Physical Intelligence Opens Its Robotics Models to External Developers
Physical Intelligence has introduced the Pi API beta, allowing external robotics developers to train and deploy its foundation models on their own machines.
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Boston Dynamics Targets One-Hour Atlas Builds by 2027
Boston Dynamics has shared a closer look at how it manufactures its Atlas humanoid robot, revealing plans to reduce assembly time from approximately one day to one hour by 2027.
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Tesollo Expects Robotic Hand Sales to Surpass 1,000 Units in 2026
South Korean robotics company Tesollo expects cumulative sales of its robotic hands and grippers to exceed 1,000 units by the end of 2026.
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Faraday Future Signs $200 Million Deal to Separate Its Robotics Business
Faraday Future has signed a definitive agreement to transfer its humanoid and bionic robotics business to Nasdaq-listed FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem (FFR) in an all-stock transaction valuing the operations at approximately $200 million.
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AgiBot Reportedly Seeking $210 Million at $7 Billion Valuation
Chinese humanoid robotics manufacturer AgiBot is reportedly nearing completion of a new financing round that could value the company at approximately ¥50 billion ($7 billion).
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NEURA Robotics Introduces Neuron AI for Humanoid Robots
NEURA Robotics has introduced Neuron AI, a new robotics foundation model designed to combine multiple forms of sensory information with memory and physical action.
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Agility Robotics Moves Closer to Nasdaq Listing With November 2 Vote
Agility Robotics has moved closer to becoming a publicly traded company after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared its registration statement effective on October 13.
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Google Teaches Apollo Humanoid New Skills Using Human Video
Google DeepMind has demonstrated a new approach to robot learning using Gemini 4 Argon, its latest AI model, to translate human demonstrations into physical robot movements.
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L&T Technology Services Opens Physical AI Manufacturing Lab With NVIDIA
L&T Technology Services has opened a new AI-native manufacturing laboratory in Bengaluru, India, bringing together industrial robotics, digital twins and autonomous systems in a facility designed to support the development of Physical AI applications.
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Huawei Backs Chinese Startup Developing Electronic Skin for Robots
Chinese robotics startup Sita Robotics has secured new financing from investors including Huawei’s Hubble Investment, Shenzhen High-Tech Investment Group-affiliated funds and Gaoxuan Investment.
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Astribot Reaches ¥15 Billion Valuation After New ¥1 Billion Funding Round
Astribot, the Chinese robotics company developing cable-driven humanoids, has completed a new financing round worth approximately ¥1 billion ($140 million), bringing its reported valuation to ¥15 billion ($2.1 billion).
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Asimov Releases Open-Source SDK for Its Humanoid Robot
Menlo Research has released a Python software development kit for its Asimov 1 humanoid robot, expanding the tools available to researchers and developers building applications for the open-source platform.
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XPENG Sets 2027 European Rollout Target for IRON Humanoid
XPENG has outlined plans to introduce its IRON humanoid robot in Europe during the second half of 2027, providing a more specific timetable for the company’s international robotics expansion.
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Sharpa Targets 30,000 Robots Across Restaurants, Retail and Hotels
Sharpa has outlined plans to deploy 30,000 robots across restaurants, retail businesses and hotels as the company expands its focus on commercial applications.
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Google DeepMind Is Building a New Robotics Lab in Cambridge
Google DeepMind is establishing a new robotics laboratory in the Cambridge area of Massachusetts, expanding its physical infrastructure for robotics hardware development and artificial intelligence research.
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Shanghai Sets Target of 8,000 Humanoid Robots in Factories by 2028
Shanghai has announced plans to deploy 8,000 humanoid robots across factories by 2028 as part of a new initiative to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics in manufacturing.
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UBTECH and C&D Set 10,000-Humanoid Sales Target for 2030
UBTECH Robotics and China’s C&D Inc. have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to establish a joint venture and pursue sales of at least 10,000 UBTECH humanoid robots by 2030.
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Microagi Says Its Revenue Run Rate Reached $100M in Six Months
Microagi says it has reached a $100 million annualized revenue run rate six months after launching Shift, its platform for collecting real-world human activity data to train robots.
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Striding AI Introduces Humanoid and Mobile Robots for 24-Hour Retail Automation
Chinese robotics company Striding AI has introduced a Physical AI system designed to automate repetitive tasks in convenience stores and other retail environments.
