Monthly evidence digest
Humanoid Robot Market Snapshot — May 2026
14 dated items in our coverage for May 2026.
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market.
Built (UTC) · Latest record date: 2026-05-31
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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.
- Price-history entry
LimX Luna: $37,943 starting →
official price record · Launch offer: RMB 40,000 off the RMB 298,000 retail price for the first 100 customers, while supplies last. Converted at 6.7996 CNY per USD.
Qualifies: Official price-history record
Robot announcements (7)
Robot announced date. Year-only and unknown dates are excluded.
- Announcement
JAKA π announced →
Announcement date recorded for JAKA π.
- Announcement
Astribot T1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Astribot T1.
Sources (7)
- Astribot T1 product listing (Humanoid.guide) ↗
- Astribot debuts $18,000 T1 humanoid in North America at IROS 2026 with Lumo-2 (AI Weekly, summarising Robotics and Automation News) ↗
- Astribot official website ↗
- Astribot Series B coverage (36Kr Japan) ↗
- Astribot brings T1 to North America ↗
- Astribot T1 launched from CNY 89,900 ↗
- Astribot T1 is here. Create freely. Shine anywhere. ↗
- Announcement
KEENON XMAN-L1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for KEENON XMAN-L1.
Sources (8)
- XMAN-L1 | KEENON Robotics product page ↗
- China service humanoid robot Keenon (XMAN-L1 launch coverage) ↗
- Keenon Robotics Unveils Compact Humanoid Robot XMAN-L1 ↗
- 擎朗智能正式发布小尺寸人形机器人 XMAN-L1 (XMAN-L1 launch report) ↗
- Keenon unveils XMAN-L1 service robot ↗
- KEENON XMAN-L1 (Kido) is open for business performances ↗
- KEENON Showcased its General-Purpose + Specialized Robot Ecosystem at LEAP East 2026 ↗
- XMAN-L1 performs at the 2026 Inclusion Conference on the Bund event (Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
LimX Luna announced →
Announcement date recorded for LimX Luna.
Sources (8)
- LimX Luna User Manual (version 1.2, revision of 2026-08-17) ↗
- LimX Dynamics Launches All-New Full-Size Humanoid Robot Luna, Redefining Interactive Robots ↗
- LimX Luna product page ↗
- FRED series EXCHUS: Chinese Yuan Renminbi to U.S. Dollar spot rate (CSV extract) ↗
- LimX Luna SDK development guide ↗
- LimX Luna Chinese product page ↗
- LimX Luna Official Launch Event ↗
- LimX Dynamics official website (YouTube channel link) ↗
- Announcement
UBTech Walker C1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for UBTech Walker C1.
Sources (7)
- Announcement
Tianji Gento Luna announced →
Announcement date recorded for Tianji Gento Luna.
- Announcement
Tianji Gento Skye announced →
Announcement date recorded for Tianji Gento Skye.
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
LimX Luna: $37,943 starting →
official price record · Launch offer: RMB 40,000 off the RMB 298,000 retail price for the first 100 customers, while supplies last. Converted at 6.7996 CNY per USD.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pilot | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Commercial | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ended | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
Humanoid HMND 01 · Robert Bosch GmbH →
ended · E1 · unknown units basis. Humanoid reports a completed March 2026 proof of concept in Bühl, where HMND 01 autonomously moved five box sizes from conveyors to a trolley. Its release includes a Bosch representative's quotation about the broader collaboration and separately announces Bosch as a contract manufacturer. That quotation does not independently confirm the site-specific trial, and the manufacturing agreement is not a robot purchase or paid deployment at this site.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
Humanoid HMND 01 · Schaeffler →
announced · E3 · unknown units basis. Humanoid announced a binding phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler on a robot-as-a-service basis in May 2026. Initial operation is planned for December 2026 through June 2027 in Herzogenaurach and Schweinfurt; the four-digit wheeled fleet by 2032 is a target, not an installed count or a disclosed exact order. No actual operating start date or pricing is given.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
RobotEra humanoids (customer-fleet models unidentified) · China Post and SF Group →
commercial · E1 · unknown units basis. RobotEra's May 2026 release claims deployments at more than ten logistics centers with China Post and SF Group. An illustration shows an M7 sorting parcels, but the release does not map that model or task to either fleet, identify sites or countries, disclose unit counts or commercial terms, or include customer confirmation.
Timeline claims stated (0)
Claim statedAt date, never its future target date.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
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 (1)
Each policy timeline entry's date; future effective dates do not enter a month-to-date report.
- Policy timeline event
ISO/CD 25785-1: Committee Draft consultation initiated. →
INTL · ISO/TC 299 — Robotics
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
Wall-OSS-0.5 →
Wall-OSS-0.5 co-trains action and multimodal prediction using Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct. The report labels the model 4B but describes the full architecture as over 4B, so an exact total is not assigned; independently stated checkpoint license terms were not established.
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 (1)
Each capability item's date, with evidence type and source-stated autonomy retained.
- Task evidence date
Dexmate Vega: Bimanual box-rotation task (RotateBox-Pitch) learned from a single demonstration →
paper · autonomy not stated. PGDG reports RotateBox-Pitch success of 82%, compared with 35% for spatial-only augmentation, in zero-shot real-world transfer. The full preprint specifies 40 trials per task with randomized initial states and notes object slipping as a hardware failure mode. Dexmate identifies the platform as Vega and describes the source demonstration as teleoperated. The learned-policy evaluation has no explicit autonomy label.
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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