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Toyota trains ELEY for its factory robot push

Week to 2026-09-27

Toyota workers are teaching ELEY humanoid robots precise hand movements, while Ubtech has reportedly begun home deliveries in China. The caveats matter: Toyota’s broader robot target is not a humanoid robot count, and Ubtech’s reported reservations remain unconfirmed in regulatory filings.

01 · Google News humanoids · 2 outlets

Toyota puts workers on robot training duty

Toyota workers are already training ELEY humanoid robots as the group pursues 400,000 factory robots.

Starting in 2028, Toyota aims to invest $6.42 billion annually in factory upgrades, targeting 150,000 robots in its automotive plants and 250,000 at group facilities. Workers wearing finger-based jigs teach the wheeled ELEY precise hand movements; executive vice president Hiroki Nakajima says the aim is coexistence rather than replacement. The critical distinction: the article does not establish how many planned robots will be humanoid robots, and their cost-effectiveness and safety challenges remain unresolved.

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02 · UBTech

Ubtech starts home deliveries; orders remain the test

Ubtech reportedly began delivering UWorld U1 companion humanoid robots to private buyers in China on September 16.

Reported prices range from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan, depending on configuration. More than 13,000 reservation deposits have reportedly been placed, but Ubtech has not confirmed that figure through regulatory filings. Its Liuzhou factory targets annual capacity exceeding 10,000 units; converting reservations and partnerships into binding orders remains the commercial test.

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03 · Google News humanoids

Tutor sends Sonny into e-commerce fulfillment

Tutor launched Cassie and Sonny, with Sonny’s first job focused on e-commerce fulfillment.

Sonny runs Tutor’s Ti0 4.5B-parameter vision-language-action model and is described as able to navigate existing warehouses, pick items from racking and deliver orders to packout. Cassie, its single-armed platform with millions of production bulk picks, now moves autonomously through facilities and reportedly runs for more than a shift per charge. The concrete deployment story is warehouse picking and movement—not the article’s sweeping promise of unlimited task generality.

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04 · Google News humanoids · 2 outlets

Toborlife adds US-supported teleoperation for Unitree G1

Toborlife AI launched full-body teleoperation software for the Unitree G1 Edu humanoid robot, with customer-controlled training data.

Operators use a PICO VR headset to guide the robot’s arms, legs and torso, while sessions capture demonstrations in a training-ready format. Toborlife says the data stays on customers’ US hardware and is never transmitted to Unitree or servers outside customer control. For research teams, the offering addresses the integration work between receiving robot hardware and collecting usable training demonstrations, backed by US-based engineering support.

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05 · Google News humanoids

Feather coverage lacks usable article text

The supplied Forbes extract contains navigation, not the Feather report.

It provides no article text substantiating the launch, price or economics described in the supplied headline. Those details are withheld rather than presented as verified news.

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XPENG coverage lacks usable article text

The supplied Yahoo Tech extract contains no report on Iron’s assembly or walking demonstration.

The available text is site navigation and advertising labels. It cannot establish the demonstration’s conditions or manufacturing significance, so no performance conclusion is included.

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