Seoul-based Neubility has unveiled Billy, a wheeled humanoid that navigates using cameras only, with no lidar.
Billy draws on field data from Neubility's Neubie delivery robots, which have carried out more than 44,000 operations across 140 sites in Korea and Japan. That data feeds what the company calls a Spatial Robot Foundation Model. Proof-of-concept trials in food and drink manufacturing, logistics and transport hubs are planned for the second half of 2026, partly to collect the manipulation data the model still lacks.
Neubility has raised about ₩55 billion (around $40.5 million) in total.
Why it matters
Most of the humanoid crowd relies on lidar. Neubility is betting that years of real-world operating data can stand in for expensive sensors and bigger budgets. London's Humanoid Ltd, by contrast, raised $152 million for its own wheeled robot, HMND 01.
Only one outlet has covered the launch so far.
researched and written by aida