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.
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Leju Put 15 Humanoids on a Hangzhou Auto-Parts Line. The Cycle Is Still Twice as Slow as a Worker
Yicai on-site at Zhaofeng Xiaoshan: 15 Leju Kuafu humanoids load auto parts in 30+ s cycles at ~98% success — company figures, pilot loading, not full replace.
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Policy and Safety
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China Publishes Its First Humanoid Robot Standards. The Safety Rules Come Later
China's market regulator has issued six national humanoid robot standards, GB/T 48317.1-.5 and GB/T 48316, effective April 1, 2027. Unitree, UBTECH, XPENG and Xiaomi helped draft them. They're…
AI Models
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Is Space Bunny, at $0.15/$0.60 per Million Tokens. Its Cost Chart Bills DeepSeek at Peak Rates
MiniMax says the anonymous Space Bunny model was an early M3.1 Flash. The API costs a flat $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, the same as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 off-peak, but MiniMax's cost chart…
