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We met with Henner Brandes from Agile Robots to talk about Agile One, their humanoid robot that will be showcased at Hannover Messe.

Xiaomi trials humanoid robots in its electric vehicle factory to perform assembly tasks like nut installation and material transport.

The week in autos saw Xiaomi deploy humanoid robots in EV manufacturing, BYD move toward entering the Canadian market, Geely outsell BYD for a second straight month, Tesla post higher European registrations despite weaker sales, while rising oil prices amid the U.S.–Iran conflict pressured shares of Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Stellantis.

Agility Robotics is building humanoid bots to address a labor gap in the manufacturing industry, which is seeing vacancies and an aging workforce.

Tesla is shifting a portion of its Fremont factory to produce its Optimus humanoid robots, marking a move further into robotics and artificial general intelligence. The company is planning for large scale production, with a stated goal of up to 1,000,000 Optimus units per year and a Gen 3 robot reveal on the horizon. Elon Musk has stated that Tesla could be first to achieve embodied AGI, positioning Optimus at the core of the company’s long term vision. Tesla (NasdaqGS:TSLA), trading at...

Agility Robotics is rebranding, saying the new company name reflects its readiness to scale deployments and lead humanoid adoption.

Bloomberg reports that German robotics firm Neura Robotics has closed a €1 billion funding round led by stablecoin giant Tether, valuing the company at €4 billion as it prepares to mass-produce its cognitive humanoids.

A small Ontario robotics firm says it’s poised to boost production of its humanoid robots as the global race for AI‑driven machines intensifies.

As part of the UL 3300 evaluation, Tally passed more than 40 safety tests, demonstrating its ability to operate safely in retail settings. The post Simbe Tally shelf-scanning robot achieves UL 3300 certification appeared first on The Robot Report.

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has joined a growing list of companies who are deploying humanoids on factory floors in manufacturing processes.

Agility Robotics announced its rebrand to Agility, marking a significant evolution in the company’s identity as it advances the future of humanoid automation. The new name reflects the flexibility required in a rapidly evolving robotics landscape, enabling the company to expand into new use cases, services, and industries beyond its original scope. This strategic initiative included […] The post Agility Robotics Becomes Agility appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

China's leading humanoid robot developers gathered at Smart Factory and Automation World 2026 (AW 2026) in South Korea, where companies including Unitree Robotics, Leju Robot, and AgiBot showcased their technologies and outlined commercialization strategies for humanoid robots.

Foresight is Dexterity's physics-consistent world model, a real-time, transactable representation of the physical environment. The post Dexterity unveils Foresight world model for truck loading appeared first on The Robot Report.

A Figure 02 robot worked 10-hour shifts at BMW's South Carolina plant. Now the program is expanding to Leipzig, Germany.

The Unitree H1-2 is a full-size humanoid robot designed for research, development, and advanced mobility tasks. Standing at human height, it carries high-torque joint motors and uses 360° depth perception for environmental sensing. It places emphasis on agility, balance, and whole-body motion, serving as a versatile platform for developers and institutions driving humanoid robotics forward.... The post Welcome, Unitree H1-2 Humanoid Robot! appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

Germany’s Neura Robotics is reportedly raising $1.2 billion to scale its humanoid and AI-driven robot portfolio amid shifting valuation expectations. The post Neura Robotics Reportedly Raising $1.2B for Humanoids appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

Tesla, Inc. CEO Elon Musk continues to raise the stakes on his AI vision, arguing that Tesla could be among the first companies to create artificial general intelligence—and to embody it in humanoid robots. Elon Musk's Claim In an early morning post on X, he said Tesla will be one of the firms to make AGI and "probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form," expressing his view of the company as a front‑runner in the race for human‑level AI. Tesla will be one of the companies to mak

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Menlo Research’s open-source project, Asimov, moves from GitHub repository to physical hardware with a bipedal kit designed for rapid iteration and "Processor-in-the-Loop" development.

🤖 DOBOT Atom Enters Mass Production and Global Delivery DOBOT’s third batch of full-size industrial humanoid robots, Atom, has officially rolled off the production line and is now being delivered to customers worldwide. #DOBOT #Atom #HumanoidRobot #EmbodiedAI pic.twitter.com/SRvQG1Rh8U

Want a robot? You can now get a humanoid robot from Agibot delivered, set up, and running for the low, low price of $1,000 a day ...

