A Chinese dancer brought eight Unitree robots onto the America’s Got Talent stage, earned four yeses from the judges, and brought the house down. 🔥

Really glad I finally got to visit @XSquareRobot. We got an early look at XRZero-G0, their open-source full-body data collection and training system that works without requiring a physical robot body. At the time it hadn’t been officially released yet, so we couldn’t share anything haha. Now they’ve officially launched the QUANXTA Zero series — a robot-free embodied data production platform. This is not just a hardware setup. It’s a full-stack system that connects data collection, high-fidelity synchronization, automatic cleaning, intelligent annotation, embodied model training, robot inference, and evaluation loops — all in one pipeline. The goal is very clear: close the “last mile” gap between data and models, and build scalable infrastructure for embodied AI. QUANXTA Zero comes in three setups for different capture scenarios: → G1 (UMI-VIO): dual grippers with a head-mounted rig, balancing quality, usability, and endurance → G0 (UMI-VR): full-body mobile data capture → E0 (Ego): lightweight head-mounted setup for first-person data collection In short, it’s building the data foundation for embodied intelligence. Data is what drives intelligence emergence in large models — both scale and quality matter. If the data flywheel is already spinning, real home robots might be closer than we think. @TheHumanoidHub @dolylupec

A look at the future. Scalable robotics hardware models data. The tasks here are cool, showing the robot bending down and interacting with its environment using its whole body, even if only in minimal ways

This is exactly why X-Humanoid is worth visiting. x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/…

Embodied AI Enters Deployment Year One, and @AGIBOT_US put A3, X2, and G2 in front of the North American automation crowd 🤖 A3 and X2 showed the service side: performance, reception, guided tours, and real work already moving into restaurants and exhibition halls. G2 showed the industrial side: teleoperated wire-harness routing, connector mating, precise grasping, visual perception, dual-arm coordination, and Jenga stacking. That was more than a booth interaction. Teleoperation is one of the ways robots learn. The factory follow-up was the stronger signal: G2 completed a 6-day tablet-inspection livestream on LONGCHEER’s real production line. 99.99% task success rate. 2 mm precision fluctuation. 17,625 units produced. 64,828 robot operations completed. Cycle time stayed at 22 seconds per operation. The livestream ran for 64 hours from June 23 to June 28, 2026. By the end of it, the robots had already been running on that line for 105 days, from March 16 to June 28. This is the shift we actually want to see: humanoid robots moving from demos into real factory work. #AGIBOT #Automate2026 #EmbodiedAI

One job first: laundry, dishes, or kid/pet chaos cleanup? 🤖 Weave Robotics just opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a San Francisco-built wheeled home robot that extends Isaac 0’s folding work into room-resetting mobility. The useful stuff: picking up dirty clothes, folding and putting them away, making beds, and returning toys, shoes, pillows, and blankets. It still uses teleoperation when autonomy gets stuck, so this is not fully hands-off yet. Price: $7,999 upfront or $449/month. California deliveries are planned for fall 2026. Which chore would actually make you invite a robot into your house? 👇

We visited Paxini in Shenzhen, a company focused on the sense of touch for robots. We got hands-on with their dual-modal Dexter Hands (cameras tactile sensors) and their Tora Double One humanoid. Humanoid robots will need this touch layer to get truly dexterous. @dolylupec @XRoboHub

Back in Shenzhen again. We visited a lot of great robotics companies, and I still haven’t had time to share everything. This one is @OneRoboticsTech. They’re building a whole lineup of robots for home scenarios — from finger robots to the Onero H1 home humanoid, KATA the companion robot, and Acemate, a robot that can play tennis with you. H1 demoed autonomous laundry on site, placing clothes into the washing machine by itself. KATA didn’t feel like moving today — apparently it has moods like a person, and its mood changes all the time haha The most fun part was trying Acemate. Honestly, it’s a pretty good training partner. From the home to the tennis court, OneRobotics is turning its “one brain, many forms” strategy into real products. Big thanks to Nick for the invite, and to the OneRobotics team for the warm welcome. @TheHumanoidHub @dolylupec

F.03 has arrived at BMW, and this is a real milestone for Figure 🤖 Figure 02 already put in serious factory hours at BMW Plant Spartanburg: 1,250 hours, 90,000 parts moved, and 30,000 X3 builds supported. Now F.03 is stepping into logistics sequencing: picking unsorted parts, placing them into sequencing trolleys, and feeding BMW’s real assembly flow. x.com/Figure_robot/status/20…

So glad we got to visit so many amazing robotics companies together. Hope you come back every year. This industry moves fast and never disappoints. There are so many great robotics companies here, and everyone is welcome to come see them.

Is this the robot girlfriend or boyfriend you’ve been waiting for? UBTECH has officially launched UWORLD, its consumer full-size hyper-realistic humanoid robot series. Pricing starts at RMB 119,800, about $17.6K, for the lighter half-body U1 Lite. U1 Pro is RMB 169,800, about $25K. U1 Ultra goes much higher: RMB 990,000, about $146K, for the male version, and RMB 880,000, about $130K, for the female version. UBTECH says the first-generation bionic robots are built around “emotional value,” mainly for single users and seniors over 60 who need companionship and care. The goal is more natural human-robot interaction, emotional companionship, and basic life assistance. They also showed more than 50 full-size hyper-realistic humanoid designs, with different male and female looks, body types, and heights from 1.60 m to 1.85 m. That’s the bigger signal here: humanoid robots are starting to move from one standard body into personalized consumer products. U1 is already open for pre-order on JD, with more than 13,361 orders so far. UBTECH says it will push mass production and delivery, aiming to complete those 10,000 orders this year. Consumer humanoid robots just entered a real market test.

