Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
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AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
Unitree lists on the STAR Market
Unitree, the Hangzhou robot maker, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026 at 150.80 yuan per share, opening its first trading day 629.44% higher and valuing the company at 444.9 billion yuan.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracts seven Digit robots
In February 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Robotics Digit robots under a robots-as-a-service deal, after a year-long pilot, to unload totes of auto parts in a plant building RAV4 SUVs.
Apptronik expands its Series A to $935M
Apptronik reopened its Series A in February 2026, raising the round to $935 million at a reported $5.3 billion valuation, as the humanoid robot maker pushes Apollo into warehouse and industrial work.
Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind on Atlas
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced a partnership at CES 2026 to apply DeepMind's AI foundation models to Boston Dynamics robots, with the humanoid Atlas as the first test case.
Figure reports results of its Figure 02 deployment at BMW
Figure reported that its Figure 02 robots spent 11 months on an active assembly line at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, loading more than 90,000 parts and contributing to production of more than 30,000 X3 vehicles.
XPENG unveils new-generation IRON
At its 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, XPENG showed a new-generation IRON humanoid robot with 82 degrees of freedom, three Turing AI chips and an all-solid-state battery, and said it targets volume production by the end of 2026.
NVIDIA releases Isaac GR00T N1.6 with the Cosmos open models
On 28 October 2025 NVIDIA released Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open model for humanoid robots that adds a reasoning vision-language model, Cosmos Reason, so vague instructions can be turned into step-by-step action plans.
1X opens pre-orders for the NEO home robot
On 28 October 2025, 1X announced NEO, which it calls the first consumer-ready humanoid robot for the home, priced at US$20,000 for Early Access with 2026 delivery in the US and a US$499 monthly subscription later.
Unitree releases the H2 bionic humanoid
On 20 October 2025 Unitree announced the H2, a bionic humanoid robot with a face, 31 joints, a 180 cm frame and a 70 kg body, shown in a video performing ballet, punches, side kicks and a runway walk.
Figure introduces Figure 03
On 9 October 2025 Figure introduced Figure 03, its third-generation humanoid robot, built around a redesigned body, a new manufacturing process at its BotQ facility, and much lower unit cost.
Figure raises over $1B in Series C at a $39B valuation
On 16 September 2025, Figure announced more than US$1 billion in committed capital in a Series C round led by Parkway Venture Capital, at a US$39 billion post-money valuation, money it says will go toward its Helix AI platform and BotQ manufacturing.
2025 World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing
The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on 14 August 2025, bringing hundreds of humanoid robots and teams from more than a dozen countries into competition across athletic, performance and workplace-style scenario events.
Shanghai embodied intelligence implementation plan
On 6 August 2025 Shanghai released its Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Implementation Plan, targeting 100 key enterprises, 100 major application scenarios, 100 leading products and a core industry scale above 50 billion yuan.
Unitree releases the R1 humanoid
On 25 July 2025 Unitree released the R1, a roughly 25 kg humanoid robot with 26 joints, priced from 39,900 yuan — well below the 150,000 to 200,000 yuan prices then common for humanoid robots.
Unitree starts IPO coaching
In July 2025 Unitree began IPO coaching with CITIC Securities and said it expected to file listing documents between October and December, against 2024 sales of 23,700 quadruped robots and 1,500 humanoid robots.
First humanoid half marathon held in Beijing
In April 2025 twenty humanoid robot teams raced a half marathon in Beijing on the same 21.0975 km course used by human runners. Tiangong Ultra won in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds.
Hugging Face acquires humanoid-robot maker Pollen Robotics
On 14 April 2025 Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux maker of the Reachy 2 humanoid robot, in the AI company's first move into hardware; the price was not disclosed.
NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T N1
On 18 March 2025 NVIDIA announced Isaac GR00T N1, a humanoid robot foundation model released immediately to robotics developers as the first of a family of customizable pretrained models, alongside open simulation tools.
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics
On 12 March 2025, Google DeepMind introduced two robotics models built on Gemini 2.0: Gemini Robotics, a vision-language-action model that outputs robot actions, and Gemini Robotics-ER, which focuses on spatial and embodied reasoning.