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Figure Shipped 150 Humanoids in All of 2025. They Just Shipped 240 in April Alone — Three Straight Months of Doubling, One Robot Off the Line Every 90 Minutes Robotics

Figure Shipped 150 Humanoids in All of 2025. They Just Shipped 240 in April Alone — Three Straight Months of Doubling, One Robot Off the Line Every 90 Minutes

Figure CEO Brett Adcock posted on Threads on April 23 that Figure shipped roughly 60 robots in February, 120 in March, and 240 in April 2026 — a clean three-month doubling. Combined April production exceeds the entire 2025 annual total of ~150. The bottleneck is shifting from manufacturing to deployment. Customers can't install humanoids as fast as Figure can build them.

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#figure-ai#brett-adcock#figure-03
30 Years After Honda's P2 Was the First Robot to Walk Without Falling, IEEE Finally Crowned It a Milestone — the Same Week One Western Company Shipped 240 Humanoids in a Single Month Robotics

30 Years After Honda's P2 Was the First Robot to Walk Without Falling, IEEE Finally Crowned It a Milestone — the Same Week One Western Company Shipped 240 Humanoids in a Single Month

On April 28 at Honda's Wako Building, IEEE dedicated its formal Milestone plaque to the 1996 Honda P2 — the first self-contained autonomous bipedal humanoid. Only ~293 IEEE Milestones exist worldwide. The plaque arrived 30 years late, and exactly the week the field stopped being about whether robots could walk and started being about whether the customer could install them.

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#honda#p2#ieee-milestone
Apptronik Just Hired Waymo's Product Chief, Boston Dynamics' Services Chief, and an Amazon AI VP in One Press Release. The Tell Is Not the Hires — It's the Robot They Stopped Talking About. Robotics

Apptronik Just Hired Waymo's Product Chief, Boston Dynamics' Services Chief, and an Amazon AI VP in One Press Release. The Tell Is Not the Hires — It's the Robot They Stopped Talking About.

On April 28 Apptronik dropped five executive hires from Waymo, Boston Dynamics, Amazon, iRobot, and Paramount+ — and quietly teased a new humanoid that is not Apollo. The CPO is the man who shipped Waymo's autonomous ride-hail. The SVP of Services is the man who took Spot from R&D to fleet revenue. Read together, the package is the operational scaffolding for fleets, not prototypes.

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#apptronik#daniel-chu#waymo
NVIDIA Just Open-Sourced the First Humanoid Manipulation Scaling Law. The Headline Number Is 20,854 Hours of Strangers' GoPro Footage Under Apache 2.0. Robotics

NVIDIA Just Open-Sourced the First Humanoid Manipulation Scaling Law. The Headline Number Is 20,854 Hours of Strangers' GoPro Footage Under Apache 2.0.

On April 28 NVIDIA released Isaac GR00T N1.7 — an open, Apache-2.0, commercially licensable Vision-Language-Action model trained on 20,854 hours of human egocentric video. It ships with the first published scaling law for dexterous manipulation: going from 1k to 20k hours of human GoPro footage more than doubles task completion. Validated on Unitree G1, AGIBot Genie 1, and the YAM bimanual rig. Three different humanoids, one downloadable brain, no per-seat license.

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#nvidia#groot-n17#vla-model
Japan Airlines Will Put Two Chinese-Made Humanoids on the Tarmac at Haneda in May. The Cover Story Is 「Labor Shortage.」 The Real Story Is the Roadmap to 2028. Robotics

Japan Airlines Will Put Two Chinese-Made Humanoids on the Tarmac at Haneda in May. The Cover Story Is 「Labor Shortage.」 The Real Story Is the Roadmap to 2028.

On April 27, JAL Grand Service and GMO AI & Robotics Trading announced Japan's first airport humanoid pilot. Two China-made wheeled humanoids will load baggage and shift unit-load devices at Haneda starting in May. The phased plan runs through 2028. The job category being pre-disrupted — airport ground handler — has been one of the most stable, unionized, blue-collar jobs in postwar Japan.

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#jal#haneda#gmo-ai-robotics
Robot Era Just Closed Another $200M and Quietly Pulled SF Express Onto an Embodied-AI Customs Lane. Beijing's Humanoid Race Is No Longer About Demos. Robotics

Robot Era Just Closed Another $200M and Quietly Pulled SF Express Onto an Embodied-AI Customs Lane. Beijing's Humanoid Race Is No Longer About Demos.

On April 27, Caixin reported that Beijing-based Robot Era closed a fresh round of more than $200M, taking total funding past $346M and pushing valuation well clear of the $1.5B post-money it set in March. The signal isn't the dollar figure — it's the customer roster. SF Express, China's largest courier, is already running embodied-AI customs inspection with Robot Era hardware on cross-border cargo lanes.

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#robot-era#robotera#sf-express
X Square Robot Says It Will Put Humanoids in Real Chinese Homes in 35 Days. The Cap Table Reads Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan. Robotics

X Square Robot Says It Will Put Humanoids in Real Chinese Homes in 35 Days. The Cap Table Reads Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan.

On April 23, X Square Robot — backed by every Chinese platform that matters — unveiled the Wall-B foundation model and said its Quanta humanoids will start showing up in Chinese family homes within 35 days. Pudu Robotics raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation the same week. The Chinese embodied-AI race just compressed its timelines again.

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#x-square-robot#embodied-ai#wall-b