Robotics Tesla's Optimus line still hasn't started production
A July inventory of what humanoids actually do for a living puts Tesla near the bottom: the loudest robot company hasn't started production, while quieter rivals log real shifts.
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Robotics BMW's Robot Built 30,000 Cars. Its Successor Sorts Parts.
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 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 Figure 03, May 13–14 Livestream: Three Helix-02 Humanoids Nicknamed by Viewers 「Bob, Frank, and Gary」 Blow Past Their Own 8-Hour Public Target to a 24-Hour, 28,000-Package Autonomous Run — Started Because a Robotics Evangelist Dared Brett Adcock On X, Ended With 「Uncharted Territory」 and ~2M Live Viewers
Three Figure 03 humanoid robots running Helix-02 onboard sorted >28,000 small packages over a continuous autonomous shift that began as an 8-hour public stunt on May 13 and crossed 24 hours by May 14, with zero teleoperation and ~2 million livestream viewers. Brett Adcock called it 「uncharted territory.」 The livestream was started because Scott Walter publicly bet the humanoid industry couldn't get to a single 8-hour shift.
Robotics Humanoid Robot App Store Week, May 7–11: Unitree Opens UniStore With 24 Apps — All Dance and Martial Arts — Then Figure F.03 Makes a Bed in Two Minutes
Unitree opened UniStore on May 7 with 24 motion apps — Bruce Lee, Wing Chun, Michael Jackson dance, a hip-wiggling routine. The next day, two Figure F.03 robots tidied a real bedroom without a single human prompt. The gap is the story.
Robotics Figure's Humanoid Robot Just Got a Warehouse Job. It Didn't Even Need a Resume.
Figure 02 can pick, pack, and stack for 20 hours straight. HR didn't ask for references.