Humanoids

Samtec is taking its full interconnect catalog to electronica 2026 in Munich, with high-cycle connec...

Four Chinese humanoid makers, UBTech, Unitree, AgiBot and Anyverse, have shifted from trade-show dem...

Neufangled Robotics is selling Stringman, a room-scale cable-driven robot that tidies homes by suspe...

Xinhua News Agency has put two life-size humanoid robots, Xinyu and Xinyan, on the stage of a Beijin...

Agility Robotics has begun trading on Nasdaq, making it the first U.S.-based legged humanoid company...

Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing told the China International Import Expo in Shanghai that the...

Meta's long-rumored humanoid robot program is drawing scrutiny from analysts who see it less as a co...

An op-off column in Digital Journal argues that the humanoid domestic robot market is saturated with...

A solid-state battery has been fitted to a humanoid robot for the first time, with the anthropomorph...

At FIX 2026 in Daegu, South Korean firms showed humanoid actuators and sensors, dual-arm manipulator...

Meta is reportedly developing a humanoid robot prototype in partnership with a Chinese hardware star...

Adrian Flux, the British specialist insurer best known for covering modified cars and motorbikes, ha...

Rainbow Robotics has pushed version 0.10.6 of its rainbow-rb-sdk to the Python Package Index, foldin...

Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI said on October 30, 2026 that the humanoid maker's gr...

The Robot Report's 2026 Robotics Handbook compiles engineering analysis of the design decisions shap...

A humanoid robot with a chainsaw mounted on one arm appeared on Japanese television news cutting bac...

Unitree Robotics' shares have climbed more than 60% in under two weeks on China's STAR Market, even ...

Realbotix has opened a direct-to-consumer website for its Echo line of humanoid robots, taking order...

Nine companies took Innovation Awards at FIX 2026 in Daegu, South Korea, with winners spanning human...

LEACHIM, a talking robot teacher built in the 1970s, tracked the lessons of 30 students at once usin...

Unitree's H2-X humanoid, unveiled just one day earlier, lost its balance landing a side flip at the ...

IDC projects that Washington's trade restrictions on foreign robots and components could leave the U...

A quadruped robot from ETH Zurich's Robotics Systems Lab has autonomously solved an oversized Rubik'...

Fortescue is using modified KUKA automotive assembly-line robots, not humanoids, to connect 6 MW cha...

Noetix Robotics has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising hu...

Metropolis Robotics put its full-size SKYE humanoid on the floor of McCormick Place this week, staff...

Gamma Robotics, the first market-oriented company incubated by China Telecom's TeleAI institute, has...

A KRW2.2 trillion (about US$1.66 billion) private investment plan names 12 companies, many of them a...

After a decade of demo videos, humanoid robots are being priced, scheduled, and measured against war...

Hyundai Motor Group has created an RX Business Strategy Team under a "Robotics Everything" banner, c...

Agility Robotics has launched Digit 5, a fifth-generation bipedal humanoid built to lift 23-kilogram...

Elon Musk said Sunday that Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot and Cybercab robotaxi will account for the...

A reporter spent an afternoon watching two Tau Robotics humanoids vacuum floors and wipe counters in...

Rareview Capital and Tuttle Capital Management have launched HOID, an actively managed exchange-trad...

RoboParty has launched RP1, also called ROBOTO 01, a humanoid robot whose hardware designs and softw...

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. announced FF Nova, a $2,...

Google DeepMind researchers have trained a humanoid robot to play cornhole by learning from ordinary...

JAKA Robotics used the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai to unveil two products aimed at...

Westlake Robotics has shown two humanoid robots cooperatively folding a pair of trousers, a task the...

Jabil, the contract manufacturer that builds hardware for some of the world's largest technology com...

Upstream, the Israeli automotive cybersecurity and data platform company, is applying its connected-...

A humanoid robot returned roughly 91 percent of forehands across 20 motion-capture rallies, and the ...

The California State Athletic Commission issued a cease-and-desist order after a robotics startup st...

Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to launch a fully autonomous humanoid robot as early as 2030, built ...

Peggy Johnson, CEO of Salem, Oregon-based Agility Robotics, has been selected to join Project Meridi...

The Pennsylvania-based sensor manufacturer will demonstrate custom force-torque sensing solutions de...

The Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre in One-North marks the first government facility worldwide de...

China's securities regulator has introduced three technical and financial criteria for humanoid robo...

Flourish is shipping a Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid robot trained entirely through smartphone demon...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a self-propelled robotic hand that crawls independently acr...

Tesla plans thousands of Optimus humanoid robots for internal factory deployment by late 2026, while...

