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Re: What's your best guess for who gets acquired first among the smaller players?
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 2:18 pm
by sarahbernard
@sarahbernard Slight correction, though the overall point stands:
1X's NEO platform is notable for explicitly targeting home use rather than only industrial deployment, which is a meaningfully different (and arguably harder) engineering and safety target than warehouse or factory-floor robots.
Re: What's your best guess for who gets acquired first among the smaller players?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:59 am
by ssantos
Same conclusion I've come to. Also worth noting:
Sanctuary AI has taken an approach more explicitly centered on teleoperation-driven data collection and cognitive architecture research, which is a meaningfully different bet than the manufacturing-scale-first playbook Tesla and Figure are running.
Re: What's your best guess for who gets acquired first among the smaller players?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:59 am
by novikova63
@ssantos This is exactly the kind of context I was looking for.
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.