Humanoid robots
General-purpose humanoid robots designed for deployment in homes and workplaces. Every Robotics Weekly story on humanoid robots, newest first. 27 stories since September 2026.
- Kat Scott says she has never seen a Figure robot at an event
The robotics engineer says the people she talks to think humanoids are a bubble, and that only two companies have real revenue.
- Reflex lets a Unitree G1 catch boxes people throw at it
The headline 85.7% catch rate is in simulation. On hardware, the robot caught 8 of 20 throws aimed to the side.
- Adcock says Figure lifts well over 50 lbs
Brett Adcock disputes Chris Paxton's claim that Figure and Optimus are too weak for most human work, after a typo briefly made him agree.
- Workhorse teaches a Unitree G1 whole-body skills from human video
The G1 topples and climbs a suitcase, catches a thrown box and sorts boxes with a kick, and Liao says the clip is one take.
- Minerva exits stealth with Roger, a hazmat humanoid
The company says a specialist drives the robot from a command post, and it is not pitching full autonomy.
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- Dyna's uncut laundry hour still has a dryer timer question
Dyna Robotics called the hour-long laundry run uncut, and the sharpest reply to it is still sitting there unanswered.
- Paxton says Mind-1's fast videos look like UMI, not teleop
One researcher's read on a humanoid video that MindOn has not explained.
- Dyna put Taku to work in a live server room
An employee account with raw phone photos, no success rates.
- Figure sends its old F.02 robots into molten steel
A retirement video for old hardware, a furnace in Finland, and a reply from the Terminator himself.
- Adcock maps four stages of humanoids, Goldberg asks if data is dead
Two of the loudest voices in the field put opposite bets on the table in the same week.
- Paxton says end-to-end mobile manipulation ran first try on Digit v4
Two clips from the conference floor, no success rate and no task list.
- TactileStep accepted to CoRL 2026, targets foot contact
The work focuses on what happens when a humanoid foot meets the ground, not on the walking controller around it.
- Humanoid soccer goes outdoors with no instrumentation
Pulkit Agrawal says the policy dribbles, passes, turns and scores after simulation training alone.
- Humanoid Scott says Digit 5 shuffles, not walks
A clip buried in an Agility video about data security is the first look at the new robot moving under its own power.
- Figure's 237 of 420 success rate turns into a fight
Tony Zhao says failing half the time is not useful work, and two other researchers say publishing the number at all deserves credit.
- Visitor says hundreds of Figure 03s are walking around the lab
Humanoid Scott says the robots behind the reflective glass were numerous enough to photo-bomb a group photo.
- Figure posts 4 straight hours of Helix 2.5 in 30 homes
Brett Adcock introduced the unedited footage by warning it was really boring, and paired it with fresh upload numbers from Figure's Index app.
- Nieves streams 2,200 parcels an hour to Figure's 1,200
A rare humanoid versus incumbent comparison with a shared unit, parcels per hour on the same job.
- Pathak verified Skild's $100M ARR in person, Scott says
The number is contract-based recurring revenue, not units shipped, and it landed the same week Agility's SPAC filing showed $1.8M in revenue.
- Musk's Optimus V3 "frame by frame" line is four months old
A viral JUST IN post recycled an April earnings call quote, and the argument that followed was about whether humanoid prototypes are the hard part.
- UBTECH opens 10,000-unit Walker S factory in Liuzhou
The plant is built for robots building robots, and Chris Paxton says the robots are doing the easy part.
- OpenArm open-sources a humanoid, CAD to teleop
Lukas Ziegler profiled the Tokyo project, which sells as a kit or prebuilt and shows no task demos.
- Kat Scott. Agility SPAC shows $1.8M revenue, $140M loss
Steve Crowe says the $300M single-customer order now needs to land sooner rather than later.
- Bleu humanoid learned machine tending from six demos
A trade show deployment with a real laser engraver in the loop, reported by one person who posted the numbers.
- Chris Paxton calls Ultra and Digit clips teleop
Two impressive manipulation videos landed the same day, and a researcher who works on one of the policies said a human was steering.
- Figure commits $3.5B to Nscale for up to 100,000 GPUs
Brett Adcock says the compute goes to scaling Helix, and that Figure has entered the chapter of the humanoid race money can buy.
- Unitree says its humanoids now fight fully autonomously
The claim is Unitree's own, and nobody in the sources has checked it yet.
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