The Oregon-based robotics company behind the bipedal Digit warehouse robot is investigating wheeled ...

Russia's Progress MS-35 cargo spacecraft docked at the International Space Station carrying ground c...

While humanoid platforms capture venture attention, industrial packaging robots already generate bil...

Robotic systems are addressing labor shortages in U.S. homebuilding, but the technology delivering m...

A humanoid platform successfully navigated overhead monkey bars, showcasing advances in sparse geome...

Software advances have given robots the ability to plan and reason, but mechanical systems now lag b...

The Corvallis-based humanoid robotics company disclosed $1.8 million in revenue for 2025 alongside a...

August 2026 delivered a wave of capital into humanoid robotics companies, alongside new physical AI ...

The investment bank's research division now projects surging demand for humanoid robots in U.S. manu...

The weekly robotics video roundup from IEEE Spectrum posed a pointed question about superhuman human...

A pair of Beijing-built humanoid robots sustained more than 100 consecutive rallies against human at...

The weekly Video Friday collection from IEEE Spectrum continues to document robotics development mil...

Automotive supplier Unichem has purchased Loomia, a soft-circuit fabricator that pioneered flexible ...

The Hangzhou-based robotics firm released performance data for a humanoid designated "Superman" that...

Nic Radford's Persona AI has moved humanoid robots from demonstration videos into commercial welding...

The Chinese humanoid robot maker is repositioning itself as an embodied AI company rather than a har...

The integration of neural interface technology with humanoid robotics has moved from concept to acti...

Autonomous weeding machines, drone-mounted imaging systems, and AI-driven crop monitoring platforms ...

Taiwanese component manufacturers are positioning themselves for humanoid robot production runs, eve...

A new industry analysis consolidates deployment data from more than a dozen humanoid and mobile mani...

A panel discussion at RoboBusiness will feature executives from four companies actively deploying hu...

AgiBot and Unitree together shipped more than 14,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, domi...

DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, positioning the multimodal foundation model as an intelligence ...

The hybrid power-and-data connector from Molex routes through apertures half the size of competing p...

The Chinese humanoid developer has secured more than $890 million in venture funding and is preparin...

BYD's first commercial humanoid, Xiao Di, enters showrooms this month to greet customers at Chinese ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expects humanoid robot production to surpass...

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping tariffs targeting Chinese humanoid robot imports, effe...

The Palo Alto startup has secured Toyota as a development partner for its modular humanoid system, m...

Zhao Tongyang, founder of EngineAI, argues China possesses the manufacturing scale and supply chain ...

A patent landscape analysis of 26,000+ humanoid robotics patent families places Chinese companies in...

The Federal Communications Commission has imposed restrictions on certain foreign-manufactured human...

Co-founder Shen Hua says the Shenzhen robotics firm is moving from capability demonstrations to proo...

Zhejiang IPLUSMOBOT Technology debuted its NERA-P omnidirectional chassis and NERA-C controller at t...

The administration issued an executive order blocking imports of foreign-manufactured humanoid robot...

Tesla has purchased Virtuix's Omni One omnidirectional treadmill system for training its Optimus hum...

The shift toward integrated actuators in humanoid robots reflects a broader architectural trade-off:...

Unitree's sub-$4,200 humanoid has prompted Morgan Stanley to raise its 2026 production forecast to 5...

The Shanghai-based humanoid robot manufacturer has begun formal proceedings for a Hong Kong Stock Ex...

Foundation Robotics has locked in $24 million in Department of Defense contracts for its Phantom hum...

Two decades after Alex Proyas directed Will Smith through a Chicago filled with household robots and...

A humanoid robot from Realbotix will operate inside a New York high school this fall, paired with an...

Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, will integrate AMD processors into autonomous hu...

Two bipedal robots successfully performed surgical procedures on live pigs at a research facility in...

Holiday Robotics closed a $105 million funding round to scale production of FRIDAY, a wheeled humano...

Jiangsu Leili's robotics subsidiary has developed production-ready dexterous hands built around holl...

The automaker says factory floor deployment of humanoid robots remains a management prerogative, des...

The global humanoid robot market will grow nearly tenfold over the next nine years, expanding from $...

Two Chinese humanoid robotics manufacturers have opened flagship retail locations in high-traffic co...

The South Korean electronics giant has created a standalone robotics business unit called RX, markin...

Engine, a Chinese robotics company, staged what it calls the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend in Shen...

Teleoperation has become the default data collection method for training humanoid robots, but Flexio...

Union members at Hyundai Motor's Ulsan assembly complex walked off production lines July 15 after ma...

