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- Embodied intelligence moving from demos to real-world deployment still faces several hurdles
Xinhua News Agency's China Economic Information Service and the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology jointly released the "2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Report," which proposes that in 2026 embodied intelligence will move from development demos to routine operation in real-world scenarios, entering a deployment growth phase. The report documents that 8 AgiBot Genie G2 units accumulated more than 64 hours of operation over 6 days of testing at Longcheer Technology's Nanchang factory, completing 64,828 tasks with a comprehensive task success rate of 99.99%, and notes that task intelligence remains slightly below L3, with bottlenecks including non-interoperable data standards, a lack of calibration for data credibility, and ownership allocation still to be improved.
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- Toyota advances humanoid robot strategy, plans to deploy 400,000 robots
Toyota is advancing its robotics strategy, planning to deploy 400,000 robots alongside an annual investment of $6.4 billion for factory automation, with a dedicated team coordinated by its chief production officer. Walden Robotics, spun off from Toyota's AI robotics business, has completed a $300 million funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion, and its general-purpose robots are already deployed at Toyota's North American factories. Foundation models developed by Toyota Research Institute can convert high-level instructions into real-time physical actions and motor control; they have been used on Boston Dynamics' Atlas and will also be deployed on Toyota's self-developed 50-kilogram-class humanoid robot Eley.
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- FFR completes merger with FFAI Robotics and lists on Nasdaq
FFR has completed its merger with FFAI Robotics, with the related business and assets folded into FFR, and has listed on Nasdaq. Jia Yueting serves as CEO and Jerry Wang as Executive Chairman.
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- Beijing E-Town Embodied Robot Industry Matchmaking Event: Over 60 Demand-Side Companies and 30+ Manufacturers Forge 30+ Cooperation Intentions On Site
At the "Yiqichuang Future" embodied robot industry face-to-face event in Beijing E-Town on October 28, more than 60 cross-industry demand-side companies connected with over 30 robot manufacturers, generating more than 30 preliminary cooperation intentions on site. The event matched customers by four tracks: security patrol, service reception, cultural tourism interaction, and educational companionship. Feishu Technology demonstrated a quadruped robot equipped with its self-developed patrol system. A value-added services zone offered consultations on financing and listing, legal advice, and robot overseas compliance.
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- Wujie Dynamics and JD.com reach strategic partnership, robot K15 goes on duty at 7FRESH Coffee
Wujie Dynamics has signed a strategic partnership agreement with JD.com. Its robot K15 is now officially on duty at the 7FRESH Coffee Xichenli store and Changying Tianjie store, working with an automated production line to complete fully unmanned operation of the entire process from order trigger to task completion. The two parties plan to advance large-scale replication across 1000+ 7FRESH stores and achieve a product cooperation scale of 1 billion yuan, while deepening cooperation in areas such as JD MALL and JD RoboBase and expanding into overseas markets.
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- Humanoid robot Apollo has entered factory testing, and the "brain" is not what determines success
Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot has been combined with Google DeepMind's Gemini multimodal reasoning capabilities and is being tested on production lines at Mercedes-Benz, Jabil, and others for tasks such as moving packages, picking parts, and quality inspection. Apollo is about 1.73 meters tall with a 25 kg payload, equipped with 30 actuators and fused perception from stereo depth cameras and LiDAR, and uses swappable batteries for about four hours of runtime with a two-minute battery swap. Conroy emphasized that data collection and scaling compute are driving physical AI to cope with environmental changes, but general autonomy remains a longer-term goal.
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- Meta and Fourier Partner to Build Humanoid Robot Max Prototype, Second-Generation Development Underway
According to The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, Meta has partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier to build a humanoid robot prototype named Max, weighing about 48 kg and standing about 1.5 meters tall. The two sides completed it in just 3 months and began developing Max 2 in September.
