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Nov 4, 2025
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Schaeffler will build humanoid joints for NEURA Robotics and put a mid-four-digit number of its robots into its own plants by 2035

Schaeffler and NEURA Robotics announced on 4 November 2025 that they will jointly develop and supply humanoid components, led by actuators, and signed an offtake agreement under which Schaeffler plans to integrate a mid-four-digit number of humanoids into its global production network by 2035. Schaeffler's planetary gear actuators, rated at up to 250 Nm, are designed for the joints of NEURA's 4NE1 humanoid.

2 sourcesNeura RoboticsSchaefflerFigure AIElectric Actuators
Oct 31, 2025
PartnershipKR

Korea lines up more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs as Hyundai, Samsung and SK aim the compute at robots and factories

NVIDIA and South Korea said on 31 October 2025 that more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs will go into the government's sovereign cloud and the country's biggest industrial groups. Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA put about $3 billion behind a physical AI push that includes virtual testing of humanoid robots, while Samsung and SK plan AI factories with robotics and digital twin workloads.

7 sourcesNVIDIAHyundai Motor GroupSamsung ElectronicsWorld ModelsSynthetic Data Generation
Oct 30, 2025
M&ACN

AgiBot takes 63.6% of STAR Market-listed Swancor after tender offer, giving the humanoid maker a listed platform for about RMB2 billion

AgiBot's acquisition vehicle Shanghai Zhiyuan Hengyue and a concert party now hold 63.6232% of Swancor Advanced Materials after holders tendered 135,663,336 shares at RMB7.78 in a partial offer that closed on 28 October 2025, Swancor disclosed on 30 October. With share transfers registered in September, the stake cost about RMB2.0 billion, and the filings say the buyer has no explicit plan to change Swancor's business within 12 months.

6 sourcesAgiBotSwancor Advanced MaterialsUnitree RoboticsRobot Foundation Models
Oct 29, 2025
IndustryUS

NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers

At GTC Washington on October 28, 2025, NVIDIA expanded its Mega Omniverse Blueprint for factory-scale digital twins, with Siemens, FANUC and Foxconn among the first partners, and named Figure, Agility Robotics, Amazon Robotics and Skild AI as robot developers on its stack. It also unveiled IGX Thor, a 5,581 FP4 teraflop industrial and medical edge computer due in December 2025.

3 sourcesNVIDIAFigure AIAgility RoboticsSim-to-Real TransferRL
Oct 27, 2025
ProductUS

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

1X Technologies opened pre-orders on 27 October 2025 for NEO, a home humanoid priced at US$20,000 or US$499 a month, with US deliveries from 2026 and international expansion from 2027. The 66-pound robot runs 1X's Redwood AI onboard and relies on remote 1X experts for chores it has not yet learned.

4 sources1X TechnologiesFigure AIApptronikTeleoperationDexterous Manipulation
Oct 23, 2025
ProductUS

Amazon unveils Blue Jay, a multi-arm robot that merges three workstations, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI for warehouse managers

At its Delivering the Future event on October 22, 2025, Amazon showed Blue Jay, a multi-arm system it said could pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types at a South Carolina test site, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI piloted at a Tennessee fulfillment center. Amazon said Blue Jay went from concept to production in just over a year, but an update dated February 25, 2026 states the company no longer uses it in operations.

1 sourceAmazonDexterityExotecSim-to-Real TransferFleet Orchestration Software
Oct 20, 2025
ProductCN

Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900

Unitree Robotics unveiled the H2 humanoid on 20 October 2025, a 1,820 mm, roughly 70 kg machine with 31 degrees of freedom and leg joints rated at up to 360 Nm. Its product pages now list the base model at US$29,900 before tax and shipping, or RMB 199,000 including tax, the only published price among the full-size humanoids compared here.

6 sourcesUnitree RoboticsBoston DynamicsFigure AIElectric ActuatorsEdge AI Compute
Oct 16, 2025
MarketCN

Hotel robot maker Yunji debuts in Hong Kong after its retail tranche is covered 5,657 times

Beijing Yunji Technology raised HK$659.6 million in gross proceeds and began trading in Hong Kong on 16 October 2025 after retail investors subscribed for 5,657.20 times the shares on offer. A Suzhou state-owned vehicle took 39.83% of the deal, leaving a small free float behind the frenzy for a company that still loses money and earns most of its revenue from hotels.

6 sourcesBeijing Yunji TechnologyGeek+ (Beijing Geekplus Technology)DobotFleet Orchestration SoftwareLiDAR
Oct 8, 2025
M&AJP

SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA

SoftBank Group will acquire ABB Robotics for an enterprise value of US$5.375 billion, the two companies said on 8 October 2025, replacing ABB's plan to list the unit separately in 2026. The division had 2024 revenue of US$2.279 billion and about 7,000 employees, and the deal needs approval in the EU, China and the US before an expected close in mid-to-late 2026.

5 sourcesSoftBank GroupABB RoboticsABBRobot Foundation ModelsFleet Orchestration Software
Sep 30, 2025
ProductUS

DoorDash unveils Dot, an in-house road and sidewalk delivery robot, and an AI dispatcher to run it alongside Dashers

DoorDash on September 30, 2025 introduced Dot, an all-electric delivery robot built by DoorDash Labs that travels up to 20 mph on bike lanes, roads, sidewalks and driveways. Early access starts in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona, with an Autonomous Delivery Platform that assigns each order to a Dasher, Dot, drone or sidewalk robot.

