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AGIBOT secures first place with 46 medals at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, narrowly edging out TianGong in a fierce multi-discipline competition showcasing mass-produced hardware.
UBTECH Reports 104% Revenue Surge in H1 2026 as Full-Size Humanoids Drive Growth
UBTECH Robotics generated RMB 1.27 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by a 1,445% revenue surge in full-size embodied humanoids, narrowing net losses as industrial deployments accelerate.
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XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid
XPENG has closed a record-breaking $900 million financing round for its humanoid robotics division, backed by IDG Capital, Alibaba, and Tencent, ahead of late-2026 mass production.
Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5: One-Shot Robot Learning and the End of Heavy Fine-Tuning
Generalist AI claims a GPT-3 moment for robotics, demonstrating a foundation model that learns new physical tasks in seconds from a single prompt.
Not Ready to Scale: Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing on Why Humanoids Still Aren’t Working in Factories
Days after Unitree’s blockbuster listing, founder Wang Xingxing used his WRC 2026 stage time to explain why the company has held back from large-scale factory deployment — and laid out the generalization bottleneck, the "lossy" nature of physical AI, and a self-evolving software loop aimed at both.
The Physical Bottleneck: Why Actuator Technology is the Next Frontier for Humanoid Robots
As artificial intelligence models leap forward, the physical capabilities of humanoid robots remain constrained by their hardware. Advanced integrated actuators and quasi-direct drive (QDD) systems are emerging as the crucial link between digital intelligence and real-world motion.
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SoftBank in Talks for Majority Stake in 1X at $6 Billion — Below the $10 Billion It Sought Last Year
Masayoshi Son''s investment powerhouse is reportedly negotiating a controlling interest in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies, at a figure well under the valuation the company pursued last September.
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At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai put hard numbers behind Atlas for the first time: 30,000 units of annual US capacity from 2028, 25,000 already spoken for. It also went out of its way to insist robots are "in service of humans" — a line delivered 24 hours after its Korean union settled a walkout that demanded protection from automation.
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Menlo Research and the Asimov team are shipping the first batch of their open-source Asimov 1 DIY humanoid kit, locking in a final delivered price of $20,000.
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Figure AI has exited stealth on Index, a crowdsourced data-collection platform that has gathered over 16 million video uploads across 108 countries to train its Helix neural network.
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Skild AI has detailed S1, a foundation model that executes unseen, 10-minute manipulation tasks from a single video prompt without task-specific post-training.