Boston Dynamics has launched the Robotics Metaplant Application Center inside Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America near Savannah, Georgia, as the dedicated training hub for Atlas factory deployment, with Hyundai planning 25,000 units across its global plants and a 30,000-unit annual production facility under construction.
Vesoma says it built walking humanoid prototypes within six months and has grown to more than 60 people in Munich and Limassol. The startup is developing robots that learn through interaction, with manufacturing and logistics as its initial focus.
Toyota Group has told investors it could invest approximately ¥1 trillion annually from 2028 to deploy 400,000 robots globally across its own plants and supplier facilities, including its Eley wheeled humanoid that learns skills from veteran workers through direct demonstration rather than simulation.
A Reuters review of more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, and defense industry materials documents China’s People’s Liberation Army moving from humanoid robot demonstrations to active procurement, battlefield scenario research, and training data collection systems, with Norinco’s Fuxi humanoid designed for sentry duty and reconnaissance.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the company is developing a humanoid robot alongside other form factors, with 19 open robotics roles including four actuator-specific positions, indicating OpenAI is building proprietary hardware rather than licensing a chassis as competitors assumed.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued a federal procurement notice to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics Spot robot dogs for border security, infrastructure inspection, and hazard assessment in environments that pose risks to personnel.
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have unveiled Microduck, a $399 open-source 25-centimeter robot with 15 motors, LiDAR, and a camera, capable of walking, recovering from falls, kicking, picking up objects, and rollerblading, with new skills trainable in simulation via reinforcement learning and transferable to the physical robot.
Beijing-based Robotera is considering a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $800 million to $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, as the HSG-backed humanoid robotics company operates robots in more than 10 logistics centers through partnerships with China Post and SF Group.
LG and NVIDIA have signed an MOU formalizing execution across robotics, AI factories, and mobility, with LG developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid powered by Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor for a Q1 2027 unveiling, and CLOiD wheel-based robots deploying to LG’s Tennessee washing machine line this year.
Counterpoint Research has ranked Pudu Robotics first globally in both commercial cleaning robot shipments and revenue, as the firm reports global shipments exceeded 50,000 units in 2025 with revenue surpassing $400 million, and forecasts annual shipments above 400,000 units by 2030.
Nearly 9.8 million retail accounts applied for Unitree’s Shanghai STAR Market IPO on Monday, with valid online subscriptions reaching 8,289 times the initial retail allocation, producing a final allocation rate of 0.018% – roughly one winning lot for every 5,500 applications.
Unitree Robotics has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.80 yuan per share, raising approximately 6.1 billion yuan, with offline subscriptions oversubscribed 2,760 times, as the company becomes the first humanoid robot maker listed on China’s domestic A-share market.
Unitree Robotics is expected to be valued at more than 50 billion yuan following its Shanghai IPO, according to sponsor Citic Securities, as the company reports first-half 2026 revenue of approximately 1.1 billion yuan, up 35-45% year-on-year, ahead of its planned listing this month.
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics team leaders, has emerged from stealth with robots that workers can train, correct, and adapt without specialist programming, with deployments already active in plastics manufacturing and hard drive disassembly.
The FCC has blocked new foreign-produced humanoid and quadruped robot models from entering the US market, with Chinese manufacturers expected to face the greatest disruption.