Humanoid Robots News Coverage of humanoid robots from companies including Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Unitree, and 1X, spanning hardware launches, funding rounds, and pilot deployments in warehouses, factories, and homes. The Robotics Media reports on actuator and hand design, AI foundation models for locomotion and manipulation, commercial pricing, and production timelines. Readers also find analysis of safety standards, labor implications, and market forecasts for the humanoid sector.
Faraday Future Carves Out 25% Of FF EAI Robotics For Employee Stock Options — Sep 27, 2026 — Faraday Future has reserved roughly 25% of FF EAI Robotics' fully diluted equity for a core-team stock-option pool, an unusually large stake meant to...Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — Sep 27, 2026 — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — Sep 27, 2026 — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...AGIBOT drops 300 humanoids into Chimelong Spaceship Park, hits 20,000-robot mark — Sep 27, 2026 — AGIBOT has integrated more than 300 embodied AI robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai — the largest single-site rollout of humanoids to dat...Agility Robotics Explores Wheeled Robots Beyond Humanoid Digit — Sep 26, 2026 — CEO Jonathan Hurst confirms Agility is prototyping wheeled robots to widen its addressable market beyond the bipedal Digit platform.Toyota To Spend $6.4B A Year Deploying 400,000 Robots From 2028 — Sep 25, 2026 — Toyota will spend roughly 1 trillion yen a year from 2028 rolling out 400,000 humanoid and specialist robots across 60 global plants, using 18,000 tak...Feather Raises $7.6M to Build the 'Android of Robotics' — Sep 25, 2026 — Silicon Valley humanoid startup Feather closed a $7.6 million pre-seed round led by Google's Gradient Ventures to scale its open, developer-facing bim...Black Forest Labs Open-Sources FLUX 3 Action, A 7B World-Action Model For Robots — Sep 24, 2026 — Black Forest Labs' first world-action model, FLUX 3 Action, scores 42.92% on RoboLab and 93.3% on a Franka arm — for $0.0018 per successful sample.Unitree Puts A 22-DoF Robotic Hand On Every Developer's Desk For $6,500 — Sep 24, 2026 — Unitree's new Dex5-S dexterous hand offers 22 backdrivable joints at 1:1 human size for $6,500, a price point aimed at accelerating manipulation resea...1X Sets 50,000-Robot NEO Shipment Target For 2027 — Sep 24, 2026 — 1X CEO Bernt Bornich says the humanoid start-up will ship 50,000 NEO robots in 2027 from two California factories with combined capacity of 110,000 un...RLWRLD Doubles Down On Factory-First Physical AI For Humanoids — Sep 23, 2026 — Seoul-based RLWRLD laid out a deployment-first Physical AI strategy: put its ALLEX robot into real factories and warehouses with CJ Logistics and Lott...Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Center At Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant — Sep 23, 2026 — The Robotics Metaplant Application Center puts electric Atlas robots to work on parts logistics at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, with a 10x l...1X's Bernt Børnich Targets 50,000 Neo Robots In 2026 — With Reliability As The Real Gate — Sep 21, 2026 — 1X Technologies CEO Bernt Børnich has publicly set a 2026 shipment target of 50,000 Neo humanoids, saying the harder problem isn't building them but k...UBTECH Names Slovenia's Hiproject Its Exclusive Walker-Series Balkan Distributor — Sep 21, 2026 — UBTECH walked its Walker C1 humanoid onto the 58th MOS fair in Celje this week, signing a five-country Balkans distribution deal with Slovenian engine...Dongfeng To Trial-Produce Xiaodong Humanoid By Year-End, Targets Human-Parity In 2027 — Sep 21, 2026 — Dongfeng Motor will begin small-batch trial production of its Xiaodong humanoid robot at the end of 2026 and wants it working alongside plant staff by...Agility Robotics Sets Oct 6 Investor Day To Showcase Digit 5 Humanoid — Sep 20, 2026 — Agility Robotics will host its first Analyst & Investor Day on October 6 in NYC, showcasing Digit 5, deployment metrics and its go-public route via Ch...UBTECH's Liuzhou Smart Factory Rolls Out One Humanoid Every 10 Minutes — Sep 19, 2026 — UBTECH inaugurated a 14,000 square meter smart factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi on September 12, 2026, designed to build more than 10,000 Walker S and Cruz...Spirit AI Founder Bets Robot Brains Hit Their 'GPT-3 Moment' By Mid-2027 — Sep 19, 2026 — Hangzhou-based Spirit AI's co-founder Gao Yang told Reuters on September 18 that humanoid robot brains will hit a 'GPT-3 moment' by mid-2027, with Moz...ugo Unveils Nova Semi-Humanoid Robot, Mass Production Set for 2027 — Sep 18, 2026 — Tokyo robotics firm ugo has revealed Nova, a wheeled dual-arm semi-humanoid designed and manufactured entirely in Japan, targeting a 2027 mass product...Faraday Future To Unveil Nine New AI Robots And Four Industry Solutions At 919 Launch — Sep 17, 2026 — Faraday Future's September 19 keynote will complete its Robot World 2.0 with nine new AI-powered robots spanning humanoids, quadrupeds and mobile mani...