New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Smart Analytics Global put out first-half humanoid shipment data on August 10: 19,100 units globally, up 272%, with AgiBot passing Unitree at 8,400 units. The share number traveled. The mix number is the one that changes work.
Robotics RoboStore, which has deployed 1,500+ humanoid and quadruped robots to 4,500 US customers, launched Robo Inc. on August 10 to assemble and integrate robots on American soil. The ban blocks new imports. It does not block the same machines arriving by another route.
Robotics Tacta Systems laid out TactaBot's full specification on August 7. The five-fingered hand is not the story. The glove is: it records a skilled worker's force, motion, and temperature straight into the robot's training set.
Robotics Huntington Ingalls signed seven-year production agreements with Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics on August 6. The move is not putting robots into the shipyard. It is taking the work out.
Robotics Unitree sets its STAR Market offer price today, nine days after the FCC barred new Chinese humanoids and robot dogs from the US market.
Robotics Reimagine Robotics emerged from stealth on August 3, founded by former DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, with robots workers train by demonstration.
Robotics BYD confirmed its first humanoid robot debuts in August at a Zhengzhou experience centre — 1.61m, 58.5kg, 31 degrees of freedom, and a spec sheet aimed entirely at talking to customers.
Robotics DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, announced July 30, controls a humanoid from feet to fingertips — and its own benchmark chart shows grippers still beating five-fingered hands.
Robotics Unitree filed its STAR Market prospectus on July 30, disclosing H1 revenue growth of 36-45% and an adjusted net profit that fell year-on-year.
Robotics A consumer VR treadmill company sold its Omni One rig to Tesla's Optimus division so engineers can pilot the robot by walking in place — a tell about how autonomous it isn't.
Robotics Agility is opening a Fremont hub and hiring ~200 people to train Digit — the same humanoid it places in warehouses — while going public at a $2.5B valuation.
Robotics SoftBank sold its last stake in Boston Dynamics to Hyundai, then opened talks to buy a maker of autonomous excavators — the crowd-pleasing robot cashed out, the money moved to a machine nobody will livestream.