, which just raised a $450 million fund to invest in robotics, physical AI, semiconductors, and other deep technologies.
His perspective: "Humanoid is a state of mind, not a specific type of robot."
What matters isn't whether a robot walks on two legs or looks like a person. It's whether that robot can perform multiple tasks, manipulate objects, navigate human environments, and adapt to new situations without being completely reprogrammed.
In other words, the real revolution isn't humanoid robots. It's general-purpose robots.
In this episode of Humanoid (almost) Daily, we explore why Huang believes we're entering a golden age of robotics, what's still holding the industry back, and what the next generation of robots might look like.
We discuss:
- Why humanoid robots don't actually need to look human
- How general-purpose robots could transform manufacturing, logistics, and eventually our homes
- Why today's humanoids resemble the clunky wearable computers of the 1980s
- Whether robot manufacturers are scaling before finding product-market fit
- Why AI models, compute, and demand are converging to accelerate robotics
- The hardware and training-data bottlenecks still holding robots back
- Why robots like Dexterity's Mech and Path Robotics' welding systems might represent the near-term future
- Where Matter Venture Partners is investing its $450 million
- Why the most capable robots of the future might resemble spiders more than humans
And we get Huang's predictions for what robotics will look like in five to ten years.
00:00 – The golden age of robotics
00:17 – Meet Haomiao Huang: The $450M physical AI fund
00:55 – If AI eats the world, hardware is …
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1000 robots, 1 factory: Hexagon preps for robot fleets at Schaeffler
6 oktober 2026 · 28 min
Schaeffler plans to put at least 1,000 of Hexagon's Aeon humanoids to work across its global factory network by 2032. In an industry where most deployments are still counted in single digits, that's a very big number. Lees meer
How is that going to work?
How does that change things from pilots with 1 or 10 or 50 robots?
How does that change the jobs robots do?
What does that change about the jobs humans do?
In this long-form episode of Humanoid (almost) Daily, we do a deep dive with Hexagon Robotics president Arnaud Robert.
Enjoy!
00:00 What does it take to deploy 1,000 humanoids?
01:31 Why 1,000 robots changes the problem
03:02 Why humanoids need to do multiple jobs
03:55 The race for physical AI training data
04:51 Simulation, synthetic and real-world data
06:20 Hexagon's sim-to-real-to-sim loop
08:10 What robot-generated training data captures
10:21 Pilot vs. production-ready humanoids
12:14 The industrial experience advantage
13:12 The two metrics that really matter
15:39 What Hexagon learned from failure
17:35 The humanoid actuator problem
18:47 Why Aeon uses wheels instead of legs
19:59 Yes, a wheeled humanoid can climb stairs
21:28 What the factory of the future looks like
23:42 Using humanoids to eliminate bottlenecks
25:17 Automation exposes the hidden 3%
26:07 Schaeffler's path to 1,000 humanoids
27:18 Train, deploy, scale
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General Robotics: AI agents for vastly faster robot training
2 oktober 2026 · 30 min
What if deploying a new robot didn't take weeks or months ... but hours? Lees meer
Ashish Kapoor, founder and CEO of General Robotics and former head of Microsoft's Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, joins Humanoid Daily to explain why robotics still has a massive research-to-deployment gap.
And he shares how AI agents could help close it.
General Robotics is building GRID, a unified robotics platform designed to bring together robots, simulation, AI models, training, deployment and engineering tools in one place where AI agents can work across the entire stack.
We talk about:
• Cutting robot onboarding from a month to as little as 2 hours
• Using AI agents to engineer and deploy robotic systems
• Why robotics is much harder than agentic software development
• Creating custom robot simulators in minutes
• Why future enterprise robot fleets will include multiple OEMs and form factors
• The three layers of robot training
• Why foundation models could reshape the robot-data race
• Why post-training may ultimately capture much of the value in robotics
Kapoor's big thesis: robotics doesn't just need better AI models. It needs a new engineering architecture that can actually get those models onto real robots in the real world.
00:00 The robotics deployment problem
02:15 Auto Engineering: virtual robot engineers
04:20 Why AI agents are harder in robotics
06:35 What General Robotics built with GRID
09:40 AI-generated robot simulations
11:40 Onboarding almost any robot
14:05 The future of mixed robot fleets
16:15 Where General Robotics fits in the stack
19:10 Why robotics needs a different startup playbook
22:05 The three layers of robot training
25:05 Will foundation models change the robot data race?
