Methodology
How the Humanoid Ledger is built, what each number measures, and what it cannot tell you. Last updated 2026-11-08.
1. ما هذا الموقع
دفتر بيانات عام للروبوتات الشبيهة بالبشر: مواصفات متحقق منها، وخط زمني للإعلانات، وفيديوهات رسمية، وتغطية محللة من كل الويب — إضافة إلى ثلاثة دفاتر مبنية على هذه التغطية (الادعاءات مقابل القياسات، والدرجات، والمشكلات). الدفتر مستقل، ولا علاقة له بأي شركة مصنّعة مذكورة. وقاعدة التدوين بسيطة: لا يُدوَّن إلا ما له مصدر؛ وما لم يُتحقق منه يُكتب «غير منشور»، ولا يُخمَّن أي رقم أبدًا.
2. Seed data — verified before entry
The 12 models, 31 release events and 8 official videos were each checked against a vendor page or a trade-press report before entry (seeded 2026-11-06). Every row carries its source link. Prices are vendor-published only: target prices, estimates and unconfirmed reports live in the notes field, never in the price column. Where a figure is unpublished or unverified, the cell says Not stated rather than a guess.
3. Live coverage — sources and the relevance gate
Hacker News (Algolia API), Google News RSS (with Bing News RSS as fallback when Google rate-limits the Worker egress), tech-blog RSS (The Verge, Engadget, Wired, TechCrunch, IEEE Spectrum, The Robot Report, PCMag, Tom’s Guide, 9to5Google, Road to VR, UploadVR), YouTube search pages, and Reddit via Google News. Ingest runs hourly. An item counts for a model only when its headline names the product — vendor + model where the name alone is ambiguous (e.g. “Apollo” only counts with “Apptronik”, “Digit” only with “Agility”, “Atlas” only with “Boston Dynamics”). Items that fail the gate are counted as skipped, not silently dropped.
4. Per-article analysis
Each article is analyzed once by Workers AI (Llama 3.1 8B, max 2048 tokens, JSON only): a 1–3 paragraph summary plus structured extraction — sentiment index, comparison, usage time, recommendation index, per-aspect scores, verifiable claims, issues, and the author’s verdict. The model is instructed never to invent numbers, quotes, durations or facts not present in the evidence; undeterminable fields are null, never invented.
5. Evidence checking (what survives, what is dropped)
Two hard guards run on every analysis before it is stored. First, a compared product is kept only if its name appears in the evidence text (title + snippet + body excerpt); anything else is dropped as model invention, and the compares-with flag is recomputed from the surviving list. Second, a verdict quote is kept only if the exact quote appears in the evidence text; otherwise it is stored as null. Aspect scores are restricted to eight aspects — locomotion, dexterity, battery, payload, autonomy, safety, software, price — each scored −100 to +100 only when the article actually discusses that aspect.
6. The scoring decision — what the three retained fields are, and are not
Decision (2026-11-07): the sentiment index (0–100), the recommendation index (0–100) and the author verdict (buy / wait / skip / mixed, with the author’s own words) are retained in full, in the article cards, in the metrics pages and in the three ledgers. They are kept because they measure the source content and its author — the stance of an article, and the conclusion its author reached — not this site’s judgement of any product. This site issues no rating, no ranking, no recommendation and no prediction of its own: there is no site score anywhere on the ledger, no “best model” list, and no verdict written by us. That is the whole of the exception, and it is the only exception: the general rule for this ledger is the same as the no-scores rule — record what happened, cite the source, add no judgement of our own. The three retained fields are presented with their provenance (which article, analyzed from snippet or full text, with what confidence), with nulls counted and never filled in, so a reader can always see how thin the underlying signal is — for example, the recommendation index is not determined in 308 of 329 analyzed articles, because most coverage is news, not a buying recommendation.
7. الدفاتر الثلاثة
الادعاءات مقابل القياسات يأخذ key_claims من كل تحليل؛ ولا يُدرج الادعاء بقيمة مقيسة إلا إذا ذكر النموذج فعلًا قيمة مقيسة (55 من 289 ادعاءً حتى 2026-11-08). والباقي ادعاءات الشركة أو المصدر، تُسجَّل كما وردت — تُدرج ولا تُتحقق. الدرجات تجمع sentiment_index وrecommendation_index (التوزيعات والأعداد والمتوسطات على القيم غير الفارغة فقط) وأعداد خلاصات الكتّاب. المشكلات تجمع issues[] بالنص المطابق حرفيًا ثم حسب الموديل. والموديل الذي لا صف له في دفتر يُعرض «لا بيانات مسجلة»، وليس صفرًا أبدًا. النقاط المباشرة: /api/ledger/claims-vs-measured و/api/ledger/scores و/api/ledger/issues (كلها تقبل ?model=<key>).
