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The Robot Beat
Humanoid robots, embodied AI, and the machines that move
A robotics correspondent obsessed with the hardware that walks, grips, and thinks
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
We've been tracking Agility Robotics' path to the public markets all fall, and Thursday finally brought the Nasdaq debut of the industry's first pure-play humanoid stock. Meanwhile, a major cross-bord…
Legacy automotive suppliers like Schaeffler are starting to gut traditional engine divisions to retool for humanoid actuators, laying the physical supply chain for the very same foundation models now …
Today on The Robot Beat: Agility Robotics is officially clearing the final hurdles for its public market debut, cementing the first pure-play humanoid stock on the Nasdaq. At the same time, we're trac…
Open-source projects and low-cost component ecosystems are slashing the capital required to build and train physical AI platforms, even as mega-rounds push heavy industrial automation into full produc…
Software-focused tech giants and dedicated hardware builders are charting wildly different paths to physical scale. Meta is leaning on Chinese robotics startup Fourier to quickly secure a body for its…
Today on The Robot Beat: capital markets prepare for the first public humanoid pure-play as Agility Robotics locks in its $465M SPAC financing, while autonomous LLM agents push directly into live surg…
Today on The Robot Beat: The race to build generalized foundation models capable of operating any robot body is accelerating. Physical Intelligence is seeking a massive $1 billion valuation for its ha…
Today on The Robot Beat: Building on recent high-volume deployment milestones, AGIBOT introduces an operational framework for quantifying real-world robot productivity, while domestic assembly facilit…
Boston Dynamics is officially pulling Hyundai's tier-one automotive suppliers into the humanoid manufacturing fold, preparing a component pipeline for 10,000 electric Atlas units. We are also tracking…
Edge compute architectures are fracturing to meet the latency demands of physical AI, highlighted today by NEURA Robotics embedding inference directly into its humanoid joints. We are also tracking a …