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| Video | Figure: F.03 at BMW (derived text) | Figure (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:638e5e2eff35… | res-yt-figure-f03-at-bmw-20260630-json sha256:638e5e2eff35… |
| Video | Unitree Breakthrough: The World's First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat (derived text) | Unitree Robotics (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:35c5994436c6… | res-yt-unitree-autonomous-combat-20260907-json sha256:35c5994436c6… |
| Video | Automated: Rodney Brooks on Building a Robot Business Customers Pay For | Association for Advancing Automation, 'Automated' podcast (association channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-4494143409af21c7 |
| Video | Unitree Breakthrough: The World's First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat | Unitree Robotics (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-56a50cecd13d56a3 |
| Video | Figure: F.03 at BMW | Figure (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-6134b4e9f9891d9f |
| Video | Tesla: Optimus Navigating Around | Tesla (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-64015afbee6dbaeb |
| Video | Automated: Rodney Brooks on Building a Robot Business Customers Pay For (derived text) | Association for Advancing Automation, 'Automated' podcast (association channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:70e465e704b8… | res-yt-automatedpodcast-brooks-20261028-json sha256:70e465e704b8… |
| Video | Deepseek and Unitree Robotics: Examining the National Security Risks of PRC Artificial Intelligence (hearing) (derived text) | House Committee on Homeland Security (official YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:00692620a972… | res-yt-househomeland-deepseek-unitree-20260317-json sha256:00692620a972… |
| Video | Deepseek and Unitree Robotics: Examining the National Security Risks of PRC Artificial Intelligence (hearing) | House Committee on Homeland Security (official YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-7c97cb13f9375252 |
| Video | Boston Dynamics: Machine, Assemble, Repair: How We Build Atlas | Boston Dynamics (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-a055f1bfb1bcd426 |
| Video | Bloomberg Technology: Agility Robotics Makes Public Debut as Humanoids Scale (derived text) | Bloomberg Technology (broadcaster's YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:5b8f665bca3e… | res-yt-bloombergtech-agility-debut-20261105-json sha256:5b8f665bca3e… |
| Video | Bloomberg Technology: Agility Robotics Makes Public Debut as Humanoids Scale | Bloomberg Technology (broadcaster's YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-af4358b51310c35a |
| Video | Boston Dynamics: Machine, Assemble, Repair: How We Build Atlas (derived text) | Boston Dynamics (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:26b710a1fbc9… | res-yt-bostondynamics-build-atlas-20261014-json sha256:26b710a1fbc9… |
| Video | Tesla: Optimus Navigating Around (derived text) | Tesla (company YouTube channel) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:7294e3596ff1… | res-yt-tesla-optimus-navigating-20241018-json sha256:7294e3596ff1… |
| Text | Tesla starts Optimus robot production in California as profit falls 43% (derived text) | TechCrunch | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:c4bc23233297… | res-techcrunch-tesla-q3-2026-html sha256:c4bc23233297… |
| Text | Media Advisory: Subcommittee Hearing on National Security Risks Posed by PRC Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Technologies (derived text) | House Committee on Homeland Security | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:ea4c51be7a6e… | res-homeland-hearing-advisory-20260315-html sha256:ea4c51be7a6e… |
| Text | The Employment Situation - October 2026 (derived text) | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:c9f032c17b2d… | res-bls-empsit-20261106-html sha256:c9f032c17b2d… |
| Text | China releases national standard system for humanoid robotics and embodied AI (derived text) | State Council Information Office of China (Xinhua) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:3e6d86079e16… | res-scio-humanoid-standards-20260302-html sha256:3e6d86079e16… |
| Text | Agility Robotics to become publicly listed through business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI | Churchill Capital Corp XI / Agility Robotics (SEC EDGAR, Form 425 exhibit 99.1) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-0d4c527aff26ad97 |
| Text | Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry (derived text) | Boston Dynamics (company blog) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:ffcf28b10835… | res-bostondynamics-atlas-ces-20260105-html sha256:ffcf28b10835… |
| Text | Unitree's Robot Boom Comes With Rising Costs, Inventory | Caixin Global | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-12dcd5700cafe968 |
| Text | Global Humanoid Robot Shipments Soar Nearly 300% YoY in H1 2026 (derived text) | Counterpoint Research | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:04d4ca179b32… | res-counterpoint-humanoid-h1-2026-html sha256:04d4ca179b32… |
| Text | Q3 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO | Alphabet (The Keyword) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-3093406bd9ae7493 |
| Text | Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 earnings call, full transcript (derived text) | EVwire (call transcript) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:67e6d1320289… | res-tesla-q3-2026-call-evwire-html sha256:67e6d1320289… |
| Text | Fact Sheet: President Trump Adjusts Imports of Robotics, Industrial Machinery, and their Parts and Components into the United States (derived text) | The White House | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:e9cc3bb1a7fa… | res-whitehouse-232-robotics-20261028-html sha256:e9cc3bb1a7fa… |
