Monthly evidence digest
Humanoid Robot Market Snapshot — July 2026
39 dated items in our coverage for July 2026.
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market.
Built (UTC) · Latest record date: 2026-07-30
Headline numbers
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 (15)
Robot announced date. Year-only and unknown dates are excluded.
- Announcement
BYD Xiao Di announced →
Announcement date recorded for BYD Xiao Di.
- Announcement
Fourier GR Mini announced →
Announcement date recorded for Fourier GR Mini.
- Announcement
RealMan RealBot L2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for RealMan RealBot L2.
- Announcement
RealMan RealBot S2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for RealMan RealBot S2.
- Announcement
ZTE Xingqing announced →
Announcement date recorded for ZTE Xingqing.
Sources (4)
- ZTE Xing-series humanoid robots and embodied-AI solution at WAIC 2026 (IT之家, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE presents its self-developed multi-form humanoid lineup at WAIC 2026 (Chinese) ↗
- 中兴通讯星系列人形机器人及具身智能解决方案亮相 WAIC2026 (财闻, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE investor-relations reply on the humanoid lineup, 8 Oct 2026, reported by 财闻 (Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
ZTE Xingwang announced →
Announcement date recorded for ZTE Xingwang.
Sources (4)
- ZTE Xing-series humanoid robots and embodied-AI solution at WAIC 2026 (IT之家, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE presents its self-developed multi-form humanoid lineup at WAIC 2026 (Chinese) ↗
- 中兴通讯星系列人形机器人及具身智能解决方案亮相 WAIC2026 (财闻, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE investor-relations reply on the humanoid lineup, 8 Oct 2026, reported by 财闻 (Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
ZTE Xingzai announced →
Announcement date recorded for ZTE Xingzai.
Sources (4)
- ZTE Xing-series humanoid robots and embodied-AI solution at WAIC 2026 (IT之家, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE presents its self-developed multi-form humanoid lineup at WAIC 2026 (Chinese) ↗
- 中兴通讯星系列人形机器人及具身智能解决方案亮相 WAIC2026 (财闻, Chinese) ↗
- ZTE investor-relations reply on the humanoid lineup, 8 Oct 2026, reported by 财闻 (Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
Booster T2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Booster T2.
Sources (10)
- Booster T2 product page ↗
- Booster Robotics Unveils Booster T2, Its Flagship Humanoid Platform for Embodied AI Development ↗
- Booster T2 product listing (Humanoid.guide) ↗
- Booster Robotics store and sales inquiry page ↗
- Booster Robotics company timeline ↗
- Booster Robotics news timeline ↗
- Booster T2 documentation overview ↗
- Booster Robotics Chinese homepage (native T2 name) ↗
- Booster T2 is now available. ↗
- Booster Robotics official website (YouTube channel link) ↗
- Announcement
UMA Northstar announced →
Announcement date recorded for UMA Northstar.
Sources (6)
- UMA: the LeRobot creator challenges Tesla from Paris (Korben, French) ↗
- UMA humanoid robot unveiling coverage (Electrek) ↗
- Futura-Sciences: UMA humanoid prototype presented after nine months (French) ↗
- UMA company profile and Northstar entry (Humanoids Daily) ↗
- UMA official website ↗
- UMA unveils a humanoid robot designed to earn Europe's trust ↗
- Announcement
Kepler K3 Bumblebee announced →
Announcement date recorded for Kepler K3 Bumblebee.
- Announcement
Kepler K3W announced →
Announcement date recorded for Kepler K3W.
- Announcement
MagicLab MagicBot D1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for MagicLab MagicBot D1.
- Announcement
Run Robotics Centaur announced →
Announcement date recorded for Run Robotics Centaur.
