Monthly evidence digest
Humanoid Robot Market Snapshot — January 2025
12 dated items in our coverage for January 2025.
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market.
Built (UTC) · Latest record date: 2025-01-31
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Notable by recorded evidence
The latest 10 matching items: deployments at E3 or higher in pilot, commercial or production stages (excluding order/capacity rows); official price-history records; and timeline resolutions marked met or slipped. Sorted by record date, then stable record ID. No editorial scoring.
No dated items meet this rule in our coverage for this month.
Robot announcements (4)
Robot announced date. Year-only and unknown dates are excluded.
- Announcement
Foundation Phantom announced →
Announcement date recorded for Foundation Phantom.
Sources (7)
- Phantom (Foundation product page) ↗
- Foundation (company home page) ↗
- Trump-Linked Startup Tests Humanoid Robots for Future Military Missions ↗
- Humanoid robot ditches war to DJ ↗
- Military robot DJ (Futurism) ↗
- San Francisco's hottest new DJ is a literal war machine ↗
- Eric Trump-backed Foundation partners with AMD to develop humanoid robots ↗
- Announcement
Hunan Chaoneng Xiangjiang 1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Hunan Chaoneng Xiangjiang 1.
Sources (5)
- Xiangjiang 1 health-companion humanoid launch (Chinese) ↗
- Hunan Chaoneng official website and Xiangjiang 1 profile (Chinese) ↗
- Xiangjiang 1 with locally deployed DeepSeek model (Chinese) ↗
- Xiangjiang 1 moxibustion demonstration (Chinese and English) ↗
- Hunan industry department report on Xiangjiang 1 testing and DeepSeek deployment (Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
Pollen Reachy 2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Pollen Reachy 2.
Sources (11)
- Reachy 2 - The open-source humanoid for embodied AI ↗
- Reachy 2 Specifications: Key Features, Architecture & Dimensions ↗
- Motors & Actuators specifications ↗
- Grippers specifications ↗
- Pollen Robotics unveils Reachy 2 at CES 2025 ↗
- Now On Sale For $70,000: The World's First Factory Ready Open-Source Humanoid Robot ↗
- Reachy 2 Mobile Base Specifications ↗
- Reachy 2 Dual Arms with Mobile Base Datasheet ↗
- Reachy 2 Safety Guidelines ↗
- Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition ↗
- Contact - Pollen Robotics ↗
- Announcement
TetraBOT Tiankui 1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for TetraBOT Tiankui 1.
Documented catalog additions (0)
News publication date for an explicit robot record creation (field record, from null). One earliest addition per robot; specification additions do not qualify.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Price-history records (1)
Each dated priceHistory entry, including initial prices, targets and subscriptions. An entry does not necessarily establish an amount change.
- Price-history entry
EngineAI SA01: $5,300 msrp →
press price record · Selling price reported by Science and Technology Board Daily; USD conversion was approximately CNY 7.26 per USD
New deployment records (2)
Start date; if absent, the earliest month-dated source publication as a disclosure date. Counts are records, not deployed units. Stage and evidence describe the current ledger at this build.
| Stage | E0 | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pilot | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Commercial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ended | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
UBTech Walker S1 · Foxconn →
ended · E1 · unknown units basis. A January 2025 vendor-sourced report says Walker S1 completed two months of training at Foxconn in Longhua, Shenzhen. It separately describes future partnership tasks; those tasks are not established as completed at this site. Exact trial dates and robot counts are undisclosed.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
UBTech Walker S1 · Foxconn →
announced · E0 · unknown units basis. A January 2025 vendor-sourced report planned subsequent Walker S1 factory training in Zhengzhou under the Foxconn partnership. It does not establish that this next phase occurred or disclose its dates, tasks or robot count.
Timeline claims stated (3)
Claim statedAt date, never its future target date.
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus Gen 2: feature claim →
Musk expected several thousand Optimus robots to perform useful work in Tesla factories by year-end 2025. He did not specify a hardware generation; this is read through a third-party transcript.
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus Gen 2: production start claim →
Tesla planned Optimus pilot production in 2025. This was a program-level statement made during Gen 2 development; it did not name the generation to be manufactured.
Sources (1)
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus Gen 2: volume claim →
Musk described an internal 2025 plan for roughly 10,000 Optimus builds, while doubting the exact total and expressing confidence in several thousand. Generation was unspecified; this is a third-party transcript paraphrase.
Timeline claims resolved (0)
Claim resolvedAt date with a recorded non-pending outcome. Statements and resolutions are separate dated items.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Market figures published (0)
PublishedAt date for estimates, forecasts, company reports, capacity and funding, retaining each kind and metric. Figures are never summed.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Policy timeline events (0)
Each policy timeline entry's date; future effective dates do not enter a month-to-date report.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Security advisories disclosed (0)
DisclosedAt date, not vendor response or verification dates.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Models released / introduced (2)
Model released date; this can be an announcement or paper introduction, not necessarily public weights.
- Model release / introduction
π0-FAST →
π0-FAST is an autoregressive VLA using frequency-domain action tokenization, with base and DROID fine-tuned checkpoints in openpi. Repository code uses Apache-2.0; Gemma Terms of Use apply to the inherited Gemma model components.
- Model release / introduction
Cosmos 1.0 Diffusion 7B Text2World →
This Cosmos 1.0 checkpoint generates video worlds from text using a diffusion transformer. It is a world-generation model for physical AI development; the parameter count and modalities here apply specifically to the 7B Text2World variant.
Datasets released (0)
Dataset released date, retaining its publisher's release scope.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Competition result files (0)
Result date for competition benchmarks only. One edition/run file, not one count per competitor; event dates may precede result publication.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
News articles published (0)
PublishedAt's own calendar date, not the updatedAt or verification date. One count per article.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Task evidence records (0)
Each capability item's date, with evidence type and source-stated autonomy retained.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Calendar events started (0)
Event ledger start date. Future events are excluded until that date; these are calendar records, not a new-event announcement count.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Method and coverage limits
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market. Month buckets use the record’s own date string, including an article’s written timezone date. We never convert it to another timezone. Month-precision dates are retained; year-only and unknown dates cannot be assigned to a month. Exact dates after the build date are excluded, including future dates within the current month.
Verification dates are not announcements, releases or record-creation dates and do not enter these totals. The catalog has no addedAt field: only explicit robot record creations documented in news count as additions. A robot can appear in both announcements and additions; totals count dated ledger items, not unique robots or independent market events.
Deployments without a start date use the earliest source publication with month precision as a disclosure date, visibly labelled on the item. Undated deployments are excluded. Evidence grades and stages describe the current ledger, so a later verification or reclassification may change a past report’s breakdown.
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