🤖 Your Next Teammate Might Be a Robot!

From Hyundai’s robot army to hospital helpers, machines are showing up everywhere.

January 12, 2026

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Robots aren’t just something from sci-fi anymore. They’re being hired, trained, and tested right now. In factories, hospitals, and maybe even your living room soon.

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🧵 In today's edition:

  1. 🏭 Hyundai is buying an army of robots

  2. 🧍‍♂️ Casper the humanoid is ready to work

  3. 🏥 Hospitals are testing friendly robot assistants

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Hyundai is purchasing tens of thousands of robots from Boston Dynamics including Spot, Atlas, and Stretch to automate production at scale.

The company is partnering with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind to enhance robot performance and coordination.

This is not experimental. It is a global manufacturing strategy with billions invested.

2. Say hello to Casper 1 - the work robot

Lingale’s Casper 1 also called Wednesday is a 5.8 foot 132 pound humanoid capable of 550 trillion operations per second.

It jumps, runs, sorts laundry, and assembles furniture using advanced mobility and bionic hands.

Designed for general labor environments, it offers speed, consistency, and no downtime.

Enchanted Tools is testing Mirakai a 4 foot tall assistant robot with detachable arms LED navigation and basic conversational AI.

It is currently helping with routine clinical tasks and is moving to mass production by year end.

Seen robots like this in care environments? Let us know.

Jonas Cleveland