Sources (5)
- IT之家: 润科具能 unveils world's first centaur (半人马) robot at WAIC 2026 ↗
- Run Robotics centaur wheel-leg robot at WAIC 2026 ↗
- Embodied intelligence innovations from Pudong to shine at WAIC 2026 ↗
- Run Robotics publicly shows its first Centaur robot ↗
- Runyang Technology notice on capital increase in Run Robotics (Gelonghui, in Chinese) ↗
- Announcement
Shanghai Electric TUOYUAN announced →
Announcement date recorded for Shanghai Electric TUOYUAN.
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 (2)
Each dated priceHistory entry, including initial prices, targets and subscriptions. An entry does not necessarily establish an amount change.
- Price-history entry
Foundation Phantom: $100,000 estimated →
press price record · Annual industrial lease reported by Reuters; the headline price is its monthly equivalent, so compare per year
- Price-history entry
Foundation Phantom: $300,000 estimated →
press price record · Reuters: robots sold to the government at US$300,000 a unit; the model variant is not named in the report
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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Commercial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Production | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ended | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
BYD Xiao Di · BYD →
pilot · E1 · unknown units basis. CLS reported BYD's plan for a humanoid debut at Di Space Zhengzhou in July 2026; an August report in Interesting Engineering identifies Xiao Di and says it had debuted at the venue. This supports reported showroom use, but no exact start date, unit count, commercial contract or party-stated operating mode is disclosed.
- Earliest month-dated source disclosure; start unknown
TetraBOT Tiankui 1 · Undisclosed hazardous-chemicals company (Jiangsu Province) →
production · E1 · unknown units basis. A Nanjing Qilin park article reports Tiankui 1 on duty at an unnamed hazardous-chemicals company in Jiangsu. It describes autonomous-patrol and valve-closing capabilities without a deployment-specific operating-mode statement from maker or customer; no unit count or exact start date is disclosed.
- Deployment start
Donut Robotics Cinnamon 1 · Charm Care →
pilot · E2 · unknown units basis. Donut Robotics and Charm Care's August 2026 joint release says Cinnamon 1 has been used experimentally in a Charm Care nursing home since July 2026, mainly for conversations with residents. Nurse-call response and other support functions are future work; the capital alliance does not disclose a paid robot deployment contract or unit count.
Timeline claims stated (1)
Claim statedAt date, never its future target date.
- Claim stated
Tesla Optimus V3: production start claim →
Tesla expected Fremont Optimus production to begin soon, during 2026. It said the initial builds would serve the Optimus Academy for data collection and development; customer shipments were not promised.
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 (8)
Each policy timeline entry's date; future effective dates do not enter a month-to-date report.
- Policy timeline event
FCC advanced robotic devices: DA 26-786 added the foreign-produced advanced robotic device category to the Covered List. →
US · Federal Communications Commission
- Policy timeline event
FCC advanced robotic devices: DA 26-789 issued the limited software/firmware permissive-change waiver. →
US · Federal Communications Commission
- Policy timeline event
EU AI Act: robotics: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force, including the machinery sectoral approach. →
EU · European Parliament and Council of the European Union
- Policy timeline event
EU Machinery Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force, adding the machinery AI-safety delegation and transitional conformity provisions. →
EU · European Parliament and Council of the European Union
- Policy timeline event
FCC advanced robotic devices: The interagency body sent the FCC the national-security determinations; robotics conditional-approval guidance is dated this day. →
US · Federal Communications Commission
- Policy timeline event
EU AI Act: robotics: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 published, amending the AI and Machinery Regulations. →
EU · European Parliament and Council of the European Union
- Policy timeline event
GUARD Act of 2026: Included in the subcommittee's legislative hearing. →
US · US Congress
- Policy timeline event
ISO/CD 25785-1: Committee Draft comment period closed. →
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 (4)
Model released date; this can be an announcement or paper introduction, not necessarily public weights.
- Model release / introduction
Gemini Robotics 2 →
Gemini Robotics 2 extends VLA control to humanoid walking, reaching and manipulation. Google DeepMind reports a shared checkpoint on Apollo 2 with different hands and on Franka Duo, with access limited to early-access partners.
