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Unitree’s CEO Wang Xingxing has been pretty direct that humanoid robots are still not ready for mass deployment in real industrial workflows. After watching Unitree’s control and execution on the 2026 Spring Festival Gala stage, it is hard to argue they lack capability, which is exactly why that honest...

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Can United States manufacture robots? Matic Robots says "yes." It makes the best floor cleaning robot, that has won many perfect scores from Wired to many others. We love ours. But my trip there to get a tour from AI pioneer Navneet Dalal Navneet Dalal provided some real insights into how hard it is for a hardware company to make hardware in the United States. And how deeply AI is changing consumer electronics products that are going to be in many more homes soon. In this first part (Part II coming tomorrow) we get a look at how long it took for this company to go through prototypes to a shipping product. In the second part, you'll see the scaling hell that it takes to even ship a few thousand robots and the kinds of problems that scaling up a factory brings. Matic is one of my favorite small Silicon Valley companies. It has found what we call "product market fit." I just came back from CES where I saw many of its competitors, and the Matic wins because of not just the product thinking of Mehul and Navneet Dalal but because of their AI leadership. In a way their robot took many lessons from Tesla, from where to put the batteries to its bet on computer vision, which Navneet has been a pioneer in for years, working quietly behind the scenes. It is about to move into a new location that will allow it to grow to meet the demand that now is showing up (the boxes in its lobby show that it's outgrowing its current facilities). In terms of AI, it has aspirations of making a humanoid too, but it is taking a far more measured approach to getting there. By starting on the floor it can not just build world models based on real world data (customers are given a choice whether to allow its data to be used that way. Most customers choose to keep their data on the robot only, for privacy reasons, but if you opt in you can help them improve their models). They are using that data to understand homes. Navneet told me they hit very unusual situations in people's homes already that they couldn't really predict in simulators, like full-wall mirrors that confuse computer vision systems, or pools and water features in people's homes. Having real customers brings a ton of customer feedback about how to further improve the robot, and, as Navneet demonstrates in the second video, forces them to build a manufacturing muscle memory. Getting teams to work together, figuring out how to solve supply chain problems, from Trump's tarriffs, to a new one that showed up over the past couple of weeks. A supplier for its bags (one of the cheaper parts that goes into the robot) changed the glue it used, which caused robots to fail quality tests and the manufacturing line to stop. Reminds me a lot of the hell Elon Musk faced in its Fremont factory when Tesla was first starting to manufacture its Model 3, which almost bankrupted the company. Off the record Mehul and Navneet 🇮🇳 showed me some of the prototypes and plans for its next products that will show up over the next few years. Certainly not as sexy as Tesla, Figure, 1x_tech, and all the Chinese manufacturers are showing off already, but far better thought out for the typical Western home and AI plays a huge role in its future. It is the product that speaks for itself. It's amazing, and is about to get better this year due to AI. It's the first real vision-only robot to be in my home and I bet it won't be the last from this company. Real honor that they invited me over with my Insta360 camera (another company launched in my home, just like Matic was last year). In Part II we go into the factory.
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Can United States manufacture robots? Matic Robots says "yes." It makes the best floor cleaning robot, that has won many perfect scores from Wired to many others. We love ours. But my trip there to get a tour from AI pioneer Navneet Dalal Navneet Dalal provided some real insights into how hard it is for a hardware company to make hardware in the United States. And how deeply AI is changing consumer electronics products that are going to be in many more homes soon. In this first part (Part II coming tomorrow) we get a look at how long it took for this company to go through prototypes to a shipping product. In the second part, you'll see the scaling hell that it takes to even ship a few thousand robots and the kinds of problems that scaling up a factory brings. Matic is one of my favorite small Silicon Valley companies. It has found what we call "product market fit." I just came back from CES where I saw many of its competitors, and the Matic wins because of not just the product thinking of Mehul and Navneet Dalal but because of their AI leadership. In a way their robot took many lessons from Tesla, from where to put the batteries to its bet on computer vision, which Navneet has been a pioneer in for years, working quietly behind the scenes. It is about to move into a new location that will allow it to grow to meet the demand that now is showing up (the boxes in its lobby show that it's outgrowing its current facilities). In terms of AI, it has aspirations of making a humanoid too, but it is taking a far more measured approach to getting there. By starting on the floor it can not just build world models based on real world data (customers are given a choice whether to allow its data to be used that way. Most customers choose to keep their data on the robot only, for privacy reasons, but if you opt in you can help them improve their models). They are using that data to understand homes. Navneet told me they hit very unusual situations in people's homes already that they couldn't really predict in simulators, like full-wall mirrors that confuse computer vision systems, or pools and water features in people's homes. Having real customers brings a ton of customer feedback about how to further improve the robot, and, as Navneet demonstrates in the second video, forces them to build a manufacturing muscle memory. Getting teams to work together, figuring out how to solve supply chain problems, from Trump's tarriffs, to a new one that showed up over the past couple of weeks. A supplier for its bags (one of the cheaper parts that goes into the robot) changed the glue it used, which caused robots to fail quality tests and the manufacturing line to stop. Reminds me a lot of the hell Elon Musk faced in its Fremont factory when Tesla was first starting to manufacture its Model 3, which almost bankrupted the company. Off the record Mehul and Navneet 🇮🇳 showed me some of the prototypes and plans for its next products that will show up over the next few years. Certainly not as sexy as Tesla, Figure, 1x_tech, and all the Chinese manufacturers are showing off already, but far better thought out for the typical Western home and AI plays a huge role in its future. It is the product that speaks for itself. It's amazing, and is about to get better this year due to AI. It's the first real vision-only robot to be in my home and I bet it won't be the last from this company. Real honor that they invited me over with my Insta360 camera (another company launched in my home, just like Matic was last year). In Part II we go into the factory.

