Unitree Robotics gets final approval for China's first humanoid robot IPO, $6.2B valuation, fastest STAR Market review ever. This IPO tests embodied AI valuations amid VC frenzy. Unitree Key numbers: 💰 Raising 4.2B yuan ($620M) 🌍 Global leader in humanoid robot shipments (2025) 💴 ¥590M net profit in 2025 (profitable = rare) Real deployment: Haneda Airport trials through 2028 for baggage/cargo operations. First commercial Chinese humanoid at major aviation hub. Unitree will be the first pure-play humanoid robotics stock on mainland China.

Ant Group led a $74M round to back home robots aimed at grandparents, pets and kids. Zeroth, founded in late 2024, has already racked up over 30,000 robot orders and 600% H1 revenue growth off a five‑robot lineup that spans compact home humanoids (M1), licensed WALL- E companions (W1), quadrupeds (A1) and full‑size humanoids (Jupiter). This is Ant’s 12th humanoid/robotics deal since 2025. Zeroth is now a key datapoint in the emerging “consumer humanoid” segment, with China’s capital markets, Disney IP licensing and overseas expansion into North America and Europe all converging in one trajectory to track.

Robots need eyes before autonomy. Luxonis just raised $14M Series A to back the vision stack behind physical AI. @luxonis builds the camera and software that power them. 60 Fortune 500 customers. 17 of the Dow Jones 30. 6M DepthAI downloads.

Isaac 1 is officially here. @weaverobotics just launched its home robot with a full product page, $250 refundable preorder flow, and a design that leans into safety, aesthetics, and everyday use. Pricing: $449 per month subscription or $7,999 upfront.

The AI infrastructure boom just spawned a new robotics category. @LambdaRobo is building autonomous systems for physical infrastructure, aimed at nonstop operations where failure is expensive. This is robotics, data center ops, and AI capex.

$1,288 for a dual-arm home robot. @NoriRobotics launched the Nori L2 today. Loading dishes, pouring beer, doing laundry, making coffee. Two units can make a bed together. Skills can be shared across Nori units via a marketplace.

Apptronik just built a factory where humanoids learn. Robot Park in Austin is a 90,000-square-foot data engine for Apollo 2 with Google DeepMind in the loop. @Apptronik is one of the best-funded robotics companies, valued at around $5.3 billion.

BREAKING: Figure 03 just landed at BMW Spartanburg. BMW is now using Figure’s latest humanoid in a real logistics sequencing workflow on the factory floor, following Figure 02’s pilot, which supported production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles.

China is building robot schools at scale. In Beijing, Shanghai, and Shandong, robots are being trained to fold clothes, sort parcels, and handle chores inside data-training centers. The humanoid race is now about volume, cost, and deployment speed.

X Square Robot is now a $2.8B embodied AI company. The Shenzhen-based company just closed its Series C above RMB 20B valuation, with IDG joining the round. The cap table is the part to watch: Alibaba Meituan Xiaomi ByteDance HongShan IDG That is a rare mix for a robotics company: consumer internet, local services, hardware supply chain, cloud, AI distribution, and top-tier venture capital. X Square has already tested robot home-cleaning services in Shenzhen, pairing a human cleaner with a robot in real households. That gives them something most embodied AI companies still lack: messy, high-variance, real-world household data.

Data centers could hire robots for the hardest shift. YC-backed @hebbyrobotics is building dexterous robots for rack work, cable cleanup, hardware swaps, and the SOP-heavy tasks that keep infrastructure stable. Downtime prevention can save millions.

Türkiye just got a humanoid robot on the map. @Akinrobotics unveiled AKINCI-5 from Türkiye’s first humanoid factory, drawing attention for smooth walking and production goals of 10,000 robots per year. Humanoids are no longer only a US or China story.

Introducing Phantom. @foundation_robo is building a robot for manufacturing, logistics, and defense. Backed by $24M in Pentagon contracts Eric Trump as strategy adviser, it’s a major defense-tech and political story. Target: 50,000 units by 2027.

Staffing shortages cost restaurants and warehouses billions. R-noid works the jobs people quit. It handles everything from packing and picking, multi-shift, all day, no complaints. @Robotcom already has 500 units deployed and 2.5M tasks completed.

Fortnite is already training tomorrow's robots. @gen_intuition raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation. Their model trains on billions of gameplay clips from 17M Medal users. Backers: Khosla Ventures, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, General Catalyst and others.

Agility Robotics is going public as the first U.S. humanoid pure-play. The "Digit" maker is merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI and expects to list as $AGLT in a $2.5 billion deal, with active customer deployments already underway. The company says RoboFab is built for up to 10,000 units a year, with Digit v5 already backed by over $300 million of multi-year orders. Agility is citing live deployments at Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre, plus a partnership with NVIDIA on Halos for robotics safety.

Meet Nori L2, a dual-arm home robot priced "like an iPhone." @NoriRobotics opens orders this week. No confirmed retail price. Their recent research has a hardware BOM of $947. For a bimanual robot, that's remarkably lean. L1 buyers get a free upgrade.

Cobot just shipped a robot that finds its own work, does it, and never needs a human to tell it what's next. Proxie Gen 2 introduces "Autotasking": the robot builds a live world model of your operations, identifies what needs to be done, announces it out loud, then executes. No software integration. No dispatcher. Under the hood: NVIDIA Jetson for on-robot inference (no cloud dependency), AWS for fleet intelligence, LiFePO4 batteries with a self-swapping station for zero-downtime ops, and a new bimanual arm config for two-handed tasks. Starts at $5,000/month. Available now. CEO Brad Porter (ex-Amazon VP of Robotics, ex-CTO of Scale AI) founded Cobot in 2022. They've raised 140M USD from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Lux Capital. The global cobot market sits at $3.4B in 2026 and is projected to reach $12.6B by 2033, with shipments growing at 17.3% CAGR through 2030.

Six days. Multiple robots. One live factory floor. @AGIBOTofficial is livestreaming its G2 humanoid robots working a real tablet mass-production line at Longcheer Technology's Nanchang factory right now. The robots handle pick-and-place, precision loading/unloading, and defect sorting at millimeter accuracy, 24/7, alongside human operators. Longcheer integrated the line in 36 hours. Scale target: 100 robots by Q3 2026. AGIBOT's Hong Kong IPO (targeting up to $6.4B valuation) is on the horizon.

Moby is at Automate 2026. @NobleMachines says it already deployed its first robots to a Fortune Global 500 customer. Founded in 2024 by engineers from Apple, SpaceX, and NASA, the robot is built for hazardous, physically demanding industrial work.