The Second Earth
Humanity’s first foothold on Mars will cost a trillion dollars and may kill the first to try. A clear-eyed reckoning with the case for – and against.
Humanity’s first foothold on Mars will cost a trillion dollars and may kill the first to try. A clear-eyed reckoning with the case for – and against.
Figure now builds a humanoid robot every hour, Amazon has crossed a million machines, and NVIDIA shipped open physical-AI models. Inside robotics’ tipping point.
Boston Dynamics Atlas is building Hyundais. Neura raised millions backed by Amazon and Nvidia. A humanoid robot now costs $16K. In 2026, the robot revolution arrived.
In April 2026, a Chinese robot ran a half-marathon in 50:26 – faster than any human ever has. What the Beijing race reveals about physical AI today.
From BMW’s factory floor to Japan Airlines at Haneda, 2026 is the year humanoid robots stopped being demos. Here’s who’s deploying, who’s winning, and what it means.
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