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The Robot Beat
Humanoid robots, embodied AI, and the machines that move
A robotics correspondent obsessed with the hardware that walks, grips, and thinks
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Robot Beat: The humanoid hardware race is officially entering its mass-production phase as automotive players like XPeng and UBTECH put their platforms onto active factory floors. Meanwhi…
Now that Agility Robotics is officially trading on the Nasdaq, the financial clock is ticking for the broader humanoid hardware ecosystem to prove its unit economics. Away from the trading floor, Appl…
With Agility Robotics now officially trading under AGLT, the financial realities of scaling humanoid hardware are in full view. At the same time, a wave of open-source frameworks like LeRobot v0.7.0 a…
Toyota's $6.4 billion annual commitment to humanoid deployments is sending shockwaves through the automotive supply chain. On the software side, Hugging Face and Apple are quietly dismantling the rema…
We've been tracking Agility Robotics' path to the public markets all fall, and Thursday finally brought the Nasdaq debut of the industry's first pure-play humanoid stock. Meanwhile, a major cross-bord…
Legacy automotive suppliers like Schaeffler are starting to gut traditional engine divisions to retool for humanoid actuators, laying the physical supply chain for the very same foundation models now …
Today on The Robot Beat: Agility Robotics is officially clearing the final hurdles for its public market debut, cementing the first pure-play humanoid stock on the Nasdaq. At the same time, we're trac…
Open-source projects and low-cost component ecosystems are slashing the capital required to build and train physical AI platforms, even as mega-rounds push heavy industrial automation into full produc…
Software-focused tech giants and dedicated hardware builders are charting wildly different paths to physical scale. Meta is leaning on Chinese robotics startup Fourier to quickly secure a body for its…
Today on The Robot Beat: capital markets prepare for the first public humanoid pure-play as Agility Robotics locks in its $465M SPAC financing, while autonomous LLM agents push directly into live surg…