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47,095 views • 8 months ago

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Sub-1 hour? Chasing the human half-marathon record? That’s suddenly the conversation around Beijing’s humanoid robot race this Sunday. 🏃‍♂️🤖 A year ago, this event was mostly about finishing. Now the bar is speed, stability, and full-course autonomy. More than 100 teams and 300+ humanoid robots are expected on the line, and nearly 40% of them are entering the autonomous navigation group instead of relying on remote control. The course is not getting easier either. Same 21.0975 km, but with more urban slopes, rolling sections, and park terrain built to expose weak points in control, perception, and endurance. That is what makes this race worth watching. If some of these machines really get close to one hour, the story is no longer “robots can run.” It becomes “humanoids are starting to hold speed, balance, and navigation together over real distance.” And that matters far beyond a race course. This is one of the clearest public tests yet for where humanoid robotics actually stands in hardware, motion control, power systems, and autonomous mobility. Sunday’s headline will be the time. The bigger takeaway will be how much of that pace is still there at kilometer 15, 18, and 21. I want to see who is actually fast, who is truly autonomous, and who can finish without falling apart. That is where the real signal will be.

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209,946 views • 4 months ago

A planetary roller screw looks simple, but it’s one of the key enablers for humanoid robots. It converts rotational motion into precise linear motion with high efficiency, high load capacity, and extremely smooth control. In humanoid robots, this is exactly what you need for: joint actuation linear actuators in arms/legs high-force, high-precision movement under continuous cycles Compared to ball screws, it offers better durability and load distribution—critical for robots that must operate 24/7 in the real world. Small component, huge impact. This is the kind of “hidden hardware” that makes humanoid robotics actually work.
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A planetary roller screw looks simple, but it’s one of the key enablers for humanoid robots. It converts rotational motion into precise linear motion with high efficiency, high load capacity, and extremely smooth control. In humanoid robots, this is exactly what you need for: joint actuation linear actuators in arms/legs high-force, high-precision movement under continuous cycles Compared to ball screws, it offers better durability and load distribution—critical for robots that must operate 24/7 in the real world. Small component, huge impact. This is the kind of “hidden hardware” that makes humanoid robotics actually work.

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69,970 views • 1 month ago

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208,048 views • 2 months ago

JUST IN: Unitree Robotics just unveiled the GD01, a manned "mecha" robot that transforms between two legs and four legs in real time. This is not a concept. This is a product. Starting price: $574,000. This robot weighs 500kg, is built from high-strength alloy, and has a torso-mounted cockpit. The demo video shows it walking upright, knocking down a brick wall with its hand, then reconfiguring into a four-legged crawl. Unitree calls it the world's first mass-produced transformable mecha. But the real story here is the bigger picture. Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global humanoid robot sales in 2025. Unitree alone shipped 5,500+ humanoid robots last year. In the same period, Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics each shipped around 150. And Unitree is now filing for an IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, targeting 4.2 billion yuan, 85% of which goes straight into R&D. The West is building incredible humanoid robots. China is building them faster, cheaper and at a scale nobody else is close to matching. Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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JUST IN: Unitree Robotics just unveiled the GD01, a manned "mecha" robot that transforms between two legs and four legs in real time. This is not a concept. This is a product. Starting price: $574,000. This robot weighs 500kg, is built from high-strength alloy, and has a torso-mounted cockpit. The demo video shows it walking upright, knocking down a brick wall with its hand, then reconfiguring into a four-legged crawl. Unitree calls it the world's first mass-produced transformable mecha. But the real story here is the bigger picture. Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global humanoid robot sales in 2025. Unitree alone shipped 5,500+ humanoid robots last year. In the same period, Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics each shipped around 150. And Unitree is now filing for an IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, targeting 4.2 billion yuan, 85% of which goes straight into R&D. The West is building incredible humanoid robots. China is building them faster, cheaper and at a scale nobody else is close to matching. Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

