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@glimmigoo @SpyderSammy @Uzoth @SpiritAirlines @Delta @AmericanAir @JetBlue 👍 yeah

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McKinsey team is strategically and smartly calling it out early. Most bottlenecks for robotics is not AI chips but actuators and sensing systems, most in China or Japan / Asia @McKinsey @nvidia

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McKinsey team is strategically and smartly calling it out early. Most bottlenecks for robotics is not AI chips but actuators and sensing systems, most in China or Japan / Asia @McKinsey @nvidia

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@adcock_brett Great interview

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Could this also work in a hospital?

[Dominic Lee 李梓敬 @dominictsz]

A Chinese humanoid robot is now selling popcorn at the cinema and can work up to 14 hours a day!

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Robotics are coming for healthcare

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Labor Day? Let the robots do the labor. 😂

@XSquareRobot is already running a human-robot home cleaning service in China, starting at RMB 149 (about $21) per visit.

Now serving hundreds of households and expanding.

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Future of healthcare is here too @Figure_robot - great interview by @MollySOShea

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500 humanoid robots replacing humans in high-voltage operations

What does that look like? Steel against steel,instead of flesh and blood.

This marks a turning point for China’s State Grid, shifting from human-based maintenance to autonomous operations.

This year, State Grid announced plans to procure 8,500 embodied AI robots, with a total budget of RMB 6.8 billion (~$1 billion). These robots will be deployed across four major scenarios: power inspection, live-line operations, emergency response, and warehouse logistics,covering more than 600 specific task scenarios.

Among them, humanoid robots for live-line operations are the most expensive and strategically critical: 500 units with a budget of RMB 2.5 billion (~$370 million). They will be deployed in distribution network live-line work and ultra-high-voltage (UHV) projects, replacing humans in high-risk tasks. Workers will transition into supervisory roles, ready to take over remotely when needed.

As early as last year, State Grid had already validated the feasibility of humanoid robots for substation inspection. Tienkung can autonomously perform inspection tasks at a State Grid substation in Beijing.

Of course, suppliers are not limited to X-Humanoid,players like Unitree, AGIBOT, DeepRobotics, UBTECH, and Fourier are all involved.

These 500 humanoid robots will also collaborate with 5,000 inspection quadruped robots and 3,000 dual-arm wheeled robots for indoor substation maintenance,together forming an intelligent, automated, and collaborative network for autonomous grid operations.

What does this change?

According to State Grid, each embodied AI unit can save RMB 500,000 to 800,000 (~$70,000–$110,000) in annual labor costs, with a payback period of around 2–3 years. Inspection efficiency increases by 5x, fault response time is reduced by 60%, and power supply reliability improves by 0.5 percentage points.

More importantly, over 90% of human exposure to high-risk operations can be eliminated, reducing safety incidents by 80%.

At another level, for humanoid robot companies, the center of R&D and iteration is shifting to the customer site. Real-world physical interaction becomes the fastest feedback loop,accelerating innovation and evolution.

And 8,500 units are just the beginning of scaled deployment. Based on current plans, embodied AI robots will cover 30% of key areas in State Grid by 2026, 80% of high-risk operation scenarios by 2027, and enable fully autonomous operations by 2030.

The demand roadmap is clear: define use cases ->deploy at scale->improve models and robots->expand further. 8,500… 50,000… 100,000…

But remember,power grids are just one part of China’s vast infrastructure system. The experience of autonomous robotic operations here can be replicated across other sectors, such as broader energy systems.

That, in itself, is another story.

P.S.The video shows Tienkung 1.0 autonomously performing substation inspection tasks (2025).

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Future of neurology

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Telepathic control of robot arms

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@elonmusk Amazing

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Robotics coming for healthcare… in Japan

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🏥 More hospitals are welcoming humanoid robot colleagues to reduce the human workload.

University of Tsukuba Hospital (Japan), Omakase Robotics, and Aichi Prefecture organizations are piloting China’s Unitree G1 (Omakase OS) and Japan’s Kawasaki Nyokkey for:

>Smart patient guidance in the lobby
>Nighttime patrols with fall detection alerts
>Transporting documents and medical specimens

Yeah,these robots aren’t replacing nurses ,they just assistants that help prevent staff from being overwhelmed amid shortages and high turnover.

Letting nurses focus more on real patient care.

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Agility

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China’s Unitree AI Robot performs at duomo di milano

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Robotic RT

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A proton therapy machine rotating around a patient for cancer treatment.

Proton therapy revolutionizes cancer treatment with proton beams that stop precisely at the tumor.

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@XueJia24682 Future of healthcare

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Healthcare workforce crisis can be solved

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

This clip is more impressive than 99% of robots doing MMA.

Unitree is increasingly being used in real-world environments, its use in hospitals being the most obvious application.

I can easily imagine that in just a few years, numerous robots will already be working as support staff.

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Use case of robotics in healthcare

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

3 generations of humanoid robots at Figure

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@MarioNawfal So true. They are definitely going to help in healthcare sooner than we think. They must be trained however not to hurt grandmas and grandpas when they become home health robots

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Atlas robot @BostonDynamics https://t.co/Zd3CCTuvZV

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Very cool to see various form factors

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Wearable robotics coming to help patients… https://t.co/u5B2WpSlRR