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Sanctuary AI built a humanoid. Its best industrial worker so far is a pair of hands.
Wire harnesses are the last stubbornly manual job in a car plant. Wires flop, and industrial robots usually want parts that hold their shape. Sanctuary AI just claimed that task at a 99.5%-plus success rate, with no humanoid involved: just its Physical AI running arms and hands on someone else's production line.
Aug 29, 2026What the Robot Games are teaching us about the state of the humanoid robots
Machines are faster than us, the boring events are the most important, firefighting fails, and what we should expect next year: all the updates from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in HD18.
Aug 25, 2026The Humanoid Robot Games events are a market map
The World Humanoid Robot Games opens August 22 with 2,056 robots from 666 teams. The event schedule might just be the most honest document in robotics right now ... because it says out loud which capabilities are solved and which ones still need a human at the controls.
Aug 20, 2026Hello $1,688 American humanoid robot ... and hello $50 billion for physical AI!
Today in Humanoid Daily: there's a brand-new $1,688 (!!!) American home humanoid from Nori Robotics, a humanoid robotic company with a Trump investor is pitching humanoids for U.S. border patrol, China is using humanoids as traffic cops, and the number of the day is $47.4 billion.
Digit v5 is getting OUT OF THE CAGE: chat with Agility Robotic's CBO Daniel Diez
Digit V5 is coming in December. With it: 20-hour workdays, swappable end effectors, and the biggest new feature, no more cages. Digit will be safe to work cooperatively with humans, Agility Robotics' chief business officer Daniel Diez told me.
Aug 11, 2026DeepSeek + Unitree, robot centaurs, Zoox, Avatar, and more in Humanoid Daily #11
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. Also: robot centaurs with chainsaws, Zoox, Avatar raises $6.5 million, and more ... welcome to Humanoid Daily #11!
Aug 7, 2026India’s humanoids, BYD, farming robots in Britain, more robot hands … and $7.4 billion
Today in Humanoid Daily ...
- BYD: more details on BYD’s new humanoid
- India's new humanoid robot maker
- Robot hands are starting to hit production scale
- DeepMind veterans simplify training
- Britain sends robots farming
- Number of the day: $7.4 billion
Welcome to Humanoid Daily #10 for HumanoidMegaHub.com!
The humanoid patent map: China, China, China, but USA has quality
China has the lion's share of patents in the global humanoid robot race, and its lead is increasing. The U.S. is capturing quality though, to some degree.
Aug 1, 2026