Monthly evidence digest
Humanoid Robot Market Snapshot — April 2025
19 dated items in our coverage for April 2025.
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market.
Built (UTC) · Latest record date: 2025-04-28
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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 (10)
Robot announced date. Year-only and unknown dates are excluded.
- Announcement
Digit Robotics Nezha P01 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Digit Robotics Nezha P01.
Sources (9)
- Dual Mobility Model Nezha P01 (星行侠 Nezha P01) product page ↗
- Shenzhen News report on the launch of 星行侠P2 (includes P01 launch and deployments) ↗
- New Class of Sci-Fi Robots Emerges in Shenzhen (Mike Kalil blog) ↗
- Nanshan company releases dual-form humanoid robot P01 ↗
- Service robots seek jobs at Nanjing application event ↗
- Digit Robotics launches the Nezha P01 ↗
- Nezha P01 demonstrates service roles at AGIC 2025 ↗
- Digit Robotics purchase inquiry ↗
- Shenzhen news coverage of the dual-form P01 launch ↗
- Announcement
Hunan Bilinxing X1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Hunan Bilinxing X1.
Sources (5)
- Announcement
Tiangong Ultra announced →
Announcement date recorded for Tiangong Ultra.
- Announcement
Xuanjing Shennong announced →
Announcement date recorded for Xuanjing Shennong.
Sources (5)
- IT之家: Beijing humanoid robot half marathon entry list ↗
- Revealing the world's first humanoid robot marathon (Lanxiong Sports, via Sina) ↗
- ITBear coverage of Hubei humanoid robots in Wuhan (February 2025) ↗
- Pre-race investment roadshow for humanoid robot teams ↗
- Red Star News interview with Xuanjing Technology at the humanoid half marathon ↗
- Announcement
Xuanjing Xuanyuan announced →
Announcement date recorded for Xuanjing Xuanyuan.
- Announcement
Zhikan Shenjian Huanhuan announced →
Announcement date recorded for Zhikan Shenjian Huanhuan.
- Announcement
AI2 Robotics AlphaBot 2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for AI2 Robotics AlphaBot 2.
Sources (9)
- AI² Robotics Debuts GOVLA-Powered AlphaBot 2 at BRIDGE Summit, Redefining General-Purpose Robotics ↗
- AI² Robotics business inquiry page ↗
- AI² Robotics news (lists the AlphaBot 2 launch article, 18 Apr 2025) ↗
- 最前线|智平方发布全新一代智能机器人AlphaBot 2,宣布自有产线建设 ↗
- AlphaBot 2 catalogue entry (marked Not Verified) ↗
- AlphaBot 2: future humanoid robots (Interesting Engineering) ↗
- Pedaily (投资界) report on AI² Robotics, June 2026 ↗
- About AI² Robotics (founding date and offices) ↗
- AlphaBot 2 hardware introduction ↗
- Announcement
Fourier N1 (Nexus-01) announced →
Announcement date recorded for Fourier N1 (Nexus-01).
- Announcement
X-Humanoid Tiangong 2.0 announced →
Announcement date recorded for X-Humanoid Tiangong 2.0.
Sources (12)
- Tiangong 2.0 report (Chinese government science news, 3 Apr 2025) ↗
- Tiangong Ultra moves toward mass production; Tiangong 2.0 small-batch plans (AFPBB) ↗
- China's half-marathon champion evolves into industrial robot Tiangong 2.0 (AFPBB) ↗
- Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics showcases Tiangong 2.0 at the Sci-Tech Expo ↗
- Tiangong 2.0 Lite user manual: basic parameters ↗
- Tiangong 2.0 Plus user manual: basic parameters ↗
- Tiangong 2.0 Pro user manual: basic parameters ↗
- Humanoid robots move from showcases into factories ↗
- Tiangong 2.0 and Tianyi 2.0 launch for sale on JD.com ↗
- Tiangong 2.0 Lite price and specifications ↗
- USD/CNY historical data for 8 October 2026 ↗
- Services and cooperation ↗
- Announcement
Berkeley Humanoid Lite announced →
Announcement date recorded for Berkeley Humanoid Lite.
