Machines building the batteries that power machines — the recursion the corpus has been tracking in software, now in matter. CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, put embodied-AI humanoids to work at scale on its battery production lines (CarNewsChina), which the newsletter reads as the loop crossing the air gap into kinetic reality and the first entry under physical recursion. Eight days later Linkerbot humanoids were assembling their own hands in Beijing, and by September 2026 XPENG’s automated humanoid line ships a robot that walks off unassisted.
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CATL puts humanoids on the lines that build batteries
The author's physical recursion: the loop the corpus had tracked in code crosses the air gap into matter, with humanoids working the lines that make the cells that will power humanoids.
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CATL operationalized the first large-scale humanoid robot deployment in its battery production lines.
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- Welcome to December 20, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- CATL achieves world's first scale deployment of embodied AI humanoid robots on battery production lines (carnewschina.com)
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