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IFR: South Korea has the most factory robots per worker; the US is 8th

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 12 Nov 2026

The International Federation of Robotics counts 1,066 industrial robots per 10,000 factory employees in South Korea, 873 in Singapore and 469 in Germany. The US is 8th with 323 and China 19th with 193. The new global average is 152.

Why it matters: A yearly, neutral measure of how automated factories already are.

Source: International Federation of Robotics

Google DeepMind rolls out Gemini Robotics 2.5 to its robot partners

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 10 Nov 2026

Google DeepMind calls Gemini Robotics 2.5 its most capable vision-language-action model to date and reports a 30% to 100% higher success rate, depending on the task type, across over 200 tasks. Apptronik's Apollo 2 reached 96% success kitting car parts in a Mercedes-Benz pilot.

Why it matters: Only partner companies get the model, and the results are Google's own tests, but it ties a large AI lab's model to work on car production lines.

Source: Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind releases ASIMOV-Jailbreak, an open test of robot jailbreak resistance

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 10 Nov 2026

With Gemini Robotics 2.5, Google DeepMind released ASIMOV-Jailbreak as an open-source benchmark. It says its Argon model reaches 99.5% jailbreak resistance on it, against 82% for its previous baseline.

Why it matters: Robot makers get a shared, open test of whether a robot can be talked into unsafe actions. The scores are Google's own.

Source: Google DeepMind

NVIDIA unveils its GR00T 2 robot model at CoRL; code is due in December

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 9 Nov 2026

At CoRL in Austin, NVIDIA introduced GR00T 2, an open world action model trained partly on 100,000 hours of first-person recordings of people. In NVIDIA's tests it averaged 71% success on 50 tasks with one demonstration each, and 95% with five. Its research page says the code comes in December.

Why it matters: NVIDIA calls GR00T 2 open, but its code is due only in December, and its research page gives no date for the model's weights.

Sources: NVIDIA, NVIDIA Research

Boston Dynamics puts Atlas on wheels to test the limits of its motors

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 9 Nov 2026

Boston Dynamics fitted Atlas with wheels in place of its feet to push its actuators to their limits, its own blog says; Unite.AI and Korea JoongAng Daily reported it. The company calls the wheeled Atlas a research testbed, not a product.

Why it matters: A look at how Atlas's maker stress-tests its hardware. The walking Atlas is the one in training at Hyundai's Metaplant America.

Sources: Unite.AI, Korea JoongAng Daily, Boston Dynamics

Six AgiBot humanoids run a Shanghai store for 24 hours; two fail the final check

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 6 Nov 2026

AgiBot put six G2 wheeled humanoids in a working convenience store in Shanghai's Xuhui District from 10 a.m. on 2 November to 10 a.m. on 3 November. Together they did 1,730 tasks; four passed the final assessment and two did not.

Why it matters: A public, timed test of humanoids doing shop work round the clock, failures included. AgiBot ran and scored it, and does not say how much of the work was autonomous.

Source: AgiBot

NEURA, E.ON and enviaM team up to train robots for power-grid work

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 5 Nov 2026

NEURA Robotics, E.ON and enviaM are partnering to develop robots for energy infrastructure, trained at the TUM RoboGym at Munich Airport, with humanoids such as NEURA's 4NE1. enviaM's chief executive expects initial practical experience during 2027.

Why it matters: An energy group is trying robots for grid work, and names 2027 for its first practical experience with them.

Source: NEURA Robotics

Hugging Face releases version 0.7.0 of its LeRobot robot-learning library

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 5 Nov 2026

Hugging Face tagged version 0.7.0 of LeRobot on GitHub on 5 November. Its release notes say the version rebuilds installation, training, inference and the hardware layer.

Why it matters: An update to a public code library for training robots, which anyone can download from GitHub.

