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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Foundation Sends Cease & Desist Over ‘Humanoids for War’ Deck mikekalil.com/blog/foundat...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Biggest Urban Legends in Humanoid Robotics mikekalil.com/blog/humanoi...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unitree’s AGT Run Ends, but Its Robots Keep Dancing in China mikekalil.com/blog/unitree...

Unitree on America's Got Talent/WorldSkills Shanghai

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

EngineAI’s T800 Humanoid Is Fighting Its Way Around the World mikekalil.com/blog/enginea...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Humanoid Robot Mega Factories Are Starting to Come Online mikekalil.com/blog/humanoi...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Agility’s SPAC: Can Wall Street Save a Humanoid Robot Pioneer? mikekalil.com/blog/can-wal...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

XPeng’s IRON Gets a Production Makeover Ahead of Mass Manufacturing mikekalil.com/blog/xpeng-i...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Kids Who Grew Up with Baymax Are Now Building Him mikekalil.com/blog/the-rac...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs Make Robots Think Like Humans? mikekalil.com/blog/figure-...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Agility Robotics Warns of Cash Crunch as Humanoid Race Heats Up mikekalil.com/blog/agility...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

People Are Obsessed with Microduck. Will It Last? mikekalil.com/blog/hugging...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Company Behind the World’s Fastest Robot Has Big Plans mikekalil.com/blog/the-ris...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ICE plans to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics' Spot robotic dogs. Spot is priced starting around $75,000 but units used by ICE need extra cameras, arms, sensors, and other accessories. NYPD previously paid about $750,000 for a pair of Spot robots, so ICE's fleet will likely be modest.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hugging Face Can’t Make Its $399 Robot Ducks Fast Enough mikekalil.com/blog/hugging...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

NORINCO’s Fuxi is intended to act like a robotic avatar controlled by teleoperation for use cases like riot control. It’s named after a mythological ancient Chinese hero credited with teaching humanity the foundations of civilization.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sparks flew, quite literally, as Beijing became the center of a rapidly accelerating global robotics race that just entered a new phase mikekalil.com/blog/beijing...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Is EngineAI China’s Next Humanoid Robotics Giant? mikekalil.com/blog/enginea...

EngineAI humanoid robots at Luxshare ICT in Suzhou

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Why does Unitree's new robot need to jump so high?"

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Unitree Says Its New ‘Superman’ Robot Pushes Beyond Human Limits mikekalil.com/blog/unitree...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

MX01: The World’s First Transformable Flying Humanoid Robot? mikekalil.com/blog/arkshel...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Unitree’s Wang Xingxing is Now China’s Most Unusual Tech Billionaire mikekalil.com/blog/unitree...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing reached billionaire status thanks to his 20 percent stake in his company’s new $9 billion Shanghai IPO. But contrary to reports, that does not make him China’s first humanoid billionaire.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

PaXini’s Smart Sole Gives EngineAI’s T800 a Humanlike Foot Sense mikekalil.com/blog/paxini-...

Engineer upgrades EngineAI's T800's foot with tactile sensing

EngineAI's T800 humanoid robot integrated with PaXini's PX-FOOTRIX tactile sensing foot sole

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Unitree’s IPO Era Begins With the G1 Under Siege mikekalil.com/blog/unitree...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

China’s $2 Billion AI Startup Wants to Take Robot Centaurs Public mikekalil.com/blog/the-ris...

LimX Luna on South Korea fashion survival TV show

LimX Tron mounted on industrial robot arm and configured as a centaur

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I still think this robot from Airbus is the most unsettling robot of all time. Imagine being stuck on the ISS with it.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Why Did Trump Ban Foreign-Made Robots? And What Happens Next? mikekalil.com/blog/trump-f...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

China’s Obsession with Lifelike Robots is Getting Out of Hand mikekalil.com/blog/china-l...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As far as I can tell, only a handful of existing Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots are exempt from the FCC's new restrictions.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RoboParty’s UFO Framework Uses Harsh Real-World Testing to Build More Resilient Humanoid Robots mikekalil.com/blog/robopar...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Foundation: The Killer Robot Company Built on Claims Nobody Bothered to Check mikekalil.com/blog/foundat...

Illustration of Foundation Phantom robot in futuristic battlefield

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dairy Queen’s New Robot Worker Costs More Than a Human Crew Sharpa's flagship wheeled humanoid, North, is preparing to whip up Blizzards at DQ's new restaurant in Shanghai. On the surface, the economics make little sense until you consider the wider implications. mikekalil.com/blog/sharpa-...

Sharpa North serves a Blizzard at Dairy Queen in Shanghai

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Silicon Valley startup Sunday Robotics is hyping its new AI model as a massive breakthrough in home autonomy as it obviously needs a major funding round to keep momentum going.

Sunday Robotics' Memo humanoid robots fold laundry

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Dairy Queen just hired its first robot worker Singapore-based Sharpa's humanoid robot, North, is training to whip up Blizzards autonomously at DQ's new store in Shanghai starting in August 2026.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

EngineAI’s T800 Loses Its Head, Refuses to Back Down During First URKL Fight

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Japan’s Auto Giants Move into Humanoids as Korea Breaks a Funding Record Humanoid robots are moving into some of the toughest industrial jobs in the world. The industry is compressing years of development into months as investors throw billions into physical AI.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Updated list of Chinese robotics firms heading toward IPO to include Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics. The startup, launched in January 2022, just announced a $200 million pre-IPO funding round. It’s raised $400 million so far in 2026 alone for a valuation of $2.1 billion.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ultra-realistic robot head replicas of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s characters talking about life after Titanic. The research was done as part of a study at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Booster Robotics' flagship humanoid robot is growing up. The three-year-old Chinese startup just launched the Booster T2, a larger and more capable successor to its first commercial product, the T1. The Beijing-based robotics firm is expanding after raising around $140 million in fresh funding.

Booster Robotics T2 humanoid robot running

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Houston, TX startup Persona AI is training its heavy-duty humanoid robot for welding work at shipyards.

Persona AI's Gen 1 humanoid robot welder

Persona AI's flagship humanoid robot welder

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Unitree G1 Surgeons, NEO’s Crazy Hand, and the Truth Behind the AI Hype mikekalil.com/blog/robot-s...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

1X’s NEO Hand Looks Incredible. The Economics Look Brutal. mikekalil.com/blog/1x-neo-...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Mitsubishi just entered the humanoid robotics race. The Japanese automaker just announced a partnership with Highlanders, a startup from the University of Tokyo, to develop and possibly mass produce a robot called HL Ninja.

Mitsubishi and Highlanders press conference announcing humanoid robot project

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Tesla Optimus Veteran Unveils UMA’s First Humanoid Robot Worker in Paris mikekalil.com/blog/uma-nor...

Remi Cadene, co-founder and CEO of UMA, at Machina 2026 in Paris

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Martial Soul: EngineAI’s T800 Robot Channels Hong Kong Cinema mikekalil.com/blog/enginea...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

AnyWit Robotics Brings Rainbow Six Siege’s Ela Bosak to Life mikekalil.com/blog/anywit-...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

UBTECH Is Promising Synthetic Humans. The Reality Looks Much Stiffer mikekalil.com/blog/ubtech-...

Chinese cosplayer with real ultra-realistic robots at UBTECH UWorld U1 product launch event

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

China’s DEEP Robotics Is Emerging From Unitree’s Shadow mikekalil.com/blog/the-ris...

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Mike Kalil @mikekalil.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

YC-Backed Weave Robotics Drops Its Cheapest Home Robot Yet mikekalil.com/blog/weave-r...

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