Topic
19 stories
Companies
Newest
Charm Care, which runs more than 100 private nursing homes in Japan, is putting ¥300 million (about $2 million) into donut robotics. Its cinnamon humanoid has been on trial in one home since July.
The 2026 Seoul AI Robot Show runs Oct. 6 to 8 at COEX. The city says 51 companies are in, six Korean humanoids are on open display, and firefighters and police will run a robot rescue challenge.
On Sept. 29 Dyna Robotics posted Taku, a wheeled robot with arms, and an uncut hour of hotel laundry it says ran without a person stepping in. Customer sites are still the next step.
The Oct. 1 write-up drops the pinky. The new hand has 13 degrees of freedom, direct drive, and a job list that starts with tools.
On Sept. 29 Agility said Merline Saintil, Derek Aberle, and Pierre Gentin are expected to join the board tied to its Churchill Capital deal. Saintil is lined up to join now. The other two wait for closing.
On Sept. 28 Evri and Refined Robotics put a two-legged parcel robot on the street in Barnsley. It is rated for 15 kg and 6 km/h. Couriers are still the job.
On Sept. 29 in Seoul, Neubility unveiled Billy, a wheeled robot with two five-finger hands. One unit is headed to a CJ CheilJedang food plant this year. Neubility hopes for several hundred in one to two years.
On Sept. 28 NVIDIA launched an Open Agent Safety Platform with more than 100 partners. Figure signed on. It has not said which of its robots will use the tools.
Unitree said on Sept. 28 it will host the 2026 World Physical AI Conference and a partner summit on Oct. 22 in Hangzhou, with more than 3,000 guests expected.
AGIBOT and Chimelong launched the first phase of a robot-staffed theme park in Zhuhai on Sept. 24. The robots perform, guide visitors, and work in the hotel.
IROS 2026 runs Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in Pittsburgh, and its first Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge asks a Unitree G1 to put together a kids' table with no teleoperation.
A California startup exited stealth with a modular wheeled humanoid at roughly half Unitree’s edu price, already past $1M in sales, deliberately not building the brain.
Digit 5 targets barrier-free work near people, 50 lb lifts, and a 10:1 charge ratio. Early access is 2027 — and the $300M order book is milestone-gated.
The new RMAC center inside Hyundai’s Georgia Metaplant will train Atlas humanoids on real automotive workflows. It is an operational testbed, not evidence that Hyundai has deployed 25,000 robots.
Reuters reports that Chinese regulators are informally slowing some humanoid robot listings while examining valuations, government-backed revenue, and evidence of recurring commercial demand.
Chinese media say a Tesla team hit Ningbo on Sept. 16–17 to audit Tuopu, Joyson, and Sanhua for Optimus. Suppliers confirm robotics work — not necessarily this audit round. Treat $20k and ~50k-unit claims as unverified.
Index pretraining → 56% zero-shot success vs 9% from scratch. Tidying, towels, beds — no fine-tuning in those houses. Homes aren't the demo. Transfer is.
Icarus flew its ISS-bound free-flyer on parabolic flights in Canada — ~22 minutes of microgravity total. Practice is the bottleneck, and the U.S. barely has the planes.
Warehouse demos slap. Dinner prep is a different sport. Here's what has to get boring before humanoids go domestic.