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Another win for open-source robotics! 🔥 Hugging Face just released a fully open-source humanoid robot, and you can build one for $2,500. I'm a huge advocate of open-source in robotics space. Why? Robotics is too hard to solve alone. So lowering the entry point is crucial. Also, ROS proved...

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Hugging Face has acquired a French robotics startup, Pollen Robotics, for an undisclosed amount. The Reachy 2 robot, developed by Pollen, is an open-source and VR-compatible bimanual robot for advancing embodied AI, available to order at $70K. Hugging Face, the leading platform for sharing and fine-tuning LLMs, is also building LeRobot - a platform for providing models, tools, and datasets for robotics AI. Hugging Face was valued at $4.5B in the last round.
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Hugging Face has acquired a French robotics startup, Pollen Robotics, for an undisclosed amount. The Reachy 2 robot, developed by Pollen, is an open-source and VR-compatible bimanual robot for advancing embodied AI, available to order at $70K. Hugging Face, the leading platform for sharing and fine-tuning LLMs, is also building LeRobot - a platform for providing models, tools, and datasets for robotics AI. Hugging Face was valued at $4.5B in the last round.

The Humanoid Hub

108,683 views • 1 year ago

The vlog from Pollen Robotics is out! A fantastic visit in Bordeaux to see myself one of the only European humanoids companies. I visited their HQ and saw how they build and test robots. It's great to see the open source approach that is getting more and more people involved in robotics. True democratization of robotics (thanks clem 🤗, and Hugging Face)! Here's the link to the vlog: Thanks for such a warm welcome Reachy team!💛 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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The vlog from Pollen Robotics is out! A fantastic visit in Bordeaux to see myself one of the only European humanoids companies. I visited their HQ and saw how they build and test robots. It's great to see the open source approach that is getting more and more people involved in robotics. True democratization of robotics (thanks clem 🤗, and Hugging Face)! Here's the link to the vlog: Thanks for such a warm welcome Reachy team!💛 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

10,365 views • 6 months ago

Physics AI 🌊 Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei--the world’s first open-source humanoid robot reference design Built on Jetson Thor edge computing and the Isaac GR00T open platform, it features a Unitree H2 Plus body with Sharpa five-finger dexterous hands and 75 degrees of freedom. Even before Physical AI truly explodes, NVIDIA has built a complete end-to-end full-stack infrastructure: >chips (Jetson Thor + Blackwell), >synthetic data (GR00T-Dreams), >world models (Cosmos), >foundation models (GR00T N-series VLA), >high-fidelity simulation platforms (Isaac Sim + Isaac Lab + Omniverse). Dozens of humanoid robot companies ,including Agility Robotics, Aglie robotics,Boston Dynamics, Figure, 1X, NEURA Robotics, XPENG Robotics, and more are already running large-scale daily simulation training on this platform, rapidly iterating perception, reasoning, and actions in virtual environments, speeding up the jump from lab prototypes to real factory deployment. By providing an open reference design and full-stack tools, NVIDIA has dramatically lowered the barrier, letting every robotics team join the Physical AI wave with low cost and high efficiency.
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Physics AI 🌊 Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei--the world’s first open-source humanoid robot reference design Built on Jetson Thor edge computing and the Isaac GR00T open platform, it features a Unitree H2 Plus body with Sharpa five-finger dexterous hands and 75 degrees of freedom. Even before Physical AI truly explodes, NVIDIA has built a complete end-to-end full-stack infrastructure: >chips (Jetson Thor + Blackwell), >synthetic data (GR00T-Dreams), >world models (Cosmos), >foundation models (GR00T N-series VLA), >high-fidelity simulation platforms (Isaac Sim + Isaac Lab + Omniverse). Dozens of humanoid robot companies ,including Agility Robotics, Aglie robotics,Boston Dynamics, Figure, 1X, NEURA Robotics, XPENG Robotics, and more are already running large-scale daily simulation training on this platform, rapidly iterating perception, reasoning, and actions in virtual environments, speeding up the jump from lab prototypes to real factory deployment. By providing an open reference design and full-stack tools, NVIDIA has dramatically lowered the barrier, letting every robotics team join the Physical AI wave with low cost and high efficiency.