| Text | Order NEO (1X order page) | 1X Technologies | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-3b541cdbb924fc3e |
| Text | Five Million Robots now Operate in Factories Globally (World Robotics 2026) | International Federation of Robotics | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-46f923e6c6b1fe61 |
| Text | Productivity and Costs, Third Quarter 2026, Preliminary | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-4a30ce373145093f |
| Text | Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI Complete Business Combination | Agility Robotics, Inc. (SEC EDGAR, Form 8-K exhibit 99.2) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-4d8745d97f826a01 |
| Text | Hyundai Motor union set to leverage strike against Atlas robot deployment | The Korea Times | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-5106e14687194376 |
| Text | Productivity and Costs, Third Quarter 2026, Preliminary (derived text) | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:1ddd0839b368… | res-bls-prod2-20261105-html sha256:1ddd0839b368… |
| Text | Tesla starts Optimus robot production in California as profit falls 43% | TechCrunch | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-6234c0a837ba0a19 |
| Text | Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI Complete Business Combination (derived text) | Agility Robotics, Inc. (SEC EDGAR, Form 8-K exhibit 99.2) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:cfdd09af199b… | res-sec-agility-8k-ex992-20261104-html sha256:cfdd09af199b… |
| Text | Agility Robotics to become publicly listed through business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI (derived text) | Churchill Capital Corp XI / Agility Robotics (SEC EDGAR, Form 425 exhibit 99.1) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:efad8fd5bb4b… | res-sec-agility-425-ex991-20260624-html sha256:efad8fd5bb4b… |
| Text | Unitree's Robot Boom Comes With Rising Costs, Inventory (derived text) | Caixin Global | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:e540b326b1e7… | res-caixin-unitree-q3-20261029-html sha256:e540b326b1e7… |
| Text | Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry | Boston Dynamics (company blog) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-8187a97317d4db95 |
| Text | Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC | The Robot Report | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-8bcb42c2b2146367 |
| Text | Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity | Rodney Brooks (rodneybrooks.com) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-93da5192da8165e7 |
| Text | Moolenaar, Obernolte, McClellan Introduce Legislation to Ban Dangerous Chinese Robots (derived text) | House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:b580f5dac9bb… | res-selectcommittee-guard-act-20260603-html sha256:b580f5dac9bb… |
| Text | Fact Sheet: President Trump Adjusts Imports of Robotics, Industrial Machinery, and their Parts and Components into the United States | The White House | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-a755ed780d556df6 |
| Text | Media Advisory: Subcommittee Hearing on National Security Risks Posed by PRC Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Technologies | House Committee on Homeland Security | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-aa5ccbf03a14243f |
| Text | Q3 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO (derived text) | Alphabet (The Keyword) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:f85c5457b786… | res-alphabet-q3-2026-ceo-remarks-html sha256:f85c5457b786… |
| Text | Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity (derived text) | Rodney Brooks (rodneybrooks.com) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:2695da528d03… | res-brooks-humanoids-dexterity-20250926-html sha256:2695da528d03… |
| Text | BMW Group: First humanoid robot introduced in Plant Leipzig | BMW Group | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-b27976caa83217c8 |
| Text | BMW Group: First humanoid robot introduced in Plant Leipzig (derived text) | BMW Group | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:38559b4c810e… | res-bmwgroup-humanoid-leipzig-2026-html sha256:38559b4c810e… |
| Text | Moolenaar, Obernolte, McClellan Introduce Legislation to Ban Dangerous Chinese Robots | House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-b6937b348af1f22c |
| Text | Hyundai Motor union set to leverage strike against Atlas robot deployment (derived text) | The Korea Times | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:2413b5ec5af4… | res-koreatimes-hyundai-union-20260625-html sha256:2413b5ec5af4… |
| Text | Five Million Robots now Operate in Factories Globally (World Robotics 2026) (derived text) | International Federation of Robotics | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:f28d4184c93d… | res-ifr-world-robotics-2026-20260924-html sha256:f28d4184c93d… |
| Text | Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC (derived text) | The Robot Report | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:1e4ef0131758… | res-therobotreport-agility-s4-20260907-html sha256:1e4ef0131758… |
| Text | Effort to Ban Chinese Robots Moves Forward in House-Passed NDAA | House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-de6b344c40cfdd50 |
| Text | Order NEO (1X order page) (derived text) | 1X Technologies | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:d018ed512259… | res-1x-order-page-20261108-html sha256:d018ed512259… |
| Text | Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 earnings call, full transcript | EVwire (call transcript) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-e4ed568a35b4917a |
