Humanoid robots in warehouses and logistics: tote moving, picking, trailer unloading, pilots with retailers and 3PLs, and how they stack up against AMRs.
Today in Humanoid Daily ... a new $400 humanoid powered by a smartphone, Digit 5 is the forklift of humanoids, Germany's robot billionaire is building robot gyms, China unveils a 13-foot humanoid robot that lifts half a ton, and the number of the day is 6 ... 6 chip companies focusing on robots.
Frontier models, agentic platforms and simulation startups are all collapsing the cost of teaching robots new skills. Standard Bots' new AI platform pushes that to the final step: the worker on the shop floor, with an iPad and no robotics background.
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Japan bets $6 billion on physical AI, Amazon’s Alexa chief takes over Boston Dynamics, Korea runs massive humanoid logistics test, Agility holds its first-ever investor day, and Minerva says: don't kill workers, send Roger. Also, the number of the day is $1 billion from NVIDIA ... for Figure?
Today in Humanoid Daily: Agility's Digit 5 kills the safety cage, military humanoids are no longer hypothetical, Unitree G1+ gets six big upgrades, Atlas heads to Europe, but the IPO doesn't, the number of the day is 1 humanoid every 10 minutes ... AND ALSO ... today we are launching HumanoidMegaHub out of beta!
Inside Agile Robots' bet that the factory — not the humanoid — is what you actually sell. And the humanoid is just one part of many components that altogether form the factory of the future.