Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots at the retailer’s Reno, Nevada distribution center, marking Figure’s first commercial deployment with a major multi-brand retail portfolio operator.
EngineAI has opened a smart manufacturing facility in Shenzhen’s Honghualing district capable of producing one T800 humanoid robot every 15 minutes, with a second 10,000-unit capacity plant planned for Zhengzhou following a $200 million Series B that valued the company at over $1.4 billion.
China’s National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center will open a 5,000 square-meter training facility in Shanghai in July, hosting over 100 robot types from more than a dozen manufacturers to build shared cross-platform training data.
Unitree Robotics has disclosed a 53% drop in adjusted first-quarter profit despite 68% revenue growth, as the company prepares for a Shanghai Stock Exchange IPO listing committee review on June 1 and aims to raise 4.2 billion yuan.
Interact Analysis forecasts annual humanoid robot shipments will exceed 700,000 units by 2035, generating around $15 billion in revenue, with China accounting for over 65% of real-world application shipments and broad commercial viability unlikely before 2032.
Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics has launched Luna, a 160cm full-size humanoid robot with 27 degrees of freedom priced at 298,000 RMB ($41,000), available now in China with international sales expected in 2027.
Hyundai Motor Group has released a video showing Atlas analyzing and learning soccer movements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, where the company plans to feature Atlas and Spot at the tournament in roles that may include a ceremonial kickoff.
Across delivery, medicine, construction, agriculture, and defense, robots are moving from controlled pilots into real-world operations at the same time – a convergence economist Richard Baldwin has called “Globotics”, the combined force of globalization and robotics reshaping how work gets done.
Hyundai Motor Group has established dedicated organizational units for its software-defined factory initiative and robot component procurement, as it advances toward deploying 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia plants from 2028.
China has launched the Humanoid Full Lifecycle Management Service Platform, assigning every humanoid robot a unique digital ID from production through recycling, with more than 28,000 robots across 200 models already registered under the national initiative.
JD.com has announced the world’s first humanoid robot auction as part of its 2026 618 shopping festival campaign, with Unitree Robotics and Noetix Robotics among companies already integrated into JD’s JoyInside robotics platform.
A Unitree humanoid robot fell twice and had to be dragged off stage while performing Michael Jackson’s moonwalk at an event in Shenzhen, in a video that accumulated more than 5 million views and renewed debate about the gap between demonstration capability and real-world reliability.
UK-based Humanoid has signed a manufacturing agreement with Bosch following a successful proof of concept at Bosch’s logistics facility in Bühl, Germany, with Bosch to serve as contract manufacturer for the HMND 01 humanoid robot for the European market.
GigaAI has unveiled the SeeLight S1, China’s first general-purpose household humanoid robot, with plans to deploy it free of charge in Wuhan family homes in the first half of 2027 and a target hardware price below 100,000 yuan by June of that year.
Ouster has launched Rev8, the world’s first mass-produced native color lidar sensor, capturing 3D spatial and color data simultaneously on a single chip, eliminating the need for separate camera calibration and reducing the complexity of autonomous sensing stacks.