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Latest humanoid AI news and analysis — 65 articles tagged humanoid AI on The Robotics Media.
- Figure AI's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen — — A single frozen Helix 2.5 checkpoint hit 56% on tidying, towel-folding and bed-making across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, versus 9% without Index pretrai...
- Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 Launches Sept 24 With ADS 5, Books 20K Orders In A Day — — The Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 launches September 24 from 299,800 yuan, ships Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 with four LiDAR units standard, and has already bo...
- Agility Robotics Sets Oct 6 Investor Day To Showcase Digit 5 Humanoid — — 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...
- Spirit AI Founder Bets Robot Brains Hit Their 'GPT-3 Moment' By Mid-2027 — — 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...
- Tesla's Optimus Mass-Production Audit Lands In Ningbo, Chinese Supplier Stocks Jump — — A Tesla team arrived in Ningbo on September 16 to audit the mass-production readiness of Optimus, sending shares of Chinese suppliers Joyson Electroni...
- Unitree G1+ Lands At ¥95,000 With A Movable Head And Cooler Motors — — Unitree has quietly refreshed its flagship G1 humanoid into the G1+, adding a two-degree-of-freedom neck, 110% higher shoulder torque and 72% less mot...
- Reward AI Exits Stealth With OM-1, A Human-Data-Only Robot Foundation Model — — Stanford spin-out Reward AI has broken cover with OM-1, a robot manipulation policy trained entirely on human wearable data — no teleoperation, no on-...
- Boston Dynamics IPO Unlikely In 2027 As Hyundai Prioritises Atlas Rollout — — A senior Hyundai executive told Reuters a 2027 IPO for Boston Dynamics 'won't be easy', pushing the listing behind a factory build-out that targets 30...
- Agility Robotics Unveils Digit 5 With 50-Pound Payload, 9-Minute Charging And New Safety Stack — — The fifth-generation Digit humanoid lifts 40% more, charges in 9 minutes and introduces three new safety systems for cooperative human-robot work, wit...
- LG, Nota And Mobilint To Build Humanoid Robot On Korean-Made NPU — — Nota has been chosen as lead institution for a state-backed program to build an autonomous humanoid robot powered by a Korean-made NPU, alongside LG E...
- Sam Altman Confirms OpenAI Will Build Its Own Humanoid Robot — — OpenAI's CEO said the company will 'definitely do a humanoid' and thinks everyone should have a personal robot, ending months of speculation about the...
- NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — — NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger used his September 5 IFA 2026 keynote to pitch a European physical-AI ecosystem built around the 4NE1 humanoid and the...
- Nscale Commits $3.5B AI Cloud Deal And Equity Stake To Figure — — London-based Nscale is committing at least $3.5B — with room to scale past $6B — of AI cloud capacity to humanoid robotics company Figure, plus an und...
- IFA Berlin 2026 Puts Unitree, AgiBot And EngineAI On A Humanoid Robot Runway — — IFA Next 2026 turns its innovation zone into the biggest humanoid-robot showcase in the fair's history, with roughly 300 exhibitors and a September 5...
- CJ Logistics Puts Humanoid Robots On Olive Young Packing Line In Korean First — — CJ Logistics has deployed two dual-arm humanoid robots on the packaging line at its Yangji Olive Young distribution center in Yongin — the first comme...
- ZEALS Unveils D1, Japan's First Commercial Wheeled Humanoid Robot — — Tokyo-based AI firm ZEALS unveiled the D1 wheeled humanoid on August 5, 2026 — Japan's first commercially available humanoid robot certified through a...
- Defiance Launches CROB, First US-Listed ETF For China's Humanoid Robotics Ecosystem — — Defiance ETFs debuted CROB on Nasdaq, the first US-listed ETF dedicated to China's humanoid robotics ecosystem, tracking the Solactive China Humanoid...
- Figure Hits 1,000th Figure 03 Off The BotQ Line In California — — Figure AI has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid at the BotQ facility in California, sustaining approximately one robot per hour and cementin...
- BYD Confirms August Humanoid Robot Debut Inside Its Di Space Venues — — BYD told China Securities Journal its first humanoid robot will appear this month at Di Space, its offline experience-centre network, alongside plans...
- UBTECH, Galbot, AGIBOT Lock In Factory Orders As VLA Models Reset China Humanoid Race — — As Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games ends, UBTECH, Galbot and AGIBOT hold hundred-million-dollar factory orders from BYD, Foxconn, CATL and...