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A humanoid robot with prominent leg articulation standing on a factory floor, performing a sitting motion with safety sensors active, captured mid-squat near ne
Robotics

Agility's Digit 5 Has Human-Style Legs, Nine-Minute Charging and a Safety Squat

The updated humanoid can lift 50 pounds, work 20 hours a day, and sit on the floor to switch itself off when a person walks close, all lessons learned from three years on real factory floors.

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A modern robotics manufacturing facility with humanoid robots in various stages of assembly on production lines, precision machining equipment, and quality cont
Robotics

Unitree's stock has lost half its value since its first day of trading. Here's why that's complicated.

The Chinese robotics company behind a $13,500 humanoid robot is profitable, shipping thousands of units, and still worth $30 billion. So why are investors pulling back?

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A humanoid robot prototype standing in a research facility showroom, with financial documents and stock prospectuses displayed on a nearby presentation board sh
Robotics

Agility Robotics made $1.8 million last year. It wants to go public at $2.5 billion.

The maker of the Digit humanoid robot just filed its financials before a stock-market listing. The numbers are tiny. The ambitions are not.

4 min read
A sleek white service robot standing in a softly lit modern care home corridor, its body angled slightly away from a blurred seated figure in the background, on
Robotics

A Chinese Robot Maker Just Had One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of the Year. Here's What It Means for You.

Unitree Robotics listed on a Shanghai stock exchange and its shares jumped 460% on day one. The company sells humanoid robots for as little as $13,500. But serious questions remain about whether these machines can do real work.

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Robotics

Humanoid Robot Maker Agility Is Going Public Without a Traditional IPO. Here's Why That Matters.

Agility Robotics just struck a $2.5 billion deal to list on the stock market through a SPAC merger. It's part of a quiet trend: robotics companies skipping the normal IPO queue entirely.

4 min read
Close-up editorial photograph of a pair of mechanical robotic gripper hands delicately holding a small household object such as a ceramic mug on a plain white t
Robotics

Humanoid Robots Are in Warehouses Now. What Still Needs to Work?

Four robotics experts take the stage at RoboBusiness in October to separate real progress from hype, covering safety, costs, and what it will actually take before humanoid robots show up at scale on factory floors.

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Robotics

Humanoid robots are nearly ready for the factory floor. The price tag is not.

The technology behind warehouse robots has come a long way. The business case still needs work, and here is why cost, not artificial intelligence, is the real obstacle.

4 min read
A sleek white humanoid robot stands in a large, brightly lit modern warehouse, surrounded by rows of shelving stacked with brown cardboard totes and plastic bin
Robotics

The Robot That Already Has a Job: Agility Robotics Opens a Training Facility Next Door to Tesla

While Tesla talks up its Optimus robot, Agility Robotics is already earning money from humanoid machines and just opened a 60,000-square-foot training site in Tesla's California backyard.

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Illustration: A sleek silver humanoid robot standing upright on a large warehouse floor lined with metal shelving
Robotics

America's Humanoid Robot Moment: Agility Robotics CEO Lays Out a Six-Point Plan

Peggy Johnson wants federal policy to catch up with the factory floor. Here's what she's asking for, and why it matters for American workers.

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