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Physical AI Reaches the Factory Floor: Humanoid Robots, the Leap From Pilot to Platform, and the Gap Between Hype and Reality - July 24, 2026
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Physical AI Reaches the Factory Floor: Humanoid Robots, the Leap From Pilot to Platform, and the Gap Between Hype and Reality Humanoid robots are finally leaving the demo stage and logging real months of work on actual factory and warehouse floors. Chris and Laura dig into Figure's eleven month run on the BMW line in Spartanburg, Agility's sixty five thousand operating hours across nine facilities, AgiBot's quality inspection line in China, and Amazon's million robot fleet, then separate the...