FCC robotics import ban & the onshoring scramble

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

The FCC’s 2026 ban on new foreign-made advanced robots, widely seen as aimed at China, is now testing the US onshoring push: US makers warn of actuator and rare-earth gaps that could triple costs.…

Humanoid learning-data collection: the data-factory lane

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Isaac's reference humanoid: Agile ONE SN and a 1,000–2,000 unit plan

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

NVIDIA's October 21, 2026 GTC Berlin robotics announcement expanded its Isaac platform and named Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN a Reference Humanoid, with the robot preconfigured with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T…

Public markets: robotics companies racing to price themselves

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Robot aftercare: maintenance, service, and end-of-life infrastructure

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Tesla Optimus: production starts, on-brand hype gap

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Tesla has started initial mass production of its Optimus robot at Fremont, using lines that once built the Model S and Model X. It says it aims for 20,000 robots a week by late 2027 and outside…

Unitree: the "self-evolving" AI that trains its own humanoids

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

China: humanoids pivot from spectacle to battlefield (Reuters investigation)

updated 2026-10-22 — status: open Robots

Humanoid makers on the public stage

updated 2026-10-22 — status: open Robots

Humanoid reality-check war (Agility's humility campaign)

updated 2026-10-22 — status: open Robots

Boston Dynamics Atlas: Hyundai's industrial bet

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

China industrial shift: EV makers to humanoids, JD.com's 3 million robots

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

Figure 03 endurance: 560 km of treadmill walking

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

Germany × NVIDIA: physical AI at the center of an industrial push

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

KAIST Humanoid v0.9: 35 kg pushes and 20 kg carries on cameras alone

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

The humanoid component supply chain: hands and the manipulation test

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots

Public-sector humanoid procurement (Singapore/Korea/US)

updated 2026-10-19 — status: open Robots

Human-vs-humanoid cage fights: the spectacle meets its regulators

updated 2026-10-18 — status: watch Robots

UCLA's open-source humanoid: walks at ~$400 in hardware

updated 2026-10-18 — status: open Robots

AiMOGA's Mobo: a consumer family humanoid, unveiling Oct 21

updated 2026-10-17 — status: open Robots

SoftBank eyes an $18B security-firm takeover

updated 2026-10-17 — status: open Robots

FLAIR opens Hong Kong's first Embodied AI hub

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots

Japan's construction firms turn to humanoids for labor gaps

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots

Korea's sandbox: humanoids sharing factory floors, barriers gone

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots

LinkerBot: the production-scale shipping claim

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots

Atlas's shop floor: how Boston Dynamics builds the robot

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots

DexForce: training humanoids on virtual data

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots

Humanoid retail deployment: Hive Robots × Salling Group (Føtex)

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots

Bowling Green State's Hanna: the campus-built humanoid

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots

Matter Venture Partners' $450M physical-AI fund

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots

Unitree: the reported $6.2B IPO pursuit

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots

Xinjiang Dadao: first embodied-AI assembly line, completion April 2027

updated 2026-10-13 — status: open Robots

XPeng IRON: production line commissioned, mass production promised for year-end

updated 2026-10-11 — status: open Robots

Samsung humanoid program: RX division, co-design, CES 2027 target

updated 2026-09-30 — status: watch Robots