- Model release / introduction
Gemini Robotics ER 2 →
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is the high-level reasoning agent in the Gemini Robotics 2 system. It plans task sequences, coordinates VLA execution and robot collaboration, and tracks progress; Google offers it through AI Studio.
- Model release / introduction
Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 →
Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 is a local VLA with multi-embodiment motion-transfer training. The announcement demonstrates adaptation to Dexmate, SO101 and Trossen platforms and limits availability to early-access partners.
- Model release / introduction
LingBot-VLA 2.0 →
LingBot-VLA 2.0 expands the training mixture, action representation and predictive-dynamics objectives of LingBot-VLA. Its native-depth checkpoint uses Qwen3-VL, and the repository reports real manipulation results on Galaxea R1 Pro.
Datasets released (0)
Dataset released date, retaining its publisher's release scope.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Competition result files (3)
Result date for competition benchmarks only. One edition/run file, not one count per competitor; event dates may precede result publication.
- Competition result date
Large division (final ranking, Humanoid Soccer League) · 2026-large →
3 structured competitor entries. Podium ranks and final-day match scores are from the official results page. Booster Robotics' post-event release and the teams' official specification papers identify Booster T1 as the platform used by all three podium teams. The world championship ran from 30 June to 6 July in Incheon, South Korea; podium-deciding matches were played on 5 July. League-wide awards included Best Customized Humanoid for HERoEHS (ALICE 4th version) and Best Humanoid Software for B-Human.
Sources (7)
- Results 2026 (Humanoid Soccer League) ↗
- Humanoid Soccer League (HSL) ↗
- Booster Robotics humanoid robots claim all championship titles at RoboCup 2026 ↗
- Tsinghua Hephaestus 2026 team specifications ↗
- CAU Mountain&Sea 2026 team specifications ↗
- Water 2026 team specifications ↗
- Humanoid Soccer League: Call for Participation | RoboCup 2026 ↗
- Competition result date
Middle division (final ranking, Humanoid Soccer League) · 2026-middle →
3 structured competitor entries. Podium ranks and final-day match scores are from the official results page. Booster Robotics' post-event release and the teams' official specification papers identify Booster K1 as the platform used by all three podium teams. The world championship ran from 30 June to 6 July in Incheon, South Korea; podium-deciding matches were played on 5 July.
Sources (7)
- Results 2026 (Humanoid Soccer League) ↗
- Humanoid Soccer League (HSL) ↗
- Booster Robotics humanoid robots claim all championship titles at RoboCup 2026 ↗
- B-Human 2026 team specifications ↗
- HTWK Robots 2026 team specifications ↗
- Rhoban 2026 team specifications ↗
- Humanoid Soccer League: Call for Participation | RoboCup 2026 ↗
- Competition result date
Small division (final ranking, Humanoid Soccer League) · 2026-small →
3 structured competitor entries. Podium ranks and final-day match scores are from the official results page. The 2026 world championship ran from 30 June to 6 July in Incheon, South Korea; podium-deciding matches were played on 5 July. The 2026 format replaced KidSize and AdultSize with Small, Middle and Large divisions. Invic and GeoHBots' qualification documents showed different pre-event platforms, so the post-event Booster Robotics identification of the robots actually used takes precedence.
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 (3)
Each capability item's date, with evidence type and source-stated autonomy retained.
- Task evidence date
1X NEO: Using a screwdriver with the updated hand →
maker claim · autonomy not stated. 1X lists screwdriver use for its July 2026 hand configuration. The text supplies no control-mode disclosure or task success measurement.
Sources (1)
- Task evidence date
1X NEO: Wiping with spray and a paper towel →
maker claim · autonomy not stated. 1X lists wiping with spray and a paper towel for the July 2026 hand configuration. The article does not disclose the task's control mode or cleaning coverage.
Sources (1)
- Task evidence date
1X NEO: Pouring tea from a kettle with the July 2026 hands →
maker claim · autonomy not stated. 1X lists kettle pouring for the updated hands. This describes beverage handling and does not establish heating water or preparing a complete meal.
Sources (1)
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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