Source: Hugging Face (GitHub)

Agility Robotics, maker of Digit, starts trading on Nasdaq as AGLT

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 5 Nov 2026

Agility began trading on Nasdaq on 5 November and calls itself the first US publicly listed pure-play humanoid robotics company. It says the deal brought about $465 million in gross capital and that it holds more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for Digit 5.

Why it matters: Investors can now buy shares in a humanoid maker whose Digit robots already work for GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.

Source: Agility Robotics

AgiBot unveils its GO-3 Preview robot model and promises an open release

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 29 Oct 2026

AgiBot says its GO-3 Preview model ranks first on three embodied AI benchmarks: RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum. It says the model will be fully open-sourced by the end of 2026.

Why it matters: If the release comes, developers get another openly available robot model, from the company Counterpoint ranked top humanoid shipper in the first half of 2026.

Source: AgiBot

AgiBot says its 20,000th robot is built and proposes a measure of useful work

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 29 Oct 2026

At its Innovation Day in Shanghai, AgiBot said its 20,000th robot rolled off the line in September 2026. It proposed Worken: active robots times autonomous working hours times an output efficiency ratio. It showed the G2 Max, with 21 degrees of freedom and a 40 kg dual-arm capacity.

Why it matters: Counting robots shipped says little about the work they do. AgiBot's measure tries to count the work instead; the 20,000 is its count of all its robots.

Source: AgiBot

US orders trade talks, not tariffs, on imported robots and humanoids

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 28 Oct 2026

A presidential proclamation of 28 October 2026 on imports of robotics and industrial machinery orders negotiations with trading partners, with an update due within 180 days. Its examples of advanced robots include humanoid and quadruped robots. It names tariffs as an option for later.

Why it matters: The White House says the US makes less robotics and industrial equipment than it uses; tariffs on robots and parts stay possible.

Sources: The White House, The White House

GXO to put Agility's Digit humanoids in two more US warehouses from early 2027

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 26 Oct 2026

GXO will use Digit for e-commerce fulfilment at its Statesville and Lebanon sites in North Carolina and Tennessee, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027. Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch facility in Georgia.

Why it matters: A paying customer is adding sites, starting on Digit 4 and moving to Digit 5 when it is commercially available.

Source: Agility Robotics

NEURA launches its 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid at a new robot gym in Munich

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 22 Oct 2026

NEURA Robotics launched 4NE1 Gen 4 at the opening of the TUM RoboGym in Munich. It says the robot is 20 percent lighter than the previous generation, has a black textile outer skin and is designed for serial production. It gave no price or delivery date.

Why it matters: A German humanoid maker is preparing its robot for series production; its launch release gives no specs or price.

Source: NEURA Robotics

Agility sets Digit 5 early access for the first half of 2027

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 22 Oct 2026

Agility says Digit 5's onboard compute will standardise on NVIDIA IGX Thor modules and that it is adding NVIDIA Halos models to its human-detection safety system. Early access is expected in the first half of 2027, and general availability by the end of 2027.

Why it matters: It dates the next commercial humanoid for warehouses and factories. Both dates are the company's own targets.

Source: Agility Robotics

Tesla says Optimus production has begun on its Fremont lines

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 21 Oct 2026

Tesla's Q3 2026 shareholder update says Optimus production began on its high-volume lines in Fremont, California, and calls these its first production-quality bots. It lists the California line as "Early Ramp" and the Texas line as "Construction". Elon Musk called the ramp "somewhat bumpy".

Why it matters: Tesla's humanoid moves from prototypes to a production line. The update names no price and no outside customer.

Sources: Tesla, TechCrunch

Xpeng targets late 2026 for mass production of its IRON humanoid

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 15 Oct 2026

Speaking in Paris on 13 October, Xpeng said mass production of its IRON humanoid is targeted for late 2026, with deliveries beginning in the first half of 2027 and a European rollout planned for the second half of 2027.

Why it matters: A carmaker has put dates on its humanoid. Each is a company target, tracked in What to watch.

