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BYD's First Humanoid Robot Packs 31 Degrees of Freedom and a Millimeter-Precise Hand — Oct 12, 2026 — BYD has revealed the design of its first self-developed humanoid robot through a newly published patent, a 1.61-meter machine built for dealership ser...China Freezes Humanoid Robot IPO Rush As Regulators Probe Valuations — Sep 27, 2026 — Chinese regulators have effectively frozen humanoid robot IPOs, probing whether government-backed data-collection revenue distorts valuations at Unitr...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...Feather Robotics Bags $7.6M Pre-Seed To Sell A $30K Developer Humanoid — Sep 27, 2026 — Feather Robotics raises $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient Ventures to sell a $30,000 modular humanoid that developers can customize and...Fedorov's 'Army Of Robots' Wants A Humanoid Killing Russians Within Six Months — Sep 27, 2026 — Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defense-tech push aiming to put humanoid combat robots on the Russian fro...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...Skild AI's S1 Robot Brain Taught Itself Football In 140 Simulated Years — Sep 25, 2026 — Skild AI trained its S1 robotics foundation model to play four-a-side football through 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then tran...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...O-ID Raises $1.2M Pre-Seed to Move Modular Humanoid Robots Into Japanese Factories — Sep 25, 2026 — 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...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...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...D-Robotics Closes $400M Series C To Build The 'Brain For Every Robot' — Sep 23, 2026 — Hong Kong-based D-Robotics closed a $400 million Series C led by a global internet giant, funding a full-stack Sunrise chip and RDK developer platform...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...X Square's QUANTA X1 Pro Starts Work At Lululemon's Wuhan Warehouse — Sep 21, 2026 — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup X Square Robot has deployed its wheeled dual-arm QUANTA X1 Pro humanoid on live parcel-sorting lines inside lululemon's n...