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.

Three engraved trees side by side on panels of graph paper, pale yellow paper and grey-beige paper, the artwork Anthropic uses for its IPO website

Three engraved trees side by side on panels of graph paper, pale yellow paper and grey-beige paper, the artwork Anthropic uses for its IPO website

Anthropic IPO Price Range Is $70 to $78. Retail Can Get Up to 20%, and Early Holders Paid $11.50

November 12, 2026

Two white-and-black robot arms on a tabletop sorting green, red and blue cloths into three wooden trays in a white test booth

Two white-and-black robot arms on a tabletop sorting green, red and blue cloths into three wooden trays in a white test booth

Runway’s Praxis-1 Is Now Open Weights Under Apache 2.0. Running It Takes an 80 GB GPU

White Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoid robot holding a packaged item over a cardboard box and grey totes at a packing table in a warehouse, with shelving and a worker in the background

White Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoid robot holding a packaged item over a cardboard box and grey totes at a packing table in a warehouse, with shelving and a worker in the background

GXO Plans Up to 1,000 Apptronik Apollo Humanoids. The Letter of Intent Hinges on 2027 Trials

Latest

The KAIST Humanoid, a black and silver research robot with exposed leg actuators, bending over a blue block on a stage at KAIST's Physical AI KOREA 2026 event

The KAIST Humanoid, a black and silver research robot with exposed leg actuators, bending over a blue block on a stage at KAIST's Physical AI KOREA 2026 event

South Korea Humanoid Parts Plan Totals 440 Billion Won. Most Is a Battery Program, and 2027 Gets 58 Billion

Orange industrial robot arm with a flat gripper beside a roller conveyor and an open AKE airport baggage container, with a blue suitcase on a nearby conveyor, in Mujin's bag-loading cell

Orange industrial robot arm with a flat gripper beside a roller conveyor and an open AKE airport baggage container, with a blue suitcase on a nearby conveyor, in Mujin's bag-loading cell

NTT World Model Lets Robots Preview a Load Collapse. Its 92.3% Comes From One Shelf Test

Guides and Explainers

Two teal and black Agility Digit 5 humanoid robots at a workbench, one lifting a blue tote of metal parts, in a still from Agility's Introducing Digit 5 video

Two teal and black Agility Digit 5 humanoid robots at a workbench, one lifting a blue tote of metal parts, in a still from Agility's Introducing Digit 5 video

Humanoid Robot Glossary: DoF, Payload, Runtime, IP Ratings and Other Spec-Sheet Terms Explained

What DoF, instant vs sustained payload, runtime, run-to-charge ratio, IP67, tactile sensing, VLA and other humanoid spec-sheet terms mean, with real examples from the Boston Dynamics Atlas,…

November 3, 2026

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

October 14, 2026

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

Comparisons

White Figure 03 humanoid robot with a black visor head and black gloved hands perched on a sofa arm, reaching toward a plate on a living-room coffee table

White Figure 03 humanoid robot with a black visor head and black gloved hands perched on a sofa arm, reaching toward a plate on a living-room coffee table

Tesla Optimus vs Figure 03 vs Atlas: What Can Be Compared Fairly (2026)

Tesla Optimus, Figure 03 and Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas compared on what each company has actually published: size, payload, runtime, hands, production and deployments, plus the numbers…

November 5, 2026

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

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

Robot Companies

Six AgiBot G2 wheeled humanoid robots in a promotional illustration for the 24-hour convenience store challenge, carrying boxes, coffee, a trolley and a cleaning brush, with the event dates in a banner

Six AgiBot G2 wheeled humanoid robots in a promotional illustration for the 24-hour convenience store challenge, carrying boxes, coffee, a trolley and a cleaning brush, with the event dates in a banner

AgiBot G2 Robots Ran a Shanghai Store for 24 Hours. Two of Six Didn’t Pass

Six AgiBot G2 wheeled humanoids worked an operating Shanghai convenience store from Nov 2 to Nov 3 and logged 1,730 tasks, AgiBot says. Four of six passed its assessment. What the count shows,…

November 9, 2026

Embodied AI's AIR robot, a light blue two-armed humanoid torso with an open lattice head, placing small cardboard parts into boxes beside a conveyor in a factory hall

Embodied AI's AIR robot, a light blue two-armed humanoid torso with an open lattice head, placing small cardboard parts into boxes beside a conveyor in a factory hall

Embodied AI’s AIR Humanoid Is Teleoperated on Day One and Promised Autonomous in a Month

November 9, 2026

Unitree industrial robots in a warehouse aisle — official Unitree product photography used for the IPO evergreen featured image

Unitree industrial robots in a warehouse aisle — official Unitree product photography used for the IPO evergreen featured image

Unitree STAR Market IPO: Filing, Raise and What Listing Means

November 6, 2026

StarBot Spark, Astra and Flex humanoid and wheeled platforms standing side by side on a white studio background

StarBot Spark, Astra and Flex humanoid and wheeled platforms standing side by side on a white studio background

StarBot Spark Is $7,999. Here’s What That Price Leaves Out

November 5, 2026

Agility Robotics Is Public: AGLT Begins Trading After the Churchill XI Close

November 5, 2026

Xiaomi’s Humanoid Robot Worked an 8-Hour Car Factory Shift. It Stopped Twice to Charge

November 4, 2026

Policy and Safety

Overhead view of a wooden test table with a chrome toaster plugged into a white power strip, an empty white mug and two black robot grippers at the bottom edge

Overhead view of a wooden test table with a chrome toaster plugged into a white power strip, an empty white mug and two black robot grippers at the bottom edge

