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Our Autonomous DriveMod Tuggers and Forklifts increase safety, drive efficiency, and prevent inventory damage. $CYN

Mountain View, CA cyngn.com Joined September 2013

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Cyngn @cyngn Jan 27

When our autonomous vehicle orders triple in a year, it signals a major industry shift. We're transforming how manufacturing and logistics operate with DriveMod technology.

Here's what we accomplished in 2025: cyngn.com/pr/cyngn-tripl… $CYN #AutonomousVehicles #IndustrialAutomation

www.cyngn.com Cyngn Triples Vehicles Ordered Year-Over-Year Cyngn triples autonomous vehicle orders YoY. dozen of facility visits, major software upgrades, and fleet readiness drive enterprise adoption across manufacturing.

Cyngn @cyngn 10h

Not every task needs a humanoid. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is automating the material movement that keeps production running.

Rui Ma Verified account @ruima 4d

A few things jump out about this article:

1. Unitree is really not the most advanced robotics company in China, or even doing the most interesting things.

2. Most humanoid robotics factories are still indeed actually human-powered right now, not because they cannot figure out how to automate, but because the volume is not there. You would find this across all of manufacturing, by the way. (I wrote about how one battery giant flexible supply line we saw was very much human-powered, because it was kind of like the leftover supply line for a bunch of different models.) There is a big difference between "can you do it" and "is it economical?"

3. The most important thing about robot arms is how quickly they are being replaced by Chinese-made components and costed down. Even the foreign brands like Fanuc do a lot of their R&D in China, and KUKA has long been owned by a Chinese company. Beyond that, there is a whole tier of smaller robot arms now being built increasingly completely locally. But sure, I think the US can just benefit from this costing down. However, just being able to buy cheap doesn't mean you can also produce for cheap.

It is not really about where things are at the moment, but where the trends are going.
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Cyngn @cyngn 13h

The floor usually spots inefficiency before the spreadsheet does.

Lior Tal Verified account @liortal 13h

Someone we talked with told us the operators at his plant have a name for the empty return leg of their haul route: the victory lap.

The victory lap exists because forklifts were never designed for hauling. They’re built to lift. Put one on a long point-to-point run and the math turns ugly: one pallet out, nothing back, all shift. Half the route is a parade.

Floors always know where the waste is. They joke about it long before anyone measures it.
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Cyngn @cyngn 3d

Some call it Friday. We call it another productive day on the floor.

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Cyngn @cyngn 3d

Exactly. Skilled workers are too valuable to spend their shifts moving materials.

Automating repetitive transport gives them more time for the work that actually requires their expertise.

Lior Tal Verified account @liortal 3d

Ford’s number for the skilled trades gap is 1.7 million openings a year for the next decade + the country is training about 55 people for every 100 it needs.

More training is the right fix, but it takes years. What a plant can do sooner is look at how it’s using the skilled people it already has. In a lot of plants the person who can troubleshoot a line is also the one getting pulled away to move material.

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