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.

Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen in a brown leather jacket standing next to the white and gray Agile ONE humanoid robot against a dark striped backdrop

Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen in a brown leather jacket standing next to the white and gray Agile ONE humanoid robot against a dark striped backdrop

Agile Robots Series F: $500M at $8.5B, and No Humanoid Delivery Count Yet

November 13, 2026

Engineers working on a humanoid robot mounted on a test stand in a robotics lab, surrounded by camera tripods

Engineers working on a humanoid robot mounted on a test stand in a robotics lab, surrounded by camera tripods

Jensen Huang Resigns: What NVIDIA’s CEO Change Means for GR00T, Jetson Thor and Robot Makers

Path Robotics co-founders Andy and Alex Lonsberry standing between two robotic welding arms in front of red welding screens in a factory

Path Robotics co-founders Andy and Alex Lonsberry standing between two robotic welding arms in front of red welding screens in a factory

Path Robotics Series E Raises $300M at $2.45B. Its 17x Revenue Chart Has No Dollar Figures

Latest

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

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

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

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

GXO signed a letter of intent with Apptronik for up to 1,000 Apollo humanoid robots over four years, with trials from 2027 and a first North American deployment in late 2027 under a…

November 12, 2026

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

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 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

Policy and Safety

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

South Korea approved plans to build its own humanoid actuators, batteries and AI sensors by 2030. The headline 440.2 billion won spans 2027 to 2031 and is mostly a broader battery program; the…

November 11, 2026

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

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

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

A black Xiaomi humanoid robot reaches into a parts bin on a wheeled cart while a white humanoid works beside another cart in Xiaomi's car factory assembly hall

A black Xiaomi humanoid robot reaches into a parts bin on a wheeled cart while a white humanoid works beside another cart in Xiaomi's car factory assembly hall

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

November 4, 2026

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

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

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

NTT's new world model generates a short video of what each candidate robot move would do, then picks the one least likely to topple a load. In NTT's shelf test, success rose from 73.1% to…

November 11, 2026

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

November 11, 2026

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