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 white and silver two-armed Agile Robots humanoid reaching into a lined container to pick a black car interior trim part, with grey storage shelving behind it

A white and silver two-armed Agile Robots humanoid reaching into a lined container to pick a black car interior trim part, with grey storage shelving behind it

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

November 1, 2026

Trossen Robotics Stationary AI robot: two black robot arms with wrist cameras mounted on a frame above a black tabletop, on a white background

Trossen Robotics Stationary AI robot: two black robot arms with wrist cameras mounted on a frame above a black tabletop, on a white background

FineART Dataset: Scale AI and Hugging Face Open 1,718 Hours of Robot Data With Step-by-Step Labels

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

Latest

Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli, Jeremy Ratcliffe and host Hannah Fry talking at a round table with studio microphones during a podcast episode on AI watermarking

Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli, Jeremy Ratcliffe and host Hannah Fry talking at a round table with studio microphones during a podcast episode on AI watermarking

Grok and Older Claude Models Get an AI Text Watermark This Week. ChatGPT Only Uses One in the EU

Agility Robotics Digit 5 humanoid robot with teal legs and torso stepping across a factory floor with its arms raised

Agility Robotics Digit 5 humanoid robot with teal legs and torso stepping across a factory floor with its arms raised

Agility Robotics’ SPAC Raise Shrinks to About $465 Million After Redemptions. AGLT Is Due Nov 5

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

A flat Hyundai WIA parking robot with green lights on the floor in front of a black Hyundai sedan in an underground apartment car park, with white and red cars parked beside concrete pillars

A flat Hyundai WIA parking robot with green lights on the floor in front of a black Hyundai sedan in an underground apartment car park, with white and red cars parked beside concrete pillars

Hyundai’s Parking Robots Now Fetch Cars at a Korean Apartment Complex in About 3 Minutes

On October 29, 2026, Hyundai Motor, Hyundai WIA and Hyundai E&C demonstrated parking robots in a real apartment garage in Siheung, South Korea. A wall-pad request brought a car out in about…

October 31, 2026

A red and dark blue four-legged ANYmal X inspection robot walking on gravel in front of steel pipework and a processing tower at an industrial plant under a blue sky

A red and dark blue four-legged ANYmal X inspection robot walking on gravel in front of steel pipework and a processing tower at an industrial plant under a blue sky

ANYbotics Is Finally Delivering ANYmal X, Its Explosion-Proof Robot Dog. Deliveries Were Due in 2023

October 30, 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

October 29, 2026

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

October 29, 2026

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

October 29, 2026

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

October 28, 2026

Policy and Safety

Yellow FANUC industrial robot arms with cable bundles working around a car body held on an orange fixture in an automotive plant

Yellow FANUC industrial robot arms with cable bundles working around a car body held on an orange fixture in an automotive plant

Trump’s Section 232 Robotics Proclamation Sets No Tariffs Yet. It Starts a 180-Day Clock

On October 28, 2026, Trump agreed with a Commerce finding that imports of robotics, industrial machinery and their parts threaten U.S. national security, then ordered trade negotiations…

October 31, 2026

A small cream and yellow Lightberry Lumi humanoid robot with round blue eyes standing at a black railing on a rooftop in Washington, DC, with the Washington Monument and the White House grounds behind it at sunset

A small cream and yellow Lightberry Lumi humanoid robot with round blue eyes standing at a black railing on a rooftop in Washington, DC, with the Washington Monument and the White House grounds behind it at sunset

Lightberry’s Lumi Is the First Humanoid Cleared Under the FCC Robot Ban. It’s Built on a Unitree G1

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

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

Humanoid Robots

AgiBot co-founder Peng Zhihui on a stage in front of a large screen titled Worken Redefining Machine Value, showing four robot deployment panels with Worken scores

AgiBot co-founder Peng Zhihui on a stage in front of a large screen titled Worken Redefining Machine Value, showing four robot deployment panels with Worken scores

AgiBot’s New Worken Metric Counts Robot Work, Not Robots Built. AgiBot Sets the Benchmarks

October 30, 2026

A humanoid robot with a white camera head, black jacket and yellow high-visibility vest standing in the bed of a Tesla Cybertruck holding a cardboard delivery box, with more boxes at its feet and shops behind

A humanoid robot with a white camera head, black jacket and yellow high-visibility vest standing in the bed of a Tesla Cybertruck holding a cardboard delivery box, with more boxes at its feet and shops behind

Reward AI’s OM-1 Humanoid Unloads a Cybertruck. It Was Trained Without Teleoperation, the Company Says

October 30, 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

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

October 27, 2026

Embodied AI

Two silver collaborative robot arms with pink-tipped grippers opening a cardboard return parcel on a packing station in a warehouse

Two silver collaborative robot arms with pink-tipped grippers opening a cardboard return parcel on a packing station in a warehouse

Otto Group Will Test Up to 25 Sereact Robots on Returns in Poland. A Wider Rollout Depends on Phase Two

October 31, 2026

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

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

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

AI Models

Anthropic's launch graphic showing four Claude plan cards labelled Free, Pro, Max and Ultra, each with a plant icon, on a sage green background

Anthropic's launch graphic showing four Claude plan cards labelled Free, Pro, Max and Ultra, each with a plant icon, on a sage green background

Claude Max 20x Is Now Ultra: Still $200, No 5-Hour Limit, but the Weekly Cap Stays

Anthropic renamed Claude Max 20x to Ultra and Max 5x to Max, at the same $200 and $100 monthly prices. Verified Ultra accounts lose the five-hour usage limit, but the weekly cap stays, and…

October 31, 2026

An orange cat walks through a marble art gallery toward a giant orange pixel-block sculpture of the number 4, a still from Mistral's Large 4 launch video

An orange cat walks through a marble art gallery toward a giant orange pixel-block sculpture of the number 4, a still from Mistral's Large 4 launch video

Mistral Large 4 Open Weights Are Out: A 1 TB Download, a $0.70 API Price and a License Catch for AI Hosts

October 30, 2026

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

October 29, 2026

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

October 29, 2026