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  1. Industrial Adoption & Value ChainExplainer

    What China's Humanoid Industry Competes On: Policy, Installation Scale and Price

    China's humanoid industry through MIIT's 2023 guidance, IFR installation data and published price and cost estimates, and what overseas …

  2. Humanoid & Robotics SystemsExplainer

    How Humanoids Walk Without Falling: From ZMP Control to Reinforcement-Learning Policies

    How biped control grew from ZMP and inverted-pendulum planning with whole-body control to massively parallel RL policies — with the …

  3. Humanoid & Robotics SystemsComparison

    Rotary vs Linear Humanoid Actuators: Reducers, Roller Screws and How to Calculate Output

    How rotary (motor + reducer) and linear (motor + roller screw) humanoid actuators work, how to compute their torque and force, and how …

  4. Humanoid & Robotics SystemsReference

    How Tesla Optimus Has Changed: Generation-by-Generation Disclosures and Hand Actuation

    Tesla Optimus from the 2021 announcement through the 2022 prototype, Gen 2, the 22-DoF hand and production plans — what has been publicly …

  5. Industrial Adoption & Value ChainExplainer

    How to Estimate a Humanoid Robot's Bill of Materials: Published Estimates and a Method

    Why humanoid BOM estimates differ so widely, what published figures measure, and how to estimate a BOM from joint counts. Cost structure …

  6. Humanoid & Robotics SystemsComparison

    Humanoid Platforms Compared: Figure 03, Electric Atlas and Unitree G1 by Their Published Specs

    Figure 03, electric Atlas and Unitree G1 compared on official specs — size, DoF, payload, battery, sensing, AI stack — and which to evaluate …

  7. Physical AI Models & Core TechExplainer

    What Is Physical AI? How LLMs, VLAs, World Models and Simulation Fit Together

    How Physical AI differs from text-only generative AI, and what VLMs, VLA models, world models and simulation each do — from primary sources, …