Dec 3, 2025 3 min read Daily Rundown

🤖 T800 Is Coming

Plus: Humanoid Walks in 48 Hours, GoLe AA-2 Wins CES

Good Morning, Roboticists!

The real competition has shifted from can we build it to how fast can it survive the real world.

HUMANOIDS

EngineAI’s T800: A Boxing Terminator That Swears It’s Here to Help

👀 What’s happening: Shenzhen’s EngineAI has officially taken the wraps off its T800 humanoid, a machine that looks straight out of a sci-fi fight club. The launch video shows it kicking doors, spinning mid-air, and trading blows like an action extra from The Terminator. The twist: this robot will actually enter a real boxing tournament on December 24, no CGI, no trick cuts, just metal meeting motion.

🔥 How this hits reality: Behind the muscle show is a serious engineering platform: 29 degrees of freedom, 450 N·m torque, and an Nvidia Jetson Thor brain capable of 2000 TOPS. The T800 may debut in a boxing ring, but EngineAI insists it’s built for warehouses, hotels, and retail floors, places where balance, dexterity, and power matter more than a right hook. The spectacle is the stress test; the sport is just the funding.

🤖 Key takeaway: Let’s just hope when the T800 retires from boxing and starts room service, it remembers to bring towels, not punches.

HUMANOIDS

UK’s Humanoid Builds and Walks a Biped in 5 Months

👀 What’s happening: London-based Humanoid just unveiled the HMND 01 Alpha, a full-scale biped that went from concept to working prototype in five months and achieved stable walking 48 hours after final assembly. The system was trained on 52.5 million seconds of simulated locomotion using Nvidia Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, compressing what used to take 19 months into two days of digital pretraining.

🔥 How this hits reality: This is less about record-breaking timelines and more about what it signals that the assembly and pretraining phase of humanoids is now industrialized. The hard part is no longer getting them to stand or walk, but getting them to adapt to the chaos of the real world including friction, clutter, and human unpredictability. Humanoid’s speed shows that robotics has entered the “MVP era,” where hardware and training pipelines are plug-and-play, yet post-deployment learning remains the bottleneck that separates demos from dependability.

🤖 Key takeaway: When a humanoid walks two days after birth, it proves we’ve nailed the body. Now we just have to teach it the world.

DELIVERY

GoLe AA-2 Wins CES for Solving the Hardest Floor in Delivery

👀 What’s happening: GoLe-Robotics’ AA-2 delivery robot earned a 2026 CES Innovation Award not for flashy demos but for conquering a building bottleneck that has stalled every “last-mile” promise so far—the elevator. Designed for premium apartments and mixed-use complexes, AA-2 connects directly to the EV-1 elevator interface, a universal middleware that allows it to call, ride, and exit lifts autonomously while delivering to up to three homes per trip. Its pneumatic tube body keeps it lightweight and power-efficient, and the robot even deflates after unloading to fit into tight storage spaces.

🔥 How this hits reality: Most delivery robots freeze at the elevator. AA-2 goes upstairs, fully autonomously. That single jump in vertical autonomy turns it from a sidewalk novelty into a viable building logistics system. By integrating with existing elevator networks, GoLe bypasses the infrastructure dead end that drones and couriers still face in dense cities. For luxury apartments, hospitals, and office towers, it offers a contactless, energy-lean alternative that finally closes the loop between e-commerce and the front door.

🤖 Key takeaway: The future of delivery isn’t faster wheels; it’s smarter elevators with robotics.

QUICK HITS

MIT created hydrogel artificial tendons that significantly improve the power and efficiency of muscle-powered robots.
Addverb introduced Mobico, a cleanroom-ready mobile manipulator built to meet rising automation demands in semiconductor manufacturing.
Unitree has finished IPO tutoring, emerging as the frontrunner for an A-share listing in China’s humanoid robotics sector.
Pudu launched the PUDU D5 quadruped robots for high-autonomy, all-terrain industrial and outdoor operations.
Hyundai Motor Group unveiled its production-ready MobED robot at iREX 2025, showing Pro/Basic models set for early-2026 launch.

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