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The top companies generating buzz this week, with evidence
Agility Robotics held #1 (was #1) in the hot tier on coverage of "In a Second Robotics Contract, Nyobolt Will Power Agility’s Latest Humanoid".
Unitree Robotics held #2 (was #2) in the hot tier on coverage of "OpenAI is building humanoid robots, Sam Altman teases demo timeline".
Neura Robotics held #3 (was #3) in the hot tier on coverage of "New robot brain lets humanoids tackle multi-step tasks autonomously".
Apptronik jumped to No. 4 and moved from rising to hot as Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Argon taught Apollo to land seven consecutive cornhole shots via video-generated simulations.
Figure AI remains a top-five “hot” buzz name at No. 5, as humanoid robotics gained attention from UCLA’s PhoneBot and Neura Robotics’ Neuron AI launch.
Xpeng unveiled XPENG AI Engineering, featuring NGP powered by VLA 2.0 and humanoid IRON, remaining a hot-tier contender despite sliding one place to No. 6 and six points to 56.
Faraday Future climbed seven places to #7 after FF EAI Robotics launched a $2,490 humanoid robot and agreed to a $200 million acquisition of its robotics assets.
X Square Robot remains hot-tier at No. 8 after dropping two spots, amid renewed humanoid attention from Feather’s sub-$30,000 launch and China’s tougher IPO standards.
Sereact climbed to #9 this week after partnering with Teradyne Robotics to deploy Cortex physical AI on Universal Robots arms for unstructured retail and logistics tasks.
Korean power plants deployed Boston Dynamics Spot robot dogs for hazardous inspections, keeping the company hot-tier at No. 10 despite a one-spot rank drop and unchanged score of 50.
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