This Week in Humanoids: Agility on Nasdaq, GR00T 2 and Fable 5.2

Our November 10 Humanoids Daily newsletter is out, led by Agility’s first days as a public company and a Monday that brought NVIDIA’s GR00T 2 at CoRL and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.2.

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• Agility began trading on Nasdaq as AGLT on November 5, a day the Nasdaq fell more than 5%.
• NVIDIA unveiled GR00T 2 at CoRL in Austin, with GPT-6 Astra directing it in Jim Fan’s demos. Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 more than doubled Astra’s score on a robot-control benchmark the same day.
• Atlas on wheels, Apple’s HALO and a headquarters full of Figure 03s round out the week.

Inside this edition

Agility on Nasdaq. The shares opened at $11.26, dipped to $8.40 and recovered during a broad selloff in AI stocks. We look at the roughly $465 million the deal raised and what public investors are buying: $1.78 million in 2025 sales and a Digit 5 order released task by task.

GR00T 2 and Fable 5.2. NVIDIA’s Jim Fan presented GR00T 2 at the Conference on Robot Learning, reporting 95% average success across 50 tasks from five demonstrations each. He opened the talk by describing the “five stages of grief” GPT-6 Astra sent roboticists through, then showed Astra directing GR00T 2. The same day, Anthropic reported that Claude Fable 5.2 scored 64.9% on the RoboDojo benchmark, against 29.8% for Astra in its own runs.

Our most-read story. Apple’s HALO trained a Unitree G1 on about 300 hours of motion generated in simulation and completed 91% of 360 real-world trials without teleoperation data.

Demos worth watching. Boston Dynamics put Atlas on scooter wheels to stress-test its motors, and Brett Adcock’s videos show dozens of Figure 03s walking around Figure’s headquarters.

There’s more inside: Unitree’s largely manual factory, Schaeffler’s job cuts and humanoid orders, Atlas’s Samsung SDI battery cells, PrimeBOT’s 10,000th robot, open-source robots from CMU and NYU, Robbyant’s LingBot-Touch, UK home insurance for humanoids and the 2027 MACHINA Summit. The issue also carries a sponsored placement from LiberAI on its Liber-0 model.

This edition is presented by RoboStrategy.

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