28:10 Where the value in robotics will be captured
30:00 Closing thoughts
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New hands for Atlas: fewer fingers, more power
1 oktober 2026 · 3 min
Boston Dynamics just unveiled new hands for its Atlas humanoid robot: four fingers, 13 degrees of freedom, and no pinky. Lees meer
That's a deliberate choice. 1X, Tesla and Genesis AI are building hands with 20 or more degrees of freedom. Boston Dynamics went the other way, betting on simplicity, strength, ruggedness, and hands that can be accurately simulated for reinforcement learning. The team even taped their pinkies to their ring fingers for a day to decide whether Atlas needed one.
In this video I break down what's new, how it compares to other humanoid robot hands, what Boston Dynamics hasn't told us yet, and why simulation might matter more than finger count.
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Chapters
0:00 No pinky?
0:12 What's new in the Atlas hand
0:30 How it compares to 1X, Tesla and Genesis AI
0:45 The pinky experiment
1:25 Built to survive impacts
1:55 Why simulation matters
2:25 Built for industrial tools
2:35 What we still don't know
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Humanoids + humans: Agility Robotics CEO on new Digit 5
26 september 2026 · 26 min
Agility Robotics is launching Digit 5, its newest humanoid robot. Digit 5 is designed to work in close proximity with humans without the physical safety barriers that have traditionally separated robots from workers. Lees meer
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, we chat with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson.
She explains what has changed with Digit 5, including a 50-pound payload capacity, faster charging, improved vision and human detection, swappable end effectors, and the ability to move between multiple tasks inside logistics and manufacturing facilities.
We also dig into one of the biggest challenges facing humanoid robotics: safety.
Peggy explains how Agility is working with ANSI and ISO standards, how Digit detects and reacts to nearby humans, and why removing safety cages could unlock much broader deployment of humanoid robots.
We discuss where humanoids fit alongside traditional automation and autonomous mobile robots, why Agility chose legs instead of wheels, what the company has learned from more than 65,000 hours of real-world robot operation, and how customers including major logistics and manufacturing companies are helping shape Digit’s development.
Peggy also shares how Agility trains new robotic skills using a combination of real-world operational data, simulation tools such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and learning from demonstration.
Plus, we talk about the increasingly competitive humanoid robotics market, Agility Robotics’ U.S.-based manufacturing strategy, RoboFab, and what Digit 5 could be capable of a year from now compared with day one.
Topics include:
• Digit 5 and human-robot collaboration
• Humanoid robot safety
• 50-pound payload capacity
• Fast charging and multi-shift operation
• Robotics standards and regulation
• Legs versus wheels
• Warehouse and manufacturing automation
• Agility Robotics’ RoboFab
• Physical AI and robot training
• NVIDIA Isaac Sim
• Learning from demonstration
• The growing humanoid robotics market00:00 Digit 5 can now…
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RobotStrategy CEO: humanoid robots a $10 trillion industry
18 september 2026 · 28 min
Humanoid robots could become one of the largest technology markets in history, potentially worth tens of trillions of dollars. Lees meer
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, I talk with Andrew Kang, CEO of Robostrategy, about the rapidly accelerating humanoid robotics industry, the companies he thinks are best positioned to win, and why the market could explode over the next few years.
We dig into Tesla Optimus, Figure AI, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, Unitree, Agibot, 1X, Genesis AI, Neura, Humanoid AI, and other emerging robotics players in the US, Europe, and China.
We also explore the picks-and-shovels opportunity behind humanoid robots: actuators, motors, components, AI systems, and the infrastructure required to manufacture robots at massive scale.
Plus: why Chinese robotics companies have helped accelerate the entire industry, what new FCC restrictions could mean for US robotics companies, and why Andrew believes millions of humanoid robots could be operating in the world before 2030.
