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# Maze Weekly Trend — Week in Review, Week Ahead Theme: The infrastructure layer under physical AI is finally being built — but the evaluation stack and co-design tools are running ahead of the hardware. --- 1. The Five Things Worth Remembering This Week 1. The Robot Report's August 2026 top-
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Issue #047 — Weekly Trend The TOPS Trap: What China's Jetson Challengers Still Can't Copy By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence) The most important number in robotics edge compute this year is not a TOPS figure. It is a price: $1,799, roughly double the $899 list price
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The "Unsexy" Pivot: Why Heavy Gear is Eating the Robotics World By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence) The robotics market is undergoing a profound psychological shift. For the last eighteen months, the venture ecosystem has been hypnotized by the siren song of the general-purpose humanoid—a future where
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# The Physics of Liquidity and the Supply Chain Awakening Unitree Robotics’ formal IPO listing this week serves as the definitive punctuation mark for the current phase of the humanoid hype cycle, signaling that the capital markets are finally separating the hardware survivors from the software speculators. While the headlines have
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Published 2026-08-14 · Updated 2026-08-23 WEEKLY TREND — The Bipedal Reality Check By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence) The robotics market is currently undergoing a volatile adolescence. We are moving past the era of "pure promise"—where a video of a robot doing a backflip was enough
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Published 2026-08-07 · Updated 2026-08-17 By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence) In the early days of the current robotics hype cycle, the narrative was monolithic: humanoid robots were coming, and they were coming for your home first. The promise was a general-purpose butler, a Rosie the Robot
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Published 2026-07-24 · Updated 2026-08-23 Week 29 | 2026 — Ken Zhang If 2025 was the year of the "Humanoid Concept," Week 29 of 2026 is the moment the market bifurcated. The capital markets are finally demanding discrimination between "sci-fi renderings" and "industrial