San Mateo County supervisors approved a resolution requiring permits, kill switches, fire safety planning and job loss tracking for humanoid robots.

Unitree’s IPO drew huge retail demand, with Bloomberg calculating the retail tranche was 5,526 times subscribed for an offering valued at $9 billion.

AgiBot led global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, according to SAG data cited by SCMP, as both Chinese vendors prepare listings.

Unitree has priced its Shanghai IPO at a roughly $9 billion valuation, with founder Wang Xingxing estimated by Forbes at $2.4 billion.

St. Clair College says it is the first North American recipient of Unitree’s R1 humanoid, with researchers testing industrial applications on campus this fall.

The FCC added new foreign made humanoid robots to its Covered List, while leaving existing approved models legal in the United States.

ROBO’s guide frames humanoid development around brain, body, and energy systems as suppliers of sensors, actuators, chips, and batteries gain attention.

Unitree’s Shanghai IPO pricing values the humanoid robot maker at about $9.04 billion, with proceeds aimed at software, hardware and manufacturing.

State senators are seeking to block districts from using AI enabled humanoids for instruction after Salamanca paused its Realbotix robot classroom plan.

Researchers used one humanoid to assist a surgeon and later had two teleoperated humanoids perform gallbladder removal on a large non primate mammal.