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MEKAWIRE has published 84 stories about NVIDIA since Jan 7, 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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Mecka's $60 million Series B: Sequoia, NVIDIA and Samsung back a robot-data supplier claiming a $100 million revenue run rate
Date
Oct 7, 2026
Type
Funding
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
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
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
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
Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Product
AMD agrees to buy World Labs for about $8.2B in stock, bringing Fei-Fei Li in as chief scientist
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
M&A
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
Product
SiMa.ai raises $150M at a $1.45B valuation to build edge chips for humanoids and drones
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
Funding
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
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
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones
Date
Sep 15, 2026
Type
Business
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
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
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
Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Research
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
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027
Date
Aug 14, 2026
Type
Partnership
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Date
Jul 30, 2026
Type
Product
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Type
Funding
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Product
RSS 2026's top paper, FlashSAC, cuts humanoid walking training on one GPU from hours to minutes
Date
Jul 17, 2026
Type
Research
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology
Date
Jul 16, 2026
Type
Partnership
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance
Date
Jul 7, 2026
Type
Product
Korea makes physical AI one of three national mega projects, aiming for global top three in AI robots by 2030
Date
Jun 29, 2026
Type
Policy
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
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
Date
Jun 1, 2026
Type
Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028
Date
May 29, 2026
Type
Industry
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots
Date
May 22, 2026
Type
Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push
Date
May 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt
Date
Apr 29, 2026
Type
Business
Wandelbots, SCHUNK and EY team up on NVIDIA-based physical AI for Germany's Mittelstand as Gessmann brings NOVA to Hannover Messe
Date
Apr 19, 2026
Type
Partnership
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
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
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
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
Doosan Robotics' 2025 loss widens to 59.5 billion won as cobot arm sales halve, and it puts $16 million more into its US solutions arm
Date
Mar 26, 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
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
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
Machina Labs raises $124 million Series C from Toyota and Lockheed Martin venture arms to build a 50-cell robotic metal-forming plant
Date
Feb 4, 2026
Type
Funding
Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026
Date
Feb 4, 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
FANUC robot orders rise 21% as China and Europe pick up, and its CRX cobot draws more than 1,000 physical AI orders after iREX
Date
Jan 26, 2026
Type
Business
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
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
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase
Date
Dec 3, 2025
Type
Industry
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain
Date
Nov 20, 2025
Type
Funding
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
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
Korea lines up more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs as Hyundai, Samsung and SK aim the compute at robots and factories
Date
Oct 31, 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
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 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
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
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
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
Mecka's $60 million Series B: Sequoia, NVIDIA and Samsung back a robot-data supplier claiming a $100 million revenue run rate	Oct 7, 2026	Funding
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms	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
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity	Sep 29, 2026	Product
AMD agrees to buy World Labs for about $8.2B in stock, bringing Fei-Fei Li in as chief scientist	Sep 28, 2026	M&A
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it	Sep 28, 2026	Product
SiMa.ai raises $150M at a $1.45B valuation to build edge chips for humanoids and drones	Sep 28, 2026	Funding
Qualcomm agrees to buy PickNik, steward of open-source MoveIt, to pull robot motion software onto its Dragonwing chips	Sep 23, 2026	M&A
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
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones	Sep 15, 2026	Business
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video	Sep 10, 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
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
Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation	Aug 19, 2026	Research
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
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027	Aug 14, 2026	Partnership
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control	Jul 30, 2026	Product
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in	Jul 21, 2026	Funding
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor	Jul 20, 2026	Product
RSS 2026's top paper, FlashSAC, cuts humanoid walking training on one GPU from hours to minutes	Jul 17, 2026	Research
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology	Jul 16, 2026	Partnership
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance	Jul 7, 2026	Product
Korea makes physical AI one of three national mega projects, aiming for global top three in AI robots by 2030	Jun 29, 2026	Policy
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
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain	Jun 1, 2026	Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028	May 29, 2026	Industry
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots	May 22, 2026	Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push	May 15, 2026	Partnership
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt	Apr 29, 2026	Business
Wandelbots, SCHUNK and EY team up on NVIDIA-based physical AI for Germany's Mittelstand as Gessmann brings NOVA to Hannover Messe	Apr 19, 2026	Partnership
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
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
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
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
Doosan Robotics' 2025 loss widens to 59.5 billion won as cobot arm sales halve, and it puts $16 million more into its US solutions arm	Mar 26, 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
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
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
Machina Labs raises $124 million Series C from Toyota and Lockheed Martin venture arms to build a 50-cell robotic metal-forming plant	Feb 4, 2026	Funding
Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026	Feb 4, 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
FANUC robot orders rise 21% as China and Europe pick up, and its CRX cobot draws more than 1,000 physical AI orders after iREX	Jan 26, 2026	Business
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
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
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase	Dec 3, 2025	Industry
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain	Nov 20, 2025	Funding
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
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data	Nov 4, 2025	Research
Korea lines up more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs as Hyundai, Samsung and SK aim the compute at robots and factories	Oct 31, 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
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 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
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
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics, turning Gemini 2.0 into a robot controller and signing Apptronik as its humanoid partner	Mar 12, 2025	Product
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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