Topics include:
• The massive jump in humanoid robotics valuations
• Tesla Optimus vs Figure AI vs Apptronik
• Why not every humanoid robotics company will survive
• The most promising robotics companies in the US
• Europe’s emerging humanoid robotics ecosystem
• The opportunity in actuators, motors, and robotics components
• US vs China in humanoid robotics
• The impact of FCC restrictions on Chinese robots
• Low-cost humanoid robots and developer platforms
• Why Unitree helped accelerate robotics research
• How large the humanoid robotics market could become
• When millions of humanoid robots could arrive
• What the robotics adoption curve could look like
If humanoid robotics follows anything close to the trajectory of AI, GPUs, smartphones, or autonomous vehicles, the next few years could be extraordinary.
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Chapters
00:00 Humanoid robotics could be worth t…
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The next billion-dollar home robot might not be a humanoid
9 september 2026 · 29 min
Are humanoid robots really the future of the home, or are we looking at consumer robotics the wrong way? Lees meer
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, John Koetsier talks with Amber Atherton, serial entrepreneur and investor at Patron, about why the next wave of home robotics may look less like a humanoid assistant and more like a collection of highly specialized, beautifully designed devices that each take ownership of a specific part of everyday life.
That could mean robots for skincare, hairstyling, gardening, cleaning, wardrobe management, or dozens of other repetitive household rituals.
Amber argues that consumer adoption often happens through specialization rather than generalization. Instead of one robot that does everything, she sees an opportunity for what she calls “enchanted objects”: intelligent devices that quietly automate specific routines and eventually disappear into everyday life.
John and Amber also discuss why Roomba remains such an important example in consumer robotics, how AI foundation models are changing robot development, why falling costs for motors, sensors, batteries, and compute matter, and what price consumers might actually pay for useful household robots.
They also debate whether humanoids will eventually dominate, how manufacturing and supply chains could shape the market, the importance of hardware ecosystems and recurring revenue, and whether the future operating system for physical AI will be controlled by companies like Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, or an entirely new generation of startups.
Finally, they imagine what the average home could look like by 2036, and why the biggest robotics companies of the future may not look like robotics companies at all.
Topics include:
• Humanoid robots vs. specialized robots
• Consumer robotics and embodied AI
• Robots for skincare and hairstyling
• The future of household automation
• Why Roomba succeeded
• AI foundation models for robotics
• Robotics manufacturing and supply chains
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Made in America robots: 3X more expensive than China?
27 augustus 2026 · 19 min
Making humanoid robots in America will cost 3X more than robots from China, according to a new report by OpenMind. Lees meer
In this episode, John Koetsier talks with Jan Liphardt, founder and CEO of OpenMind and professor of bioengineering at Stanford, about the global race to build and deploy physical AI.
OpenMind’s new Physical AI Readiness Index looks at which countries have the manufacturing base, supply chains, hardware expertise, AI capabilities, and industrial clusters required to scale advanced robotics.
China currently leads the rankings, followed by Japan and the United States. One of the biggest challenges for U.S. robotics companies: building a humanoid robot without Chinese suppliers could cost nearly 3X as much.
Another big problem: lack of concentration.
John and Jan discuss why China’s highly concentrated manufacturing ecosystems provide such a powerful advantage, where the U.S. still leads, why Japan remains a robotics powerhouse, and how access to actuators, sensors, magnets, semiconductors, bearings, and other components could matter just as much as having the best AI models.
They also explore lessons from Ukraine’s extraordinarily fast hardware iteration cycles, the importance of real-world robot training data, the rise of vertically integrated robotics companies such as Tesla, Figure, and 1X, and what the U.S. may need to do to compete in the emerging physical AI economy.
Topics include:
- The Physical AI Readiness Index
- China’s dominance in humanoid robot shipments
- Why U.S.-built robots could cost nearly 3X more
- Robotics manufacturing clusters in China, Japan, Korea, Europe, and the U.S.
- Supply chains for actuators, sensors, magnets, gears, and semiconductors
- America’s remaining advantage in AI
- China’s advantage in robot training data
- Lessons from Ukraine’s rapid drone innovation
- Vertical integration at Tesla, Figure, and 1X
- The future economics of humanoid robots
00:00 Why U.S.-made robots could cost 3X more
00:08 …
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What did we learn from the robot games?
26 augustus 2026 · 7 min
The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games showed just how fast humanoid robotics is improving ... and how far it still has to go. Lees meer
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, I look past the headline-grabbing races and jumps to the events that matter more: firefighting, hotel work, logistics, manipulation, autonomy and long-horizon tasks.
