Brianna Wessling

| Kinisi Robotics' KR1 will join Bear Robotics' portfolio of service robots. | Source: Bear Robotics

| Right now, today, you can spend $14,000 and buy a humanoid robot. There is no safety certification reviewed, no standardized test protocol verified.

| A small footprint enables ADAR technology to be embedded flush into virtually any robot form factor, Sonair said. | Source: Sonair

| By integrating reinforcement learning with high-fidelity physics-based simulation, morph said it enables a faster translation from concept to product. | Source: morph

Humanoid robots made many headlines in June 2026, whether it be for companies going public, new deployments, or hitting production milestones.

Automate brought an avalanche of warehouse automation news in June 2026. New product releases and interesting demonstrations from the show drew readers' attention.

| Dr. Robert Ang, the study's principal investigator, performing a post-op patient exam. | Source: ForSight Robotics

Robust.AI this week said that ShipLab will deploy its Carter collaborative mobile robots at ShipLab's facility in Vista, Calif.

RoboLab research powers NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena, an open-source simulation framework for large-scale policy setup and evaluation.

Under the agreement, KULR will supply its KULR ONE Space battery systems to power JOY’s onboard systems on the ISS.