8. Limitations — read before quoting a number
- Most analysis is snippet-based. As of 2026-11-08, 307 of 329 analyzed articles were analyzed from the title + snippet only (22 from full text). A snippet-based analysis can miss context the full article contains; analyzed_from is shown on every card.
- Hacker News is one narrow audience. HN mentions represent the English-speaking technical community only; they are not a proxy for the public, for buyers, or for non-English discussion.
- Coverage is a starting set, not the universe. The ledger tracks 12 models; our November 2026 audit identified roughly 135–145 distinct current humanoid models across trackers. Models outside the 12 are absent, not rated zero.
- News sources are rate-limited. Google News repeatedly rate-limits the Worker egress; the ingest falls back to Bing News RSS. Gaps in a day’s intake usually mean a source failed, not that nothing happened.
- Document archiving. Added 7 Nov 2026 — see §11. Vendor pages are now archived with SHA-256 dual fingerprints, a seal and a SimHash; changes are recorded from the baseline. One gap remains: the Tesla Optimus official page returns 403 to this fetcher, so it has no baseline yet.
- Price history, deployment data, safety/failure registry. Price history was added 7 Nov 2026 — see /history/ and §13 (8 dated, sourced price points; the G1 is the only model with a documented price change). Deployment counts and operating hours still appear only as notes; there is no structured recall or accident table.
- AI extraction is fallible. Claims, issues and aspect scores are model extractions from the evidence, guarded as described in §5 — but a guard can only check what is in the evidence text. Treat every extracted row as a pointer back to its source article, not as a verified fact.
9. Corrections
Errors are corrected in the open and logged here, not silently fixed.
- 2026-11-07 — Sanctuary AI Phoenix: status corrected from “research/pilot” to “legacy — pivoted to software-only (June 2026)”. The company stopped positioning the whole humanoid as its product in June 2026; the model page now says so and the June 2026 pivot is in the release timeline.
10. الأرشيف — أُضيف في 7 نوفمبر 2026
Five vendor documents are archived as a baseline (Figure 03 announcement, Unitree G1 product page, Boston Dynamics Atlas product page, Agility Digit solutions page, 1X NEO order page), each with a SHA-256 fingerprint of the raw fetch and of the cleaned text, a 6-character seal and a 64-bit SimHash. The baseline is the first archived version; every later check compares the live document against it and records any change in doc_changes (currently 0 rows — 0 changes means nothing has changed since the baseline, not that nothing is watched). Live endpoint: /api/archive; page: /archive/. The Tesla Optimus official page could not be baselined: tesla.com returns 403 to this fetcher. It will be retried with a rendered fetch; until then it is listed on /archive/ as not baselined, not silently omitted.
11. بيانات مفتوحة — أُضيفت في 7 نوفمبر 2026
Every dataset behind this site is open JSON with no key. /data/ lists the catalogue with denominators and coverage; /api/open-data returns the same catalogue live, including a row count for every D1 table. Live endpoint: /api/open-data.
12. جداول المرحلة الثانية — دائمة، مُلئت في 7 نوفمبر 2026
Four persistent tables were backfilled from the 330 analyzed articles (snapshot 7 Nov 2026, 20:10 EST) and are served live with a ?model= filter. experience_records (55 rows): every key_claim that carries a measured value, classified by metric (locomotion, dexterity, battery, payload, autonomy, safety, software, price, other) — the value is the number as stated in the article, not an independent lab measurement. review_scores (224 rows): one row per analyzed article that carries a sentiment index, a recommendation index or a verdict — metadata only (reviewer = article source, score / 100, date, URL, aspects tested), no quoted opinion text. failure_modes (93 rows): issues clustered per model by identical wording, with mention counts, first/last seen dates and up to 3 source URLs. resale_snapshots (1 row): the G1, with used_price_median NULL — no used-sold market exists for humanoid robots in any reachable public source (see §13). Live endpoints: /api/experience, /api/review-scores, /api/failure-modes, /api/resale.
