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RoboParty publicly presented its RP1 humanoid, also known as ROBOTO 01, at IROS 2026 on September 28. The event marked the robot's global debut, with the company positioning it as a high-performance, fully open-source platform. Source: english.kyodonews.net
EV sales remain Tesla's main source of revenue, but its valuation of roughly USD 1.40 trillion rests heavily on its AI, robotaxi and humanoid ambitions. Source: internationalfinance.com
Shipments of humanoid robots are climbing as firms such as Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics and 1X deploy machines built to work without safety fences. Demonstrating that these robots are genuinely safe around people remains the tougher challenge. Source: forbes.com
Shipments of humanoid robots have risen sharply, though most units are still used in non-work scenarios. The share deployed for actual work is also improving. China accounts for about 95% of the market. Source: finance.yahoo.com
Figure has retired a batch of its F.02 humanoid robots by delivering them to a foundry and dropping them into a vat of molten steel. The stunt deliberately echoes the climax of Terminator. Source: interestingengineering.com
A San Francisco startup has unveiled Flourish 1, a home robot priced at $3,555. Pre-orders are open for the first 50 units, with deliveries to follow. The robot is deliberately slow, simple and cheap. Source: forbes.com
Japan is looking into humanoid robots powered by AI to assist its armed forces. Possible uses include patrolling bases, handling logistics, scouting terrain, and carrying out rescue operations. Source: thedefensepost.com
Enactic, Inc. has published OpenArm on GitHub, a fully open-source seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid robotic arm. It's built specifically for physical AI research, including tasks involving direct physical contact. Source: blog.adafruit.com
Companies developing humanoid robots are competing to gather everyday video footage needed to train machines for real-world tasks at home and in workplaces. This data race spans multiple countries as firms seek an edge in making humanoids genuinely useful. Source: globalsources.com
Mykhailo Fedorov, ousted as Ukraine's defense minister in July and previously known for building the country's Army of Drones, has now launched an Army of Robots initiative. He aims to see a humanoid robot deployed in combat against Russian forces within half a year. Source: dronexl.co
Startup Feather has launched a humanoid robot priced at $29,990, joining a wave of affordable machines that go beyond dancing demos and offer real functionality without the usual six-figure price tag. Source: forbes.com
Tesla's shift from EVs to humanoid robots is running into trouble, with complicated robotic hands and unhappy workers who are reluctant to help train their potential replacements. Source: arstechnica.com
Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding to grow its modular humanoid robot platform, aimed at letting third-party developers build physical AI applications on top of it. Source: theaiinsider.tech
Humanoid robots often move awkwardly because their AI 'brains' don't fully match how their physical bodies work. A new open-source tool tries to fix this by having robots learn smoother motion patterns modeled on human movement, building on vision-language-action AI models. Source: forbes.com
AGIBOT and Chimelong have launched a large-scale theme park powered by embodied AI, deploying robots across entertainment, education, guest services, and hotel operations. The opening coincided with the rollout of AGIBOT's 20,000th humanoid robot. Source: agibot.com
After humanoid robots dominated AI hype in recent years, attention has shifted to actually putting them to work in real industrial settings. Korea has emerged as a frontrunner, deploying humanoids across sectors like automotive assembly, shipbuilding and steel production. Source: koreaherald.com
Figure has committed billions of dollars toward gathering more training data for its humanoid robots. Just four weeks after the announcement, the company reports that the expanded dataset already boosted its robots' success rate at household chores by a factor of six. Source: forbes.com
Chinese regulators are slowing down a wave of humanoid robot companies rushing to go public, according to people familiar with the matter. Authorities are reportedly scrutinizing these listings more closely as concerns grow that market enthusiasm has outpaced the sector's actual technological progress. Source: reuters.com
Amid the ongoing robotics investment boom, one industry expert points to three US-based humanoid robot companies worth watching. The pick reflects growing investor interest in translating robotics hype into concrete stock opportunities. Source: forbes.com
A fresh benchmark result showing a 56% score for Figure's humanoid robot is prompting deeper scrutiny of how well embodied AI agents actually generalize across tasks. The finding is pushing companies like Unitree and Agibot to rethink strategies for proving real-world adaptability rather than narrow task performance. Source: eu.36kr.com