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No. 027 · Tuesday, August 25, 2026
China's biggest embodied-AI raise yet lands the same week the Beijing robot games double as a public capability audit.
No. 026 · Monday, August 24, 2026
Two forces collided this weekend: China staged record-smashing robot games while the US banned importing Chinese humanoids.
No. 025 · Sunday, August 23, 2026
Two US labs staffed up their finance benches while Tesla ran its first humanoid pilot on a real German battery line.
No. 024 · Saturday, August 22, 2026
Capital keeps flowing to the software brain behind humanoids, and Agility moves toward a public listing.
No. 023 · Friday, August 21, 2026
China's humanoid sector had its financial coming-out this week: Unitree went public in Shanghai as fresh data showed shipments tripling but mostly still not doing paid work.
No. 022 · Thursday, August 20, 2026
Unitree's blockbuster IPO leads the day, and two Western deployments show what paying work actually looks like.
No. 021 · Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Unitree lists in Shanghai as China's robot conference turns the debate from viral demos to whether these machines earn their keep.
No. 020 · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Chinese humanoid makers are racing to Hong Kong's public markets while fresh factory data separates real deployments from demos.
No. 019 · Monday, August 17, 2026
Quiet news day, but the action is in hardware and hands: 1X put a near-human robot hand on paper while tactile-sensing startups keep raising.
No. 018 · Sunday, August 16, 2026
China's embodied-AI money keeps flowing into world models and joints while US regulators wall off foreign robots.
No. 017 · Saturday, August 15, 2026
Two signals stand out today: Figure's private shares trade below its $39B mark, and Sanctuary claims production-ready AI on industrial arms.
No. 016 · Friday, August 14, 2026
A US county moved first to regulate humanoid deployments the same week two more China robotics rounds landed.
No. 015 · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Fresh capital and a hidden Samsung program dominate today, alongside China moving to certify robots as trained workers.
No. 014 · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
A model-and-deployment day: DeepMind put whole-body control in a robot foundation model while Dexterity and Agility pushed real jobs forward.
No. 013 · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Foundation-model progress and a wave of Chinese embodied-AI rounds lead a busy day for robot brains and capital.
No. 012 · Monday, August 10, 2026
Two fresh things today: Neura's mega-round reshuffles the funding board, and a new arXiv model tackles walking and manipulating at once.
No. 011 · Sunday, August 9, 2026
Deployment and public-market receipts are landing while a new humanoid world-action model shows up on arXiv.
No. 010 · Saturday, August 8, 2026
China's first pure humanoid stock heads to market with real profits, while the US locks the door on foreign robots.
No. 009 · Friday, August 7, 2026
China's AI-hardware marriage got formal: DeepSeek bought into Unitree's IPO to build the robot brain.
No. 008 · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Supply chains and stopgaps: teleop robots raise money while the FCC ban reshapes who can build what.
No. 007 · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
A quiet day: nothing new cleared the bar, mostly recaps of last week's FCC ban and old raises.
No. 006 · Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Policy day: the FCC just walled off the US robot market while capital piles into everyone else.
No. 005 · Monday, August 3, 2026
Washington drew a border around embodied AI while FedEx and BYD posted deployment receipts.
No. 004 · Sunday, August 2, 2026
Washington slammed the door on foreign-made robots the same week DeepMind shipped whole-body robot intelligence.
No. 003 · Thursday, July 30, 2026
Washington just walled off Chinese humanoids while US players staff up and raise like it's their market now.
No. 002 · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Money and management day: fresh robotics capital plus Agility staffing up for its public debut.
No. 001 · Tuesday, July 28, 2026
IPO-plumbing day: Agility keeps stacking public-company hires while the fresh research news stays thin.