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French startup Genesis AI released GENE-26.5, its first foundation model for humanoid robots. The robot autonomously performs tasks like cracking eggs, cutting tomatoes, making smoothies, solving Rubik's cubes, and organizing cables. It uses large-scale human operation data pretraining with simulation closed-loop evaluation.
Unitree Technology has fully opened its official UniStore shared app platform. It is the world's first app store dedicated to humanoid robot task and action applications. This enables global developers to share and access robot behaviors.
Tsinghua University spinout Wujie Power, a humanoid robot startup, raised over $200M in angel-stage funding. Key investors include Sequoia China, Linear Capital, Hillhouse, Baidu Ventures, and SF Express. This positions it as a unicorn in China's robotics scene.
Hyundai Motor Co.’s robotics unit released a video of its production-ready Atlas humanoid robot performing complex gymnastics. This marks the first live demonstration of such capabilities. The demo signals the robot is nearing commercialization.
Kinetix AI unveiled its first full-size humanoid robot KAI, 173cm tall and 70kg, with 115 degrees of freedom and 18,000 tactile sensors across its body. The launch featured two KAI robots autonomously presenting via dialogue. It integrates KAI World Model for world understanding, learning, and interaction.
Magic Atom unveiled Magic-Mix world model, MagicHand H01 dexterous hand, and flagship humanoid MagicBot X1 at GEIS conference on April 28. Company targets $14B revenue by 2036. Plans $1B investment over five years for robot development ecosystem.
Japan Airlines starts trialing Unitree G1 humanoid robots at Haneda Airport from May to help ground staff with baggage and cargo. This counters tourist surge—over 7M visitors in Jan-Feb 2026—and labor shortages from aging population. Japan may need 6.5M+ foreign workers by 2040.
San Francisco startup Foundation Future Industries, founded in April 2024, secured $24M in contracts from US Army, Navy, and Air Force to test humanoid robots for breaching enemy positions. The Phantom MK-1 is a 5-foot-9, 176-pound robot with 19 upper-body degrees of freedom and five-fingered hands. It prioritizes camera-first vision.
Honor’s humanoid robot Lightning finished a 13-mile half-marathon in 50:26, halving the prior robot record and beating the human world record of 57:20. Developed in one year with 90-95cm legs mimicking elite runners and liquid cooling from Honor smartphones. It outpaced all 12,000 human runners.
Siemens, Nvidia, and Humanoid deployed AI-powered wheeled humanoid robot HMND 01 Alpha at Erlangen factory. It completed over 8 hours of autonomous tote-handling at 60 moves/hour with >90% pick-and-place success. Integrated directly into live logistics operations.