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.

A Technology.org review says verified industrial humanoid work remains narrow, with Figure and Agility ahead of Tesla on documented deployments.

Humanoid AI is putting most engineering effort behind its wheeled HMND 01, citing certification, stability and industrial duty cycle demands.

Georgia Tech researchers tested Learn to Teach, a concurrent training method that helped a full size humanoid handle varied rough terrain with less compute.