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October 14, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-14/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Agility Robotics' SPAC merger cleared the SEC: the S-4 is effective and Churchill XI shareholders vote Nov 2 — the first US-listed pure-play humanoid…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 13, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-13/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Astribot raised ~RMB 1B at a RMB 15B (~USD 2.1B) valuation — its 4th round in six months, led by Shenzhen state capital, with share reform done and an…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 12, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-12/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UBTECH signs a joint venture with Xiamen C&D targeting at least 10,000 humanoid sales by 2030 — its third industrial channel deal in a week.]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 11, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-11/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TMTPost tallies >RMB 40M (~USD 5.6M) in data-center bids won by AgiBot from centers it part-owns — fresh audit-risk scrutiny ahead of its planned Hong…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 10, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-10/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ultra raised USD 62M and deepened its Physical Intelligence tie-up — warehouse robots-as-a-service economics that humanoid makers cite but have yet to…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 9, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-09/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NVIDIA has discussed investing another USD 1B in Figure AI at a ~USD 38B pre-money valuation (The Information) — roughly flat to its Series C a year ago…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 8, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-08/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics named former Amazon Alexa/AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective Oct 7 — only the third CEO in the company's 34-year history, as…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 7, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-07/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Agility Robotics' first Analyst & Investor Day put mechanics behind its Digit 5 order book: 1,000 robots on a three-year RaaS contract at USD 8,500 per…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 6, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-06/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Shenzhen's Nanshan district wins one of two national intelligent-robot cluster designations; local report claims 343,400 humanoid units produced in 2025…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 5, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-05/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UBTECH claims 16,123 humanoids sold in H1 2026 and revenue up 104% — a figure that collides head-on with IDC's independent tracker count.]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 4, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-04/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FieldAI signed a term sheet to raise USD 700M at a ~USD 10B valuation — five times its mark of a year ago — taking the robot-brain layer to roughly USD…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - October 2, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-10-02/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Figure decommissioned its F.02 fleet by having the robots autonomously jump into a 75-ton arc furnace in Finland — a sim-trained jump policy running at a…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - 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September 26, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-26/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-26/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[China Mobile open-sourced Open-RAIL — a plug-and-play middleware that connects VLA/world-action models to heterogeneous humanoids, smoothing the jitter…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - September 25, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-25/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-25/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[XPENG signed supplier designation agreements at its first robotics supply-chain partner conference (Sept 22) — joint modules, actuators, precision parts…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - September 24, 2026</title><link>https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-24/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://droidhunt.com/news/2026-09-24/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik Robotics, steward of the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework — announced at ROSCon Toronto; MoveIt stays open…]]></description></item><item><title>Humanoid Robotics Morning Brew - 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