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  <title>Best Robot Match — Updates</title>
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  <description>Dated record of robot-market events and data changes: price moves, shutdowns, robots added, corrections.</description>
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    <title>Best Robot Match launches</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Initial public release: 29 robots scored across companion/quadruped/humanoid, vacuum and mower categories; Robot Graveyard database; manufacturer pages; open CC-BY dataset; longevity grades and true 3-year costs on every profile.</description>
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    <title>First full data-verification pass — 14 corrections</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>All records audited against manufacturer sites and credible reporting. Notable corrections: Unitree Go2 price updated to ~$2,800 (launch pricing retired); Sony Aibo subscription remodelled as 3-year bundled plan plus renewal; several vacuum and mower flagships marked as superseded by newer models.</description>
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    <title>Digital Dream Labs assets placed under court receiver — Vector&#39;s second death</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A court-appointed receiver took control of Digital Dream Labs&#39; digital assets in early July 2026, per community reporting. DDL had revived Anki&#39;s Vector after the 2019 collapse; its cloud servers had already been unreliable for over a year. Vector 2.0 is reclassified as discontinued/unsupported in our data. The community Escape Pod self-host server remains the only reliable way to keep units alive. Full history in the graveyard.</description>
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    <title>Unitree R1 and 1X NEO added</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The $5,900 Unitree R1 humanoid (launched April 2026) enters the main table at #5. The 1X NEO home humanoid ($20,000, or $499/month) is listed at preorder status — with its ~60-70% autonomy and human-teleoperation privacy caveat documented prominently.</description>
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    <title>iRobot enters pre-packaged Chapter 11</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Following a going-concern warning in March 2025, Roomba maker iRobot entered a pre-packaged Chapter 11 in which lender Picea takes full ownership. Brand continuity is expected, but our company-stability risk for iRobot moved to high — a live test of whether the strongest name in robot vacuums outlasts its balance sheet.</description>
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    <title>Moxie&#39;s servers switch off — the defining server-shutdown case</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Embodied, Inc. ceased operations in December 2024; the children&#39;s companion robot Moxie stopped working when its cloud servers went dark on 30 January 2025. The community OpenMoxie project later enabled owners to re-flash units. Moxie remains listed on our tables as a buyer warning.</description>
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