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Figure AI news archive

MEKAWIRE has published 98 stories about Figure AI 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 Figure AI

Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
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
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
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
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
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
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
Product
Qualcomm agrees to buy PickNik, steward of open-source MoveIt, to pull robot motion software onto its Dragonwing chips
Date
Sep 23, 2026
Type
M&A
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Type
Business
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
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
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video
Date
Sep 10, 2026
Type
Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million
Date
Sep 8, 2026
Type
Business
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
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS
Date
Aug 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Generalist's GEN-1.5 learns robot tasks from a single 3 to 12 second demonstration, reaching 59% without fine-tuning
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Market
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
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Type
Funding
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
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet
Date
Jun 10, 2026
Type
Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
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
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
M&A
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
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
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Business
London's Humanoid hands its HMND 01 robot to SAP's AI agent in a live car-parts plant, the first outside control of its KinetIQ stack
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Partnership
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
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%
Date
Mar 20, 2026
Type
Funding
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Date
Mar 12, 2026
Type
Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
BMW brings a humanoid into German car production for the first time, putting Hexagon's AEON on battery work in Leipzig
Date
Feb 27, 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
Physical Intelligence pitches its π models as a shared robot brain, with Weave and Ultra as first proof at 96.4% autonomy
Date
Feb 24, 2026
Type
Partnership
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
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections
Date
Jan 21, 2026
Type
Product
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot
Date
Jan 14, 2026
Type
Funding
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
1X puts a 14-billion-parameter video model in charge of its NEO home humanoid, trading robot data for internet video
Date
Jan 12, 2026
Type
Product
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics
Date
Jan 7, 2026
Type
Partnership
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
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
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES
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
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain
Date
Nov 20, 2025
Type
Funding
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
Hyundai Motor Group pledges KRW125.2 trillion in Korea to 2030, adding a robot foundry and a physical AI test center
Date
Nov 16, 2025
Type
Business
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion
Date
Nov 6, 2025
Type
Business
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
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data
Date
Nov 4, 2025
Type
Research
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
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900
Date
Oct 20, 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
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work
Date
Sep 15, 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
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute put one 450-million-parameter behaviour model in charge of Atlas's hands and feet
Date
Aug 20, 2025
Type
Research
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
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike
Date
Jul 29, 2025
Type
Product
Unitree launches the R1 humanoid from RMB 39,900, cutting the entry price for a walking robot to 40% of its G1
Date
Jul 25, 2025
Type
Product
Genesis AI raises $105 million seed from Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robot brain on its own simulation engine
Date
Jul 1, 2025
Type
Funding
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
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 cleans kitchens and bedrooms in homes it never saw in training, with 97.6% of its data from other sources
Date
Apr 22, 2025
Type
Research
Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2
Date
Apr 14, 2025
Type
M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
Hyundai pledges US$21 billion for America and puts Boston Dynamics in a US$6.3 billion future-industries bucket
Date
Mar 24, 2025
Type
Business
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
Figure unveils Helix, its own vision-language-action model that drives a humanoid's entire upper body from two onboard GPUs
Date
Feb 20, 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
NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book
Date
Jan 15, 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
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	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
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work	Sep 30, 2026	Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
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
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it	Sep 28, 2026	Product
Qualcomm agrees to buy PickNik, steward of open-source MoveIt, to pull robot motion software onto its Dragonwing chips	Sep 23, 2026	M&A
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids	Sep 21, 2026	Business
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
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
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video	Sep 10, 2026	Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million	Sep 8, 2026	Business
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
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise	Aug 28, 2026	Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS	Aug 24, 2026	M&A
Generalist's GEN-1.5 learns robot tasks from a single 3 to 12 second demonstration, reaching 59% without fine-tuning	Aug 19, 2026	Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings	Aug 19, 2026	Market
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
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in	Jul 21, 2026	Funding
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
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet	Jun 10, 2026	Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
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
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it	Apr 15, 2026	M&A
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days	Mar 30, 2026	Business
London's Humanoid hands its HMND 01 robot to SAP's AI agent in a live car-parts plant, the first outside control of its KinetIQ stack	Mar 30, 2026	Partnership
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
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%	Mar 20, 2026	Funding
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes	Mar 12, 2026	Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
BMW brings a humanoid into German car production for the first time, putting Hexagon's AEON on battery work in Leipzig	Feb 27, 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
Physical Intelligence pitches its π models as a shared robot brain, with Weave and Ultra as first proof at 96.4% autonomy	Feb 24, 2026	Partnership
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
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections	Jan 21, 2026	Product
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot	Jan 14, 2026	Funding
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
1X puts a 14-billion-parameter video model in charge of its NEO home humanoid, trading robot data for internet video	Jan 12, 2026	Product
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics	Jan 7, 2026	Partnership
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
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
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES	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
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain	Nov 20, 2025	Funding
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
Hyundai Motor Group pledges KRW125.2 trillion in Korea to 2030, adding a robot foundry and a physical AI test center	Nov 16, 2025	Business
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion	Nov 6, 2025	Business
XPeng unveils a next-generation IRON humanoid with 82 degrees of freedom and sets end-2026 for mass production	Nov 5, 2025	Product
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data	Nov 4, 2025	Research
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
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900	Oct 20, 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
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work	Sep 15, 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
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute put one 450-million-parameter behaviour model in charge of Atlas's hands and feet	Aug 20, 2025	Research
FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body	Aug 20, 2025	Funding
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike	Jul 29, 2025	Product
Unitree launches the R1 humanoid from RMB 39,900, cutting the entry price for a walking robot to 40% of its G1	Jul 25, 2025	Product
Genesis AI raises $105 million seed from Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robot brain on its own simulation engine	Jul 1, 2025	Funding
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
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 cleans kitchens and bedrooms in homes it never saw in training, with 97.6% of its data from other sources	Apr 22, 2025	Research
Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2	Apr 14, 2025	M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
Hyundai pledges US$21 billion for America and puts Boston Dynamics in a US$6.3 billion future-industries bucket	Mar 24, 2025	Business
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
Figure unveils Helix, its own vision-language-action model that drives a humanoid's entire upper body from two onboard GPUs	Feb 20, 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
NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book	Jan 15, 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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