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[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨LATEST: Canadian engineer John Tse is going viral after revealing his umbrella that follows him around as if he is in a futuristic movie. Tse created a fully autonomous umbrella that will assist people that need both of their hands while providing cover.

[The Tesla Newswire @TeslaNewswire]

Flawless Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi ride in the rain in Miami https://t.co/GmaWJ1bf4C

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

TESLA’S NEXT-GEN OPTIMUS V3 HAND IS GETTING CLOSE TO HUMAN-LEVEL

Tesla engineers just shared new details on the Optimus V3 hand — and the progress is striking.

They’re now saying that as they move into Gen-3 and mass production, the hand is getting very close to human functionality and form factor.

One engineer described it clearly:
“It won’t even look like a robot. It will look like a human in a superhero suit. It will be something revolutionary.”
This level of dexterity and human-like design is a critical milestone. The hand is one of the hardest parts of building a truly useful humanoid robot — and Tesla is iterating extremely fast.

[TechniaHQ | humanoid robots @techniahq]

The most dangerous part of a humanoid robot may be the face.

UBTECH’s Walker shows how a machine can use gaze stillness and humanlike expression to create trust before proving judgment reliability or accountability.

Should robots be allowed to look this human in public spaces?

Putting the debate aside this is clearly a work of art.

Congratulations to UBTECH for this achievement. Walker looks so refined that I may need to buy one fast before the stock runs out lol.

Credit : @UBTECHRobotics

[ViralRush ⚡ @ViralRushX]

China’s ultra realistic bionic robots make their stage debut, with prices from $16,700 to $138,000, over 13,000 pre orders already, and deliveries starting in September.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Proception has launched its first products, ProHand 1.0 and ProGlove 1.0.

- 22 total DoF with 18 actuated DoF (including a 2-DoF wrist)
- Tendon-driven fingers, 4 joints each
- On-board control for 10 ms real-time response
- Every actuator reports its full state continuously, fused with a forearm IMU
- On-board real-time compute + Client SDKs
- Integrated wrist camera

The robot hand is wearing ProGlove 1.0, a 1.3 mm textile glove for low-latency sensing.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Like a super humanoid rescue robot

Austria’s IONO Robotics has launched their first Workmate in Linz.

Built for real manufacturing and logistics environments: protective IonoSkin suit with active cooling and extra sensors for dust, moisture, and heat; smart IonoHead with 360° movable cameras

…and particularly interesting is a deployable drone inside for extended vision…super practical for checking parts without moving the whole robot.

~1.75m tall, 30kg payload, hybrid mobility (legs + mobile platform), hot-swap battery for multi-shift ops, and a closed IonoSphere ecosystem for data sovereignty and EU compliance.

In times of labor shortages and tough repetitive jobs, this kind of secure, purpose-built humanoid could make a real difference by working alongside people.

Pilots are already underway in Austria, Germany, and Italy, with series production eyed for 2028.

(the bgm is great.)

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

Cool

Honda has developed an AI-powered robotic hand that is dexterous enough to tighten screws less than 2 millimeters in diameter.

Its four independently controlled fingers can perform delicate assembly tasks while also lifting parts weighing up to 5 kilograms, combining precision with industrial strength.

We're moving from robots built for repetitive motions to machines with human-like dexterity.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

The humanoid robot market is projected to reach $7.5 trillion by 2050 and the real money is not in the companies assembling the robots (Save this).

It is in the components that every single robot on earth will need, regardless of which assembler wins.

Here are the companies that benefit from each layer.

Harmonic Drive Systems (HSYDF / 6324.T) controls roughly 85% of the global strain wave gear market, the compact, zero backlash gearboxes that go inside every robot joint requiring precision movement.

A single humanoid robot can use 20 to 40 of these gears and there is essentially no substitute at scale.

That is one of the most durable monopolies in any hardware supply chain right now.

Nabtesco (NCTKY / 6268.T) holds roughly 60% of the cycloidal reducer market, the heavy-duty version of the same type of gearbox used in the legs and load-bearing joints.

Its operating profit rose 60% year over year as humanoid and industrial robot orders surged.

Schaeffler AG (SFHLF) is rapidly becoming one of the most important actuator suppliers in this space, signing strategic partnerships with multiple humanoid robot makers to supply both strain wave and planetary gear actuators.

Schaeffler manufactures all components in-house, which gives it both margin control and supply chain reliability that competitors cannot easily replicate.

Nidec (NJDCY / 6594.T) is the world's largest electric motor company and is building out a full integrated 6-axis humanoid motion solution combining the motor, gearbox, and controller into a single unit.

At $2.6 trillion yen in annual revenue, it has the scale to be a dominant supplier as humanoid volumes ramp into the millions.

Ambarella (AMBA) is the edge AI chip company that processes the visual data directly on the robot, without needing a cloud connection.

Its CV7 chip, launched at CES 2026 on a 4nm process, is designed specifically for the multi-sensor perception workloads that humanoid vision systems require and it runs at a fraction of the power of conventional solutions.

