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Humanoid robotics startups have raised roughly $8.6 billion in 2026 to date, about 1.8 times the total raised across all of 2025, according to funding trackers covering the sector.

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on 15 September 2026, the fifth generation of its general-purpose humanoid, positioned as the company's first machine engineered for what it calls cooperatively safe work at scale.

Unitree Robotics has published UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a new version of its general-purpose embodied foundation model, releasing training code, inference code and model weights openly. The company reports state-of-the-art results across several benchmarks among open-source models.

The second World Humanoid Robot Games were held in Beijing from 22 to 26 August 2026, drawing more than 2,000 robots from over 600 teams across 16 countries.

Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2 on 30 July 2026, an upgrade to its embodied reasoning model family, made available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.