A public claim by Figure's Brett Adcock about a "first" autonomous deployment at BMW escalated into a sharp exchange, with Agility Robotics mocking the claim and Adcock responding with a prediction of their bankruptcy.
A video at Tesla''s 2025 shareholder meeting offered a glimpse of Optimus assembly, but the project''s AI lead clarified it''s a prototype line, not the mass-production system slated for next year. CEO Elon Musk also shared a new $20,000 per-unit cost target.
Musk specifies locations for his ambitious humanoid robot production, starting with a 1-million-unit line in Fremont and a 10-million-unit line at a Gigafactory, while reiterating claims of a "billion a year" capacity.
Following speculation that its AI Day demo was a human or an older robot, Xpeng has released videos showing the new ''Iron'' robot''s underlying hardware. Analysts are now detailing significant design changes, including a new hip and knee configuration.
Unitree has unveiled a full-body teleoperation platform for its G1 humanoid. While new videos showcase low-latency robot boxing and soccer, the system''s true purpose may be as a "data acquisition platform" to tackle the industry''s physical AI bottleneck.