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Chinese humanoid robot companies are expanding globally, piling pressure on Elon Musk’s Optimus before it reaches mass production.
Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing dishes.
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NEO humanoid robot can now teach itself new skills using video-based AI models
1X has rolled out a major AI update for its humanoid robot NEO, introducing
Elon Musk warns that initial production of Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus humanoid robot will be “agonizingly slow” before scaling up.
Guidance for CapEx increased significantly from a projection of $9 billion in Q3 2025 to an expectation of more than $20 billion in 2026. Strategic focus shifted from scaling production and FSD rollout to major investments in AI, robotics, battery supply chain, and the wind-down of Model S/X.
With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.
The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned how its flexible face and silicone lips would move in response to the precise actions of its 26 facial motors, each capable of moving in up to 10 degrees of freedom.