Source: Xpeng

Agility picks Nyobolt fast-charging batteries for Digit 5

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 15 Oct 2026

Agility says Digit 5's new battery system gives 90 minutes of runtime and charges in 9 minutes, so the robot can do more than 20 hours of productive work in a 24-hour day. Early access with the new batteries is expected in the first half of 2027.

Why it matters: Limited battery life holds humanoids back. This is a target for 2027, not a measured result.

Source: Agility Robotics

Google offers Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics on the paid Gemini API

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 13 Oct 2026

Google made Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics available on the paid tier of the Gemini API in AI Studio and to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google says it marks a step change in physical understanding, code generation and visual-semantic reasoning.

Why it matters: Robot builders can use a large lab's robotics model through a paid API, without joining a partner programme.

Source: Google for Developers

A humanoid robot malfunctions and knocks a streamer down during a live stream

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 8 Oct 2026

During a live stream in Colombia, a €90,000 humanoid robot malfunctioned, struck the streamer and caused him to fall, the OECD AI Incidents Monitor records, citing MARCA, AS and El Colombiano. The robot's maker is not named.

Why it matters: Humanoids used for entertainment work close to people, so a malfunction can hurt someone.

Source: OECD AI Incidents Monitor

Boston Dynamics names Amazon's former Alexa and AGI head scientist as CEO

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 6 Oct 2026

Boston Dynamics appointed Rohit Prasad as chief executive, effective 7 October 2026. Prasad was Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa and Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.

Why it matters: The maker of Atlas is now led by an AI scientist as it trains its humanoid for factory work.

Source: Boston Dynamics

Agility and FORT Robotics sign a partnership on humanoid safety

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 1 Oct 2026

Agility Robotics and FORT Robotics signed a memorandum of understanding on safety infrastructure for Digit 5. It builds on their earlier work: a safety pendant with emergency-stop and enabling-device functions, on-robot communications, and off-robot interfaces that connect Digit with external safety systems.

Why it matters: A humanoid working near people needs ways for workers and a site's systems to stop it, not only safety built into the robot.

Source: Agility Robotics

IFR counts about 7,000 full-size humanoids sold worldwide in 2025

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 30 Sep 2026

The International Federation of Robotics says about 7,000 full-size humanoids, above 140 cm, were sold globally in 2025. Shipments of professional service robots of all kinds rose 24% to almost 250,000 units.

Why it matters: A neutral yearly count to set against company figures and analyst forecasts.

Source: International Federation of Robotics

Figure melts down most of its F.02 fleet as its F.03 fleet grows

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 30 Sep 2026

Figure says maintaining its F.02 robots no longer makes sense as its F.03 fleet grows. To protect its proprietary hardware, it melted most of the fleet in an electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland.

Why it matters: A humanoid maker retires its previous model instead of keeping it running, and chose scrapping to keep its hardware designs to itself.

Source: Figure AI

Dyna Robotics shows an uncut hour-long laundry job and explains why long tasks fail

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 29 Sep 2026

Dyna Robotics posted an uncut one-hour laundry-room workflow that it says Dyna-2.1 ran autonomously. Its arithmetic: a laundry cycle chains about 79 steps, and at 95% success per step the whole cycle succeeds about 1.7% of the time without help.

Why it matters: Reliability over many steps, not one impressive move, decides whether a robot is useful at work.

Source: Dyna Robotics

IFR: 5 million industrial robots now work in factories worldwide

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 24 Sep 2026

The global stock of industrial robots rose 9% to a record 5 million units in 2025, the International Federation of Robotics says. Factories installed more than 600,000 new units; China took 59%, and the US passed Japan as the second-largest market.

Why it matters: Factory arms, not humanoids, are where robots already work at scale: the baseline humanoids are measured against.

