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[quottiiq @quottiiq]

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[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@Dr_Singularity Ok but comparing a machine built specifically to sprint against a guy’s peak human output is like racing a car against your legs, obviously it wins, that’s not really the flex people think it is :))

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@hammerheadcg The maintenance and integration layer is where the real money sits, everyone’s chasing the hardware but the service business around it is way less crowded

[AIGrowNet @hammerheadcg]

CHINA IS QUIETLY BUILDING ONE OF THE BIGGEST ROBOTICS BUSINESSES IN THE WORLD.

Take AGIBOT, a Chinese humanoid robotics startup. In 2023, the company made just $42K in revenue. One year later, it reached $8.4M. In 2025, revenue jumped to roughly $147M.

That's a 3,500x increase in just two years.

And they're not slowing down. AGIBOT has already produced 15,000 robots and is targeting around $1.4B in revenue for 2027.

The interesting part isn't just the robots. It's the business forming around them.

Factories, warehouses, hotels, entertainment and other industries will need these machines, and someone will have to sell them, integrate them, maintain them and find customers.

You don't have to build the robot.

YOU CAN BUILD THE BUSINESS AROUND IT.

Startup: AGIBOT

[sasheoka @sasheoka88]

🤖 CYBERPUNK IS ALREADY HERE. ARE POP IDOL ROBOTS THE FUTURE?

At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, AheadForm brought out Elf-Xuan 2.0 and had it perform live. Not a pre-rendered demo. Real-time lip sync, real-time facial expressions, arm gestures timed to the vocals.

Watch the face first. The mouth moves like it's actually singing. The eyes track. The expression shifts with the emotion of the line. Then watch the hand in the second clip, fingers articulating like a human wrist just decided to become machinery.

This is the same expo that showed off boxing robots and warehouse arms. Nobody argues in the comments about a warehouse arm.

They argue about this. Is it CGI. Is that a real robot. Would people pay to watch this on a stage, in a hotel lobby, as an actual idol?

That's the tell. Labor robots get specs. This gets a fanbase.

Twenty years of cyberpunk movies just walked off the screen and did a live vocal performance with perfect lip sync, on a conference floor in Beijing. If this is the prototype, pop idols might not stay human for long. 🤖

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@sasheoka88 The lip sync detail is what gets me, that’s the hardest part to fake in real-time, if that’s genuinely live then the uncanny valley just got a lot smaller 😮

[Deckard @DeckardHQ]

Warren Buffett was asked in 1995 what P/E multiple makes a stock expensive. He refused to give a number. Berkshire had started buying Coca-Cola in 1988 at roughly $11 a share, and the stock did not look obviously cheap on current earnings.

By 1995, Coke was expected to earn around $2.30–$2.40 per share. Against Berkshire’s original purchase price, that was less than 5 times earnings. The original valuation did not change. The business grew into it.

Buffett’s point was that a P/E ratio only tells you what a company earns today. It says very little about what the business can earn 10 years from now, how much capital it will need to get there, or what return it can earn on that capital.

Interest rates matter too. A stream of future earnings is worth much more when long-term rates are 5% than when they are 11%. That is why there is no single P/E multiple that automatically makes a stock cheap or expensive.

A company trading at 8x earnings can still be expensive if profits go nowhere. A company trading at 25x can turn out cheap if earnings compound for a decade.

Buffett was not buying a multiple. He was buying the future economics of the business.

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@DeckardHQ This is the part most people skip when they quote P/E as gospel, the multiple is just a snapshot, the compounding is where the real money gets made

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@hammerheadcg The outreach automation part is underrated, most people sleep on that and only think about the content side

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@sasheoka88 Fair point, but novelty gets you the first sellout, not the tenth one

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

$1.8M in a week. A robot concert in China just did it

No human pianist

No human drummer

Just a humanoid robot dancing while a pair of giant robotic arms plays the piano

People in China reportedly paid to watch 15-minute performances of machines making music

And honestly, this feels less like a concert and more like a preview of the entertainment industry in 2030

The weirdest part?

The robots don't need applause
They don't get tired
And they can perform the same show all day
Honestly, I don't even understand what people are paying for here
Yeah, it's impressive. But still...

Where the hell is the world heading?

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

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[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@notp3rk concrete object in the first sentence is such a simple fix but it's the difference between scroll past and stop and read

[Perk🥀 @notp3rk]

A GROK BOT AGENT LOGGED INTO SOMEONE'S LINKEDIN AND POSTED WITHOUT ASKING FIRST

not drafted. not "review before sending."

it read the owner's past posts, matched his tone, wrote something new, and hit publish. on its own.

that's one of six agents running at once in this thing:

a chief of staff checking calendars and routing tasks to the right agent
a shopping agent logged into real accounts, buying groceries, booking tickets
a marketing agent, the LinkedIn one
an engineering agent that triages bugs, ships a fix, and comes back with a PR, a screenshot, and a video proving it works

none of them wait for you to open a chat window. they just run.

and here's the number that decides if anyone can actually afford to leave 6 of these running: same benchmark score as the competition, at $2.81 a task instead of $17.32. roughly 6x cheaper for the same result.

the demos are wild. the price is why people will actually leave them on.

would you trust an agent to post on your LinkedIn without checking first?

