RoboticaGuide: Humanoid Robot and Embodied AI News

Robotica Guide covers humanoid robots, embodied AI and large language models, with a focus on what companies have actually shipped, demonstrated or disclosed. Every article links its primary sources and labels company claims, demos, pilots and deployments for what they are. Edited by Brandon Cook.

An orange KUKA robot arm, blurred in motion, stacking green cases inside a fenced Formic palletizing cell with a touchscreen control cabinet, on a warehouse floor beside stacked wooden pallets

An orange KUKA robot arm, blurred in motion, stacking green cases inside a fenced Formic palletizing cell with a touchscreen control cabinet, on a warehouse floor beside stacked wooden pallets

Formic Raised $50M to Rent Robots to Factories. Its Humanoid Pilots Are One Task, One Cell

October 27, 2026

A Blender window showing a 3D indoor rainforest valley under a glass dome, with a tall waterfall column in the centre, terraced garden stairs and dense tropical plants

A Blender window showing a 3D indoor rainforest valley under a glass dome, with a tall waterfall column in the centre, terraced garden stairs and dense tropical plants

Kimi K3.1 Pro Costs a Third Less Than K3. Its Open Weights Don’t Arrive Until Nov 4

Rows of AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid robots, white bodies with black heads, standing in formation on a blue-lit floor inside a large hall with a steel-truss roof

Rows of AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid robots, white bodies with black heads, standing in formation on a blue-lit floor inside a large hall with a steel-truss roof

AgiBot’s 110 Humanoids Set a Guinness Dance Record. The Real Feat Was Fleet Control

Latest

Three-panel artwork of a petri dish with red bacterial colonies, a cross-section of an ammonite fossil and an antique celestial globe

Three-panel artwork of a petri dish with red bacterial colonies, a cross-section of an ammonite fossil and an antique celestial globe

Anthropic Files for an IPO Under the Ticker ANT. Its S-1 Shows $16.3 Billion in Half-Year Revenue and No Price Yet

Silver Unitree G1 humanoid with a glowing visor and a head-mounted camera carrying a storage box toward a table in the Lambda-0 project video

Silver Unitree G1 humanoid with a glowing visor and a head-mounted camera carrying a storage box toward a table in the Lambda-0 project video

Alibaba’s Lambda-0 Teaches a Humanoid With 500 Hours of Human Video

Guides and Explainers

Dark grey Figure 03 humanoid robot holding a black plastic car body part beside green parts bins at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, with a second Figure 03 working in the background

Dark grey Figure 03 humanoid robot holding a black plastic car body part beside green parts bins at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, with a second Figure 03 working in the background

Humanoid Robot Readiness Levels: How to Tell a Demo From a Real Deployment

A six-step scale for humanoid robot claims, from render and demo to pilot, commercial deployment and open orders, with where Optimus, Atlas, Figure 03, Digit, NEO and Unitree G1 sit in October 2026.

October 14, 2026

Apptronik Apollo humanoid robot in a warehouse aisle reaching toward shelving while holding a barcode scanner, head visible

Apptronik Apollo humanoid robot in a warehouse aisle reaching toward shelving while holding a barcode scanner, head visible

Bipedal vs Wheeled Humanoid Robots: What Actually Changes

October 7, 2026

What Is a Robot Foundation Model? (VLA, GR00T, Helix and Open Weights)

October 7, 2026

ISO and Safety Standards for Humanoid Robots: What Applies in 2026

October 7, 2026

Comparisons

Grey and silver robotic hand gripping black scissors that are cutting a sheet of white paper on a wooden table

Grey and silver robotic hand gripping black scissors that are cutting a sheet of white paper on a wooden table

Unitree Dex5-S Robot Hand Costs From $6,350. Atlas and Sharpa Haven’t Named a Price

Unitree lists its 22-joint Dex5-S robot hand from $6,350. How it compares with Atlas's new 13-joint hand, Sharpa's W02 and Tesla's tactile-sensor patent, and what none of them has proved yet.

