Agibot Pauses Its IPO at a RMB 50 Billion Mark. The Order Book Is Why

Agibot is doing what a company does when the queue stops moving. From 22 October it began publishing seven results across seven consecutive working days, covering datasets, an operations platform, the heavy-load G2 Max, an embodied agent framework called GenieMaster, a simulation platform, a foundation model and a swarm learning method. The backdrop is a … Read more

Tesla Wants to Print Optimus a Skin

On 8 October the US Patent and Trademark Office published a Tesla application numbered US 2026/0310299 A1, titled Three-dimensional flexible tactile sensor array with multimodal sensing and scalable manufacturing methods. The applicant address is Austin. The inventor list runs past a dozen names. The first Optimus patent filing in four months. The filing describes conductive … Read more

Tesla’s $30 Billion Credit Line Is Insurance, Not Fuel

Tesla closed a $30 billion package of new loans and credit facilities on 29 September, earmarked for Full Self-Driving, the Cybercab robotaxi, Optimus humanoid production and AI compute infrastructure. Most coverage stopped at the number. The detail that matters sits in a single word: undrawn. Not a dollar has been pulled. Tesla has said it … Read more

BYD’s Humanoid Has a Face Now, and a RMB 200,000 Cost Target

China’s intellectual property office published a design patent on 9 October with an unusually plain product name: embodied intelligent robot. The holder was BYD. The grant itself had issued on 6 October, four days earlier, under registration number CN310247768S. BYD’s design patent CN310247768S shows a two-tone shell with 31 degrees of freedom. Source: OFweek This … Read more

Boston Dynamics Built a Four-Fingered Hand and Deleted the Pinky

On 1 October Boston Dynamics published the dexterous hand design for its next-generation Atlas. Four fingers, 13 degrees of freedom, direct-drive joints, a single actuator type across the whole hand, and dense pressure tactile sensors across fingertips and palm. It can roll small objects between thumb and fingers, flip something inside its palm, and hold … Read more

China Telecom spins a humanoid brain company out of its AI institute

Gamma Robotics has registered in Shanghai’s Xuhui district and moved into Modu Space, the city’s AI incubator cluster. It is the first market-facing company incubated by China Telecom’s AI institute, TeleAI, and it is backed by the operator’s Shanghai AI industry private equity fund. Gamma Robotics is building a self-evolving base model for whole-body humanoid … Read more