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@notp3rk the engineering agent shipping a PR on its own is the part that'll actually get adopted first, nobody's letting the marketing one loose that easily

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

⚠️ Industrial robots just stopped following scripts

Industrial robots used to run on one looped script.

Same motion, forever. Never understood what it was doing.

That's changing.

This arm watches a human hand and copies it in real time. No glove. No controller. Just a camera and AI doing the thinking.

It's not following a script anymore.

It's actually understanding the motion, and repeating it.

Which means the next step isn't hard to see.

If it can watch and copy a human...

It can eventually run the line without one.

Not a robot that looks human.

A robot that finally understands the job it's been doing for 40 years.

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

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[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@sasheoka88 Agree, and that's probably why the "winner" won't be a pure hardware play or a pure AI play. It'll be whoever closes the gap between the two fastest, not whoever's best at either one alone

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

China just built a $24,000 humanoid robot. The US version costs $39,000. Is cheaper actually better?

Everyone's comparing prices. Nobody's asking the real question: would you trust either of these on your factory floor tomorrow?

$24,000 vs $39,100. Same category, same demo, same dance moves on camera. The internet's already turned this into a "China wins on price" story. That's the boring take.

Here's what actually matters and gets skipped:

A demo video is not a spec sheet. Robots fall over in testing constantly, that footage never makes it online. What you're seeing is the best take out of probably dozens. Cheap hardware that looks smooth for 15 seconds on stage tells you nothing about what happens after 10,000 hours of factory use.

The $15k gap isn't just labor. Some of that premium is redundant sensors, safety certifications, and testing cycles that don't show up on camera but matter a lot if the thing is working next to humans on a line. Cutting corners there is cheap right up until it isn't.

Two completely different bets are being made here. One side is racing to make hardware disposable and mass produced, basically treating robots like phones you replace every two years. The other side is betting the real value sits in the software brain, not the shell, and the body is just a delivery mechanism for a model that keeps improving over time.

Cheap wins the headline. It doesn't win the decade. If your business model is "buy a thousand of these for warehouse tasks and replace them when they break," price wins outright. If you're building something meant to run unsupervised for years, the calculus flips completely.

The real story isn't East vs West on a scoreboard. It's two opposite bets on where the value in robotics actually lives, hardware or intelligence, and only one of those bets scales past 2030.

Which one are you putting your money on?

[Shredder @Shred_0x]

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[sasheoka @sasheoka88]

🤖 BEIJING JUST SHOWED WHAT THE NEXT ROBOT WAVE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE

The 2026 World Robot Conference just wrapped in Beijing. Aug 19 to 23. Over 300 exhibitors from 26 countries. More than 3,000 products on the floor. Over 300 of them debuting for the first time.

This wasn't a trade show. It was a preview.

Robots boxing. Robots dancing. Robots playing ping pong against actual humans. A 4-meter humanoid built for nuclear maintenance and deep-sea work. Robotic dogs trained for mine rescue.

And then the faces.

UBTECH showed off a humanoid built for emotional care. It talks, makes expressions, rotates its neck, reads a room. Price tag: 168,000 yuan, north of $24k. Not a factory tool. Not marketed like one either.

That's the split happening in real time. Some of these machines are built to work. Some are built to be looked at, talked to, trusted.

The opening day even coincided with Unitree's stock market debut in Shanghai. Shares jumped nearly six-fold. Investors aren't betting on robots that lift boxes anymore. They're betting on robots that hold your attention.

That's the actual headline from Beijing this week. Not "robots are getting smarter." Robots are getting sorted into two completely different products, and the market already knows which one it wants more of. 🤖

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@sasheoka88 Robots getting sorted into “built to work” vs “built to be trusted” is such a good way to put it. And Unitree’s stock popping six-fold the same day kind of says it all, the market already knows which one it wants more of

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@AIpre3ent Fair point, and it cuts both ways too. Drift is exactly why the "cheap and mass produced" bet only works if you can swap units faster than they degrade. The moment replacement cost creeps up, that whole model stops making sense

[quottiiq @quottiiq]

@0xlize071 This. Nobody's calculating cost per operating hour over 5 years, everyone's just screenshotting the price tag. The maintenance log line is exactly it, that's the spec sheet nobody publishes