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Persona AI's Perry Pitches Humanoids as Capital at Seoul Forum Robotics

Persona AI's Perry Pitches Humanoids as Capital at Seoul Forum

Persona AI's Michael Perry told Seoul Forum 2026 on May 27 that humanoid robots are 'a different category of capital' that addresses $1 trillion in manufacturing revenue lost annually to labor shortage — citing Ulsan shipyards' average worker age of 48.3 and 2.1 million unfilled US manufacturing jobs by 2030.

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#persona-ai#humanoid#manufacturing
Tesla Optimus Hands Out Water Bottles in Naturalistic Demo, Five Weeks Before The Fremont Model S/X Line Becomes a Humanoid Factory — Direct Contrast With the December 2025 Miami 「Autonomy Visualized」 Bottle-Dropping Disaster — May 21, 2026 Robotics

Tesla Optimus Hands Out Water Bottles in Naturalistic Demo, Five Weeks Before The Fremont Model S/X Line Becomes a Humanoid Factory — Direct Contrast With the December 2025 Miami 「Autonomy Visualized」 Bottle-Dropping Disaster — May 21, 2026

Six months ago, Optimus dropped the water bottles on a Miami stage. Five weeks before the Fremont robot line starts up, it can hand them to a person without dropping them. The trajectory is the product.

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#tesla#optimus#humanoid
Hugging Face Drops a $2,500 3D-Printed Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid: LeRobot Humanoid Ships as a Full-Stack Build (Hardware BOM + Simulator + Training Zoo) the Same Week Figure Is Valued at $39B and Apptronik Sits on $935M Series A — May 21, 2026 Robotics

Hugging Face Drops a $2,500 3D-Printed Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid: LeRobot Humanoid Ships as a Full-Stack Build (Hardware BOM + Simulator + Training Zoo) the Same Week Figure Is Valued at $39B and Apptronik Sits on $935M Series A — May 21, 2026

Hugging Face's LeRobot team released a $2,500 3D-printed bipedal humanoid you can build, repair, simulate, and train — the same week Figure trades at $39B and Apptronik at $5B. The open-vs-closed split in humanoid AI just got priced.

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#hugging-face#lerobot#open-source
Hyundai Tells JPMorgan, May 19: 25,000 Boston-Dynamics Atlas Humanoids Across Hyundai + Kia Plants, 30,000-Unit Annual Production Capacity by 2028, 300,000 Actuator Units Per Year Onshored to U.S. Facilities — Georgia Metaplant Lights Up in 2028, Kia Georgia 2029, Korean Union 「Demanding Labor Agreements First」 Robotics

Hyundai Tells JPMorgan, May 19: 25,000 Boston-Dynamics Atlas Humanoids Across Hyundai + Kia Plants, 30,000-Unit Annual Production Capacity by 2028, 300,000 Actuator Units Per Year Onshored to U.S. Facilities — Georgia Metaplant Lights Up in 2028, Kia Georgia 2029, Korean Union 「Demanding Labor Agreements First」

At a JPMorgan IR session on May 19, Hyundai put a number on its humanoid program: 25,000 Atlas robots across Hyundai/Kia plants, 30K-unit annual production capacity by 2028, 300K US-made actuators per year. The Korean union has already demanded a labor agreement.

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#hyundai#boston-dynamics#atlas
Unitree GD01, May 12–17: 500kg Optionally-Manned Bipedal-to-Quadruped Mecha at 3.9M Yuan ($574K) Lands the Same Quarter Hangzhou Pre-IPO Files for a $7B Valuation — 5,500 Humanoids Shipped in 2025 vs. Tesla Optimus's Open Slip to 2027 Robotics

Unitree GD01, May 12–17: 500kg Optionally-Manned Bipedal-to-Quadruped Mecha at 3.9M Yuan ($574K) Lands the Same Quarter Hangzhou Pre-IPO Files for a $7B Valuation — 5,500 Humanoids Shipped in 2025 vs. Tesla Optimus's Open Slip to 2027

Unitree's GD01 mecha — 2.7m tall, walks on two legs or four, carries a human pilot — lists at 3.9M yuan ($574K). The product launch arrives the same quarter the company is filing a 4.2B-yuan STAR Market IPO at a $7B target mark.

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#unitree#gd01#mecha
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 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.

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