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Gecko Robotics and Anduril Partner to Automate Industrial Inspection in Submarine Manufacturing
Gecko Robotics has announced a partnership with Anduril Industries to integrate robotic inspection and artificial intelligence into submarine component manufacturing.
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Dex-Lab Secures S$5 Million Humanoid Robot Agreement in China
Singapore-based robotics developer Dex-Lab has secured a S$5 million sales commitment for humanoid robots from Chongqing Yu Hai Precision Manufacturing, expanding its commercial presence in China.
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Ultra Raises $50 Million to Scale AI-Powered Warehouse Robots
Brooklyn-based robotics startup Ultra has raised $50 million in Series A financing as it expands the deployment of AI-powered robots across US warehouses.
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Aether AI Introduces CRIS-0 for Self-Correcting Robot Tasks
Aether AI unveiled CRIS-0, a robotics AI system that combines causal world models with action planning.
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UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen Expand Humanoid Robotics Partnership Into Factory Logistics
UBTECH Robotics has announced a strategic cooperation agreement with FAW-Volkswagen to develop and test humanoid robot applications in automotive factory logistics.
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Mecka AI Raises $60M From Sequoia, NVIDIA and Microsoft to Scale Robot Training Data
Mecka AI has raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, with new investments from NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung.
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CP AI Robotics Introduces Two Robots and a World-Action Model for Retail Automation
CP AI Robotics has unveiled two robots, a Physical AI model architecture and a fleet-management platform designed to automate retail operations.
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Multiply Labs Raises $75M to Scale Robotic Drug Manufacturing
Multiply Labs has raised $75 million in Series B funding to expand its robotic platform for manufacturing cell therapies, gene therapies, antibodies, viral vectors and mRNA drugs.
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Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics has appointed Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer, effective October 7, placing a former leader of Amazon’s Alexa and artificial-general-intelligence programs in charge of the Hyundai-owned robotics company.
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Agility Targets 25 Customer Sites and Details Its 1,000-Robot Order
Agility Robotics is targeting up to 25 committed customer facility deployments by the end of 2027, while expanding its active commercial pipeline from more than 30 potential customers to approximately 100.
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Minerva Humanoids Raises $10M and Launches Roger for Hazardous Work
Minerva Humanoids has emerged from stealth with approximately $10 million in pre-seed funding and unveiled Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid designed for hazardous energy operations and public-safety work.
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The Robotico 50: Women in Humanoid Robotics & Embodied AI 2026
An independent editorial selection recognising women working across humanoid robotics and embodied AI.
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Deliveroo and Coco Robotics Announce Multi-City UK Delivery-Robot Rollout
Deliveroo and Coco Robotics have announced an exclusive UK partnership that will introduce Coco’s pavement delivery robots in five initial markets.
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OMNIVISION Launches OG05D Sensor for Industrial and Humanoid Robot Vision
OMNIVISION has introduced the OG05D, a 5-megapixel global-shutter CMOS sensor designed for factory automation, compact AI cameras, humanoid robots and robotics-training data collection.
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Panasonic Puts Humanoids on a 2029 Production Timeline
Panasonic Holdings has started developing humanoid robots and is targeting production from 2029, Chief AI Officer Akira Sakakibara told Nikkei Asia.
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SafeWorld Raises $12.2M to Stress-Test AI-Powered Robots
SafeWorld has emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding to develop safety-testing and simulation software for robots operating around people.
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GMO Fully Opens 1,263-Square-Meter Humanoid Robotics Lab in Tokyo
GMO Internet Group has fully opened its Humanoid Lab Shibuya Showroom, completing a 382-tsubo, approximately 1,263-square-meter, research and development facility for humanoid robotics and Physical AI at its Tokyo headquarters.
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Faraday Future Reports 265 EAI Robotics Units Sold and Shipped in September
Faraday Future says its EAI robotics operation sold and shipped 265 devices in September, setting a company monthly record and increasing from the 158 units it reported for August.
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Kaleido Becomes the First Planned Robot for Noetra’s Physical AI Stack
Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to integrate Noetra’s Japanese Physical AI platform into its Kaleido humanoid and begin commercial deployment as early as 2030, according to Nikkei.
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Agility CEO Brings Commercial Humanoid Experience to U.S. Defense Study
Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson has joined Project Meridian, a MITRE-led initiative commissioned by the U.S. Department of War to examine technologies and operational concepts that could shape defense capabilities over the next 10–20 years.
