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ROBOTNESS has published 38 stories about Figure AI since Jan 5, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 5, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Figure AI

Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Market
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
Product
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Type
Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
Date
Sep 14, 2026
Type
Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video
Date
Sep 10, 2026
Type
Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million
Date
Sep 8, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss
Date
Sep 4, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model
Date
Sep 3, 2026
Type
Partnership
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Business
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS
Date
Aug 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Market
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Type
Funding
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Policy
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal
Date
Jun 30, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE
Date
Jun 24, 2026
Type
M&A
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet
Date
Jun 10, 2026
Type
Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027
Date
Apr 30, 2026
Type
Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
M&A
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot
Date
Jan 14, 2026
Type
Funding
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product

Headline	Date	Type
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work	Sep 30, 2026	Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says	Sep 29, 2026	Market
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it	Sep 28, 2026	Product
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids	Sep 21, 2026	Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering	Sep 14, 2026	Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video	Sep 10, 2026	Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million	Sep 8, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss	Sep 4, 2026	Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model	Sep 3, 2026	Partnership
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%	Aug 28, 2026	Business
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise	Aug 28, 2026	Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS	Aug 24, 2026	M&A
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings	Aug 19, 2026	Market
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in	Jul 21, 2026	Funding
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says	Jul 20, 2026	Policy
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal	Jun 30, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE	Jun 24, 2026	M&A
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet	Jun 10, 2026	Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027	Apr 30, 2026	Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas	Apr 22, 2026	Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it	Apr 15, 2026	M&A
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot	Jan 14, 2026	Funding
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028	Jan 5, 2026	Product

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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