The VectorRoboticsHumanoid6d ago
Chinese Humanoid Makers Ship Units as Tesla's $25T Optimus Thesis Awaits First Sale
The humanoid robotics race is splitting into two lanes: Chinese manufacturers putting real robots into real hands, and a Western incumbent whose valuation thesis rests on units that have not yet reached customers. **Why it matters** The g…
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The VectorRoboticsHumanoid7d ago
Feather's $30K open-platform robot bets deployability beats full-stack integration
Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding and priced its wheeled bimanual robot at $29,990 . The combination represents a deliberate counter-bet against the vertically integrated model that dominates humanoid development: ra…
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RoboticsAvUPDATED7d ago
IKEA becomes Kodiak's first driverless long-haul freight customer on I-45
IKEA Supply is the launch shipper for Kodiak AI's unsupervised driverless long-haul freight service on Interstate 45, the company announced on September 29 . The driver-out leg runs primarily between Kodiak's Houston and Dallas-area facilit…
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