Robot prices could fall 10x if manipulators and parts became standardized
MannyKayy · x · 2026-07-24
Robots are still expensive mainly because their component supply chains are not standardized.
The post argues that if manipulators and other core parts were made interoperable, robot prices could drop by an order of magnitude and potentially reach the low four-figure range much faster. It calls for companies to contribute technical experts to the ISO standardization process to accelerate that effort.
More from Embodied
- FLASH: GPU-native deformable sim learns cloth folding in minutes on one RTX 5090 — ChongZzZhang · 2026-10-26
- Luke Wroblewski spots it: iPhone Duo's corner radius mirrors the original iPhone — LukeW · 2026-10-26
- Humanoids shattered forecasts: half-marathon record in 2026, 100m faster than Bolt — ben_j_todd · 2026-10-26
- Humanoid walking is continuous correction — watch recovery, not locomotion, in demos — Olivier__OG · 2026-10-26
- CircuitHub unveils The Grid, a factory-scale robot making PCBs in the US twice as fast as Shenzhen — garrytan · 2026-10-26
- Shanghai AI Lab-led team releases 100-hour egocentric wearable dataset for humanoid training — ChuckDBrooks · 2026-10-26