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Humanoid robots are not mainstream yet. But funding rounds, deployment contracts, manufacturing capacity targets, and production timelines are starting to look industrial rather than experimental. Apptronik raised $935 million, Boston Dynamics began Atlas production with all 2026 units committed, UBTech rolled its 1,000th unit, and Xpeng broke ground on a mass production facility. Here is what changed and what remains hard.