11,580 views • 3 months ago

XMAQUINA NEURA Transaction Initiated ✅ A new chapter begins. Following BOT-09 approval, the Execution Engine has moved forward to secure a $1.75M position in NEURA Robotics’ Series C. This marks more than just a transaction. It represents belief in the future of Physical AI and humanoid intelligence. This allocation is progressing through a structured, multi step equity process, managed by a licensed intermediary and secured through escrow. Each phase ensures transparency, security, and alignment with long term ownership goals. Final ownership will only be confirmed once the final step is completed. While delays or adjustments are uncommon, this careful approach protects the integrity of the process and the DAO’s position. At the center of this move stands the 4NE-1 humanoid robot built to bring human level precision, adaptability, and real world utility to both industrial and domestic environments. From autonomous mobility to advanced sensor intelligence, this technology represents a shift toward cognitive machines that collaborate with humans. This is more than an investment. It’s participation in the emergence of the humanoid era. Track the DAO’s allocation and follow the journey as Physical AI continues to evolve. 🤖 XMAQUINA
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XMAQUINA NEURA Transaction Initiated ✅ A new chapter begins. Following BOT-09 approval, the Execution Engine has moved forward to secure a $1.75M position in NEURA Robotics’ Series C. This marks more than just a transaction. It represents belief in the future of Physical AI and humanoid intelligence. This allocation is progressing through a structured, multi step equity process, managed by a licensed intermediary and secured through escrow. Each phase ensures transparency, security, and alignment with long term ownership goals. Final ownership will only be confirmed once the final step is completed. While delays or adjustments are uncommon, this careful approach protects the integrity of the process and the DAO’s position. At the center of this move stands the 4NE-1 humanoid robot built to bring human level precision, adaptability, and real world utility to both industrial and domestic environments. From autonomous mobility to advanced sensor intelligence, this technology represents a shift toward cognitive machines that collaborate with humans. This is more than an investment. It’s participation in the emergence of the humanoid era. Track the DAO’s allocation and follow the journey as Physical AI continues to evolve. 🤖 XMAQUINA

Baki

10,690 views • 6 months ago

China has already shipped 2,000 humanoid robots abroad — and this is just the beginning AiMOGA Robotics said it has sent Mornine robots to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. Mornine is an android with a female appearance and AI that can communicate in multiple languages. It is planned for use in hospitals, stores, museums and car dealerships — mainly to interact with visitors and assist staff. The robot was specifically designed to be relatively simple and inexpensive for mass production. And to avoid the “uncanny valley” effect, it was given a screen visor instead of realistic eyes — resulting in a rather cyberpunk look.
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China has already shipped 2,000 humanoid robots abroad — and this is just the beginning AiMOGA Robotics said it has sent Mornine robots to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. Mornine is an android with a female appearance and AI that can communicate in multiple languages. It is planned for use in hospitals, stores, museums and car dealerships — mainly to interact with visitors and assist staff. The robot was specifically designed to be relatively simple and inexpensive for mass production. And to avoid the “uncanny valley” effect, it was given a screen visor instead of realistic eyes — resulting in a rather cyberpunk look.

NEXTA

36,104 views • 3 days ago

The World Model as NEO's Cognitive Core 1X has revealed a major AI development where the NEO humanoid can translate any natural language prompt into robotic action. It demonstrates this capability even for novel tasks, objects, and environments not found in its robot dataset. - the 1X World Model is trained on internet-scale human interaction videos and fine-tuned with robot data to ground its understanding in physics and in NEO's embodiment - from a simple voice or text prompt, the world model generates a visualization of future actions - a built-in inverse dynamics model then translates these into precise motor movements for NEO
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The World Model as NEO's Cognitive Core 1X has revealed a major AI development where the NEO humanoid can translate any natural language prompt into robotic action. It demonstrates this capability even for novel tasks, objects, and environments not found in its robot dataset. - the 1X World Model is trained on internet-scale human interaction videos and fine-tuned with robot data to ground its understanding in physics and in NEO's embodiment - from a simple voice or text prompt, the world model generates a visualization of future actions - a built-in inverse dynamics model then translates these into precise motor movements for NEO

The Humanoid Hub

68,453 views • 7 months ago