| Text | The Employment Situation - October 2026 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-e634b60a28607605 |
| Text | Global Humanoid Robot Shipments Soar Nearly 300% YoY in H1 2026 | Counterpoint Research | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-ecfc77813e519888 |
| Text | Effort to Ban Chinese Robots Moves Forward in House-Passed NDAA (derived text) | House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:417fa0caf1e5… | res-selectcommittee-ndaa-20260722-html sha256:417fa0caf1e5… |
| Text | China releases national standard system for humanoid robotics and embodied AI | State Council Information Office of China (Xinhua) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-fe3f51dd60c82e2e |
| Data | Good Old-Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000-Year 'Data Gap' in Robotics (derived text) | Ken Goldberg, Science Robotics (author copy, UC Berkeley AUTOLAB) | 2026-11-08 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:564b5ad9aa59… | res-goldberg-science-robotics-20250827-pdf sha256:564b5ad9aa59… |
| Data | Good Old-Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000-Year 'Data Gap' in Robotics | Ken Goldberg, Science Robotics (author copy, UC Berkeley AUTOLAB) | 2026-11-08 | retained | src-6ce52accfb0a69b7 |
Verbatim quotes shown in the video
Each quote is a source assertion: exact words, who said them and where they sit in the recording. The selector check re-finds the quote in the retained transcript bytes.
“as well as their parts and components, from any country”
asr-whitehouse-232-robotics-20261028-C1-1 · sha256:1817f7a3a95e… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“jointly negotiate agreements with trading partners”
asr-whitehouse-232-robotics-20261028-C1-2 · sha256:ee8ff5b39358… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“relies on foreign imports for most types of robotics”
asr-whitehouse-232-robotics-20261028-C1b-1 · sha256:a6363ea12eb3… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for Digit 5, subject to contractual milestones”
asr-sec-agility-8k-ex992-20261104-C2-1 · sha256:625e3981eab5… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“With more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation, Agility has established itself”
asr-sec-agility-8k-ex992-20261104-C2-2 · sha256:3fd9d181de90… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“10,000 robots annually”
asr-sec-agility-8k-ex992-20261104-C2-3 · sha256:ec05644fcd02… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“$2.5 billion pre-money equity value”
asr-sec-agility-425-ex991-20260624-C3-1 · sha256:0f00c3469970… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“more than $620 million of expected gross transaction proceeds”
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“led by Foxconn”
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“more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit v5 orders”
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“Agility generated $1.8 million in net sales in 2025, against a $140 million operating loss”
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“around 800 Digit v5 units in 2027, 7,000 by 2030 and up to 25,000 by 2035”
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“about $535,000 in revenue per robot over its five-year lifespan”
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“Manufacturing employment continued to trend up in October (+19,000) and has increased by 101,000”
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“Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, and the unemployment rate changed”
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“the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947”
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“354,000”
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“655,000”
asr-ifr-world-robotics-2026-20260924-C7-2 · sha256:465c4b706081… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“806,000”
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“Industrial automation is progressing at high speed”
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“topped 22,000 units in H1 2026, rising nearly 300% YoY”
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“top five players together accounted for 86% of total shipments”
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“capturing a 31% market share”
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“will exceed 50,000 units in 2026”
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“All Atlas deployments are already fully committed for 2026”
asr-bostondynamics-atlas-ces-20260105-C9-1 · sha256:0540f42e0c59… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“begin production of the new Atlas robots at its Boston headquarters immediately”
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“capable of producing 30,000 robots per year”
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“guaranteed employment and working conditions related to AI”
asr-koreatimes-hyundai-union-20260625-C10-1 · sha256:20ad5e34c27d… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“86 percent”
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“Guarding the U.S. Against Adversarial Robotics Dominance”
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“Robots made by China are a threat to national security, critical infrastructure, and American workers”
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“They contain backdoors that can be hijacked for espionage”
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“begin the process of determining whether Chinese robots should be banned nationwide”