CyberRobo

17,092 views • 1 month ago

Build a humanoid robot yourself! 🪚 OpenArm is an open-source humanoid robot. It comes with full CAD, control code, firmware, and simulation tools, everything needed to build, modify, and operate it. The arms are designed to be compliant and backdrivable. Teleoperation is supported, with force feedback and real-time gravity compensation so operators can guide the arm naturally. Super important, on the simulation side, OpenArm works with platforms like MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, letting developers test policies in virtual environments before running on hardware. Assemble it yourself from a kit or get it prebuilt, the goal is accessibility for research labs, small teams, and enthusiasts. The project is run by Enactic in Tokyo, Japan, and aims to lower the barrier for experimenting with dexterous manipulation. Let's put robotics in mainstream! 🔥🔥 P.S. I put the project page in the comments!
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Build a humanoid robot yourself! 🪚 OpenArm is an open-source humanoid robot. It comes with full CAD, control code, firmware, and simulation tools, everything needed to build, modify, and operate it. The arms are designed to be compliant and backdrivable. Teleoperation is supported, with force feedback and real-time gravity compensation so operators can guide the arm naturally. Super important, on the simulation side, OpenArm works with platforms like MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, letting developers test policies in virtual environments before running on hardware. Assemble it yourself from a kit or get it prebuilt, the goal is accessibility for research labs, small teams, and enthusiasts. The project is run by Enactic in Tokyo, Japan, and aims to lower the barrier for experimenting with dexterous manipulation. Let's put robotics in mainstream! 🔥🔥 P.S. I put the project page in the comments!

Lukas Ziegler

232,873 views • 8 months ago

A toilet-cleaning robot from Reflex Robotics. The best part is when the robot dries its hands... That might be the future of robots doing chores for us. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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A toilet-cleaning robot from Reflex Robotics. The best part is when the robot dries its hands... That might be the future of robots doing chores for us. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

15,766 views • 3 months ago

We built a GPT-4o-powered cleaning robot. - $250 for the robot arms - 4 days to build Open source is truly democratizing the field of robotics. Kaspar Janssen
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We built a GPT-4o-powered cleaning robot. - $250 for the robot arms - 4 days to build Open source is truly democratizing the field of robotics. Kaspar Janssen

Jannik Grothusen

709,836 views • 1 year ago

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NVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design built for robotics research. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the Unitree H2 humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software and models, giving researchers a full-stack platform from data capture to model deployment. Read the #NVIDIAGTC Taipei announcement:

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165,502 views • 1 month ago

Introducing Zeroth-01 Bot: the world's smallest open-source end-to-end humanoid robot starting at $350! Fully open-source, including hardware, SDK, sim environments & more. Zeroth-01 is the most hackable humanoid to-date! Join⬇️to shape the future of accessible robotics w/ us
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Introducing Zeroth-01 Bot: the world's smallest open-source end-to-end humanoid robot starting at $350! Fully open-source, including hardware, SDK, sim environments & more. Zeroth-01 is the most hackable humanoid to-date! Join⬇️to shape the future of accessible robotics w/ us

JX

143,152 views • 1 year ago

This is what open robotics actually looks like! 🔓 I was in Bordeaux, sitting inside Pollen Robotics, and had a chance to play around with their humanoid robot Reachy 2. It’s expressive, modular, and can even bring you coffee, and of course runs Python or Rust. I was talking with Reachy in 3 different languages, tele-operating it and manipulating kitchen stuff, and make it even mimic my gestures. The best part is that there are no locked APIs, or hidden stuff, just an open platform that you can build upon. The connection with Hugging Face makes it super easy to start, as the open source approach allows everyone to contribute, experiment and add their own things. I already ordered his little brother Reachy Mini, let's see what a robotics rookie can do with that robot! 👀 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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This is what open robotics actually looks like! 🔓 I was in Bordeaux, sitting inside Pollen Robotics, and had a chance to play around with their humanoid robot Reachy 2. It’s expressive, modular, and can even bring you coffee, and of course runs Python or Rust. I was talking with Reachy in 3 different languages, tele-operating it and manipulating kitchen stuff, and make it even mimic my gestures. The best part is that there are no locked APIs, or hidden stuff, just an open platform that you can build upon. The connection with Hugging Face makes it super easy to start, as the open source approach allows everyone to contribute, experiment and add their own things. I already ordered his little brother Reachy Mini, let's see what a robotics rookie can do with that robot! 👀 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

19,433 views • 5 months ago

Headless Open-Source Humanoid Robot Starts at $7,999 San Francisco’s Almond Robotics just launched the Axol--a capable dual-arm platform built for real-world Physical AI. >860mm reach, 6.5kg payload, 500Hz control >Fully US-assembled, open-source Python SDK + VR teleop >Modular, Interchangeable end-effectors,developer-friendly design Data collection, performing tasks in a real-world environment: assembly, packaging, sorting... --- Following the U.S. government's ban on Chinese humanoid robots, domestic U.S. humanoid robot startups have begun to emerge.
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Headless Open-Source Humanoid Robot Starts at $7,999 San Francisco’s Almond Robotics just launched the Axol--a capable dual-arm platform built for real-world Physical AI. >860mm reach, 6.5kg payload, 500Hz control >Fully US-assembled, open-source Python SDK + VR teleop >Modular, Interchangeable end-effectors,developer-friendly design Data collection, performing tasks in a real-world environment: assembly, packaging, sorting... --- Following the U.S. government's ban on Chinese humanoid robots, domestic U.S. humanoid robot startups have begun to emerge.

CyberRobo

12,611 views • 23 days ago

New episode: Spencer Huang is a Product Lead for NVIDIA Robotics, focusing on open-source simulation frameworks, synthetic data generation, and robot autonomy. Spencer breaks down RL breakthroughs unlocked by hardware, open-source simulation, synthetic data flywheels, the competitive landscape at the application layer, humanoid use cases, and more. 01:16 Favorite part of Jensen’s keynote 03:37 Sudden unlock of humanoid dance demos 07:17 Sim-to-real RL for manipulation 10:20 Open-source vs. proprietary tools 12:55 How developers can accelerate Cosmos 16:40 Competitive landscape at the application layer 20:57 Humanoids in home and care use cases
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New episode: Spencer Huang is a Product Lead for NVIDIA Robotics, focusing on open-source simulation frameworks, synthetic data generation, and robot autonomy. Spencer breaks down RL breakthroughs unlocked by hardware, open-source simulation, synthetic data flywheels, the competitive landscape at the application layer, humanoid use cases, and more. 01:16 Favorite part of Jensen’s keynote 03:37 Sudden unlock of humanoid dance demos 07:17 Sim-to-real RL for manipulation 10:20 Open-source vs. proprietary tools 12:55 How developers can accelerate Cosmos 16:40 Competitive landscape at the application layer 20:57 Humanoids in home and care use cases

The Humanoid Hub

22,764 views • 8 months ago

A GUY PUT GPT-LEVEL AI INSIDE A 3D PRINTED ROBOT AND RELEASED THE ENTIRE THING FOR FREE Most people look at a 3D printer and see plastic toys This guy printed a robot with expressive eyes, object tracking, image recognition, support for ChatGPT, Qwen and offline models, then uploaded the STL files, code and hardware designs for anyone to build themselves The interesting part isn't the robot It's how fast the gap between "I have an idea" and "I built a working product" is disappearing A few years ago this required a team of engineers Now one person with a printer, open-source software and enough curiosity can build something that looks like it came from a robotics startup We're getting very close to a world where manufacturing, AI and robotics stop being separate industries and start becoming the same thing
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A GUY PUT GPT-LEVEL AI INSIDE A 3D PRINTED ROBOT AND RELEASED THE ENTIRE THING FOR FREE Most people look at a 3D printer and see plastic toys This guy printed a robot with expressive eyes, object tracking, image recognition, support for ChatGPT, Qwen and offline models, then uploaded the STL files, code and hardware designs for anyone to build themselves The interesting part isn't the robot It's how fast the gap between "I have an idea" and "I built a working product" is disappearing A few years ago this required a team of engineers Now one person with a printer, open-source software and enough curiosity can build something that looks like it came from a robotics startup We're getting very close to a world where manufacturing, AI and robotics stop being separate industries and start becoming the same thing

lagerskoy

55,951 views • 21 days ago

Awesome Robotics! 💾 Building your own robot just got a lot easier. MathWorks have released an open-source GitHub repository packed with robotics resources for anyone interested in getting hands-on. The repo includes examples for robot arms, ground vehicles, and drones, with projects that show how to connect with ROS and ROS2 or even deploy Simulink models directly as ROS nodes. There are also more advanced demos, like modeling off-road environments and testing navigation algorithms in photorealistic simulations. Everything is well-documented, with tutorials and links that make it easy to go from concept to prototype. 📑 Whether you’re a student, researcher, or just curious, there’s material here for every level. And since it’s an open community project, you can not only explore but also share your own contributions. For anyone looking to learn robotics by doing, this is a solid place to start! Here’s the link: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Awesome Robotics! 💾 Building your own robot just got a lot easier. MathWorks have released an open-source GitHub repository packed with robotics resources for anyone interested in getting hands-on. The repo includes examples for robot arms, ground vehicles, and drones, with projects that show how to connect with ROS and ROS2 or even deploy Simulink models directly as ROS nodes. There are also more advanced demos, like modeling off-road environments and testing navigation algorithms in photorealistic simulations. Everything is well-documented, with tutorials and links that make it easy to go from concept to prototype. 📑 Whether you’re a student, researcher, or just curious, there’s material here for every level. And since it’s an open community project, you can not only explore but also share your own contributions. For anyone looking to learn robotics by doing, this is a solid place to start! Here’s the link: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

