AGIBOT says its 15,000th unit — a G2 industrial embodied robot — left production in June 2026, after a rapid ramp from 1,000 to 15,000.
Chery-incubated Aimoga marks 2,000 cumulative overseas deliveries across 60+ countries, with JD.com humanoid pricing at ¥285,800.
BMW and Figure put Figure 03 on logistics sequencing in Hall 52 after Figure 02’s body-shop run on 30,000+ X3 vehicles.
DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 stack adds whole-body humanoid control, multi-robot teamwork, and on-device adaptation — with ER 2 open in AI Studio.
Khosla-led round values General Intuition at $2.3B as the startup fine-tunes models from Medal gameplay labels onto real robots in minutes of data.
Ulsan partial strikes and union demands meet Hyundai’s 25,000 Atlas plan and a 2028 Metaplant America start — company says robots aren’t the current talks.
Open VLA GR00T 1.7 plus Isaac Teleop data collection now ship inside LeRobot — with LIBERO scores NVIDIA reports up to 96.5% average.
In Incheon, B-Human beat HTWK 4–0 in the first full-sized 11-vs-11 humanoid robot soccer game — both sides on Booster Robotics hardware.
Sanctuary reports 99.5%+ success at 2.54s cycle time on a Tier 1 wire-plugging task — and a strategy to run Physical AI on existing robots, not only humanoids.
CnEVPost, citing Wall Street Journal sources, says XPeng aims for more than 1,000 Iron units monthly by end of 2026 and store rollouts in 2027.
Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group led a ¥500M pre-Series A in Zeroth and has invested in 12 humanoid-related companies since early 2025.
DoorDash Labs earns Part 135 certification and launches in-house drones, plugging aerial delivery into the same network as Dot robots and human Dashers.
EngineAI confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing after a $1.5B valuation and a Shenzhen plant claiming a T800 every 15 minutes.
Generalist says GEN-1 now trains across five-fingered hands, tools, and ~9,000 gripper variants on 500,000+ hours of real interaction data.
Hexagon Robotics says AEON is performing production work at BMW Plant Leipzig, with a path to production deployment by end of 2026.
Interlatent’s open-source robotics SDK puts VR teleoperation on a QUIC path with in-browser IK, a safety gate on the robot, and free hosted control.
NEURA Robotics and Qualcomm announced a strategic collaboration pairing Dragonwing IQ10 processors with NEURA’s cognitive robot stack.
German humanoid maker NEURA raised up to $1.4B from Tether, Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch, and others to scale cognitive robots.
YC S26’s Nori Robotics pitches manufacturing-cost mobile bimanual robots to US labs after the FCC Covered List hit foreign advanced robots.
UBTECH unveiled the mass-produced UWORLD U1 Series in Shenzhen, claiming 13,361+ orders and pricing starting at 119,800 RMB.
China’s securities regulator approved Unitree’s Shanghai STAR Market IPO registration, a key step toward a ~¥4.2B public raise.
America’s first high-volume humanoid plant is live: 58,000 sq ft, 200+ staff, $20k buy-in or $499/month.
Tendon-driven, force-transparent hands: 22 finger/palm DoF plus a 3-DoF wrist, IP68, built for every NEO.
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, AGIBOT launched a full-size humanoid built for long shifts — plus industrial and dexterous systems aimed at real workflows.
Nearly 200 hires, $300M+ in multi-year Digit orders, and a Bay Area skill lab next door to Tesla country.
Digit's maker plans a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital XI, more than $300M in Digit v5 orders, and ticker AGLT if the deal closes.
Hangzhou startup AheadForm shows Origin-series heads built for blinks, eye contact, and speech-synced expressions.
Shenzhen’s AI² Robotics closed a massive financing round for AlphaBot wheeled manipulators and its Alpha Brain VLA stack.
Austin’s expanded Robot Park puts fleets of Apollo 2 to work collecting real-world data with Google DeepMind in the loop.
The Cloud Kitchens / Pronto stack rebranded as Atoms brings in Bain, Fifth Wall, and Uber — with Ben Horowitz joining the board.
China’s largest EV maker told China Securities Journal it will unveil its first humanoid robot in August at Di Space experience centers.
Shenzhen’s URKL puts full-size T800 robots in freestyle combat — 32 teams, live bouts, and a deliberate stress test for balance, sensing, and recovery.
The stealth-exit lab is putting 100+ AI robots online so the world can teach it how humans actually want to boss machines around.
July 28 rules block new foreign-produced advanced robots from U.S. equipment authorization—humanoids and quadrupeds included—alongside power inverters.
CEO Brett Adcock’s June chart: robot count climbing past human headcount as BotQ production ramps — a flashy milestone with real caveats.
West Egg Labs’ app books a humanoid for ~3 hours at $150 flat — no human cleaner in the room, remote help still possible.
Generative Bionics ships Gene.01 with full-body touch sensing and an open digital twin on pip, conda, and ROS.
Founded late 2023, the company says it has shipped more than 10,000 units — M1 and L1-series platforms built to leave the lab.
The CMU-founded startup bolts intelligence onto rented arms and skidders to install solar panels several times faster than manual crews.
Seoul’s Holiday Robotics closed a $105M Series A to commercialize FRIDAY, a wheeled industrial humanoid with hand-first design.
SoftBank exercised its put option. Hyundai Motor Group is buying the remaining stake and lining up Atlas for factory work by 2028.
Hugging Face’s LeRobot community released a full-stack, 3D-printed humanoid for robot learning — hardware, sim, and training included.
Shenzhen humanoid startup LimX closed a $200M pre-IPO round and is preparing a likely Hong Kong listing amid China’s IPO race.
Japan's Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders aim to mass-produce bipedal robots at Kyoto by end-2027.
Ex-Optimus lead Jay Li’s startup settles with Tesla, raises from First Round and YC, and starts shipping a 22-DoF hand plus sensor gloves.
Sunday Robotics says ACT-2 folded laundry at 99.1% success across 785 zero-shot attempts in homes Memo had never seen — beta still fall 2026.
Invite-only house, deep, and office cleans: one hour flat, human-plus-AI control, bathrooms off-limits unless you opt in.
Business Insider’s July rundown: Gen-3 production “soon” in Fremont, supply-chain drag, and photos of the first Optimus line.
London-based Humanoid raised $152 million led by Prime Movers Lab, with Bosch lined up as contract manufacturer and industrial partners on the cap table.
Industry City neighbors Highline Commerce and Ultra Robotics put stationary dual-arm OP1 robots on a live fulfillment floor outside Amazon.
TRI spinout led by MIT's Russ Tedrake raises at a $1.1B valuation, putting wheeled humanoids on real factory shifts instead of demo stages.
Y Combinator-backed Weave Robotics prices Isaac 1 at $7,999 or $449/month, targeting California deliveries this fall and 1,000 U.S. homes by end-2027.
After buying SceniX, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs demos real-to-sim-to-real policies that run an hour on hardware.