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“Tuesday, March 17, 2026”
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“Matthew Malchano”
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“Vice President of Software, Boston Dynamics”
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“Collecting just visual data is not collecting the right data”
asr-brooks-humanoids-dexterity-20250926-C15-1 · sha256:38ad3b8cf361… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“about 17,000 low-threshold mechanoreceptors”
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“we are more than ten years away from the first profitable deployment of humanoid robots”
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“not come closer than 3 meters to a full size walking robot”
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“on the order of 100,000 years”
asr-goldberg-science-robotics-20250827-C16-1 · sha256:d9f3a3d35de1… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“YouTube includes about 35,000 years of”
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“an Expert from 1X can remotely supervise its actions at scheduled times”
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“US Deliveries start 2026”
asr-1x-order-page-20261108-C17-2 · sha256:6e9a71a3b1e4… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“$20,000”
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“$499/mo”
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“more than 300 million fully autonomous miles”
asr-alphabet-q3-2026-ceo-remarks-C18-1 · sha256:44213f2362dd… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“15 major U.S. cities”
asr-alphabet-q3-2026-ceo-remarks-C18-2 · sha256:3c7bb12e29de… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“The bots coming off this line are the first production-quality bots that we have manufactured”
asr-techcrunch-tesla-q3-2026-C19-1 · sha256:aeef8997c39f… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“suitable for a commercial product”
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“early production on a high-volume line in Fremont”
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“to get to 20,000 units a week”
asr-tesla-q3-2026-call-evwire-C20-2 · sha256:a17e75a3820f… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“the fine-tuning of the hand design”
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“I remain convinced that Optimus will be the biggest product on Earth”
asr-tesla-q3-2026-call-evwire-C20-4 · sha256:6110b4861298… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“Spartanburg launched a pilot project with the technology company Figure AI, marking the first deployment worldwide of humanoid robots in a BMW facility”
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“Over a ten-month period, the robot, called Figure 02, assisted in the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3s”
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“Unitree said third-quarter revenue rose 69.9% from a year earlier to 665 million yuan”
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“which rose to 1.02 billion yuan at the end of September from 367 million yuan at the end of 2025”
asr-caixin-unitree-q3-20261029-C22-2 · sha256:de3a160d0c5f… · attribution basis: retained source text (selector located by the SDK)
“Research-and-development spending jumped 249.6% to 127 million yuan, accounting for 19.1% of revenue”
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“country's first national standard system covering the entire industrial chain and lifecycle of humanoid robots”
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“title: Optimus Navigating Around”
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“author_name: Tesla”
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“title: F.03 at BMW”
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“author_url: https://www.youtube.com/@figureai”
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“building one robot was quite an event”
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“prototypes at scale, not just one or two”
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“Deployments are still limited.”
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“300 million in pending orders”
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“10,000 units annually”
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“First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat”
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“author_name: Unitree Robotics”
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“two different races play out”
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“winning the wrong one”
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“ignoring force to a large degree”
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“collect a lot of video of people doing stuff”
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“a lot longer than I think a lot of people have thought”
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- Forbes (October 5, 2026) and ABB (November 5, 2026) refused automated retrieval; BMW's statement to Forbes and ABB's statement are carried from their published text and from BMW's own release, not from retained copies. GeekWire's reading of the S-4 renders client-side and could not be located; The Robot Report's reading is retained instead. Of the seven recordings shown, the three music-only company films (Tesla, Figure, Unitree) are identified by the publisher's oEmbed record, not by a transcript; the four speech recordings carry local machine transcripts of the retained cuts, not publisher caption tracks, and those transcripts carry the recogniser's own errors.
