Humanoid Robots News This Week
This week's Humanoid Robots news — robotics & AI stories published in the last 7 days (Nov 8–Nov 14, 2026) on The Robotics Media.
- AgiBot's Humanoid Takes the Mic at Web Summit, Taunts Tesla and Figure — — Chinese humanoid maker AgiBot put its A3 robot on stage as an official speaker at Web Summit 2026, part of the largest robot lineup the event has stag...
- Topstar's New Factory Humanoid Star Skips the Demo Stage for Live Production Lines — — Chinese robot maker Topstar unveiled its 172-centimeter Star humanoid for sorting and material handling, built around existing factory layouts rather...
- China's Humanoid Robot Sales Jumped 700% on Singles Day — But Deliveries Haven't Caught Up Yet — — JD.com says intelligent humanoid robot sales grew 700% year-over-year during China's Double 11 shopping festival, led by Songyan Power's sub-$1,400 Li...
- UBTECH's U1 Pro Humanoid Robot Lands a 400-Unit, $10 Million Order From Yongda Auto — — China's UBTECH signed a deal to deliver 400 U1 Pro humanoid robots to car dealer Yongda Auto by year-end, in a contract worth about 68 million yuan.
- ASUS's First Humanoid Robot Must Hit 99.5% Accuracy Packing Motherboards — — ASUS unveiled Gallop, a two-armed humanoid robot running on a single Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor chip, now learning to pack motherboard parts on its own fa...
- JPMorgan Says US Humanoid Robot Output Could Hit 400,000 Units by 2030 — Why the Bottleneck Isn't Demand — — JPMorgan forecasts US humanoid robot production reaching 300,000-400,000 units by 2030 and 1.5 million by 2035, but says hands, actuators and compute,...
- GXO Signs Deal for Up to 1,000 Apptronik Apollo Humanoids by 2031 — — GXO Logistics and Apptronik signed a letter of intent to roll out up to 1,000 Apollo humanoids in warehouses over four years, starting in North Americ...
- Qestr Humanoid Robot's Antarctic Ultra-Marathon Ends After 3 Kilometers — Why Cold Beats Batteries — — A humanoid robot became the first of its kind to enter the Antarctic Ice Ultra on November 8, but a lithium-ion battery failure in -24°C air ended its...
- Samsung Tests 0.5mm Electronic Skin So Robot Hands Stop Crushing What They Grip — — Samsung's robotics unit is testing a 0.5mm electronic skin from startup Midas H&T that lets humanoid hands feel contact and adjust grip force in real...
- Matrix Robotics' MATRIX-3 Becomes a Tour Guide at China's Import Expo, No Script Required — — Matrix Robotics sent its 1.7-meter humanoid into a crowded Shanghai expo hall to guide visitors without pre-set scripts, a real-world test for its WAV...
- GITEX World RobotiX 2026 Lines Up Dueling Humanoid Debuts for Dubai in December — — GITEX's new robotics showcase will bring Unitree, UBTECH and a wave of Chinese humanoid makers to Dubai Dec 8-11, as global shipments pass 22,000 unit...
- Dynamic Creatures and Hasbro's Sixth Wall Studio Partner to Bring Characters to Life as Robots — — Dynamic Creatures, Boston Dynamics' entertainment spinout, will pair its 43-actuator Hugo robot with Hasbro's Sixth Wall Studio AI to build character...
- Xinhua and UBTECH Unveil Xinyan and Xinyu, the First Bionic Humanoid News Anchors — — China's state news agency and robot maker UBTECH unveiled two human-scale broadcast robots with bionic skin, designed to read news live and answer que...
- Apptronik's Apollo 2 Hits 96% Accuracy on a Live Mercedes-Benz Line With Google's New Robot Model — — Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2.5 model guided Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid to a 96% success rate sorting car parts inside two active Mercede...
- Oversonic Robotics' RoBee R20 Humanoid Tours Munich and Lisbon in European Push — — Italian humanoid maker Oversonic Robotics showcases its ISO Class 6 cleanroom-certified RoBee R20 at Munich's electronica and Lisbon's Web Summit this...
- Apple's Robot Succeeds 91% of the Time in Rooms It Has Never Seen — — Apple researchers trained a Unitree G1 humanoid entirely in simulation, then ran it in six real rooms it had never entered. It succeeded in 91% of 360...
- Lootah Robotics Opens Dubai's First Humanoid Robot Showroom — — Lootah Robotics opened the UAE's first dedicated humanoid robotics showroom in Dubai with 28 robots priced up to $817,000, tied to a 200,000-robot nat...
- Boston Dynamics Puts Atlas on Scooter Wheels to Push Its Humanoid Control Software to the Breaking Point — — Boston Dynamics bolted scooter rims onto Atlas's ankles to find out whether its learned whole-body controller still holds up when actuators are pushed...
- Theseus Robotics' Theo Promises 400 Shelf Restocks an Hour, No Retrofit Required — — YC-backed Theseus Robotics exited stealth with Theo, a wheeled-humanoid system that claims to restock supermarket shelves overnight at up to 400 units...
- Amazon Builds a New Robotics Team Around Fauna's Sprout, Five Years After Astro's Flop — — Amazon has formed a Personal Robotics Group staffed with Astro veterans and an MIT roboticist, hiring for a secretive new home robot built on Fauna's...