Humanoid’s Series A comes with unusually concrete commitments from Bosch and Schaeffler around wheeled factory robots, not just venture capital.

Apptronik’s expanded Austin training site records repeated Apollo 2 work tasks and sends the data to Google DeepMind for Gemini Robotics training.

A Daily Signal opinion urges U.S. regulators to block Chinese humanoid robots, citing data collection risks, Unitree pricing and market pressure too.

Hyundai Motor workers in Ulsan are using wage strikes to demand a formal voice before Boston Dynamics Atlas robots reach production floors, raising a labor fight.

Generative Bionics showed Gene.01 in the U.S., presenting a tactile humanoid platform aimed first at shipyard work with Fincantieri.

Japan’s 2026 humanoid activity now spans Mitsubishi production plans, JAL airport trials, Toyota evaluations and construction robots amid a severe labor squeeze.

EngineAI’s URKL league puts 32 teams on a common T800 humanoid platform in Shenzhen, with combat bouts acting as a rough hardware stress test this year.

TrendForce says US humanoid firms are leaning on AI platforms while Chinese rivals use component depth and factory scale to speed commercial trials and data collection.

Hyundai workers at Ulsan are using partial strikes to demand union approval before Boston Dynamics Atlas enters Korean factories.

Hyundai workers in South Korea are staging partial strikes as the union seeks safeguards before Atlas enters factory operations.