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RobCo Hits $1 Billion Valuation After $40 Million Share Sale
German robotics company RobCo has reached a valuation of more than $1 billion following a $40 million secondary share transaction, roughly doubling its valuation from the beginning of the year.
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RoboParty Unveils RP1 Full-Stack Open-Source Humanoid
RoboParty has unveiled RP1, a new bipedal humanoid robot designed as an open development platform for robotics researchers, embodied AI teams and developers.
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Digit Runs Autonomous Mobile Manipulation for 12 Hours at IROS
Agility Robotics researchers ran an autonomous whole-body manipulation system on Digit for approximately 12 hours during IROS 2026, testing the policy in a crowded conference environment that was not included in its training data.
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FieldAI Reportedly Signs Term Sheet for $700 Million Round at $10 Billion Valuation
FieldAI has signed a term sheet to raise $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to Business Insider.
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Boston Dynamics Unveils New 13-DoF Hand for Atlas
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new four-fingered hand for Atlas, redesigning the humanoid’s manipulation hardware around dexterity, durability and mass manufacturing.
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Eni and Generative Bionics Partner on Industrial Humanoid Robotics
Eni and Generative Bionics have signed an agreement to explore the use of GENE.01 humanoid robots across the energy company’s industrial operations.
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SpaceData Connects Digital Twins to Working Robots With RobotBrain
Japanese technology company SpaceData has launched RobotBrain, a platform designed to connect digital twins and physical simulations with robots operating in factories, warehouses, construction sites and infrastructure facilities.
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Extend Robotics Raises £2.6M to Sell Factory Output, Not Robots
British embodied-AI company Extend Robotics has raised £2.6 million in Pre-A funding to expand a service that charges manufacturers for completed work rather than selling them robot hardware.
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AVITA Opens Sales for 62-DoF N2H Humanoid
Japanese robotics company AVITA has opened commercial enquiries for its N2H humanoid through a new sales platform for companies and public-sector organizations.
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Hitachi and Agile Robots Partner on Physical AI for Autonomous Factories
Hitachi and Agile Robots have formed a Physical AI partnership spanning robotic arms, mobile robots and the Agile ONE humanoid. The companies plan to commercialize systems through Hitachi’s HMAX Industry portfolio and Agile Robots’ customer network.
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Inbolt Raises €11 Million for Real-Time Industrial Robot Vision
Inbolt has raised €11 million to expand its real-time 3D vision and robot-control software across the US and APAC and enter data-center and electronics manufacturing. Shift4Good led the round, joined by Bridges, BNP Paribas Développement and Ora Global.
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DYNA Robotics Unveils Taku Semi-Humanoid Robot
DYNA Robotics has unveiled Taku, a new semi-humanoid robot designed to autonomously complete end-to-end commercial workflows across multiple workstations.
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NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform With Figure and Skild AI
NVIDIA has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a new software and hardware architecture designed to enforce safety and security controls around autonomous AI agents, including agents operating physical robotic systems.
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Neubility Welcomes Its First Humanoid Robot, Billi
South Korean robotics company Neubility has unveiled Billi, its first humanoid robot, as the company expands from autonomous delivery robots into industrial manipulation.
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AMD Acquires World Labs for $8.2 Billion
AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion, bringing one of the leading spatial intelligence and world-model research teams inside the semiconductor company.
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Delta Intelligence Releases Δ₀ for Whole-Body Humanoid Control
Delta Intelligence has released Δ₀, a native humanoid foundation model designed to control locomotion and manipulation through a single generalist policy.
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A $150 Million Round Backs SiMa.ai’s 1,000-TOPS Physical AI Chip
SiMa.ai has raised $150 million in Series C financing at a $1.45 billion valuation, bringing the physical AI semiconductor company’s total funding to $500 million.
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Direct Drive Tech Enters Hong Kong at a $1 Billion Valuation
Direct Drive Tech began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 29 after raising HK$1.08 billion, approximately $138 million, through its initial public offering.
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Microagi Acquires Stealth Robotics Startup and Hires Animesh Garg as Chief Research Officer
Microagi has hired robotics researcher Animesh Garg as Chief Research Officer and acquired a stealth startup built by members of his research group.
