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for Humanoid Robotics
Track companies, robots, research, investors, and market developments across the global robotics ecosystem.
Company Rankings
Leading companies in humanoid robotics, ranked by market capitalization.| # | Company | Valuation | 30D Trend | Sector | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  TeslaNASDAQ: TSLA | $1.10T | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 5 |  XiaomiHKEX: 1810 | $95.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 7 |  Hyundai MotorKRX: 005380.KS | $48.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 8 |  Figure AIPrivate | $39.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PRIVATE |
| 11 |  XPengNYSE: XPEV | $14.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 12 |  1X TechnologiesPrivate | $10.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PRIVATE |
| 13 |  Neura RoboticsPrivate | $9.70B | N/A | Humanoids | PRIVATE |
| 14 |  UBTECHHKEX: 9880 | $9.50B | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 15 |  Unitree RoboticsSSE: 688836 | $7.00B | N/A | Humanoids | PUBLIC |
| 19 |  ApptronikPrivate | $5.50B | N/A | Humanoids | PRIVATE |
Featured Companies
The top companies building the future of humanoid robotics.Unitree Robotics
Founded in 2016 in Hangzhou by Wang Xingxing, Unitree produces affordable humanoid and quadruped robots. The G1 humanoid, mass produced at $16,000 since August 2024, is one of the most affordable platforms available. Unitree is exploring a Hong Kong IPO as of 2025.
LimX Dynamics
LimX Dynamics develops reinforcement learning-powered humanoid robots for embodied AI.
EngineAI
EngineAI is a Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics company founded in October 2023, developing full-size and compact humanoid robots with a focus on human-like locomotion.
AgiBot
One of the world’s highest-volume humanoid manufacturers, combining embodied AI models with large-scale robot production.
Figure AI
Figure AI is an American robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial and commercial applications.
Apptronik
Developing industrial humanoids for large-scale manufacturing, logistics, and AI-powered automation.
News & Analysis
Insights, research, and market intelligence from industry contributors.
Kinetix AI Raises RMB 500M+ to Scale Its 115-DoF KAI Humanoid
Chinese humanoid robotics company Kinetix AI has raised more than RMB 500 million, or over $70 million, across an Angel+ financing series.
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HD Hyundai Robotics Invests $9.4M in Aidin Robotics to Develop Humanoid Hands
HD Hyundai Robotics has invested KRW 13 billion, approximately $9.4 million, in Aidin Robotics, taking an equity stake in the South Korean force and tactile-sensing company.
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Metacognition AI Raises A$10 Million to Build an Operating System for Robots
Australian AI startup Metacognition AI has raised A$10 million from CSIRO-backed deep-tech investor Main Sequence to develop a software layer designed to make robots and industrial systems easier to train and control using natural language.
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PHYMI Raises Nearly $100 Million to Build Physical Agents
Chinese embodied AI startup PHYMI has raised nearly $100 million in seed funding, one of the larger early-stage financings in the sector this year.
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Unitree Open-Sources New Foundation Model for Whole-Body Humanoid Control
Unitree has released UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a new open-source foundation model designed to control both stationary manipulation and whole-body mobile tasks using a single model.
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Skild AI Reaches $100M Revenue Run Rate as S1 Expands Into Real-World Deployments
Skild AI has reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate just 10 months after its first commercial deployment, according to new details published by NVIDIA.
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CyberHero Launches Global Humanoid Robot Sports League
CyberHero, a new humanoid robot sports league from Hero Esports, has launched in Riyadh with plans to expand into an eight-city global circuit across four regions.
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General Robotics Says GRID Can Cut Robot Onboarding From a Month to Two Hours
General Robotics has introduced a major update to its GRID physical AI platform that uses AI agents to automate parts of the process of bringing robots into real-world operation.
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Humanoid Says Its Robot Pipeline Has Reached 34,000 Pre-Orders Worth $2.4 Billion
Humanoid says it has secured more than 34,000 non-binding pre-orders for its wheeled industrial robot, representing approximately $2.4 billion in potential commercial pipeline.
