100 NIX humanoids, free for builders. 🤖
LUMOS Robotics is launching Project EDGE with 100 NIX units for selected labs, universities, builders, and creative robotics teams. Hardware, SDK access, and technical support are included.
If you’re building motion systems, social robots, embodied AI, or creative HRI, this is worth applying for.
Humanoid logistics sorters are starting real shifts in both the U.S. and China 🤖
Figure is entering Catalyst Brands’ Reno logistics center, inside the retail network behind JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers.
RobotEra’s M7 is working at China Post’s Guangzhou logistics hub, feeding and sorting parcels on live lines.
This is the right first job for humanoids: repetitive, physical, structured, high-volume, and easy to measure.
Figure’s F.03 ran a 200-hour public sorting test and handled nearly 250,000 parcels.
RobotEra’s system is being used for parcel feeding, package orientation, and exception handling, with peak throughput reported around 1,200 parcels per hour.
The demand side is obvious.
China handled nearly 199 billion express parcels in 2025. Guangzhou alone processed about 21.9 billion parcels, more than enough to turn sorting into a brutal labor and throughput problem.
The U.S. has a different pressure point.
Parcel volume is smaller, but warehouse labor is much more expensive, so a robot that can work long repetitive shifts has a cleaner ROI story if uptime, maintenance, and deployment cost hold up.
The hard part is not the demo.
It is barcode orientation, soft bags, crushed boxes, recovery after errors, battery swaps, fleet coordination, and keeping the line moving when nobody is filming.
Sorting is still only one link in logistics.
The bigger test is whether these robots can move from conveyor work into loading, unloading, picking, exception handling, and eventually the last mile — where the environment stops being friendly.
That is the real question now.
Not whether humanoids can sort packages, but whether they can earn the next job after sorting.
F.03 finally got a real job — it’s going on shift. 🤖
Figure signed Catalyst Brands, the operator behind JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers.
First stop: Reno, Nevada, inside a real retail logistics network.
Fresh off a 200-hour run and nearly 250,000 packages handled, F.03 now has to prove the harder part: repeatable uptime when nobody is watching the livestream.
@sickofgrindr This is just one early use case, the real value is that humanoids can eventually handle the parts of the workflow that fixed automation still can’t cover
Robot boyfriend/girlfriend went from meme to something you can actually put in your cart now 😂🤖
UBTECH’s UWORLD full-size bionic humanoid is up for presale on JD. Whole pitch is “emotional companionship.”
3,000 RMB deposit gets you first-batch access. Launch is June 30, presale runs til July 15.
Two flavors:
– Male: 183 cm / 42 kg
– Female: 168 cm / 35.2 kg
Both have 88 DOF, Wi-Fi, charging, and 2–4 hrs of runtime.
Oh and no secondary dev. So no hacking it for fun, apparently.
I just wanna know — who’s actually gonna drop cash on a life-size robot companion for their living room?
UBTECH just teased UWORLD, its consumer-grade humanoid robot brand, and the poster has a clear bionic-companion vibe 🤖
The company positions it around emotional companionship, with home use and education assistance as its core consumer scenarios.
After industrial-grade humanoids, UBTECH is extending its humanoid robot direction into the consumer market.
Galaxea just released Kengo, a 1.4m biped humanoid built around a motion cerebellum and embodied brain. 🤖
The demo is not just walking: flip-kicks, kip-ups, dancing, table wiping, and object carrying.
The spec that matters: over 130 N·m joint torque, two core joint modules for the full body, 200,000+ cable-bending cycles, and drop recovery after 10 falls.
This feels like Galaxea moving from wheeled manipulation into a harder body — legs, balance, and real task execution in one platform.
Carrying a fire extinguisher into a rescue scene? 🧯
Okay, this is what a humanoid built for actual field work should start looking like.
Deep Robotics’ upgraded DR02 is clearly moving toward real-world practical applications:
• Bringing emergency gear right into active rescue sites
• Flipping switches on live electrical cabinets (yeah, while powered)
• Taking over the high-risk jobs that humans really shouldn't be doing first
And the hardware? Pure industrial grade:
• 175 cm tall | 65 kg
• IP66 rated
• Works from -20°C to 55°C
Yeah, this thing is clearly built for the grim side of industrial work.
