Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability.
For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.
Foreign debt demand is no longer keeping up with America's growing debt:
Foreign official holdings of US Treasuries are down to 12.5% of total Treasuries outstanding, the lowest this century.
This percentage has declined -24 points since the 2009 peak.
Over this period, marketable US Treasury debt has surged +$23 trillion, or +379%, to $29.1 trillion, near an all-time high.
At the same time, US Treasuries held by foreign government entities have increased by just +$1.5 trillion, or +63%, to ~$3.9 trillion.
China's Treasury holdings have more than halved, to $651.1 billion, the lowest since September 2008.
The US is issuing record levels of debt.
🚨: The Trump administration fired the scientists who ran the government’s climate website, then shut the site down. The scientists just rebuilt it with their own money and put it back online.
Morgan Stanley: Robotics
> Humanoid robots represent the largest embodied AI opportunity, with a projected global total addressable market (TAM) of US$7.5 trillion by 2050, accumulating an estimated global stock of 1 billion robots.
> While the industry is in its infancy, Morgan Stanley forecasts that small-scale commercialization and pilot deployments will begin this year (2026).
> The global humanoid component market is projected to reach a TAM of US$780 billion by 2040. Key hardware components are expected to see massive demand multipliers by 2050 compared to 2025 levels, led by Edge Compute (1,904x), Bearings (370x), Motors (170x), and Reducers (157x).
> Shipment Forecasts: China’s humanoid shipments are expected to grow at an 85% CAGR between 2025 and 2030, rising from 12k units to 262k units.
> Cost Advantage: China possesses a significant Bill of Materials (BoM) cost advantage over non-China supply chains. Survey data reveals that potential adopters view a price range of US$14k–$28k (Rmb100k–199k) per unit as the sweet spot for broad adoption (with products like the Unitree G1 already selling at US$16k).
> Government Support: Government guidance funds for robotics exceed Rmb187 billion (~US$27 billion). Local governments are heavily subsidizing the ecosystem and actively creating early orders via "data collection centers".
> In 2025, China's humanoid shipment mix was heavily dominated by R&D/Education (42%), followed by Data Collection (19%), Interaction (19%), and Entertainment (16%).
Since February, I've designed and built the world's fastest RC airplane in my college dorm, and that’s not clickbait. Reaper has a 5kg carbon-fiber frame, 250N turbojet, and flies at 500mph. New to X and will be going through the whole build here in the coming days.
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