Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid

- Holiday Robotics just secured $105M for FRIDAY, a wheeled humanoid built for the gritty reality of factory floors. Forget polished demos; this bot tackles friction, alignment, and blind spots with 64 degrees of freedom, 40 of which are in its dexterous, tactile hands. It’s a full-stack play: hardware meets Vision-Language-Skill (VLS) orchestration, ensuring reliability where it counts. "Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research," but this is serious industrial automation. With hot-swappable batteries and safety baked into the joints, FRIDAY isn’t just walking; it’s working. A solid stack-eye move for manufacturing efficiency. Whoa, that's mega-illegal... wait, no, just highly efficient.