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Sharpa’s New D01 Feels Touch Across Its Entire Body
Sharpa unveiled three robotics products at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh on September 28, led by the D01 integrated tactile manipulation robot.
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Tesla Ramps Optimus Production to Several Hundred Robots a Week
Tesla produced several hundred Optimus humanoid robots per week in August, up from a few dozen per week during second-quarter production testing, according to The Information.
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Amazon Invests $100 Million in New US Robotics Manufacturing Facility
Amazon will invest more than $100 million in a new advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, expanding the infrastructure supporting its North American robotics and fulfillment network.
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Feather Crosses $1 Million in Revenue With Modular Humanoid Platform
Feather Robotics has surpassed $1 million in revenue from its modular robotics platform, with customer systems already operating in restaurants in Japan and science laboratories, according to new figures disclosed by the company to TechCrunch.
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Mech-Mind Revenue Jumps 55% as Robot Orders Rise 75%
Mech-Mind Robotics reported RMB 237.3 million ($35.4 million) in revenue for the first half of 2026, up 54.7% year over year, in its first financial results since listing in Hong Kong earlier this month.
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AgiBot Produces Its 20,000th Robot
AgiBot has produced its 20,000th robot, reaching the manufacturing milestone with an A3 Ultra humanoid delivered to Chimelong Group on September 24.
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Skild AI Trains Humanoid Through 140 Years of Simulated Self-Play
Skild AI has introduced a self-play post-training method for its S1 robotics foundation model, using more than 140 years of accumulated simulated soccer experience before transferring the resulting policy to a physical humanoid.
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AgiBot Puts 300+ Robots to Work Across Chimelong Theme Park
AgiBot is preparing to deploy more than 300 robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin, Zhuhai, creating one of the largest concentrated public deployments of embodied robots announced to date.
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Qualcomm Buys PickNik to Bring MoveIt Into Its Robotics Stack
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire robotics software company PickNik, bringing the team behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework into its growing Physical AI business. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Japan Looks at Humanoid Robots for Military Logistics and Base Security
The Japanese government is preparing to begin research into the use of AI-powered humanoid robots by the country’s Self-Defense Forces, with initial applications focused on base security, logistics and other support operations, according to Kyodo News.
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Cognex to Acquire RealSense for $500 Million
Cognex has agreed to acquire RealSense for approximately $500 million in cash, adding one of the robotics industry’s most widely used 3D perception platforms to its machine-vision business.
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Unitree Launches Human-Sized Dex5-S Dexterous Hand With 22 Degrees of Freedom
Unitree Robotics has launched the Dex5-S, a new five-finger dexterous robot hand with 22 degrees of freedom and a starting price of RMB 39,900, approximately $5,600.
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Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Center Inside Hyundai’s Georgia Factory
Boston Dynamics has opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center inside Hyundai Motor Group’s Metaplant America in Georgia, with Atlas humanoid robots now training on automotive manufacturing tasks.
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Tesla Reportedly Audits Chinese Suppliers for Optimus Gen 3 Production
Tesla is auditing Chinese component manufacturers as it prepares its third-generation Optimus humanoid for mass production, according to a new report from the Shanghai Securities News.
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NVIDIA Releases Isaac ROS 5.0 With Agentic Robotics Development Tools
NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS 5.0, adding AI-agent workflows to its open-source robotics software stack and expanding support for deploying Physical AI applications across Jetson hardware.
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Around 7,000 Humanoid Robots Were Sold Globally in 2025, IFR Data Shows
Around 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide in 2025 for industrial and professional service applications, according to new figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics and reviewed by Reuters ahead of publication.
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LG and NVIDIA Plan Joint Physical AI Development Base in Seoul
LG Electronics and NVIDIA are preparing a joint Physical AI development base in Seoul where researchers from both companies will work on robot models.
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China Slows Humanoid Robot IPO Rush as Regulators Scrutinize Revenue and Valuations
Chinese regulators are slowing some humanoid robotics IPOs as they examine whether rapidly rising valuations and revenue linked to government-backed projects reflect sustainable commercial demand.
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SoftBank Agrees to Acquire Marc Raibert’s Robotics & AI Institute
SoftBank Group has agreed to acquire the Robotics & AI Institute from Hyundai Motor Group.
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Genisom AI Raises Series B as Robot Production Passes 15,000 Units
Genisom AI has raised several hundred million yuan in Series B funding as the Chinese embodied robotics company expands production and development of humanoid and quadruped robots.
