Selected launches, deployments, records and funding moves — each tied to its original reporting.
During the 2026 World Robot Conference, Tiangong Ultra ran the 100m in 9.39 seconds (9.32 in the preliminaries), breaking Usain Bolt's record, while its 400m time of 38.15 seconds and 1,500m time of 2:21.64 also set new human records.
Read moreIn August 2026, Galbot gave the global debut of its first bipedal humanoid robot, the Galbot Xingzai ET1, during the 2026 World Robot Conference, pairing its fully self-developed AstraBrain…
On June 30, UBTech held its 2026 global launch event in Shenzhen to unveil the U1 series, the first products under its consumer brand UWorld; the U1 Pro is priced at 169,800 yuan, the series…
Unitree has launched its R1-A5/A7 series dual-arm humanoid robots starting at 26,900 yuan, making it the lowest-priced commercial humanoid robot known to date.
XPENG aims to deliver the world's first mass-produced high-order humanoid robot by the end of 2026, and in July 2026 IRON began small-batch trial production at its Guangzhou factory.
On February 10, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center released its new-generation general-purpose robot platform Embodied Tiangong 3.0: 169 cm tall, 62 kg and 43 degrees of freedom, i…
In November 2025, UBTech announced that the first several hundred Walker S2 units had entered mass production and delivery and will be deployed to industrial front lines in batches; orders f…
On October 20, 2025, Unitree Technology released its fourth humanoid robot, the Unitree H2 bionic humanoid: 180cm tall and 70kg, it is the first to feature a bionic human face and can perfor…
On August 11, 2025, Sichuan TLink Robotics officially launched its Xiaotian humanoid robot for the consumer market, taking 99-yuan reservations ahead of a 38,600-yuan starting price and sche…
On August 6, Fourier officially launched its full-size humanoid robot Care-bot GR-3 in Beijing: 1.65 meters tall, 71 kg, 55 degrees of freedom, 3 hours of battery life and a 3 kg payload per…
STAR Market Daily reported that Unitree released its third humanoid robot, the Unitree R1: starting at 39,900 yuan and weighing about 25kg with 26 joints, it will not be exhibited at the 202…
UBTech's new-generation industrial humanoid Walker S2 adopts the world's first hot-swappable autonomous battery swap system for a humanoid robot, combining dual-battery power balancing with…
On March 11, 2025, Peng Zhihui (Zhi Hui Jun) officially unveiled the Lingxi X2: weighing 33.8 kg with 28 degrees of freedom, able to walk, run and ride a bicycle, and equipped with the Diffu…
Electronics360 reports on the launch of NEO Gamma, focusing on its knitted shell, low noise and home use cases.
AgiBot began commercial mass production of general-purpose robots on December 16, 2024, having built 962 units in total across flagship models such as the Expedition A2 and A2-W as well as h…
Forbes reported that Honda is bidding farewell to ASIMO: development and production stopped in 2018, with its technology redirected to laboratory research, marking the end of an era for the…
At CES 2022, Ameca became a focal point for its lifelike facial expressions and GPT-powered conversation, with videos of the robot going viral on social media worldwide.
AIST officially unveiled the HRP-5P: 182 cm and 101 kg with 37 DOF, it can independently complete construction tasks such as drywall installation to help address labor shortages in the build…