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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Cosima du Pasquier shares insights on the value of the event as a key platform for launching and scaling robotics companies.

The conversation highlights the strong connection between academic institutions and the robotics ecosystem, with references to programs at Stanford and Oregon State, known for their engineering excellence and contributions to companies like Agility Robotics.

The Humanoids Summit is positioned as a strategic space where innovation, talent, and companies converge, making it a critical environment for visibility, networking, and growth in the humanoid robotics industry.

Key topics:

Robotics ecosystem and innovation
Engineering and academic pathways
Startup visibility in robotics
Humanoid robotics industry growth
Tech events and industry impact

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Evan Wineland, co-founder of Weave Robotics, presents Isaac, a general-purpose robot designed to automate real-world tasks with high precision.

The robot is currently focused on folding laundry, handling garments with consistency and accuracy, including aligning items and ensuring correct orientation. The platform is built to expand into additional use cases such as hospitality and manufacturing.

Isaac uses a practical and cost-efficient hardware setup, including stereo and RGB cameras, fisheye wrist cameras, and parallel grippers. Different configurations are available, including versions with and without autonomous mobility.

The system is designed for reliability, operating over long periods while maintaining consistent performance across tasks.

Weave Robotics controls the full software stack, including data collection through teleoperation, model training, and deployment. The robot operates autonomously using vision-conditioned AI, allowing it to respond dynamically to real-world environments.

These robots are already deployed in businesses in San Francisco and are designed to be accessible for both large companies and smaller operations.

Key topics:

General-purpose robotics
Robotics in real-world applications
AI and computer vision
Automation in hospitality and manufacturing
Robotics deployment

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, TQ Systems presents its frameless motor technology designed for high performance robotics applications.

The company specializes in high torque dense motors using a patented winding system that increases copper fill factor, resulting in greater torque and efficiency.

These frameless motors allow direct integration into robotic systems, giving developers more design flexibility while reducing weight and eliminating bulky external housings, which is critical for humanoid robots.

TQ Systems offers multiple product lines, including the ILM series and the IM series, supporting a wide range of applications. Humanoid robots typically require dozens of motors across joints such as shoulders, hips, and wrists, making performance and integration key factors.

Beyond hardware, TQ Systems works closely with customers during the design phase, offering customization options such as adjusting motor performance and integrating electronics directly into the system.

Key topics:

Robotics motors and actuators
High torque density systems
Humanoid robot design
Hardware optimization
Advanced robotics engineering

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, StereoLabs presents its perception technology designed to enable advanced vision capabilities in robotics.

The company provides a full perception layer through its ZED SDK, including depth sensing, visual SLAM, and data collection tools for physical AI applications.

StereoLabs offers a range of stereo camera systems, including the ZED X, ZED X Mini, and ZED X1, supporting use cases such as navigation, obstacle detection, and robotic manipulation. These sensors can be integrated into different parts of humanoid robots, including the head, chest, and arms.

The platform is compatible with high-performance computing systems such as Nvidia Jetson Thor, enabling the processing of multiple stereo cameras simultaneously. StereoLabs also provides its own compact compute solution, the ZBox Mini.

This technology plays a critical role in enabling robots to perceive, understand, and interact with real world environments.

Key topics:

Robot vision and perception
Stereo vision systems
Visual SLAM in robotics
AI and robotics integration
Humanoid robot navigation

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Vitaly Bulatov, founder of Ultimate Fighting Bots, introduces the first league where humanoid robots compete in real cage matches.

The league focuses on humanoid robots with two arms and two legs, currently centered on boxing, with plans to expand into kickboxing and other combat sports.

UFB provides hardware to university robotics teams, including institutions like UC Berkeley and Stanford, allowing them to focus on developing competitive AI and control systems.

Beyond entertainment, the league serves as a platform to advance robotics research by pushing the limits of robot performance through complex, dynamic tasks.

Matches take place at live events, including upcoming competitions in Las Vegas, and are also streamed online through platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, and X.

Additionally, UFB offers a remote gym experience through its platform, where users can connect to robots and compete against others in real time.

Key topics:

Humanoid robot competitions
Robotics and AI training
Human robot interaction
Robotics innovation
Future of humanoid robotics

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Psyonic presents its advanced bionic hands designed for both human prosthetics and robotics applications.

With over 300 patients currently using these hands and coverage through Medicare in the United States, Psyonic is bridging the gap between healthcare and robotics. The technology is also widely adopted across the robotics industry, with more than 50 companies including NASA, Meta, Google, and Amazon integrating these hands into robotic systems.

The design focuses on durability and compliance, using silicone and flexible joints instead of rigid metal to better replicate human movement and resilience. The hands are built to withstand real world conditions, including high impact drops.

Equipped with integrated touch sensors, the system allows precise pressure detection, enabling more natural and effective interaction with objects.

Psyonic offers both right and left hands in multiple sizes, supporting a wide range of use cases across prosthetics and robotics.

Key topics:

Bionic hands and prosthetics
Robotics manipulation systems
Human robot interaction
Advanced sensing technologies
AI and robotics applications

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Lucky Robots presents its approach to training artificial intelligence models for robotics using simulation.

The platform provides a simulation engine that allows developers to train robotic systems without relying on physical robots, teleoperation, or VR setups. By generating virtual environments, robots can perform tasks such as object manipulation or space organization while producing large scale training data.

The system can generate billions of training episodes, enabling rapid development and iteration of AI models. Users can define scenarios using simple text prompts, allowing the engine to create environments and execute tasks automatically.

This simulation based approach offers precise and reliable data, as the system has full control over variables such as object position, physics, and environment conditions, improving accuracy compared to traditional data collection methods.

The platform functions similarly to a game engine, giving developers flexibility to build, modify, and test robotic behaviors efficiently.

Key topics:

Robotics AI training
Simulation environments
Reinforcement learning
Data generation for robotics
Future of AI robotics

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Russel from Collabots showcases custom robotic characters designed to bring virtual personalities into physical environments.

These robots are 3D printed and fully customizable to represent specific characters, such as virtual personas, enabling real-world meet and greet experiences at events, exhibitions, and commercial spaces.

The systems support multiple interaction modes, including pre-programmed content, live operation by performers, and integration with AI for conversational experiences.

Originally developed in Japan and now based in Boston within the MassRobotics ecosystem, the project is expanding globally with a focus on entertainment, retail, and live performance applications.

Future developments aim to introduce mobility features such as walking and dancing, enabling more dynamic and immersive experiences.

Key topics:

Character-based humanoid robots
Robotics for entertainment and events
Human robot interaction
AI-driven interaction systems
Future of humanoid robotics

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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At the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, Haptica presents a novel touch sensing hardware system designed to improve robotic interaction through efficient and adaptive pressure detection.

The technology is based on a system of tubes and proportional valves that can both sense and respond to pressure changes. By leveraging the relationship between pressure and volume, the system detects variations in real time, enabling responsive and controlled interaction.

One of the key advantages of this approach is its cost efficiency compared to traditional high resolution sensors. By using lower resolution data, the system achieves faster control and responsiveness without unnecessary complexity.

Haptica is a women led company currently spinning out of Stanford, focused on developing scalable and practical solutions for robotics and human robot interaction.

The team is open to collaboration and can be contacted through their website.

Key topics:

Touch sensing in robotics
Pressure based hardware systems
Cost efficient robotics solutions
Human robot interaction
Robotics innovation

Event: Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025

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