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Who Makes Humanoid Robot Actuators? A Global Supplier Map
The supplier map, from the Japanese incumbents to the Chinese entrants.
Sep 22
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Michelle Sun
5
1
What Tesla and Figure Reveal About Robot Hands
Three extreme designs and the jobs they fit
Sep 18
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Michelle Sun
2
1:23:20
The Physical AI Value Stack: Mapping the 11 Layers of Robotics
How data, models, hardware and deployment turn intelligence into a working robot
Sep 15
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Michelle Sun
11
2
The $202 Humanoid Joint: What Actuators Actually Cost at Scale
Audited filings reveal real BOM shares, retail markups, and cost per actuated axis
Sep 11
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Michelle Sun
4
The Business of Humanoid Actuators: Where Robots Pay for Torque
How gearing choices dictate supply chain economics and BOM costs
Sep 8
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Michelle Sun
11
3
The Hand That Wouldn't Quit: Inside Prensilia's Grip on Durability
Inside the bill of materials behind a dexterous robotic hand
Sep 4
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Michelle Sun
2
1
55:27
7 Robot Foundation Models, Explained 4 Ways: What Each One is Actually Solving
From in-context learning to world-action models: breaking down S1, Dyna-2, ACT-2, π0.7, RobbyAnt LingBot and Xiaomi-Robotics
Sep 1
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Michelle Sun
12
4
August 2026
Why America Still Picks Fruit by Hand: Farm Labor, Field Robotics, and the Economics of Agricultural Automation
Reservoir CEO Danny Bernstein on the labor math underneath agricultural robotics
Aug 26
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Michelle Sun
3
26:49
Jetson Orin Nano 2 and NVIDIA’s Three-Computer Robotics stack
Frontier real-time intelligence reaches the edge, and what distributed computing is shaping up to be
Aug 25
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Michelle Sun
2
WRC 2026: the solved environment
What 9 named deployments have in common. The state as the key buyer. The reducer math that is not reconciling.
Aug 24
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Michelle Sun
6
1
2
GEN-1.5 at Actuate 2026: What one demo does to deployment economics
Five minutes of data against weeks of integration work
Aug 22
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Michelle Sun
4
2
Which robot tasks are ready to deploy, and which are blocked
A primer on robot memory, and the photograph test.
Aug 18
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Michelle Sun
4
3
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