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Washington tightened restrictions on Chinese drones and advanced robots this summer, but five Chinese firms shipped 86% of humanoids in H1 2026.
Unitree's $66B IPO cratered nearly 50% while Actuate drew 1,500 builders debating vertical focus, hardware co-design, and the elusive ChatGPT moment for robots.
The $13,500 Chinese humanoid is dancing at World Cup parties and racking up billions of views — but most operators are still teleoperating it.
The sweeping import ban covers humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots — hitting Unitree just as it targets a $6 billion IPO.
UC San Diego surgeons remotely controlled $13,500 humanoid robots to perform two minimally invasive operations, published in Nature.
The Swiss startup, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, stacks reinforcement learning across every layer to make humanoids work without a human puppeteer.
The startup pays operators to wear VR rigs and steer factory humanoids, harvesting the teleoperation data needed to make the bots autonomous.
Agility's Jonathan Hurst and Berkeley's Sergey Levine say viral humanoid clips routinely mask human control, replayed environments, and sped-up footage.
Jensen Huang's blueprint puts a Thor T5000 brain inside a 6-foot, 150-pound Chinese-built body — and undercuts rival humanoids on price.
The Hangzhou robotics maker known for cheap humanoids is now selling a wall-smashing piloted mecha — and yes, it is a real product.
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