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About this video
What the video shows. The state of robotics as of November 8, 2026, read from primary documents: Tesla's third-quarter call, Agility Robotics' SEC filings and releases, Unitree's first quarter as a listed company, the IFR's World Robotics 2026 release, Counterpoint's first-half humanoid count, the Section 232 proclamation and fact sheet, the House Homeland Security hearing of March 17, the GUARD Act releases, ABB's statement of November 5, the BLS releases of November 5 and 6, and the makers' own pages and channels. The finding, in three parts: capital and policy moved first; the deployment evidence is still pilot-scale; the robots that already work are elsewhere. On the record (seven fragments, all in the v2 cut, original audio, official channels only). Tesla, 'Optimus Navigating Around' (company channel, October 18, 2024), 24 s from 0:38: the newest Optimus video on the channel as of November 8, 2026; music only, with Tesla's own captions and its 'AUTONOMOUS 2X' and '8X' speed badges on screen. Figure, 'F.03 at BMW' (company channel, June 30, 2026), 28 s from 0:04: music only; four robots in a row, then one robot working. Boston Dynamics, 'Machine, Assemble, Repair: How We Build Atlas' (company channel, October 14, 2026), two passages from 0:18 and 3:01, 37 s: "we say we're building prototypes and you see essentially almost a full manufacturing line"; "a year ago, building one robot was quite an event ... now to build one robot, it's about a day". Bloomberg Technology, 'Agility Robotics Makes Public Debut as Humanoids Scale' (broadcaster's channel, November 5, 2026), 56 s from 4:02: the anchor's question ("Deployments are still limited. Why not stay private ...") and the chief executive's answer (30 customers in the pipeline, "300 million in pending orders", a factory for 10,000 units a year). Unitree, 'The World's First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat' (company channel, September 7, 2026), 36.5 s from 0:02 with the company's closing card held six seconds longer so it can be read; music only; the autonomy claim is the company's. House Committee on Homeland Security, hearing 'DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics: Examining the National Security Risks of PRC Artificial Intelligence' (official channel, public domain, March 17, 2026), 44 s from 31:43: the opening statement of Max Fenkell of Scale AI ("two different races ... the United States may be winning the wrong one"). Rodney Brooks on the Association for Advancing Automation's 'Automated' podcast (association channel, October 28, 2026), two passages from 6:02 and 7:00, 63 s: trajectory data versus force, "it's not just let's collect a lot of video of people doing stuff". The spoken passages are transcribed by a local recogniser and checked against the cut; the transcripts are machine transcripts, not publisher captions, and carry the recogniser's errors. Highlights. - Capital and policy moved first. Unitree listed on the STAR Market on August 19, 2026 and reported Q3 revenue of 665 million yuan (+69.9%) with net profit down 17.4%, R&D up 250% and inventory of 1.02 billion yuan against 367 million at end-2025. Agility Robotics closed its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI on November 4 and trades as AGLT from November 5: "$2.5 billion pre-money equity value", "more than $620 million of expected gross transaction proceeds", 2025 net sales of $1.78 million (from $310,000), operating loss $140.2 million, more than half of revenue from five robots bought by an investor, and "more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit v5 orders" from one customer "subject to the realization of certain contractual milestones". - The only independent account of a factory deployment is narrower than the maker's. Figure says more than 350 Figure 03 robots delivered and names BMW and Catalyst Brands. BMW told Forbes (October 5, 2026) the 2026 Spartanburg project "was a non-production test with two or three robots", with one robot working at a time, and that of the four robots in Figure's video one did the job. Figure's CEO estimated "six or eight" robots on site and was "pretty sure" BMW was paying. - Tesla gave no count. On October 21 Musk described "early production on a high-volume line in Fremont", "at least a year, maybe a little longer, to get to ... 