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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks Apple for this insanity. In the terms & conditions war, people are outgunned. We need laws requiring simple, short explanations: - what's new? - what changed? - did any of my rights go away? - did Apple get any new rights? - what are the impacts of those changes?

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In today's Humanoid (almost) Daily: - Tesla Gen 3 Optimus design leaks - Japan is exploring military support roles for humanoids - 80% of humanoid robots are for industrial use - Saudi Arabia could deploy up to 10,000 robots over five years Find me on LinkedIn to subscribe!

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to go to Web Summit Lisbon? Want a discount? Use my speaker code: JOHNKOE See you there!

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Humans are still better at long jump! (For a while) A Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot won the long jump at the World Humanoid Robot Games with this: 7.97 meters (over 26 feet) The human record is 8.95 metres (29+ feet). Probably will be broken soon ...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who's leading in humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. - Agibot - Unitree - Galbot - UBtech - Leju - Everyone else ... More in my story at Forbes.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Need a market map for humanoid robot niches? Just look at the Humanoid Games events, both sports and work-based. They point to: - Retail - Food service - Assembly - Packaging - Logistics - Hospitality - Homes - Construction - Delivery More: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Palantir for police >> "Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more"

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can now buy a made-in-America humanoid robot for $1,688. Assembled in San Francisco. It's the Nori L3 from @NoriRobotics, and ships in the fall. It won't win any medals at the Humanoid Games ... but it's pretty cool still. All the details: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The bookstore that destroys books ... Amazon started as a bookstore Now, they buy "massive quantities" of books Rip off the spines Scan them Feed the words into their AI training software This is the logo of their Las Vegas facility, VGT3, where it happens. Source: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

D-Wave’s $550M Quantum Computing Bet Makes Error Correction 10X Cheaper - uses a dual-rail erasure qubit - encodes a bit of quantum information across 2 superconducting microwave cavities using 1 shared photon - if it leaks, flag it Result: known issue, can be corrected for

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

LOL "25% faster browsing" Smartphone marketers are really struggling with metrics when 25% faster browsing is a highlight of the new Pixel 11 phones. Dunno about you, but my browsing speed is NOT limited by my devices. 😂😂😂

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Chinese Companies Are Winning The Humanoid Robot Sales Battle. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Matter Yet www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Digit v5 is getting OUT OF THE CAGE. Agility Robotics says that their Digit humanoid robot will work cooperatively and safely with humans, no cages required. Timeline: December 2026 for early customer deployments. www.linkedin.com/pulse/digit-...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Creepy or not? This is the Noetix "Bionic Humanoid Xiaonuo." It's intended for reception work, live streaming (??), and family companionship.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

LOL. Evian wants to do a YouTube partnership with me? I run a tech channel ...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Exciting news from Agility Robotics: - Digit v5 coming in 2026 - Digit will be a cobot ... working "out of the cage" - 20-hour humanoids: they'll be able to work for 20 hours - hot swappable hands AKA end effectors - & much more! Humanoid Daily is on Apple, Spotify, & YouTube.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

OK so every AI company is now marketing by saying ... YES OUR AI IS RANDOMLY HACKING OTHER PEOPLE TOO

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listen to Humanoid Daily, episode #10: - BYD's humanoid - Ati Robotics - Unitree IPO update - India gets a humanoid - UK goes farming open.spotify.com/episode/3BP8...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

China has a massive humanoid robots patent lead, either way you look at it ... Patent winners by raw count: China — 73% South Korea — 11% Japan — 7% United States — 5% Patent winners by portfolio quality: China — 63% United States — 11% Japan — 10% South Korea — 7%

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Solar doesn't care about the strait of Hormuz

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Trying to walk someone through getting their speakers working on Google Meet ... 😂😂😂 Hall of mirrors, here we are.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We're so excited we can create walking robots that we forgot about inventing wheels a few thousand years ago ....

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is what it takes to drive a robot hand with near human-level dexterity ... (This is Neo by 1X ... 25 ACTUATED degrees of freedom in these hands!)

