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MEKAWIRE has published 29 stories about Humanoid since Jan 15, 2025; the latest is from Oct 7, 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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First story

Jan 15, 2025

Latest story

Oct 7, 2026

Stories about Humanoid

HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction
Date
Oct 7, 2026
Type
Research
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
Eni offers Italy's Generative Bionics its plants, polymers and supercomputers in a humanoid robot pact
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Partnership
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
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Funding
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
Hitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Partnership
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in
Date
Jul 21, 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
Barcelona's THEKER raises US$85 million Series A led by CRV for factory generalist robots
Date
Jun 11, 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
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
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
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
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
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
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Funding
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
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
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
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
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
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

Headline	Date	Type
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction	Oct 7, 2026	Research
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
Eni offers Italy's Generative Bionics its plants, polymers and supercomputers in a humanoid robot pact	Sep 30, 2026	Partnership
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Hitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry	Sep 29, 2026	Partnership
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in	Jul 21, 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
Barcelona's THEKER raises US$85 million Series A led by CRV for factory generalist robots	Jun 11, 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
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
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
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
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
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
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
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
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
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
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
Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2	Apr 14, 2025	M&A
NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book	Jan 15, 2025	Funding

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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