Robotica Guide covers humanoid robots, embodied AI and large language models, with a focus on what companies have actually shipped, demonstrated or disclosed. Every article links its primary sources and labels company claims, demos, pilots and deployments for what they are. Edited by Brandon Cook.
Guides and Explainers
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Humanoid Robot Readiness Levels: How to Tell a Demo From a Real Deployment
A six-step scale for humanoid robot claims, from render and demo to pilot, commercial deployment and open orders, with where Optimus, Atlas, Figure 03, Digit, NEO and Unitree G1 sit in October 2026.
Comparisons
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Robot Companies
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Humanoid Robot Production Numbers: AgiBot Says 20,000, Unitree Says 18,000. What Each Really Counts
AgiBot says 20,000 of its robots have rolled off the line and Unitree says it produced about 18,000 bipedal humanoids, but Unitree's prospectus shows 5,215 sold in 2025. What each production…
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Policy and Safety
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Why Humanoid Robots Can’t Just Stop: Inside Their Safety Systems in 2026
Cut power to a balancing humanoid and it falls. How fall recovery, balance control, speed and separation monitoring and ISO 10218 work, why ISO 25785-1 is still a draft, and what Korea's…
AI Models
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Muse Spark Open Is Free to Download. Hosted APIs Start at $1.25/$4.25, and You Need ~700 GB of GPU Memory
Muse Spark Open weights are free on Hugging Face (816B/42B MoE, 1M context). Hosted APIs start at $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter (Oct 16). Self-host needs ~700 GB GPU memory (NVFP4).
