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MEKAWIRE has published 49 stories about Agility Robotics since Jan 7, 2025; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 13, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 7, 2025

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Agility Robotics

Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Market
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Type
Business
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones
Date
Sep 15, 2026
Type
Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
Date
Sep 14, 2026
Type
Funding
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss
Date
Sep 4, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model
Date
Sep 3, 2026
Type
Partnership
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Business
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion
Date
Jul 22, 2026
Type
Business
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Policy
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal
Date
Jun 30, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE
Date
Jun 24, 2026
Type
M&A
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027
Date
Apr 30, 2026
Type
Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Business
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch
Date
Mar 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Agile Robots signs Google DeepMind research pact to run Gemini Robotics models on its industrial robots, widening Google's hardware bench
Date
Mar 24, 2026
Type
Partnership
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot
Date
Feb 19, 2026
Type
Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink
Date
Jan 28, 2026
Type
Business
Schaeffler signs on as both actuator supplier and customer of London's Humanoid, planning several hundred robots in its plants over five years
Date
Jan 13, 2026
Type
Partnership
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics
Date
Jan 7, 2026
Type
Partnership
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product
1X will offer up to 10,000 NEO humanoids to EQT's 300-plus portfolio companies by 2030, sending its home robot into industry
Date
Dec 11, 2025
Type
Partnership
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line
Date
Nov 19, 2025
Type
Product
XPeng unveils a next-generation IRON humanoid with 82 degrees of freedom and sets end-2026 for mass production
Date
Nov 5, 2025
Type
Product
Schaeffler will build humanoid joints for NEURA Robotics and put a mid-four-digit number of its robots into its own plants by 2035
Date
Nov 4, 2025
Type
Partnership
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers
Date
Oct 28, 2025
Type
Industry
1X puts a price on the home humanoid, opening NEO pre-orders at US$20,000 or US$499 a month with US deliveries in 2026
Date
Oct 27, 2025
Type
Product
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 1.5 makes robots think before they act, and puts its planning model in developers' hands
Date
Sep 25, 2025
Type
Research
Figure turns Brookfield's 100,000 homes into a recording studio for humanoid pretraining data
Date
Sep 17, 2025
Type
Partnership
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price
Date
Sep 16, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on
Date
Aug 25, 2025
Type
Product
FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body
Date
Aug 20, 2025
Type
Funding
Amazon puts its millionth robot to work in Japan and launches DeepFleet, an AI model it says cuts fleet travel time by 10%
Date
Jul 1, 2025
Type
Business
Google DeepMind moves Gemini Robotics onto the robot itself and opens it to fine-tuning with as few as 50 demonstrations
Date
Jun 24, 2025
Type
Product
Hexagon unveils AEON, a measurement-led industrial humanoid, with Schaeffler and Pilatus lined up as first pilot sites
Date
Jun 17, 2025
Type
Product
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours
Date
May 19, 2025
Type
Product
NVIDIA opens Isaac GR00T N1, a 2.2-billion-parameter humanoid robot model, at GTC 2025 and teams with Google DeepMind and Disney Research on the Newton physics engine
Date
Mar 18, 2025
Type
Product
Figure opens BotQ humanoid factory with a first line built for 12,000 robots a year and plans robots on its own assembly line
Date
Mar 15, 2025
Type
Industry
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics, turning Gemini 2.0 into a robot controller and signing Apptronik as its humanoid partner
Date
Mar 12, 2025
Type
Product
1X unveils NEO Gamma, a quieter home humanoid in a knitted suit, and begins internal home testing
Date
Feb 21, 2025
Type
Product
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid
Date
Feb 13, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA opens its Cosmos world models to robot and car makers at CES 2025, with Figure, Agility, XPENG and Uber among the first users
Date
Jan 7, 2025
Type
Product

Headline	Date	Type
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says	Sep 29, 2026	Market
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids	Sep 21, 2026	Business
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones	Sep 15, 2026	Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering	Sep 14, 2026	Funding
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss	Sep 4, 2026	Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model	Sep 3, 2026	Partnership
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%	Aug 28, 2026	Business
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion	Jul 22, 2026	Business
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says	Jul 20, 2026	Policy
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal	Jun 30, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE	Jun 24, 2026	M&A
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027	Apr 30, 2026	Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas	Apr 22, 2026	Business
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch	Mar 24, 2026	M&A
Agile Robots signs Google DeepMind research pact to run Gemini Robotics models on its industrial robots, widening Google's hardware bench	Mar 24, 2026	Partnership
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot	Feb 19, 2026	Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink	Jan 28, 2026	Business
Schaeffler signs on as both actuator supplier and customer of London's Humanoid, planning several hundred robots in its plants over five years	Jan 13, 2026	Partnership
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics	Jan 7, 2026	Partnership
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028	Jan 5, 2026	Product
1X will offer up to 10,000 NEO humanoids to EQT's 300-plus portfolio companies by 2030, sending its home robot into industry	Dec 11, 2025	Partnership
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line	Nov 19, 2025	Product
XPeng unveils a next-generation IRON humanoid with 82 degrees of freedom and sets end-2026 for mass production	Nov 5, 2025	Product
Schaeffler will build humanoid joints for NEURA Robotics and put a mid-four-digit number of its robots into its own plants by 2035	Nov 4, 2025	Partnership
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers	Oct 28, 2025	Industry
1X puts a price on the home humanoid, opening NEO pre-orders at US$20,000 or US$499 a month with US deliveries in 2026	Oct 27, 2025	Product
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 1.5 makes robots think before they act, and puts its planning model in developers' hands	Sep 25, 2025	Research
Figure turns Brookfield's 100,000 homes into a recording studio for humanoid pretraining data	Sep 17, 2025	Partnership
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price	Sep 16, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on	Aug 25, 2025	Product
FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body	Aug 20, 2025	Funding
Amazon puts its millionth robot to work in Japan and launches DeepFleet, an AI model it says cuts fleet travel time by 10%	Jul 1, 2025	Business
Google DeepMind moves Gemini Robotics onto the robot itself and opens it to fine-tuning with as few as 50 demonstrations	Jun 24, 2025	Product
Hexagon unveils AEON, a measurement-led industrial humanoid, with Schaeffler and Pilatus lined up as first pilot sites	Jun 17, 2025	Product
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours	May 19, 2025	Product
NVIDIA opens Isaac GR00T N1, a 2.2-billion-parameter humanoid robot model, at GTC 2025 and teams with Google DeepMind and Disney Research on the Newton physics engine	Mar 18, 2025	Product
Figure opens BotQ humanoid factory with a first line built for 12,000 robots a year and plans robots on its own assembly line	Mar 15, 2025	Industry
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics, turning Gemini 2.0 into a robot controller and signing Apptronik as its humanoid partner	Mar 12, 2025	Product
1X unveils NEO Gamma, a quieter home humanoid in a knitted suit, and begins internal home testing	Feb 21, 2025	Product
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid	Feb 13, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA opens its Cosmos world models to robot and car makers at CES 2025, with Figure, Agility, XPENG and Uber among the first users	Jan 7, 2025	Product

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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