10 Jun 2026
Game Over, Humans: Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall
Who’s the World Cup favorite? Spain, obviously. But the other nations might stand a chance if FIFA let them field this absurd soccer-playing robot — which wouldn’t even be close to being one of the craziest things the world soccer association has done lately.
10 Jun 2026
Humanoid Robot Prices Near $30,000:Beijing Factory's 500,000-a-Year Plan May Halve Cost, Buyers Lag
A working humanoid robot now costs about $30,000, and the factories building them say scale is about to cut that figure in half. The catch, laid out in CNBC's June 8 China Connection newsletter, is that production capacity is growing much faster than the list of customers willing to pay. The constraint in 2026 is no longer building humanoids. It is selling them.
10 Jun 2026
Humaniod robotics company raises up to $1.4 billion from Nvidia, Amazon and others
U.S. tech giants have backed a German company in its latest fundraising round to develop its humanoid robotics tech. Neura Robotics' Series C financing, which is worth up to $1.4 billion, featured Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon and Nvidia, alongside European industrial companies Bosch and Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank.
10 Jun 2026
Zoomlion’s Humanoid Robotics Platform Debuts Industrial Power
Moreover, executives highlighted an emerging ecosystem that spans factory pilots, data pipelines, and an embodied-intelligence OS. These elements suggest that humanoids may finally step beyond the demo floor.
10 Jun 2026
Reliance-Backed Addverb Plans $100 Mn Fundraise to Build Humanoid Robots
Reliance-backed Addverb is planning to raise over $100 million. The move marks the first major round since Reliance’s $132 million investment in 2021, to accelerate a shift from warehouse automation to humanoid and quadrupedal robots.
10 Jun 2026
China’s Lifelike Emotional Companion Bots Go on Sale
Chinese robotics company UBTech has begun presales for what it calls the world’s “first full-size, ultra-bionic” humanoid robot designed for emotional companionship. Around 3,000 units have been sold so far.
09 Jun 2026
China can build humanoid robots at scale. The hard part is finding enough buyers
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market.
09 Jun 2026
YY Group turns cleaning shifts into AI data for humanoid robots
YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) launched a commercial humanoid robotics initiative using Unitree G1 Edu Ultimate B-U4 robots to enhance its AI-native facility management platform.
09 Jun 2026
Standard Bots raises $200 million in VC to expand robot production in NY
Industrial robotics producer Standard Bots has raised $200 million in venture capital to expand its manufacturing footprint on New York’s Long Island, increasing its ability to design, assemble, and deploy American-made robots.
