Robotics Faraday Future unveils $89,900 Futurist humanoid at Automate
At Automate in Chicago, perennial vaporware artist Faraday Future priced a 5-foot-8 humanoid at $89,900 — and the unsettling part is the spec sheet is real.
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Robotics China's Telcos Put Humanoid Robots to Work at MWC Shanghai
At MWC Shanghai's June 24 opening, the GSMA reframed the network as the nervous system for machines, while China Mobile, Telecom, and Unicom showed robots in named jobs.
Robotics AGIBOT livestreams humanoids working a real tablet factory line
AGIBOT will stream its G2 humanoids doing quality inspection on a live consumer-electronics mass-production line for six days straight — the job, not a demo.
Robotics Factories Now Build Humanoids by the Hour — Buyers Are Scarce
Humanoid production lines are scaling to one robot per hour while actual paid deployments remain in the single digits — supply is racing far ahead of demand.
Robotics Kawasaki Debuts the First 8-Axis Physical-AI Robot at Automate 2026
Automate 2026's opening day skips the humanoid theater: Kawasaki ships an 8-axis arm and ABB ships a training toolchain, both aimed at the boring 99 percent of factory work.
Robotics Humanoids Get a Sales Booth: Automate 2026 Opens First NVIDIA Pavilion
Automate 2026 opens in Chicago with the first-ever NVIDIA-sponsored Humanoid Pavilion — 20-plus humanoids moving from demo reels to a trade-show order desk.
Robotics Sanctuary AI hits 99.5% on a wire-plug task, no humanoid needed
Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.
Robotics Foxconn debuts factory humanoids in Europe, trained in hours
At VivaTech, Foxconn showed a humanoid doing the pick-and-place and screw-fastening that defines its assembly lines — trained on simulation, not a salaried worker's months of practice.
Robotics US robot installs jumped 11%, still a tenth of China's
New IFR figures show US industrial-robot installations up 11% to 38,000 units, with the fastest growth in food plants — while America's total still trails China's volume by an order of magnitude.
Robotics China Builds 90% of Humanoids — Now It Tops the Robot-Brain Charts
China shipped ~90% of 2025's humanoids, and in June its open-source models beat Nvidia on a real-robot benchmark — collapsing the idea that the West still owns the robot 'brains'.
Robotics Rivian's CEO is quietly building a $3B robot company
Rivian's RJ Scaringe gave the first detailed look at Mind Robotics, a >$3B humanoid startup whose first customer and live testing ground is Rivian's own plant.
Robotics Bezos's Prometheus raises $12 billion to automate engineers
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' — pointing physical AI at high-end engineering work, not the factory floor.