Robotics news
Fresh coverage of launches, partnerships, and industry moves. Updated continuously as press releases drop.
Siemens puts Humanoid's HMND 01 Alpha into real factory logistics with NVIDIA
Siemens and Humanoid have moved another humanoid-robot story from stage demo to factory-floor evidence. The companies say Humanoid's HMND 01 wheeled Alpha robot, built with NVIDIA's physical AI stack,
SAP and Cyberwave move Physical AI from warehouse pilot to live logistics work
SAP and Cyberwave have moved warehouse robotics into a live SAP logistics operation, which makes this more interesting than a normal robotics demo. The companies say fully autonomous, AI-powered robot
Olympus gives EndoRobotics a global path into robot-assisted endotherapy
Olympus has signed an exclusive global distribution agreement with EndoRobotics, and the practical signal is market access: robot-assisted endoscopic technologies are moving from specialized developme
MicroVision and Avular push autonomous drones toward infrastructure work, not demo flights
MicroVision and Avular signed an MoU that points at a practical robotics market: autonomous drones and mobile robots for infrastructure, safety and commercial operations where GPS, maps and tidy envir
Aptiv and Comau put industrial robots on an edge-compute and safety roadmap
Aptiv and Comau have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore next-generation industrial automation, and the interesting part is the stack they want to combine: robot hardware, edge software, s
Infineon and NVIDIA make humanoid safety a silicon-and-simulation problem
Infineon's expanded work with NVIDIA is not a robot launch, but it belongs on the humanoid robotics map because it targets a bottleneck every serious deployment will hit: safety, security and system a
JAL and GMO AIR make airport ground handling the next humanoid proving ground
Japan Airlines, JAL Ground Service and GMO AI & Robotics are starting a demonstration experiment for humanoid robots in airport ground handling, and the important part is the operating environment: th
SoftBank Robotics and Direct Supply show senior living wants outcomes, not robot demos
SoftBank Robotics America and Direct Supply have expanded their senior-living partnership, and the most important number is not a spec sheet. It is operating footprint: the companies say nearly 100 se
Schaeffler's 1,000-AEON plan turns humanoid actuators into a factory procurement story
Schaeffler and Hexagon Robotics have turned AEON from another industrial humanoid announcement into a harder procurement signal: Schaeffler says it plans to deploy at least 1,000 Hexagon Robotics huma
Persona AI and Under Armour make robot workwear a real humanoid design problem
Persona AI is working with Under Armour on an R&D collaboration that looks minor at first glance, but it points at a real procurement issue for industrial humanoids: the robot body will need external
Fincantieri and Generative Bionics make humanoid welders a shipyard test case
Fincantieri and Generative Bionics have turned humanoid robotics into a concrete shipyard validation program: a four-year industrial partnership to develop humanoid welding robots for naval manufactur
Classover turns Unitree robots into an embodied AI classroom platform
Classover has launched an embodied AI robotics education platform that uses Unitree humanoid and robotic dog systems as classroom hardware for K-12 learning.
GOKO M6 brings industrial-robotics specs to the premium robotic mower race
GOKO, the consumer robotics brand from Robot++, has introduced the M6, a 4WD AI robotic lawn mower aimed at the part of the yard-care market where many consumer mower robots still struggle: steep slop
Bear Robotics Servi Q targets the restaurant layouts service robots usually lose
Bear Robotics used the National Restaurant Association Show 2026 in Chicago to unveil Servi Q, a compact service robot built for the restaurant layouts that often block robot adoption in the first pla
ECOVACS LilMilo turns companion robots into a shoppable home category
ECOVACS has moved beyond cleaning robots with LilMilo White, an emotional AI companion robot that is already listed for U.S. buyers on the company's official store.