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- Around the Wuzhen Internet Conference: Shangyuan Zhixing, Freetech, Xinshengji, Sainade and other AI robotics companies
On the eve of the Wuzhen Internet Conference, nearby industrial parks host AI companies that are not competing on large models: Shangyuan Zhixing's unmanned-vehicle intelligent skateboard chassis shipments have led the country for three consecutive years; Freetech's Wuzhen base posted revenue of more than 2 billion yuan last year, with its production line rolling off one product every 13 seconds on average. Xinshengji makes commercial-grade cleaning robots for airports and shopping malls, while Sainade uses a tracked chassis plus a robotic arm to solve the last-20-meter loading and unloading challenge in logistics.
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- Peking University's Dong Hao team proposes One Scan is Enough: embodied navigation post-training with a single scan
Dong Hao's team at Peking University has published the paper "One Scan is Enough," which uses a LiDAR-equipped iPhone to scan a target environment once, automatically generates navigation tasks, and uses the reconstructed scene geometry for reinforcement post-training, without needing manual teleoperation demonstrations.
A single iPhone scan replaces manual demonstrations; 200 real-robot tests give a success-rate comparison from 25% to 85%, showing how post-training costs could fall.
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- DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent architecture; Agibot releases GO-3 Preview and Worken; Apple Intelligence integrates Alibaba Qwen | AI Weekly
The DeepSeek Harness team has open-sourced the Super-agent research prototype dsh-superagent-prototype, which uses a two-layer Router plus Worker architecture: the Router takes orders and assigns work, while Workers each maintain their own session and working directory to execute tasks. Currently, it operates on a single GitHub repository as its working target.
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- Autel Robotics launches AAGI air-ground intelligence solutions brand with AIP foundation and three industry platforms
At the 2026 Autel Air-Ground Intelligence Alliance Conference, Autel Robotics launched the AAGI (Autel Air-Ground Intelligence) solutions brand and, together with Daohe Tongtai and Saifang Technology, introduced the AIP foundation along with three industry application platforms: EIS 2.0, Avant Hub 2.0, and Skyshield 2.0.
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- Embodied AI brain chip company Huixi Intelligence launches A-share IPO coaching; Elite Robots bets on optical module track with another 200 million yuan in funding | Weekly capital events
Huixi Intelligence filed its listing coaching registration with the Beijing branch of the CSRC, starting its A-share IPO process with CITIC Securities as coaching institution; it has raised over 2.5 billion yuan cumulatively this year. Elite Robots completed a new round of 200 million yuan in funding led by CCB Equity, with proceeds to be used for expanding into AI infrastructure scenarios such as optical communications and AI servers and for building new factory production lines. Zhongke Huiling concurrently completed a several-hundred-million-yuan A++ round to accelerate mass production and delivery and iterate its embodied brain technology.
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- ZeroErr previews eRob110I joint module featuring Harmonic Drive reducers
At the Shanghai Industrial Expo, ZeroErr previewed an upcoming joint module equipped with Harmonic Drive (HDS) strain wave reducers. The example model eRob110I uses a compact integrated design and offers EtherCAT or CANopen configurations, both of which support Modbus-RTU communication over an RS485 interface. During the show, senior Harmonic Drive executives visited its booth for discussions, and ZeroErr also communicated with customers in humanoid robotics, embodied intelligence, and the global robotics supply chain about selection and configuration evaluation.
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- Foundry Robotics raises $100 million Series A to build autonomous assembly factory
California-based startup Foundry Robotics announced it has closed a $100 million oversubscribed Series A round led by Marlinspike Partners, with participation from new and existing investors including Khosla Ventures and Red Glass Ventures.
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- Xingyan Intelligence Releases General Embodied Harness Framework Auriga, Leading RoboDojo Leaderboard in Zero-Shot Setting
Xingyan Intelligence has launched Auriga, a general embodied Harness framework. Under a zero-shot protocol that involves no task-specific pre-tuning, no reliance on expert demonstrations, single-attempt execution, and no environment resets, it achieved a 57.74% average task success rate and an average process score of 64.00 across 42 tasks and 6,300 test episodes on RoboDojo, using GPT-6 Astra as the base model. It leads the leaderboard on both metrics.
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- Fysics AI and Fudan propose Fysiverse-UniWAM unified world-action model, ranks first in both navigation and mobile manipulation across 24 real-robot tests
Fysics AI, together with Fudan University's CITLab, proposed the unified world-action model Fysiverse-UniWAM, which uses a single model to handle autonomous navigation, mobile manipulation, and fixed-workstation dexterous manipulation.
