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Morgan Stanley outlines how Optimus could tap into the wider Elon Musk tech stack in its recent $TSLA report. Analysts see Tesla nearing a phase of strategic cross-pollination across its ecosystem – what they call the “Elonomy.” They highlight future integration scenarios like https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930000203547062421
Everything NVIDIA said about humanoid robots in yesterday’s quarterly earnings call Colette Kress (CFO): We announced Isaac GR00T N1 – the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for humanoid robots – enabling generalized reasoning and skill development. We also https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928191289172054170
Elon Musk on sending Tesla Optimus robots to Mars in 2026: “The first flights there we will send with the Optimus robot, so it can go out there to explore and kind of prepare the way for humans. By launching end of next year—we’ll actually technically arrive in 2027.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928220809077637166
New Optimus mannequin being unpacked at a Tesla store in China. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929766683608338652
HOPEJr is an open-source, DIY humanoid robot built by Hugging Face and The Robot Studio. It features 3D-printed parts, dexterous hands, and costs under $3,000. Here’s the first fully assembled HOPEJr. Blueprint: https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928140664505540960
Physical AI announced knowledge insulation, a way to train vision-language action models 7.5x faster with diffusion output This enables the model to inherit better language following from the VLM, leading to better results https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1929207285374411199
Top stories in robotics today: – Smartphone giant Honor to build humanoids – UBTech takes on Tesla with $20K humanoid – Rivr’s delivery robot dog comes to the U.S – China hosts first humanoid boxing event – Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/1928104195279749526
Between F.01 and F.02, we made a meaningful engineering jump – better actuators, sensors, hands, battery, and compute Next generation marks another significant step-change in performance at every level”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1929955468040122835
F.03 is officially walking !!! This is the most advanced hardware I’ve ever seen https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1926386784335716695
A sub-$10K Unitree humanoid robot? Unitree just teased their next-generation humanoid with a price tag of “$?000.” Physical AI needs affordable hardware at scale for mainstream adoption. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928460031734804743
badminton robot from ETH Zurich https://x.com/philfung/status/1927935028098428993
G1 overlaid onto the next-gen Unitree robot https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928489791512776784
holy smokes what @KevinAFischer & @okpasquale & team have built is INCREDIBLE. I just met Spark the dog & I thought this experience was like 1-2 years away from existing. memory, awareness, behavior, design, all fantastically executed. here’s us posing for a photo together https://x.com/sjwhitmore/status/1928520064078328193
Introducing MicroFactory A robot that automates repetitive manual work — starting with electronics assembly. https://x.com/ihorbeaver/status/1928154351383580800
Marc Andreessen says general-purpose robotics is going to happen at giant scale in the next decade; the US shouldn’t try to get the old manufacturing jobs back – instead, we should lean hard into designing and building robots. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929641270173225121
Meet HopeJr, a full humanoid robot lowering the barrier to entry! Capable of walking, manipulating many objects, open-source and costs under $3000 🤯 Designed by @therobotstudio and @huggingface 👇 https://x.com/RemiCadene/status/1928015436630634517
New demo by UCR showcasing Moby robot’s robust locomotion. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929948967036666207
Pepsi partners with AGIBOT to launch a Pepsi-branded humanoid robot for promotional use. The “Fizz Bot” shared the stage with David Beckham at the launch event. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930376252940267885
Reborn CEO Luffy Yu says the core bottleneck in robotics foundation models compared to LLMs is the lack of a permissionless, scrapable, open-source ‘Physical Internet.’ https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930334329500250176
Scott Walter expects the next-gen Unitree to have a 2-DoF waist – an upgrade from the 1-DoF design in the G1.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928481560870998275
UK-based startup ‘Humanoid’ teases its HMND 01 alpha prototype. 5’9” height | 70 kg (154 lbs) | 1.5 m/s walking speed | 4-hour runtime | 15 kg (33 lbs) payload capacity | 41 DoF https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929932975841652833
Unitree’s modular hand – hasn’t hit the market yet. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928497954752462939
Just a couple of bouncy moves and G1’s back on its feet. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928132332516458698
Unitree announces “a long-term and significant collaboration with Reborn.” Unitree will deploy Reborn’s unified framework combining simulation, datasets and benchmarks. The collaboration also focuses on open-source infrastructure and co-developing robots for various industries. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929595638339022955
Elon says 1 billion Optimus robots would consume way more than 4,000 TWh of electricity annually. That breaks down to roughly 11 kWh per Optimus per day. If Optimus has a 2.3 kWh battery pack, it would need to be charged about five times a day to reach that usage. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1929646832109711870
Optimus on Mars. A 2K-resolution render published by SpaceX. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1928653158827557032
Figure-01 vs Figure-02 humanoid robot https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1929575124556304564
Last week we carried out the largest re-org in Figure’s history We merged three separate teams into Helix – our AI group Figure is an AI company at its core, and this consolidation will accelerate how quickly our robots learn and scale into market”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1928156614403743746
Hugging Face presents SmolVLA A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics https://x.com/i/web/status/1929900931853816142
Today, we’re unveiling two new open-source AI robots! HopeJR for $3,000 & Reachy Mini for $300. DM me if you want to be added to the waitlist 🤖🤖🤖 Let’s go open-source AI robotics! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1928125034154901937
Jensen Huang on Bloomberg today: “Elon’s an extraordinary engineer. I love working with him. The work that he’s doing in Grok, self-driving, and Optimus – every single one of them is world-class, revolutionary, and a gigantic opportunity. The Optimus opportunity is right around https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1927929013303136575
US companies have the best closed-source AI models, but the leading open weights LLM is from China, as is the leading open video model, while the leading open image model is from Germany. The international dynamics of competition in the AI space are not just winner-take-all.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1929529091356553697
