Robot Data Reports
Market data, shipment counts, production figures and funding totals — with the caveats that go with each number.
Robot Data Reports
Shipment counts, production figures, market share and funding totals — what each number measures and what it does not.
The Layer Below the Robots Is Getting Funded
Ten Chinese embodied-AI rounds in seven days and almost none went to a new full-body OEM — chips, joints, data and…
Returns Are Harder Than Picking
Sereact’s Cortex model runs at Zalando and CEVA because a returned garment cannot be pre-programmed. Plus JD’s…
Pay by the Hour: the RaaS Number That Reprices a Robot
750,000 hours of live production is the asset, not the $50M. What robots-as-a-service changes about how a factory…
Embodied AI Funding, September 2026: Big Rounds Cool, Money Moves Up the Chain
September saw 49 embodied AI deals but only two above RMB 1B. Where the capital went — sensors, seed rounds,…
The Big Four at 38%: Thirty Years of Rule, Repriced
Thirty years of dominance, now 38% of the global market. Four divergent paths, the component story behind China’s 55%…
China Says It Built 40,000 Humanoids in Six Months. Read the Number Carefully.
Over 400 models and 40,000 units in six months. Why the number sits awkwardly against 36,000 global shipments, and…
Robot Technology Reports
New platforms, actuators, sensors, control stacks and research results, translated into what changes on a production line.
Stop Using Just Hands
Amazon’s WBD dataset (2.51M whole-body grasps) and a real G1 at 90%. Why redefining what counts as manipulation beat…
The Robot Writes Down the Fix
99% on 80 tasks is the headline; 15% to 99% by swapping only the language model is the finding. What code-as-policy…
Legged Robots Review: From “Can Walk” to “Can Act” — What Still Blocks Deployment
A 2026 Science Robotics review maps legged robots across hardware, control, autonomy, data and deployment — and the…
The Invisible Hours: Where a Robot Gets Its Capability
A robot gets its capability at a commissioning laptop, not in a crate. Why 200 hours for one insertion never shows in…
200 Hours, Then One: the Gearbox Cell That Writes Its Own Insertion
Schaeffler cut gearbox-cell programming from 200 hours to one. Why the real figure is 30%, what ~100 trials demand,…
LV Switchgear Auxiliary Material Takeoff: Per-Panel Rules
Per-panel quotas, loss factors and pack rounding for LV switchgear auxiliary material takeoff, with a worked 25-panel…