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FCC robotics import ban & the onshoring scramble

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots fcc regulation china humanoids

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 humanoids funding

Industrial automation demand: Toyota's ¥1T/yr line

updated 2026-10-23 — status: watch Robots industrial toyota

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

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots nvidia humanoids

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…

KION: the RoCaP case-picker runs in a ROSSMANN warehouse

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots nvidia europe industrial

KION has delivered its Robotic Case Picker, an autonomous industrial case-picking robot called RoCaP, to a ROSSMANN regional warehouse in October 2026. It also demonstrated physical-AI warehouse…

Pony AI: first Central Asia robotaxi pilot with inDrive in Kazakhstan

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Pony AI is entering Central Asia through a robotaxi partnership with inDrive, using Kazakhstan as its first pilot market. The first deployments are planned for Astana, the capital. This is a debut…

Public markets: robotics companies racing to price themselves

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots agility ipo humanoids funding

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

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots humanoids japan industrial

Tesla Optimus: production starts, on-brand hype gap

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots tesla humanoids

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: founder now expects a humanoid breakthrough as soon as 2028

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots

Unitree's founder now expects a humanoid breakthrough as soon as 2028, reversing earlier expectations. A follow-up report defined that breakthrough as humanoids completing 80% of spoken tasks by…

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

updated 2026-10-23 — status: open Robots china humanoids

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

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Humanoid makers on the public stage

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

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The reported Tesla–SpaceX merger exploration and its open questions

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Amazon: one million warehouse robots, ~1.5 million workers

updated 2026-10-21 — status: open Robots amazon industrial us

Boston Dynamics Atlas: Hyundai's industrial bet

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots boston-dynamics hyundai humanoids

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

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots china humanoids industrial

Eka Robotics: $150M raise for force-aware robot AI

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Exotec commissions two Skypod systems in Japan

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FANUC AI Welding: paths generated straight from blueprints

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Figure 03 endurance: 560 km of treadmill walking

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots humanoids

Gecko Robotics' $300M Navy contract and the 'core military capability' claim

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

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots nvidia humanoids europe

Hy-Tek × Hai Robotics: warehouse automation for NAPA

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots industrial

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

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots humanoids

Reservoir's agricultural-robotics incubator in Washington state

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots industrial

The humanoid component supply chain: hands and the manipulation test

updated 2026-10-20 — status: open Robots humanoids china japan semiconductors

Kodama raises $7M to robotize forestry, teleoperation first

updated 2026-10-19 — status: open Robots funding

Nomagic's picking robots for S.Oliver's Dettelbach facility

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

updated 2026-10-19 — status: open Robots humanoids defense singapore south-korea us

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

updated 2026-10-18 — status: watch Robots humanoids regulation

LEAPTING's Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot for utility-scale solar

updated 2026-10-18 — status: watch Robots industrial solar

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

updated 2026-10-18 — status: open Robots humanoids research

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

updated 2026-10-17 — status: open Robots humanoids consumer china

Intel's physical-AI pivot: the all-in-one robot-brain chip

updated 2026-10-17 — status: open Robots intel semiconductors industrial

Public delivery robots: abuse, vandalism, and the civic-robot problem

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Shelf-scanning robots enter the grocery aisle

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SoftBank eyes an $18B security-firm takeover

updated 2026-10-17 — status: open Robots humanoids defense japan

FLAIR opens Hong Kong's first Embodied AI hub

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots humanoids china

Japan's construction firms turn to humanoids for labor gaps

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots humanoids japan industrial

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

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots south-korea humanoids regulation

LinkerBot: the production-scale shipping claim

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots china humanoids

Waymo picks Toronto: first Canadian robotaxi market

updated 2026-10-16 — status: open Robots

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

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots boston-dynamics humanoids industrial

Cybercab rollout under federal audit (NHTSA FMVSS self-certification)

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots tesla regulation us

DexForce: training humanoids on virtual data

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots humanoids china funding

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

updated 2026-10-15 — status: open Robots humanoids europe

Surgical robotics consolidation

updated 2026-10-15 — status: watch Robots medtech funding

All3's Mantis construction robot: stair climbing and screw fastening

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots industrial

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

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots humanoids education

Config Intelligence: 150K+ hours of action data toward CFG-1

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots south-korea models

LX Pantos opens the Incheon robotics test lab

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots south-korea industrial

Matter Venture Partners' $450M physical-AI fund

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots funding humanoids

The Philippines plans its first physical-AI data factory

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots infrastructure

Unitree: the reported $6.2B IPO pursuit

updated 2026-10-14 — status: open Robots china humanoids ipo

ElliQ: NYSOFA's $2.1M senior-care expansion

updated 2026-10-13 — status: open Robots healthcare consumer us

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

updated 2026-10-13 — status: open Robots china humanoids industrial

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

updated 2026-10-11 — status: open Robots xpeng humanoids china funding

Intrinsic open source: the "Android of robotics" play

updated 2026-10-08 — status: open Robots google nvidia open-source

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

updated 2026-09-30 — status: watch Robots samsung humanoids

JAKA vs Teradyne Robotics patent dispute

updated 2026-09-14 — status: watch Robots litigation industrial

Robots trained on human work: the task-data collection race

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