Robotics SoftBank quits Boston Dynamics; Hyundai takes full control
Hyundai has completed its buyout of SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, taking full ownership as SoftBank redeploys capital toward its OpenAI bet.
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Robotics Hyundai has completed its buyout of SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, taking full ownership as SoftBank redeploys capital toward its OpenAI bet.
Robotics Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq via a $2.5 billion SPAC merger, the first US pure-play humanoid maker to go public — its Digit robots already log 65,000 hours in real warehouses.
Robotics UBTECH unveiled the UWorld U1, a full-size consumer humanoid priced from $17,600, claiming 11,000-plus orders since June 2 and first deliveries on September 16.
Robotics Boston Dynamics has committed its entire 2026 Atlas run to parent Hyundai and Google DeepMind, with no units for outside buyers until 2027 — as a Korean union moves to block them.
Robotics Tesla once promised 10,000 Optimus robots a year; rivals are now shipping humanoids into real factories while bettors give Optimus a 2026 public launch a 14% chance.
Robotics AGIBOT says its 15,000th robot has rolled off the line, capping a production ramp that went from 1,000 to 15,000 units in roughly a year.
Robotics Morgan Stanley raised its 2026 China humanoid shipment forecast to 50,000 units, its third upgrade in six months — but the number tracks production, not proven demand.
Robotics BMW is moving Figure's humanoid from the body shop to logistics at its Spartanburg plant, after the previous generation logged 11 months and 30,000 cars on the line.
Robotics Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5B valuation, becoming the first U.S.-listed pure-play humanoid company with paying customers.
Robotics At Automate in Chicago, perennial vaporware artist Faraday Future priced a 5-foot-8 humanoid at $89,900 — and the unsettling part is the spec sheet is real.
Robotics At MWC Shanghai's June 24 opening, the GSMA reframed the network as the nervous system for machines, while China Mobile, Telecom, and Unicom showed robots in named jobs.
Robotics AGIBOT will stream its G2 humanoids doing quality inspection on a live consumer-electronics mass-production line for six days straight — the job, not a demo.