Figure and BMW extend humanoid pilot to a second plant
The programme moves from a single cell in Spartanburg to a full logistics line in Munich.
Latest Signals
Everything crossing the wire, newest first.
Universal Robots ships its ten-thousandth UR20
The milestone arrives two years after the arm entered general availability. The company says payload-per-footprint remains the main reason customers pick it over a larger integrated cell.
Warehouse robot injury figures drop for a third year
Recordable incidents fell 18 percent across surveyed facilities. Analysts credit better zoning rules rather than the robots themselves.
Chinese humanoid maker Unitree files for a domestic listing
The filing puts a valuation on a company that has so far competed mainly on price.
Humanoid Robotics
General-purpose machines built to work in spaces designed for people.
Humanoid robots enter industrial production
Two manufacturers moved pilot humanoids onto real production lines.
Tesla Optimus moves to a third-generation hand
The redesign drops two actuators while adding tendon routing that survives repeated impact. Manufacturability Previous hands were assembled by hand in small numbers.
Agility Robotics opens its Digit fleet API
Third-party developers can now schedule tasks without going through the company's own orchestration layer.
Sanctuary AI publishes teleoperation latency data
The company released figures it had previously described as commercially sensitive.
Industrial Automation
Cobots, AMRs, and the systems running production lines.
ABB retools its Shanghai plant around modular cells
The plant now builds four robot families on shared infrastructure. Changeover ABB claims a 70 percent reduction in line reconfiguration time.
Fanuc cuts lead times on its CRX series
Deliveries move from sixteen weeks to nine for most configurations.
Siemens adds robot commissioning to its digital twin suite
Cell layouts can now be validated before hardware arrives on site.
AI & Embodied Intelligence
Foundation models, VLAs, and control policies moving into hardware.
A vision-language-action model that runs on-device
The team distilled a 7B parameter policy down to something that fits in 8GB. Trade-offs Success rates drop roughly four points against the full model.
Physical Intelligence releases a cross-embodiment dataset
The release covers twelve robot morphologies and about 900 hours of teleoperated manipulation.
DeepMind reports sim-to-real transfer without fine-tuning
Policies trained entirely in simulation held up on hardware in 61 percent of trials.
Research & Papers
Notable results out of academic and corporate research groups.
Hardware & Reviews
Robots, drones, kits, and components examined in detail.
Unitree G1 reviewed: capable, loud, and hard to service
Out of the box the G1 walks well and balances better than anything at this price. Serviceability Replacing a knee actuator took two days and a parts order from Shenzhen.
Intel RealSense D457 in production line conditions
Depth accuracy holds up under factory lighting; the mounting hardware does not.
A teardown of the Dobot Nova 5
Solid mechanical design let down by a closed control stack.
Companies & Funding
The manufacturers, startups, and capital moving the field.
Events & Conferences
Trade shows, conferences, and competitions worth the trip.
Video
Demonstrations, teardowns, and conference talks.