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Coogan: China controls 85% of the global humanoid robotics market
“So 5000 units were delivered from each unitary and adubot. By comparison, U.S. Companies, including Tesla and figure, shipped only a few hundred robots each, if that. China is also estimated to control about 85% of the global humanoid robotics market, and also…”
John Coogan Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 2:00 U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
Opinion
Farid: China has a huge advantage over US startups in vertical robotics integration
“Like the Chinese, like, I think this is a place where China has a huge advantage compared to like a lot of the American startups like Unitree, for example, which I'm sure you guys have seen those videos, like they have built an entire team to build actuators a…”
Saman Farid Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 18:53 How Robots Are Quietly Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing | Saman Farid on TBPN
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: Chinese robotics firms are replicating DJI's US market takeover playbook
“They are absolutely taking that playbook and trying to replicate it as broadly as possible.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 11:41 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Unitree robots can execute specific tasks repeatedly, though not yet generalizable
“Unitry is, is already like, feels like it's scaling up to the point where like unitry robots should be usable in certain locations. Like, they're not generalizable yet, but they're certainly, if you train them on a specific task, they could do that task over a…”
John Coogan Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 1:43:36 Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
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