• Humanoid robots are moving rapidly from showcase demos toward commercial deployment, with China leading the market through a booming rental sector that sees units such as Unitree’s androids hired for exhibitions, events and even marriage proposals at roughly 3,000 yuan a day; the company, now the world’s largest humanoid maker, is preparing a Shanghai listing while Beijing’s new nationwide initiative targets more than 100 high‑value application scenarios by the end of the year.
• In the West, AGIBOT unveiled its A3 humanoid in Europe and launched a robot‑as‑a‑service model in the United Kingdom to handle customer attraction, reception and smart‑retail tasks, while BMW announced the deployment of Figure 03 at its Spartanburg plant for logistics sequencing, building on a pilot that saw its predecessor assemble over 30,000 vehicles.
• Agility Robotics is set to go public via a SPAC merger, positioning itself as the only U.S. publicly listed pure‑play humanoid company with active commercial customers such as Amazon and Toyota.
• Meanwhile, Genesis AI introduced Eno, a wheeled general‑purpose robot with dexterous hands and a foundation‑model brain, aiming for industrial and laboratory rollouts by the end of 2026, and analysts at Roland Berger project the global humanoid‑robot manufacturing market could reach $750 billion by 2035 as labor shortages drive adoption, though they caution that safety standards and harmonised legislation will be critical for widespread industrial use.

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