Robotics The Netherlands opens a humanoid robot work floor to catch China
The Netherlands opened its first Humanoid Application Centre near Rotterdam, a working floor to test robots for construction, logistics, and horticulture — not a showroom.
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Robotics The Netherlands opened its first Humanoid Application Centre near Rotterdam, a working floor to test robots for construction, logistics, and horticulture — not a showroom.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC ordered state-owned firms to put 10,000 humanoids into routine operation across 100-plus real scenarios by the end of 2026.
Robotics BMW is moving Figure's humanoid from the body shop to logistics at its Spartanburg plant, after the previous generation logged 11 months and 30,000 cars on the line.
Robotics 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.
Robotics 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 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 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 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.
Robotics Four senators introduced a bill creating a National Commission on Robotics to assess U.S. competitiveness, with industry from Agility to Boston Dynamics cheering — and workers cast mainly as recruits.
Robotics At its London event, Amazon unveiled a Proteus robot that takes conversational text prompts and plans its own tasks, alongside a €10 billion European robotics investment and a 25,000-job pledge.
Amazon activated its first fully autonomous fulfillment center in Dallas this week. The warehouse runs 22 hours a day, ships 1.6x more packages, and employs 41 people. It used to employ 1,451.
800 locations. Zero human cooks. Customer ratings went up. The woks are automated now, and they don't burn the rice.