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- The most recent wave of humanoid‑robot news centers on rapid commercial scaling and breakthrough technology.
- In late July 2026 the UK‑based company Humanoid announced a $152 million Series A round that pushed its post‑money valuation to $1.35 billion, making it Europe’s first pure‑play humanoid‑robotics unicorn; the funding will fuel a next‑generation wheel‑based platform, a beta rollout to logistics and manufacturing customers in Q4 2026, and the start of mass manufacturing, while its proprietary AI brain KinetIQ moves toward a general‑purpose industrial robot.
- Across the Atlantic, Agility Robotics opened a 60,000‑square‑foot “robot school” in Fremont, California, to expand its Digit biped’s capabilities and deliberately avoid the industry’s talent‑bidding wars, reinforcing its focus on sustained, real‑world work in manufacturing and distribution.
- Meanwhile, Generative Bionics unveiled the Gene.01 humanoid at AMD’s Advancing AI conference, a six‑month development that combines full‑body tactile sensing with physics‑native AI for more nuanced physical interaction, supported by a recent €70 million funding round for production scaling.
- At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, AGIBOT introduced the A3 Ultra, a 1.74 m, 60 kg full‑size humanoid equipped with 51 active degrees of freedom, 5 kg payload per arm, eight‑hour battery life, and a multimodal perception suite that includes lidar, RGB‑D and UWB positioning, positioning it for long‑duration service environments.
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Robot24 Launches as Dedicated News Platform Covering Global Robotics Industry
PRESS RELEASE Plentisoft
Jul. 23, 2026, 12:28 PM
Editorial team delivers daily coverage of humanoid robots, industrial automation, and emerging technologies shaping the sector.
United Arab Emirates, July 23, 2026 -- Finding robotics news used to mean scrolling past phone launches and social media drama hoping something relevant surfaced. Robot24 exists because that stopped making sense. The platform covers robotics - nothing else - and publishes daily. PrimeBOT introduced what it calls the first transformable humanoid robot. Salamanca High School put a humanoid in a classroom as a teaching assistant. Palm Garden built something called Coherence Guard to make service robots act more naturally around people. Each story has implications for where robotics goes next. Missing them means missing context that compounds over time.
Robot24 catches those stories because catching them is the entire operation. No lifestyle section to staff. No cryptocurrency column competing for attention. Just robotics, covered by people who know the companies, recognize the researchers, and understand which announcements matter and which amount to press release theater. Consider what landed in a single week. AGIBOT rolled its 15,000th robot off the production line. XPENG plans to hit 1,000 humanoid units monthly before 2027. BrainCo demonstrated brain-to-robot AI at WAIC 2026. A robot lost its head in what organizers called the world's first robo MMA fight. Another one made kebabs and hand-pulled noodles during a live demonstration in China. These stories landed within days of each other. Keeping up requires someone paying attention full-time.
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