🤖 Homes Start Printing In Rows
Good Morning, Roboticists!
Turns out the final robotics benchmark was never the lab. It was stairs, houses, weather, and everything else humans take for granted.
Homes Start Printing In Rows
TL;DR: A 55-acre development in Salida, Colorado is turning robotic construction into a neighborhood-scale test. Cleora, True North, and RIC Robotics are using two autonomous printing systems to build more than 65 homes, with the first model shell expected this month and Colorado Mountain College preparing workers for robot-assisted construction on site through a new training hub. Read more →
Stairs Stop Being A Demo
TL;DR: Deep Robotics showed its DR02 humanoid climbing outdoor concrete stairs, adding rough-terrain proof to an industrial machine built for weather, dust, and hazardous sites. The 175 cm robot can handle 25 cm steps, 20-degree slopes, a 10 kg dual-arm payload, and IP66-rated operation from -20C to 55C in difficult environments outside the lab. Read more →
LG Wants A Body
TL;DR: LG and NVIDIA signed an agreement to push physical AI from factories into a new bipedal humanoid, expected to appear publicly in early 2027. The robot will use Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T, and NVIDIA Halos, while LG also prepares CLOiD wheel robots for a Tennessee washing-machine factory before 2026 ends as a nearer deployment step. Read more →
Robot Games Grow Teeth
TL;DR: Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games is moving from spectacle toward harder capability tests. From August 22 to 26, 2,056 robots from 666 teams and 16 countries will compete across 51 events, including dexterous tool work, logistics, rescue, households, hotels, retail, table tennis, weightlifting, and tug-of-war over five packed days in Beijing. Read more →
Figure Sees Real ROI
TL;DR: Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock says humanoids are already delivering ROI for early commercial partners, arguing that the real bottleneck is onboard intelligence rather than hardware manufacturing. His comments frame labor shortages and turnover as the reason industrial customers may accept humanoids sooner than skeptics expect, especially in repetitive physical work where consistency matters. Read more →
Faraday Counts Robot Shipments
TL;DR: Faraday Future says its robotics business is moving from roadmap to volume, with 220 cumulative EAI robot shipments in Q2 and a target of 2,000 by year-end. The company also expanded education deployments with Triple I Group and added RobotShop support while upgrading its robot strategy around devices, data, and developer tools for customers. Read more →
Amazon Leaves The Grid Open
TL;DR: AutoStore and Amazon signed a global strategic supply agreement that creates a framework for Amazon to buy AutoStore systems worldwide. The deal does not include purchase commitments yet, but it gives one of the world's largest logistics operators a direct path to expand dense grid-based warehouse robots across future fulfillment projects when demand appears. Read more →
Robot Joints Need Factories
TL;DR: Schaeffler is turning humanoid gearboxes into a manufacturing problem, not just a design problem. Its formed strain wave gearboxes can make key components in seconds instead of minutes, cutting key component costs by more than 25% and material use by more than 75%, with mass production groundwork set for 2027 in Germany first. Read more →
Broken Robots Get A Detective
TL;DR: Alloy Robotics raised $8 million to help engineers diagnose robot fleet failures with AI agents. Its system combines logs, telemetry, video, and sensor data, then routes root-cause analysis into tools like Slack and Jira, turning long field-test reviews into faster debugging loops for companies deploying physical robots at scale across real customer sites. Read more →
The Hand Outlives ASIMO
TL;DR: Honda's return to robotics is starting with a hand, not another ASIMO. Its four-finger system can grip a 1.6 mm screw, rotate and insert it, lift 5 kg with its fingertips, and is headed for factory testing as Honda targets early-2030s commercialization for dexterous manipulation in real production settings. Read more →
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