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China Reportedly Tightens IPO Scrutiny for Humanoid Robotics Companies
Chinese regulators are reportedly raising the threshold for humanoid robotics companies seeking to go public, introducing greater scrutiny of companies’ revenue, losses and underlying technology.
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Boston Dynamics Spinout Dynamic Creatures Emerges From Stealth
Dynamic Creatures, a new robotics company founded by former Boston Dynamics and Robotics and AI Institute leaders, has emerged from stealth with a focus on interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality.
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China Is Testing Humanoid Robots for Future Military Operations
China’s military establishment is moving humanoid robotics into research for future battlefield deployment, according to a Reuters review of more than 100 procurement records, academic papers and official documents.
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Samsung SDS Launches Robot Transformation Business With 2027 Orchestration Platform
Samsung SDS has formally entered the robotics transformation, or RX, business and plans to launch a Robot Orchestration Platform in 2027 for managing robots and production equipment across manufacturing sites.
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XPENG Opens Automated IRON Humanoid Production Line Ahead of 2026 Mass Production
XPENG has officially commissioned its humanoid robot production lines, moving its next-generation IRON platform from prototype development into production-line manufacturing.
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Agility Robotics Discloses $1.8M Revenue Ahead of $2.5B SPAC Merger
Agility Robotics has disclosed its financials for the first time as it moves toward a planned public listing through its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
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EcoPro Targets Humanoid Robots With High-Nickel and Solid-State Battery Materials
South Korean battery materials group EcoPro is positioning humanoid robotics as a new end market for its high-nickel and solid-state battery technologies, as robot makers look for lighter batteries with greater energy density.
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Bear Robotics Reportedly Seeks Up to $300M Ahead of Potential Nasdaq IPO
Bear Robotics is reportedly raising KRW 300–400 billion, or roughly $224–299 million, in pre-IPO funding as the LG Electronics-controlled robotics company prepares for a possible Nasdaq listing.
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Is Reportedly Building Robotaxi Technology
Travis Kalanick’s physical AI company Atoms is developing robotaxi technology and has held talks with Uber about potentially integrating it into the ride-hailing platform, according to new reporting from the Financial Times.
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NEURA Robotics and SECO Partner to Scale 4NE1 Compute Hardware in Europe
NEURA Robotics and Italian edge computing company SECO have signed a strategic partnership to develop and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA’s cognitive robot portfolio, including its 4NE1 humanoid.
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Galbot Opens First Humanoid Robot Stores Outside Mainland China
Galbot has opened three humanoid robot operated convenience stores in Hong Kong, marking the first international expansion of a retail model the Beijing based embodied AI company has already deployed across roughly 200 locations in mainland China.
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LG Electronics Nears First External Humanoid Robot Actuator Order
LG Electronics is moving closer to securing its first external customer for humanoid robot actuators, with the company confirming that it is currently in supply discussions with multiple global big tech companies.
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Dreame Unveils ECHO P1 Humanoid and Physical AI Stack for the Home
Dreame Technology has unveiled ECHO P1, a wheeled humanoid service robot, alongside a broader physical AI architecture designed to move its robotics technology into multi-step household tasks.
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GigaAI and PaXini Partner to Combine World Models With Tactile Robotics
GigaAI and PaXini AI have signed a strategic partnership to combine world models, tactile perception and robot data infrastructure as they build embodied AI systems that can operate across different robot platforms.
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Simple AI Raises Several Hundred Million Yuan for Embodied AI
Beijing-based Simple AI has raised several hundred million yuan in new funding, adding to a rapid run of financing as the company builds data infrastructure and models for general-purpose embodied robots.
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Axis Robotics Open-Sources 50,000-Trajectory Dataset for Robot Learning
Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, an open-source dataset containing more than 50,000 human-teleoperated robot trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks.
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YOBOTICS Raises RMB 100M+ to Scale Humanoid and Legged Robots
Chinese robotics company YOBOTICS has raised more than RMB 100 million ($14 million+) in an A+ funding round as it prepares to expand production across humanoid and legged robots.
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NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the largest open AI development platforms under the world’s dominant AI chipmaker.
