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What if robots cost more than people? A new study suggests that the low-end jobs we assume will be automated might be too expensive. VCG via Getty Images Maybe robots will cost more than people. And just maybe, human jobs will be safe for longer than we think. According to a new report by a construction software company, replacing a single nursing assistant with a humanoid robot runs about $375,100 a year, nearly nine times the $42,200 these workers actually earn. And robots that could replace construction laborers, who make just under $50,000 per year, would cost almost $300,000. “For years, the assumption was that low-paid, low-skill jobs would be the first to go,” a spokesperson from Planera, the software company that did the report, told me via email. “But the data shows the opposite.” For a decade, the automation story has had a pretty clear villain and a clear victim. The villain was
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Darius Baruo
Jul 07, 2026 17:40
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 streamlines humanoid robot workflows with an open, end-to-end platform for policy training and deployment.
NVIDIA has unveiled the Isaac GR00T N1.7 platform, an end-to-end open source development ecosystem designed to simplify and accelerate humanoid robot creation. By integrating simulation, data collection, model training, and deployment workflows, GR00T N1.7 aims to address the fragmentation that has long hindered robotics progress. Humanoid robotics, while promising, remains a highly complex field with siloed tools and manual integrations slowing development. The GR00T platform unifies these disparate stages via NVIDIA’s validated software stack, making it easier for developers to transition from initial robot setup to advanced task-specific skill training. The Isaac GR00T 1.7 vision-language-action (VLA)
Insider Brief UMA unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot and introduced a learning system meant to let robots acquire new tasks through demonstration rather than manual programming. The Paris-based physical AI company said the system is being developed for factories, warehouses, logistics centers and industrial facilities, where robots could take on repetitive, physically […]
Insider Brief SKF and Leaderdrive have agreed to form a China-based venture to develop high-precision transmission components for humanoid robot joints. SKF will hold a 60% majority stake in the venture, which is focused on components used in industrial humanoid robots powered by embodied AI technology, according to the Swedish company. The venture is expected […]
UBTech Robotics introduced a new humanoid robot line as the Chinese company expands past industrial robots into consumer and commercial that encompass companionship, care and service applications. The company unveiled the UWORLD U1 Series at a June 30 launch event in Shenzhen and the line’s three models include the U1 Lite semi-torso edition, the full-body […]
A San Diego location of Altus charter schools, which are designed for students who have fallen behind academically, purchased a pair of robots for $500,000 to help with teaching, career planning and translation.
When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful. As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind […]
Insider Brief WIRobotics has released the simulation model for its ALLEX humanoid robot, launching what the South Korean company says will be an ongoing effort to make key technologies from its physical AI program available to researchers and developers. “In humanoid robot development, simulation models are a core infrastructure that serves as the foundation for […]