58,423 views • 1 month ago

the conference is getting crazy over it today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics a low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces-models-community >
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the conference is getting crazy over it today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics a low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces-models-community >

Thomas Wolf

104,849 views • 1 year ago

Something must change in robotics! 😖 As more billion-dollar players enter the space, more systems are closing off. APIs move behind paywalls, platforms lock down, and robots turn into black boxes. Pollen Robotics is taking the opposite route. With Reachy 2, everything is open: the code, the CAD files, the ROS 2 interfaces, the communication stack. If you want to swap the camera, redesign the gripper, or fork the whole system, you can, and that’s the point. It creates a culture where universities can run real experiments without licensing drama, and startups can prototype without waiting for vendor permission. Clone it on GitHub. Add behaviors. Share datasets. Fork the models. Push improvements upstream. The Hugging Face influence is real. It’s two open ecosystems aligning around the same idea: robotics should be built by more than a handful of companies. It was so cool to meet the team behind Reachy 2 in Bordeaux! 🔥 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Something must change in robotics! 😖 As more billion-dollar players enter the space, more systems are closing off. APIs move behind paywalls, platforms lock down, and robots turn into black boxes. Pollen Robotics is taking the opposite route. With Reachy 2, everything is open: the code, the CAD files, the ROS 2 interfaces, the communication stack. If you want to swap the camera, redesign the gripper, or fork the whole system, you can, and that’s the point. It creates a culture where universities can run real experiments without licensing drama, and startups can prototype without waiting for vendor permission. Clone it on GitHub. Add behaviors. Share datasets. Fork the models. Push improvements upstream. The Hugging Face influence is real. It’s two open ecosystems aligning around the same idea: robotics should be built by more than a handful of companies. It was so cool to meet the team behind Reachy 2 in Bordeaux! 🔥 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

21,046 views • 7 months ago

NAVIAI-I3, a more robust humanoid robot, was launched by the Zhejiang Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center. Standing 1.8 meters tall, it can run like a human and walk on various terrains. This humanoid robot appears to be primarily designed for specialized industrial tasks, such as security patrols in underground parking lots. They previously launched the lightweight bipedal NVAI-2 and a wheeled humanoid robot. The bipedal robot is used in manufacturing operations, while the wheeled humanoid robot is used for unstructured, flexible tasks such as warehouse sorting, supermarket shelving, and office cleaning. We filmed this demonstration at the World Robot Conference; you can see it in the comments section.
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NAVIAI-I3, a more robust humanoid robot, was launched by the Zhejiang Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center. Standing 1.8 meters tall, it can run like a human and walk on various terrains. This humanoid robot appears to be primarily designed for specialized industrial tasks, such as security patrols in underground parking lots. They previously launched the lightweight bipedal NVAI-2 and a wheeled humanoid robot. The bipedal robot is used in manufacturing operations, while the wheeled humanoid robot is used for unstructured, flexible tasks such as warehouse sorting, supermarket shelving, and office cleaning. We filmed this demonstration at the World Robot Conference; you can see it in the comments section.

CyberRobo

15,521 views • 7 months ago

Sundar Pichai on the robotics opportunity: ⦿ He's impressed by recent humanoid progress - so much so that he sometimes has to look closely to tell if a robot video is real or fake. ⦿ Google initially moved too early into the application layer, but now sees the combination of AI and robotics as the “sweet spot.” ⦿ He believes we’re 2–3 years away from a “magical moment” in robotics. ⦿ Google is working on playing a role similar to Android in robotics - one of its internal bets is already focused on supporting robotics manufacturers. ⦿ Gemini robotics models will work very well - how to productize them is still an open question at the company.
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Sundar Pichai on the robotics opportunity: ⦿ He's impressed by recent humanoid progress - so much so that he sometimes has to look closely to tell if a robot video is real or fake. ⦿ Google initially moved too early into the application layer, but now sees the combination of AI and robotics as the “sweet spot.” ⦿ He believes we’re 2–3 years away from a “magical moment” in robotics. ⦿ Google is working on playing a role similar to Android in robotics - one of its internal bets is already focused on supporting robotics manufacturers. ⦿ Gemini robotics models will work very well - how to productize them is still an open question at the company.

