We Taught Steel to Think
Good Morning, Posthumans!
Humanoid robots are stepping off the pages of science fiction and into everyday life—helping out in homes, moving through warehouses, learning in real time. They're no longer distant dreams, but friendly forms ready to assist, adapt, and grow with us.
As AGI becomes embodied, the spaces we live and work in begin to respond, collaborate, and support. The world itself is becoming more intuitive—one step, one gesture, one thoughtful interaction at a time.
🧬 Signal #1: Figure’s AGI Phase Begins
Figure’s CEO confirms that humanoid robots have entered AGI engineering validation, aiming to ship 100,000 units within four years. Designed for physical labor and cognitive adaptability, these bots run models locally and learn on the move.
Posthuman Spark: Intelligence is no longer an app—it’s an encounter.
🧬 Signal #2: Tesla Optimus Gets a Dexterity Upgrade
Tesla's latest Optimus demo shows humanoid hands folding laundry, powered by end-to-end neural networks. The robot isn’t just imitating—it’s refining actions through real-world feedback.
Posthuman Spark: Learning doesn’t live in data centers anymore—it happens on the floor, sock by sock.
🧬 Signal #3: Sanctuary AI Trains General Labor Bots
Canada-based Sanctuary AI rolled out Phoenix, a humanoid robot trained to perform general work tasks. With cognitive architecture focused on abstract reasoning and memory, it signals a shift from automation to general assistance.
Posthuman Spark: The next labor revolution wears boots, not badges.
🧬 Signal #4: Agility Robotics Opens Robot Factory
Agility Robotics opened the world’s first humanoid robot factory in Oregon to produce its bipedal robot, Digit. Built for warehouse work, Digit is designed to operate in human environments without retrofitting.
Posthuman Spark: We built factories for robots. Now robots are being built to live in ours.
🧬 Signal #5: Apple’s Vision Pro Lays the Sensor Foundation
While not a robot, Apple Vision Pro's sensor stack—LiDAR, hand tracking, spatial audio—is quietly laying groundwork for embodied AGI. The tools that perceive your world today may guide the robots of tomorrow.
Posthuman Spark: Before the robot arrives, the room must learn to see.
🪄 LIVED BRANDS
Unitree - The Future You Can Actually Order
In a world of futuristic demos and promo videos, Unitree ships reality. While others prototype, Unitree delivers—quadrupeds that run, flip, and follow you home. You don’t need a lab to meet them. Just a shopping cart.
Their robots feel like the first real draft of cohabitation—machines you don’t just admire, but adapt to. And now, with humanoid forms in development, Unitree isn’t waiting for AGI to arrive. It’s already teaching steel to walk, for real.
Their brand isn’t built on speculation. It’s built on shelves.
🔭 Posthuman Spark: The most radical future isn’t imagined—it’s delivered to your doorstep.
🔁 NEW HABITS
Robot Colleagues, Real Shifts
In warehouses, research labs, and commercial environments, humanoid robots like Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix or Agility’s Digit are no longer experimental novelties—they’re entering day-to-day workflows. Their presence is prompting a change in how humans behave on the job.
Workers naturally begin speaking aloud during tasks, slowing movements for clarity, and adjusting routines to suit machine timing. These are not commands, but accommodations—new rhythms formed in response to intelligent bodies sharing the same space.
🔁 The shift is subtle: coworkers don’t always have conversations—they sync movement and attention across species.
🌱 A new habit emerges: people adapt workplace behavior to include machines as full-time teammates.
🔁 NEW HABITS
Cooking with Cobots
As robotic chefs like Moley and AI-powered kitchen arms enter homes and restaurants, they’re learning to cook not by code—but by mimicking human rhythm. Users guide them through gestures, motion timing, and even small reactions, forming a new kind of culinary choreography.
🔁 The shift is subtle: Recipes become muscle memory, and movements become instructions.
🌱 A new habit emerges: People are cooking through motion and mood, with bots as ambient sous-chefs.
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