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'Tesla Has The Robot And The Customer': Dave Mazza's HUMN ETF Makes A Calculated Bet On Optimus
Monday, June 30, 2025 - 1:40pm | 1099The robots aren’t arriving — they’ve already started their shifts. Tesla Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Optimus is sorting 4680 battery cells in Fremont. Xiaomi’s CyberOne and Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics’ Atlas are patrolling factory floors in China and South Korea. And as...
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Tesla And Other US Robotics Giants Demand Federal Strategy To Compete With China's $138 Billion Push — Warn America Will Lose The Race Without It
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 3:16am | 874As China doubles down on robotics and artificial intelligence with a $138 billion state-backed fund, U.S. robotics leaders have urged Washington to establish a national strategy or risk falling behind in the global technology race. What Happened: Executives from Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Boston...
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Hyundai's Boston Dynamics Partners With Toyota Research Institute To Challenge Tesla's Optimus Humanoid Robot
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 8:22am | 520Hyundai Motor-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) entered into a research partnership last week, in a bid to replicate Tesla Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) progress with its Optimus humanoid robot. What Happened: The newly announced partnership is aimed at...
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Boston Dynamics' Atlas, Tesla's AI Edge, Amazon's Q AI Assistant, And More: This Week In Artificial Intelligence
Sunday, August 25, 2024 - 9:00am | 618As the week wraps up, the tech world has been buzzing with intriguing developments. From Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot, Atlas, showing off its warm-up routine to Tesla’s AI prowess being hailed by Elon Musk’s biographer, there’s plenty to catch up on. Let’s dive into...
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Should Elon Musk Be Worried? After Grooving And Backflipping, This Tesla Optimus Rival Is Back With A 'Quick Warm Up Before Work' Video
Friday, August 23, 2024 - 6:39am | 739Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot, Atlas, is back again with a warm-up video that has amassed over 716,000 views on X, formerly Twitter at the time of writing. What Happened: On Thursday, Boston Dynamics took to X to share a video of Atlas doing push-ups saying, “Atlas doing a quick warm...
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'2 Years to Meet, 3 Years to Beat:' Tesla CEO Elon Musk Brags About 'Startup' Optimus' Robotics Triumph Over Boston Dynamics
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 6:49am | 464Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk responded on Tuesday to a comparison with Massachusetts-based robotics firm Boston Dynamics. What Happened: Musk highlighted that Tesla achieved in two years what Boston Dynamics accomplished in over 30 years, and surpassed it in three years....
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Elon Musk's Push For 'Tesla Bot' Could Boost These 5 Global Stocks: HSBC
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 7:34am | 549On Monday, HSBC analysts identified several stocks that could benefit from Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) push into humanoid robots. What Happened: Tesla’s humanoid robot, known as “Tesla Bot,” was launched last September, and has made significant strides in its development,...
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What Happens When ChatGPT Meets Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 7:39am | 699A Boston Dynamics robot dog was given the ability to speak by a team of programmers who equipped it with OpenAI’s chatGPT — and the result may prompt you to think of the possibilities. What Happened: Santiago, a machine learning engineer, shared a video on ...
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Robo-Hosts Are Gradually Taking Over Reality TV — Is The Dystopian Future Here?
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 11:36am | 389“MILF Manor,” “The Button” and “Pressure Cooker” — do you know what all these reality TV shows have in common? Well, they don’t have a human host to tell the competitors about challenges or crack jokes with them. What Happened: From meeting Boston...
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Such A Showoff! Boston Dynamics' Humanoid Amuses Internet With Graceful Backflip
Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 8:12am | 645Remember Boston Dynamics' viral YouTube video of its humanoid Atlas and dog-like robot, Spot, grooving — and backflipping — on the song "Do You Love Me?" Well, the company has shared a new video and this time, Atlas is just showing off. What Happened: Boston Dynamics shared a video of its...
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Its Robots May Slay With Their Dance Moves — But Boston Dynamics Pledges They Won't Be Actually Ever Weaponized
Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 11:08pm | 550Boston Dynamics signed an open letter pledging not to weaponize general-purpose robots in October 2022. What Happened: The robotics startup is one among six companies in the space that wrote and signed an open letter on Thursday, stating that "one area of particular concern...
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Boston Dynamics Is Suing Rival Ghost Robotics For Allegedly Copying Its Robot Dog
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - 6:04am | 349Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for allegedly infringing on seven patents related to its robot dog, the Spot quadruped. What Happened: In a complaint filed in Delaware federal court, Boston Dynamics said Ghost Robotics' Vision 60 and Spirit 40 quadrupeds contain...
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Fintech Focus For December 14, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 8:23pm | 1738Quote To Start The Day: We’re really trying to encourage progress, not to force it. Source: Adena Friedman One Big Thing In Fintech: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is jumping into the institutional bitcoin game with a $100 million investment in bitcoin and a $5 million equity stake...
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'Liquidity Jumping': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 6:35pm | 1495The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After auctioning to new all-time highs, U.S. index futures moved back into balance. Remember This: “With Global Liquidity jumping by some US $20 trillion in 2020, or some 25% of World GDP, there is a lot to spend... Consider that following the 1930s...
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Get Ready To Be Wowed By Google X's Next Gen Atlas...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 11:37am | 186Boston Dynamics, a robotics company that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) acquired in 2013, introduced its latest robot named Atlas. Atlas is a five-foot-nine, 180-pound robot that is capable of opening doors, walking in the snow, picking up boxes, and more importantly, can overcome obstacles in its...