New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics On July 22 Unitree launches the H1 Pro in Europe, the first leg of a three-market rollout no rival has attempted. The price is the story; the fine print is the warning.
Robotics At WAIC 2026, AgiBot skipped the one-hero-robot playbook and shipped a full lineup — a service humanoid, an industrial workhorse, a teaching platform, and the hand by itself.
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 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 China shipped ~90% of 2025's humanoids, and in June its open-source models beat Nvidia on a real-robot benchmark — collapsing the idea that the West still owns the robot 'brains'.
Robotics EngineAI, founded in 2023, has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing — the latest sign that public markets now want to fund the machines built to replace human labor.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC launched a 2026 campaign ordering humanoid robots from demos into real jobs: 100+ scenarios, 10,000-unit deployment, provincial plans due end of June.
Robotics UBTech's consumer brand UWORLD opened JD.com pre-sales for a full-size hyper-bionic companion humanoid: two SKUs, 88 degrees of freedom, 2-4 hour battery, 3,000 yuan deposit, shipping by September 15.
Robotics On May 28, China's MIIT launched a national humanoid full-lifecycle platform issuing a 29-character ID to every robot. Over 100 firms have already enrolled 28,000+ units across 200 models.
Robotics Wuhan's GigaAI unveiled the wheeled, two-armed SeeLight S1 on May 21 and committed 100 units into employee homes this month — China's first humanoid generalist aimed at the kitchen, not the factory floor.
Robotics JD.com will auction humanoid robots during its 618 shopping festival starting May 30 — robots are now consumer collectibles, sold next to refrigerators on China's biggest e-commerce day.
Robotics On May 13, Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center signed a 2,000-unit order from Jack Technology — the world's largest sewing-machine maker — for the NAVIAI humanoid customised for garment lines. Cut-piece alignment ±2mm, motion precision 0.3–0.5mm, single-step under 10 seconds, polo through denim, multi-layer stacking. The industry that beat robots for two centuries — soft, draping, non-rigid fabric — just lost its hardest assembly task to a 1.65m / 60kg / 275-TOPS bipedal.