CATL had humanoids building batteries; here they build the robots. The newsletter cites an X post (Robo_Tuo) of Linkerbot humanoids in Beijing assembling and then testing their own hands, and pairs it with the same day’s ARC saturation as the physical half of a cognitive escape velocity. It extends the CATL battery lines of six days earlier from robots building what powers robots to robots building robots, the storyline that reaches a fully automated humanoid production line in September 2026.
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Linkerbot humanoids assemble and test their own hands
The newsletter's first sighting of robots building robots rather than what powers them: the robot builds the part of itself that does the building, which the author reads as a preview of von Neumann machines.
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In Beijing, Linkerbot humanoids are assembling and testing their own hands, closing a loop of robotic self-replication.
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- Welcome to December 26, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- Post on X: Linkerbot humanoids assembling and testing their own hands (x.com)
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