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.
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#manufacturing · How Robots Are Reshaping Work
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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 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 Tesla kills the Model S to build a robot it hasn't shipped
Tesla is ending Model S and Model X production at Fremont to convert the lines to Optimus humanoids, with Gen 3 mass production targeted for summer 2026.
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.
Robotics China's Agibot Cranks Out Its 10,000th Humanoid Robot — Half of Them in the Last 3 Months
It took Agibot nearly two years to build its first 1,000 humanoid robots. It took three months to build the last 5,000. The exponential curve just showed up for work, and it did not bring snacks.