What’s already possible

Tesla trains the robot with the same approach as Autopilot: cameras instead of expensive sensors, training on video and in simulation, one neural network for many tasks. The first production-grade robots work in Tesla’s own factories.

Fact. Elon Musk puts sales to outside customers at the end of 2027.

Russia. American equipment goes to Russia only under a US export license, and such licenses are practically never issued.

Vietnam. No sales in any country. You can join the AbsoTech waitlist.

Sources: TechCrunch, 21.10.2026 · US export rules for Russia

A robot about 1.3 m tall with electric motors in its joints, cameras and a depth sensor. It walks, keeps its balance and repeats movements recorded from a human or learned in simulation. A programmer assigns the useful work: out of the box it is a platform, not a ready-made worker.

Fact. Unitree listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 Aug 2026; over 40% of revenue comes from sales abroad.

Russia. No official distributor; the EDU versions contain an American NVIDIA module — a check against sanctions rules is required.

Vietnam. Heineken Vietnam and an engineering university are teaching the G1 to handle boxes at the brewery in Vung Tau.

Sources: Manufacturer price table, 3 Oct 2026 · SCMP: IPO Unitree · Heineken Vietnam and the G1

A family of robots for different tasks: wheeled ones with arms for warehouses and stores, two-legged ones for interacting with people. The company also builds the “brain” — models that turn camera images into arm movements.

Fact. 100 AgiBot robots work as customer advisers in the British supermarket chain ASDA.

Vietnam. AgiBot exhibited in Hanoi at the GSMA Digital Nation Summit in 2026.

Sources: AgiBot: H1 2026 shipments · Manufacturer price table

Each robot does one or two narrow operations: Figure at the BMW plant feeds sheet metal for welding and lays out parts, Digit at GXO carries containers. For all of 2026, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas goes to Hyundai and Google DeepMind.

Fact. Digit is rented out: $8,500 a month plus $25,000 for the launch.

Russia. American robots are banned from export to Russia without a US license.

Vietnam. Only corporate pilots with the manufacturer are possible.

Sources: BMW and Figure 03, 29 Jun 2026 · Agility: revenue and prices · Atlas 2026

A soft robot in a fabric suit tidies up, fetches things, opens doors. What it cannot do on its own, it does under the control of a remote 1X operator who sees the home through the robot’s cameras. That is the honest price of an early stage: autonomy grows with every update.

Fact. A factory in Hayward for 10,000 robots a year opened on 30 Apr 2026.

Vietnam. 1X promises other countries from 2027.

Source: 1X: factory opening

VinMotion showed Motion 2 at CES in January 2026 and is aiming at light factory work: moving materials, inspection, assembly. The Dyno robot guide from VinDynamics already greets guests at Vinpearl Safari on Phu Quoc.

Fact. Series production of Motion 2 is planned for the end of 2026.

Sources: Tuoi Tre: VinMotion USA · Motion 2 at CES 2026

Sber showed “Green” in November 2025 and released its “vision — language — action” model Green-VLA openly under the MIT license. Sber’s insurer SberStrakhovanie has already issued the first liability policy for an owner of such a robot.

Fact. Sber promises a line of humanoids; no prices or sales yet.

Russia. We are waiting for sales to open — we are watching and will let you know.

Source: Hi-Tech Mail, 19.06.2026

Four legs with three motors each, lidar and cameras. The robot climbs stairs and crosses rough ground where wheels cannot pass. Go2 is for learning and shows; the industrial B2 carries sensors through plants, tunnels and substations.

Fact. Prices run from $1,600 for the Go2 Air to $5,490 for the EDU+, plus $399–1,000 for shipping.

Russia. Robot dogs are dual-use equipment: AbsoTech does not sell them to security-force or defense customers.

Source: Unitree price guide, Aug 2026

The robot maps the room with lidar and cameras, steers around people and chairs, and drives to the table on its own. The waiter puts the order on the trays and taps the table number — the robot delivers, and the person stays with the guests.

Fact. Pudu and Keenon have each shipped over 100,000 robots.

Russia. Pudu and Keenon are sold in Russia through independent distributors; the robots were tested at the Perekrestok supermarket chain, the Shokoladnitsa café chain and Vkusno — i Tochka (the former McDonald’s in Russia).

Vietnam. Keenon’s partner in Vietnam is DigiCorp.

Sources: Delivery robot prices 2026 · Keenon in Vietnam, 2026

The robot memorizes the building map, picks its own route, scrubs and dries the floor, steers around people and drives back to its station — to charge, drain the dirty water and take on clean. One person watches several robots from a phone.

Fact. Cleaning is over 70% of Pudu’s revenue: it is the most widespread class of service robots.

Russia. The Lenta supermarket chain works with 42 cleaning robots; rental pays back against a cleaner’s salary of ₽90,000 and up.