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Faraday Future Launches Nine New Robot Configurations, Including $9,990 Humanoid
Faraday Future has launched nine new robot configurations across five models, expanding its robotics portfolio with full-size and compact humanoids alongside new industrial quadrupeds.
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Watney Raises $80 Million to Expand Robots for AI Data Centers
Watney Robotics has raised $80 million in Series A funding to expand its robotics platform for physical work inside hyperscale data centers.
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Toyota Plans ¥1 Trillion Annual Factory Upgrade Around Physical AI and Robotics
Toyota plans to invest approximately ¥1 trillion ($6.8 billion) annually from 2028 to modernize its global manufacturing network, including the introduction of Physical AI systems and a new generation of robots trained from human demonstrations.
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Figure Releases Helix 2.5 With Zero-Shot Autonomy Across 30 Unseen Homes
Figure has released Helix 2.5, its latest humanoid foundation model, demonstrating whole-body autonomous operation across 30 homes in which the robots had received no environment-specific training.
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Tesla Starts New Optimus Production Audits Across Chinese Supply Chain
Tesla has started a new round of supplier audits in China aimed at preparing its Optimus humanoid robot for scaled production, according to Chinese business publication 21st Century Business Herald.
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AgiBot Shows A3 Ultra Humanoids Working Across Hotels, Retail and Car Dealerships
AgiBot has released new footage of its A3 Ultra full-size humanoid operating across commercial environments, including car dealerships, hotels and convenience stores, as the company reports completing production validation at the thousand-unit scale.
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Samsung Medical Center Demonstrates Two Humanoid Robots Assisting a Surgeon
Samsung Medical Center has demonstrated two humanoid surgical-assistant robots working alongside a surgeon, showing the systems passing instruments, controlling an endoscope and assisting with tissue retraction during a simulated procedure.
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UBTECH Begins Deliveries of U1 Humanoid Companion Robots
UBTECH Robotics has begun deliveries of its U1 series of hyper-realistic humanoid companion robots, following more than 13,000 orders reported for the platform earlier this year.
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D-Robotics Raises $400 Million to Expand Embodied AI Computing Platform
D-Robotics has raised $400 million in Series C funding, adding another large financing round to the Chinese robotics infrastructure market as the company expands its chips and software platform for embodied AI.
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Agility Robotics Welcomes Digit 5 With 50-Pound Payload and Cooperative Safety System
Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, the next generation of its industrial humanoid robot, with redesigned legs, higher payload capacity, faster charging and a safety system built for operation alongside human workers without traditional physical barriers.
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Unitree Launches G1+ Humanoid at RMB 95,000
Unitree Robotics has launched the G1+, an upgraded version of its G1 humanoid robot with changes to its joints, perception hardware and human-robot interaction systems.
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Universal Robots Launches Gen 7 Platform
Universal Robots has launched Gen 7, a new industrial robotics platform designed to support AI-powered automation and Physical AI applications on factory floors.
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Rainbow Robotics Halts U.S. Humanoid Exports Under New FCC Rules
Rainbow Robotics has stopped exporting its RB-Y1 humanoid robot to the United States following new Federal Communications Commission restrictions on foreign-produced advanced robotic devices.
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Realbotix Secures $5 Million Bridge Facility Ahead of Onconetix Acquisition
Realbotix LLC has entered into an unsecured bridge loan facility of up to $5 million from Onconetix as the companies continue working toward their previously announced acquisition.
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Boston Dynamics IPO Unlikely As Atlas Awaits Large-Scale Deployment
Boston Dynamics is unlikely to pursue an initial public offering in 2027 as the company remains unprofitable and has yet to deploy its Atlas humanoid robots at scale, according to a senior Hyundai Motor Group executive speaking to Reuters.
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Xieyue Intelligence Raises Hundreds of Millions of Yuan for Home Robots
Chinese embodied AI startup Xieyue Intelligence has completed an Angel+ financing worth several hundred million yuan, less than a year after it was founded.
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UBTECH Opens Liuzhou Factory With Capacity for 10,000+ Humanoid Robots a Year
UBTECH has started production at a new robotics factory in Liuzhou, China, designed for annual output of more than 10,000 robots.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Galbot Showcases ET1, Its First Bipedal Humanoid
Galbot has unveiled ET1, its first bipedal humanoid robot.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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