In Shanghai’s Zhangjiang district, a training facility is at work where more than a hundred humanoid robots from over a dozen different manufacturers train simultaneously on a shared dataset. It sounds like an academic curiosity — but it’s actually an attempt to solve one of the industry’s core infrastructure problems: robots from different makers are … Read more
Based on the press release from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), May 18, 2026 Hong Kong has officially launched its first full-stack embodied AI laboratory — the Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab. Behind the formal press release sits a far more interesting story: the lab has launched with 24 industry partners on day … Read more
Based on materials from Robolist.AI Buying a robot today is surprisingly painful. Hundreds of manufacturers, no standardized specifications, no transparent pricing. Against the backdrop of the industry’s explosive growth, this has become a problem in its own right: the market exists, but there’s no way to navigate it. A young startup, Robolist.AI, has set out … Read more
AGIBOT, the world’s largest humanoid robot maker by shipments, has released a video introducing AGILE (AGIBOT Generative Intelligent Locomotion Engine) — a new generative foundation model that combines perception and locomotion into a single system. In the demonstration, the AGIBOT X2 does something autonomously (at 1x speed, with no slow-motion and no cuts) that earlier … Read more
Based on the Agility Robotics blog post: “The Realistic Pathway to Home”, May 26, 2026. When one of the industry’s biggest players openly says that home humanoids are not coming anytime soon — and explains why — it’s worth reading carefully. Agility Robotics, the company behind the industrial humanoid Digit, has published a rare piece … Read more
In China’s Hubei province (湖北), humanoid robots have begun receiving personal identification numbers — robot ID cards, almost like passports for people. Behind this seemingly quirky piece of news lies a serious bid: China is the first country in the world trying to turn robots into “accountable entities” with a traceable life story — and, … Read more
While the U.S. trains humanoid robots to do backflips and shine on demo stages, the real race for global manufacturing leadership will be won by whoever makes machines more adaptable — not more powerful. That’s the argument Robert Ambrose, who spent decades designing robots for space, makes in a commentary for Fortune. Earlier this year, … Read more
On May 26, US humanoid robot maker Figure and retail holding company Catalyst Brands announced a commercial agreement. Catalyst Brands owns the JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brand, and Nautica chains — about 1,800 retail locations across the US and Canada. Figure’s robots will begin working at the company’s distribution center in Reno, Nevada. The … Read more
On May 27, Robotics Summit & Expo 2026 opens at the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston — the largest two-day conference in the United States for commercial robotics developers. Over 6,000 attendees are expected, with more than 50 sessions across tracks on AI, enabling technologies, healthcare, and logistics robotics. The event … Read more
On April 17, 2026, McKinsey & Company published a detailed analysis of humanoid robotics economics titled “Turning humanoid supply-chain constraints into billion-dollar wins.” Its central thesis: the primary constraint on industry scaling today is not algorithms or foundation models but the supply chain for physical components — chiefly actuators, which account for nearly half of … Read more