Source: Pudu: revenue and IPO

The 11 cm tall Hyundai WIA robot lifts a car of up to 3.4 t and moves at 1.2 m/s, guided by lidar. One system controls 50 robots. Cars stand closer together than with human drivers: no driving aisles and no room to open doors are needed.

Fact. Stan, the robot from Stanley Robotics (now part of Korea’s HL Robotics), has been parking cars at Gatwick Airport since 23 Jul 2026.

Russia. Korean suppliers are cautious about Russia — this needs a separate review.

Vietnam. Korean robot valets have not entered Vietnam yet — the first-partner slot is open.

Sources: Korea Times: Hyundai WIA, 10.08.2026 · HL Robotics and Stanley

Lifts and shuttles move platforms with cars between cells. Without driving lanes and ramps, more cars fit in the same space, and the driver never walks the underground level.

Fact. Moscow has robotic parking garages in 14 luxury residential complexes — over 1,200 spaces.

Vietnam. In Hanoi, official parking covers about 8–10% of demand in the center.

Sources: Autonews: Moscow parking garages · Hanoi Times: parking

A camera and a neural network recognize objects on the floor, the arm picks them up and puts them in a set place, then the robot vacuums and mops. The first mass-market home robot that does not just drive around but picks things up.

Fact. The price fell from $2,499 to ~$950 in a sale in October 2026.

Vietnam. Vietnam’s robot vacuum market grew 137.6% in a year — to $92.5 million.

Source: Vietnam News: vacuum market

RTK satellite navigation gives accuracy to a couple of centimeters, and cameras see obstacles. You draw the plot’s borders with a finger in the app — the robot mows on schedule and goes back to charge on its own.

Fact. Navimow runs from $1,099 to $4,499; Mammotion LUBA from $1,699 to $2,799.

Source: Smart Home Compared, 2026

Sensors read your stride, and a motor at the hip adds force at the right fraction of a second. It goes on over ordinary clothes.

Fact. In the October 2026 sales the X Ultra went for $1,399 instead of $1,999.

Source: Hypershell

The cook loads chopped ingredients and sauces; the machine doses, fries and stirs according to a recorded program. The dish comes out the same in every branch, and the cook works on flavor, not on the pan.

Fact. The Chinese chain Xiaocaiyuan bought 3,000 of these robots at ¥50,000 each.

Force sensors in the joints feel a touch and stop the arm. You program it by guiding the robot’s arm by hand — no programmer needed. Chinese cobots cost 30–50% less than Western ones.

Fact. In 2025, 603,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide, 59% of them in China.

Russia. For Russia — Chinese brands; Western ones have left.

Vietnam. Import duty on industrial robots — 0%.

Sources: IFR World Robotics, 24.09.2026 · Vietnam duty, HS 8479.50

The robots navigate by lidar and markers, and the system hands out jobs to hundreds of machines at once. The picker stands at a station and takes goods from the shelf that pulls up — productivity grows several-fold.

Fact. In Vietnam, Viettel Post sorts 1.4 million parcels a day with a fleet of about 200 robots.

Source: Rest of World: Viettel Post

The model is trained on images of good and bad products. Then it watches the flow faster than a person, does not tire by the end of the shift and logs defects in a report with a photo.

Fact. Three things to start: a camera, the right light and a server running the model.

FANUC robots have been building robots without people for up to 30 days straight since 2001. Xiaomi’s factory in Changping — 11 automated lines for 10 million smartphones a year.

Source: Lights-out manufacturing

The agent gets a task in words, opens a terminal, a browser and files, takes a step, looks at what came out and moves on. That is how one instruction turns into hours of programming, data analysis or document review.

Fact. By METR’s measurements, the best models of 2026 succeed half the time on tasks as long as an expert’s working day.

Russia. Western cloud models are unavailable in Russia — GigaChat, YandexGPT and open models on your own server work.

Sources: METR: task horizon · DeepSeek V4 prices

The model weights are downloaded and run on a GPU server in your own server room. The model reads documents, answers employees, sorts through mail and contracts — and sends nothing to someone else’s cloud.

Fact. DeepSeek V4 (24 Apr 2026) — 1.6 trillion parameters and an open MIT license; it trails the flagships by 3–6 months, by DeepSeek’s own estimate.

Russia. A strong option for Russia: data stays inside the country and the company.

Source: DeepSeek V4

The agent receives screenshots, works out where a field, button or menu is, and sends clicks and keystrokes. It already does short tasks in office software reliably; long ones — not yet.

Fact. In the OSWorld 2.0 test, on tasks longer than 300 steps, the best agent succeeds 20.6% of the time.

Source: OSWorld: agents and humans

Physical Intelligence, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA train one model on data from many robots. It transfers a skill to new hands and new homes: π0.5 cleans up an apartment it sees for the first time.

Fact. Physical Intelligence opened commercial access to its model on 13 Oct 2026.

