Hardware archive
Tesla Is building 1,000 Optimus robots a week, but the hands are a major problem
Humanoid robots are shipping at scale, but safety validation isn't keeping up
Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hands bet on fewer parts, not more fingers
Here are the 5 winners of the U.S. Army's xTechHumanoid competition
Tesla's Optimus costs $46,000 with China. Without China, it's $131,000
This home humanoid costs $3,555 and learns new tasks with your smartphone
SiMa.ai wants to be your new humanoid robot brain, and it's targeting NVIDIA
SiMa.ai raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation to challenge Nvidia's Jetson Thor as the brain inside humanoid robots. Its pitch is twice Thor's performance at 60 watts, a pin-compatible drop-in module and agentic software that ports CUDA code. Will any humanoid makers sign on?
Agility Robotics CEO on how Digit 5 fixes "islands of automation"
Feather launches a cheap(ish) American robot ... and outsources the brain
Tesla third-generation Optimus robot leaked, Saudi Arabia's all-in on humanoid robots, and more ...
In this Humanoid Daily: the Tesla Gen 3 Optimus design leaks, humanoid robots are breaking into mainstream entertainment, and Japan is exploring military support roles for humanoids. Plus, 80% of humanoid robots are being designed for industrial use, while Saudi Arabia could deploy up to 10,000 robots over five years through a major new partnership.
PrimeBOT starts selling Q1 and T1 home robots for under $3,000
A humanoid robot fights a man, Unitree's new $6,500 hand, Figure does some homework, Faraday launches 9 new robots, and more ...
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Unitree launches a new (and good!) hand, Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas factory training ground, Figure's humanoid enters 30 homes it had never seen. Faraday Future launches 9 new robots, a human fights a humanoid robot in a cage and loses ... and the number of the day is 7,000.
Faraday Future launches nine robot products: the full spec breakdown, and YT Jia on why humanoids only get you halfway
D-Robotics just raised $400M to build the brain inside your next robot
Hello Digit 5: Agility Robotics releases a key candidate for a safe robot coworker
Hello construction: this semi-humanoid robot can use tools and build houses
XPeng says it has built the world's first automated humanoid robot production line
Samsung accelerates its humanoid robot program, and China looks at humanoids for war
Today in Humanoid Daily: Samsung races toward a humanoid robot, aiming to launch at CES 2027, China explores robots for war Agility Robotic’s finances go public, humanoids spread into real markets, there's a new robot that draws blood, and the number of the day is 26 million ... as in 26 million humanoids a year.
Hello OpenAI, Europe gets 2 humanoid robot production lines, and everyone needs a humanoid
Today in Humanoid Daily ... OpenAI is building humanoids as CEO Sam Altman confirmed it himself, humanoids get warehouse jobs, Europe starts humanoid mass production in several locations, World Labs gives robots a world model, Zeroth opens up humanoid development, and we get predictions that humanoids could dwarf the car market and possibly even number one billion in a decade.
The robot economy is getting real: NVIDIA, China, LG, and robots building houses
NVIDIA's robot business is already worth $10 billion/year, and China is its best customer
NVIDIA's physical AI business is already generating roughly $10 billion a year, more than the entire humanoid robot industry combined, with Jensen Huang pointing to a tenfold path over the next decade. A meaningful share of that comes from China, which built about 90% of the world's humanoids last year. But Beijing is racing to build a domestic stack ...