Bleu humanoid learned machine tending from six demos
A trade show deployment with a real laser engraver in the loop, reported by one person who posted the numbers.
Lukas Ziegler says the Bleu Robotics team trained a humanoid on site the day before a trade show opened, using six human demonstrations. The robot then ran the job for four days at VivaTech at more than 80 cycles a day, with a 96% success rate, according to his post.
It then ran for four days at VivaTech at more than 80 cycles a day, at a 96% success rate.
We all know that these days most of humanoid demos are usually staged.
The task is machine tending, and it has six steps with a real machine in the loop. Pick a part out of a box. Place it into a laser engraving machine. Close the engraver. Start the cycle by pressing two buttons. Open it again. Retrieve the finished part. Roughly one-minute cycles, Ziegler says.
That is the kind of work he says he keeps seeing on factory floors. He writes that he has visited more than 10 machine shops this year and that loading and unloading machines is what people are doing most of the time.
Why the number is interesting
Most humanoid clips that go viral are a single take. A four-day run at 80-plus cycles a day is a different kind of claim, because it implies the thing kept working after the camera stopped. Ziegler is blunt about the contrast with the rest of the field.
He also flags who Bleu is, because it shapes what the number means. They describe themselves as an AI company born on the shop floor, building universal software for deploying advanced robots into factories.
Shown versus claimed
Everything here comes from one post. There is no independent cycle count, no video of the full four days, and no breakdown of the 4% that failed. The post does not say whether anyone reset the cell between cycles, whether a human intervened when the robot missed, or whether the task was rehearsed beyond the six demonstrations. It also does not name the humanoid hardware or say how the six demonstrations were collected.
So treat the 96% as a reported figure, not a verified one. It is still the shape of reporting the field keeps asking for after a run of demos that turned out to be teleoperated, and the kind of claim that someone who stood in front of that booth can confirm or puncture quickly. If you were at VivaTech, that follow-up is worth more than another highlight reel.