Robotics Ant Group leads $74M into Zeroth's home robots
Ant Group led a $74M round in Zeroth, a Chinese startup building humanoids for homes — not factories — with 30,000 orders and 600% revenue growth.
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Robotics Ant Group led a $74M round in Zeroth, a Chinese startup building humanoids for homes — not factories — with 30,000 orders and 600% revenue growth.
Robotics Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrated their systems to fully automate warehouse receiving, from trailer unloading through palletizing, with no human handoff.
Robotics Tsinghua's team defended its humanoid soccer world title at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, where robots perceived, planned, and passed with no human control.
Robotics The Netherlands opened its first Humanoid Application Centre near Rotterdam, a working floor to test robots for construction, logistics, and horticulture — not a showroom.
Robotics Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid performed goal celebrations and handed over the match ball at a World Cup Round of 16 game — a marketing spectacle for a robot Hyundai plans to build 30,000 a year.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC ordered state-owned firms to put 10,000 humanoids into routine operation across 100-plus real scenarios by the end of 2026.
Robotics Tesla plans to start Optimus V3 production at Fremont in late July on the former Model S/X line, with Musk warning early output will be slow and hard to forecast.
Robotics Unitree's STAR Market IPO registration went effective on July 2, making the Chinese humanoid maker the first embodied-AI company cleared for China's A-share market.
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.