We cover:
- Why robot performance jumped dramatically in just one year
- Why the “boring” events tell us more than the sports
- What firefighting failures reveal about reliability
- The huge gap between “a robot can do it” and “a robot can do it autonomously”
- Why chaining multiple capabilities together remains so difficult
- What we should expect from humanoid robots at next year’s Games
The big takeaway: humanoid robots are improving extraordinarily fast, but they are still nowhere close to universally reliable workers.
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Humanoid robots: 4Ps that will determine who wins
23 augustus 2026 · 32 min
Humanoid robotics is in the middle of a massive investment boom—but where is the real opportunity, and where is the hype? Lees meer
Welcome to Humanoid Daily #17, a long-form HD in which I chat with Ankur Saxena, Investment Director at TDK Ventures about the “four Ps” of physical AI:
- perception
- planning
- performance
- platform.
We dig into why perception may be the most underestimated problem in robotics, why humanoid valuations could be overheated, and why industrial deployments will likely come long before robots become commonplace in our homes.
We also discuss Agility Robotics, Figure, Atlas, NEO, edge AI, robot economics, vertical integration, and the question every humanoid company eventually has to answer: can the ROI actually justify the robot?
Plus: what would it take for Ankur to spend $20,000 on a humanoid for his own home?
00:00 Meet Ankur Saxena of TDK Ventures
01:30 The four Ps of physical AI
04:40 Robotics’ most underestimated problem: perception
07:45 Why AI compute consumes so much robot power
09:15 Edge AI and reducing the NVIDIA tax
10:45 The humanoid robotics gold rush
13:15 Agility Robotics, Figure and the companies to watch
16:15 Are humanoid valuations overheated?
18:00 When will robotics have its ChatGPT moment?
20:15 Why factories come before homes
22:15 What would make a $20,000 home robot worthwhile?
24:30 Where humanoids actually make sense in factories
27:00 The economics of replacing human workers
30:00 Why humanoid companies are subsidizing their robots
32:15 Atlas and the race to simplify robot hardware
34:30 Where the biggest robotics opportunities are now
36:30 Vertical integration vs. off-the-shelf components
39:00 The real path to defensibility in robotics
40:30 Would you buy a humanoid for your home?
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Hello $1688 humanoid robot!
19 augustus 2026 · 6 min
$1,688 humanoid robot made in San Francisco, humanoids pitched for US border patrol, robot traffic cops in China, and a massive surge of venture capital into physical AI.Humanoid Daily 16, John Koetsier looks at Nori A3, a surprisingly affordable wheeled humanoid that can handle basic household tasks and ships this fall. We also dig into Foundation Future Industries’ push to sell humanoid robots to US national-security agencies — including DHS — and the company’s connection to investor and chief strategy adviser Eric Trump.Plus: China is already putting humanoid robots to work alongside traffic police.And our number of the day is $47.4 billion: the amount venture investors poured into physical AI companies in just the first half of 2026, according to Crunchbase.Humanoid robots are getting cheaper, moving into real-world jobs, attracting enormous amounts of capital, and increasingly intersecting with government and national security.Subscribe for daily news and analysis on humanoid robots, physical AI, robotics, and embodied intelligence. More at HumanoidMegaHub.com! Lees meer
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Fighting robots, "Superman" robot, robo-barista record, LG + NVIDIA have a robot baby: HD15
18 augustus 2026 · 5 min
Humanoid robots are getting faster, stranger, and a lot more entertaining.Today in Humanoid Daily #15:🤖 The Humanoid Games pushes robots beyond lab demos🦸 Unitree teases a new “Superman” humanoid☕ A robot barista breaks a world record🥊 Six-foot humanoid robots step into the fighting ring👶 LG and Nvidia have a “robot baby”💰 Number of the day: $200 millionWe break down what matters, what’s hype, and what these developments tell us about where humanoid robotics is heading.Welcome to Humanoid Daily for HumanoidMegaHub.com! Lees meer
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Over 2000 robots in this year's Humanoid Games!
