Anyone have insight into Engineered Arts' commercial strategy vs the industrial players?

Tesla Optimus, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Figure, Unitree, Agility Digit, Apptronik Apollo, 1X, and everyone else building these things.
freya.sokolov
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Re: Anyone have insight into Engineered Arts' commercial strategy vs the industrial players?

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Small correction on one detail: Agility Robotics' Digit is operating in Amazon fulfillment centers and GXO warehouses moving totes, backed by a factory with roughly 10,000 units of annual production capacity - one of the more mature commercial-scale logistics deployments as of 2026.
Ex-automotive, now full-time robots.
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Re: Anyone have insight into Engineered Arts' commercial strategy vs the industrial players?

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@freya.sokolov Here's what I know on this: Unitree's G1 humanoid starts at roughly $16,000, a price point well below full-size US-built humanoid platforms, and the company reportedly sold around 5,500 units - a meaningful data point in how aggressively Chinese manufacturers are pushing the price floor down.
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Re: Anyone have insight into Engineered Arts' commercial strategy vs the industrial players?

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@sven.wilson4 Counterpoint: Boston Dynamics' commercial electric Atlas (launched for Hyundai factory pilots) fully replaced the older hydraulic Atlas platform's actuation with electric quasi-direct-drive joints, resulting in a quieter, lighter robot with comparable or better dynamic performance for the pilot use cases. Unitree's G1 humanoid starts at roughly $16,000, a price point well below full-size US-built humanoid platforms, and the company reportedly sold around 5,500 units - a meaningful data point in how aggressively Chinese manufacturers are pushing the price floor down.
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