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Humanoid robots are becoming a parts business, and UBS ties most of it to US chip and sensor makers.

A UBS chart shared on X maps the parts of a humanoid robot, from hands and joint actuators to perception and compute, and the public companies tied to each. Humanoids are turning into a components business. The underlying UBS report was not seen.

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China is paying home workers to wear cameras while they fold laundry so robots can learn the motions.

JD.com is paying people in Suqian about 3,000 to 3,500 yuan a month to wear head cameras while doing household tasks such as folding clothes, and garment-factory workers there are recording sewing and cutting the same way. The footage trains embodied-AI robots. Workers recording their own skills for robots raises a real question about who owns that know-how.