HCHQ coverage of the humanoid beat, plus a live wire of what the makers are shipping.
October 10, 2026
On October 7, Faraday Future — yes, the EV company — laid out a plan to enter the humanoid market: begin US robot production…
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October 10, 2026
Three weeks after launching Digit 5 with a December ship date, Agility Robotics did something no humanoid company has done all year: it opened…
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October 2, 2026
While the humanoid world argues about world models and GPU clusters, the company that already deploys robots by the tens of thousands shipped four…
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October 2, 2026
Figure AI’s new video is called “Scaling Compute,” and the name undersells it. The company has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar strategic partnership with AI…
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October 2, 2026
On September 7, 2026, Unitree posted a video titled “The World’s First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat,” and the title is almost accurate. A…
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October 2, 2026
On September 11, 2026, Unitree did something no leading humanoid maker has done this year: it fully open-sourced its top-tier embodied foundation model. The…
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October 2, 2026
On September 15, Agility Robotics did something no humanoid company has managed this year: it launched a new machine and gave it a shipping…
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August 21, 2026
On Tuesday, July 28, 2026, the humanoid robot industry split in two. The FCC added “foreign-produced advanced robotic devices” — humanoids and quadrupeds —…
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August 19, 2026
Humanoid robotics has its first public-market bellwether. Unitree Robotics listed on Shanghai’s tech-focused STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, and the debut was a…
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August 19, 2026
Two stories landed within weeks of each other this summer, and together they mark the moment the robot workforce stopped being a keynote demo…
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