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.

A man in a grey button-up shirt speaking to the camera behind an open silver laptop at a wooden desk, with a black OpenAI mug, green vases and a framed painting in a bright room

A man in a grey button-up shirt speaking to the camera behind an open silver laptop at a wooden desk, with a black OpenAI mug, green vases and a framed painting in a bright room

ChatGPT Pro and Business Now Come With Up to $500 a Month in Free API Credits. Plus Gets None

October 29, 2026

A white and blue robot with two arms and a round camera head working at a bedside table with a pitcher, tissues and medicine bottles next to a hospital bed and a wheelchair

A white and blue robot with two arms and a round camera head working at a bedside table with a pitcher, tissues and medicine bottles next to a hospital bed and a wheelchair

Physical Intelligence Is Reportedly Raising at a $20 Billion Valuation. Bloomberg Says It Has No Revenue

A technician with long dark hair standing at a robot work cell with a laptop, under black ceiling-mounted robot arms, with orange parts in a fixture on the bench and an American flag in the background

A technician with long dark hair standing at a robot work cell with a laptop, under black ceiling-mounted robot arms, with orange parts in a fixture on the bench and an American flag in the background

Foundry Robotics Raised $100M to Let Robots Assemble Drones and Defense Hardware. It Launched in January

Latest

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon launch artwork: a translucent, iridescent crystal floating on a deep blue background, with small white number 4s scattered around it

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon launch artwork: a translucent, iridescent crystal floating on a deep blue background, with small white number 4s scattered around it

Gemini 4 Carbon Costs $2/$10 at Launch, Same as Argon. Right Now, Only Vetted Cyber Defenders Can Use It

A man holding a small dark block next to a single-arm robot with a two-finger gripper, both silhouetted in front of a tall glowing orange light panel on a dark tabletop

A man holding a small dark block next to a single-arm robot with a two-finger gripper, both silhouetted in front of a tall glowing orange light panel on a dark tabletop

Machenta Raised $40M to Teach Robots From One Demo. It Trained Only in Simulation

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

Two construction workers in hard hats and yellow high-visibility vests, one marked Bedrock, watching an excavator bucket drop dirt beside a yellow haul truck under a grey sky

Two construction workers in hard hats and yellow high-visibility vests, one marked Bedrock, watching an excavator bucket drop dirt beside a yellow haul truck under a grey sky

Bedrock Robotics Raises $600M at a $4.1B Valuation to Put Self-Driving Excavators on More Job Sites

Bedrock Robotics raised a $600 million Series C at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, two months after its retrofitted excavators began paid fully…

October 28, 2026

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot, with a white head and red chest, walking across a warehouse floor carrying a blue plastic tote, past orange safety fencing, stacked totes and a conveyor

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot, with a white head and red chest, walking across a warehouse floor carrying a blue plastic tote, past orange safety fencing, stacked totes and a conveyor

GXO Takes Agility’s Digit to Two More Warehouses in 2027. The Older Robot Goes First

October 28, 2026

Unitree’s First Earnings as a Public Company: Q3 Revenue Up 70%, Profit Down 17% as R&D Spending More Than Triples

October 28, 2026

Several Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots with glowing ring-lit heads handling parts at a work table beside a blue car body and parts racks, with a worker wearing a VR headset in the background

Several Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots with glowing ring-lit heads handling parts at a work table beside a blue car body and parts racks, with a worker wearing a VR headset in the background

Boston Dynamics Reportedly Lines Up Korean Suppliers for 10,000 Atlas Robots. No Orders Yet

October 27, 2026

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

October 27, 2026

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

October 27, 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

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

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 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

Embodied AI

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

October 27, 2026

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

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

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

AI Models

ChatGPT Work window showing a photo of a Lisbon tram, a 3D model of the yellow tram built from it, and the model picker set to GPT-6.1 Terra High

ChatGPT Work window showing a photo of a Lisbon tram, a 3D model of the yellow tram built from it, and the model picker set to GPT-6.1 Terra High

GPT-6.1 Terra Costs $1/$5 per Million Tokens, Half of Sol. In ChatGPT, It’s Only in Work and Codex

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra, released Oct 26, costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output in the API, half of GPT-6.1 Sol and a tenth of GPT-6 Astra. In ChatGPT it runs only in Work…

October 28, 2026

A smiling young woman wearing a wireless earbud sits in the back seat of a car with brown leather seats and looks over her shoulder as she talks

A smiling young woman wearing a wireless earbud sits in the back seat of a car with brown leather seats and looks over her shoulder as she talks

Block’s Dessa Learned to Talk Without Reading a Word. You Can’t Use It Yet

October 28, 2026

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

October 27, 2026

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

October 27, 2026