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- Boston Dynamics unveiled its fifth‑generation Atlas humanoid, touting an “almost order‑of‑magnitude” reduction in parts that cuts manufacturing time, boosts reliability and slashes the historic $200,000 price tag, enabling Hyundai’s plan to produce up to 30,000 units a year and position Atlas for mass‑market use in warehouses and other industrial settings.
- In China, Unitree—now the world’s largest humanoid robot maker—is capitalising on a booming rental market, where livestreamers are paying $30,000 for an android and leasing it for 3,000 yuan a day to draw crowds at expos and events, while the Chinese government has launched a nationwide drive to place humanoids in more than 100 high‑value scenarios by year‑end and Unitree readies a Shanghai public listing.
- Meanwhile, U.S. firms are moving toward commercial scale: Agility Robotics announced a SPAC merger that will make it the only publicly listed pure‑play humanoid company with active deployments at Amazon, Toyota and GXO, and Figure AI’s robots are being rolled out in logistics and at BMW’s Spartanburg plant, reflecting a broader shift from laboratory demos to real‑world applications.
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Robotics startup FieldAI has hit a $100 million milestone
By Rya Jetha Agility Robotics is another company with real-world deployments, including in Amazon warehouses and GXO logistics facilities. The humanoid company plans to go public in a deal valuing it at about $2.5 billion.
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