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Austin-based startup that designs humanoid robots, including its Apollo model, for industrial and logistics work.
Google says Gemini 4 Argon turned a video of a person throwing into a calibrated MuJoCo simulation, cutting setup from weeks to hours in an internal workflow. The speedup is Google's own measurement, as relayed by dev.to.
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FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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The one humanoid deployment with published duty numbers did a single station's worth of work, while Chinese makers supplied more than four in five installations worldwide in 2025. Both facts shape a pilot decision.
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Humanoid locomotion is rehearsed and it films well. The manipulation figure in the published record is 85% success on five tasks with 25 objects. A household or warehouse pilot has to clear that bar on its own objects.
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The floor on Figure's compute commitment is about twice all the equity it has disclosed raising, and the vendor writing that contract now owns a piece of the customer owing it. Whether the $3.5bn is take-or-pay is undisclosed.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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The July 28 Covered List addition blocks new authorizations for foreign-made robots. The cost multiplier now being quoted comes from an index that had not yet been published.
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Robo Inc. launched 13 days after covered foreign robots lost their path to equipment authorization. Long Island production is scheduled for January 2027.
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542,000 industrial arms went in during 2024 and 4.66 million are already running. The near-term case for flexible factories runs through smarter conventional robots.
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