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1X NEO lands in US homes this month: $20,000 humanoid, and a 1X employee can drive it
The first batch of 1X NEO humanoids is shipping to US households in April 2026. $20,000 to buy, or $499/month on a $200 reservation deposit. A real consumer humanoid robot in your kitchen, not a demo reel. The hardware 168cm, ~30kg, wrapped in a soft 3D lattice polymer shell so the whole body is pinch-proof.… Continue reading
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Seeed Studio ships reBot Arm B601-DM April 24: $1,197, LeRobot-ready
The reBot Arm B601-DM is a 6+1 DoF tabletop robotic arm — six Damiao joint actuators plus a parallel gripper. 767mm reach, 1.5kg payload, 0.2mm repeatability. About 4kg, runs on 24V. $1,197 for the full DIY bundle, shipping April 24. No onboard computer. You plug the USB-CAN driver board into a host PC or an… Continue reading
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Skild Brain × Fetch Robotics (via Zebra acquisition): $290M fleet, one foundation model, undisclosed price
Skild AI announced on April 15 that it bought Zebra Technologies’ entire robotics arm — which is the Fetch Robotics business Zebra paid $290M for back in 2021. The price this time wasn’t disclosed. What Skild actually got is a real, shipping AMR fleet: Freight for pallet and cart moves, Roller Top for conveyor hand-offs,… Continue reading
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title: “Siemens puts Humanoid HMND 01 Alpha on the Erlangen line — 60 totes/hour, 90% pick rate” A UK startup just walked a wheeled humanoid onto a real Siemens production floor and had it move boxes for eight hours straight. That’s the Hannover Messe headline this week, and robotics Twitter is treating it as the… Continue reading
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Unitree H2 “Destiny Awakening” opens North America pre-orders at $29,900, ships April 2026
Unitree just put a price on its full-scale humanoid. The H2 “Destiny Awakening” is a 182 cm, 70 kg robot with 31 degrees of freedom — 3-DOF waist, 7-DOF arms — 360 N·m leg actuators, 120 N·m arm actuators, and a bionic head packing binocular wide-FOV cameras, a mic array, and high-power speakers tuned for… Continue reading
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Mentra Live + MentraOS (open-source) hit GitHub: one TypeScript SDK, four pairs of glasses
Mentra open-sourced the whole stack in April 2026. Not just the SDK — the entire OS, MIT licensed, sitting on GitHub at Mentra-Community/MentraOS. $299 gets you a 43g pair of camera glasses running a MediaTek MTK8766, with a 12MP camera at 119° FOV, three mics, stereo speakers, 10+ hours of mixed use, and 40+ minutes… Continue reading
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Alibaba Amap Embodied Quadruped + ABot-World: Alibaba’s first robot just beat Google and NVIDIA on the leaderboard
Alibaba’s map app is now shipping robots. Amap, the division most people know as China’s Google Maps, is debuting its first embodied robot at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon. Alibaba’s first real piece of hardware, and it’s a dog. The brain is more interesting than the body. Amap spun up an embodied intelligence division… Continue reading
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Ring App Store (Amazon) opens its 100M-camera fleet to third-party apps
Amazon just did something weird with Ring: turned it into a platform. On March 31, Ring launched its App Store, letting any developer build on top of the 100M+ doorbells, cams, and sensors already sitting on people’s houses. Ring takes a 10% cut. Subscriptions, one-time purchases, ads—all allowed. Facial recognition and license-plate reader apps are… Continue reading
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Rokid Style AI Glasses: 38.5 Grams, $299, and a Million-Unit Sales Target for 2026
Meta sells 7 million smart glasses a year and owns 73% of the market. A Chinese company called Rokid thinks it can crack that open with a pair of AI glasses that weigh less than a chicken egg. The Hardware Rokid Style is a screenless, voice-first smart glasses at 38.5 grams — roughly 10 grams… Continue reading
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Chery AiMOGA Mornine M1: A Chinese Automaker Is Now Selling Humanoid Robots on JD.com for $41,400
A car company putting a full-size humanoid robot on an e-commerce shelf — that’s where we are now. Chery, one of China’s largest automakers, just started selling the AiMOGA Mornine M1 through its JD.com flagship store on April 13. Price tag: 285,800 yuan (~$41,400). First shipments go out after May 23. What You Get for… Continue reading
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