Amazon's Fauna Robotics deal makes Sprout the quiet home-humanoid acquisition to watch
Amazon's acquisition of Fauna Robotics is easy to underestimate because Sprout does not look like a warehouse machine. It is small, soft-bodied, expressive and intentionally approachable. That is exac
UniX AI Panther brings the home humanoid race back to wheeled, dual-arm practicality
UniX AI's Panther is a useful reminder that the first home humanoids may not need legs. The Suzhou company is positioning Panther as a next-generation full-size wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot for hou
Figure AI's warehouse robot passes 81 hours and 101,391 packages in reported Helix-02 run
Figure AI has turned an eight-hour warehouse demo into a multi-day endurance signal: Seoul Economic Daily reports that a humanoid named Jim processed 101,391 packages over 81 hours in a livestreamed H
Kinetix AI KAI pushes humanoid hardware toward tactile skin and extreme degrees of freedom
Kinetix AI has moved into the crowded humanoid race with KAI, a full-size humanoid robot whose headline claims are unusually aggressive: 115 degrees of freedom, 36 degrees of freedom per hand, and a f
ROBOTIS K0 and DYNAMIXEL-Q turn Korea’s humanoid push into an actuator platform
ROBOTIS has put its K0 humanoid and DYNAMIXEL-Q actuator family into the same strategic frame: Korea’s humanoid robotics push is not only about building a finished robot, but about turning actuator te
SoftBank Robotics brings STEAMA and FLAMA cooking robots to U.S. restaurants
SoftBank Robotics is bringing two autonomous cooking robots, STEAMA and FLAMA, to the U.S. market, with the systems scheduled to appear at the National Restaurant Association Show 2026 in Chicago from
Lead Intelligent and Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center partner on factory humanoids
Lead Intelligent has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center to accelerate humanoid robot deployment in new energy and advanced manufacturing environ
GoLabs launches security robots built around Unitree quadrupeds
GoLabs has announced a custom robotics security initiative using Unitree quadrupeds, positioning four-legged robots as autonomous patrol platforms for facilities that need continuous monitoring.
Roomba pioneer Colin Angle reveals Familiar Machines & Magic, a consumer physical AI robot
Colin Angle, the cofounder and former CEO of iRobot, has brought Familiar Machines & Magic out of stealth with a consumer physical AI platform built around emotionally intelligent home robots called F
Genesis AI launches GENE-26.5, a robot brain for human-level manipulation
Genesis AI has introduced GENE-26.5, its first robotic foundation model system, alongside proprietary dexterous robotic hands and a data engine designed to train robots on contact-rich manipulation ta
Micropolis unveils M1.5, a high-endurance UAE-built security and infrastructure robot
Micropolis AI Robotics has unveiled M1.5, a next-generation autonomous mobile robot built in the UAE for high-endurance security, surveillance, and critical infrastructure missions.
WIRobotics raises $68M to push ALLEX from humanoid platform toward commercialization
WIRobotics has raised KRW 95 billion, approximately USD 68 million, in Series B funding to accelerate its move from wearable robotics into broader humanoid and physical AI platforms.
Locus Array turns warehouse picking into a robots-to-goods workflow
Locus Robotics has launched Locus Array, a fully autonomous warehouse fulfillment system that moves the robot to the inventory instead of pushing inventory through fixed automation.
Unitree GD01 pushes robotics spectacle into a pilotable mecha product
Unitree has unveiled GD01, a manned transformable mecha that Chinese reports describe as a production-ready civilian robot vehicle priced from 3.9 million yuan, roughly $650,000. The announcement puts
AGIBOT A2’s Met Gala appearance shows humanoids becoming brand infrastructure
AGIBOT brought its full-size A2 humanoid robot into the orbit of the 2026 Met Gala through a presentation with designer Alexander Wang at The Mark Hotel in New York. The company framed the moment as a
1X’s Hayward NEO Factory turns home humanoids into a production story
1X says its NEO Factory in Hayward, California is now online, giving the company a vertically integrated production base for its home humanoid robot. The company says current NEO units coming off the
Humble Hauler turns autonomous freight into a cabless robot, not a self-driving truck
Humble Robotics' Humble Hauler is a cabless autonomous freight concept that looks less like a self-driving truck and more like a cargo robot scaled up to container logistics. TechRadar described the p
Linkerbot’s reported $6B target shows robot hands are becoming the prize asset
Reuters reported that Chinese robot-hand startup Linkerbot is targeting a $6 billion valuation in its next financing round. The company is described as a leader in highly dexterous robotic hands for h
Meta’s Assured Robot Intelligence acquisition puts Big Tech deeper into embodied AI
Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup focused on robotic intelligence for understanding, predicting, and adapting to human behavior in complex environments. TechCrunch reported the acqui
ROBOTERA’s $200M round shows humanoid logistics is becoming infrastructure
ROBOTERA raised more than $200 million in a new financing round announced on May 8, 2026. The round was led by SF Group, HSG, and IDG Capital, and follows an RMB 1 billion strategic round in March.
