Tau Robotics sends humanoids into San Francisco homes at $30 an hour. Remote operators steer them. About 160 paid hours. The customer gets a clean flat, Tau gets training footage. Football academies have run that model for years.

A DAZN subsidiary lost $940 million in 2025 on $3.8 billion of revenue. Its owner has put over $7 billion into DAZN in nine years. Every academy budget I ever had to defend suddenly looks tiny.

Agility Robotics cleared the SEC. If shareholders vote yes on 2 November it becomes the first public US humanoid company. Until now the only deadline a humanoid had was a demo day. A quarterly earnings call is a tougher crowd than a YouTube comment section. #Robotics

Corinthians owe Caixa R$630m on the stadium and offered the bank the naming rights to clear it. The board values those rights at R$70m a year. The current sponsor pays R$15m. Somebody undersold this for six years, or the bank is about to overpay.

Agility says Digit 5 runs 90 minutes, then charges in 9. A full match, and a halftime shorter than the one my players got. Early access is H1 2027, so for now it's a fixture list.

Robo-bench put frontier models in charge of a simulated Unitree G1. Zero humanoid tasks solved. One model claimed 87% on embodied reasoning a day earlier and scored 0.83% here. Talking about walking is a different job. #Robotics

English clubs are in talks with private credit about loans secured on player sales that haven't happened yet. Borrowing against a transfer nobody has agreed to. I ran academies, and the lottery ticket is usually a 16 year old with a hamstring problem.

Liga F wants €55m from Pau Gasol's fund over four seasons. In return the investors get 35 to 49% of its commercial and sponsorship revenue for 25 years. Its own broadcast and commercial income is budgeted at €12m, down from €18m. Long time to share a bed with an investor.

Renault has a Wandercraft Calvin-40 lifting tires at Douai and plans 350 of them from 2027. Wandercraft says it signed 12 big industrial customers in under a year. Europe finally has a humanoid story with a paying customer. Now watch who builds the brain. #humanoids

94% of English clubs across the top five divisions lost money last season. Revenue about £9 billion, losses £1.7 billion. 29% say they couldn't run 30 days without the owner writing another cheque. The business model is a rich man with a standing order. #FootballBusiness

Dyna's chief scientist says the hard part isn't a robot pilot. It's the customer rolling it out across many sites. Din Tai Fung did, and now wants the robot cutting vegetables too. A pilot is a compliment. A rollout is a contract. @DynaRobotics

Physical Intelligence put its robot models behind an API. Upload demos, fine tune, call it. One partner has a wheel loader digging on a live site with nobody in the cab. Robot brains are becoming a subscription, and the lock in will be the funny part. @physical_int

Corinthians had R$150 million a year from a betting company until 2029. Brazil banned the ads, so the shirt now says Shopee for the last nine games. A guaranteed deal is guaranteed until a regulator has an opinion. #FootballBusiness

XPENG will test its IRON humanoid as a store assistant and office receptionist in its own buildings, and only sell it from the second half of 2027. Smart. Your own staff forgive a robot that blocks the door. Paying customers don't. @XPENG_Global

Korea just cleared 20 humanoids to work next to people on factory floors, across four sites. Current rules assume a fixed robot and demand a fence between it and the worker. Humanoids walk straight through that fence, so the rulebook gets rewritten live. #humanoid

Real Madrid signed Uber Eats as their official delivery partner in Spain until 2029. The slogan is "Hunger has brought us here". Clubs sell a category for everything now. I give it two years before there's an official partner for the official partners. @realmadrid @UberEats

Skild AI taught a humanoid football by making it play itself. The only reward was scoring. It couldn't walk for months in simulation, then worked out tackling on its own. I ran academies for years and never got a kid to learn tackling from goals alone. @SkildAI

A Danish supermarket is training Unitree humanoids to stack shelves at night. A human still guides every movement. Staff spend 40 to 50 percent of their time restocking. The robots are slower than people. Remote controlled night shift with a roadmap. Early 2027. @UnitreeRobotics

Saudi league was supposed to be where careers go to retire. Al Hilal just beat Ittihad 3-2 with three Premier League forwards who cost $210m combined, and all three scored. I worked in that market. Nobody there is retiring at that price. @Alhilal_EN #SaudiProLeague

Unitree open sourced a 6B humanoid model. Apache 2.0, one 24GB card, 64 tasks in the demo. Success rate per task is nowhere in the release. Every robot demo is a highlight reel until a stranger runs it ten times. @UnitreeRobotics #humanoid