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At the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning, UC Berkeley and NVIDIA presented a way to program robots through AI coding agents instead of huge sets of demonstrations.
Hangzhou startup Xynova says its 23-joint Flex 2 hand lifts up to 12 kg at peak while sensing slip and controlling force down to 0.05 N.
UBTECH and Tianyi Telecom Terminal signed a deal on 9 November 2026 to help home companion robots pass one million units within three years, via telecom channels.
UBTech Robotics and Tianyi Telecom Terminal signed a strategic deal on 9 November 2026 to sell humanoid robots through telecom channels, with large unit targets.
Engineer Syed Osama Aziz built robots Robia and Jojo mostly from local parts, and they now serve pizza at a Karachi restaurant that has seen more customers.
Web Summit's tenth edition in Lisbon lets humanoid robots speak on stage for the first time, backed by the largest Chinese delegation the event has hosted.
AgiBot put six G2 robots to work in a real convenience store for a full day and night, livestreamed to two million viewers. Four met the bar, two did not.
The Chinese personal-robot brand says unit 10,000 left the line on 8 November, two weeks after unit 5,000. It has not said how many are in homes.
Agility Robotics started trading as AGLT on 5 November with about $465 million in capital and over $300 million in conditional Digit orders. The next milestone is a robot doing contracted work.
XPeng says its humanoid completed assembly on an automated line and walked away on its own. Volume production is planned for the end of 2026, with no throughput figure yet.
CEO Brett Adcock posted two videos of dozens of Figure 03 humanoids around the campus, while the company still gives no count of robots doing paid work.
The Robot Report describes four midsize manufacturers that used robot cells from SCHUNK, Universal Robots and FANUC to ease labor shortages and raise machine use.
The Elec says each Boston Dynamics Atlas carries about 1.3 kWh from 70 Samsung SDI cells, with LG Energy Solution also chosen as a supplier.
Investor Josef Chen says Unitree's Hangzhou plant relies on manual work, and he argues US wages and trade rules make factory automation worth far more in America.
Aaron Nathan of Point One Navigation is the guest on Episode 269 of The Robot Report Podcast, and the company's FUSE 2026 event follows on 19 November in San Francisco.
Boston Dynamics unveiled Stretch Gen 2, a truck unloading robot built for uptime, with a new gripper, faster repairs and up to 1,000 cases per hour.
Chinese regulators stopped SoftBank's $5.3 billion deal for ABB Robotics, fearing AI training data could leave the country, The Robot Report writes.
IEEE Spectrum's 6 November roundup lists the cable-driven Stringman tidying robot at US $795 and says Agility Robotics now trades publicly as AGLT.
Physicl, founded by Alex de Vigan, raised $10 million led by Inovia Capital and launched Studio, a tool for making synthetic training data for robot AI.
EPFL spin-out Embodied AI unveiled AIR, a two-armed wheeled robot for shared factory work, citing 95% task success in paid pilots but no price or delivery date.
University of Tokyo researchers built life-size robot legs from one printed flexible plastic, but the prototype only steps while held up by an external support.
Serve Robotics, known for sidewalk delivery robots, announced a Physical AI Services unit offering connectivity and data tools to other robot makers, with Bedrock as a customer.
Ambi Robotics expects customer volume to rise 9% to 10% this peak season and is installing eight new systems, pre-placing spares and adding operator training.
Chinese regulators have prohibited SoftBank's $5.375 billion deal for ABB Robotics, citing worries about robot data going abroad to train AI models.
Nabtesco Precision Europe and FLUX GmbH built an encoder into the RDS-C Link cycloidal gearbox to read absolute position at the output, with a debut at SPS in Nuremberg.
Apple researchers got a Unitree G1 to finish 91% of 360 real-world tasks in unmapped rooms, learning mostly from generated motion rather than teleoperation.
Carnegie Mellon researchers built Pixel, a wheeled two-armed robot that learns from human demonstrations, with a reported build cost under $15,000.
NEURA Robotics, E.ON and enviaM will train humanoids for grid inspections and monitoring, with first practical experience at pilot partner MITNETZ STROM in 2027.
XPENG highlighted GroundingPI, a four-billion-parameter vision model that beat rivals in a simulated humanoid test while using less demonstration data.
Agility, maker of the Digit robot, began Nasdaq trading on 5 November 2026 after its SPAC merger raised about $465 million, down from over $600 million planned.
Agility Robotics will list on the stock market via a SPAC merger, raising $465 million while its Digit robots earned only $174,000 in the first half of 2026.