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you Australia! Remember when Amazon Prime had no ads? And then suddenly it did? Australia is suing Amazon for making that change unfairly according to its own terms of service.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hello again, AI wars. The Trump administration just hit the gas on the AI wars ... even with allies. "Any kind of exemption to ... another country — even a G7 ally — would be “completely illogical." When you have a scarcity mindset ... everything is zero-sum, win or lose.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Europe doesn't mess around ... >> Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ahhh ... OpenClaw "I'm on it" "Are you really?" "Now I am ..."

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The iPhone = birth control? New research seems to indicate ... yes. "Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44." Perhaps smartphones are a better boredom pacifier?

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wild that hackers stole Instagram accounts ... JUST BY ASKING META'S CHATBOT FOR THEM. I mean, just insane. "Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication."

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Saudi Arabia is halting construction of its $1 trillion "The Line" linear city of skyscrapers. Remember, this was supposed to be two 170-kilometer long dual skyscrapers. !!!! Feeling very vindicated: I called this instantly as soon as I saw it. Utterly idiotic.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Elon Musk's record on promises: 19%: achieved 35%: late No update: 33% 13%: date still in the future Arguably, if you're making BIG PROMISES, 1 in 5 right might not be horrible. Also arguably, if you're a public company CEO, you should have a much better track record.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fingerprints. They stored fingerprints. And sucked at it. Amazing. >> New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

AGAIN!!! RECORD REVENUE AND LAYOFFS ANNOUNCED ON THE SAME DAY I am so tired of seeing this pattern. We have psychopath CEOs who lack all imagination: if you have new capabilities, DO NEW THINGS! Invent new tech. Expand to new markets! Use your new AI powers for GOOD.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I love my NanoClaw assistant!!!

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ever wanted a robot chef? Right in your kitchen. Right in your house. I sure have. Now we just might have hands that are good enough to make that a reality, & the AI to drive them. >> These Robot Hands Can Literally Make You An Egg Scramble Breakfast www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

AI agents are insanely awesome. AI agents are also unimaginably stupid.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sigh ... we live in the dumbest timeline ... President Trump's administration is paying almost $900 million to kill off two more wind power projects and steering that money into oil and gas projects.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The fighters in the battle for the future of AI: - NVIDIA (heavyweight champion) - Google (TPUs) - Amazon (Graviton) - Huawei (Ascend) And then a bunch of startups with neuromorphic or mega-chip strategies that will, if they look promising, get bought up. Anything else?

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

India didn't need to build a Great (digital) Wall like China. Big tech is building it for India ... Meta on social, Apple/Google on apps, etc. etc. >> India among countries where Meta automatically blocks flagged content

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

OpenClaw busting its little butt trying to do a simple 226-line JSON database insert ... Sometimes you feel like you're in the future. Sometimes you feel like you're back in the Stone Age. :-)

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Will our children ever see a natural starlit night sky again? SpaceX wants to put 40,000 satellites up Blue Origin wants to install 52,000 in near earth orbit Just imagine the first space war when nations start targeting them ... how much lethal space debris there will be.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A judge just fired a warning shot at AI agents. In Amazon vs Perplexity, the court said platforms can block AI agents from accessing their systems even if the user authorized them. In other words: user permission may not be enough. More: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

1. Business idea: monitor prediction markets for quick surges, make smart bets quickly 2. Global intelligence agencies: do the same, be aware of tomorrow's news today Prediction markets are leak engines.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I don't always vibe-code, but when I do, I always end with "MAKE IT SO!"

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Read this slowly: "There is a new category of usage emerging where single individuals manage to leverage more intelligence solo compared to hundreds of other more casual users." Think - more than a company? - more than a government? AI is changing the game.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Humans are so screwed. Here's the factory of the future, from Machina Labs, which just raised $124 million to build a 200,000-square-foot production facility. Got this pic from their press kit. Not a meatbag in sight.

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

so tired of companies doing this 1) record profits 2) cut people off like they mean nothing it's rampant now, and here's ASML doing the same ting. Amazon, I'm looking at you too!

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John Koetsier @johnkoetsier.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

AI in entertainment: what's the impact? I recently chatted with Larry Namer, who founded E! Entertainment Television. In a word: fragmentation. Whether that's awesome or awful depends significantly on where you sit. More on my Substack: techfirst.substack.com

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