Readers can see a unified world-action model approach that does not rely on large-scale robot pretraining, along with the specific design of a shared backbone for navigation and manipulation.
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- Embodied AI Industry Weekly: Unitree's Net Profit Up 271% in First Three Quarters; AgiBot Releases Heavy-Load Robot Genie G2 Max
Unitree Technology's Q3 2026 report shows revenue of 1.817 billion yuan for the first three quarters, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year; it is the company's first financial report since going public. In the same period, AgiBot released the Genie G2 Max, a safety-certified heavy-load embodied industrial robot, with a 20 kg payload per arm, 40 kg with both arms, and a 50 kg peak, aimed at depalletizing and palletizing, material transfer, and production-line feeding. Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, and AgiBot jointly proposed a new paradigm called Collective Experience Learning (CEL) and completed large-scale validation on a cluster of 96 real robots.
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- VicOne Finds 28 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Two Days Across Physical AI Ecosystem Tools
Using AI-assisted research, VicOne discovered 28 zero-day vulnerabilities in less than two days in software and tools related to the Physical AI ecosystem, involving projects developed or maintained by Google, NVIDIA, Meta, and others. All were initially verified and classified as zero-day vulnerabilities, and some do not yet have CVE IDs.
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- DeepSeek completes RMB 105.5 billion Series A+ funding at over RMB 610 billion valuation; AgiBot posts nearly RMB 2 billion in first-half revenue with about 9,700 units shipped | 36Kr Global Weekly News Roundup
DeepSeek completed an RMB 105.5 billion Series A+ funding round at a post-money valuation of RMB 615.5 billion, with CATL and Tencent as the largest investors in the round, and has completed its overseas registration procedures. AgiBot reported nearly RMB 2 billion in revenue and about 9,700 units shipped in the first half of 2026, ranking first in the industry with a 43.1% share; by the end of September, its cumulative humanoid robot output had surpassed 20,000 units.
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- Westlake University Establishes World Model Research Center, Yu Kaicheng Appointed Director
Westlake University established the Westlake World Model Research Center on October 31 at its Yungu campus, with Professor Yu Kaicheng as director and Academician Jin Yaochu as chief scientist. The center focuses on world models and physical intelligence, exploring intelligent systems that integrate perception, cognition, prediction, and action. Previously, Westlake University's autonomous intelligence lab AutoLab had conducted three years of world model research, proposed the conceptual world model, and incubated Westlake Shuzhi Awomo.
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- SpatialScout benchmark: enabling agents to actively observe and build 3D spatial cognition
Xinzhiyuan reported on the SpatialScout benchmark, which gives a camera to an AI and places it in previously unseen virtual rooms, where the model autonomously decides when to turn, move, and capture images, and submits the 3D coordinates of target objects. The formal evaluation selects 80 indoor scenes and 3,140 target instances from iTHOR, RoboTHOR, ArchitecTHOR, ReplicaCAD, and ProcTHOR, with at most 100 interaction rounds per task; scoring considers both mean IoU and the proportion of IoU above 0%, 50%, and 90%.
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- Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray Announcement
Reliance Foundation Founder and Chairperson Smt Nita M Ambani announces Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray
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- How 3M addresses modern robotics interconnect challenges with high-flex cables, IDC termination, and fine-pitch connectors
3M has introduced a series of high-flex cable assemblies, IDC-terminated connectors, and fine-pitch board connectors for robotics interconnects; the CoaXPress-compatible assemblies passed 45 million bend cycles, the USB3 Vision-compatible assemblies reached 100 million cycles, and the flat ribbon cables cover roughly 1 million to 100 million bend cycles.
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- Why physical AI is the next lucrative frontier
In 2025, robotics and physical AI startups completed 1,009 deals and raised $27.6 billion, more than double the previous year's total. Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105 million seed round and demonstrated Eno, a wheeled robot that can enter commercial environments. Physical AI relies on multimodal perception, edge computing, simulation environments, robot foundation models, and world models, and is in the first stage of founders rushing in.