Agility Robotics closed its SPAC deal with Churchill Capital Corp XI, and its shares were set to begin trading on Nasdaq on 5 November 2026 as AGLT.
Neighbors of Amazon's Baton Rouge site complain about drone whine, while Wing, Zipline and Amazon plan fast expansion and states challenge the FAA in court.
GlobalLogic engineered an autonomous UV disinfection robot for Haystack Robotics, built as a reusable platform, and says hospital adoption still faces cost and safety hurdles.
LiberAI's new Liber-0 model learns from human video and glove recordings, and completed 36% of 60 unseen tasks in 600 trials without task-specific robot demonstrations.
A Seoul Economic Daily report says KIST's KAPEX humanoid is mostly built from Korean core parts as LG and Robostar prepare for commercialization.
STMicroelectronics says its new STM32G5 microcontrollers double the compute of the G4 series and can drive up to 20 motors in one humanoid robot hand.
Tokio Marine HCC International and Adrian Flux have launched what they call the UK's first household insurance policy for domestic humanoid robots, with individual pricing.
Boston Dynamics has launched Stretch Gen 2, a trailer unloading robot redesigned to fail less often and to be repaired far faster, handling up to 1,000 cases an hour.
Beijing startup LiberAI says its Liber-0 model, pretrained on human video and glove data, reached 36.0% success on 60 unseen manipulation tasks.
WiBotic CEO Ben Waters says fleets of 20 to 40 robots hit charging bottlenecks, making short wireless top-ups a practical way to keep robots running around the clock.
Schaeffler will cut a net 3,460 European jobs and close five sites, saying humanoid robotics and defense should offset part of the loss, without giving numbers.
Humanoids Daily's 3 November newsletter covers Meta's reported Max humanoid with Fourier, factory robot trials, funding news and Lumi's next certification step.
Churchill Capital Corp XI investors approved the Agility Robotics merger on November 2, with closing expected November 4 and trading as AGLT on November 5.
Chery's robotics brand AiMOGA has opened worldwide pre-orders for MOBO, a 22-joint companion robot, but has not published a price or delivery dates.
Neura Robotics CEO David Reger told DW he will not build military robots, betting that factory and home automation will do more for Europe's economy.
The Association for Advancing Automation released ISO 21423:2026, which sets common rules for how industrial mobile robots from different makers communicate.
Xiaomi posted a video of two humanoids sorting console side covers for eight hours, but gave no throughput, intervention or battery figures.
Churchill Capital XI shareholders backed the Agility Robotics merger, but redemptions cut expected proceeds to about $465 million, with Nasdaq trading due on 5 November.
IDTechEx forecasts 34.2% yearly growth for humanoid batteries, driven by new robots and spare packs for swapping, while Agility and XPENG take different routes.
Brett Adcock posted a 19-second clip on 2 November of fresh Figure 03 robots walking across campus from BotQ, but gave no new production or delivery numbers.
Chery Group's AiMOGA opened worldwide pre-orders for MOBO, a home companion robot aimed at older adults, children and daily family life, at an event in Wuhu.
DEEP Robotics deployed Hangxing No.2 humanoids at four spots around the 36,000-runner Hangzhou Marathon on November 1 to help with traffic duties.
The FCC cleared Lightberry's Unitree-based Lumi from its Covered List on conditions, but certification and a shipping date are still open.
FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem's FFR shipped 351 devices in October, bringing its total since late February to 1,168 units, and opened a New York regional office.
A 1X employee shared a clip of a detached NEO head choosing and starting a film on a television after a spoken request, ahead of full robots reaching homes.
AGIBOT is streaming six G2 robots running a convenience store for a full day, from 2 to 3 November, though how well they work without help is still unclear.
Trucks VC has heard from 81 new autonomous vehicle startups this year, more than in the boom of 2016, as foundation models lower the cost of getting started.
In a visit with Mike Schroepfer, Rhoda AI showed robots fixing mistakes while unpacking parts, and its CEO targets paid production deployments before the end of 2026.
The Information reports Meta and Shanghai-based Fourier built a 1.5-metre humanoid called Max and began Max 2 in September, though Meta says it won't sell it.
The San Francisco Standard reports Tesla could start taking Optimus reservations around December 1–2, though fees, prices and home delivery dates are unknown.
Luxonis is launching the OAK 4 FFC, a 70 x 53 mm vision computer for humanoid and drone builders that runs depth and AI on the board itself.
AGIBOT introduced Worken at Innovation Day 2026, a formula that multiplies active robots, autonomous hours and output efficiency to gauge productive robot work.
