Hi, I’m Ulrich.
I track humanoid robots, what they can actually do today, where they’re being deployed in manufacturing and warehousing, and when they’ll realistically show up in your home.
After watching AI and automation reshape industries, humanoid robotics struck me as the technology with the highest signal-to-noise ratio, and the least reliable coverage. Too much hype, too little operational specificity. There’s A Robot For That exists to fix that.
I have tracked the sector since 2024, with a particular focus on safety standards, ISO 10218 and the EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, and on what deployments mean for operations and EHS teams.
I write for manufacturing leaders, operations managers, and early adopters who need real information, deployment costs, integration realities, safety standards, ROI timelines, not press releases dressed up as journalism.
What This Publication Covers
🏭 Industry Deployment
Real-world deployments in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. What’s working, what’s failing, what decision-makers need to know before signing a pilot agreement.
🤖 Robot Comparisons
Side-by-side specs, pricing, capability breakdowns and deployment readiness for every major humanoid platform, Figure, Unitree, Tesla Optimus, Boston Dynamics, and more.
🏠 Home Robotics
When will a robot do your laundry? Honest timelines, realistic cost projections, and what the consumer humanoid market actually looks like beyond the demo videos.
📊 The Humanoid Reality Index
The centerpiece of this site is the Humanoid Reality Index, an evidence ledger that ranks every tracked humanoid robot by what it has verifiably done: deployments, pilots and demos with dated, named sources. Vendor claims are recorded, but they never move a robot up the ladder.
How I Verify What I Publish
Independent only means something if you can check it. These are the rules every page on this site follows.
Named sources, never vendor marketing
Every load-bearing claim is tied to a named source: standards bodies such as ISO and OSHA, regulatory filings, or primary research from firms like Counterpoint Research and IDTechEx. Manufacturer marketing is quoted as a claim, never used as evidence.
Prices only from the maker’s own order page or a filing
A robot price appears here only if it is confirmed on the manufacturer’s own store or order page, or in a regulatory filing. In July 2026 I audited every listed price on this site against that bar and removed six that no manufacturer had ever published.
Primary sources over aggregators
When a company announces something, I link the company’s own newsroom, press release or filing wherever an open one exists. Third-party coverage is the fallback, not the default.
Corrections in the open
When a number turns out to be wrong, the old line is marked as superseded with a date, not silently overwritten. The correction trail is part of the record.
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