Robot Updates - Real Changes to Real Robots | Humanoid Hub

A feed of real changes to real robots: status, pricing, and spec updates from the Robot Index.

Recent Robot Updates

• Unitree H2: note — Unitree is growing fast. Revenue jumped 70% in its first quarter as a listed company, as it pours money into AI and R&D. Prices hold steady, with the 180 cm H2 at US$29,900, and a tougher H2-X variant was shown off in a stunt video.
• Unitree G1: note — Unitree is growing fast. Revenue jumped 70% in its first quarter as a listed company, as it pours money into AI and R&D. Prices hold steady, with the 180 cm H2 at US$29,900, and a tougher H2-X variant was shown off in a stunt video.
• Fourier Intelligence GR-2: note — Fourier may have a famous partner. Reports say Meta built a humanoid prototype with the Shanghai maker of the GR-2 and GR-3 and is already on a second version. Neither company has confirmed it, so treat it as a rumour for now.
• Agility Robotics Digit 5: note — Digit is heading to more warehouses. GXO will deploy it at two more US sites from early 2027, and Agility is about to list on Nasdaq as AGLT after raising around US$465 million. The new Digit 5 opens to early customers in the first half of 2027.
• Boston Dynamics Atlas: specs updated → degrees of freedom: 13 — Atlas is edging closer to scale. Hyundai Mobis begins building prototype Atlas actuators this month, aiming to supply them from 2028, and Atlas's new hands now have 13 degrees of freedom. Atlas still isn't on public sale, because 2026 units are reserved for Hyundai and Google DeepMind.
• Tesla Optimus: note — Optimus reservations could be close. A report says Tesla plans to open them around the Humanoids Summit on 1–2 December, but Tesla hasn't confirmed it, and there's no price yet. We'll update the listing the moment reservations go live.
• Unitree G1: note — Unitree has launched the Dex5-S, a human-sized robotic hand with 22 joints from $6,500, a big upgrade for G1 and H2 owners. If you're in the US, check the FCC ID before buying: models approved before 28 July remain legal, but new Unitree models can't currently be approved.
• Agility Robotics Digit 5: specs updated → height: 181 cm, weight: 129 kg, payload: 22.7 kg, runtime: 90 min
• Agility Robotics Digit 5: status changed → announced — Meet Digit 5. Agility's new humanoid has human-style legs, lifts 50 lb and recharges in 9 minutes for 90 minutes of work, enough for 20+ hours a day. It's built to work safely alongside people without cages. Early access opens in the first half of 2027, with the UK and EU included for the first time.
• Boston Dynamics Atlas: note — Atlas has clocked in. Boston Dynamics opened a training centre inside Hyundai's Georgia car plant, where Atlas is learning to sort and sequence parts for the assembly line. Hyundai plans to put 25,000 Atlas robots to work across its factories, with other industries able to buy from 2027.
• 1X Neo: note — 1X wants 50,000 NEO robots in homes during 2027, backed by a new 100,000-a-year factory in San Carlos. First US deliveries are still promised for 2026, with about three months left. NEO costs $20,000, or $499 a month.
• Figure Figure 03: note — Figure's robot just walked into 30 homes it had never seen and got to work. Its new Helix 2.5 AI tidied rooms, folded towels and made beds with no home-specific training, succeeding 56% of the time, up from 9%. It's a big step toward a home robot, though Figure hasn't set a launch date yet.
• Tesla Optimus: note — Tesla's next-generation Optimus has surfaced early. Design files found in the Tesla app show a sleeker, factory-ready Gen 3 with far more capable 22-joint hands. Tesla hasn't announced a reveal date, but expect it around the start of volume production planned for 2027.
• Tesla Optimus: note — On the Q2 earnings call, Musk told investors that scaling Optimus production would be the hardest manufacturing challenge in Tesla's history, since there's no established supply chain and nearly every component is newly invented. He warned the initial phase may stall longer than expected, and Tesla's latest shareholder presentation has dropped references to mass production altogether. The gap from earlier promises is stark: Musk had previously said he'd be surprised if Tesla weren't making 100,000 robots a month within five years, and predicted meaningful production in 2026 — but has since conceded the Gen 3 units in Texas and Fremont are only collecting training data, not doing real work. The blockers: Hands. Musk says no robot company has managed to replicate the human hand, and Optimus needs that dexterity to be useful outside a factory. Silicon. Struggles with logic, memory and chip packaging leave Tesla dependent on TSMC and Samsung. Supply chain. Around 10,000 distinct components, with Tesla building its own production infrastructure from scratch — unlike Chinese rivals who can lean on existing smartphone-industry suppliers. Financial backdrop isn't helping: Q2 revenue rose 26% to $28bn, but adjusted EPS came in at 33 cents against a 51-cent consensus, and $6bn of quarterly capex drove free cash flow to negative $1bn. Part of Musk's comp package hinges on deploying one million robots within ten years; Tesla has retooled lines in Fremont and is building a dedicated factory in Texas, but gives no timetable, and Shanghai hasn't started robot production at all.