China's locomotion stack closed a human gap in about a year. It closed it in events that take out perception, grasping and anything unrehearsed, which is most of a deployment.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 47%
- Operator
- Operator 29%
- Investor
- Investor 24%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives65
- Confidence60
Tiangong Ultra beat four men's world records in robot-only categories at the Beijing games, but the only mark with a clean comparator is a standing high jump three times higher than last year's robot best.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives66
- Confidence74
The World Humanoid Robot Games reads as a volume-manufacture demonstration. The FCC import ban and Unitree's Pentagon listing leave Western buyers cut off from the supplier doing the demonstrating.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives74
- Confidence41
China's World Humanoid Robot Games scored household and hotel runs out of 300 points, docking collisions and drops and halving credit when a person stepped in. The penalties are the interesting part.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence43