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The Robot Daily · Nov 3, 2026

65 companies building humanoid robots, embodied AI, and the parts that make them work — drawn from The Robot Daily’s own reporting. Each company has its own page, with its full funding history and every story we have published about it.

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Profiles are updated as our coverage grows. Figures are as reported by The Robot Daily; where a fact could not be verified from our reporting or the company’s own public material, it is left out rather than guessed. To suggest a company or a correction, write to contact@therobotdaily.com.

Humanoid Platforms (33)

AgiBot

Shanghai, China · Founded 2023 · agibot.com

AgiBot is China's highest-volume humanoid maker, shipping more than 8,600 humanoids in the first half of 2026 for about 35% of the global market. It builds full-size and wheeled humanoids, dexterous hands, and its own embodied foundation models, deploying robots in factories, retail, hospitality, hospitals, and universities.

Key products: Genie G2, Genie G2 Max, Lingxi X2, Expedition A3, OmniHand 3, GO-3

Agile Robots

Agile Robots

Munich, Germany · Founded 2018 · agile-robots.com

Agile Robots builds AI-powered robots for industry and research, including the compact Agile ONE SN humanoid reference platform developed with NVIDIA.

Key products: Agile ONE SN, WUJI Hand 2

Agility Robotics

Salem, United States · Founded 2015 · agilityrobotics.com

Agility Robotics builds Digit, a humanoid for logistics and warehouse work that has logged more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation with customers including GXO, Schaeffler, and Toyota. Its next-generation Digit 5, backed by more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders, is headed for a Nasdaq listing as AGLT.

Key products: Digit, Digit 5

Latest funding: SPAC merger, $465M (Oct 30, 2026)

AiMOGA Robotics

Wuhu, China · aimoga-robot.com/global/en

AiMOGA Robotics is Chery Group's robotics brand, building humanoid and service robots including the Mobo home companion humanoid. It says its robots are in regular operation across more than 100 use cases, with cumulative deliveries above 3,000 units in more than 60 countries and regions.

Key products: Mobo, Mornine, Argos Pro

Astribot

Astribot

Shenzhen, China · Founded 2022 · astribot.com

Astribot is a Shenzhen embodied-AI company building cable-driven humanoid robots, arguing that rope drives combine sensing, compliance, and precise force feedback for work around people. Its S-series flagship opened thousand-unit-level orders in 2025 and its T1 humanoid began shipping in June 2026.

Key products: S-series, T1

Latest funding: Undisclosed round, $140M (Oct 13, 2026)

Boston Dynamics

Waltham, United States · Founded 1992 · bostondynamics.com

Boston Dynamics, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, builds the Atlas humanoid for factory work alongside the Spot quadruped and Stretch warehouse robot. Its all-electric Atlas is training for automotive manufacturing at Hyundai's Georgia plant, with a US production system planned for 30,000 units a year by 2028.

Key products: Atlas, Spot, Stretch

BYD

Shenzhen, China · Founded 1995 · byd.com

BYD, China's largest EV maker, is developing its own humanoid robot, Xiao Di, a 1.61 m service humanoid with 31 degrees of freedom that debuted at its Di Space experience center in Zhengzhou. The company argues its batteries, motors, and large-scale manufacturing can drive down robot hardware costs.

Key products: Xiao Di

DEEP Robotics

Hangzhou, China · Founded 2017 · deeprobotics.cn

DEEP Robotics built its name on Jueying quadrupeds for power inspection, rescue, and mining, and is now pushing into humanoids with the DR02, which it has field-trialed on traffic-management duty in Hangzhou.

Key products: DR02, Jueying

dyna.co

DYNA Robotics builds semi-humanoid physical agents, including the DYNA 2.1, positioning the robot body as the platform on which embodied-AI software runs.

Key products: DYNA 2.1

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem

ff.com

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem (FFR) is the Nasdaq-listed robotics arm spun out of Faraday Future, building low-cost humanoid robots for developers and classrooms. Its FF Nova biped is priced at $2,490 and the Nova Mini at $299, and the company guided to about 2,000 robot shipments in 2026.

Key products: FF Nova, FF Nova Mini

Latest funding: Acquisition, $200M (Oct 26, 2026)

Figure AI

Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 2022 · figure.ai

Figure AI builds general-purpose humanoid robots for factories, warehouses, and eventually homes, powered by its in-house Helix vision-language-action model. Its Figure 03 is in pilot deployment, including package sorting at BMW, and the company was valued at $39 billion in its September 2025 Series C.

Key products: Figure 03, Figure 02, F.04, Helix

Latest funding: Series C, $1000M (Sep 16, 2025)

HD Hyundai Robotics

South Korea · hd-hyundairobotics.com

HD Hyundai Robotics builds industrial robots and has unveiled a dual-arm robot with a human upper-body form, five-fingered hands, and an in-house vision-language-action model that generates motions from perception rather than pre-programmed scripts. A wheeled mobile platform is planned first, with bipedal mobility to follow.

Honda

Tokyo, Japan · Founded 1948 · global.honda

Honda's robotics program, heir to ASIMO, is developing the Avatar Robot: a teleoperated system pairing a human-scale dexterous hand with AI grasp assistance for remote physical work such as equipment maintenance, medical support, and disaster response.

Key products: Avatar Robot

Knowin

Shenzhen, China · Founded 2025 · knowinai.com

Knowin is a Shenzhen consumer embodied-AI startup building the KNOWIN-X1, a foldable dual-arm home robot, around its GLOW generative embodied model, which the company says can encode a single human demonstration into reusable skills without retraining. It targets mass production in the first quarter of 2027.

Key products: KNOWIN-X1, GLOW

Latest funding: Angel+++, Undisclosed (Oct 11, 2026)

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2025 · minervahumanoids.com

Minerva Humanoids builds Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid for dangerous jobs including oil and gas sites, explosive ordnance disposal, and hazardous-material response. A remote specialist operates it through VR teleoperation while onboard software handles balance, fall recovery, and navigation.

Key products: Roger

Latest funding: Pre-seed, $10M (Oct 6, 2026)

NeodraDynamics

Beijing, China · neodradynamics.com

NeodraDynamics builds giant hydraulic humanoids for heavy industry, including the 4-meter, 1.2-ton Neo1 for dangerous, dirty, difficult and dull work.

Key products: Neo1

NEXFORM

NEXFORM

Hangzhou, China · Founded 2023

NEXFORM builds general-purpose embodied robots, key components and embodied-intelligence application solutions on a modular hardware platform with a developer ecosystem.

Key products: SE, W1

Latest funding: Seed, Undisclosed (Oct 16, 2026)

OlloBot

Hong Kong, China · ollobot.com

OlloBot builds companion robots designed for emotional connection, including the OlloNi SS1, which reads touch, sound and facial expressions.

Key products: OlloNi SS1, OlloBot Gen 2

Rainbow Robotics

Daejeon, South Korea · Founded 2011 · rainbow-robotics.com

Rainbow Robotics, a Samsung subsidiary spun out of KAIST, builds collaborative robots and the RB-Y1 mobile humanoid robot for industrial use.

Key products: RB-Y1

Realbotix

Las Vegas, United States · realbotix.com

Realbotix builds humanoid robots for companionship, education and wellness, including the Echo line with lifelike faces, synthetic skin and conversational AI.

Key products: Echo Tabletop, Echo Full Body, Vinci

Munich, Germany · Founded 2020 · rob.co

RobCo builds autonomous industrial robots, including Alfie, a two-armed self-learning humanoid for variable factory work such as picking, kitting and precision assembly.

Key products: Alfie

Latest funding: Undisclosed round, $100M (Jan 2026)

Samsung Electronics

Suwon, South Korea · Founded 1969 · samsung.com

Samsung Electronics is testing a bipedal humanoid for round-the-clock factory work through its Robotics eXperience division, with dexterous hand technology as a core bet.

Sharpa

Singapore, Singapore · Founded 2024 · sharpa.cn

Sharpa builds general-purpose robots and core components, including tactile dexterous hands, full robot bodies and dexterous-manipulation AI models, for food service, retail and hotel deployment.

Latest funding: Undisclosed round, RMB 4500M (Oct 12, 2026)

Sichuan Embodied Tech

Chengdu, China · Founded 2024 · eir.com.cn

Sichuan Embodied Tech builds full-size humanoid robots, including Tianxingzhe 1 for industrial inspection and emergency response, and the emotion-interaction humanoid EMO1.

