If Unitree made humanoids affordable, Agibot made them at scale. The Shanghai-based company's A2 humanoid overtook every rival — including Unitree — to become the world's best-selling humanoid robot in the first half of 2026,
While Tesla's Optimus grabs headlines and Figure AI chases billion-dollar valuations, the humanoid robot that is actually shipping — by the thousands — comes from Hangzhou, China. The Unitree G1 is the most accessible full-size humanoid...
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) named it one of the top five global robotics trends for 2026: "Robots: IT Meets OT." Demand for versatile robots is accelerating, the IFR reports, and this directly reflects a...
For decades, robots were excellent at exactly one thing: repeating a programmed motion, forever, in a perfectly controlled environment. Change one variable — a box in the wrong place, a new product on the line —...
Meta gave its AI a keychain. OpenAI gave its AI a cartoon face. xAI gave its AI a job. And then Manus looked at all three and said: hold my wallet. CUE, launched September 28, 2026 alongside...
While Meta and OpenAI spent the last month giving their AI agents cute faces and cuddly names, Elon Musk's xAI went the other direction. Grok Bot — launched in beta on August 11, 2026 — is...
One week after Meta unveiled its Muse Charm, OpenAI answered. At DevDay 2026 on September 29 in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman introduced Dots — "remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything." Each Dot is...
At Meta Connect 2026 on September 23, Mark Zuckerberg closed his keynote the way tech CEOs love to: with a "one more thing." Out of his pocket came the Muse Charm — a palm-sized gadget designed...
XPeng's robotics arm has closed one of the largest private funding rounds in embodied AI — and its IRON humanoid is heading for mass production by the end of 2026. XPENG Robotics has raised more than $900...