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OpenAI Will Build Its Own Humanoid Robot
OpenAI plans to build its own humanoid robot, with CEO Sam Altman confirming the company’s hardware ambitions now extend to both humanoids and other robotic form factors.
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Xiaomi Brings CyberOne to Europe After EV Factory Trials
Xiaomi has brought its humanoid robot to IFA 2026 in Berlin, giving the company’s robotics program one of its most prominent showcases outside China.
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AGIBOT and Minth Launch Humanoid Production in Serbia
AGIBOT and Minth Group have started humanoid robot production in Šabac, Serbia, opening what the companies and Serbian authorities describe as Europe’s first mass-production line for humanoid robots.
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Figure Commits $3.5B to AI Compute in Nscale Partnership
Figure has signed a multi-year partnership with Nscale that could deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs to support the development of its Helix AI models and humanoid robots.
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Skild AI Unveils S1, a Robot Model That Learns From One Example
Skild AI has introduced S1, a new robot foundation model designed to learn previously unseen tasks from a single video demonstration without fine-tuning.
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Galbot Showcases ET1, Its First Bipedal Humanoid
Galbot has unveiled ET1, its first bipedal humanoid robot.
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Does Australia’s Humanoid Robotics Industry Actually Exist?
Australia is largely absent from the global race to build general-purpose humanoid robots. But Andromeda Robotics, Contactile and Alloy Robotics suggest a small ecosystem may be beginning to form around the technology.
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Generalist Raises Nearly $200M at $3B Valuation
Generalist has raised nearly $200 million in additional funding, lifting the robotics AI startup’s valuation to $3 billion just months after its previous financing.
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Galbot Previews ET1, Its First Bipedal Humanoid
Beijing-based Galbot has previewed the ET1, its first bipedal humanoid robot, ahead of WRC 2026, marking a significant expansion beyond the company’s existing wheeled robotic platforms.
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Lightberry Opens Reservations for $39,990 Lumi Humanoid
San Francisco-based Lightberry has opened reservations for Lumi, a new interactive humanoid built for entertainment, hospitality, marketing and developer applications.
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Why Investors Bet $165 Million on Sunday's Memo
Inside the data advantage, technical moat, and market timing behind Sunday’s most closely watched home robot.
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Asimov 1 Begins Shipping Its First Production Batch
Asimov is preparing to ship the first production batch of its Asimov 1, an open-source humanoid kit designed to give developers and researchers access to a full-scale robotics platform at a significantly lower cost.
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UBTECH Humanoid Revenue Surges 1,445% in H1 2026
UBTECH Robotics reported a sharp acceleration in its humanoid robotics business during the first half of 2026, with full-size humanoids emerging as the company’s largest growth engine.
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FieldAI: The Universal Robot Brain That Doesn't Build Robots
Born in the trenches of DARPA's hardest autonomy challenges and NASA JPL's Mars programs, FieldAI has crossed the $2B mark in 18 months without shipping a single robot. It wants to be the operating intelligence for every machine in motion.
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Pollen Robotics Opens Pre-Orders for $399 Microduck
Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25cm bipedal robot designed as an accessible platform for reinforcement learning and sim-to-real robotics development.
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SoftBank in Talks to Acquire Majority Stake in 1X
SoftBank is reportedly in talks to acquire a majority stake in 1X Technologies at a $6 billion valuation, a deal that could give the Japanese investment group control of one of the most prominent companies developing humanoid robots for the home.
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Sohu And The End Of General‑Purpose AI Chips
A look at Etched’s transformer‑only ASIC and what it means for data centers, humanoid robots, and the next phase of AI infrastructure.
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Top Humanoid Robotics Companies To Watch In 2026
The companies defining the control stack and the humanoid hardware that will anchor the next decade of automation.
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How Humanoid Robots Will Transform The Global Workforce
Why demographic decline, industrial policy and capital flows are turning humanoids into the next layer of economic infrastructure.
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Private Leaders Behind the Humanoid Robotics Boom
Inside the dominant humanoid platforms and what they are actually doing this year.