Key products: Tianxingzhe 1, EMO1

Latest funding: Pre-A, RMB 100M (Oct 16, 2026)

Somnia Lab

Somnia Lab

Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Founded 2025 · somnia.love

Hong Kong startup building Model L, a stationary intimacy robot with motion-captured movement, touch sensing and body heating. The four-tier line runs from a $300-deposit Basic to a made-to-order Founder Edition, with first deliveries promised for late 2027.

Key products: Model L (intimacy robot)

Tesla

Austin, United States · Founded 2003 · tesla.com

Tesla is developing Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid it says will eventually make up the vast majority of the company's value. Production-quality Optimus robots have started coming off high-volume lines in Fremont, with deliveries to outside customers targeted toward the end of 2027.

Key products: Optimus, Optimus V3

Toyota

Toyota City, Japan · Founded 1937 · global.toyota

Toyota is turning two decades of humanoid research into a factory-first automation plan, with its own humanoids learning tasks from factory workers, including the wheeled ELEY humanoid.

Key products: ELEY, CUE

Tuesday Labs

New York, United States · tuesdaylabs.com

Tuesday Labs is a New York robotics lab and design studio building Voxel, a headless bipedal home robot designed as a droid butler for tidying and fetching.

Key products: Voxel Series-1

Tutor Intelligence

Tutor Intelligence

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States · Founded 2021 · tutorintelligence.com

Tutor Intelligence is a robotics research and deployment company building across the full stack to deploy intelligent robots now. Its Sonny and Cassie robot workers are rented by the hour or by the pick, directed by human tutors and foundation models trained on the work done, and every deployment feeds training data back into the fleet.

Key products: Sonny, Cassie

Latest funding: Series B, $75M (Nov 2, 2026)

UBTech Robotics

Shenzhen, China · Founded 2012 · ubtrobot.com

UBTech builds humanoid and service robots, led by the industrial Walker S series, and develops embodied-AI world models such as Thinker-WM.

Key products: Walker S, Walker S2, Thinker-WM

Unitree Robotics

Hangzhou, China · Founded 2016 · unitree.com

Unitree is the world's highest-volume humanoid and quadruped maker, selling the G1 and H2 humanoid lines and building the software layer for multi-robot fleets.

Key products: G1, H2, H2-X, GD01, UniUni

Xiaomi

Beijing, China · Founded 2010 · mi.com

Xiaomi builds the CyberOne humanoid, now working full 8-hour shifts sorting panels at its Beijing EV plant, and a 21-degree-of-freedom bionic hand for factory work.

Key products: CyberOne humanoid, 21-DoF bionic hand

XPeng

Guangzhou, China · Founded 2014 · xpeng.com

XPeng builds the IRON humanoid robot, which has come off an automated production line in Guangzhou, with mass production targeted for late 2026.

Key products: IRON

Embodied AI (20)

ACE Robotics

ACE Robotics builds embodied foundation models and world models for robots, including a 9-billion-parameter visual-spatial grounding model and a system that turns a few photographs into a 3D training world robots can rehearse in.

Key products: ACE-Brain-0.6, Mundo

Anyverse Dynamics

anyverse.com

Anyverse Dynamics builds open-source world models for robots, including the 7-billion-parameter MWA-Phoenix, which lets a robot predict physical cause and effect from ordinary RGB video alone, with no depth sensor.

Key products: MWA-Phoenix, Phoenix-ILA, Phoenix-PhysCanvas

Archon Robotics

Shanghai, China · Founded 2026 · archon.tech

Archon Robotics, founded in April 2026 by autonomous-driving researchers, builds Whole-Body Intelligence: one AI system that connects task understanding to coordinated full-body motion across different humanoid bodies.

Key products: Whole-Body Intelligence, S1, S0

Latest funding: Seed, Undisclosed (Oct 13, 2026)

BASAL Intelligence

BASAL Intelligence

Beijing, China · Founded 2026

BASAL Intelligence is a Beijing startup building an action-native embodied foundation model that aims to let robots adapt to new tasks in minutes from a few human demonstrations, with model parameters frozen and learning happening in context.

Key products: X-VLA, ODEWorld

Latest funding: Seed, Undisclosed (Oct 10, 2026)

Bleu Robotics

Paris, France · bleu-robotics.com

Bleu Robotics is a Paris software startup building robot-learning models that teach industrial humanoids new tasks from operator demonstrations, aiming for about 20 minutes of training per task instead of months-long integration projects.

Latest funding: Pre-seed, €5M (Oct 29, 2026)

DexForce

DexForce

Shenzhen, China · Founded 2021 · en.dexforce.com

DexForce builds AI software that simulates physical environments and predicts how objects move and interact, training humanoid robots in virtual workplaces before transferring skills to physical machines. It says its software is used by Toyota, Samsung, Panasonic, Foxconn, Haier, and Hisense.

Key products: UNITAS

Latest funding: Series B, RMB 1000M (about $147M) (Oct 15, 2026)

Dream Labs

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2026 · dreamlabs.ai

Dream Labs, founded by former NVIDIA GR00T researchers, builds Dream-1, a foundation model that turns a robot's camera feed and a plain-English instruction into motor commands with no robot-specific training. It offers the model through a public API priced at $3 per hour.

Key products: Dream-1, Dream API

Latest funding: Seed, $90M (Oct 19, 2026)

Eka Robotics

Cambridge, United States · ekarobotics.com

Eka Robotics, founded by an MIT professor and a former Google DeepMind researcher, builds a vision-force-action model that pairs cameras with dense force sensing in a sub-$1,000 gripper, training by reinforcement learning in simulation rather than human demonstrations. It reports about 1,500 picks per hour at above 95% success.

Latest funding: Series A, $150M (Oct 23, 2026)

Formic Technologies

Chicago, United States · Founded 2020 · formic.co

Formic is the commercialization platform for physical AI, delivering robotic automation to US manufacturers through a robots-as-a-service model with no upfront capital.

Key products: Robots-as-a-Service, Physical AI deployment platform

Latest funding: Series B, $50M (Oct 22, 2026)

GEWUAI

Hangzhou, China · Founded 2026

GEWUAI is a Hangzhou startup building an embodied brain for robots around a physical inversion world model that reconstructs tactile signals from video, aiming to give touch sensing the scaling properties of visual data. It is running proofs of concept with customers in textiles, optical modules, and auto parts.

Latest funding: Angel, RMB 100M (about $14M) (Oct 18, 2026)

Maxinsights

Santa Clara, United States · maxinsights.ai

Maxinsights builds the data layer for physical AI, recording first-person footage of real human work through more than 5,000 contractors in six countries and turning it into robot training data. It says it has captured over 2 million hours of footage and serves more than 30 customers, including frontier AI labs.

Key products: MaxLoop, MaxGlove

Latest funding: Seed, $30M (Oct 28, 2026)

Mecka

New York, United States · Founded 2024 · mecka.ai

Mecka builds data infrastructure for robot learning, designing its own multi-sensor capture hardware and running global capture fleets that record human demonstrations in homes and commercial settings. It says it supplies several top frontier robotics labs and surpassed $100 million in run-rate revenue in June 2026.

Key products: EgoVerse

Latest funding: Series B, $60M (Oct 8, 2026)

mindrobotics.com

Mind Robotics is an industrial AI and robotics venture spun out of Rivian with more than $1 billion in backing, building purpose-built factory robots running on foundation models. It deliberately does not chase humanoids, using Rivian's own factories as a live, high-volume training and deployment environment.

MindOn

Shenzhen, China · mindon.tech

MindOn builds Mind-1, a physical AI model designed to run across different robot bodies, from Unitree G1 humanoids to fixed dual-arm stations. It demonstrated the model folding clothes at a claimed 142 garments per hour in a nearly hour-long uncut video.

Key products: Mind-1

Physical Intelligence

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2024 · pi.website

Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose robot foundation models, including the pi0 series, and offers them to developers through the Pi API.

Key products: pi0, pi0.5, Pi API

RoboScience

RoboScience

Beijing, China · Founded 2024

RoboScience builds general-purpose embodied AI: the Visics model, the RoboMirage simulation engine and the REX G1 wheeled humanoid, and offers its models as a cloud service with Tencent Cloud.

Key products: Visics, RoboMirage, REX G1

Latest funding: Series A2, Undisclosed (Nov 2, 2026)

Runway

New York, United States · Founded 2018 · runway.com

Runway builds generative video and world models, and has extended that video pretraining into robotics with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model for robot control.

Key products: Praxis-1, GWM-1

Ruoyu Technology

Ruoyu Technology

Shenzhen, China · Founded 2023

Ruoyu Technology builds the Jiutian robot brain, an intelligence layer designed to move across robot bodies and scenes, starting with autonomous refueling robots.

