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What a humanoid can really do in your kitchen today
Robots have loaded dishwashers, worked an air fryer and flipped pancakes on video; cooking a meal and cleaning up have not been shown.
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Tesla's reported 15,000-unit Optimus parts order: what the source trail shows
Supplier orders and Chinese factory audits look real; the production numbers come from supply-chain chatter, not Tesla.
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Can a humanoid do your laundry yet? Folding, mostly
We walked one load from hamper to drawer and checked each step against what robots have actually shown in public.
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The first FCC robot approvals are out. What they mean for foreign-made home robots
ANSCER's warehouse robots cleared the new FCC process; your existing robot is fine, but new foreign models face a slower road.
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Figure's Helix 2.5 did chores in 30 homes it had never seen, and finished about half
A model pretrained on human video let Figure 03 tidy, fold towels and make beds in unfamiliar homes at 56% full-task success, up from 9%.
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Agility's Digit 5 is built to work next to people. Here is what that claim rests on
A 50 lb lift, a 9-minute charge and a new safety system, backed by $300 million in orders with conditions attached.
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Skild's S1 learns a new task from one video of a person doing it
Skild AI says its S1 model picks up unseen tasks like repotting a plant from a single first-person video, with no retraining.
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OpenAI says it will build a humanoid. How far that statement goes
Sam Altman's "definitely" is on the record; a prototype, a date and a price are not.
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XPeng opens its IRON humanoid production line: what the release does and doesn't say
The line is running and the first robot walked off it; capacity, price and a home use case are still missing.
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Gemini Robotics 2 drives a whole humanoid, and DeepMind published the scorecard
Google DeepMind's new robot models let Apptronik's Apollo 2 walk, crouch and grasp, with floor pickups succeeding 45.7% of the time.