Tesla's Optimus dominates today's docket, with the company reportedly nearing 1,000 humanoids a week even as the bots fumble tasks and workers bristle at training their own replacements. Elsewhere, the unglamorous side of scale takes center stage—robotaxi servicing, warehouse fulfillment, and Amazon's factory bets—alongside a palm-sized hopping frog and Intrinsic's open-source pitch.

In today’s roundup

• Tesla close to making 1,000 Optimus humanoids a week, but robots struggle with tasks — Interesting Engineering
  Tesla's ramp toward 1,000 Optimus units a week is a manufacturing milestone, but the admission that the robots still struggle with tasks is the honest part.
• From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis? — The Robot Report
  Driving well isn't the bottleneck—this piece argues fast local vehicle servicing is the unglamorous problem standing between 14 robotaxi cities and 15,000.
• Frog-inspired robot hops over obstacles, lands, and prepares to jump again using tiny motor — Interesting Engineering
  A palm-sized robot that hops a full stair, lands, and readies its next jump using a tiny motor shows how much mobility you can pack into little packages.
• Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements — Ars Technica
  There's an obvious tension when workers are asked to train the very humanoids meant to replace them, and it's playing out inside Tesla's 1,000-a-week push.
• Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility — The Robot Report
  Amazon's $100M Indiana plant will build the products powering its own fulfillment and robotics network, a sign of how vertically integrated its automation has become.
• Warren CAT deploys AutoStore system to handle parts fulfillment — Automated Warehouse
  Warren CAT's live AutoStore deployment, installed by Kardex, is a tidy example of goods-to-person automation quietly taking over daily parts picking and processing.
• An open source approach to physical AI from Intrinsic — Robohub
  Google's Intrinsic open-sourcing ROS-compatible parts of its platform as Intrinsic Core could lower the barrier for developers building physical AI applications.
• Drone pilots can now analyze crashes and count crowds with SkyeBrowse app — DroneDJ
  SkyeBrowse's new AI workflows for crash analysis and crowd counting show how drone imagery is shifting from capture to interpretation for first responders.

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