13 augustus 2026 · 7 min
The humanoid robot games are getting serious.Here's what we're covering in Humanoid Daily #14:Beijing prepares for the second World Humanoid Robot Games with 666 teams, 2,056 robots, 51 events and more than 1,300 matches. The games will have tougher autonomous competitions, robot soccer, dexterous-hand challenges ... yeah ... and real-world work scenarios.Also today: - Robots are becoming a major new source of electricity demand - New robotic hand stretches 3.5X farther than a human hand - Autonomous robot soccer is back, baby - Unitree has made18,000 bipedal humanoid robots (!!!) - Unitree’s IPO was oversubscribed by an astonishing 8,000XSubscribe for more Humanoid Daily and find much more at HumanoidMegaHub.com!#HumanoidRobots #Robotics #Unitree #RobotSoccer #AI #PhysicalAI #HumanoidDaily #China #Automation #RoboticsNews Lees meer
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China's humanoid robot lead is misleading. Here's why
11 augustus 2026 · 7 min
China is totally dominating the humanoid robot shipment race, sure. Lees meer
In the first half of 2026, global humanoid robot shipments reached roughly 19,100 units, up 272% year over year. Chinese companies accounted for more than 97% of those shipments, while AgiBot and Unitree alone controlled about 75% of the global market.
Those numbers look overwhelming. But do they actually tell us who is winning humanoid robotics?
No.
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, I break down the latest shipment data, why China has built such a commanding early lead, and why I think the leaderboard matters less than it appears.
The real test isn’t how many robots companies can ship today. It’s whether those machines can perform significant, economically valuable work reliably, autonomously and at massive scale.
We’re not there yet.
We’ll look at AgiBot, Unitree, the growing shift toward industrial deployments, and why companies including Figure AI, Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, 1X and others may still have plenty of time to compete.
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Agility Robotics: Digit v5 is coming soon
7 augustus 2026 · 23 min
Exciting news from Agility Robotics: Lees meer
- Digit v5 is coming in 2026
- Digit will be the first humanoid working "out of the cage"
- 20-hour humanoids ... they'll be able to work for 20 hours
- swappable hands AKA end effectors
- and much more!
Humanoid robots are advancing fast, but Agility Robotics says the biggest obstacle to large-scale deployment isn't AI, dexterity, or even battery life. It's safety.
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, John Koetsier talks with Agility Robotics' chief business officer Daniel Diez about the next generation of Digit, including the company's plan to deploy what it calls a cooperatively safe humanoid robot that can operate in close proximity to people without traditional safety cages.
They discuss Digit v5, expected for early customers in December 2026, as well as new battery technology designed to enable more than 20 hours of operation per day, rapid charging, interchangeable end effectors, autonomous tool swapping, improved manipulation, and the dynamic stability required for real industrial environments.
Daniel also explains what Agility has learned from commercial deployments, including its work at Schaeffler in South Carolina, why raw robot speed isn't necessarily the most important productivity metric, and how the company thinks about ROI compared with the fully burdened cost of human labor.
Plus, they dig into what cooperative safety could mean for new jobs and industries, how Agility approaches autonomy without routine teleoperation, and what becoming a public company could mean for transparency and accountability across the humanoid robotics industry.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Why safety cages are holding humanoid robots back
00:18 Agility Robotics and commercial humanoid deployments
01:03 Competing in a crowded humanoid robotics market
02:13 The real barrier to large-scale humanoid deployment
02:36 When cooperatively safe Digit robots arrive
04:26 Where Digit fits in the humanoid robotics market
05:12 Why Agility start…
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DeepSeek + Unitree, robot centaurs, Zoox, Avatar, and more in Humanoid Daily #11
7 augustus 2026 · 6 min
DeepSeek is investing about $21 million in Unitree, but the bigger story is the strategic partnership behind the deal. To oversimplify: DeepSeek will be the brains; Unitree will be the brawn. Lees meer
Welcome to Humanoid Daily #11!
In this episode, we break down what the two companies have actually agreed to, why Unitree could benefit from DeepSeek’s reasoning and AI expertise, and why it is still too early to say DeepSeek has become ALL of the “brains” inside Unitree’s robots.
Also in today’s show:
• A seven-foot, four-legged rescue centaur robot with horns, glowing eyes and a chainsaw (!!!)
• Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million for teleoperated industrial humanoids
• Zoox prepares to charge for rides in its controls-free robotaxi
• GAM acquires Schaeffler’s PSC precision gear-reducer technology
• Why DeepSeek’s reported 2.31% Unitree stake needs an important clarification
Humanoid Daily covers the latest developments in humanoid robots, embodied AI, automation and the companies building the future of robotics.
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Humanoid Daily #10: BYD's humanoid robot, India's robot, UK goes farming, and Unitree's $7.4 billion
5 augustus 2026 · 6 min
Humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations toward real production, and the global race is becoming increasingly geopolitical. Lees meer
In Humanoid Daily #10, John Koetsier covers BYD’s upcoming Xiao Di humanoid, Ati Robotics’ push to build robots in India with fewer Chinese components, and a reported 100,000-unit order for dexterous-hand joint modules.
We also look at Reimagine Robotics, a startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers that wants workers to train robots simply by demonstrating tasks, plus Britain’s new £20 million competition to bring more robots onto farms.
And the number of the day is $7.4 billion: the estimated lower end of Unitree Robotics’ potential valuation following its planned public listing.
In this episode:
00:00 Today in Humanoid Daily
00:28 BYD prepares to reveal Xiao Di
01:28 Ati Robotics enters the humanoid market
02:25 Robot hands approach production scale
03:18 DeepMind veterans rethink robot training
04:20 Britain funds agricultural robotics
05:25 Unitree’s potential $7.4 billion valuation
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Beijing hits back at USA robot ban: Humanoid Daily #9
1 augustus 2026 · 6 min
Everything you need to know about humanoid robots today, including: Lees meer
- Beijing hits back at the U.S. robot ban
- China’s commanding humanoid patent lead
- Unitree launches its IPO process
- Humanoid robots enter summer camp classrooms
- Number of the day: 73
China now holds 73% of the world’s active humanoid morphology patent families, but the United States still leads in average patent quality.
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, we break down the new global humanoid patent map, including where China dominates, where U.S. companies remain strong, and why many of the most valuable patents belong to companies that do not primarily build humanoid robots.
We also cover Unitree’s planned IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, its reported $620 million fundraising target, and how the company plans to spend the money on robot AI, next-generation products, and manufacturing.
Plus, Beijing responds to new U.S. restrictions on foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, and researchers in British Columbia test how children interact with social robots in real-world learning environments.
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The $30 humanoid robot cleaner is here: Humanoid Daily #8
31 juli 2026 · 6 min
You can now book a humanoid robot cleaner for just $30 ... but there is a catch. Lees meer
In this episode of Humanoid Daily, we look at Tau Robotics’ new cleaning service and why supervised robot visits could become a valuable source of real-world household training data.
We also break down Shanghai Electric’s surprising new family of humanoids, industrial robots, components and 51 AI models ... and what its vertically integrated strategy says about the speed of China’s robotics industry.
Finally, we take another look at the FCC’s sweeping new restrictions on foreign-made robots. The policy reaches far beyond humanoids and quadrupeds, potentially covering connected robot vacuums, lawnmowers, delivery robots and other machines weighing more than 4.4 pounds.
Today’s stories:
• Tau Robotics launches humanoid cleaning
• Shanghai Electric unveils a robot family
• The FCC robot ban expands far beyond humanoids
• Number of the day: 4.4 pounds
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USA just banned Chinese humanoid robots: Humanoid Daily #7
29 juli 2026 · 6 min
The United States has effectively closed its market to new Chinese humanoid robots. Lees meer
The FCC has added advanced robotic devices including humanoids and quadrupeds to its Covered List, so new foreign-made robots will generally no longer receive the authorization needed to be imported or sold in the U.S.
In this episode, we break down:
- What the FCC's decision actually does
- Why national security officials pushed for the ban
- Which companies are affected, including Unitree, Agibot, and UBTech
- What it means for Figure, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, 1X, Tesla, and the broader U.S. robotics industry
- Whether protecting America's robot market will accelerate or slow innovation
This is one of the biggest policy decisions the humanoid robotics industry has seen so far, and it could reshape the global competitive landscape for years to come.
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Humanoid Daily #6: Do you want to live forever … robotically?