New data from Xiaomi shows its humanoid robots hitting production-speed cycle times and high reliability in complex nut-installation tasks, signaling a shift from lab prototypes to factory-ready labor.

The humanoid robot market is estimated to hit $5 trillion by 2050. Hyundai and Tesla are positioned as two of the industry leaders.

The challenges, such as opening a door with a round doorknob, started out easy, at least for a human, and progressed to “gold medal” tasks such as properly buttoning and hanging up a men’s dress shirt and using a key to open a door. Holson’s point was that the hard tasks aren’t the dazzling ones. Instead, within months, robotics company Physical Intelligence completed 11 of the 15 challenges—from bronze to gold—with a robot that washed windows, spread peanut butter and used a dog poop bag.

At MWC 2026, HONOR advanced its Augmented Human Intelligence (AHI) vision and accelerated ALPHA PLAN through three connected pillars: Alpha Phone, Alpha Store and Alpha Lab. Building on its long-term commitment to human-centric AI, HONOR offered a preview of Robot Phone, a bold exploration of embodied intelligence and a new species of smartphone that reimagines how future AI devices could integrate motion and spatial awareness.

GalbotRobotics just raised $350M, becoming China’s highest-valued unlisted humanoid robotics firm as its robots scale from CATL factories to 24/7 retail stores. #HumanoidRobots #EmbodiedAI https://t.co/Mg0m7AutFI

Xiaomi has deployed a humanoid robot at an EV plant, where it autonomously completed three hours of self tapping nut assembly within line cycle time targets. The post Xiaomi Deploys Humanoid Robot in EV Factory for Auto Assembly appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

With the launch of a new Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform and a global online store, AgiBot is attempting to bridge the "utility gap" by turning high-end humanoids into accessible, short-term rentals.

It was apparently inspired by the Pixar lamp.

A new technical critique from Origami Robotics argues that high-ratio gearboxes are the "foundational" bottleneck for robotic dexterity, prompting a rare hardware reveal from 1X CEO Bernt Børnich.

Interesting. AEON uses a self-service battery swapping system located on the chest (with a key-like clip on the wrist). pic.twitter.com/IShnjMpWyJ

At the inaugural HEIS conference in Beijing, industry giants Unitree and AgiBot joined regulators to release China’s first comprehensive humanoid standard system, signaling a shift toward industrial utility and mass-production reliability.

Chinese humanoid robot firms are shipping more units and iterating faster than US competitors, building an early lead in the emerging bipedal robotics market. The post China’s Humanoid Robot Makers Gain Early Market Lead Over US Rivals appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

Industrial giant Schaeffler formalizes its humanoid ambitions by establishing "Schaeffler Embodied Intelligent Robotics (Taicang) Co., Ltd.," a move that integrates hardware manufacturing with a dedicated AI computing hub in the heart of China’s German enterprise cluster.

Hyundai Motor Group announces a KRW 9 trillion investment in a Saemangeum innovation hub, while the South Korean government launches a "One-Team" council to unify humanoid research across national institutes.

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

In folding its Intrinsic project into the main company and out of "Other Bets," Google is aiming to mimic its Android strategy for robots.

Dieter Pletscher of Kassow Robots shares advice for overcoming common hurdles in deploying collaborative robots. The post How to integrate collaborative robots into existing production lines without disruption appeared first on The Robot Report.

Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously. The post Vision-language-action models are the next leap in autonomous robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

Through the decades, robots have expanded globally and advanced to do more jobs in auto plants. But it seems over the past year or so, the chatter around the industry’s implementation of robots — particularly humanoid robots — has grown exponentially.

BMW, the luxury German carmaker, is testing humanoid robots at its production facility in the east German city of Leipzig, the company announced on Friday. Initial trials began in December, the compan...

Wang Xingxing built Unitree from a grad-school prototype into China’s fastest-scaling robotics firm with humanoids priced far below U.S. rivals.