RoboSpoof: Blurring a Robot’s Camera Got AI Models to Attempt 88% of Unsafe Tasks

In Robocurve's RoboSpoof study, five frontier AI models controlling real robot arms attempted unsafe tasks in 27% of trials with clear footage, 88% with blurred footage and 97% with doctored…

November 11, 2026

Rows of UBTECH Walker S2 humanoid robots walking out of a building and into open shipping containers on a loading dock

Rows of UBTECH Walker S2 humanoid robots walking out of a building and into open shipping containers on a loading dock

China Wants a Permanent ID Code on Every Robot It Builds. Here’s What MIIT’s Draft Requires

Silver Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a glowing face visor holding a frying pan over an induction plate at a workbench, with eggs in a glass bowl

Silver Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a glowing face visor holding a frying pan over an induction plate at a workbench, with eggs in a glass bowl

The UK’s First Humanoid Robot Insurance Is Here. What Adrian Flux’s Home Policy Covers

Google Search Relations' Gary Illyes and Cherry seated at a desk with an old CRT computer, a tangle of cables and a No entry sign in a Google Search Central video about robots.txt

Google Search Relations' Gary Illyes and Cherry seated at a desk with an old CRT computer, a tangle of cables and a No entry sign in a Google Search Central video about robots.txt

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic Back One robots.txt AI Training Opt-Out. Here’s the Catch

Humanoid Robots

Apptronik's white Apollo 2 humanoid robot bending over blue parts bins at a kitting station on a Mercedes-Benz production line, reaching toward a black sequencing tray of metal brackets

Apptronik's white Apollo 2 humanoid robot bending over blue parts bins at a kitting station on a Mercedes-Benz production line, reaching toward a black sequencing tray of metal brackets

Gemini Robotics 2.5 Hit 96% on Mercedes-Benz Lines. DeepMind Hasn’t Said 96% of What

November 11, 2026

Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas humanoid rolling on two black scooter wheels in place of feet across a concrete warehouse floor between shelves of boxes, with engineers watching in the background

Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas humanoid rolling on two black scooter wheels in place of feet across a concrete warehouse floor between shelves of boxes, with engineers watching in the background

Atlas on Wheels Isn’t a Product. Boston Dynamics Built It to Push Atlas’s Motors to the Limit

November 10, 2026

Booster humanoid robots in blue and purple team bibs contesting a soccer ball in front of the goal at RoboCup 2026, with spectators behind the pitch

Booster humanoid robots in blue and purple team bibs contesting a soccer ball in front of the goal at RoboCup 2026, with spectators behind the pitch

Humanoid Robot Competitions and Benchmarks: What Races, RoboCup and Leaderboards Really Prove

November 4, 2026

South Korea Opens Its First Humanoid Data Factory, With 12 Teleoperated Robots

November 3, 2026

Audi Is Testing Agile Robots’ Mobile Humanoids for Parts Sequencing. Here’s What It Hasn’t Said

November 1, 2026

Embodied AI

A white and silver Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a camera mounted on its head and a black box on its back stepping sideways through a half-open bedroom door

A white and silver Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a camera mounted on its head and a black box on its back stepping sideways through a half-open bedroom door

Apple HALO: A Unitree G1 Humanoid Learned Six Skills in Simulation, Then Hit 91% in Real Homes

November 10, 2026

Wheeled CMU Pixel humanoid robot beside a person sitting on a sofa in a lab, still from the official Pixel project photo

Wheeled CMU Pixel humanoid robot beside a person sitting on a sofa in a lab, still from the official Pixel project photo

CMU’s Pixel Is a Wheeled Humanoid Under $15,000. The Catch: It’s Still a Lab Stack

November 5, 2026

Tutor Intelligence's Sonny robot, two white robot arms with cameras on a vertical lift above a white base, standing in a warehouse aisle between shelves of boxed products

Tutor Intelligence's Sonny robot, two white robot arms with cameras on a vertical lift above a white base, standing in a warehouse aisle between shelves of boxed products

Tutor Intelligence Raises $75M to Rent Out Robots by the Hour

Three photos of research robot setups side by side: a white robot arm gripping an apple next to a soda can, a gripper routing a white cable on a lab table, and a small black robot arm in a toy kitchen sink

Three photos of research robot setups side by side: a white robot arm gripping an apple next to a soda can, a gripper routing a white cable on a lab table, and a small black robot arm in a toy kitchen sink

Open X-Embodiment Dataset Explained: What’s Inside, What RT-X Showed and Its Limits

AI Models

Qwen4-Max Is Live Until Nov 25 on a $3 Plan. Alibaba Hasn’t Shown a Single Benchmark

Alibaba's Qwen4-Max opened in preview Nov 10 with a 1M-token context window, but only through a Token Plan subscription from $3 for new customers, with no per-token price, no benchmarks and a…

November 11, 2026

A white five-fingered robot hand reaching over a table of test objects including an SD card in a clear box, a padlock, a mahjong tile and a small potted plant, with a depth camera mounted beside the wrist

A white five-fingered robot hand reaching over a table of test objects including an SD card in a clear box, a padlock, a mahjong tile and a small potted plant, with a depth camera mounted beside the wrist

LingBot-Touch Gives Robot Hands a Shared Sense of Touch. Its 26-Task Scores Use Partial Credit

November 10, 2026

NVIDIA GR00T 2 Learned From 400,000 Hours of Human Video. Its 95% Comes With a Footnote

November 10, 2026

Claude Fable 5.2 Drops to $8/$40 and Undercuts GPT-6 Astra. Its Robot Score Comes With a Footnote

November 10, 2026