Cologne police seized a robot and are investigating whether two teenagers piloted it in an alleged groping of a 16-year-old girl. They have not yet established whether it was steered live or ran a stored routine, and that finding decides where responsibility starts.
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Shanghai wants 8,000 factory humanoids by 2028, fewer than one UBTECH plant can build in a year
Shanghai's action plan targets 8,000 factory humanoid robots and 500 advanced smart factories by 2028, Chinese media reported. Set against existing humanoid capacity, the first number is modest, so the supplier case rests on the factory and density targets.
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A Bloomberg report says Anthropic wants an offering at least the size of SpaceX's record raise. Against a $965 billion private mark, that implies placing roughly 8 percent of the company.
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US robotics investors are touring Chinese factories to see what their startups are up against
Dozens of US venture investors have toured China's robot industry in recent months, where two firms shipped 71% of last year's humanoid robots. Their US startups are now measured against Chinese makers that many of them already depend on for parts or assembly.
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China's locomotion stack closed a human gap in about a year. It closed it in events that take out perception, grasping and anything unrehearsed, which is most of a deployment.
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Three down sessions took the stock back toward what a Chinese listing normally does on day one. The valuation it is falling from has barely moved.
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Olivier Laflamme walked an unpaired Bluetooth write up to root on the G1 EDU's Locomotion PC by way of a Unitree cloud API that decrypted key material for any logged-in account. Unitree fixed that check in July, but no patched firmware has been named.
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Fortune has the stock down as much as 10%, to about HK$44, valuing the fast-fashion group near Ralph Lauren, in the same season Shanghai handed CXMT a 466% first day and Unitree about 629%.
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The AI chipmaker's shares closed 179 percent above the offer price on Shanghai's Star Market, and the revenue behind that valuation came almost entirely from Tencent, which owns 20 percent of the company and buys most of its chips.
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Figure commits $3.5bn of compute to a humanoid market that shipped 19,100 units
Figure's software finished 56% of chores in 30 unfamiliar homes, Boston Dynamics began training Atlas inside a Hyundai plant, and Unitree priced a 22-joint hand at $6,500.
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- Adoption42
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Research labs and AI developers took most of the 7,000 humanoids sold in 2025
The International Federation of Robotics counted humanoids as their own category for the first time and found about 7,000 sold worldwide last year, most of them to research institutions and AI developers buying machines to generate training data.
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One KOSDAQ IPO has raised more than a trillion won since the board opened in 1996
Celltrion Healthcare's 1.0088 trillion won in 2017 still stands alone, and Yanolja, Viva Republica and Galaxy Corporation are all pursuing US listings while KOSDAQ turnover runs at less than half January's.
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The 80% workload figure came from a technician rather than from Meta, and the arm that would deliver it still cannot match human speed, which makes this a pilot worth pricing rather than a substitution worth modelling.
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Vision plus touch gets a robot hand to 85% success across five tasks and 25 objects
Humanoid locomotion is rehearsed and it films well. The manipulation figure in the published record is 85% success on five tasks with 25 objects. A household or warehouse pilot has to clear that bar on its own objects.
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JoyIn dates its alien-visitor framing three weeks before OpenAI's essay
JoyIn, a 20-person robotics team in Suzhou with Ant Group backing, says OpenAI distilled its research framing and copied its launch page. The startup is going to court over the two assets any rival could rebuild.
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Samsung puts the humanoid body and its AI brain under one CTO
The robotics office Samsung created in July has a single executive running both the drivetrain team and the perception team, which is a cheap piece of optionality against Chinese rivals who took more than 97 percent of first-half humanoid shipments.
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buildOne report1 publisher At a Chinese training centre, novice trainers need 300 attempts to teach robots one usable motion
State money is arriving faster than autonomy, and inside the training centres the unit of production is still a human hour rather than a robot hour, which is what actually sets the price of the data.
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- Adoption55
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buildOne report1 publisher Shanghai's retail bid now funds China's memory and humanoid capacity
Retail-driven Shanghai is now where domestic memory and humanoid programmes raise equity. The first-day pops describe the allocation, not the fab. CXMT's revenue line is the number worth reading.
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- Adoption74
- Hype gap+20
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Shanghai's retail bid marked CXMT's $8.6bn float at $48.7bn in one session
Chinese issuers are raising money into a domestic bid that then multiplies it by five, which says more about rationed supply than about durable AI earnings. Shein, the non-AI name in the queue, got the residual.
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- Adoption81
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New drone tariffs set to take effect in September, with more component tariffs in 2027
Counterpoint puts five Chinese makers at 86% of the 22,000 humanoids shipped in the first half of 2026. That is the cost curve the Covered List and the new tariffs do not touch while they reprice US bills of materials.
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- Adoption61
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