Top 7 Humanoid Robots Launched in Q3 2026 (July–September)

Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2 in July 2026 in bipedal and wheeled configurations, a 172 cm, 73 kg humanoid with 42 degrees of freedom and arms that each carry 25 kg. It has a swappable battery architecture and runs about four hours per charge, and Apptronik lists it at $80,000 a year. The launch came with the opening of Robot Park, a nearly 90,000 square foot Austin facility whose data feeds Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models, giving the robot a direct route to AI training.

Generative Bionics first announced GENE.01 at CES in January 2026 and unveiled the working robot on July 20, saying it was built in six months. Its distinguishing feature is smart skin: full-body tactile sensing with force and proximity sensors for safe physical collaboration with people. It runs on AMD processors and uses physical AI derived from the Italian Institute of Technology's iCub and ergoCub projects. The robot was shown in the United States at AMD Advancing AI on July 22 and 23.

AgiBot unveiled the A3 Ultra at WAIC 2026 on July 20: a 1.74 m, 51-degree-of-freedom full-size humanoid with NVIDIA Thor computing for commercial and service work. The A3 line is a 55 kg biped with 31 active degrees of freedom at its core, carries 5 kg per arm, walks at 1.5 m/s with a peak of 3.5 m/s and lists at $32,000 to $45,000. AgiBot marked its 5,000th robot on December 8, 2025, so the launch comes from a manufacturer already producing at volume.

Unitree unveiled Superman on August 17, 2026, a locomotion-focused humanoid built in about three months. It sprints at 12.66 m/s, or 45.6 km/h, and jumps about 2 m straight up from standing, helped by a reported 0.85 m leg length. The 47 kg robot has 27 degrees of freedom and is a research platform for motion control rather than a worker, and Unitree has not disclosed a price. It arrived the same month Unitree began trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Galbot debuted the ET1 at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing in August, where it mirrored another robot's movements and dialogue live, and opened pre-orders on September 3. It is the company's first bipedal humanoid after its wheeled dual-arm robots, which began with the G1 in June 2024. Published figures for its height and weight differ between sources, so treat specifications as unconfirmed until Galbot releases a full sheet. Galbot raised 2.5 billion yuan in March 2026, making it China's highest-valued unlisted humanoid maker.

Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026: a 1.81 m, 129 kg humanoid that lifts 50 lb, recharges in nine minutes and uses AI human detection so it can work beside people without safety barriers. Agility reported more than $300 million in multi-year customer orders in May 2026. Early access is expected to open in North America in the first half of 2027, with general availability targeted for the end of 2027, so this is a launch with deliveries still ahead.

RoboParty's RP1 debuted at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh on September 28, recovering from pushes, kicks and falls in a live Kick Me demo. The Shanghai team builds it on ROBOTO Origin, an open-source humanoid project that passed 2,500 GitHub stars in January 2026. The full-size biped weighs about 39 kg, runs up to 4 m/s, climbs 30° slopes and 50 mm steps and lasts about three hours on a hot-swappable dual battery, which makes it a developer-friendly platform rather than a finished product.