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Excerpts, briefs and direct links to robotics & embodied AI. Regulations Databaselive going live on behindrobotics.com

Behindrobotics.com launches regulations database related to robotics, humanoid, embodied AI & critical components. Visit our link regulations behindrobotics.com and visit our listings which will continue to grow. Excerpts, briefs and direct links to the published regulations. Regulation — behindrobotics.comRobotics and drone regulation by region - BVLOS, airspace and safety

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Chinese makers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026

Global shipments in H1 2026: roughly 19,100 units, up 272% year-over-year from about 5,100 units in H1 2025. • Chinese vendors supplied more than 97% of the total (implying roughly 18,500+ units from China). • China also represented more than 85% of global demand. • Leadership shift: Shanghai-

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Usain Bolts world record gets crushed - by a humanoid - here is the data

Humanoid · Event · Beijing Faster than Bolt, higher than the world record: inside the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Over five days in Beijing, more than 2,000 humanoid robots ran, jumped, boxed and played football. Two of them beat marks that took humans a century to set. Here's

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World Robot Conference 2026 opens in Beijing with battlefield, aviation robots

China's flagship robotics expo opened Aug 20 with humanoid robots boxing, dancing, and demonstrating industrial and even battlefield-adjacent applications, alongside major exhibitors including Xiaomi's first humanoid reveal. It's the clearest annual snapshot of how fast Chinese robotics is moving from lab demos to

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Inventor Palmer Luckey: from oculus VR to “neoprime”. This is Anduril Industries

Robot Hive · Defense Desk Pocket version Defense · Autonomous Systems · Anduril Industries The unfair fight A homeschooled VR prodigy sold Oculus at 21, was pushed out of Facebook at 24, and then built a $61-billion defense company, a national bank, and an arsenal that spans air, sea, land and spectrum.

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Unitree eyeing at 9Bln. US$ IPO while hyperliquid bets may give it a 4x

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Profile: thehumanoid.ai - Artem Sokolov

Company Deep DiveHumanoids/United Kingdom/Robot Hive The jeweller who built Britain's robot In under two years, a Russia-born jewellery magnate turned ~$30M of his own money into Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn — and put a wheeled robot on a live Siemens factory floor.

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Robotics IPO craze

Capital MarketsRobotics ·China IPO Rush·Robot Hive Data Desk The great robot IPO rush Thirty-plus Chinese robot makers are sprinting to go public at once. Unitree just priced at $9 billion. Here's the whole field — on which exchange, at what valuation, with every company's funding

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China’s top 5 post 90s youngsters who shape robotics & embodied AI - here are their profiles

China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector has exploded in the mid-2020s, fueled by capital, supply-chain strength, and a wave of exceptionally young founders. A recent industry ranking of the youngest entrepreneurs (ordered by birth year) spotlights a generation that is skipping traditional career paths and building full-

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Apollyon Dynamics: How India’s Hostel-room Startup closes the gap between FPVs and hypersonic missiles

In May 2025, two third-year engineering students at BITS Pilani Hyderabad — Jayant Khatri (mechanical engineering) and Sourya Choudhury (electrical engineering) — founded Apollyon Dynamics out of a hostel room. Within two months they were supplying combat drones to the Indian Army. By early 2026 the company had delivered a mobile

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How China's Robot Army Is Conquering Global Warehouses

Behind the polished glass and humming assembly lines of Hefei, a quiet revolution is being packed into shipping containers. At the global manufacturing headquarters of Geek+, the scene is less a factory and more a departure gate for a mechanized migration. Dozens of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are undergoing their

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