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February 2025

Business models for humanoids explained
Eleven distinct value propositions for building humanoids, not including 'just because we can'.
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Andra Keay
Win a golden ticket to Nvidia GTC! Only for cool robots of course
And here are some of the videos from the 2024 Humanoids Summit, including Dancing With Robots and Sanctuary AI.
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Meta gets in to humanoids as valuations and funding ramp up
More thoughts about Open Source vs Closed via Hugging Face, plus UK wants to be a global leader in robotics. And looks like Apple is taking on iRobot :)
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The economics of open source vs closed source in AI
Is Hugging Face the Levi Strauss of the AI Gold Rush? Plus iMog is 2025 AgRobot of the Year at World FIRA and who are the latest robot unicorns?
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From The Humanoid Files
The US China war takes shape, manufacturing slows but labor shortages in high mix low volume play to the potential strengths of mobile manipulators aka…
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Andra Keay
InOrbit RobotSpace Anniversary
2024 robotics in review from Chris Paxton, another National Robotics Roadmap and Ted Xiao on what's missing in foundation models for robots, plus…
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January 2025

Call for Startups AND Robotics Companies of Global Scale
The IERA Award is looking for submissions, so is Automate, plus if you're studying, why not apply for a Women in Robotics Scholarship! And lots of…
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Andra Keay
2025 Robotics Events Worth Knowing About
The calendar that Silicon Valley Robotics and IEEE RAS Industry Activities Board are working from!
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Andra Keay
Robots - horizontal or vertical play?
Robotics companies are starting to scale... which way will they go?
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Robotics, labelling, AI, oh my...
Get involved in new robotics standards activities
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Market projections for humanoids range from $38 billion to $24 trillion
Some interesting charts and insight into BOM, supply chain and labor costs
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