Grok 4.6 will work best with the Grok Build harness. The experience will be significantly worse without it, so best to evaluate using Build.
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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
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Morgan Stanley revised its 2026 forecast for Chinese humanoid shipments. 🇨🇳
14,000 units → 50,000 units.
Galbot raised $800M at a $3B valuation. UBTech secured $115M in orders.
We mapped the companies driving it ↓
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Humanoid robotics is no longer a race between Tesla and Boston Dynamics.
At least 32 major humanoid platforms from 29 organizations across 11 countries are targeting factories, warehouses, labs, homes and service environments.
China accounts for 16 robots and the United States 7. Europe, Canada, Israel, Japan, Singapore and South Korea make up the rest.
Some target repetitive work. Others prioritize locomotion, dexterity, research, teleoperation or human interaction. A polished demo still does not prove an autonomous eight-hour shift.
INDUSTRIAL HUMANOIDS
‣ Boston Dynamics 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Atlas
• 1.90 m | 90 kg | 56 DoF
• 50 kg peak lifting capacity | up to 4 hours
‣ Agility Robotics 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Digit
• 15.9 kg carrying capacity
• Up to 4 hours of battery operation
‣ Figure AI 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Figure 03
• 1.73 m | 61 kg
• 20 kg payload | up to 8 hours
‣ Tesla 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Optimus
• General-purpose bipedal humanoid under development
• Built for repetitive, dangerous and demanding tasks
‣ Apptronik 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Apollo 2
• Bipedal legs or wheeled base
• Swappable battery architecture
‣ UBTECH 🇨🇳 China
➤ Walker S2
• 15 kg payload
• Autonomous battery swap in under 3 minutes
‣ Humanoid 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
➤ HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal
• 1.79 m | 90 kg | 29 body DoF
• 15 kg payload | up to 3 hours
‣ LimX Dynamics 🇨🇳 China
➤ Oli
• 1.65 m | 31 DoF
• Isaac Sim, MuJoCo and Gazebo support
GENERAL-PURPOSE HUMANOIDS
‣ Sanctuary AI 🇨🇦 Canada
➤ Phoenix Gen 8
• Hydraulic dexterous hands
• Tactile sensing for touch-based manipulation
‣ 1X Technologies 🇳🇴 Norway
➤ NEO
• $200 reservation deposit
• 1.68 m | 30 kg | up to 4 hours
‣ Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 China
➤ G1
• From $13,500
• 1.32 m | about 35 kg | 23 body DoF
‣ Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 China
➤ H2
• $29,900
• 1.82 m | about 70 kg | 31 DoF
‣ Fourier Intelligence 🇸🇬 Singapore
➤ GR-2
• 1.75 m | 63 kg | 53 joints
• 380 N·m peak torque
‣ AgiBot 🇨🇳 China
➤ A2 Ultra
• 1.69 m | about 69 kg | 40 DoF
• LiDAR, RGB-D cameras and hot-swappable batteries
‣ XPENG 🇨🇳 China
➤ IRON
• 82 total degrees of freedom
• Three Turing AI chips | 3,000 TOPS
‣ PUDU Robotics 🇨🇳 China
➤ D9
• 1.70 m | 65 kg | 42 DoF
• 20 kg total payload | 2 m/s
DYNAMIC AND RESEARCH HUMANOIDS
‣ NASA 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Valkyrie
• 1.88 m | about 136 kg
• 44 DoF | 1.8 kWh battery
‣ IHMC Robotics 🇺🇸 United States
➤ Nadia
• 29 actuated joints
• Electric and hydraulic actuation
‣ EngineAI 🇨🇳 China
➤ T800
• From ¥180,000
• 1.73 m | up to 450 N·m joint torque
‣ EngineAI 🇨🇳 China
➤ PM01
• ¥188,000
• 1.38 m | 24 DoF
��� Kepler Robotics 🇨🇳 China
➤ Forerunner K2
• 1.78 m
• Rotary actuators up to 200 N·m
‣ Booster Robotics 🇨🇳 China
➤ T1
• About 1.20 m | 30 kg
• Up to 130 N·m joint torque
‣ PAL Robotics 🇪🇸 Spain
➤ TALOS
• 1.75 m | 95 kg
• 6 kg per arm at full extension
‣ ROBOTIS 🇰🇷 South Korea
➤ THORMANG3
• 1.375 m | 42 kg | 29 DoF
• ROS, open-source SDK and 3D CAD files
SERVICE AND EMBODIED AI
‣ AgiBot 🇨🇳 China
➤ X2
• 1.31 m | 35 kg | 25 DoF
• Up to 1.8 m/s movement speed
‣ Galbot 🇨🇳 China
➤ G1
• Up to 1.9 m horizontal reach
• Up to 10 kg payload | up to 8 hours of runtime
‣ RobotEra 🇨🇳 China
➤ STAR1
• 55 DoF
• 20 kg combined dual-arm payload
‣ MagicLab 🇨🇳 China
➤ MagicBot Gen1
• 1.74 m | about 70 kg | 42 DoF
• Up to 350 N·m joint torque
‣ Astribot 🇨🇳 China
➤ S1
• Two seven-degree-of-freedom arms
• Omnidirectional base and articulated torso
‣ NEURA Robotics 🇩🇪 Germany
➤ 4NE1 Gen 3.5
• Estimated €98,000 for 1–19 units
• ROS 2, Python and C++ interfaces
‣ Mentee Robotics 🇮🇱 Israel
➤ MenteeBot V3
• 1.75 m | 70 kg | 40 DoF
• Up to 25 kg carrying capacity
‣ Toyota 🇯🇵 Japan
➤ T-HR3
• 1.54 m | 75 kg
• 32 body axes and 10 articulated fingers
Which robot would you trust to complete an eight-hour shift with the fewest interventions?
A South Korean startup has just raised the largest Korean Series A, raising ₩155 billion, roughly US$103 million.
Their wheeled FRIDAY humanoid is built for manufacturing with undisclosed PoCs underway across automotive, semiconductors and logistics.
Their roadmap is explicit:
• 100 units of annual production capacity in 2026
• 1,000 units in 2027
• Longer-term infrastructure for more than 10,000 annually
Commercialisation is targeted for the second half of this year, with the company aiming to bring the price down toward roughly ₩100 million, or about US$67,000, through scale.
The round follows a ₩17.5 billion, roughly US$13 million, seed raise in 2024.
Video from Holiday robotics materials
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X: @holidayrobots
Many people know that dexterous robot hands are a bridge to robot intelligence…
But for most uncertain and complex household tasks, hands alone are far from enough.
What’s truly needed is a closed-loop capability that integrates high-level semantic decision-making, Whole-Body Manipulation, and dynamic environment adaptation.
Beijing X-humanoid has released the world’s first full-size whole-body VLA framework--TG-VLA, powered by the “Huisi Kaiwu” universal embodied AI platform.
It enables Tiangong 3.0 to think, move, and act simultaneously --smoothly and reliably completing long-sequence household tasks like making beds, loading laundry, watering plants, carrying objects, and throwing balls, just like a dependable family butler.
How? Core is the biologically inspired HAF-VLA Hierarchical Action Flow:
->Move first (legs + gaze for global path)
->Adjust torso for balance
->Fine arm operations
Cross-stage KV cache reuse allows single encoding of visual-language information shared across the full process, greatly reducing action entanglement and instability.
In human society, over 99.5% of jobs rely on hand operations (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data). Yet to truly handle most complex tasks, we need Whole-Body Cooperative Manipulation
this is the key step for humanoid robots to break through toward general-purpose capabilities.
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