Field notes · Day oneHumanoid Robots Summit · Stuttgart · 9 September 2026 The industrial keynotes were the substance Five hundred people, a sold-out hall for the second year running, and a modest exhibition floor. The value sat almost entirely with the companies actually putting machines on factory floors – and five separate speakers arrived…
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Field notes · Day twoHumanoid Robots Summit · Stuttgart · 10 September 2026 The state of the art is inside the joint Day one belonged to the companies putting machines on factory floors. Day two belonged to the companies building what goes inside them – actuator safety, fingertip sensing, controller architecture and the data pipelines…
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Tiangong Ultra targets practical work after 8.64 second sprint
X-Humanoid is prioritizing reliability and practical tasks after its 75 kg Tiangong Ultra humanoid completed a 100 meter sprint in 8.64 seconds.
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Schaeffler trains Hexagon’s AEON humanoid for factory work
Hexagon Robotics’ AEON has entered Schaeffler’s German Humanoid Gym for task training and validation ahead of planned global factory deployments.
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Humanoid claims 34,000 preorders for wheeled HMND 01
Humanoid says its wheeled industrial robot has a $2.4 billion pipeline, but the 34,000 reported preorders remain nonbinding customer commitments.
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XPeng commissions production line for IRON humanoid robot
XPeng says the first IRON humanoid built on its automated line walked off under its own power, with mass production targeted by the end of 2026.
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Galbot unveils RoboGesture for speech matched humanoid motion
Galbot’s RoboGesture framework generates speech aligned gestures in real time, with safety controls intended for use on physical humanoid robots.
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China accelerates research into military humanoid robots
A Reuters review found PLA research, tenders and simulations focused on humanoid perception, dexterous work, teleoperation and urban combat.
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Welcome, NEXO!
NEXO is a 168 cm, 85 kg wheeled humanoid robot from Galaxea Dynamics, designed for commercial services, logistics, and manufacturing environments. Its 30 total degrees of freedom, including 12 in the hands, support dual arm interaction with physical objects, while whole body high precision force sensing helps regulate contact during tasks. The platform uses a…
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Figure AI plans $3.5 billion humanoid supercomputer build
Figure AI plans to train its humanoids on a large Nscale computing cluster, with initial systems scheduled to come online in the second half of 2027.