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- Westlake University Establishes World Model Research Center; Incubated Company Awomo Has Raised Over 100 Million Yuan
On October 31, the Westlake World Model Research Center was established at Westlake University's Yungu Campus, with Yu Kaicheng as director and Jin Yaochu as chief scientist. The center builds on the Autonomous Intelligence Laboratory AutoLab, founded three years ago, and focuses on world models and physical intelligence; AutoLab shifted toward a "conceptual world model" approach at the end of 2024, building physical concept representations in latent space. Its incubated company Westlake Shuzhi Awomo was founded in early 2026 and has cumulatively raised over 100 million yuan in seed and angel rounds. Awomo ranked first in four international robotics benchmark suites.
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- Xiaomi unveils 21-DoF full-palm tactile bionic hand: 324-gram palm, 1,500 tactile points
Xiaomi has unveiled a bionic hand with 21 degrees of freedom and 1,500 tactile points across the full palm. The palm weighs 324 grams and is driven by 26 motors, with tendon-driven actuation as the main approach plus 5 direct-drive degrees of freedom. The team selected 1,827 of the 2,579 standard work procedures across 16 work sections at the pilot center of Xiaomi Auto's intelligent manufacturing department, collected multi-angle video and motion-capture data to work backward to the joint configuration, and says that in simulation the average stable-grasp success rate in the 17-to-21 degree-of-freedom range was 15% to 38% higher than in the 6-to-15 range, with gains slowing markedly after 21.
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- DEEP Robotics' "Hangxing No. 2" humanoid robot joins traffic control duty at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon
On November 1, the bipedal robot "Hangxing No. 2," developed by DEEP Robotics in collaboration with Hangzhou public security traffic control authorities, made its debut at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon, stationed at 4 key points around the Huanglong Sports Center to handle tasks such as intersection monitoring, autonomous patrols, dissuading traffic violations, and answering public inquiries.
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- 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum Held in Guangzhou, with Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements and Embodied Intelligence Among Featured Sessions
The 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou from October 30 to 31. A special session on sci-tech achievement display and matchmaking took place in Nansha, where the National Technology Innovation Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area signed cooperation agreements with 11 entities including Topstar, Qianxun Intelligence, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Yuandian Intelligence. At the Embodied Intelligence Industry Ecosystem Innovation Forum, Huilun Technology, Zhongke Kaichuang, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Qianxun Intelligence presented technological achievements including world models, intelligent inspection, dexterous manipulation, and general-purpose robot brains. The forum also released the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Precision Medicine Development Consensus (2026) and announced the first Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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- Universities use AI to teach PLC, HMI, SCADA, ROS2 and other courses; weak student foundations despite graduation raise concerns
A graduate reported that their alma mater is pushing the use of AI to complete the design, implementation, and debugging of courses including PLC, HMI, SCADA, embedded systems, IoT, and ROS2, and that students no longer read code. More than 60% of the students in that class do not understand arrays or Python, cannot write C++ at all, and cannot answer basic math questions such as integrating acceleration to obtain velocity, yet they will still graduate. The poster asked experienced practitioners how to guide these students in rebuilding their foundations.
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- Author gives Claude Code spatial memory, uses EvergreenSLAM to drive home robot
The author uses EvergreenSLAM, a self-developed 2D lidar SLAM project, as Claude Code's spatial memory. Through the egs command line, each location corresponds to a folder and notes.md on the lidar map, with the agent writing notes itself, and a two-day real-world demonstration was completed on an XLeRobot.
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- In-Depth Analysis of Open-Source Quadruped Robot Projects: A Complete Technical Map from Beginner to Research Level
Based on a survey of more than 20 mainstream quadruped robot projects on GitHub, the article maps the open-source quadruped technology landscape across five schools: kinematic control, full-stack engineering, optimization algorithms, reinforcement learning, and hardware platforms.
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- Weekly AI: OpenAI cuts funding valuation, Anthropic rated "junk"; Nvidia invests $20 billion in Meta; Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon; Unitree and Sequoia China to jointly invest in early-stage embodied intelligence projects
OpenAI lowered its latest funding round target from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation; after Anthropic filed for an IPO, Blackstone expects it to receive a speculative-grade rating in the BB range. Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which scored 59 on Intelligence Index v5.0 to take the top spot. Unitree will establish the "Shanyu · Venture Program" with Sequoia China to invest in early-stage startups in fields such as embodied intelligence.
