Robotics company Figure AI is hiring a human to babysit humanoid robots overnight
www.businessinsider.com — Robotics startup Figure AI is hiring a night-shift coordinator to oversee humanoid robots and human operators.
Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots are machines shaped with a human-like form designed to operate in environments built for people. Truncated covers their mechanical development, commercial deployments, safety testing and industry partnerships.
Boston Dynamics adds wheels to Atlas humanoid to test whole-body control
therobotreport.com — Boston Dynamics combines classical motor control with whole-body reinforcement learning to power dynamic, wheeled locomotion for Atlas.
Making Humanoid Robots With Wheels
How a Mac mini powers a staggeringly capable robot without human training
appleinsider.com — Apple researchers have revealed how they use a Mac mini to control a Unitree humanoid robot to navigate rooms it has never seen before. It's really quite remarkable.
UBTECH Partners with Tianyi to Scale Humanoid Robot Adoption
www.unite.ai — UBTECH and Tianyi Telecom Terminal signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement on November 9, 2026, aiming to help the household-companion robot-terminal industry exceed one million units within three years. A...
Pudu Robotics Puts One AI Model in Three Robots. The FCC Has Banned Its Humanoid and Quadruped From US Markets.
techtimes.com — Pudu Robotics CEO Felix Zhang details the company’s ‘One Brain, Multiple Embodiments’ strategy, running PuduFM 1.0 across three robot types. The FCC’s July 2026 ban, however, blocks the D9 humanoid and D5 quadruped from new US imports. Here is what enterprise buyers need to know about the AI
China Fuels Near-Quadrupling in 2026 Humanoid Robots, Data Shows
news.bloomberglaw.com — Chinese robot makers will drive a near-quadrupling in global shipments of humanoids in 2026, an independent research firm estimates, reflecting the country’s dominance of an AI arena considered key to future industry.
Chinese robotics stock surge on Apple robotics research By Investing.com
investing.com — Chinese robotics stock surge on Apple robotics research
Six humanoid robots run Chinese store for 24 hours, two fail assessment
Interesting Engineering — Six AGIBOT G2 humanoid robots completed 1,730 tasks in a 24-hour Shanghai store trial, but only four passed the final assessment.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock: Every Major Announcement From Company Meeting
Chinese media debuts ‘world-first’ bionic humanoid news anchors
Interesting Engineering — China's state-run media outlet Xinhua has unveiled the world's first bionic humanoid robots at a forum in Beijing Thursday.
E.ON to Train Humanoid Robots for Grid Inspection but Names No Robot Count or Pass Mark
Tech Times — Humanoid robots for power grid inspection are headed to German substations: E.ON, enviaM and NEURA Robotics said on November 5, 2026 that first practical experience on the MITNETZ STROM network is expected in 2027. The partners gave no robot count, site list or success threshold, so hearing and
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
MIT Technology Review — The startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots to clean San Francisco homes. They still need lots of human guidance, but they’re learning.
Realbotix Renames Echo as Series 1: $5,975 Invoice Before Build, Cloud AI Unless Vinci Vision Add-On
Tech Times — Realbotix Series 1 is the new name for Echo humanoid robots, but the terms are unchanged: a $199 deposit, a 50% invoice ($5,975 for the Tabletop) before building, and a monthly AI plan from $19.99. The Gadgeteer reports only the Vision plan runs speech and AI on the robot, while other plans use
Humanoid Robot Makers Track Output but Not Payback
PYMNTS.com — The robotics industry has measured progress by machines shipped, tasks demonstrated and hours logged. China’s AGIBOT is proposing a different benchmark:
Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
the Guardian — Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE, asks Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
Xiaomi's humanoid robots work a full 8-hour shift in its EV factory
Electrek — Xiaomi says its humanoid robot worked a full 8-hour shift on its own at its EV factory. Impressive if true, but key numbers are missing.
Your Humanoid Robot Might Also Be Your Smart Home Hub: Disembodied Neo Head From 1X
Humanoid AI connects walking and object handling without demonstrations of complete task sequences
Tech Xplore — A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence.
The company behind 'PUBG' wants to bring video game AI into the real world
Fast Company — Krafton is betting its experience creating AI teammates can help humanoid robots understand people. But translating virtual intelligence into physical reality is a different challenge.
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