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Apple’s AI Turnaround Plan: Robots, Lifelike Siri, Home Security Cameras (AAPL) – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/apple-s-ai-turnaround-plan-robots-lifelike-siri-and-home-security-cameras
Figure 02 folds laundry using the Helix AI model developed by Figure. Figure claims this is the first instance of a humanoid robot with multi-fingered hands folding laundry fully autonomously using an end-to-end neural network. Helix processes vision and language inputs to https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955294492413825464
For the first time, a humanoid robot can fold laundry using a neural net We made no changes to the Helix architecture, only new data https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1955291307758489909
This is a neural network named Helix learning how to do laundry https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1954223976793923773
Fascinating to watch Figure 02 recover from a mistake. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955299423451586888
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing – Joanna M. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1955170917924966905
China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots https://futurism.com/china-armed-attack-wolves
Do you think the Figure robot can’t fold?”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1954998149380182047
70 lb NEO can carry a 40 lb rice sack. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1954998117042135427
Bro’s determined to wreck that clanker 😆 https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955142980219859302
The future of package delivery is self-driving vehicles paired with humanoids that can perceive, reason and navigate within spaces designed for human interaction. Also, drones. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955760383018590459
General purpose robots need a human-like hand The hand engineering we’re doing is as hard as building the whole robot fwiw out of all the dumb stuff I’ve seen in my career, building a humanoid robot without a 5-finger hand is up there”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1956083802440450551
Robotics’ ‘ChatGPT moment’ could come within 2 years, founder of China’s Unitree says | South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3321354/robotics-chatgpt-moment-could-come-within-two-years-founder-chinas-unitree-says
German robot works at construction site, helps humans to build wall https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-helps-humans-at-construction-site
Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree, says the “ChatGPT moment” for robots is about 1–3 years away, though it could take 3–5 years if progress is slow. The biggest limitation is that large AI models for robotics are still not quite sufficient. He feels there is too much https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1954317918629740789
@amitisinvesting It doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two quite different AI chip designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips will be excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training. All effort is focused on that.”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1953660184351707210
Bloomberg: Tesla is shutting down its Dojo supercomputer team, and leader Peter Bannon is departing. About 20 staff members have joined DensityAI, founded by former Dojo lead Ganesh Venkataramanan. Remaining members will move to other Tesla compute projects. In the Q2 earnings https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953599485218893867
Merge Tesla and xAI already. Synergies are obvious: Grok learns general intelligence from vast real-world data from cars, humanoids, and industrial robots. Grok’s evolution improves Optimus’ brain. Also, efficient utilization of training clusters + leverage Tesla’s inference https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953682836067954971
Tesla (TSLA) Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team in Blow to AI Effort – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/tesla-disbands-dojo-supercomputer-team-in-blow-to-ai-effort
iRobot Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Financial Results https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/irobot-reports-second-quarter-2025-financial-results-302523929.html
Congrats to the Figure team for manufacturing our 100th F.03 battery pack at BotQ! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1955629425720279541
Figure has produced 100 battery packs for F.03. It’s amazing that Figure is well past the early prototyping stage for F.03, but they’re in no rush to unveil it. The pack design has come a long way when seen next to Figure 01. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955684510303166611
In the coming years, humanoid robots will handle most physical tasks people do today”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1954295121694122430
Robot hands folding laundry – slowed down to 0.4x speed for max satisfaction https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1956021725491290154
The Chinese race for affordable humanoid robots is heating up, and EngineAI has an answer to Unitree’s $5,900 R1. EngineAI has just teased their next-gen humanoid, the SA02, 4’1″” tall, 55 lb (25 kg) with 26 DoF. The starting price is promised at 38,500 yuan ($5,400). https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953544790169334169
We now test our humanoid robots by having its onboard neural network play games that challenge its intelligence and fine motor skills https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1953571889588359578
This guy runs a $100M laundromat business and he’s scared. He should be The only limiter now is pretraining data. Once we feed more data into Helix, the robot will handle more tasks The hardware needs no changes – it’s already built to do most tasks humans can”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1954363628389609775
A conversation with @demishassabis on world models (genie 3), deep think, the need for better evals (game arena), and our progress towards AGI. https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1954951468878090552
🎙️ I sit down with @BBarash, CEO of @roboto_ai, to talk Amazon, robotics, and why knowing what to do with your data is key to scaling: Benji spent years at Amazon working on drone delivery, but started to see a growing problem in robotics, the data was piling up faster than https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1953442754064957539
Beijing is ready for the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, set for August 14-17 at the National Speed Skating Oval. The event will showcase 280 teams from 16 countries, including Germany, Australia, the US, and Brazil, featuring 127 brands and over 500 humanoid robots across 26 https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955361110066155742
China launches worlds first humanoid robot mall in Beijing https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-worlds-first-robot-mall-beijing
Every robot you see is a data firehose generating terabytes of chaos. This hidden crisis is the #1 reason robots fail, and it’s costing the industry billions. You see hardware, but not the data swamp drowning engineers. In 2025, a quiet revolution is fixing it. Here’s how. 🧵 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1954545511807012985
FORT Robotics adds $18.9M to Series B funding for robotic safety – The Robot Report https://www.therobotreport.com/fort-robotics-adds-18-9m-series-b-funding-robotic-safety/
Fourier has unveiled GR-3, “”A Caring and Capable Companion.”” Standing at 5’4″” and weighing 55 kg (121 lb), the GR-3 integrates vision, audio, and tactile sensors. With 31 distributed pressure sensors across its body, combined with expressive features such as blinking, eye https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953863837629001778
New video of EngineAI’s PM01 humanoid. The price for the 4’6″” tall Chinese robot starts at $25,500. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953519709803946185
Note- It SUCKS. – – Robot drummer nails complex songs with 90% human-like precision https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/humanoid-robot-learns-to-play-drums
One child called the robot “”my little brother””‘: Can assistance tech become part of the family? | EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1092911
One policy to make your robot gentle or forceful… instantly. [📍 Bookmark the paper for later] This is a force-adaptive control framework for legged robots that can follow a light push or pull hard against resistance, all with a single learned policy. The stiffness level is https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1954961286984241577
Sankaet explains why Foundation is betting on cycloidal drive gearboxes over harmonic drives. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1953921023386243551
The $10k robot arms that can learn from a handful of demos: Most robots still lose the cost equation. They’re slow, expensive, and take months to deploy, which means… they only make sense for huge factories. The @RobotLearningCo (YC X25) is building affordable, general-purpose https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1954235246607524019
The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games will begin in ~12 hours [8:00 pm Aug 14th, Beijing Time]. Here’s the schedule https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955771400813470135
The most San Francisco sport ever? Underground robot boxing enters the arena https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/10/robot-boxing-match-sf/
Trained by a robotics lab at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955495026865344626
Underground robot fighting competition in San Francisco https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1954095594617610455
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing says having a powerful inference computer on every humanoid robot is not practical at scale. Every factory or residential community could have localized compute clusters for fast inference. His top three focus areas for the next 2–5 years are: 1. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1954940010815475994
Unitree showcased their latest humanoid robot, the R1, at WRC 2025 last week. That’s Unitree’s founder and CEO, Wang Xingxing, showing kids how to operate the robot. Unitree is targeting a $5,900 starting price for the R1. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1955709984999923886
