Tesla has crossed a threshold that is simple to announce and hard to prove. In its third-quarter shareholder letter on October 21, the company said Optimus production had started at its Fremont, California factory on high-volume lines, calling the units “the first production-quality bots that we have manufactured.” Yet the same document’s capacity table lists … Read more
Unitree has released a 61-second advert for a humanoid it calls the H2-X, billed as “Kung Fu Legend: Guardian”, and the clip does what a stunt video is meant to do — it travels. The machine runs through martial-arts forms in a scrapyard, steps between a woman and an armed intruder, smashes a car door, … Read more
Beijing-based robotics developer NeodraDynamics has unveiled Neo1, a four-metre-class humanoid that abandons the all-electric formula in favour of a hybrid hydraulic-electric drivetrain. The machine appeared at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, held from 19 to 23 August, and was later shown alongside JD Industrial at the 2026 China International Industry Fair. NeodraDynamics is pitching … Read more