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1X Technologies has revealed highly dexterous, 25-DoF robotic hands for its NEO humanoid, paired with the strategic appointment of Bill Nash as CFO as the company gears up for consumer shipments.
Humanoid News From the US
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Eschewing the flashy, press-release-heavy reveals common in the robotics industry, Apptronik has silently updated its website to showcase Apollo 2, its next-generation modular humanoid platform built for scale and commercial deployment.
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Following the retirement of its second-generation fleet, Figure returns to BMW’s South Carolina plant with Figure 03 to tackle complex material sorting and sequencing tasks.
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Robotics firm 1X Technologies has hired former Pixar and Roblox engineering leader Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering, tasking him with accelerating software pipelines ahead of late-2026 consumer shipments and the newly expanded NEO developer platform.
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In response to mounting geopolitical pressure and the proposed GUARD Act, 1X CEO Bernt Børnich announced plans to fast-track the delivery of the NEO humanoid robot to developers, aiming to fill a critical hardware vacuum left by looming restrictions on Chinese robotics.
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Agility is preparing for its public market debut via a $2.5 billion deal with veteran dealmaker Michael Klein’s SPAC, seeking to capture retail demand as the first Western humanoid pure-play.
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Hyundai is acquiring SoftBank’s remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics, paving the way for a wholly owned subsidiary and a fast-tracked Nasdaq IPO by 2028.
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As the humanoid robotics industry grapples with the transition from lab demos to factory floors, NVIDIA has unveiled Halos for Robotics, a comprehensive safety system designed to move machines safely beyond the workcell.
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A new congressional bill aims to block Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots from the U.S. market, creating a steep geopolitical dilemma for American laboratories heavily reliant on mass-produced hardware.
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Generalist AI has raised a massive $400 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, bringing its total capital to over half a billion dollars as it seeks to build hardware-agnostic physical intelligence.
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Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.
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In a recent TED Talk, Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst outlined a grounded but massively ambitious roadmap for embodied AI, pushing back against the industry’s rush toward domestic androids.