Tag: Automation

Figure Just Retired a Humanoid Robot After 11 Months. That’s the Point.

Figure’s F.02 humanoid robot had a remarkably short career. The machine entered service in late 2025, spent months working in Figure’s manufacturing operations and at BMW’s plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, walked thousands of steps, handled tens of thousands of components and contributed to real automotive production. Eleven months later, Figure decommissioned it. Then, in […]

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Can China Become the Android of Robotics With Open Software?

The global robotics industry is entering a new phase. While Chinese manufacturers have already shaken the market with low-cost robot dogs and increasingly affordable humanoid robots, Beijing’s biggest strategic move may not be hardware at all. Instead, China is embracing open-weight AI models to build a software ecosystem that could become the foundation of tomorrow’s […]

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Goldman Sachs Now Expects AI to Displace 15 Million U.S. Jobs Over the Next Decade

Artificial intelligence has been surrounded by dramatic predictions about the future of work for years, but Goldman Sachs has now raised its own estimate of AI-driven job displacement in the United States. The investment bank believes generative AI could affect more than 9% of the U.S. workforce over the next decade—equivalent to roughly 15 million […]

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