GoLabs turns Unitree quadrupeds into a U.S. robotic security package
GoLabs announced a custom robotic security initiative using Unitree quadrupeds on May 8, 2026. The announcement is small compared with humanoid launches, but it points at a practical near-term market:
Roomba pioneer Colin Angle returns with Familiar, a consumer physical AI bet
Colin Angle, the iRobot co-founder who helped make Roomba the first mass-market home robot, has launched Familiar Machines & Magic. The company's first public direction is not a humanoid housekeeper.
Hello Robot Stretch 4 is the anti-humanoid argument for useful home robots
Hello Robot announced Stretch 4 on May 12, 2026, refreshing one of the most important non-humanoid mobile manipulation platforms in robotics. The timing is useful: while the market is crowded with hum
Chery’s AiMoga puts the Mornine M1 humanoid on JD.com at roughly $41K
Chery-backed AiMoga has moved its Mornine M1 humanoid robot into online sales, with listings reported on JD.com at 285,800 yuan, or roughly $41,400. Deliveries are reported to begin from May 23, 2026.
Unitree’s 26,900 yuan dual-arm humanoid pushes dexterous robots below $4K
Unitree Robotics launched a new dual-arm humanoid robot on April 30, 2026, with pricing reported by Gasgoo from 26,900 yuan. That is roughly the price of a serious laptop plus a few robotics kits, not
Genesis AI GENE-26.5 reframes humanoid robotics around manipulation data
Genesis AI announced GENE-26.5 on May 6, 2026, positioning it as a robotic brain for human-level physical manipulation. The company says the system combines two pieces: a dexterous robotic hand design
Xynova Flex 2 puts Xiaomi’s humanoid bet on the robot hand layer
Xynova has become one of the robotics component companies to watch because it is not only selling a dexterous hand. It is building the stack around the hand: high-degree-of-freedom fingers, compact ac
$21 per home-cleaning visit: how Chinese robotics pricing will reach the West
China is running ahead on home-service-robotics unit economics. XSquareRobot in Beijing charges RMB 149 (~$21 USD) for a human+robot home cleaning visit. That price is 40-60% below equivalent pure-hum
Yungang Grottoes humanoid dance: AI reconstructs the Li Shi guardian movements
At China Yungang Grottoes, humanoid robots have performed movements reconstructed from the Li Shi stone carvings in Cave 9 — a 1,500-year-old set of guardian figures carved into the cliffside. This wa
From kung fu to monasteries: Unitree owns cultural-performance robotics
In February 2026, Unitree humanoids appeared on the Chinese New Year Spring Festival Gala for the third year in a row. This year they ditched the dancing for martial arts choreography. Three months la
Atlas at the factory: what Hyundai investment means for commercial humanoids
Boston Dynamics revealed the all-new electric Atlas in January 2026 — and unlike every previous Atlas generation, this one is built for mass production. The target deployment is Hyundai automotive pla
Robot dogs may be the most underrated form factor in 2026
Quadrupedal robots are the form factor that hides in plain sight. They are familiar enough to enter human spaces without alarm, agile enough to climb stairs and step over obstacles, and useful enough
XSquareRobot runs human+robot home cleaning in China at RMB 149 per visit
Chinese robotics startup XSquareRobot has launched a commercial human+robot home cleaning service. The price: RMB 149 per visit, roughly $21 USD. A human cleaner pairs with a service robot for each ca
Gabi the robot monk: South Korea sends a Unitree G1 into Jogye Temple
South Korea has its first humanoid robot monk. On May 6, ahead of Buddha Birthday celebrations, Jogye Temple in Seoul introduced Gabi — a 130-centimeter Unitree G1 dressed in a traditional grey-and-br
Cockpit robotics in 2026: insurance, operator training, liability
Piloted mechs put humans inside moving machines weighing 500kg or more. The Unitree GD01 at $650K is the first piloted mech priced for plausible commercial purchase. Before the unit lands on your prop