13. التاريخ — الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل في ثلاثة مقاطع كاملة، وما زال صفرًا وأسبابه
يسجّل الدفتر الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل في ثلاثة مقاطع كاملة؛ ولا يبدأ أبدًا من صفر الحاضر منتظرًا تغير المستقبل فقط. التاريخ هو خط الأساس: بلا خط أساس لا معنى لتغير المستقبل. لذلك تُملأ كل بُعد إلى أقصى ما تسمح به المصادر العامة والمقالات المجمّعة. ملء 7 نوفمبر 2026 (330 مقالًا محللًا، لقطة 2026-11-07 20:10 EST) والسجلات العامة المتحقق منها:
- الادعاءات: أُعيد 289 ادعاءً (55 بقيمة مقيسة، 6 منها مختبَرة عمليًا). المشكلات: 94. الخلاصات: 224 صفًا من الدرجات، 112 منها بخلاصة كاتب. الأسعار: 8 نقاط سعر مؤرخة ومموَّلة بمصدر. الإعلانات: 31 حدثًا، 2019-02-19 – 2026-10-26. الإشارات: 28 موديلًا-شهرًا، 2026-09 – 2026-11. الصفوف الكاملة: /api/history؛ الصفحة: /history/.
- تاريخ الأسعار هو البُعد الوحيد الذي فيه تغير موثق: يونيتري G1 من $16,000 عند الإطلاق (مايو 2024) إلى $13,500 بحلول 24 ديسمبر 2025، خفض واحد فقط، تحده لقطات متجر مؤرشفة ($16,000 ما زال في 2025-10-16؛ $13,500 في 2025-12-24). ولكل من H1 (نحو $90,000) وNEO ($20,000) نقطة إطلاق واحدة وملاحظة واحدة في 2026-11-07، دون تغير موثق. أما الموديلات التسعة الأخرى فلا سعر منشور لها: «غير منشور»، وليس صفرًا، ولا صف سعر لها.
- ما زال صفرًا وأسبابه. (1) وسيط سعر البيع المستعمل: 0 من 1 صف في لقطة إعادة البيع. لا يوجد سوق بيع مستعمل للروبوتات الشبيهة بالبشر في أي مصدر عام يمكن الوصول إليه — لا سجل مبيعات لـ G1 مستعمل على eBay، ولا صفحة منتج لأي موديل شبيه بالبشر على Swappa، ولا وسيط مبيعات منشور. توجد أسعار طلب من بائعين (Maverick $17,363 وRCSV $21,500) لكنها أسعار طلب لوحدات جديدة، لا مبيعات مستعملة، فلا تُسجَّل وسيطًا. وتُعاد المحاولة في اللقطة التالية. (2) قياسات مختبر مستقل: 0. لا يوجد مصدر مختبر مستقل منظم في المصادر العامة التي فُحصت؛ وصفوف experience_records الـ 55 هي قيم مقيسة مذكورة في المقالات، وتُحفظ منفصلة عن قياسات المختبر. (3) مشكلات مسجلة لأربعة موديلات: Agility Digit 4 وBoston Dynamics Atlas وFourier GR-2 وUnitree H1 لديها 0 مشكلة مسجلة — لم يبلغ عنها أي مقال محلل، وهذا ليس قياسًا لصفر مشكلة. (4) ادعاءات مقيسة لأربعة موديلات: Figure 03 وFourier GR-2 وSanctuary AI Phoenix وXPENG Iron لديها 0 ادعاء مقيس — فتغطيتها المحللة تذكر ادعاءات بلا أرقام مقيسة. (5) doc_changes: 0 صف — خط الأساس أُخذ في 7 نوفمبر 2026 ولم يتغير شيء منذ ذلك الحين؛ وسيسجل الفحص التالي أي تغيير. (6) خط أساس وثيقة Tesla Optimus: 0 — لأن tesla.com يرد 403 على أداة الجلب لدينا؛ وتُعاد المحاولة بجلب مُصيَّر في اللقطة التالية.
14. المصادر
- Vendor pages and press releases (Tesla, Figure AI, Unitree, Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, 1X, Sanctuary AI, Fourier, XPENG).
- Trade press: The Verge, Engadget, Wired, TechCrunch, IEEE Spectrum, The Robot Report.
- Hacker News (Algolia API, public, no key), Google News RSS, Bing News RSS, YouTube search pages.