The Humanoid Hub

87,088 views • 1 year ago

💥 A 450M model just beat bigger VLAs on real robot tasks, and it’s 100% open source [📍 bookmark for later] Came across SmolVLA, a new vision-language-action model for robotics that’s compact, fast, and trained entirely on open community datasets from LeRobot via Hugging Face. What stood out to me is how it matches or outperforms much larger models like ACT using noisy, real-world community data instead of giant private datasets. Why it’s worth a look ✅ 26% performance boost from pretraining on open-source data ✅ Runs on consumer hardware, even a MacBook ✅ 30% faster responses with async inference and smart architecture tweaks ✅ Strong results across Meta-World, LIBERO, SO100, and SO101 ✅ Fully open source: weights, code, training pipeline, eval stack They also introduced smart efficiency tricks like using fewer visual tokens, pulling outputs from mid-layer, and separating perception from action to make it all run fast. SmolVLA is a strong case for what can happen when the robotics community shares data and builds in the open. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
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💥 A 450M model just beat bigger VLAs on real robot tasks, and it’s 100% open source [📍 bookmark for later] Came across SmolVLA, a new vision-language-action model for robotics that’s compact, fast, and trained entirely on open community datasets from LeRobot via Hugging Face. What stood out to me is how it matches or outperforms much larger models like ACT using noisy, real-world community data instead of giant private datasets. Why it’s worth a look ✅ 26% performance boost from pretraining on open-source data ✅ Runs on consumer hardware, even a MacBook ✅ 30% faster responses with async inference and smart architecture tweaks ✅ Strong results across Meta-World, LIBERO, SO100, and SO101 ✅ Fully open source: weights, code, training pipeline, eval stack They also introduced smart efficiency tricks like using fewer visual tokens, pulling outputs from mid-layer, and separating perception from action to make it all run fast. SmolVLA is a strong case for what can happen when the robotics community shares data and builds in the open. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.

Ilir Aliu - eu/acc

17,353 views • 10 months ago

Most robotics teams can make a robot move… very few can make it work every day in the real world! @roboforce_inc was just featured in Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote, not for a demo but for a robot they claim is already working in the field. Their system, TITAN, is built for industrial environments: ✅ 40 kg dual-arm payload ✅ millimeter-level precision ✅ 8 hours runtime ✅ early pilots in energy, logistics, and manufacturing They call it Physical AI: The focus is on getting robots to do the kind of labor that still depends on people: repetitive, risky, and physical. IMO, what stands out isn’t the specs. It’s the claim of 11,000 robot orders❗️ If even a fraction of that turns into real deployments, it would make RoboForce one of the most widely scaled robot platforms in the world!!?? The open question is whether this shift from prototype to production is real or just the next phase of robotics storytelling. It looks very promising to me. It’s also interesting how their founder openly pushes back against the humanoid trend, arguing for wheels over legs in real industrial settings. It’s an unusual perspective in a time when humanoids get most of the attention. If they are right, the next humanoid robotics wave might look less like a human and more like an industrial version. Seen at —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
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Most robotics teams can make a robot move… very few can make it work every day in the real world! @roboforce_inc was just featured in Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote, not for a demo but for a robot they claim is already working in the field. Their system, TITAN, is built for industrial environments: ✅ 40 kg dual-arm payload ✅ millimeter-level precision ✅ 8 hours runtime ✅ early pilots in energy, logistics, and manufacturing They call it Physical AI: The focus is on getting robots to do the kind of labor that still depends on people: repetitive, risky, and physical. IMO, what stands out isn’t the specs. It’s the claim of 11,000 robot orders❗️ If even a fraction of that turns into real deployments, it would make RoboForce one of the most widely scaled robot platforms in the world!!?? The open question is whether this shift from prototype to production is real or just the next phase of robotics storytelling. It looks very promising to me. It’s also interesting how their founder openly pushes back against the humanoid trend, arguing for wheels over legs in real industrial settings. It’s an unusual perspective in a time when humanoids get most of the attention. If they are right, the next humanoid robotics wave might look less like a human and more like an industrial version. Seen at —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

27,741 views • 8 months ago