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◆More than 85% of humanoids shipped last year went to stages, classrooms and data labs.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.◆More than 85% of humanoids shipped last year went to stages, classrooms and data labs.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.
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Robotics

Humanoids, industrial arms, mobile robots and the software stacks that make them useful.

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Robotics

Why now?

  • Humanoid robots have moved from demos to paid pilots
  • Vision-language-action models are replacing task-specific programming
  • Hardware costs are falling as component volumes rise

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Figure AI

Humanoid robotics · California, US

Humanoid robotics company developing general-purpose robots for commercial and, eventually, domestic use.

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Humanoid Robots

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General-purpose machines built for human environments.

Humanoid robots are bipedal or human-form machines designed to operate in spaces built for people, using general-purpose AI models to perform varied tasks without task-specific programming.

  • Whole-body control balances and moves the robot using learned and model-based controllers.
  • Dexterous hands and arms perform manipulation guided by vision-language-action models.
  • Teleoperation and simulation provide training demonstrations.

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AI systems that perceive, reason and act in the physical world: robots, autonomous machines and embodied models.

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