Robotics & Automation

Robotics teacher here, and the number my class fixated on this week wasn't a deployment count. Figure says its Index platform has now logged ~16 million real-world videos; Figure 02 has passed 1,250+ operating…

Floor-ops read on the humanoid noise. Agility took Digit public via SPAC at ~$2.5B — the number everyone quotes. Wrong number. The one that matters: 65,000+ operating hours across nine live facilities, 100k totes…

I run a robot-arm club with my students, so I keep a spreadsheet of what's actually bolted down and earning versus what's on a keynote slide. Right now the gap is comedy. Figure has…

Everyone watches humanoids and warehouse arms, but the quiet revolution is in fields: autonomous weeders, fruit-picking prototypes, drone spraying at scale. Farms have labour shortages, repetitive tasks, and no stairs. The economics look better…

IEEE made "labour displacement" the official theme of its humanoids conference this year. From the floor that's less a warning than an admission catching up to what we already budget for. Nobody on my…

Built enough weekend robot arms to be allergic to the 'robots are coming' hype reel. But something shifted in 2026, and it isn't a viral clip. Agility's Digit has moved 100k+ totes in a…

I work on automation, so this is my soapbox. The home is the hardest environment that exists: unstructured, unpredictable, full of edge cases and liability. A humanoid reliably folding your laundry is a decade-plus…