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@zeroxkyle For this specific use case you don’t need a humanoid

why do the robots have to be humanoid for this couldn't you just use a claw with vision... or something?

Unitree announces $650k Mecha robot Looks super cool but I dont see any commercial use cases where it can be useful unlike H2, R1 or G1 @UnitreeRobotics

@Takuzennn Congrats on the launch! What is the payload capacity and lead time for shipping to Europe?

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@asimovinc Looking forward to trying this out!

Asimov 1 is an open-source humanoid robot that you can build, customize and teach to do things. Shipping this summer as a DIY kit.

@cryptopunk7213 This is so cool. As production gets democratized, distribution & IP will become even more valuable.

officially calling it (again): hollywood is cooked in 2 years (probably less) the quality of AI-animation has equalled/ surpassed) studio quality movies. this took 7 iterations to make costing 100x less. for 99% of people this looks indistinguishable to pixar. many people are coping but it’s true. and it’s not just animation: > the same quality you see here will eventually reach parity to human-acted movies. we’re 1-2 model generations away > this will blow up the hollywood studio structure. IP will be created and accessible to everyone. the next hit director is probably sitting in their underwear in mums basement right now.

@rileybrown B2A

Agent native apps will win.

@danshipper Why?

there are a few people in a tiny office in brooklyn 1-2 months ahead of SV founders / eng :)

@rileybrown 🎯

No one has been more right about the future of marketing over the past 20 years than Gary. This is from 18 years ago.

@techniahq Likely more prone to getting broken too!

@VaderResearch The R1 is around 1.21 to 1.23 meters tall and roughly 25 to 29 kg, which makes it much smaller

Unitree R1 has officially arrived. A low cost humanoid robot is no longer just a demo on stage. It is becoming something people can actually receive, test, and build around. The robotics market is moving faster than most people expected. Is this the real beginning of consumer humanoids?

@sheriyuo Good analysis. On the other hand, making apps/consumer use cases have never become more accessible

AI research is already falling into a death cycle. If you do not get an internship at a top lab/company, you cannot access the core techniques or gain real frontier engineering experience. But without those experiences, it becomes almost impossible to pass the resume screening and multiple interview rounds for those same internships. People joke about using Macs for AI, but in reality they are often just better SSH terminals into remote GPU clusters. In frontier labs, the most important thing about an internship is not the payout. What really matters is which team (foundations/data/infra/ToC/...) you are on and how much GPU cluster (have you tried training on 64 GPUs?) access you get. That determines the actual value of the internship for your future research and career. The most advanced models, datasets, and compute resources are increasingly concentrated inside a handful of companies. That concentration is quietly reshaping the entire field.

@augmentedcamel @Auki The one in the shirt is the referee?

Can’t believe I witnessed the first fully tele-operated robot soccer match live @Auki

@XRoboHub Signs that the industry is maturing

Humanoid robots now have their own insurance layer in China — for the machine, and for the people around it. 🤖🛡️ PICC P&C has rolled out robot-focused insurance products covering body damage, third-party liability, extended warranty, rental scenarios, and some cyber-related risks. The key shift is simple: robots are no longer being treated only as expensive hardware. A humanoid robot can fall, collide, damage its camera, injure someone nearby, or suffer a system failure after a cyber incident. The insurance design is starting to map those real operating risks. For the robot itself, coverage can include damage from natural disasters, accidental collision, overturning, falling, electrical faults, and operator error. For third parties, it can cover personal injury, property damage, medical costs, legal expenses, and compensation triggered by robot operation. The more interesting part is rental. PICC P&C’s robot rental insurance adds protection for machine damage, third-party liability, extended warranty, and platform rent loss. That is the exact risk stack that appears when robots move across venues, users, and tasks. Public reports say PICC P&C has already completed early embodied-robot claims and has provided coverage for more than 10,000 robots, with insured value above RMB 200 million, about USD 29.4 million. As humanoid robots move from demos into factories, malls, events, education, healthcare assistance, and service scenarios, insurance is becoming part of the deployment stack.

@ErenChenAI Yes

@CrazyAITech @techniahq EDU version is not $5k unfortunately

@techniahq 5000 is a good price for education

@cixliv Engine robots are perfect fit for fights

This video is going viral on Instagram. The first fight ever between an Engine and Unitree robot at our new store space in SF.

@ErenChenAI Fast rebound

You thought you predicted what would happen next. You did not.

@mehul @growing_daniel @maticrobots Could it be shipped outside of the US?

So i guess we're @growing_daniel approved? cc: @maticrobots

Japan is a perfect market for humanoids; 3rd largest manufacturing economy, shortage of labor, anti-immigrant policies. Japanese Airlines deployed 1 Unitree G1 and 1 Ubtech Walker S2 but both are Chinese humanoids. Its only a matter of time that the Japanese government will give huge subsidies for local manufacturers (Honda, Toyota, Sony, etc.) to accelerate building Japanese humanoids.

@VaderResearch japan is fast tracking humanoid factories now

Humanoids will become one of the most strategic sectors for nation-states, on par with defense. 🦾 We will likely see countries that don't want to depend on either the Chinese🇨🇳 or American🇺🇸 bloc build their own humanoid manufacturing capabilities; just as they did with drones, missiles, and semiconductors. The recent US-Iran conflict made clear that even traditional US allies are rethinking full dependence on American military infrastructure. That same logic will extend to humanoids. 🔫 A country that deploys another nation's humanoid robots at scale inside its factories, ports, and critical infrastructure isn't just handing them a surveillance channel - it's potentially pre-positioning an army on its own soil. 🤖 Unlike drones, humanoids have hands. They can operate machinery, carry weapons, and navigate any environment built for humans. The line between labor tool and weapon system is a software update. 🧑‍🚒 These are not just labor tools. They are geopolitical infrastructure. 🗺️