Robot Materials: Light, But Not Lighter
Sarah Xiao Aluminium, magnesium, steel, carbon fibre and plastics compared for humanoid structures — where each one actually wins, and six questions…
Sarah Xiao
hich import robot brand is best” is the wrong question, and every integrator knows it. The four that dominate automotive lines — KUKA, ABB, FANUC, Yaskawa — have been trading the same top spots for thirty years, and their spec sheets converge more every generation.
KUKA takes the whole body shop, ABB covers every process step, FANUC sells uptime, Yaskawa sells servo response. One line…
24-year-old Chinese student died in an automated high-bay warehouse in Bremerhaven, Germany, during a night shift, while servicing a lifting robot. He was wedged inside the machine and could not be saved.
A 24-year-old student died servicing a stacker crane in Bremerhaven. What LOTO, SafeOperation and an environmental-perception layer each cover, and…
o numbers, nine days apart, describe 2026 in embodied AI better than any forecast.
437 rounds worth 203.2bn yuan, 692 supply-chain companies, 8.64-second sprints and a Nanjing startup that stopped paying wages in August.…
The Gold Optimus Is Not V3. One Walk to the Kitchen Explains Why
Musk says the gold Optimus is a transitional 2.5, not V3. Benioff's office video shows the language layer answering fluently…
Fudan’s New Patent: Five Servos, Fifteen Degrees of Freedom, One Platform
A 3-RRR parallel platform on the back of the hand drives all four fingers. Five servos, fifteen degrees of freedom,…
ByteDance’s First Robot Customer Is ByteDance’s Own Model Team
Ten job families, eleven investments, three model generations and about 7.7 wheeled robots a week. Why the hardware is a…
China’s Robot Makers Won 55% of Unit Sales. The Last Five Percent of Process Is Still Imported
Density past Germany and Japan, exports ahead of imports, 55 percent domestic share. Then five exams where the last five…
The 2026 Shutdown List: Nine Robot Companies, Four Ways to Die in the Same Place
Nine shutdowns against roughly 93.5 billion yuan raised in six months. The four failure modes behind them, the K-Scale unit…
The Sensor Being Swapped Inside Humanoid Joints: What Inductive Encoders Buy, And What They Cost
Two encoders, two measurands: a field versus a modulated coupling. Where the immunity actually comes from, how a vernier dual…