Group joins Tesla and other carmakers as industry turns to AI-powered robots to cut labour and manufacturing costs

Fauna Robotics CEO Rob Cochran joined NBC News to demonstrate Sprout, the company’s "lovable" humanoid robot, showcasing its conversational AI and soft-bodied design intended for the home.

+++ BMW Group bringing Physical AI to Europe +++ Pilot project at BMW Group Plant Leipzig +++ New “Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production” accelerates global integration of AI and robotics in production +++ First pilot deployment of humanoid robots successfully completed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, USA +++

Agibot unveils upgraded G2 robot with 26-DOF mobility, submillimeter accuracy, and precision dual-arm force control.

Feb. 27. Deliveries begin. pic.twitter.com/fAuh66uP8J

Chancellor Friedrich Merz led a delegation of 30 German business executives to Unitree’s Hangzhou headquarters, signaling a potential shift from humanoid entertainment to global industrial cooperation.

The 'Big 5' humanoid robot manufacturers will participate in the China Humanoid Robot Conference as part of AW 2026. The post Automation World in Seoul to feature Chinese humanoid makers appeared first on The Robot Report.

NVIDIA researchers have revealed EgoScale, a framework that leverages a massive 20,854-hour egocentric human dataset to train robots in complex, fine-grained manipulation with minimal robot-in-the-loop data.

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. In past missions to Mars, like with the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the robots relied mostly on human instructions from millions of miles away in order to safely navigate the Martian landscape. The Perseverance rover, on the other hand, has zipped across the alien, boulder-ridden land almost completely autonomously, smashing previous records for autonomous driving on Mars. Whereas the Curiosity rover completed about 6.2 percent of its travels autonomously, Perseverance had completed about 90 percent of its travels autonomously, as of its 1,312th Martian day since landing (28 October 2024). Perseverance was able to accomplish such a feat—using remarkably little computing power—thanks to its specially designed autonomous driving algorithm, Enhanced Autonomous Navigation, or ENav. The full details on ENav’s inner workings and how well it has performed on Mars are described in a study published in IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics in November 2025. There are some advantages, but some serious challenges when it comes to autonomous navigation on Mars. On the plus side, almost nothing on the planet moves. Rocks and gravel slopes—while formidable obstacles—remain stationary, offering rovers consistency and predictability in their calculations and pathfinding. On the other hand, Mars is in large part uncharted terrain. “This enormous uncertainty is the major challenge,” says Masahiro “Hiro” Ono, supervisor of the Robotic Surface Mobility Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who helped develop ENav. Creating a Highly Autonomous Rover While some images from the space-borne Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter exist, these are usually not high enough resolution for ground-based navigation by a rover. In December, NASA engineers performed the first test of a navigation technique that uses a model based on Anthropic’s AI to analyze MRO images and generate waypoints—the coordin...

AgiBot has officially launched its full humanoid and industrial robot portfolio in Europe, securing a strategic partnership with Tier 1 automotive supplier Minth Group to drive localized deployment and manufacturing.

Wayve says its Series D funding, plus capital from Uber, will support commercial trials of supervised autonomy in 2026 and consumer vehicles in 2027. The post Wayve raises $1.2B with plans to bring robotaxis to London appeared first on The Robot Report.

Humanoid Global Holdings Corp. (“Humanoid Global” or the “Company”) (CSE:ROBO, FWB:0XM1, OTCQB:RBOHF), a publicly traded investment issuer focused on building and accelerating a portfolio of pioneering companies in the humanoid robotics and embodied AI sector, is pleased to announce its capital deployment strategy outlook for 2026. Humanoid Global intends to pursue a

As humanoid robots move from research labs to the "robot gig economy" and specialized 7S retail stores, the industry is finding its first sustainable revenue streams through entertainment and rentals.

Physical Intelligence (Pi) is positioning its foundation models as a universal 'intelligence layer' for the industry, releasing new data that shows significant reliability gains for laundry-folding and industrial-packaging robots.

Amid the excitement over the humanoid performers at the Spring Festival Gala, it must be remembered that robotic advances should complement human welfare.

China's humanoid robots industry is booming, but analysts say the units showcased at the Spring Gala aren't all they seem.

