📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Ready to Train Your Robot?

Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Perception is becoming infrastructure.

Machine perception is becoming a core part of the technology stack for real-world systems. From vehicles to buildings to logistics hubs, sensing and spatial awareness are now built into the tools that support transportation, safety, and automation. These capabilities are being treated as standard components, not optional layers.

👉 Get the full insight in this week’s Insider drop.

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🍔 White Castle Debuts Coco Robot Deliveries on Uber Eats in Chicago

• White Castle has started robotic food delivery in Chicago using Coco Robotics on the Uber Eats app.

🚗 Waymo Names Dallas as Next City for Autonomous Ride-Hailing Launch

• Waymo will launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas in 2026, through a new partnership with Avis Budget Group.

🛒 HomeBase Pilots Simbe’s Shelf-Scanning Robot at Two Locations

• HomeBase USA has deployed Simbe Robotics’ Tally robot in stores in Copperas Cove, TX and Laramie, WY.

📦 Pudu Debuts T600 Series for Heavy Industrial Robot Delivery

• Pudu Robotics has introduced the T600 Series, built to handle 600kg loads in fast-moving factory and warehouse environments.

👓 Brilliant Labs Launches AI Glasses With Display That Sees, Hears, and Remembers

• Halo features a micro OLED display, an AI-powered sensor stack, and 14-hour battery life in a lightweight frame.

📺 LIMINAL Space Joins Disney Accelerator 2025 With Holographic Display Tech

• LIMINAL’s LED screens show 3D holograms to large groups without requiring XR headsets.

🚧 ThirdEye and Xvisio Unite AR Platform and SLAM Tech for Enterprise Use

• ThirdEye will combine its no-code AI platform and smart glasses with Xvisio’s SLAM and 3D hand tracking tools.

📷 Swift Raises $50M to Expand Precision Navigation for Vehicles and Robots

• Swift’s Skylark platform delivers cloud-based centimeter-level accuracy to over 10 million connected systems.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

I still can't believe we're living in a time where having your own humanoid robot is actually becoming a reality.

The fact that you can get a Unitree R1 for $5,900 just blows my mind. Sure, it’s more of a developer playground, an entry-level robot that can do some impressive tricks and gives developers the tools to push the limits with a new kind of platform. But what’s even more thrilling are the robots that go beyond demo mode. The robots being prepped to deliver actual service through real autonomy, manipulation, and AI-driven understanding.

I nearly spilled my coffee when I saw the CEO of Figure casually post a video of its F.02 robot doing his laundry on social media. I mean, it was putting clothing in the washing machine, all on its own!

It got me thinking. What’s the killer app for humanoid robots?

I’ve been asking nearly everyone I know: if you had a humanoid robot, what’s the one thing you’d want it to do? Most people hesitate at first, probably because we’ve all been burned by robot vacuums that kind of just work. They don't believe robots like this are around the corner, as they still see robots as a thing seen only in the movies. But once they get past all of this, the answers come fast.

Overwhelmingly, the #1 thing people want is help around the house. Laundry (especially folding and putting it away) topped the list. Doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, and taking out the trash were all close seconds. Pretty much all the tedious, mundane tasks we all hate doing around the house are top picks. Other popular choices? Walking the dog and grocery shopping.

And that tracks with what the broader research is showing. A 2025 YouGov survey found that while only 38% of Americans say they’re interested in having a household robot, a huge majority were very clear about what they’d want help with: 93% picked floor cleaning, 87% picked dishwashing, and 86% picked laundry and home organization. So even if people are still warming up to the idea of a robot in the home, the demand for help with boring, repetitive chores is loud and clear. Turns out, we don’t want C-3PO, we want Rosey from the Jetsons.

What’s exciting is that with the AI systems powering these robots, we won’t need to wait for an app to be released for laundry or dog walking, like we did with smartphones. That’s because robots aren’t going to work like phones. There’s no need to download task-specific apps. There’s just the brain. Apps are being replaced by general-purpose intelligence.

Figure F.02, for example, runs on Helix. Helix is Figure's AI system that lets robots see, understand, and do things just by using plain language. You say “pick up the red shirt,” and boom, it’s done. No need to develop or download a task-specific app. It figures it out on the fly, even if it’s never seen that exact shirt before, as long as it’s the kind of everyday object it’s been trained to handle. Systems like this give robots common sense, muscle memory, and intuition. And so, there is no killer app for robots. There is just a killer brain.

So, what would you teach your robot first? And what task would you gladly hand over for good?

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: The promise of spatial computing is a safer world.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Robots are taking root on the farm; the line has been drawn for spatial computers; and physical AI is starting to pay off.

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