Robotics & Embodied AI
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Zeroth Robotics M1 & W1: A $2,899 Humanoid and a $4,999 Cargo Bot Ship This Week
A startup nobody heard of at CES 2026 is now shipping two AI robots to U.S. doorsteps — this week. Zeroth Robotics’ M1 and W1 start arriving April 15, 2026. The M1 is a 19.4-inch tall home companion humanoid with 20 degrees of freedom. It walks on two legs at 0.05 m/s or rolls on… Continue reading
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Xpeng IRON: 82 Degrees of Freedom, 2,250 TOPS, and an Open SDK for Developers
Xpeng’s IRON is a full-size humanoid robot standing 178 cm tall with 82 active degrees of freedom — 22 per hand alone. It runs on three proprietary Turing AI chips pushing 2,250 TOPS, powered by a VLT (Vision-Language-Tactile) multimodal brain that fuses sight, language, and touch into real-time decision-making. Full solid-state batteries keep it lightweight… Continue reading
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Unitree R1 Starts at $4,900 — the First Humanoid Robot You Can Order on AliExpress
A 123 cm, 27 kg humanoid robot. On AliExpress. Starting at $4,900. Unitree just turned consumer humanoid robotics from science fiction into an add-to-cart moment. The R1 packs 24–26 degrees of freedom depending on variant, an NVIDIA Jetson Orin (up to 100 TOPS on EDU models), binocular vision, a 4-mic array, and 3D depth sensing.… Continue reading
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Unitree H1 Hits 10 m/s — 3x Faster Than Any Humanoid Robot Before It
22.3 mph. Unitree’s H1 humanoid just clocked 10 m/s in a straight sprint — roughly 80% of Usain Bolt’s peak. The previous humanoid speed record? 3.3 m/s. Tripled in one demo. The April 11 video racked up 1,500+ likes on Twitter and 150+ upvotes on r/robotics within hours. The Hardware 180 cm tall, ~62 kg,… Continue reading
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SwitchBot Onero H1: A 22-DOF Home Robot for $1,500 — With Full API Access
SwitchBot — the company behind those $30 smart curtain motors — showed up at CES 2026 with a wheeled humanoid robot. The Onero H1 stands 1.3m tall, has 22 degrees of freedom in its dual arms, and runs OmniSense VLA on-device — fusing visual, depth, and tactile data from Intel RealSense cameras. It folds laundry,… Continue reading
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Amazon Paid $50,000-Per-Unit for This 3.5-Foot Humanoid — Fauna Robotics Sprout Is Now an Amazon Robot
Amazon didn’t buy Fauna Robotics for the robot. It bought the tooling to build one. The Sprout — a 107cm, 22.7kg bipedal humanoid with a sage-green foam shell — shipped its Creator Edition in January 2026 at $50,000 a pop. Two months later, Amazon acquired the entire company. Disney and Hyundai were already customers. The… Continue reading
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Serve Robotics Maggie: The Delivery Robot That Talks Back
Serve Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV) just showed off Maggie at NVIDIA GTC 2026 — a sidewalk delivery robot that can hold a real-time conversation with pedestrians. Not pre-recorded voice lines. Actual conversational AI, processed at the edge. What Makes Maggie Different Serve already has 2,000+ robots rolling across the US, delivering for 3,600+ restaurants through Uber… Continue reading
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NEURA Robotics 4NE1 Mini: A Porsche-Designed Humanoid Robot for EUR 19,999
Porsche designed a humanoid robot. Not a concept — a 132cm, 36kg compact humanoid that starts shipping this month at EUR 19,999. The NEURA Robotics 4NE1 Mini is one of the first consumer-accessible humanoids to actually leave the factory, and robotics communities can’t stop talking about the price. What You Get Studio F.A. Porsche —… Continue reading
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EngineAI T800 powers URKL — 16 teams fight for a 10 kg gold belt worth $1.4M
Shenzhen-based EngineAI launched the world’s first commercialized humanoid robot combat league. URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend) opened global registration on April 3. Deadline: April 30. The champion walks away with a solid gold belt — 10 kg, valued at roughly $1.45M. Top 16 teams each receive a T800 robot for continued R&D. The Hardware The… Continue reading
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Sanctuary AI Phoenix (Zero-Shot Dexterous Hands): 10 Cube Rotations, Zero Real-World Training
Train a robot hand entirely in simulation. Deploy on real hardware. Watch it rotate a lettered cube 10 times straight without dropping it. No fine-tuning. That’s Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix — the first humanoid to nail zero-shot sim-to-real on a five-fingered hydraulic hand. The Hardware Phoenix: 170 cm, 70 kg humanoid. The hands are the story… Continue reading
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