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Latest humanoid manufacturing news and analysis — 53 articles tagged humanoid manufacturing on The Robotics Media.
- Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — — 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...
- Toyota To Spend $6.4B A Year Deploying 400,000 Robots From 2028 — — 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...
- O-ID Raises $1.2M Pre-Seed to Move Modular Humanoid Robots Into Japanese Factories — — TAWANI Ventures led a $1.2M pre-seed round in Tokyo-based O-ID, whose hot-swappable modular humanoid targets Japanese factories facing an 11-million-w...
- Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Center At Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant — — 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 — — 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...
- Dongfeng To Trial-Produce Xiaodong Humanoid By Year-End, Targets Human-Parity In 2027 — — 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 — — 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- UBTECH Fires Up World's First 10,000-Unit Humanoid Robot Factory In Liuzhou — — UBTECH switched on a Siemens-built super smart factory in Liuzhou that produces a Walker S or Cruzr humanoid every 10 minutes, with annual capacity of...
- First Hydrogen Grabs 60% Of Exodus Actuation, Launches First Humanoid Subsidiary — — TSX-V-listed First Hydrogen signed a definitive agreement on September 9, 2026 to acquire 60% of Exodus Actuation Solutions (RoboticsCo) for 2M shares...
- SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6B, Well Below 1X's $10B Ask — — SoftBank is negotiating a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid startup 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, The Information reports.
- XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Walks Off Guangzhou Production Line — — XPENG commissioned its Guangzhou humanoid robot production line on September 8, with IRON autonomously walking off the line as the company reaffirmed...
- AgiBot Lines Up Hong Kong IPO At Up To HK$50bn Valuation, Reuters Reports — — AgiBot is preparing a Hong Kong IPO valuing the Chinese humanoid robot maker at HK$40bn-HK$50bn, with CICC, CITIC Securities and Morgan Stanley as joi...
- 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...
- 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...
- BMW Turns On Physical AI In Europe With Hexagon's AEON Humanoid In Leipzig — — BMW Group has switched on its first European humanoid deployment at Plant Leipzig using Hexagon Robotics' AEON, and opened a Center of Competence for...
- 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...