Unitree Introducing | Unitree As2 Your Companion🥳 Compact size, industrial capability. Maximum torque of 90N·m, over 4 hours of no-load runtime, IP54 rainproof design. With a 15 kg payload, range exceeds 13 km. Open secondary development, empowering industry applications. pic.twitter.com/IBroUYiuYy

Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a look at the company’s "no babysitter" operations, detailing a fleet-wide autonomous docking and swapping system across a rapidly expanding five-building footprint.

Data centers for AI are turning the world of power generation on its head. There isn’t enough power capacity on the grid to even come close to how much energy is needed for the number being built. And traditional transmission and distribution networks aren’t efficient enough to take full advantage of all the power available. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), annual transmission and distribution losses average about 5 percent. The rate is much higher in some other parts of the world. Hence, hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are investigating every avenue to gain more power and raise efficiency. Microsoft, for example, is extolling the potential virtues of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) as a replacement for copper wiring. According to the company, HTS can improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission losses, increasing the resiliency of electrical grids, and limiting the impact of data centers on communities by reducing the amount of space required to move power. “Because superconductors take up less space to move large amounts of power, they could help us build cleaner, more compact systems,” Alastair Speirs, the general manager of global infrastructure at Microsoft wrote in a blog post. Superconductors Revolutionize Power Efficiency Copper is a good conductor, but current encounters resistance as it moves along the line. This generates heat, lowers efficiency, and restricts how much current can be moved. HTS largely eliminates this resistance factor, as it’s made of superconducting materials that are cooled to cryogenic temperatures. (Despite the name, high-temperature superconductors still rely on frigid temperatures—albeit significantly warmer than those required by traditional superconductors.) The resulting cables are smaller and lighter than copper wiring, don’t lower voltage as they transmit current, and don’t produce heat. This fits nicely into the needs of AI data centers t...

The spotlight at this year's Spring Festival Gala wasn't reserved solely for performers and celebrities, as a lineup of cutting-edge humanoid robots made their highly anticipated debut, generating waves of adulation on social media at home and abroad, and sending consumer interest in homemade bots to a new high.

NVIDIA has released SONIC, a generalist humanoid controller trained on 100 million frames of motion data, aiming to replace manual reward engineering with a scalable "System 1" foundation for whole-body movement.

NVIDIA GEAR Lab has released DreamDojo, an open-source world model pretrained on a massive 44,000-hour dataset of human egocentric videos. By using "latent actions" to bridge the gap between human and robot movement, the model achieves zero-shot generalization and real-time controllability for teleoperation and planning.

NORD said it allows engineers to verify whether the drive concept is suitable for the system early in the planning phase. The post NORD releases digital twin simulation platform for robotics developers appeared first on The Robot Report.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a synchronized martial arts demo by humanoid robots and cuddling robot pandas! Plus Perseverance finds itself.

Amazon Robotics grounded the Blue Jay project after only six months, redirecting resources to other fulfillment projects. The post Amazon Robotics shuts down Blue Jay sortation project appeared first on The Robot Report.

As AI video generators like ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 achieve near-perfect physics and lighting, the humanoid robotics industry faces a "crisis of truth" where real milestones and high-fidelity fakes are becoming indistinguishable.

Following its viral performance at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala, Unitree’s G1 humanoid is now available for direct purchase on Amazon, albeit with a significant price markup and strict development limitations.

The humanoid robots are coming! Agility Robotics' Digit gets yet another paying job ... this time making RAV4's with Toyota.

2025 LASA/CREATE/EPFL CC BY SA. By Celia Luterbacher With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the pinnacle of dexterity, and many robotic hands are designed in their image. But having been shaped by the slow process of evolution, human hands are far from optimized, with the […]

Shortly after hosting the world’s first robot-led gala, Shanghai-based AgiBot has unveiled the Expedition A3, a full-sized humanoid capable of high-difficulty aerial martial arts maneuvers.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada is expanding its commercial trials for Digit from three humanoids to 10. The post Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoids appeared first on The Robot Report.

Fresh off a nearly $1 billion Series A, the humanoid startup is ready to show off its next big thing.

