While competitors face scrutiny over safety culture, Agility Robotics announces its Digit robot has passed a critical Nationally Recognized Test Lab (NRTL) field inspection—a boring, necessary step for commercial scale.
A definitive analysis of the humanoid robotics landscape in late 2025. We rank the highest-valued "pure-play" companies like Figure, Neura, and Unitree, and analyze the "proxy war" being waged by "Titans" like Tesla, Samsung, and Nvidia.
A public claim by Figure's Brett Adcock about a "first" autonomous deployment at BMW escalated into a sharp exchange, with Agility Robotics mocking the claim and Adcock responding with a prediction of their bankruptcy.
Following mixed results with its Pepper robot, SoftBank is reportedly intensifying its search for investments in next-generation humanoid robotics, targeting AI-driven companies like Agility Robotics and Skild AI.