Robert Scoble

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Not everyone in society is able to fight back against systems that threaten their freedom. Some people are afraid, some are uneducated about what’s happening, others are simply trying to survive day to day staying ignorant. Because of that, expecting a perfectly united resistance from ordinary people is unrealistic. Sadly. But there are still basic principles almost everyone understands, your privacy matters, your freedom matters, and mass surveillance of citizens should concern anyone who values a free society. In the AI industry today, most large tech companies have shown they are willing to work with governments and militaries when it comes to building powerful AI systems, they don't care about values and freedom. The financial incentives are massive, and very few companies are willing to turn that money down especially when many of them are not profitable. One of the few companies that publicly drew a line and said no to the movement is Anthropic, the creator of Claude. They stated they would not pursue certain uses of AI for warfare or large-scale surveillance. That decision likely costs them enormous contracts and influence, yet they still chose to set that boundary unlike Sam Altman and others. Whether you agree with every decision they make or not, that kind of stance matters. It shows that ethical limits are still possible in an industry driven by profit and power and narcissistic people. When a company chooses principle over profit, the public should notice. Supporting organizations that defend privacy and civil liberties sends a clear message to the entire tech industry. The message is - doing good is reworded, not punished like The US Government has done Anthropic. So get the word out - use Claude, help them with whatever you can to dominate the market. They tell you it’s all for your safety. But here’s a real example of how great a national security risk AI-driven surveillance and camera networks can become. Israel was able to monitor the movements and activities of Iranian leadership after gaining access to surveillance systems, they heck it. Ordinary cameras on streets, near banks, and on buildings. The same everyday infrastructure people walk past without thinking. Systems that were originally installed in the name of security turned out being the biggest vulnerability. And let’s be honest about something Israel and its intelligence is not that bright, everyone that ever worked with them will tell you that, so of course they had our help doing it. But here’s the real question people should be asking, if systems like this can be used to track foreign leaders, what makes anyone think they couldn’t be used on ordinary citizens against you? either by Israel or another country? It's clear it can. The idea that expanding surveillance is purely for your own good is a comforting story. But history shows that powerful tools rarely stay limited to their original purpose and what you think is safety can turn out to be the biggest vulnerability of all.
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Not everyone in society is able to fight back against systems that threaten their freedom. Some people are afraid, some are uneducated about what’s happening, others are simply trying to survive day to day staying ignorant. Because of that, expecting a perfectly united resistance from ordinary people is unrealistic. Sadly. But there are still basic principles almost everyone understands, your privacy matters, your freedom matters, and mass surveillance of citizens should concern anyone who values a free society. In the AI industry today, most large tech companies have shown they are willing to work with governments and militaries when it comes to building powerful AI systems, they don't care about values and freedom. The financial incentives are massive, and very few companies are willing to turn that money down especially when many of them are not profitable. One of the few companies that publicly drew a line and said no to the movement is Anthropic, the creator of Claude. They stated they would not pursue certain uses of AI for warfare or large-scale surveillance. That decision likely costs them enormous contracts and influence, yet they still chose to set that boundary unlike Sam Altman and others. Whether you agree with every decision they make or not, that kind of stance matters. It shows that ethical limits are still possible in an industry driven by profit and power and narcissistic people. When a company chooses principle over profit, the public should notice. Supporting organizations that defend privacy and civil liberties sends a clear message to the entire tech industry. The message is - doing good is reworded, not punished like The US Government has done Anthropic. So get the word out - use Claude, help them with whatever you can to dominate the market. They tell you it’s all for your safety. But here’s a real example of how great a national security risk AI-driven surveillance and camera networks can become. Israel was able to monitor the movements and activities of Iranian leadership after gaining access to surveillance systems, they heck it. Ordinary cameras on streets, near banks, and on buildings. The same everyday infrastructure people walk past without thinking. Systems that were originally installed in the name of security turned out being the biggest vulnerability. And let’s be honest about something Israel and its intelligence is not that bright, everyone that ever worked with them will tell you that, so of course they had our help doing it. But here’s the real question people should be asking, if systems like this can be used to track foreign leaders, what makes anyone think they couldn’t be used on ordinary citizens against you? either by Israel or another country? It's clear it can. The idea that expanding surveillance is purely for your own good is a comforting story. But history shows that powerful tools rarely stay limited to their original purpose and what you think is safety can turn out to be the biggest vulnerability of all.

ELIZABETH LANE

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