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Insights, research, and market intelligence from industry contributors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

San Francisco-based Lightberry has opened reservations for Lumi, a new interactive humanoid built for entertainment, hospitality, marketing and developer applications.

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.

Minth Group and AGIBOT have launched humanoid robot production in Serbia, with a planned expansion that could eventually support annual production of up to 20,000 humanoid robots and robotic dogs.

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.