AI Research
Korea's First Line Humanoids Do One Step of the Packing Job
CJ Logistics put two dual-arm robots on a live Olive Young fulfilment line, where they insert cushioning material into boxes and humans finish every pack.
23h ago
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China AI Regulation
Honor's Robot Set the Course Record as the Only Robot Entered
The D1 humanoid finished the Malaysia Marathon's 10 km and was announced as having refreshed the event record — a record for which there was no previous holder, and no time was released.
5d ago
AI Safety
Two Unauthenticated Root Chains on the Unitree G1 Need No Pairing
The UniBLEed disclosure went out at 16:13 UTC on 27 August with two CVEs published four hours later. One chain runs over an unauthenticated WebRTC-to-DDS bridge on TCP 9991; the other goes in over Bluetooth with no pairing at all.
6d ago
China AI Regulation
Unitree's 48% Slump Is Measured From a Day-One Intraday Peak
The stock closed at 615 yuan on Thursday. That still values the humanoid maker at more than four times the top of its own lead underwriter's range.
Aug 27, 2026
Manufacturing AI
Unitree Fell 11% on Day Two While Its Founder Put the "ChatGPT Moment" at Five to Ten Years
The quote everyone ran is the optimistic half. Wang Xingxing gave a range, and the top of it is a decade.
Aug 20, 2026
AI Agents
Unitree Closed Its Debut Up 460%, Not 629%. Most Coverage Filed Before the Bell.
The first pure-play humanoid-robot listing gave back roughly a third of its opening spike during the session — after the wires had already published.
Aug 19, 2026
Nvidia
LG and Nvidia Signed a Humanoid MOU, for a 2027 Robot
The agreement spans robots, an 80 MW AI factory and autonomous vehicles. What exists today is a joint task force and a schedule.
Aug 16, 2026
Manufacturing AI
China Shipped 97% of Humanoids, But AgiBot Beat Unitree
About 19,100 units in the first half against 5,100 a year earlier. The ranking flip and the 97% both come from one research firm's methodology.
Aug 10, 2026
AI Agents
Unitree Priced at $9B, While DeepSeek Took 0.23% for 3 Years
Shanghai's flagship humanoid listing raised 6.1bn yuan against a 4.2bn target, with China's most visible AI lab on the strategic placement list.
Aug 9, 2026
Google AI
Everyone Quoted 92%, But the Same Table Says 36% and 32%
Gemini Robotics 2 is the first model to drive a humanoid's legs, torso, arms and fingers under a single policy. DeepMind published the failure rates alongside it.
Jul 31, 2026
AI Models
A Chinese Robot Company Took First Place on an Omni-Modal Benchmark and Published No Weights
AgiBot says WITA-Omni Preview scored 85.21 on DailyOmni and won six of eight sub-metrics, ahead of entries from Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia. Parameters, licence and availability are all undisclosed.
Jul 29, 2026
Manufacturing AI
The FCC Just Blocked New Foreign Robots From the US Market, and Not Only Chinese Ones
Public Notice DA 26-786 adds humanoid and quadruped robots and grid inverters to the Covered List. The legal text identifies equipment by where it is made, not by who makes it.
Jul 29, 2026
AI Agents
BYD Confirmed Its First Humanoid Robot Arrives in August, and Said Nothing Else
The world's largest EV maker put its robot plan on the record. There is no name, no specification, no price and no date beyond 'early August'.
Jul 28, 2026
AI Research
Humanoid Raises $152M at $1.35B, Becoming Europe's First Pure-Play Humanoid Unicorn
Prime Movers Lab led the largest Series A ever for a European humanoid robotics company, with Bosch signing on as contract manufacturer and Schaeffler committing to buy up to 2,000 robots.
Jul 22, 2026
Manufacturing AI
Blackstone Takes a Controlling Stake in Korea's Futronic, a Bet on the Robot Supply Chain
The private-equity giant is buying control of a South Korean maker of precision actuators — the physical bottleneck in scaling humanoid and industrial robots — in a deal valuing the company near $700 million.
Jul 20, 2026
AI Research
Matrix Robotics Upgrades Its 'WAVE' World Model and Launches a Global Partner Program at WAIC
On the closing day of Shanghai's World AI Conference, the Chinese humanoid maker detailed an upgrade to its physical-world foundation model and a push abroad — showcasing its MATRIX-3 robot, priced from around $81,000.
Jul 20, 2026
Manufacturing AI
AGIBOT Debuts Four Robots at WAIC, From a Full-Size Humanoid to a Dexterous Hand
The Chinese robotics firm unveiled the A3 Ultra humanoid, an education platform, a heavy-payload industrial arm co-built with JD Logistics, and a direct-drive dexterous hand — pitched around reliable delivery, not one-off demos.
Jul 19, 2026
AI Agents
Agility Robotics Plants a 60,000-Square-Foot Humanoid Training Center in Tesla's Backyard
The maker of the Digit robot opened a Fremont, California facility to train its humanoids for warehouse work, reporting about $300 million in contract orders.
Jul 18, 2026