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
Noetix N2: $5,513 starting →
press price record · JD spot sales opened in April 2025. USD uses the 14 March 2025 rate used for the headline price.
New deployment records (3)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pilot | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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
Kepler K2 · SAIC-GM →
ended · E1 · unknown units basis. Kepler's April 2025 issuer release says K2 completed multiple rounds of real-world training with SAIC-GM, testing inspection, loading and handling tasks. It identifies no factory, exact test dates, fleet size or paid terms; this record covers completed trials and does not establish ongoing production use.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
Leju KUAVO 5 · FAW Hongqi →
pilot · E1 · unknown units basis. An April 2025 article in The Paper describes Leju's Kuavo robots picking parts and moving loads in FAW Hongqi's final assembly workshop. It attributes the account to Leju's announcements and videos, which describe sustained autonomous operation. The article reports a tender award but does not disclose robot counts, deployment dates or commercial terms.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
UBTECH Walker S (deployed generation unspecified) · Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor →
pilot · E1 · unknown units basis. UBTECH reports Walker S use at Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor; the deployed generation is unspecified. A separate April 2025 government-carried report planned 20 Walker S1 units in the first half of 2025, without confirming delivery.
Timeline claims stated (2)
Claim statedAt date, never its future target date.
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus Gen 2: feature claim →
Musk reaffirmed an expectation of thousands of Optimus robots doing useful work in Tesla factories by the end of 2025. Generation remained unspecified; this is a third-party transcript paraphrase.
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus Gen 2: production start claim →
Tesla reiterated plans for Optimus builds on its Fremont pilot production line in 2025 and wider useful-work deployment across Tesla factories. The statement did not specify a generation or quantity.
Sources (1)
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 (1)
Model released date; this can be an announcement or paper introduction, not necessarily public weights.
- Model release / introduction
π0.5 →
π0.5 extends π0 with heterogeneous co-training for household manipulation in unseen homes. Repository code uses Apache-2.0; Gemma Terms of Use apply to the inherited Gemma model components.
Datasets released (0)
Dataset released date, retaining its publisher's release scope.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Competition result files (1)
Result date for competition benchmarks only. One edition/run file, not one count per competitor; event dates may precede result publication.
- Competition result date
Humanoid robot race (21.0975 km), overall · 2025 →
1 structured competitor entries. Only the winner is listed because the organizer-linked official sources give no full classification with verified times. Twenty teams competed. The rules allowed autonomous, follow-mode, and remotely controlled operation, as well as battery swaps and backup robots. The maker describes UWB-guided following for Tiangong Ultra; the organizer's later retrospective identifies that 2025 run as semi-autonomous.
Sources (5)
- 2027 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon ↗
- Insider Details of Humanoid Robot Marathon Regulations Unveiled ↗
- World's First Humanoid Robot Half Marathon to Be Held in Beijing E-Town! Registration Opens ↗
- Tiangong wins the humanoid half marathon in 2:40:42: race-day control description ↗
- Race opens a new era of embodied intelligence: 2025 semi-autonomous and 2026 autonomous runs ↗
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 (1)
Each capability item's date, with evidence type and source-stated autonomy retained.
- Task evidence date
Tiangong Ultra: Beijing humanoid half-marathon →
competition result · autonomy not stated. Beijing reports Ultra's winning finish. TechCrunch reports three battery changes; the sources do not establish autonomous race navigation.
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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Detail pages are generated for months with at least five dated items, plus the current month to date. Sparse past months are summarised by year on the archive. A current month with fewer than five items is noindex; only generated indexable months appear in the sitemap and Atom feed. Sitemap lastmod uses the latest dated item in that month, preserving month precision when no exact day is known. The Atom feed’s updated date is the UTC build date because every digest is regenerated.