20,000 units a week", deliveries to outside companies around the end of 2027, and the hand as the unfinished part. Tesla's channel has published no Optimus footage since October 18, 2024. - Boston Dynamics' 2026 output is a training fleet. "All Atlas deployments are already fully committed for 2026" to Hyundai's training centre and Google DeepMind; the Georgia factory floor is 2028; Hyundai's plan speaks of more than 25,000 Atlas and a 30,000-a-year factory. Hyundai Motor's union (about 40,000 members) voted over 86% for strike action on June 24, 2026 with AI job protections as a demand. - Where humanoids are shipped from. Counterpoint: more than 22,000 units in H1 2026 (+~300%), AgiBot ~9,700 (43%), Unitree >7,000 (31%), the top five vendors, all Chinese, 86%; applications led by entertainment and research, not factory work. China's national standard system (March 2, 2026), the 15th Five-Year Plan and the MIIT/SASAC 10,000-unit deployment action (June 9) sit behind the volume. - Washington and Beijing. Section 232 proclamation (October 28, 2026): threat finding accepted, negotiations ordered, no tariff. GUARD Act (H.R. 9129, June 3): security review of adversary-made humanoid and quadruped robots, FCC Covered List; a Pentagon-review provision passed the House in the NDAA on July 22. ABB (November 5): China's foreign-investment security office "has prohibited the acquisition of the ABB Robotics business in China". - The robots that already work. IFR: 603,000 industrial robots installed in 2025 (+11%), a 5-million operating stock, China 354,000 (59%), the US second at 38,500. Amazon: more than one million robots, 75% of orders assisted; the New York Times reported internal projections of 600,000 hires avoided by 2033. Waymo: 500,000 paid rides a week in March, 300 million autonomous miles and 15 cities by October 28. BLS: manufacturing +101,000 since December 2025; labor share 53.0%, the lowest since 1947. - The dexterity argument. Brooks: "Collecting just visual data is not collecting the right data"; about 17,000 mechanoreceptors in a human hand; "more than ten years away from the first profitable deployment of humanoid robots". Goldberg: a 100,000-year data gap. The makers' own concessions: Tesla on the hand; 1X's order page on remote experts for unlearned tasks; the IFR on prototypes and pilot-stage systems. - Comuvia's complexity judgement: high (deployment evidence vs valuation 5/5; feasibility of dexterity 4; China exposure 4; labor effects 3; policy trajectory 3). What would lower it: an audited unit count and revenue line from any maker; an independent account of a production deployment running unattended for months; a dexterity benchmark with touch data published by a maker. Evidence. Twenty-nine sources retained and located by the Comuvia SDK (58 records with their derived texts), 30 claims carrying 76 located assertions, store verified (134 records). Seven of the sources are the recordings above: the four spoken passages as local machine transcripts of the retained cuts, the three music-only company films as the publisher's own identity record for the video (title, channel), since there is no speech to transcribe. The rest of the retained set includes the White House fact sheet, both Agility SEC exhibits, The Robot Report's reading of the S-4, both BLS releases, the IFR release, Counterpoint, Boston Dynamics' CES post, the Korea Times report on the Hyundai vote, both Select Committee releases, the Homeland Security Committee's hearing advisory, Brooks' essay, Goldberg's Science Robotics editorial (author copy), 1X's order page, Alphabet's Q3 remarks, TechCrunch, the EVwire call transcript, BMW Group's Leipzig release (which carries BMW's own Spartanburg figures), Caixin on Unitree, and the SCIO standards release. Two sources are not retained: Forbes (October 5, 2026), whose account of BMW's statement is carried from its published text, and ABB's statement of November 5, 2026, whose wording is carried from three outlets quoting it; GeekWire's reading of the S-4 renders client-side and could not be located, so The Robot Report's reading stands in for it. Where a figure above comes from one of those, it is secondary on this page until the capture succeeds. Release. The owner approved the cut on November 8, 2026 and the 4K production cut on November 9, 2026 (26:04 at 3840x2160, presenter render 38,064 frames, lip-sync check passed). It is published on YouTube (Comuvia News) with an English caption track built from the narration and the recordings' transcripts, scheduled public at 16:25 Eastern on November 9, 2026. This is research and analysis, not investment advice. No position is recommended and nothing here is a forecast of any share price.