Agility Robotics Nasdaq listing
Agility Robotics' merger with Churchill Capital Corp. XI was approved by shareholders on November 2, with the deal expected to close November 4 and Nasdaq trading under AGLT to begin November 5. The…
Robots threads tagged humanoids
Meta–Fourier humanoid prototype Max
Meta has built a humanoid prototype named Max with Chinese robotics company Fourier: about 48 kg, assembled in three months for home-robot research, with a second version already under way. Max is…
Tesla Optimus
Tesla has begun initial mass production of its Optimus humanoid at Fremont, on the former Model S and Model X lines, aiming for 20,000 robots a week by late 2027 and outside deliveries around the end…
UK insurers launch first home cover for humanoid robots
Adrian Flux and Tokio Marine HCC International have launched a UK home insurance product for humanoid robots, described as the first of its kind for households. Pricing, underwriting terms and which…
ByteDance makes its foray into embodied intelligence
ByteDance has officially entered the humanoid robot business, moving from robotics investor to operator, and is hiring as it builds out the effort. It is the biggest Chinese internet company to make…
Neo1: China's 13-foot, 500-kg humanoid for heavy industrial work
NeodraDynam in China has put a model name on its giant humanoid: Neo1, a 13-foot machine billed to lift 500 kg for heavy industrial work. The 500 kg lifting figure is a stated specification rather…
Unitree IPO
Unitree listed in Shanghai in August; after shares fell more than 50% from the debut they rebounded sharply in October, up over 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra will give…
XPeng IRON: production line commissioned, mass production promised for year-end
XPeng has commissioned an automated production line in Guangzhou for its IRON humanoid and still promises mass production by end-2026, with a stated target of 1,000 units a month; the robot itself…
Boston Dynamics Atlas
Boston Dynamics, controlled by Hyundai, has a production Atlas humanoid with work already committed at Hyundai's Georgia car plant, where it opened an Atlas integration center in September; Hyundai…
Realbotix launches the Echo humanoid robot line
Realbotix has announced the Echo, a new humanoid robot line, but nothing has shipped yet. The company priced Echo Tabletop at $11,950 and Echo Full Body at $59,950 and opened a first production run…
Samsung humanoid program: RX division, co-design, CES 2027 target
Samsung's robotics division is developing a general-purpose humanoid, with a reported aim of showing a prototype at CES 2027, while a separate industrial robot is being built through Rainbow Robotics…
Agibot: the suspended IPO
Agibot's IPO has been suspended. The pause is being weighed for how it affects the robot maker's capital plans and sales growth, while the reason for the suspension, any timeline for resuming or…
FF EAI Robotics
FF EAI Robotics closed its purchase of Faraday Future's robotics business on October 26, becoming a Nasdaq-listed humanoid and bionic robotics platform on the same day as its listing ceremony and…
Neura Robotics' lighter fourth-generation 4NE-1 targets mass production
Neura Robotics has unveiled a lighter fourth-generation 4NE-1 humanoid, a design it says is aimed at mass production. The announcement gave no pricing or production-volume figures, and no training…
AiMOGA's Mobo: a consumer family humanoid, unveiling Oct 21
AiMOGA Robotics scheduled the unveiling of Mobo, its first consumer-grade family companion humanoid, for October 21, 2026 in Wuhu, Anhui, with global preorders set to open the same day. Global…
FCC robotics import ban & the onshoring scramble
The FCC's 2026 ban on new foreign-made advanced robots, widely seen as aimed at China, is now testing US onshoring: makers warn of actuator and rare-earth gaps that could triple costs. Intel said the…
Isaac's reference humanoid: Agile ONE SN and a 1,000–2,000 unit plan
NVIDIA's October 21, 2026 GTC Berlin robotics announcement expanded its Isaac platform and named Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN a Reference Humanoid, preconfigured with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and powered by…
Unitree: the "self-evolving" AI that trains its own humanoids
Unitree is developing a "self-evolving" feedback AI intended to cut the need for manual programming so its humanoid robots can improve themselves; no system name, mechanism, demo or deployment…
Agility Digit 5
Agility Robotics' Digit 5 is a humanoid built for close-proximity work, with a redesigned leg, a facility-linked safety bridge, and a claimed 90 minutes of work per nine-minute charge on Nyobolt…
Chinese humanoid makers court South Korea's physical-AI market
Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, while Korean industry bets on its own physical-AI programs. The market-entry lane is new; the coverage names…
RoboParty's RP1: the full-stack open-source humanoid for research
Shanghai-based RoboParty has introduced the RP1 (ROBOTO 01), a full-stack open-source humanoid robot with up to 30 degrees of freedom, designed for robotics research. Announced hardware, not shipped:…
Figure 03 endurance: 560 km of treadmill walking
The Figure 03 humanoid walked 560 km on a treadmill in an endurance test; whether any errors occurred during the run is unknown. Watch for error-rate or mean-time-between-failure figures, third-party…
Germany × NVIDIA: physical AI at the center of an industrial push
Germany and NVIDIA have announced a national-level strategic partnership putting physical AI and robotics at the center of an industrial push. Siemens is named as testing applications in live…
KAIST Humanoid v0.9: 35 kg pushes and 20 kg carries on cameras alone
KAIST's Humanoid v0.9 has been shown pushing objects up to 35 kg and lifting 20 kg while walking, using only onboard cameras to navigate and carry out tasks. The figures come from lab footage and…
Human-vs-humanoid cage fights: the spectacle meets its regulators
Human-versus-robot cage fighting has moved from viral spectacle to a regulatory fight. The California State Athletic Commission says a San Francisco bout in which a person fought a 200-pound…
UCLA's open-source humanoid: walks at ~$400 in hardware
UCLA researchers have built an open-source humanoid robot that walks, tracks people and gets back up again, using inexpensive hardware and a smartphone as its computer, at a total cost of about $400.…
SoftBank eyes an $18B security-firm takeover
SoftBank is reported to be eyeing an $18 billion takeover of the largest private security-guard firm in the US, with plans to swap human guards for robots. The target is unnamed, and no terms beyond…
FLAIR opens Hong Kong's first Embodied AI hub
Hong Kong has opened its first hub for embodied AI, set up by FLAIR together with HKPC to train, validate and test robots and move them toward commercial deployment. Unitree, Galbot and Robotera are…
Japan's construction firms turn to humanoids for labor gaps
Korea's sandbox: humanoids sharing factory floors, barriers gone
South Korea approved removing safety barriers so humanoid robots can work alongside people in factories, with special safety exemptions for 20 robots. A conditional trial of 20 ROBROS humanoids…
LinkerBot: the production-scale shipping claim
DexForce: training humanoids on virtual data
Humanoid retail deployment: Hive Robots × Salling Group (Føtex)
UBTECH Liuzhou humanoid factory
Xinjiang Dadao: first embodied-AI assembly line, completion April 2027
Quiet threads
Bowling Green State's Hanna: the campus-built humanoid
Matter Venture Partners' $450M physical-AI fund
Closed threads
Public markets: robotics companies racing to price themselves
China industrial shift: EV makers to humanoids, JD.com's 3 million robots
Humanoid makers on the public stage
Humanoid reality-check war (Agility's humility campaign)
Robot sports: the humanoid athletics record
The humanoid athletics record as it advances — sprint times, jumps and synchronized routines at the Games — kept apart from industrial deployment.