X Square Robot just closed its Series C at a valuation above RMB 20 billion, about $2.8 billion 🤖 IDG came into this round. The bigger signal is the cap table. HongShan and Xiaomi were already in across earlier rounds, while Meituan, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Xiaomi have each led rounds at different stages. That puts X Square in a rare position for an embodied AI company: top-tier financial capital on one side, and four of China’s biggest tech platforms on the other. This is not just a money story. Meituan, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Xiaomi bring very different strategic assets: real-world scenarios, cloud infrastructure, consumer traffic, supply chains, and hardware ecosystems. The deployment side is already moving: robot home-cleaning services first, then a “Robots Into Homes” program with the first batch entering real households. The model stack is worth watching too. X Square has open-sourced WALL-OSS-0.5 for robot manipulation and WALL-WM for world modeling. WALL-OSS-0.5 showed strong real-robot performance without post-training, while WALL-WM uses event-level prediction to align language, vision, and action around meaningful physical-world events. They are also building a model-driven data pipeline for large-scale collection, cleaning, annotation, quality control, and augmentation. That matters because home robotics dies in the long tail: weird rooms, messy objects, bad lighting, and tasks that never look the same twice. Founded in 2023, X Square is building general-purpose embodied AI robots and foundation models for real-world environments, tying models, robot hardware, high-precision manipulation, data, and deployment into one system.

AgiBot just hit its 15,000-unit milestone 🤖 It took about three months to move from 10,000 to 15,000. The part that matters: this rollout’s Genie G2 units went straight to Longcheer — into tablet QA and precision assembly.

That's a wrap on an amazing 17-day journey across China. I didn't do this alone. My friend @dolylupec came along for the whole ride. She's got a background in AI and robotics investing, and I'm grateful she chronicled the tours on her account and pitched in on my channel. @XRoboHub is one of the most resourceful people I know. He understands the humanoid space well and helped us schedule most of the important visits, then came along too. And a shout-out to @Robo_Tuo, who encouraged me to do this trip and supported us all along. It was my first time in China, and the trip was packed so tight with tours, we didn’t get to do much touristy stuff. Can't complain. It was a hell of a ride. 4 cities on the mainland. 18 humanoid makers. Warm, welcoming people everywhere. We had the privilege of chatting with founders, senior engineers, researchers, and marketing and strategy leads, a lot of whom said yes on very short notice. Grateful for that. The energy is extraordinary. It's the trifecta: engineering talent, a deep supply chain, and breakneck adoption of new tech. There's intense competition, but underneath it, a real spirit of sharing and collaboration. I've got a series of tour videos lined up, dropping over the coming days. And something tells me this won't be my last trip. Robotics and embodied AI are just getting started. The next ten years are going to reshape how we think about physical work. We ended on the Great Wall, a 2,000 year old marvel of engineering, after two weeks staring at the next one. The robots are coming. I just went to meet them first.

During the AGIBOT tour in Shanghai, we saw an autonomous demo in a controlled setting. The next day, AGIBOT started a 100-hour live stream of the same task on the actual assembly line. Multiple G2 robots are autonomously operating in real tablet production. Today is the day-5 of the live stream.

UBTECH officially launched Cruzr Y1 — a wheeled industrial humanoid built for factory material handling. 🤖 It is designed for bins, cartons, material loading, unloading, palletizing, depalletizing, and sorting. Specs that matter: → 360° omni-wheels vertical lift for tight workshops and dense equipment areas → Harmonic joint arms with brakes and torque sensors for precise, stable handling → 360° safety perception with LiDAR, depth cameras, ToF, and IMU across the head, wrists, and chassis → 4 hours under full load, with auto-charging and quick battery swap for 24-hour shift work

Deep Robotics’ DR02 humanoid robot makes these stunts look almost effortless. Ladder climbing, obstacle crossing, rough terrain — it handles them like a real tough guy. It also comes with an intelligent perception system that reads the terrain in real time and switches gait on its own. Seeing it in person hits different. This thing is built like an absolute beast.

Walking into Unitree feels like stepping into a temple of robotics tech. This global leading robotics company delivered more than 5,500 humanoid robots last year, with around 11,000 G1 units rolling off the production line alone. From XDog, the first robot dog Xingxing Wang built by hand back in college, to the latest industrial quadrupeds A2 and B2, consumer and research models Go2 and AS2, compact humanoids G1 and R1, the 1.82-meter full-size H2, and the super cool GD01 mecha — you can see Unitree’s 10-year evolution right in front of you. And this place is not just robots sitting on display. There’s the same group-control robot performance from CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, robot boxing, and H2’s kung fu demo. H2 will also be an important fighter in this year’s CMG robot boxing competition. What I like more is that Unitree didn’t just show the flashy stuff. They also showed quadruped robots for inspection, security, firefighting, and power-grid work, plus humanoid robots being explored for logistics, power-grid scenarios, and home service. To me, Unitree’s biggest success is not just top-tier robotics tech. It’s that they’re taking robots out of labs and industrial sites, and pushing them into entertainment, homes, and the broader consumer world. That’s the real Unitree story. @TheHumanoidHub @dolylupec

Too cool — Beijing Humanoid’s TienKung 3.0 just showed off synchronized group dancing and Thomas flares 🤸‍♂️ Full-size humanoids, tight sync, high-difficulty moves, insanely smooth motion. Multi-agent control with actual visual punch.