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Domestic-manufacturing day: a $100M assembly-factory raise, a cheap developer humanoid, and BMW's first German humanoid deployment.
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Foundry Robotics raises $100M to run autonomous assembly factories
Foundry Robotics closed an oversubscribed $100M Series A led by Marlinspike Partners, with Khosla Ventures and Wing VC, to open a 130,000 sq ft East Bay factory combining AI-driven robotic cells with human staff for defense and industrial assembly. The company sells factory capacity as a service rather than selling robots, aimed at reshoring complex hardware assembly.
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BMW puts humanoid robots into its Leipzig plant
BMW introduced humanoid robots into production at its Leipzig plant, its first humanoid deployment in Germany. No robot model, task count, or numbers were disclosed, and the announcement does not separate supervised piloting from routine production use, so treat it as an early pilot until specifics appear.
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Faraday Future spins out robotics unit, launches sub-$2,500 developer humanoid
Faraday Future's new robotics company FFR launched FF Nova, a humanoid priced at $2,490 ($390 for the developer skills package), in an invitation-only run of 100 units with 20 shipping first. FFR says cumulative sales and shipments will pass 1,100 units this month, a vendor-reported figure spanning three February-launched models. This is an education and developer platform, not a working labor robot.
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47 companies now cite humanoid robots in SEC filings, up from 13
US SEC filings mentioning "humanoid" jumped to 47 companies this year from 13, with Faraday Future alone accounting for 43 of 158 filings, alongside blank-check shells and auto suppliers Mobileye, Autoliv, Dana and Adient. The spread signals that firms are pricing the word before shipping the product, a pattern that tracks earlier hype cycles like the blockchain renaming wave.
Read more on Inc.