A week of factories, not kitchens

DOMULU does not test these robots yet. This article sorts the week's claims with four questions: is it available, is a price published, who uses it first, and has anyone independent shown it working. It is a reading of public announcements, not a product test.

The week at a glance

Among this week's new items, none combines a price, a delivery date and a European market. The older items we follow (Figure, Tesla, 1X, Voxel) are in the table so you can see what did and did not move.

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What was announced, and what was shown

Dreame: a laundry robot with no price

A Bloomberg profile published on 29 October (we read ThePrint's republication of 30 October; Bloomberg's own page was not accessible to us) presents Jianghao Huo, 29, chief technology officer of the embodied-intelligence business of Dreame, a robot-vacuum maker based in Suzhou. The article does not say she founded the company. Dreame's Echo S1 is a wheeled robot with one arm that, the company says, sorts clothes, picks wash routines and loads and unloads a washing machine. It debuted at a Berlin trade show in September, along with the Echo P1, meant for basic chores such as moving objects and monitoring the home.

Dreame says a dual-arm robot is planned for the new year, to clean tabletops and eventually operate appliances. It would not share a price, and gave no launch timing. Huo herself says large-scale home deployment of humanoids is "more than two to three years away". The article does not say whether the Echo S1 is on sale, names no customer and reports no independent test. The Berlin debut is a trade-show appearance, not a European sales announcement. (ThePrint, from Bloomberg)

Figure 04 and Tesla Optimus: still no reveal

A Humanoids Daily feature of 26 October (updated 29 October) lays out what the two companies have said. For Figure 04, the company announced "design lock" in May. At an internal all-hands on 22 October, Figure said the Figure 04 actuators were running in its test lab and that ten full battery packs had been brought up the week before, with load and thermal testing next. No weight, payload, runtime or cost has been disclosed, and Figure has published no hand-dexterity benchmark. The company's own figures are 37.5 million uploads to its Index data program, from 112 countries, and 237 successful trials out of 420 for Helix 2.5 in 30 unseen homes (about 56%). Both are company numbers. The article's estimate of a reveal in late 2026 or early 2027 is the author's inference, not a Figure commitment.

For Tesla, the 21 October earnings call is the only company source: first "production-quality" robots off the Fremont line, an "early ramp", outside deliveries likely "toward the end of 2027", and a new video "in a month or two" showing the robot using AI rather than predefined tasks. That puts the video between late November and late December. No sale price exists. The feature also lists press and supplier reports (several hundred robots a week at Fremont in August, per The Information; a Chinese supplier filing that does not name Tesla) and a 36Kr Europe claim that the hand must be scrapped after about a month, for which no source is given. None of these is confirmed by Tesla. (Humanoids Daily)

1X NEO: the end-of-2026 promise has no independent proof yet

NEO is still listed in the United States at $20,000, or $499 a month, with a $200 refundable deposit. 1X says first consumer deliveries will come by the end of 2026. A Startup Fortune article of 22 October carries the headline "1X starts delivering", but its own text cites no independently verified report of a customer outside the early-access programme receiving a NEO at home. It also says that early hands-on testing found NEO could not complete a household task without remote control, and that 1X uses human remote operators. Neither source mentions a European date. (Startup Fortune, Humanoids Daily)

Factories: Bleu Robotics, Audi × Agile Robots, ROKAE

Bleu Robotics, a Paris start-up, announced €5 million in pre-seed funding on 29 October. It says its software teaches an industrial humanoid a new task in under an hour, from about ten demonstrations, running on the robot rather than in the cloud. The product is still in development, no price is disclosed (a monthly subscription per robot is proposed), no customer is named, textiles are out of scope, and the evidence is the company's own demo videos and blog post. (Humanoids Daily)

Audi is testing Agile Robots' mobile humanoids at its Ingolstadt Production Lab to pick components from containers and arrange them for assembly. Announced on 21 October at Nvidia GTC Berlin and reported on 28 October, it is a proof of concept with no quantified results and no rollout timetable. The "around one million picks daily" figure describes Audi's existing operations, not the robots' throughput. (Humanoids Daily)

ROKAE says it delivered its 10,000th humanoid arm and that five Helios wheeled humanoids work on Schaeffler's Taicang line. The 10,000 counts arms, not complete humanoids. Schaeffler earlier described six robots across five stations on the line, and the release does not explain the gap between five and six. (Humanoids Daily)

One more item, for context: on 27 October DeepMind showed its Genie 4 world model generating a simulated Apollo robot playing checkers. It is a simulation, and no transfer to a physical robot is reported. (Humanoids Daily)

What this means for a European household

A week without a home offer is still information.

• The European news is industrial. Bleu Robotics (Paris) and Audi (Ingolstadt) are about factories. Nothing announced this week would put a robot in a European home.
• The one home robot has no terms. Dreame shows a laundry robot but gives no price, no launch date and no European sales plan. Its own technology chief puts large-scale home deployment more than two to three years away.
• The nearest home date is still 1X's, and it is a US one. It is a company promise for the end of 2026, with no independent delivery report yet.
• Numbers measure effort, not results. 10,000 arms delivered, 37.5 million uploaded videos and a million picks a day (Audi's existing operation) describe inputs. The only household result in the week's sources is Figure's 237 of 420 trials, and it is the company's own.

What we will check next

Carried over from earlier weeks, with this week's status:

• NEURA's laundry demo. Nothing found. NEURA's page on Humanoids Daily lists nothing dated 24 to 30 October, and the article that announced the demo (15 October) does not confirm it took place at GTC Berlin. We still want uncut footage, the number of runs and any human intervention, using the criteria in our laundry article.
• Tesla's promised demonstration. Not yet shown. Musk said "a month or two" on 21 October.
• Voxel. No change since 20 October. No reservation count is published, and no independent demonstration exists.
• Figure. No independent proof found. Figure has also said a larger Helix 3.0 model is due "within weeks", per the Humanoids Daily feature.
• New this week. Whether Dreame publishes a price, a launch date and European availability for the Echo S1, and whether 1X's first deliveries are confirmed by anyone outside the company.

Sources

Pages opened for this article, as of 30 October 2026. Company claims are reported as claims. Humanoids Daily's home page, The Robot Report and Interesting Engineering listings could not be opened for this run, and Bloomberg's page blocks automated access.

• ThePrint (from Bloomberg), Chinese female founder breathes life into next-gen house-help robots (30 October; Bloomberg original 29 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Figure 04, Optimus Gen 3 and the next Apollo: when each could be revealed (26 October, updated 29 October)
• Startup Fortune, 1X starts delivering its $20,000 Neo home robot (22 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Voxel reservations (20 October; no update found)
• Humanoids Daily, NEURA Neuron AI and the planned laundry demo (15 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Bleu Robotics raises €5M (29 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Audi tests Agile Robots' mobile humanoids (28 October)
• Humanoids Daily, ROKAE reports 10,000 humanoid arms delivered (26 October)
• Humanoids Daily, DeepMind Genie 4 and Apollo simulation (27 October)