Funding rounds, listings, deployments and launches across humanoids and robotics. Each item is dated and links to its source. Updated November 5, 2026.
Agility Robotics became the first US publicly listed pure-play humanoid company after its combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The deal and related financings provide about $465M in gross capital. Digit 5 has more than $300M in committed multi-year orders, subject to milestones.
GlobeNewswire ↗China's state planner rejected the deal for ABB's robotics division, a unit with 7,000 employees and about 500,000 installed robots.
The Robotics Media ↗Led by Veteran Ventures Capital, the round grows Aformic's autonomous forklift and cart business, with a reported $34M forklift-robot backlog.
The Robotics Media ↗At RoboWorld 2026, the Spider robot climbed vertical steel ship hulls with a 30 kg payload for welding and inspection.
The Robotics Media ↗Xiaomi posted footage of humanoids sorting center-console side covers through a full shift at its EV factory. Part counts and success rate over the shift were not disclosed. Xiaomi reported 90.2% success over 3 hours in March.
Electrek ↗Deployments in Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee start in early 2027. Digit has moved over 100,000 totes, per the report.
The Robotics Media ↗The 90 cm robot has 22 degrees of freedom and is described by the company as built entirely in the US.
The Robotics Media ↗402 companies from 17 countries exhibit at KINTEX in Goyang, South Korea, through November 7.
Humanoids Daily ↗KIMM and ETRI opened a facility to generate training data for humanoid AI, part of the K-Moonshot program.
The Robotics Media ↗Bloomberg reported talks to raise about $1B, with Avenir and Lux Capital reportedly leading. The company has not confirmed. Secondary trades valued the company near $11.8B at the end of September.
Startup Fortune ↗Skild trained its S1 model with more than 140 years of simulated soccer in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then transferred the policy to a physical humanoid.
Robotics and Automation News ↗General Catalyst led the pre-seed for the Roger humanoid, built for bomb disposal, mine clearance and other dangerous work, with hardware assembled in Stuttgart.
Tectonic ↗Crunchbase reports the Hangzhou humanoid maker debuted at a $9B valuation. Robotics was 1 of 5 sectors to raise $10B or more in Q3.
Crunchbase News ↗Co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, for kits that turn excavators into self-driving machines.
F-Prime Robotics Roundup ↗Field AI builds a general AI brain for robots in unstructured environments.
F-Prime Robotics Roundup ↗Co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock, for construction robots and large-scale 3D printers.
F-Prime Robotics Roundup ↗Co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, for AI models and grippers using touch as well as vision.
F-Prime Robotics Roundup ↗The milestone coincided with the first phase of a 300+ robot deployment with Chimelong. Units produced are not the same as units installed.
AgiBot ↗The Robotics Metaplant Application Center sits inside Hyundai's Georgia plant, with a roughly tenfold expansion planned for 2027.
Boston Dynamics ↗A 50 lb payload, 9-minute charging and a new cooperative-safety design. Early access in H1 2027, general availability by end of 2027.
Agility Robotics ↗Up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, an initial $3.5B compute commitment with intent to scale past $6B, and a strategic investment in Figure by Nscale.
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