Agility Robotics, creator of the general-purpose humanoid robot DigitⓇ, has announced that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) has signed a commercial agreement with the company. After a successful pilot, TMMC plans to deploy Agility’s robot, Digit, in its facilities to support employees with manufacturing, supply chain and logistics operations. “Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has long been a leader […] The post Agility Robotics Reveals Commercial Agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics team reveals Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP), a framework that allows bipedal robots to autonomously vault, climb, and adapt to changing environments in real-time.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada plans to deploy humanoid robots at its assembly plant in Woodstock that builds RAV4 sport utility vehicles.

Humanoid robots took center stage at China's annual Spring Festival Gala, performing acrobatic dances and kung fu routines. The performance dominated Chinese social media and sparked mixed reactions and debate over the future of robotics in entertainment.

Another Unitree G1 collapsed during a performance, injuring a safety personnel (facial bleeding and fracture). Each time a G1 collapses, it is forced to get up (RL policy), but this doesn't always succeed. Clearly, Unitree needs to fix this and adjust its safety mechanisms. For… https://t.co/s9wjrVPgBP pic.twitter.com/1cr8CSaVVr

Ottonomy built Ottumn.AI on NVIDIA's infrastructure to integrate delivery systems for healthcare, logistics, and smart cities. The post Ottonomy builds Ottumn.AI platform to orchestrate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure appeared first on The Robot Report.

The market for robot dancers, alas, is limited

The Chinese robotics company plans to ramp up its humanoid production fourfold this year, after shipping 5,000 robots in 2025.

The back-flipping, nunchuck-weilding humanoid robots may have delighted and amazed viewers at China’s annual televised new-year extravaganza with their kung-fu choreography.

FRANKFURT, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The CEO of Infineon Technologies told daily Handelsblatt that the German semiconductor maker is well-positioned to...

The CEO of Infineon Technologies told daily Handelsblatt that the German semiconductor maker is well-positioned to benefit from a future boom in the market for microchips used in humanoid robots.

A Whole Bunch of Robots Sending New Year Greetings to Everyone!🥳 The same model of the 'Kung Fu Bot' at the Spring Festival Gala, Cluster Cooperative Rapid Scheduling System. pic.twitter.com/jr7dezXa1a

China Media Group's 2026 Spring Festival Gala drew widespread attention with a performance of humanoid robots that appeared to do martial arts alongside young performers

Artificial intelligence is transforming the robotics field at a rapid pace, according to the International Federation of Robotics or IFR. The post IFR releases position paper on AI in robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

At 10 a.m. sharp, two 1.3-meter-tall humanoid robots in a storefront in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province, sprang to life, twisting and turning in perfect sync to a rhythmic beat. The conclusion of their dance coincided with the country's first-ever 7S humanoid robot store officially opening for its daily business, Xinhua reports.

A fleet of Unitree G1 humanoid robots just took over China's 2026 Spring Festival Gala with 3-meter flips and high-speed kung fu routines.

A Whole Bunch of Robots Sending New Year Greetings to Everyone!

Advances in motor design have allowed different types of robots to both specialize for industrial functions and converge in precision. The post How motor design enables different types of robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

From drunken boxing martial arts to family-oriented comedy skits, China’s leading robotics firms transformed the world’s most-watched television event into a massive public stress test for humanoid viability.

Beijing startup RoboParty open-sources Roboto Origin, a full-stack humanoid prototype, attracting 1,000+ GitHub Stars globally.

"The Street Dance of China" Turning lightness into gravity, and rhythm into impact.This is a head-on collision between metal and beats. 🤖🦾 This Chinese New Year, watch PNDbotics Adam bring the heat with a difference. pic.twitter.com/SOShc525Pc

China's most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, will be viewed later on Monday as a showcase for the country's cutting-edge industrial policy and Beijing's push to dominate humanoid robots and the future of manufacturing.

AGIBOT, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, has accelerated its Thailand market entry through a multi-day strategic engagement program showcasing deployment-ready humanoid robots aligned with the country’s Smart Tourism and digital innovation ambitions. The program, held from February 11–13, marks a key milestone ahead of AGIBOT’s planned official market entry into Thailand later in 2026. During the visit, AGIBOT introduced

SPG Targets 5,000 Humanoid Actuator Sales as Robot Market Expands South Korean component maker leverages precision reducers and in-house motor tech to compete in global humanoid robot race

An update on our vision for spatial intelligence in 2026.