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NEURA 4NE1 Gen 4 at TUM RoboGym / GTC Berlin. 20% lighter is a company claim; only public sheet is June V7 (80 kg). ~64 kg = our calc. No Gen 4 datasheet, price or delivery date.

NEURA unveiled 4NE1 Gen 4 with a textile skin and a Munich data gym — but no Gen 4 datasheet. June’s sheet still says 80 kg; ~64 kg is our calc from the −2

Unitree unveils H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian (Oct 21). ~8h standing is a company claim; published H2 specs contrast; no public H2-X datasheet. Props labelled for reference only.

Genisom M1 scores 83. Unitree B2 is #2 at 73. AgiBot D1 MaxPro and Unitree B2-W tie at 67. ANYmal X is only #8 — and the only ATEX/IECEx Zone 1 in the set.

19,351 FAA tail-numbered drones: China makers 9,322 vs US 9,058. DJI's share of new crop-sprayer registrations fell from 51% in 2025 to 42% YTD 2026 after

Agility Robotics Digit 4 vs Digit 5 — payload +40%, run-to-charge 2:1 → 10:1, charge ~2 h → 9 min. 65,000+ hours, 9 sites, S-4 vote Nov 2. Company claims labelled.

Digit already moves totes across nine customer sites. Agility wants Nasdaq ticker AGLT — Churchill XI shareholder vote Nov 2. Company claims labelled as such.

Korea has the most factory robots per worker on Earth (1,220 per 10k, IFR). KAIST, Samsung, Hyundai and a 40-member alliance are now racing on humanoids.

Physical AI raised $47.4B in H1 2026, and four rounds took 52%. PitchBook has defense #1 at $14.8B and robot hands at $444M: 17 to 1.

Song Xingyu (Shenqi Ayu) built a 10-rotor rideable board over the Yangtze. StepFun's AI coaching is StepFun's claim — a stunt, not a product.

Agility asks $2.5B on Nov 2. Unitree listed at $9.1B and trades near $30B; Geek+ fell from $2.8B to $1.0B. Ranked: what public markets pay for robots.

Week 42 on behindrobotics: our Robotics Scoreboard goes live, CIIF Shanghai looks like the EV decade again, a $2,490 humanoid from a US microcap whose filings point to Chinese

ICON’s $200M Series D (Baillie Gifford + BlackRock funds) and MMI’s $125M Series D (BioStar) put $325M into construction printing and microsurgery robots. CNBC reports ICON at

Omron is buying Vermont rugged-PC maker OnLogic for US$675M cash (~JPY 104.6B): FY2025 sales $154.2M, EBITDA $22.6M, 301 staff. Brand and CEO Sean Larkin stay; close ~Jan 2027.

Shenzhen cable-driven robot maker Astribot closed ~RMB 1B (~$140M) at RMB 15B (~$2.1B), led by Shenzhen Investment Holdings’ 投控东海. Fourth round in ~6 months. Orders and 10k-unit

Neo1 claims a 500 kg two-arm payload, 3.4x the strongest humanoid in our database, on the hydraulics Boston Dynamics retired. No deployments yet.

AgiBot's A3 trades kicks with kung fu stars. Real robot, real jumps, and also a scripted movie: what it shows, and what it doesn't.

We walked CIIF 2026 in Shanghai. Chinese arms massaged, sorted and shipped while a well-funded German humanoid hung motionless from its frame. DiDi, the bike-share bubble and the

Western robotics thinks it has the better product. China already has the factories.

Sensofusion (SENSO) began Nasdaq Helsinki main-market trading on 13 Oct 2026 after raising ~EUR 259M (~$300M) at EUR 16.41. Company/unaudited: EUR 49.4M (~$57M) revenue, EUR 30.1M

VCs, YC, SoftBank, Lockheed, endowments and pensions are still funding robots, drones and physical AI in 2026. The money is concentrating in fewer winners across the US, Europe

Anduril Short: $61B valuation, Fury CCA, Roadrunner-M, Ghost Shark — how a 9-year-old startup took fighter-jet work from the primes.

Artem Sokolov seeded Humanoid after jewellery. $1.35B unicorn, Siemens tote pilot, Schaeffler 1,000+ deal. Watch the Short.

Shenzhen Intermediate Court accepted Yinghe's bankruptcy case （2026）粤03破454号 in late Aug 2026; first creditors' meeting is Oct 19. The firm raised >RMB 600M (~$85M est.) and once

On 6 Oct 2026, India's largest drone maker launched ZOLT UCAV and ZOLT Hybrid. Manufacturer specs: UCAV 2–3 h endurance and 30–50 km LOS; Hybrid >6 h and up to 100 km. The Indian

Beijing's 9 October Opinions put robotics in emerging industries, embodied intelligence in future industries and humanoids in the AI Plus action. Here is what that split means,

About 400,000 DJI spray drones were in use worldwide by the end of 2024, yet farm robotics drew $788M of the $83.8B in robotics rounds we track, 0.9%.