From the graceful flow of Tai Chi to the energetic moves of street dance, DEEP Robotics’ DR02 is showing off some serious versatility. 🥋💃
It manages to combine precision, strength, and artistry with ease, really highlighting the robot's remarkable agility in handling contrasting movement dynamics.
#Robotics #HumanoidRobot #Innovation #TaiChi #StreetDance #TechMeetsArt #DEEProbotics #PhysicalAI
100 NIX humanoids, free for builders. 🤖
LUMOS Robotics is launching Project EDGE with 100 NIX units for selected labs, universities, builders, and creative robotics teams. Hardware, SDK access, and technical support are included.
If you’re building motion systems, social robots, embodied AI, or creative HRI, this is worth applying for.
100 FREE LUMOS NIX: LUMOS Robotics Officially Launches Project EDGE!
LUMOS Robotics Founder & CEO Yu Chao officially introduces Project EDGE — inviting global builders, universities, robotics labs, and creative technologists to explore the future of humanoid robotics together.
To supercharge the global developer community, we are providing 100 complimentary LUMOS NIX robots to selected global partners.
Selected partners will receive:
• Complimentary LUMOS NIX units
• Open SDK access
• Direct technical support
From dynamic motion control to embodied AI applications, the stage is yours.
If a LUMOS NIX showed up at your lab tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d deploy on it? Let us know below!
Welcome to Project EDGE. Apply now via our website.
#humanoidrobot #robotics
UCLA RoMeLa just open-sourced a dexterous hand that hits the rare combo: tactile sensing, humanlike form factor, and a roughly $3K build cost. 🖐️
MIDAS packs 16 DoF, 13 active + 3 passive DoF architecture, 283 3-axis tactile taxels, open-source hardware and software, a MuJoCo contact model, and a vision-based teleoperation pipeline.
The real value is not just price; it is a repairable, tactile-rich hand built for manipulation, teleoperation, and robot learning work that usually costs far more to prototype.
If dexterous manipulation is going to leave locked lab stacks, this is the kind of hardware more researchers need on the bench.
Strong demand is pulling eldercare robots out of the demo booth and into real care workflows. 👵🤖
A new MIIT-affiliated report says China’s smart eldercare robot market is expected to pass RMB 10 billion (about $1.5 billion) in 2026.
The pressure is simple: by the end of 2025, China had 323.38 million people aged 60+, while the world is moving toward 1.4 billion by 2030.
The labor gap is just as real: China’s eldercare worker shortage is already above 5 million, and globally, care systems are running into the same aging-workforce squeeze.
The first real use cases are not flashy: transfers, fall alerts, remote monitoring, toileting, bathing, rehab, and companionship.
Scale will likely start in nursing homes, community care centers, and high-need households before it reaches the average living room.
For home adoption, the hard gates are still price, safety, privacy, reliability, and zero-training usability.
This market is not waiting for sci-fi robotics; it needs safe, boring, repeatable systems that reduce care load every day.
This is a super awesome robot design that can solve the elderly care problems for 90% of families!
► The Robotgym Q1 is a care robot for seniors that instantly switches between Manipulation Form (feeding/fetching) and Wheelchair Form (lifting, transport) to meet every scenario.
► Core Tech: It uses an omnidirectional base and a high-precision, force-controlled arm for gentle movement, paired with robust safety features like fall detection.
► AI & Impact: A multimodal AI model learns user habits to proactively offer emotional support (music or dialogue). By handling repetitive tasks, the Q1 enables human staff to focus on professional nursing and emotional companionship.
@thoughtson_tech Exactly, the hardware is only one piece, the bigger value is in the system that can coordinate care, monitor needs, and actually do the physical work
@crstyllss8@HealthRanger For eldercare robots, I think the early buyers are mostly care institutions, not regular families, and if they can meaningfully cut the workload, the price matters a lot less