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An AGIBOT G2 humanoid robot with a scarf waves at a customer inside a Shanghai convenience store, with shelves of snacks behind it

Four of six AGIBOT robots pass a 24-hour convenience store shift

AGIBOT put six G2 humanoid robots to work in a real Shanghai convenience store for a full day. They finished 1,730 tasks, and two of them failed the final review.

November 9, 2026

A black Unitree quadruped robot dog walking on a lawn while a woman and a girl crouch behind it and smile, at an outdoor event in Romania

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Robots race up Mount Tai's 3,100 stone steps in China's first mountain contest

The inaugural CMG World Robot Mount Tai Competition sent legged and humanoid robots up a real mountain trail. A Unitree robot dog won the legged race in 43 minutes and 41 seconds.

November 3, 2026

An Agility Robotics Digit humanoid in a red GXO safety vest carries a blue plastic tote across a warehouse floor, with conveyor lines behind it

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Agility Robotics clears its SPAC vote and heads to Nasdaq this week

Churchill Capital XI shareholders approved the merger with Agility Robotics. The humanoid maker expects about $465 million and a Nasdaq listing as AGLT on November 5.

November 3, 2026

The white and grey Agile ONE SN humanoid standing upright in a bright robotics laboratory, with robot arms and workbenches behind it

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Agile Robots launches Agile ONE SN, a small humanoid for research labs

Agile Robots and NVIDIA unveiled Agile ONE SN at GTC Berlin, a 1.4 meter humanoid with 71 degrees of freedom, due in early 2027 for researchers.

October 22, 2026

Three men cut a red ribbon at the opening, with a white MiPA mobile robot and a black humanoid in a textile suit standing in front of NEURA logos

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NEURA and TUM open RoboGym in Munich and show the 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid

NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich opened a 2,300 square meter robot training center near Munich Airport. NEURA also unveiled 4NE1 Gen 4, a humanoid that is 20 percent lighter than the last one.

October 22, 2026

An Agility Robotics Digit humanoid, the earlier model with backward-bending legs, wearing a red GXO vest and carrying a blue tote past a workstation in a large warehouse

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Agility picks Nyobolt batteries so Digit 5 can work 20 hours a day

Agility Robotics named UK battery maker Nyobolt as the supplier behind Digit 5's new pack, which runs for 90 minutes and recharges in nine.

October 15, 2026

RobotsSeptember 30, 2026
Figure retired its BMW factory robots by having them jump into molten steel
Figure decommissioned its F.02 humanoid robots after 11 months building BMW X3s, sending them off with a Terminator 2-style melt into a foundry furnace, an idea Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested.
RobotsSeptember 30, 2026
A data company just built a lab whose only job is teaching robots to move like us
Innodata opened a motion-capture lab in New Jersey, built with Vicon, that captures sub-millimeter 3D movement data to train humanoid and industrial robots how to move more naturally.
RobotsSeptember 29, 2026
Flourish One is a $3,555 home robot you teach chores with your phone
Startup Flourish is selling its first 50 Flourish One robots for $3,555 each, a Raspberry Pi-powered home helper you train by moving your phone to demonstrate a task.
RobotsSeptember 25, 2026
Tesla ramps Optimus to hundreds a week, but its hands are the bottleneck
Tesla has scaled Optimus production roughly tenfold since Q2, but the robot's hands still need hand assembly and its touch sensors aren't holding up, The Information reports.

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