Key products: Ruoyu Jiutian

Latest funding: Pre-A, RMB 100M (Oct 16, 2026)

Sereact

Stuttgart, Germany · Founded 2021 · sereact.ai

Sereact builds Cortex, a physical AI model that lets robots grasp and handle objects they have never seen before, deployed in warehouse picking and returns sorting.

Key products: Cortex

Latest funding: Series B, $116M (Oct 28, 2026)

Skild AI

Pittsburgh, United States · Founded 2023 · skild.ai

Skild AI builds a single generalist robot brain designed to work across any robot body, with adaptive autonomy software deployed on quadrupeds and other machines.

Sensors & Perception (4)

Enact Intelligence

Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 2026 · enact-intelligence.com

Enact Intelligence is a Zurich physical-AI startup building robots that sense force inside their actuators, like muscle tension, paired with a cortical model that interprets those signals into whole-body awareness of force and physical interaction.

Latest funding: Pre-seed, $30M (Oct 22, 2026)

Hesai

Shanghai, China · Founded 2014 · hesaitech.com

Hesai is a leading LiDAR maker for automotive and robotics applications. Its Kosmo device pairs lidar with cameras to collect real-world spatial data for training humanoid AI, and the company is also developing actuators for robot joints.

Key products: Kosmo

Mech-Mind Robotics

Beijing, China · Founded 2016 · mech-mind.com

Mech-Mind Robotics builds industrial 3D cameras and AI software that give robot arms vision-guided picking, depalletizing, and assembly capabilities. The listed company reported first-half revenue of 237 million yuan with new orders up 75.3%.

synapath.com

Shutu Tech builds tactile data and sensing for embodied AI, supplying the touch data needed to train dexterous manipulation.

Latest funding: Pre-A, RMB 100M (Sep 28, 2026)

Dexterous Hands (2)

ManuPrax Robotics

ManuPrax Robotics

China · Founded 2026

ManuPrax Robotics, founded in September 2026 by two young researchers from Tsinghua and Peking universities, builds an integrated software-and-hardware system for dexterous hands, using reinforcement learning and human demonstrations to teach robots fine manipulation. It raised nearly $10 million across two rounds in its first two months.

Latest funding: Seed, $10M (Nov 2, 2026)

Actuators & Joints (1)

Hyundai Mobis

Seoul, South Korea · Founded 1977 · mobis.com

Hyundai Mobis is Hyundai Motor Group's parts arm and the supplier of the body actuators behind Boston Dynamics' Atlas, with 31 actuators per robot. It plans to unveil the actuator at CES 2027 and pitch it to other humanoid makers, alongside a US plant with annual capacity of 350,000 actuators by 2028.

Key products: Atlas body actuator

Compute (2)

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, United States · Founded 1993 · nvidia.com

NVIDIA supplies the full-stack platform for general-purpose robotics, from the Isaac development platform and Jetson Thor edge compute to Cosmos world models and the Halos safety system.

Key products: Isaac, Isaac OS, Isaac Lab, Jetson Thor, Cosmos

SiMa.ai

San Jose, United States · Founded 2018 · sima.ai

SiMa.ai builds purpose-built edge chips and software for Physical AI, spanning humanoids, automotive and drones.

Latest funding: Series C, $150M (Sep 28, 2026)

Components (2)

FAIRINO

Suzhou, China · Founded 2019 · fairino.com

FAIRINO is a Suzhou collaborative-robot maker that designs and manufactures its own core components, including controllers, encoders, servo drives, harmonic reducers, and servo motors. It is expanding into industrial embodied AI with its ART series of force-controlled arms for humanoid applications.

Key products: FR series, ART series, ART7-R7

Latest funding: Series C+, Undisclosed (Oct 19, 2026)

Schaeffler

Herzogenaurach, Germany · Founded 1946 · schaeffler.com

Schaeffler is an automotive and industrial supplier that mass-produces humanoid robot components, including joint modules and linear and rotary actuators.

Key products: Joint modules, Linear actuators, Rotary actuators

Other (1)

YYForce

Singapore, Singapore · yyforce.ai

YYForce is a workforce solutions and facility management company building robotics capabilities for hospitality, cleaning and security, including a humanoid training center in Singapore.

Source: The Robot Daily reporting, company announcements and company websites. Funding figures as reported; see the funding tracker for round-by-round detail.