Robotics Weekly

A Weekly Editorial on Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

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Humanoid Robotics

Coverage of humanoid robots moving from demo footage to real deployment: form factor, hardware speed, and what the gap between a launch video and a factory floor actually looks like.

What we track

  • · Humanoid product launches and pilots
  • · Form-factor debates (humanoid vs. wheeled/non-anthropomorphic)
  • · Tactile sensing and physical grounding
A wheeled robot with an articulated tower and dexterous hands working a warehouse aisle

humanoids

The Form-Factor Fallacy: Why the Next Robotic Revolution Won't Be Humanoid

Genesis AI's $105 million bet on a wheeled robot named Eno suggests the humanoid form factor was never an engineering necessity, just expensive theater.

No. 1 of 7 · Maya Chen

A humanoid robot working a case-packing station on a factory floor

humanoids

A Grounded Reality Check: The Friction of the Factory Floor

UBTECH's admission that its Walker S2 humanoid runs at 30–50% of human speed isn't a failure, it's the most honest data point the industry has produced yet.

No. 2 of 7 · Maya Chen

A factory floor mid-conversion from automotive assembly to humanoid robot production

humanoids

Retooling the Factory: The Brutal Economics of the Android Pivot

Tesla is tearing down its Model S and X lines for Optimus V3, but at a reported $60,000 per unit, the hardware still hasn't caught up to the software.

No. 4 of 7 · Maya Chen

A robotic hand fitted with tactile sensors gripping a fragile object

vla-models

The Tactile Missing Link: Why Vision and Language Aren't Enough for Embodied AI

RobOmni, the industry's first tactile-sensing benchmark from Daimon Robotics and Galbot, exposes the grounding bottleneck inside vision-language-action models.

No. 1 of 2 · Maya Chen

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