Ranked: the 29 Chinese robotics companies that raised $40M or more so far in 2026. AI² Robotics' $735M Series C leads; humanoid makers account for 11 of them.

Sequoia leads, but the signal is the cap table: Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Microsoft are buying into the data robots train on.

Ultra and Extend are moving robots onto their own books. Antobot is moving them off. The releases leave out the numbers a lender would ask for.

Figure 02 helped build 30,000 BMWs and led Figure's line for 14 months. Then it jumped into a Finnish furnace on camera.

The AX-1 gets Kubota's dealers and parts warehouse. Kubota gets the farmer relationship.

The Pentagon wants 1,320 more F10 strike drones by November. The contract value is undisclosed and Kyiv still has to sign the export permit.

16 humanoids whose makers say how they measure payload, plus Figure 03, ranked from 60 kg to 6 kg. Peak, per arm and two-arm figures are not the same thing.

Behind Robotics tracks 97 humanoid models. Only 7 have a public list price, and five of those stand 132 cm or shorter.

The U502 is the product news. The switch from a service model to direct equipment sales is the business news.

Domestic Shield put $4.15 billion of ceiling on the table and obligated about $50 million. Read the vehicle, not the number.

The code is free. Where the training runs, how models reach the fleet and whose simulation stack sits underneath are not neutral choices.

A £370m Gulf contract that cannot begin until the contractor puts up guarantees and wins export licences.

Germany began mass production of 5,000 attack drones with roughly 1,500km range destined for Ukraine, announced September 4, marking one of Berlin's largest direct

LG Electronics is positioning itself at the center of the humanoid robotics supply chain, development for its launched AXIUM actuators

Days after launching Europe’s first humanoid mass-production line in Serbia, Shanghai-based AGIBOT is now doubling down on commercial readiness across the continent. At IFA 2026,

ET 1 (codenamed "Galaxy Star") is an agile bipedal humanoid robot developed by Galbot Robotics, marking the company's leap from wheeled mobile manipulators to dynamic bipedal

FEAR of Robot IPO Bubble looms Unitree drops -37% since IPO

Is Germany losing the robot race to China?

AgiBot and Minth Group launch production in Šabac, marking a new era for European automation. The partnership brings together AgiBot's advanced robotics platforms with Minth

Behindrobotics.com launches regulations database related to robotics, humanoid, embodied AI & critical components. Visit our link regulations behindrobotics.com and visit our

Definitive comparison of dexterous robot hands from Agile Robots, WUJI Technology, and Mimic Robotics. Specifications, pricing, partnerships, and market analysis for 2026.

Global shipments in H1 2026: roughly 19,100 units, up 272% year-over-year from about 5,100 units in H1 2025. • Chinese vendors supplied more than 97% of the total (implying

The Meituan-backed industrial vision-guided robotics maker is set to open its order book for a roughly $300 million Hong Kong listing, with a debut expected in early September. It

Humanoid · Event · Beijing Faster than Bolt, higher than the world record: inside the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Over five days in Beijing, more than 2,000 humanoid robots

China's flagship robotics expo opened Aug 20 with humanoid robots boxing, dancing, and demonstrating industrial and even battlefield-adjacent applications, alongside major

Robot Hive · Defense Desk Pocket version Defense · Autonomous Systems · Anduril Industries The unfair fight A homeschooled VR prodigy sold Oculus at 21, was pushed out of Facebook

Unitree has raised 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, according their prospectus. Shares rose to 968.1 yuan apiece, after hitting as high as 1,100 yuan/share.

https://www.worldrobotconference.com/en/sara/contributions/callforpaper/ * Dates: August 19–23 * Location: Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (Beijing E-Town), China

Into the Money: All you need to know Between UBTECH (public) and Unitree (not yet)

AgricultureField Robotics/Clarkson's Farm S5/Robot Hive How Clarkson accidentally sold Britain on robot farming In Clarkson's Farm Season 5, a health scare and a budget crisis

Company Deep DiveHumanoids/United Kingdom/Robot Hive The jeweller who built Britain's robot In under two years, a Russia-born jewellery magnate turned ~$30M of his own money into

Capital MarketsRobotics ·China IPO Rush·Robot Hive Data Desk The great robot IPO rush Thirty-plus Chinese robot makers are sprinting to go public at once. Unitree just priced at

Supply ChainTechnology ·Actuators & Reducers ·Robot Hive Data Desk The joint problem: who really controls the robotics race The winner won't be decided by the smartest AI. It'll

China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector has exploded in the mid-2020s, fueled by capital, supply-chain strength, and a wave of exceptionally young founders. A recent

In May 2025, two third-year engineering students at BITS Pilani Hyderabad — Jayant Khatri (mechanical engineering) and Sourya Choudhury (electrical engineering) — founded Apollyon

Behind the polished glass and humming assembly lines of Hefei, a quiet revolution is being packed into shipping containers. At the global manufacturing headquarters of Geek+, the