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PolicyKR

Korea clears Robros to put 20 walking humanoids beside workers at chip, auto, shipyard and logistics sites

Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a press release on Oct 13 that its regulatory sandbox committee approved a trial in which Robros deploys 20 humanoid robots at sites run by Nepes, Sungwoo Hitech, HD Hyundai Samho and Delivery Lab, lifting a fencing rule written for fixed industrial robots. The same meeting allowed Maum AI to run a four-legged patrol robot on public riverside walkways for the first time.

1 sourceRobros
13 days ago
PolicyUS

US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners

The U.S. Army has named five winners of its xTechHumanoid competition after final demonstrations at Marine Corps Base Quantico, and only one of them, IHMC's Alex, is a complete humanoid robot. The other four supply power, touch sensing and command software, a mix that shows where the Army sees the bottlenecks in military humanoids.

7 sourcesFlorida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)HydroplaneRas LabsTactile SensingBattery Systems
13 days ago
PolicyKR

Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027

South Korea's National Advanced Strategic Industry Committee adopted a plan on September 30 to deploy 200,000 AI robots by 2030, about 15,000 through public procurement and 185,000 through private adoption. The state will buy more than 1,700 units in 2027 for public safety, labour-short sites and education, and will widen purchases to public enterprises and local governments from 2028.

0 sourcesHyundai Motor GroupRainbow RoboticsDoosan RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsFleet Orchestration Software
14 days ago
PolicySG

Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028

Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs opened the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) on Sept. 30, 2026, with the goal of having a humanoid robot working alongside officers in a real operational setting by 2028. Run by the agency HTX and backed by a S$100 million commitment announced in 2025, the centre will work with ST Engineering on robot platforms and with Singtel's RE:AI on computing.

10 sourcesST EngineeringSingtelNVIDIARobot Foundation Models
Sep 10, 2026
PolicyKR

Korea plans more than fivefold rise in humanoid core-parts budget to 62 billion won for 2027

South Korea's finance ministry said the 2027 budget proposal raises spending on sensors, actuators and humanoid batteries to 62 billion won from 11.6 billion won, after the three were named super-innovation leading projects in July. The money will fund technology development and field demonstrations, inside an industry ministry budget that rises 40.5% to 13.2573 trillion won.

5 sourcesRainbow RoboticsElectric ActuatorsHarmonic / Strain-Wave Gears
Sep 3, 2026
PolicyUS

ARM Institute wins nearly $90 million from the Department of War to put robots, AI and drones into 12 military manufacturing sites

The Pittsburgh-based ARM Institute said on Sept. 3, 2026 that the Department of War's manufacturing technology office awarded it nearly $90 million for ten projects under the Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge. Fifteen member organizations must deliver working robotics and AI solutions at 12 military manufacturing sites within two years, each paired with a workforce plan.

6 sourcesMachina Labs
Jul 24, 2026
PolicyEU

EU moves AI-driven machinery out of the AI Act's main track and gives robot makers until August 2028

The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, was published on July 24, 2026 and took effect on July 27. It delays high-risk AI obligations to December 2, 2027 for stand-alone systems and August 2, 2028 for AI built into products, and shifts machinery, including industrial robots, into a lighter AI Act regime whose substance will instead be written into the Machinery Regulation by delegated act.

6 sourcesNeura RoboticsANYboticsRobot Foundation ModelsRL
Jul 20, 2026
PolicyCN

China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says

China's industry ministry said on July 20, 2026 that more than 230 companies have released over 400 embodied AI robot models and that full-year output of complete machines is expected to exceed 100,000 units. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28% in the first half and 29.0% to 729,352 sets in the first eight months, as Beijing pushes humanoids into real factories through a joint programme with the state asset regulator.

5 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Jun 29, 2026
PolicyKR

Korea makes physical AI one of three national mega projects, aiming for global top three in AI robots by 2030

Seoul on June 29 named physical AI alongside semiconductors and AI data centres as a national mega project and set out a '3M' plan for AI robots. The plan targets ten industry-specific humanoids commercialised by 2028, 1,000 robot deployments a year, data factories for ten sectors and a robot foundry in Saemangeum tied to Hyundai Motor Group investment.

