AGIBOT shipped the most humanoid robots and won 46 medals, yet carries roughly one-sixth of Unitree's value. Inside the mismatch.
Who took gold at Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games: a roundup of the winning robots and what the scores reveal.
At Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games, robots beat the human 100m record (9.39s), quadrupled entrants, and rewrote the rules on autonomy. What the scoreboard really measures.
China's dexterous hand sector raised RMB 25 billion in H1 2026 yet no standard hand exists: three routes, three 'No. 1' claims, and a $6B valuation target still unclosed.
A German National Academy member and IEEE/AAAI Fellow explains why home robots are the hardest build in embodied AI: world models, touch, and a silent market. Full transcript included.
The day after Unitree's record IPO, founder Wang Xingxing took the WRC 2026 stage to define embodied AI's first quantifiable threshold: 80% of unfamiliar scenes, 80% of tasks.
All 100 officially selected WRC 2026 exhibits, mapped by category: humanoids, quadruped robots, dexterous hands, core components and three industry reads.
WRC 2026 (Aug 19-23, Beijing): 300+ exhibitors, 150+ debuts, 71 side events, 6,000+ teams. Complete schedule and five storylines worth watching.
Humanoids lead WRC 2026's announced lineup. A complete guide to the biped vs wheeled form-factor war and what it signals for embodied AI.
Quadrupeds, arms, exoskeletons and vertical robots at WRC 2026: a complete guide to 50+ non-humanoid machines and the industry structure behind them.