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How 1X Is Training NEO For Everyday Homes
A look at how 1X uses NEO to learn from domestic work, refine world models, and push humanoid robots toward practical, safe deployment in real homes.
1X TechnologiesJess Alvarez
Sanctuary AI and the Robotic Touch
How a Canadian humanoid company turned dexterity and patents into real leverage in physical AI.
Sanctuary AIJess Alvarez
How Digit Is Raising The Bar For Warehouse Automation
Digit is emerging as one of the first humanoid robots that warehouse operators can plug into live logistics workflows with predictable performance.
Agility RoboticsJess Alvarez
Who Owns The Brains And Minds Of Humanoid Robotics
How next generation chips and foundation models will quietly decide which humanoids win.
NVIDIAEtchedJess Alvarez
Is NEURA Robotics Europe’s Top Humanoid Company?
What Neura’s 4NE‑1, Neuraverse and fresh capital reveal about Europe’s bid to lead humanoid robotics.
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Apptronik’s Apollo And The Shape Of Industrial Humanoids
Inside Apollo, the NASA‑inspired humanoid that aims to turn humanoid robots into standard equipment for logistics and production lines.
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War Robots In Plain Sight Phantom MK1 And The Future Of Defense Humanoids
Why a nightclub DJ set from Phantom MK1 is more than a stunt and what it reveals about the next phase of humanoid robots in industrial and military settings.
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Humanoid Robots As The Execution Layer For Software
Humanoid robots are becoming the standard endpoint that lets software act directly in the physical world, turning warehouses, factories and hospitals into programmable environments.
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Skild AI and the Rise of the Shared Robotic Mind
How a data-rich, omni-bodied foundation model is quietly becoming the default intelligence layer for humanoids, logistics fleets, and construction robots worldwide.
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Why Home Robots Won't Scale Until Physical Data Does
Home robots will not reach mass adoption until embodied AI can learn from enough real world data to work reliably in everyday homes.
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Boston Dynamics Connects FieldAI to Spot and Atlas
Boston Dynamics has owned every layer of its stack for twenty years. On March 12, 2026, it quietly admitted the autonomy race is moving faster than any vertical integrator can keep up, and handed FieldAI the keys to Spot's brain.
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Physics First: Why FieldAI's Foundation Models Break the VLA Playbook
Physical Intelligence retrofits vision-language models. Skild AI scales imitation learning. FieldAI took a third road, one that starts from the physics of being wrong, and treats risk as a first-class citizen of the model.
FieldAIJess Alvarez
$405M in Two Rounds: The Investment Thesis Behind FieldAI's $2B Unicorn Status
In eighteen months, FieldAI went from stealth to unicorn without shipping a robot. The cap table reads like a conviction vote on a very specific thesis: in robotics, the brain is worth more than the body.
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HIVE Robots and Danfoss Bring Humanoids to the Factory Floor
HIVE Robots and Danfoss Power Solutions are testing humanoid robots on industrial assembly lines, focusing on five-finger grasping and how robots can work alongside human operators in existing factories.
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Robotics Update: Humanoids Move Closer to Real-World Work
New demonstrations and training facilities are showing how humanoid robots are progressing beyond laboratory prototypes toward practical applications in factories, services, and everyday environments.
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Wandercraft Says Calvin-40 Has Secured 12 Industrial Customers
Wandercraft says its Calvin-40 industrial humanoid has secured 12 blue-chip customers across automotive, logistics, retail, healthcare and defense as it prepares to expand real-world deployments.
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Founders, executives, researchers, and operators shaping humanoid robotics.
Robert Katzschmann
Co-Founder
Sankaet Pathak
Founder & CEO
Abhinav Gupta
Co-Founder
Adam Winter
Interim CEO
Adnan Esmail
Co-Founder
Adrien Gaidon
Co-Founder & CSO, Walden Robotics
Investors
Track the investors funding the next generation of robotics companies.
SoftBank Group
Corporate
HongShan
VC Fund
Coatue Management
Asset Manager
Bezos Expeditions
Individual
LG Technology Ventures
VC Fund
NVentures
VC Fund
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund