I just wrote about the billion-dollar rounds flooding into humanoid robotics. Here is the story from the other end of the scale, and I find it more encouraging. Hugging Face's open-source robot, a 25-centimeter bipedal machine with fifteen actuators and a sensor kit that includes a camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and WiFi, just passed a million dollars in sales. Fully open hardware, openly documented, quietly making real money. One of these robotics stories is funded like an industria...