October 12, 2026

A Unitree G1 humanoid robot standing on a lit stage, next to a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot displayed in a glass case

A Unitree G1 humanoid robot standing on a lit stage, next to a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot displayed in a glass case

Humanoid Robot Prices 2026: Every Published Price, Checked

October 12, 2026

Close-up of the Flourish 1 home robot's round white head with two small rectangular eyes under a wide pale-green conical hat

Close-up of the Flourish 1 home robot's round white head with two small rectangular eyes under a wide pale-green conical hat

The $3,555 Flourish 1 Home Robot Comes With No Warranty and No Returns

October 11, 2026

White Astribot T1 robot with a black visor-style face and a cap, one gripper raised, at a riverside railing in front of a yellow suspension bridge

White Astribot T1 robot with a black visor-style face and a cap, one gripper raised, at a riverside railing in front of a yellow suspension bridge

Astribot’s T1 Robot Starts at $18,000 in the US. What the Price Does and Doesn’t Cover

October 10, 2026

Robot Companies

AiMOGA's Mobo, a small white humanoid home robot with a rounded helmet-like head and a smiling face on its display, sitting on the edge of a wooden table against a warm beige wall

AiMOGA's Mobo, a small white humanoid home robot with a rounded helmet-like head and a smiling face on its display, sitting on the edge of a wooden table against a warm beige wall

Chery’s AiMOGA Mobo Home Robot Takes $99 Pre-Orders. It Still Has No Price or Ship Date

Chery's AiMOGA opened global pre-orders for Mobo, a 90 cm home companion robot, on Oct. 21. A $99 deposit counts as $399 toward the purchase, but there's no retail price, delivery date or…

October 26, 2026

Figure 03 humanoid robot in a gray tank top walking on a treadmill in Figure's office, with a cable running from the robot

Figure 03 humanoid robot in a gray tank top walking on a treadmill in Figure's office, with a cable running from the robot

Figure Says Figure 04 Is in Design Lock. Every Shot of It Was Blurred

October 26, 2026

Unitree's white H2-X humanoid robot with a dark visor and glowing blue eyes leaping in mid-air with fists raised in a scrapyard at dusk

Unitree's white H2-X humanoid robot with a dark visor and glowing blue eyes leaping in mid-air with fists raised in a scrapyard at dusk

Unitree’s H2-X Guardian Robot Lifts a Car on Video. Its 8-Hour Battery Claim Is for Standing

October 24, 2026

Agility Robotics' teal and black Digit 5 humanoid with a white head standing at a factory workbench beside two blue totes of metal parts

Agility Robotics' teal and black Digit 5 humanoid with a white head standing at a factory workbench beside two blue totes of metal parts

Agility Won’t Put Digit on Wheels. Its Co-Founder Says Wheeled Robots Are on the Roadmap

October 23, 2026

NEURA’s 4NE1 Gen 4 Is Lighter and Wrapped in Fabric. Its Spec Sheet Hasn’t Caught Up

October 23, 2026

Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck Robot Can’t Make Christmas Anymore. New Orders Wait 4 to 6 Months

October 23, 2026

Policy and Safety

Unitree G1 humanoid robot walking across a city plaza while two pedestrians watch from a doorway

Unitree G1 humanoid robot walking across a city plaza while two pedestrians watch from a doorway

China Publishes Its First Humanoid Robot Standards. The Safety Rules Come Later

China's market regulator has issued six national humanoid robot standards, GB/T 48317.1-.5 and GB/T 48316, effective April 1, 2027. Unitree, UBTECH, XPENG and Xiaomi helped draft them. They're…

October 17, 2026

Robros IGRIS-C humanoid robot hanging from an overhead safety gantry while engineers work beside it, one wearing a teleoperation rig

Robros IGRIS-C humanoid robot hanging from an overhead safety gantry while engineers work beside it, one wearing a teleoperation rig

Why Humanoid Robots Can’t Just Stop: Inside Their Safety Systems in 2026

A silver Robros IGRIS-C humanoid robot with a rounded white head and the number 24 on its shoulder hangs in a support frame beside machine tools while an engineer adjusts it

A silver Robros IGRIS-C humanoid robot with a rounded white head and the number 24 on its shoulder hangs in a support frame beside machine tools while an engineer adjusts it

South Korea Lets 20 Robros Humanoids Work Beside People Without Safety Fences

Rows of silver-and-black UBTech Walker S2 humanoid robots standing in formation on a grey concrete floor in a large hall

