https://robopear.com/news/ Dated facts about humanoid robots and their makers, each with its primary source. en Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://robopear.com/news/agco-agility-digit-pilot-hesston/ https://robopear.com/news/agco-agility-digit-pilot-hesston/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other 20 Oct 2026. AGCO 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. Primary source: AGCO (customer statement), https://news.agcocorp.com/2026-10-20-AGCO-and-Agility-Robotics-Advance-Smart-Manufacturing-with-Humanoid-Robot-Pilot-in-Hesston,-Kansas,-Facility https://robopear.com/news/neura-neuron-ai-4ne1/ https://robopear.com/news/neura-neuron-ai-4ne1/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Announcement 14 Oct 2026. NEURA 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. Primary source: NEURA Robotics, https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-introduces-neuron-ai/ https://robopear.com/news/agility-churchill-s4-effective/ https://robopear.com/news/agility-churchill-s4-effective/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Funding 13 Oct 2026. The 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. Primary source: U.S. SEC (Form 8-K exhibit, Churchill Capital Corp XI), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074973/000121390026109077/ea030849601ex99-1.htm https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-ceo-rohit-prasad/ https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-ceo-rohit-prasad/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Status 6 Oct 2026. Boston 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. Primary source: Boston Dynamics, https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-appoints-rohit-prasad-as-chief-executive-officer/ https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-atlas-13-dof-hand/ https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-atlas-13-dof-hand/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Announcement 1 Oct 2026. Boston 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. Primary source: Boston Dynamics (company blog), https://bostondynamics.com/blog/robot-hands-for-modern-ai-and-real-work/ https://robopear.com/news/agibot-idc-h1-2026-8600-units/ https://robopear.com/news/agibot-idc-h1-2026-8600-units/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipment 30 Sep 2026. AgiBot 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. Primary source: AgiBot, https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/125.html https://robopear.com/news/figure-retires-f02-fleet/ https://robopear.com/news/figure-retires-f02-fleet/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Status 30 Sep 2026. Figure 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. Primary source: Figure AI, https://www.figure.ai/news/f-02-decommission https://robopear.com/news/astribot-t1-us-price-18000/ https://robopear.com/news/astribot-t1-us-price-18000/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Price 29 Sep 2026. Astribot said on 29 Sep 2026 that US customers can order its T1 robot now, with US pricing starting at $18,000. Primary source: Astribot (press release via EIN Presswire), https://www.einpresswire.com/article/946085980/astribot-brings-t1-to-north-america-showcasing-a-physical-ai-stack-built-on-design-for-ai https://robopear.com/news/idc-h1-2026-humanoid-shipments/ https://robopear.com/news/idc-h1-2026-humanoid-shipments/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipment 29 Sep 2026. IDC 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. Primary source: IDC (analyst release), https://www.idc.com/?p=121156 https://robopear.com/news/ubtech-thinker-wm-world-model/ https://robopear.com/news/ubtech-thinker-wm-world-model/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other 29 Sep 2026. UBTECH 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. Primary source: UBTECH Robotics (model page), https://huggingface.co/UBTECH-Robotics/Thinker-WM https://robopear.com/news/agibot-asd-100-x2-stores/ https://robopear.com/news/agibot-asd-100-x2-stores/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipment 28 Sep 2026. AgiBot 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. Primary source: AgiBot, https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/124.html https://robopear.com/news/unitree-unifolm-wla-weights/ https://robopear.com/news/unitree-unifolm-wla-weights/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other 28 Sep 2026. Unitree 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. Primary source: Unitree Robotics (code repository), https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unifolm-wla https://robopear.com/news/agibot-chimelong-300-robots/ https://robopear.com/news/agibot-chimelong-300-robots/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipment 24 Sep 2026. AgiBot 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. Primary source: AgiBot, https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/123.html https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-atlas-metaplant-center/ https://robopear.com/news/boston-dynamics-atlas-metaplant-center/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other 21 Sep 2026. Boston 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. Primary source: Boston Dynamics, https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-opens-robotics-metaplant-application-center-to-train-humanoid-robots-for-manufacturing-tasks/ https://robopear.com/news/figure-helix-2-5-30-homes/ https://robopear.com/news/figure-helix-2-5-30-homes/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Announcement 17 Sep 2026. Figure 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. Primary source: Figure AI, https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-2-5-zero-shot-30-home-generalization https://robopear.com/news/agility-digit-5-unveiled/ https://robopear.com/news/agility-digit-5-unveiled/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Announcement 15 Sep 2026. Agility 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. Primary source: Agility Robotics, https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/agility-unveils-digit-5-humanoid-robot-built-for-cooperatively-safe-work-at-scale https://robopear.com/news/persona-ai-form-d-offering/ https://robopear.com/news/persona-ai-form-d-offering/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Funding 14 Sep 2026. A 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. Primary source: U.S. SEC (Form D, Persona AI Inc.), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2107493/000210749326000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml https://robopear.com/news/xpeng-iron-production-line/ https://robopear.com/news/xpeng-iron-production-line/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Status 7 Sep 2026. XPENG 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. Primary source: XPENG (press release via PR Newswire), https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iron-the-worlds-first-advanced-general-purpose-humanoid-robot-walks-off-the-production-lines-as-xpengs-humanoid-robot-manufacturing-facility-is-officially-commissioned-302871836.html https://robopear.com/news/wandercraft-calvin-40-customers/ https://robopear.com/news/wandercraft-calvin-40-customers/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other 4 Sep 2026. Wandercraft 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. Primary source: Wandercraft, https://www.wandercraft.eu/articles/wandercraft-secures-12-calvin-40-customers-as-it-accelerates-commercial-dominance-in-industrial-humanoids