The second World Humanoid Robot Games run 22–26 August at Beijing’s Ice Ribbon, with organizers listing 666 teams and 2,056 humanoid robots in sports and scenario events.
Read moreUnitree raised about 6.1 billion yuan (~$905 million) for its Shanghai STAR listing, with retail demand more than 8,000 times oversubscribed as trading nears mid-August.
Read moreSeoul-based Holiday Robotics closed a roughly $105 million Series A to scale FRIDAY, a wheeled industrial humanoid built around dexterous hands and factory-floor reliability.
Read moreDays before its Shanghai STAR listing, Unitree showed a “Superman” humanoid it says jumps 2 metres from standing and hits 12.66 m/s — company figures after about three months of work.
Read moreLG Corp and NVIDIA signed an MOU to build a next-generation bipedal humanoid on Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor, with a public unveiling targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Read moreHangzhou’s DeepSeek invested about $20.8 million in Unitree’s STAR Market placement and agreed to co-develop AI models for humanoids, with mutual procurement preference.
Read moreSeoul Economic Daily reports Korean Army exercises pairing quadruped robots with tanks and helicopters, as Lion, Rainbow Robotics and LIG’s Ghost unit push harder military platforms.
Read moreNasdaq-listed Serve reported about $3.2 million in Q2 2026 revenue, up 404% year over year, while cutting 2026 sales guidance to $9–10 million as Uber Eats volume lagged.
Read moreSmart Analytics Global says global humanoid shipments hit about 19,100 in H1 2026 — more than triple a year earlier — with AgiBot at 44% and Unitree at 31% as Chinese makers dominate volume.
Read moreOn 9–11 September, ACG’s humanoid summit moves from Berlin to Stuttgart’s Liederhalle — EU market and compliance panels, ~40 exhibitors, and a Fraunhofer IPA visit day for industrial humanoid watchers.
Read moreHangzhou’s Unitree opened Shanghai STAR Market subscriptions on 10 August at 150.80 yuan a share, aiming to raise about 6.1 billion yuan — a landmark A-share listing for a humanoid-and-quadruped OEM.
Read moreFrom 4–8 September, IFA’s innovation hall makes humanoids the headline — with a 5 September Robots on the Runway slot naming Unitree, EngineAI, DEEP, AgiBot and others.
Read moreBengaluru’s Strider Robotics says its 40 kg-payload quadruped is in commercial pilots at an oil-and-gas site and an auto plant, with most of the bill of materials sourced in India.
Read moreAvnet and Weston Robot’s 5 August platform runs AMD Ryzen AI at the edge on an inspection quadruped — LiDAR SLAM, thermal/visual checks, and GPS-denied routes — reported on a Unitree base.
Read moreEngineAI says the first T800 humanoids left its Shenzhen plant for mass delivery in May, then rolled a Henan-made batch off a second Zhengzhou line in July as it targets 10,000-unit capacity.
Read moreAt WAIC 2026 KEENON staged humanoid XMAN-R1 with DINERBOT delivery bots for hotel laundry — part of a fleet strategy it ties to IDC’s 2025 commercial service-robot shipment lead.
Read morePudu Robotics and Shenzhen CTID plan a 44-room full-scenario robot-serviced hotel on West Artificial Island, with public trials late 2026 and opening targeted for 2027.
Read moreAt WAIC 2026, UniX AI showed its wheeled dual-arm Panther running a long-horizon pizza workflow — dough to oven to boxed slice — under UniCortex task planning.
Read moreSyracuse University’s A-STAR lab published a vision-based system that lets a Unitree G1 learn construction motions by watching workers, amid a projected U.S. craft labor shortfall.
Read moreItalian deep-tech firm Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a smart-skin industrial humanoid with an open-source digital twin on PyPI, conda-forge and ROS.
Read moreLondon’s Humanoid closed a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, with Bosch set to build its wheeled industrial humanoids at scale.
Read moreAfter four months on an auto line, Xiaomi says its humanoid raised self-tapping nut success from 90.2% to 98% — and is adding flexible panel sorting and bin recycling at ~90%.
Read moreCEO Zhaopeng Chen told the Wall Street Journal the Munich firm booked €300M in 2025 and expects roughly €600M this year on signed automation contracts — with SoftBank-led funding behind the build-out.
Read moreOn 8–9 August, Be The Change Foundation turns Fiesta Hall into a 55,000 sq ft AI and robotics weekend — Lobster Cup FTC matches, workshops, and organizer-claimed Tesla Cybercab demos.
Read moreAt WAIC 2026, PrimeBOT showed a personal robot that supposedly reconfigures between wheel-foot humanoid and quadruped modes without a human in the loop. Specs, price and ship dates remain thin.
Read moreUnitree’s As2-W pairs articulated legs with powered wheels for mixed terrain. Here is what the OEM page claims — and how it sits next to wheeled-leg rivals already in the catalogue conversation.
Read moreChina’s largest EV maker confirmed an August Di Space debut for its first humanoid. The pitch is customer-facing assistance — and a hard denial of viral factory-deployment rumours.
Read moreWorld Robot Conference returns 19–23 August with a new 20,000 m² Smart Innovation Hall — framed as a deployment and procurement week after WAIC’s model demos.
Read moreAgility agreed to merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value, aiming to list as a pure-play U.S. humanoid company with Digit already in commercial deployments.
Read moreGoogle DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 moves beyond upper-body tabletop demos to whole-body control, multi-robot collaboration, and on-device adaptation — shown on Apptronik’s Apollo platform.
Read moreThe FCC moved to restrict certain new foreign-made advanced mobile robots, citing national-security and cybersecurity risk. Here is what the ruling covers — and what it does not — for catalogue buyers.
Read more