servobrief.com, Saturday, August 15, 2026

Two signals stand out today: Figure's private shares trade below its $39B mark, and Sanctuary claims production-ready AI on industrial arms.

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• Figure's secondary shares trade below its $39B mark
  Figure's private shares changed hands at $174 on Forge Global as of August 13, a price that implies buyers value the company below the $39B set by its September 2025 Series C. No new primary round has topped that mark since. It is the clearest sign yet that private buyers think humanoid valuations ran ahead of revenue.
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• Sanctuary AI says its physical-AI models now run in production on industrial arms
  Sanctuary is extending its manipulation AI beyond its Phoenix humanoid to fixed industrial robot arms, claiming production-ready performance on tasks like plugging in connectors. No revenue or customer numbers disclosed, and the production claim is vendor-reported, not independently audited. It signals a pivot toward selling the AI brain onto hardware others already run, a faster path to paying work than shipping full humanoids.
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• Westlake Robotics closes another round, hitting 500M yuan in six months
  Update to its earlier raises: Westlake added a nearly 100M yuan Series A led by Haiyuan Capital, bringing the total to 500M yuan (about $70M) across four rounds since early 2026. The money funds its GAE motion model, which it licenses to rival humanoid makers as a standard control layer. A university spinout selling its software to competitors is an unusual bet in a field where most guard their stack.
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