REK Deathmatch in San Francisco featured three humanoid robot bouts. What is verified, how human pilots controlled the machines, and…
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Digit 5 price and costs: fact-checking safety and value
Digit 5 price and operating costs fact-checked: verified Agility specifications, the limits of the $11.43-an-hour estimate, safety claims and European…
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Tesla Patent: Flexible Touch Sensors for Robot Hands
Tesla describes flexible touch sensors for curved robot hands. Here is what the US patent application actually covers—and what it…
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US Army Selects Five Building Blocks for Humanoids
The xTechHumanoid winners reveal the Army's priorities: energy, robust actuators, tactile sensing and controlled autonomy—not an operational robot force.
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A $30,000 Humanoid Bets on an Open Robotics Platform
Feather Robotics is building a modular humanoid for developers instead of a closed general-purpose machine. The price attracts attention, but…
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Teledroid at the ISS: The Control Hardware Has Arrived, Not the Humanoid
Progress MS-35 delivered Teledroid’s operator workstation and exoskeleton to the ISS. The humanoid robot itself is still planned for a…
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400,000 Robots for Toyota? What the 2028 Factory Plan Really Means
Toyota may need around 400,000 robotic systems across its production network from 2028. That is not a confirmed order for…
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30 Unfamiliar Homes, No On-Site Training: Why Helix 2.5’s Bed-Making Test Matters
Figure sent Helix 2.5 into 30 unseen homes. The breakthrough is not the bed itself, but transferring human experience into…
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Unitree Open-Sources UnifoLM: What the Robot Model Can Really Do
Unitree is opening UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 with six billion parameters and data for 64 tasks. What the robot model can do—and what…
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NEURA 4NE1 Gen 3.5: Specifications, Price and Launch Fact-Checked
NEURA 4NE1 Gen 3.5 fact-checked: technical specifications, sensor skin, 55 degrees of freedom, price, Mini version and planned launch.
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The next China wave: How humanoid robots could put the West under pressure
China is scaling up humanoid robot production. What solar panels and electric cars reveal about price pressure and competition through…
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What Batteries Do Humanoid Robots Use? Systems and Runtime
What powers humanoid robots? Compare Figure, Atlas, Unitree and more: battery capacity, runtime, charging, swapping and the limits of published…
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