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- ICLR 2026 paper SAGE-3D adds collision and semantics to 3DGS scenes to support vision-language navigation
The ICLR 2026 paper SAGE-3D proposes decoupling and assembling 3DGS rendering, source-mesh collision bodies, and manual semantic annotations into an executable navigation environment, modeled as a semantics- and physics-enhanced POMDP. Its object-level semantic anchoring provides category, instance ID, and bounding box, while physics-aware execution assembles collision bodies extracted from source meshes via CoACD convex decomposition and embeds them into the 3DGS scene.
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- KAIST proposes robot-centric pointmap; π0.5 improves 7.6 points on RoboCasa
KAIST AI and Holiday Robotics propose a robot-centric pointmap that transforms RGB-D observations into the robot coordinate frame while preserving the H×W grid, and adds it element-wise to RGB tokens to inject it into a pretrained VLA.
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- Kinetix AI and Hang Seng Bank showcase high-dynamic humanoid robot table tennis system SMASH at HK FinTech Week 2026
Kinetix AI is bringing SMASH, its high-dynamic humanoid robot table tennis system, to Hong Kong, where visitors can step up and play against it at the Hang Seng Bank booth at HK FinTech Week 2026. The booth is located at Booth TA09, Hall 5E, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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- Why do indoor scenes need furniture that LiDAR cannot scan? | Gazebo Mecanum-Wheel Robot Simulation (Part 5)
The fifth installment of the Gazebo Mecanum-Wheel Robot Simulation series discusses deliberately placing furniture in indoor scenes that LiDAR cannot scan, because mapping requirements conflict with exam requirements; the solution is to split this into two layers, a "permanent layer" and a "blind-spot layer."
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- Hongqi Chain ends robot unmanned retail system R&D; convenience-store robots still can't sell independently
After 16 months of R&D, Hongqi Chain has terminated development of its robot unmanned retail system. The company's announcement said the system has not yet met the standard for large-scale commercial deployment, and it is shifting to a 24-hour cloud-staffed operation business. An industry insider close to Hongqi said that in summer, condensation on glass-bottle cold drinks made the robot unable to grip them steadily, and it kept dropping and shattering them; it also could not reliably pick up goods in complex packaging, and operation was even harder when aisles were narrow and customers were nearby. In a robot retail warehouse visited by QbitAI, the robot only handled mobile picking, with each pick taking about 20-plus seconds, and human staff were still needed for restocking and charging. Several practitioners believe robot retail is still in the PoC stage.
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- Tender for Steel Structure Workshop Construction of Damon Technology's Logistics Embodied Intelligent Robot Components R&D and Production Project
On October 27, 2026, Damon Technology Group publicly tendered the steel structure workshop construction for its logistics embodied intelligent robot components R&D and production project. The site is in Shangqiang Industrial Park, Daixi Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou, with a building area of about 19,000 square meters, a construction period of 10 months, and a planned schedule from November 2026 to August 2027. Bidders must hold a Grade I or higher general construction contracting qualification. Registration closes at 12:00 on November 6, 2026. A bid bond of 50,000 yuan is required, and the performance bond after winning the bid is 500,000 yuan.
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- [Digital Intelligence Weekly] Zhang Yiming tops China's rich list with 670 billion yuan; Alibaba partners with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence; Anthropic files IPO registration to list on Nasdaq under "ANT"
Alibaba has partnered with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users will be able to access its text and image understanding and content generation capabilities in Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. The features will open for testing with the iOS developer Beta starting November 4.
钛媒体 ·
- The First Public Ledger for Humanoid Robots: An In-Depth Analysis on the Eve of Agility Robotics' Listing
Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq on November 5 via SPAC under the ticker AGLT, with a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion and confirmed 2025 revenue of only $1.782 million, about 63.5% of which comes from related parties.
Using Agility's listing filing data as a sample, it breaks down humanoid robot unit economics and RaaS contract structures, and provides transferable metric definitions.
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