29 juli 2026 · 6 min
Today in Humanoid Daily ...- Samsung turns smart glasses into robot trainers- Tacta bets on teleoperation to teach robots- Deuce goes to work in a real café- Elsie brings humanoids into the clinical lab- Number of the day: Infinity. Can robots help us live forever?Samsung's upcoming smart glasses may be about far more than augmented reality. New reports suggest they could become a key part of the company's physical AI strategy, collecting first-person data that helps train future robots.We also look at Tacta's new teleoperation glove and robotic hand, XYZ's Deuce robot working inside a real café in Seoul, and Tactus AI's humanoid laboratory assistant that's designed to operate existing clinical lab equipment.Plus, our Number of the Day explores one of the wildest humanoid concepts we've seen yet: a proposal claiming future robots could preserve a person's "Digital DNA" for generations. It's a fascinating idea—but how much of it is science, and how much is speculation?If you enjoy daily coverage of humanoid robotics, embodied AI, automation, and the future of physical intelligence, subscribe for new episodes every day.🌐 More stories every day: https://HumanoidMegaHub.com#HumanoidRobots #PhysicalAI #Samsung #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #Humanoid #Automation #TechNews #FigureAI #RobotNews Lees meer
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Humanoid Daily #5: BYD just made its biggest move yet into humanoid robotics, Atlas, Mitsubishi, and $71 million
29 juli 2026 · 6 min
BYD just made its biggest move yet into humanoid robotics.Today on Humanoid Daily, we cover:- BYD's upcoming humanoid robot debut- Hyundai's latest Atlas milestone with Boston Dynamics- Mitsubishi's ambitious plan to build 1,000 AI humanoids per month- EngineAI's expanding manufacturing footprint- Enigma's massive $71 million funding round to rethink how humans interact with robotsThe humanoid robotics race is accelerating, with automakers, startups, and robotics companies all moving toward large-scale production and real-world deployment.👍 If you enjoy weekly humanoid robot news, subscribe for new episodes covering the latest breakthroughs, funding, products, and industry developments.🌐 Find more robotics news every day at https://HumanoidMegaHub.com#HumanoidRobots #Robotics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BostonDynamics #Atlas #BYD #Hyundai #Mitsubishi #EngineAI #Enigma #EmbodiedAI #Automation #TechNews Lees meer
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Humanoid Daily 4: robots on ships, IPO, $23 billion, and explosion of robots by 2028
24 juli 2026 · 4 min
South Korea just completed its first naval combat experiment with a humanoid robot serving as a ship’s helmsman (!!!)In today’s Humanoid Daily, we also cover Agibot’s planned multi-billion-dollar IPO, the surge in Physical AI funding with more than $23 billion invested so far this year, and why one robotics founder believes humanoids could have their own “ChatGPT moment” by 2028.Today’s stories:- South Korea tests humanoid robot helmsman aboard a naval vessel- Agibot prepares for a Hong Kong IPO worth up to US$6.4 billion- Physical AI startups have raised more than US$23 billion in 2026- Galbot predicts a ChatGPT-style breakthrough for humanoid robots by 2028If you enjoy staying on top of the humanoid robotics industry, subscribe for a new episode every weekday! And check for more info on HumanoidMegaHub.com#HumanoidRobots #Robotics #AI #PhysicalAI #Agibot #SouthKorea #Automation #EmbodiedAI Lees meer
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Humanoid Daily #3: $1.7 billion raise, robot training, national dataset standard
24 juli 2026 · 4 min
Today in Humanoid Daily: Lees meer
Atoms raises $1.7B, becomes a robotics powerhouse
Ropedia raises $22M to build next-gen robot training datasets
Medtronic previews AI that works inside the OR
China creates a national humanoid robot dataset standard
Number of the Day: 46!
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Humanoid Daily #2: faces for robots, modular humanoids, Futuring Robot
24 juli 2026 · 4 min
Today in Humanoid Daily: Lees meer
LG Display gives humanoids OLED faces
Italy’s Generative Bionics bets on modular humanoids
China showcases 300+ humanoid robots
Futuring Robot raises nearly US$140 million
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Humanoid Daily #1: Humanoid, Samsung, $50 billion market
24 juli 2026 · 3 min
Humanoid raises $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation Samsung launches CEO-level robotics division KEENON showcases humanoids collaborating with specialized service robots New report projects a $50B humanoid robot market by 2035