Source: International Federation of Robotics

Skild AI trains a humanoid soccer policy through 140 simulated years of self-play

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 23 Sep 2026

Skild AI says it trained a policy through 140 years of simulated play, then transferred it to a humanoid robot. It says dribbling, shielding the ball and tackling emerged because they helped the model score, without hand-crafted rewards.

Why it matters: Practice in simulation is one way robot makers try to get around how little real-world robot data exists.

Source: Skild AI

A remote-controlled humanoid knocks down a human boxer at a San Francisco event

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 21 Sep 2026

At a robot combat event in San Francisco, a Chinese-made T800 humanoid, remotely operated but AI-stabilised, knocked down a human boxer, the OECD AI Incidents Monitor records, citing Chinese news sites. It files the incident as a physical injury.

Why it matters: Fight shows put strong, fast robots within reach of people, and a person was hurt with a human at the controls.

Source: OECD AI Incidents Monitor

Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas training centre at Hyundai's Metaplant America

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 21 Sep 2026

Boston Dynamics launched the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, where trainers teleoperate Atlas to teach it tasks. It speaks of beginning with 25,000 units at Hyundai Motor and Kia plants over the next few years, and of component assembly by 2030.

Why it matters: It ties a humanoid to a carmaker's plan with a number and a date. Both are plans, not deliveries.

Source: Boston Dynamics

Figure says its robot did chores in 30 homes it had never seen, 56% of the time

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 17 Sep 2026

Figure tested its Helix 2.5 policy on tidying living rooms, folding towels and making beds in 30 Bay Area homes with no data collected in them. Pretrained on its Index data, the policy succeeded on 56% of trials, against 9% for a policy trained from scratch.

Why it matters: Working in a stranger's home is the hard test for home robots. These are Figure's own blind evaluations; a safety intervention counted as a failure.

Source: Figure AI

Agility unveils Digit 5, built to work near people without safety barriers

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 15 Sep 2026

Agility says Digit 5 can work in close proximity to people without the physical safety barriers of traditional automation, lift loads of up to 50 lb (22.7 kg) and do more than 20 hours of productive work in a 24-hour day. Early access is expected in the first half of 2027.

Why it matters: Traditional automation needs safety barriers, Agility says. The standard for balancing robots that work near people, ISO 25785-1, is still in development.

Source: Agility Robotics

A humanoid makes uncontrolled movements during a test at Unitree in Shaoxing

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 13 Sep 2026

During a test at Unitree Robotics in Shaoxing, China, a humanoid robot malfunctioned, made uncontrolled movements and kicked a remote control from an engineer's hand, the OECD AI Incidents Monitor records, citing Hungarian and Turkish news sites. No injury is reported.

Why it matters: Even in a maker's own test area, a fast-moving humanoid can come within reach of the people around it.

Source: OECD AI Incidents Monitor

Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 10 Sep 2026

Skild AI says it crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue ten months after its first commercial deployment, with more than 60 paying customers.

Why it matters: A revenue figure from a robot-AI company, as the company itself states it.

Source: Skild AI

UBTECH reports 921 full-size humanoids sold in the first half of 2026

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 28 Aug 2026

UBTECH's interim results, filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, show 921 full-size humanoid robots sold in the first half of 2026, up 1,946.7%, and RMB590.3 million of revenue from them, up 1,445.0%. It reports project deliveries to OPmobility, Jabil, Foxconn and Honda.

Why it matters: A humanoid sales count from an official filing, not a press release.

Source: UBTECH (HKEX filing)

Counterpoint counts more than 22,000 humanoids shipped in the first half of 2026

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dated 20 Aug 2026

Counterpoint Research says global humanoid shipments topped 22,000 units in H1 2026, nearly 300% more than a year earlier. AgiBot shipped around 9,700 and Unitree more than 7,000. Manufacturing took 13% of shipments and warehousing and logistics 5%.

Why it matters: Shipments are rising fast, but most humanoids still go to entertainment, research and data production, not factory or warehouse work.

Source: Counterpoint Research