4 sourcesHyundai Motor GroupNVIDIAGoogleRobot Foundation ModelsWorld Models
Jun 8, 2026
PolicyCN

China orders every province and central state firm to put humanoids to work in real sites, targeting 100 use cases and 10,000-unit deployment capacity by end-2026

China's industry ministry and its state-asset regulator have launched a 2026 special action that requires each provincial region to open at least 20 real-world training scenes and each central state-owned enterprise at least 10. The notice, dated June 3 and published June 8, sets a year-end goal of more than 100 high-value application scenarios and the ability to deploy humanoid and embodied AI robots at a scale of tens of thousands of units.

1 sourceUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsTeleoperationEdge AI Compute
Mar 26, 2026
PolicyJP

Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040

Japan's inter-ministerial AI robotics council on March 26, 2026 endorsed a national strategy that aims to win more than 30% of a multi-purpose robot market the government expects to reach about 60 trillion yen by 2040. The plan promises an open-source domestic robot foundation model by around June 2027, names 16 deployment fields and defers concrete sector targets to a roadmap revision due in May.

7 sourcesFujitsuFANUCYaskawa ElectricRobot Foundation ModelsHarmonic / Strain-Wave Gears
Mar 23, 2026
PolicyKR

Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on 23 March 2026 invited proposals to build a dedicated safety and security certification centre for humanoid robots, with up to 9,681 million won of government funding over 2026 to 2030. The lead institution must secure cash or in-kind backing from a Daegu-area local government, and by the final year the centre is expected to set three group standards and win KOLAS accreditation.

6 sourcesRainbow RoboticsDoosan RoboticsLG Electronics
Mar 13, 2026
PolicyCN

China writes embodied AI into its 15th Five-Year Plan as industrial robot output climbs 28% to 773,000 units

China's legislature approved the 2026 to 2030 development outline on March 12, naming embodied AI a future industry and calling for national training grounds, integrated brain-and-cerebellum robot models and faster humanoid deployment. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28.0% to 773,074 sets in 2025 and 33.2% in the first quarter of 2026.

13 sourcesRobot Foundation ModelsSim-to-Real Transfer
Feb 28, 2026
PolicyCN

China publishes its first national standard framework for humanoid robots and embodied AI, with Unitree, AgiBot and UBTech at the table

A standards committee set up under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Standard System (2026 Edition) in Beijing on 28 February 2026. The six-part framework runs from AI "brains" and computing to joints, complete robots, applications and safety, and came with a first list of priority standard projects drafted with more than 70 leading companies.

4 sourcesUnitree RoboticsAgiBotUBTECH RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsElectric Actuators
Nov 27, 2025
PolicyCN

China's top planner warns of a humanoid robot bubble as more than 150 makers crowd the market

The National Development and Reform Commission said on November 27, 2025 that China now has more than 150 humanoid robot companies, over half of them start-ups or entrants from other industries, and that it must guard against near-identical products flooding the market. The agency said it will build industry standards plus entry and exit rules for embodied AI, even as listed and private robot makers raised billions in the same weeks.

6 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsDobotROBOTERARobot Foundation ModelsSim-to-Real Transfer
Jun 6, 2025
PolicyUS

Trump orders a BVLOS drone rule within 30 days and a Buy American push, turning US drone policy from bans into industrial policy

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on June 6, 2025 that direct the FAA to propose a rule for routine beyond visual line of sight drone flights within 30 days and finalise it within 240 days, order agencies to prioritise US-made drones, and tell the Pentagon to widen its Blue UAS list. A companion order creates a federal task force on airspace sovereignty and expands counter-drone powers ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics.

4 sourcesSkydioZiplineSaronic TechnologiesFleet Orchestration Software
Apr 10, 2025
PolicyKR

Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy launched the K-Humanoid Alliance in Seoul on 10 April 2025, with about 40 companies, universities and other organisations signing a cooperation agreement aimed at making Korea the world's leading humanoid nation by 2030. The ministry expects more than 1 trillion won of public and private investment by 2030 and set 2028 targets for a shared robot AI foundation model and for humanoids under 60kg with more than 50 degrees of freedom.

3 sourcesRainbow RoboticsAeiROBOTHoliday RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsElectric Actuators
Mar 5, 2025
PolicyCN

China writes embodied AI into its Government Work Report for the first time, naming it a future industry

Premier Li Qiang's 2025 Government Work Report, delivered to the National People's Congress on March 5, lists embodied AI alongside biomanufacturing, quantum technology and 6G as future industries Beijing will cultivate, and pledges a funding growth mechanism for them. The same report calls for intelligent robots as a new generation of smart terminals, a year after the 2024 report made no mention of embodied AI.

4 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsAgiBotRobot Foundation Models