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May 20, 2026
Hyundai commits to 25,000 Atlas humanoids by 2028
PLUS: South Korea's 50.4 billion won hospital humanoid project, Zamenix surgical robot approved, and Rivian-backed Mind Robotics hits $3B valuation
May 18, 2026
Figure's robots sort 50,000 packages in 40-hour livestream
PLUS: Schaeffler's thousands of humanoids by 2032, surgical robots repair 100-micron vessels, and UK military's autonomous microfactories
May 15, 2026
Fanuc shares hit record on Google Gemini partnership
PLUS: Sony's table tennis robot beats elite humans, Bosch's touch-predicting AI, and South Korea's five-finger manipulation breakthrough
May 13, 2026
China builds one humanoid robot every 30 minutes
PLUS: Unitree's transforming mecha switches between 2 and 4 legs, South Korea's $220M AI greenhouse, and Egypt's first autonomous harvester
May 11, 2026
Figure's humanoids read each other's minds making beds
PLUS: rice-sized touch sensor for robots, NVIDIA open-sources humanoid training stack, and Tokyo's fully unmanned robot laboratory
May 8, 2026
Atlas does handstands in first production demo
PLUS: Chinese humanoids deploy at Japanese airports, Europe's 99% accurate farm robot, and J&J's surgical bot targets FDA approval
May 6, 2026
Linkerbot eyes $6B on robotic hand dominance
PLUS: Schaeffler's humanoid order projections, Intel's robotics VP hire, and Hexagon's AEON factory deployment
May 4, 2026
1X launches America's first humanoid robot factory
PLUS: Meta acquires humanoid AI startup, hardware bottlenecks slow robotics race, and humanoid joins SWAT patrols in Shenzhen
May 1, 2026
Figure now ships 1 humanoid per hour
PLUS: Schaeffler orders 1,000 humanoids by 2032, Neuralink's surgical robots automate brain implants, and Hyundai's physical AI expansion