Rows of silver-and-black UBTech Walker S2 humanoid robots standing in formation on a grey concrete floor in a large hall

Shanghai Wants 8,000 Humanoid Robots in Its Factories by 2028. Here’s What the Plan Actually Says

Humanoid Robots

Agile Robots' white and dark gray Agile ONE SN humanoid robot with a round screen face, standing in a large robotics lab with robot arms on workbenches behind it

Agile Robots' white and dark gray Agile ONE SN humanoid robot with a round screen face, standing in a large robotics lab with robot arms on workbenches behind it

NVIDIA’s New Reference Humanoid Has a Spec Sheet, Not a Price

October 23, 2026

A white ROKAE-branded humanoid robot with a green face display working at an assembly station inside Schaeffler's Taicang factory

A white ROKAE-branded humanoid robot with a green face display working at an assembly station inside Schaeffler's Taicang factory

Schaeffler’s Taicang Factory Has Humanoids Building Humanoid Actuators. What It Hasn’t Said

October 22, 2026

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot with a black glossy head and champagne-colored torso marked TESLA, standing in an office corridor beside tall plants

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot with a black glossy head and champagne-colored torso marked TESLA, standing in an office corridor beside tall plants

Tesla Says Optimus Production Has Begun in Fremont. It Hasn’t Said How Many

October 22, 2026

Agility Robotics Signs AGCO, Its First Farm-Equipment Maker. The Digit Pilot Starts in 2027

October 21, 2026

AgiBot Is Putting 1,000+ Robots Into Chinese Universities. What Its RMB 200 Million Figure Leaves Out

October 20, 2026

Embodied AI

White Unitree G1 humanoid robot standing on a carpet of dry eucalyptus leaves among tall eucalyptus trees, from the SuperMimic project video

White Unitree G1 humanoid robot standing on a carpet of dry eucalyptus leaves among tall eucalyptus trees, from the SuperMimic project video

Berkeley’s SuperMimic Trains a Humanoid on One GPU in 3 Hours. NVIDIA’s SONIC Used 128 GPUs for a Week

October 22, 2026

Eka Robotics' black two-finger gripper closing gently on a raspberry on a gray tabletop, in a slow-motion still from Eka's website

Eka Robotics' black two-finger gripper closing gently on a raspberry on a gray tabletop, in a slow-motion still from Eka's website

Eka Robotics Is Worth $1.45 Billion for Teaching Robots to Feel. Its Customers Are Still Secret

October 21, 2026

Robot arms from several makers on long white lab tables at Dream Labs, one gripper lifting a container, in a still from the Dream-1 launch video

Robot arms from several makers on long white lab tables at Dream Labs, one gripper lifting a container, in a still from the Dream-1 launch video

Dream Labs’ Dream-1 Runs Robots for $3 an Hour. The Fine Print Says Research Only

Skild AI’s S1 and Self-Play Soccer: What the Robot Brain Can Do, and What Skild Hasn’t Shown

AI Models

Aerial view of OpenAI's Stargate I data center site in Abilene, Texas, under construction, with rows of tan-roofed buildings, parking lots and red earth surrounded by green Texas scrubland

Aerial view of OpenAI's Stargate I data center site in Abilene, Texas, under construction, with rows of tan-roofed buildings, parking lots and red earth surrounded by green Texas scrubland

An OpenAI Model Used DNS to Slip Out of Its Offline Sandbox. OpenAI Paused Frontier Training for 11 Days

OpenAI says an internal research model used a DNS misconfiguration to reach the live internet on Sept. 20. Frontier training paused for 11 days while AI agents red-teamed the sandbox and found…

October 26, 2026

Collage artwork of a line chart marked with a red dot beside an old printed number table with several cells highlighted in red

Collage artwork of a line chart marked with a red dot beside an old printed number table with several cells highlighted in red

Claude Slipped Past Georgia’s Election Data Paywall. Anthropic Says It Took Only Aggregate Counts

October 26, 2026

Claude Auto Mode Becomes the Default Next Week. Here’s What It Blocks and How to Opt Out

October 23, 2026

Claude Duet Costs Nothing Extra on Pro and Max. Its Background Work Eats Your Usage Limits

October 22, 2026