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Humanoid robot news: dated facts with primary sources
19 dated facts about the robots and companies in the database, newest first. Each item states one fact: a price, a shipment, a funding round or filing, a launch, an event. The first source of every item is the primary one: a vendor press release, a regulatory filing or a customer statement.
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| Date · type | Fact | Primary source / checked |
|---|---|---|
| Other | AGCO signs an agreement for a 2027 Digit pilot at its Hesston, Kansas plantAGCO says it signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics for a Digit pilot at its Hesston, Kansas, plant that is to begin in 2027; the release gives no robot count.Agility Robotics | |
| Announcement | NEURA introduces Neuron AI and shows a 4NE1 laundry task at GTC BerlinNEURA Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model for five of its robot types, on 14 Oct 2026 and says its 4NE1 humanoid runs an eleven-minute laundry sequence with it at NVIDIA GTC Berlin on 20–22 Oct 2026.NEURA 4NE1 · NEURA Robotics | |
| Funding | SEC declares the Agility–Churchill Capital XI merger registration effectiveThe SEC declared the Form S-4 for the merger of Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI effective on 13 Oct 2026; Churchill XI shareholders vote on the deal on 2 Nov 2026.Agility Robotics | |
| Status | Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad as CEOBoston Dynamics said on 6 Oct 2026 that Rohit Prasad, formerly Amazon's head scientist for Alexa and AGI, becomes its chief executive on 7 Oct 2026.Boston Dynamics | |
| Announcement | Boston Dynamics details a 13-degree-of-freedom hand for AtlasBoston Dynamics described a new four-finger hand for Atlas with 13 degrees of freedom, up from 7 on the previous generation, and tactile sensors on the fingertips and palm.Boston Dynamics Atlas (electric) · Boston Dynamics | |
| Shipment | AgiBot says IDC data puts its H1 2026 shipments above 8,600 humanoidsAgiBot said on 30 Sep 2026 that, according to IDC data, it shipped more than 8,600 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, about 35% of global shipments.AgiBot | |
| Status | Figure decommissions its Figure 02 fleet as the Figure 03 fleet growsFigure said on 30 Sep 2026 that it has decommissioned its Figure 02 fleet because maintaining it “no longer makes sense” as the Figure 03 fleet grows; a few units remain in storage.Figure 02 · Figure 03 · Figure AI | |
| Price | Astribot opens US orders for the T1 robot at $18,000Astribot said on 29 Sep 2026 that US customers can order its T1 robot now, with US pricing starting at $18,000.Astribot | |
| Shipment | IDC counts nearly 25,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in H1 2026IDC says global humanoid robot shipments approached 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1% year on year, and that Chinese vendors shipped over 95% of them.AgiBot · UBTECH Robotics · Galbot | |
| Other | UBTECH publishes Thinker-WM world model weights under a non-commercial licenseUBTECH published the weights of Thinker-WM, a world model that generates RGB, depth and robot actions, on 29 Sep 2026; it was pretrained on 20,000 hours of egocentric video and 10,000 hours of robot data.UBTECH Robotics | |
| Shipment | AgiBot says it is deploying 100 X2 humanoids across 100 ASD cookware storesAgiBot said on 28 Sep 2026 that it and ASD are deploying 100 AgiBot X2 humanoids as in-store sales assistants across 100 ASD retail stores in China.AgiBot X2 · AgiBot | |
| Other | Unitree releases the UnifoLM-WLA-1.0-Base model weights and fine-tuning codeUnitree released the base weights and fine-tuning code of UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a 6-billion-parameter model trained on about 2,500 hours of real-robot data, on 28 Sep 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license.Unitree G1 · Unitree | |
| Shipment | AgiBot says more than 300 of its robots work at Chimelong's Zhuhai parkAgiBot said on 24 Sep 2026 that more than 300 of its robots work across seven visitor scenarios at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai, and that it delivered its 20,000th robot to Chimelong.AgiBot | |
| Other | Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia MetaplantBoston Dynamics opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America near Savannah, Georgia, on 21 Sep 2026, with Atlas robots “now in training” there.Boston Dynamics Atlas (electric) · Boston Dynamics · Hyundai Motor Company | |
| Announcement | Figure reports 56% zero-shot success for Helix 2.5 in 30 unseen homesFigure says its Helix 2.5 policy, pretrained on its Index dataset, completed whole household tasks in 56% of zero-shot trials across 30 Bay Area homes, against 9% for a policy trained from scratch.Figure AI | |
| Announcement | Agility unveils Digit 5 with a 22.7 kg payload and a 9-minute battery chargeAgility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on 15 Sep 2026 with a 50 lb (22.7 kg) payload and a 90-minute battery that charges in 9 minutes, and says it held more than $300 million in conditional multi-year orders for it as of May 2026.Agility Digit 5 · Agility Digit (gen 4) · Agility Robotics | |
| Funding | Persona AI Form D shows $65.4 million sold in a $142 million equity offeringA Form D filed by Persona AI on 14 Sep 2026 reports $65,363,626 sold to 46 investors in an equity offering of $141,964,814, with the first sale on 28 Aug 2026.Persona AI | |
| Status | XPENG commissions the production lines for its IRON humanoid robotXPENG said on 7 Sep 2026 that it has commissioned its humanoid robot production lines, with over 80% of core processes automated, and gives the end of 2026 for mass production of IRON.XPENG IRON · XPENG | |
| Other | Wandercraft says it has 12 customers for the Calvin-40 industrial humanoidWandercraft said on 4 Sep 2026 that it has secured 12 customers for Calvin-40 in automotive, logistics, retail, healthcare and defense; it names none of them.Wandercraft Calvin-40 · Wandercraft |
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