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LimX Dynamics has raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round valuing the company at $2.21 billion, with founder Will Zhang declaring listing a strategic necessity as China’s humanoid sector investment surpassed $6.95 billion in Q2 2026 alone.
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO Hands, a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand system for its NEO home humanoid, combining distributed tactile sensing, AI-assisted manipulation, and fast actuation loops to enable dexterous handling of everyday objects in residential environments.
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted from digital video generation, achieving 150 Hz closed-loop control on a single GPU and adapting to new tasks with as few as 20 demonstrations.
Researchers have published ThorArena, a simulation-based benchmark that evaluates humanoid robots under realistic physical forces by replaying human interaction data against virtual robots, revealing substantial performance differences that conventional empty-space benchmarks conceal.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs is working with ITRI and six industry partners to develop indigenous four-legged robot technology, trained on NVIDIA’s Taipei-1 supercomputer across 4,000 virtual robots, targeting the global quadruped market projected to grow from under $1 billion to over $4 billion by 2035.
LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center reporting directly to CEO Lyu Jae-cheol, effective July 1, integrating business development, sales, and operations into a single organization and launching a dedicated data factory at the Yangjae R&D campus as part of a three-pillar strategy covering industrial, commercial, and residential robotics.
Tesla has released time-lapse footage showing the decommissioning of its original Model S and Model X assembly line at Fremont in 46 days, with limited Optimus Gen 3 production expected to begin in late July or August 2026 on the converted space targeting one million units per year at full ramp.
MIT and EPFL engineers have built a 300-gram flapping-wing robot that swims through water and transitions to flight without paddling, published in Science, inspired by diving birds and targeting oceanographic data collection in environments too dangerous for conventional vessels.
iRobot has launched the Roomba Electro Plus, a $399.99 cordless hard-floor cleaner combining vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, and self-cleaning, alongside five redesigned Roomba robot vacuums, marking its first significant product expansion since emerging from bankruptcy under new owner Shenzhen Picea Robotics.
UC San Diego researchers have completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs using a teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robot, published in Nature, in what is described as the world’s first surgery performed by a humanoid robot controlled remotely by a surgeon.
Elon Musk has outlined a plan to send construction materials to the Moon and Mars starting in late 2026, with Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots building infrastructure ahead of human settlement, targeting a self-sustaining Martian city between 2045 and 2055.
Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders have signed an MOU to jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi’s manufacturing facilities and explore mass production at the Kyoto Plant, with production feasibility being examined for early 2027 – the first such collaboration between an automaker and a humanoid robot developer involving mass production.
Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied navigation model that achieves 76.6% on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark using only a single RGB camera, outperforming systems that use LiDAR, depth sensors, or multiple cameras, while running on wheeled, legged, and flying robots.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into LeRobot, the open-source robotics library, giving developers a standardized end-to-end pipeline for robot foundation model training, data collection, and deployment, with Cosmos 3 integration planned next.
Robot.com has been named the official robotics partner of LEAP East in Hong Kong, where it will deploy its R-kiwi autonomous robots for brand activations using its R-ads platform, extending a fleet that has now completed 2.5 million tasks across 20 countries.