Yaskawa Electric (YASKY / 6506.T) recently acquired Tokyo Robotics and saw its operating profit rise roughly 70% in its most recent fiscal year as it pivots aggressively toward the humanoid supply chain.

It is one of the few companies globally that can supply precision motion components at industrial scale already today.

The pattern across all of these names is the same.

They are not betting on one robot company winning but rather sell to all of them, they have structural supply constraints working in their favor and the volume ramp from 2027 onward will flow directly through their order books.

Milk Road is tracking every layer of the humanoid robot supply chain, from the memory inside the brain to the gears inside the joints and the companies positioned to win before the mainstream catches on.

Come join Milk Road Pro and get our full analysis every day using the link below!

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

BMW just leveled up with Figure 03 at their Spartanburg plant.

After a solid 11-month run with Figure 02 handling sheet metal in the body shop (30k+ X3s produced), the new humanoid (F.03)is moving into logistics--sorting parts from bulk containers into sequencing trolleys for just-in-sequence delivery.

Humanoids are becoming part of the flexible workforce.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Wuji Tech has unveiled the Wuji Hand 2, a robotic hand with fast and human-like finger movements.

Built with metal components, gears, and compact electric motors, it offers high precision and control.

Advanced sensors automatically adjust grip strength, allowing it to handle different objects securely and smoothly.

[Mike Kalil @mikekalilmfg]

Shanghai's Agibot has begun livestreaming a fleet of its humanoid robots working autonomously on a real tablet production line.

Agibot, which says it's manufactured more than 10,000 humanoids in the first half of 2026, started the 6-day broadcast a few weeks after the US firm Figure AI went viral for its multi-day stream.

The Silicon Valley startup's livestream featured a team of its bipedal Figure 03 robots taking turns sorting packages in a mock logistics setup. Agibot's had a larger fleet of its wheeled G2 robots working alongside human workers at Longcheer Technology's tablet factory in Nanchang.

The robots use specialized grippers to pick up tablets, inspect them with their sensors, and place them into trays, as part of the automated process. Within the first three hours, they went through more than 800 products with no errors.

The original design manufacturer (ODM) makes electronics for giants like Xiaomi, Samsung, and Lenovo.

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

Wow. This is huge.

Researchers from UC Berkeley, NVIDIA and Stanford introduced T-Rex, a framework that combines vision, language and touch so robots can react to physical contact in real time instead of relying on vision alone.

This system is trained on a 100-hour tactile-synchronized dataset spanning 200+ everyday objects and 22 motor primitives, teaching robots how to feel and manipulate the physical world.

Across 12 contact-rich manipulation tasks, T-Rex achieved over 30% higher average success rates than the strongest baseline models.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Perhaps the "GPT-3 moment" for humanoid robots lies within vast amounts of human video data.

UC Berkeley (Abbeel + Malik group) just released Do as I Do: a pipeline that takes monocular RGB human videos (ego + exo)->reconstructs hand-object interactions->retargets them to multi-fingered robotic hands, generating executable robot trajectories.

It pushes success rates on real-world clips from ~25% to 71%, outperforming prior SOTA.

This kind of human video->robot-complete data approach feels increasingly important for closing the data flywheel in humanoid/embodied AI.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Shanghai-based robotics company AGIBOT has updated its Lingxi X2 humanoid robot with smarter motion capabilities.

The robot can detect moving objects around it, predict their path, and quickly move out of the way.

Lingxi X2 can also climb stairs, keep its balance on uneven surfaces, and move more smoothly.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Meet Sprout, a small humanoid robot developed by Fauna Robotics for research, education, and social interaction.

It can walk, climb stairs, and safely interact with people with its lightweight design and soft exterior.

Fauna Robotics was acquired by Amazon, and Sprout continues to serve as a platform for robotics research and development.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Imagine a future where no one has to navigate the world alone.

In this concept, Optimus helps a visually impaired person safely cross the street showing how humanoid robots could one day provide real-world assistance, independence, and confidence to millions of people.

Technology isn't just about doing things faster. It's about making life better.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Meet Vero, a four-legged robotic dog with vacuum cleaners attached to its legs.

Developed by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology, it uses cameras and AI to detect cigarette butts in parks, beaches, and narrow alleys.

During initial tests, Vero successfully collected about 90% of the cigarette butts it found.

[Mike Kalil @mikekalilmfg]

America’s aspiring killer humanoid robot, the Phantom MK1 from Foundation, playing with explosives in the Nevada desert

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Seeing the ultra-realistic humanoid robot Moya casually walking into a human home，

it still feels like a scene from a sci-fi movie…

At 1.65m and 30kg, with 40 facial muscle units, a full tendon-cable drive system, over 100 degrees of freedom, warm silicone skin (32–36°C), full-body tactile sensing, voice interaction, and that DroidSoul engine giving it emotional perception like an amygdala--it’s designed as a true companion for home, elderly Care, office, or hotel…

What does it really mean when humanoid robots start feeling this… human?