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Humanoid Robotics Knowledge Base
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Agility Sets 2027 Customer Goals as Digit 5 Faces the Deployment Test
Agility has set year-end 2027 goals of around 100 prospects and up to 25 committed customer facilities. The targets are management ambitions, not completed Digit 5 deployments.
Aei Robot Plans $29.5M Ansan Humanoid Factory for Alice Production
Aei Robot will invest 40 billion won in its first dedicated humanoid robot mass-production plant in Ansan, South Korea, concentrating Alice-series R&D and manufacturing beside major indu
Agility Digit 5 Makes Safety the Scaling Test for Humanoid Robots
Agility has formally unveiled Digit 5 with a 22.7 kg repeated-lift payload, 9-minute charging, swappable end effectors, and a cooperative-safety architecture aimed at barrier-free industrial
Humanoid Robot End Effectors Explained: Hands, Grippers, and Tooling for Real Work
Humanoid robot end effectors range from dexterous hands to rugged grippers and tool changers. The choice shapes payload, reliability, cost, and deployment speed.
Series Elastic Actuators Explained: Why Robot Joints Sometimes Need Springs
Series elastic actuators use measured spring deflection to estimate torque and protect robot joints, but they add control complexity and bandwidth limits.
Vision-Language-Action Models Explained: How Robots Turn Camera Pixels and Commands Into Motion
Vision-language-action models let robots map camera images and human instructions directly into actions. The hard part is making that generalization reliable outside the demo bench.
Seeing Machines Brings Driver-Monitoring DNA to Physical AI
Seeing Machines launched a Physical AI Platform for humanoid robotics and industrial automation, extending its driver and occupant monitoring experience into human-aware robot perception.
Humanoid Robot Uptime Explained: Maintenance, Repairs, and the Real Economics of Deployment
Why availability, assist-event rates, modular repairs, and service contracts will decide which humanoid fleets leave pilot programs.
San Mateo County Puts Humanoid Robots on the Permit Clock
San Mateo County supervisors voted unanimously to regulate commercial humanoid robots through permits, emergency shutdown rules, fire safety measures, and job displacement tracking.
Impedance Control Explained: How Humanoid Robots Learn Safe Contact
Impedance control shapes force and motion so humanoid robots can work safely around people, objects, floors, and unexpected contact.
Real World AI Gets Its Own Stage as Humanoid Robotics Hits the Production Test
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a new Real World AI Stage focused on autonomous hardware, industrial AI, edge deployment, and production scaling. For humanoid robotics, the agenda captu
Humanoid Actuators Explained: The Motor, Gearbox, and Torque Stack Behind Physical AI
Sim-to-real transfer lets humanoid robots practice risky movements in physics engines, then adapt those policies to contact, friction, latency, and hardware limits.
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