Milestones · July 3, 2026

AGIBOT ships 15,000th robot, claiming the volume lead in embodied AI deployment

The Chinese firm's G2 units are now working tablet production lines — real deployments, not demos.

Entertainment · July 3, 2026

Seoul's Galaxy Robot Park opens reservations for a theme park built around robot performance

K-pop robot ensembles and robot boxing in a dedicated arena — a test of whether robot performance can carry a permanent venue.

Funding · June 30, 2026

X Square Robot hits $2.8B valuation after four consecutive funding rounds

Foundation models plus hardware plus a data pipeline — the full-stack thesis keeps attracting capital.

Research · June 29, 2026

General Intuition raises $320M to train robots inside video game worlds

World models trained on game data are becoming a serious alternative to costly real-world teleoperation.

Policy · June 28, 2026

Bipartisan push for a US National Commission on Robotics advances in Congress

Washington starts treating physical AI as strategic infrastructure.

Digital Humans · June 27, 2026

The avatar layer: why entertainment companies are building embodied AI's front end

A look at the studios and agencies — from Soul Machines to Korea's AI-avatar players — turning synthetic humans into products.

Hardware · June 26, 2026

Unitree's price war is doing more for adoption than any breakthrough paper

Sub-$20k quadrupeds are seeding a hardware ecosystem the way cheap GPUs once seeded deep learning.

Entertainment · June 25, 2026

Robot boxing is becoming a real spectator format

From Unitree's kickboxing bouts to arena events in Hangzhou and Seoul, combat is the first robot sport with paying audiences.