Humanoids shipped in H1 2026: 25,000 All of 2025: 18,500 Same week, IDC says the FCC's rule on foreign-made robots could cut US humanoid revenue 58% below baseline by 2030. Whatever you think of the policy, the builder lesson is simple: where your parts come from is now a design input. Swap a motor driver, a camera, a compute board and it's never just one line in a spreadsheet. It's wiring, mounts, firmware, cost. Roba Tech keeps all of it in one synced project. Change the part. The BOM, wiring, CAD and firmware follow. Re-validate on Roba Compute. Then order.

Humanoids get the headlines. Packing robots get the invoices. Ultra Robotics just raised $62M to lease warehouse packing bots as a monthly service. Half a million orders packed, they say. Not every robot needs legs. Most just need to do one job well. That's the robot most teams actually need, and it shouldn't take a $62M round to design one. Describe the job. Roba Tech returns the priced BOM, wiring, CAD and firmware. Validate it on Roba Compute before you buy a single part. We’re making vibe manufacturing a new reality.

Humanoids can’t always just hit the brakes and power down 🤖🛑 CMU researchers and @Siemens developed PRISM, a new way to monitor when a humanoid can safely stop, helping robots know when to stop before things get risky! #IROS2026#

Humanoids will soon become great practice partners for tennis and other sports. These robots, trained by Galbot, are preparing to play with celebrities at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. They're fully autonomous.

Can humanoids recover in interaction tasks? 📦🤖 Excited to share I-BFM! Reward-conditioned policy: carry, push, kick. FB: robot–object–contact dynamics; LOGO: contact now → task goal later. G1 MuJoCo Carry: 94.3% → 89.3% after robot disturbance. 🌐

Foxconn is mass-deploying humanoids that are assembling NVIDIAs super computers Rubin Veras with 99% efficiency If you want to deploy humanoids, you must have a customer who’s is incentivised to use robots. Focus on these who are really willing to go hand-in-hand into the deployment journey.

Physical AI + Humanoids are the next progression of AI. $NVDA CES 2025 projections and Elon's prediction on $TSLA + 1 Billion humanoids in the next decade, seems to be speeding up. New statement from Unitree CEO after testing GPT-6 on their humanoid program was that: - In August, before GPT-6's release, Wang said the industry could take two to three years at its fastest pace, or as long as a decade, to reach its "ChatGPT moment" - Now, OpenAI's GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen "within 1 or 2 years" - He defined that moment as robots being able to complete around 80 per cent of tasks in 80 per cent of unfamiliar environments using voice or text commands. - "It's possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly crack the problems of embodied intelligence" - "The whole embodied intelligence industry has been shaken up after the release of GPT-6" Just looking at some benchmarks on robotic hand manipulation, "On the bowl task Astra placed the block in 19 of 20 trials, against Fable 5.1's 8 of 20". But for the puzzle task "Astra completed the insertion 2 times in 20 against Fable 5.1's 2 in 20"".. so we're getting there. But going from 2-3 years (potentially to a decade), and compressing that down to 1 or 2 years (to achieve 80%+ of tasks in unfamiliar environemnts) is a significant change in outlook.

🚨 BREAKING: Minerva Humanoids (@mnv_humanoids) has just emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by @generalcatalyst. It's building humanoid robots for the world's most dangerous jobs. Oil and gas. Explosive ordnance disposal. Hazardous material response. ☢️ Every 75 minutes, an energy worker somewhere in the world is killed on the job. That's roughly 7,000 deaths a year. NATO consistently identifies EOD and hazmat response teams as the highest-risk segment in every unit, relying on decades-old wheeled, single-arm robots that simply lack the dexterity for complex tasks. Minerva's answer is Roger, a purpose-built semi-autonomous humanoid that puts the specialist's judgment and hands on the task while keeping their body in a command post far from the danger. Founded by CEO Sandor Felber and CTO Maurice Rahme, with first paid pilots launching this fall. The investor lineup is strong with General Catalyst, @LongJourneyVC, @CredoVentures, MVP Ventures, and many other cool funds! I am proud to be among the angel investors in this round! 😇 Having spent more than 2 years deploying robots in the energy and oil & gas sector, I know firsthand how real this problem is, and how hard it is to solve. Minerva is going after exactly the right market, with exactly the right approach. This is the kind of company robotics was always supposed to build! 🛢️ 🔗 Read more here: ~~   ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

OpenAI's work on humanoids is accelerating OpenAI "has 27 robotics jobs listed on its careers page, up from 11 in May, spanning hardware, software, data collection, and prototyping, according to Business Insider's review." "Publicly advertised base salaries range from $177,000 to half a million dollars a year, before equity."