6 sourcesDoorDashServe RoboticsStarship TechnologiesFleet Orchestration SoftwareBattery Systems
Sep 26, 2025
ResearchGB

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 1.5 makes robots think before they act, and puts its planning model in developers' hands

Google DeepMind on 25 September 2025 introduced Gemini Robotics 1.5, a vision-language-action model that reasons in natural language before moving and transfers skills across robot bodies, alongside Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, an embodied reasoning model opened to developers as a preview in the Gemini API. In its technical report, the pairing of the two cut total subtask failures on long-horizon tasks to 22% from 44.5% when a general Gemini 2.5 Flash model did the planning.

4 sourcesGoogle DeepMindGoogleApptronikVLARobot Foundation Models
Sep 25, 2025
MarketDE

IFR counts 542,000 factory robots installed in 2024 as Japan, Korea and Germany slip and China takes 54%

The International Federation of Robotics said on 25 September 2025 that 542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, the second-highest annual total on record and 2% below 2023. Japan (44,500 units, down 4%), the Republic of Korea (30,600, down 3%) and Germany (26,982, down 5%) all contracted, while China installed 295,000 units and domestic Chinese makers took 57% of their home market for the first time.

3 sourcesFANUCYaskawa ElectricKawasaki Heavy Industries
Sep 17, 2025
PartnershipUS

Figure turns Brookfield's 100,000 homes into a recording studio for humanoid pretraining data

Figure AI said on 17 September 2025 that Brookfield, owner of more than 100,000 residential units, will help it build what it calls the world's largest humanoid pretraining dataset and will explore GPU data center and deployment work, and that Brookfield invested in its Series C. A day later Figure detailed Project Go-Big and said its Helix model had learned to navigate homes from first-person human video alone, without a single robot demonstration.

1 sourceFigure AIBrookfield Asset ManagementApptronikVLARobot Foundation Models
Sep 16, 2025
FundingUS

Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price

Figure AI said on 16 September 2025 it had secured more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation, with Parkway Venture Capital leading and NVIDIA, Brookfield, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and LG Technology Ventures among the named backers. The company will spend the money on BotQ production, GPU infrastructure for its Helix model and large-scale collection of human video data.

2 sourcesFigure AINVIDIAQualcommVLARobot Foundation Models
Sep 16, 2025
FundingUS

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

Dyna Robotics closed a US$120 million Series A on 15 September 2025, led by Robostrategy, CRV and First Round Capital with NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce, Samsung and LG venture arms joining, six months after a US$23.5 million seed. The Redwood City company did not disclose a valuation; it says its DYNA-1 model already runs paying deployments in hotels, restaurants, laundromats and gyms for up to 16 hours a day.

6 sourcesDyna RoboticsNVIDIAAmazonRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Aug 25, 2025
ProductUS

NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on

NVIDIA made its Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and Jetson T5000 production modules generally available on 25 August 2025, pricing the kit from $3,499 and claiming 7.5 times the AI compute of Jetson Orin with 128 GB of memory. Figure, Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics and Amazon Robotics are among eight named early adopters, while 1X, OpenAI and Physical Intelligence are evaluating the computer.

3 sourcesNVIDIAFigure AIAgility RoboticsEdge AI ComputeVLA
Aug 21, 2025
ResearchUS

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute put one 450-million-parameter behaviour model in charge of Atlas's hands and feet

Boston Dynamics and TRI showed Atlas completing a long workshop task under a single Large Behavior Model that commands walking and manipulation together. The 450M-parameter Diffusion Transformer runs at 30 Hz on camera, body-state and language inputs and learns new behaviours from VR teleoperation data without new code. No success rates or data volumes were disclosed.

4 sourcesBoston DynamicsToyota Research InstituteToyota Motor CorporationRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Aug 20, 2025
FundingUS

FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body

FieldAI, an Irvine, California developer of robot autonomy software, said on August 20, 2025 that it had raised $405 million across two consecutive rounds from investors including Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA's NVentures and Temasek. The company did not disclose a valuation and says its Field Foundation Models already run on quadrupeds, humanoids, wheeled robots and passenger-scale vehicles at industrial sites in Japan, Europe and the US.

2 sourcesFieldAINVIDIASkild AIRobot Foundation Models
Aug 17, 2025
IndustryCN

Beijing stages the first World Humanoid Robot Games with 280 teams and more than 500 robots, capping a state-run August of robot showcases

The first World Humanoid Robot Games closed in Beijing on 17 August 2025 after 487 matches in 26 events, contested by more than 500 robots from 280 teams in 16 countries, according to the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission. The games followed the 2025 World Robot Conference and a subsidised robot shopping festival in Beijing's E-Town district that the district says sold more than 190,000 robots and related products.

8 sourcesUnitree RoboticsBooster RoboticsROBOTERADexterous ManipulationRL
Aug 6, 2025
ProductCN

Fourier unveils GR-3, a 55-joint 'Care-bot' humanoid that takes the rehabilitation specialist into companionship and eldercare

Shanghai-based Fourier on 6 August 2025 introduced GR-3, a 165 cm, 71 kg humanoid with up to 55 degrees of freedom, 31 tactile sensors and a padded exterior, which it calls its first full-size 'Care-bot'. The third model in its GRx line is aimed at public service settings, children and older adults, with rehabilitation and health monitoring named as later uses. Fourier did not disclose a price.

7 sourcesFourierUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsTactile SensingDepth Vision