Galbot's PASSAGE humanoid planner avoids contact with obstacles in 70.3% of simulated trials
Galbot's PASSAGE framework reached the goal in 98.67 percent of 750 simulated trials but finished without touching an obstacle in 70.3 percent. A pilot team has to decide which of those numbers its site demands.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption3
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
Shares in the Chinese robot maker opened at roughly 7.3 times their offer price on Shanghai's Star Market. The number to plan against is not the valuation but the $2,700 robot dog.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
Figure's robot averaged three parts per vehicle over 1,250 hours on a BMW line
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.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence42
Vision plus touch gets a robot hand to 85% success across five tasks and 25 objects
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.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives54
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher The FCC closed the border on imported robots, so RoboStore is becoming a factory
Robo Inc. launched 13 days after covered foreign robots lost their path to equipment authorization. Long Island production is scheduled for January 2027.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives68
- Confidence41
Unitree closed its Shanghai debut worth about $53 billion on $252 million of revenue. That number is now the comp in every robotics board deck, and it is not a demand signal.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+64
- Incentives71
- Confidence74
Unitree's $9bn Shanghai listing prices the humanoid story, not the robot-dog business
The Hangzhou maker sold about a tenth of itself for roughly $900mn, with retail demand covering the offer more than 8,000 times. Most of what it ships is still quadrupeds.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives74
- Confidence42
The robot is off the shelf. The audience is in the voice layer.
Two Poles bought a Chinese humanoid, wired it to a language model, and got a million followers. Every rival influencer robot runs the same chassis, which locates the moat above the hardware.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives66
- Confidence55