The y8y world
Brand
Who we are, how we verify, and who builds the robots. The y8y world, guided by Huit.
Meet Huit
Huit
The 8 that wakes up and tells you what’s real.
→Methodology
The Reality Mark
How we decide: real, teleoperated or staged.
→About us
About us
Wonder, not hype. People first.
→Builders
Acme Robotics
Acme Robotics is a Madrid company that builds the autonomous humanoid AIRA-1.
Amazon Robotics
Amazon Robotics is Amazon’s robotics division, based in Massachusetts; it runs more than 750,000 robots and created Proteus, its first fully autonomous mobile robot.
Boreal Dynamics
Boreal Dynamics is a Norwegian company; its Medora-One care robot is promising but teleoperated.
Geek+
Geek+ is a Chinese company, listed in Hong Kong since 2025, a leader in 'goods-to-person' robots: over 20,000 robots across 950 warehouses in 40 countries.
Hearth Robotics
Hearth Robotics makes the Kettle-K3, a kitchen robot whose demo was staged.
Locus Robotics
Locus Robotics is a US company from Massachusetts that builds collaborative picking AMRs; its robots passed 6 billion picks across 350+ warehouses.
Tesla
Tesla is a US company based in Austin, Texas that, alongside electric cars, is developing the Optimus humanoid robot.
Vango Mobility
Vango Mobility is a Valencia company that builds the Orca-Sub, an underwater inspection robot.