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.
UBTECH, Galbot, AGIBOT Lock In Factory Orders As VLA Models Reset China Humanoid Race — Aug 27, 2026 — As Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games ends, UBTECH, Galbot and AGIBOT hold hundred-million-dollar factory orders from BYD, Foxconn, CATL and...XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900M at $6.3B Valuation to Mass-Produce IRON — Aug 24, 2026 — XPENG’s humanoid robotics business closed its first external funding round at over US$900M, valuing the unit at more than US$6.3B, in what the a...Noitom's AdaPT Teaches Humanoids to Play Nadal-Style Tennis on the Court — Aug 24, 2026 — Two days after making its HiPHI motion dataset public, Noitom Robotics and its research partners unveiled AdaPT — a system that teaches Unitree G1 and...RoboScience Debuts REX G1 Wheeled Humanoid With Visics VLOA Foundation Model — Aug 23, 2026 — Beijing startup RoboScience debuted the REX G1, a 22-DOF wheeled humanoid running its Visics Vision-Language-Object-Action foundation model on 2,070 T...Vbot Unveils 1.6-Meter ATOM Humanoid, Opens Pre-Orders At WRC 2026 — Aug 23, 2026 — Beijing embodied-AI startup Vbot took the stage at WRC 2026 to unveil ATOM, a 1.6-meter, 31-DOF humanoid designed for living spaces, and opened pre-or...AVIC's Fengxing-001 Humanoid Robot Takes On Aircraft Ops At WRC 2026 — Aug 22, 2026 — China's state aerospace giant AVIC debuted the Fengxing-001, a 1.8-meter humanoid built to handle aircraft maintenance, missile loading and even simul...AiMOGA Debuts Mobo Home Humanoid At WRC, Deepens Chery Dealer Push In Malaysia — Aug 22, 2026 — AiMOGA Robotics used the 2026 World Robot Conference to unveil Mobo, its first humanoid home companion, and to livestream Mornine service robots at Ch...Zoomlion Debuts Robot Ops And ZBrain For Industrial Humanoids At WRC 2026 — Aug 22, 2026 — Chinese heavy machinery giant Zoomlion is showcasing its Z01 bipedal humanoid, Z03 wheeled humanoid, D-series robot dogs and the Robot Ops embodied-in...RealMan To Deploy 1,000 RealBOT Wheeled Humanoids Via GLN Network In 2026 — Aug 22, 2026 — Beijing-based RealMan Robotics unveiled a GLN real-world deployment plan for 1,000 wheeled humanoid RealBOTs, secured CR L3 certification and paired i...X-Humanoid Unveils TianGong Omni, Pelican-Unify And Mercedes-Benz Deal — Aug 22, 2026 — X-Humanoid used WRC 2026 to launch the TianGong Omni humanoid and Pelican-Unify embodied AI model, and signed Mercedes-Benz to deploy TianGong 3.0 acr...Xiaomi Debuts Tieda Humanoid Robot At WRC 2026 In Beijing — Aug 22, 2026 — Xiaomi publicly unveiled its next-generation full-size humanoid robot, codenamed Tieda, at the 2026 World Robot Conference after four months of produc...2nd World Humanoid Robot Games Opens In Beijing With 2,056 Robots — Aug 21, 2026 — The second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games kicks off at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on August 22, 2026 with 666 teams, 2,056 robots and 51 events a...Beijing Debuts Tiangong 2.0 With WU World Model At WRC 2026 — Aug 20, 2026 — The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center debuted Tiangong 2.0 and a new WU embodied world model at the 2026 World Robot Conference, running live p...Noitom Releases HiPHI, a 617.5-Hour Humanoid Motion Dataset, at WRC 2026 — Aug 20, 2026 — Beijing data startup Noitom Robotics has open-sourced HiPHI, a 617.5-hour, sub-millimeter human motion and object-interaction dataset it says is one o...AI2 Robotics' AlphaBot Serves Ice Cream At WRC 2026 In Public Debut — Aug 20, 2026 — AI2 Robotics' wheeled humanoid AlphaBot ran its own Alpha Brain vision-language-action model on the show floor of the World Robot Conference 2026 on A...Xiaomi to Debut First Humanoid Robot at World Robot Conference on Aug. 19 — Aug 19, 2026 — Xiaomi will show its first humanoid robot in public at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, President Lu Weibing said in the company's Q2 earni...Unitree unveils Superman humanoid ahead of Shanghai IPO trading debut — Aug 18, 2026 — China's Unitree Robotics unveiled a new high-speed humanoid it calls Superman on August 17, 2026, days before its heavily oversubscribed 6.1 billion y...Chery's AiMoga Ships 2,000 Mornine Humanoids To 60+ Countries — Aug 18, 2026 — Chery-owned AiMoga Robotics says cumulative overseas deliveries of its 1.67-meter Mornine humanoid have crossed 2,000 units across more than 60 countr...Unitree Passes 18,000 Bipedal Humanoids Produced As STAR Market IPO Nears — Aug 17, 2026 — Unitree Robotics said on August 12 that cumulative production of its bipedal humanoids has reached about 18,000 units, cementing its 31% first-half gl...Samsung Fast-Tracks In-House Humanoid As Roh Personally Reviews Prototype — Aug 17, 2026 — Samsung Electronics is racing to commercialize an in-house humanoid robot after co-CEO Roh Tae-moon personally reviewed a working prototype and top-ti...