Humanoid robots news

Humanoid robots news: general-purpose robots and the AI models behind them, from the companies’ own announcements.

Typographic cover: "Atlas gets new hands" — 13 degrees of freedom, tactile sensing, October 1, 2026

Boston Dynamics unveils 13-DOF Atlas robot hand on October 1, 2026

Boston Dynamics showed a new Atlas robot hand on October 1, 2026: 13 degrees of freedom and tactile sensing.

Coverage includes Nvidia GR00T, Google Gemini Robotics, Figure, Tesla Optimus, Agility, Unitree, 1X and Boston Dynamics: new robots, robot foundation models and what each company says its robots can do. Who builds humanoid robots and how robot foundation models work is covered in our robotics explainers; other model releases are in AI model news.