Sources: Physical Intelligence · Gemini Robotics

By day the panels power the home and charge the battery, and a hybrid inverter decides where to draw energy from. In the evening the home runs on the battery, and the surplus goes to the grid — where that is allowed and paid for.

Fact. Chinese TOPCon panels cost about $0.11 per watt ex-factory — cheaper than ever.

Russia. The best fit: the south, dachas without a reliable grid, and backup in case of outages.

Vietnam. Since 26 Jun 2026 (Decree 243), rooftop surplus can be sold — up to 50% of output, including from a battery.

Sources: Decree 243/2026 · TOPCon prices, Jul 2026 · Vietnam installer prices

The system charges at night or from solar and releases energy at peak hours, when it costs more — or during an outage. Software that tracks the tariff and the load runs it all.

Fact. In 2025, 112 GW of storage was deployed worldwide (+48%); 54% of it in China.

Vietnam. Vietnam’s power development plan: 10–16.3 GW of storage by 2030, against less than 100 MW at the start of 2025.

Sources: BNEF via ESS News · PDP8 (KPMG)

Sodium comes from ordinary salt, and there is thousands of times more of it than lithium. CATL Naxtra holds 175 Wh per kg and keeps over 90% of its capacity at −40 °C — for a Russian winter, that is the deciding argument.

Fact. The first production car on sodium — Changan Nevo A06 (February 2026).

Source: CnEVPost, 05.02.2026

A solid electrolyte allows a lithium anode and denser energy packing. The difficulty is manufacturing: the layers must be perfect, or the cell degrades.

Fact. Toyota is aiming for 2027–2028, Samsung SDI for 2027; buyers do not have such cells yet.

Source: Battery Design: timelines

An ordinary panel turns 22–24% of sunlight into electricity. A tandem adds a layer that works in another part of the spectrum — and the lab-cell record is already above 35%.

Fact. LONGi’s record — 35.5% (July 2026).

Source: PV Magazine, 15.07.2026

Wells are drilled into hot rock, fractures are opened in it and water is pumped through: it comes back as steam and spins a turbine. The technology comes from oil production, and the energy flows around the clock.

Fact. The Fervo Cape plant in Utah — 33 MW in commercial operation since 30 Sep 2026; 100 MW — by January 2027.

Source: Power Engineering

A small reactor is easier to cool and easier to protect. The floating plant Akademik Lomonosov has been operating since 2020; China’s Linglong One is going through hot testing.

Fact. Rosatom is building a land-based small nuclear plant with a RITM-200N reactor in Yakutia — launch is planned for 2028.

Sources: WNN: small nuclear plant in Yakutia · NucNet: Linglong One

The plasma is held by a magnetic field so it does not touch the walls. AbsoTech’s color is the color of hydrogen plasma: that is how the future of energy glows.

Fact. China’s EAST tokamak held plasma for 1,066 seconds (January 2025).

Sources: CFS SPARC · Helion

Matter devices talk to each other directly over the home network, without the manufacturer’s cloud. So the home works without the internet, and one brand’s switch controls another brand’s lamp.

Fact. Version 1.5 added cameras and doorbells; certified cameras have been on sale since mid-2026.

Source: Matter 1.5

A bidirectional charging station can not only charge the car but also draw energy from it. The battery on wheels becomes a home backup for several days.

Fact. In China’s Hubei province, cars fed 376 MWh into the grid over 21,000 discharges (August 2025 — March 2026).

Source: The Star, 21.09.2026

Lidars, radars and cameras see the road in 360°, and a neural network drives the car. A remote person can give the car a hint in a tricky situation but does not steer it.

Fact. Waymo — over 500,000 paid rides a week in 10+ US cities; Baidu Apollo Go — 28 cities.

Sources: InsideEVs: Waymo · Baidu Q2 2026 · Tuoi Tre: Hanoi pilot

The drone flies a pre-approved corridor, sees obstacles and lowers the load without landing. One operator watches dozens of aircraft.

Fact. Walmart delivered its millionth drone parcel on 29 May 2026; Zipline has over 2 million deliveries.

Source: DroneXL: Walmart

Many small rotors instead of one big one — quieter, simpler and more reliable. EHang has received all its certificates in China; Joby opened a certified landing site at Dubai airport.

Fact. As of mid-October 2026, neither Joby nor Archer has paying passengers yet.

Source: Aviation Week

Electrodes next to neurons pick up their activity, and AI learns which signal means what. A person with paralysis writes messages and controls a computer by thought.

Fact. In March 2026, China approved the first implantable interface for people with spinal cord injuries.

Source: Business Standard, 03.2026

A qubit holds not 0 or 1 but a combination of them, and computation runs along many paths at once. The main difficulty is errors: qubits are fragile, so they are combined into protected “logical” ones.

Fact. Google Willow ran a verifiable algorithm 13,000 times faster than a supercomputer; IBM promises 200 logical qubits by 2029.

Sources: Google: Quantum Echoes · IBM: roadmap