The Oregon-based humanoid maker has launched a dedicated training facility in Fremont, California, i...

Weave Robotics has released specifications for Isaac, a wheeled bimanual manipulator targeting house...

NVIDIA's new Jetson Thor lineup targets mainstream robotics with two compute modules: the T3000 at 8...

The Shenzhen-based robotics firm released an uncut video showing its Oli humanoid performing kitchen...

John Quinlan, a veteran power systems architect at Murata Power Solutions, detailed the cascade of t...

A new industry analysis tracking China's humanoid robotics sector highlights the transition from lab...

Dar Sleeper, head of product at 1X, says the Norwegian robotics company has overcome one of the indu...

Two humanoid surgical robots successfully performed cholecystectomies on porcine subjects this week,...

Norwegian robotics firm 1X has begun delivering NEO beta units equipped with newly designed manipula...

The Norwegian robotics firm has equipped its Neo platform with hands featuring 25 degrees of freedom...

A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot performed a complete gallbladder removal on a living subject, r...

Hangzhou-based Unitree is scaling production of its $16,000 G1 industrial humanoid while Shenzhen ri...

Rémi Cadène, who contributed to Tesla's Optimus development, has founded UMA in Paris with plans for...

The IEEE has recognized Toshio Fukuda, a researcher whose bibliography spans more than 2,000 papers ...

The global humanoid robot market will grow from $5.41 billion this year to $50.27 billion by 2035, r...

Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics have positioned the Atlas humanoid and Spot quadruped at Wor...

UBTECH's full-size humanoid U1 Ultra carries a 990,000 yuan price tag but operates for just two to f...

Separate demonstrations from humanoid developers this week highlighted tactile sensing, object manip...

China's securities regulator approved Unitree Robotics' registration for a STAR Market listing, remo...

Cambridge, Ontario-based Mirsee Robotics is engineering its third-generation wheeled humanoid robot,...

A new facility in the Netherlands aims to accelerate European humanoid robotics development, where C...

Elon Musk toured Tesla's Fremont factory to inspect Optimus humanoid robot production infrastructure...

UBTech Robotics has begun selling its U1 humanoid robot, a consumer-facing companion unit covered in...

The Texas robotics firm has activated a new facility dedicated to training humanoid robots for wareh...

The humanoid robotics industry recorded multiple milestones across commercialization, manufacturing ...

The Shenzhen-based robotics manufacturer moved more than $334 million in bionic humanoid units betwe...

Shenzhen-based UBTECH unveiled its first full-sized consumer humanoid, the U1 Series, under new bran...

Huawei's OpenHarmony operating system now runs across 1.3 billion connected devices in China, positi...

Bernstein analysts reiterated their bullish stance on NVIDIA's role in humanoid robotics on June 29,...

Delhi Public School Ruby Park in Kolkata has opened an AI-Robotics Lab featuring a humanoid robot as...

The San Jose startup founded by three ex-Nvidia engineers has deployed a humanoid capable of navigat...

A data center operator in Dowagiac, Michigan plans to deploy humanoid robots from Chinese manufactur...

Over 10,000 spectators watched eight embodied AI teams from China put their humanoid robots through ...

The Shenzhen-based robotics manufacturer's full-size humanoid companion has captured more than 5,000...

Mantis Robotics has introduced a dual-arm collaborative robot designed to operate without safety fen...

Automated fruit-picking systems trained on multi-dimensional canopy data are now operating in commer...

Elon Musk's humanoid robot venture is engaging component manufacturers across Taiwan's supply chain,...

The San Francisco startup promises deployment from site visit to autonomous operation in months, tar...

The delivery robot startup has fielded under 40 units of its R-noid humanoid platform, powered by a ...

The Redwood City-based service robot maker has purchased Kinisi Robotics, bringing the UK startup's ...

Multiple domestic manufacturers demonstrated advances in humanoid dexterity and embodied AI systems ...

French robotics firms showcased humanoid platforms designed for vineyard labor and hospitality roles...

The Chinese robotics manufacturer has turned profitable through aggressive cost reduction, positioni...

A modified Unitree G1 robot designated Pemba reached the summit of Chimborazo volcano, marking the f...

A specialized exchange-traded fund tracking China's humanoid robotics supply chain has entered the m...

The Hangzhou-based robotics firm is taking its sub-$20,000 humanoid strategy public, betting that Ch...

The Association for Advancing Automation debuts a dedicated humanoid robotics pavilion at Automate 2...

The Las Vegas-based company will allow online viewers to interact with its NVIDIA-powered service ro...

A research team used NVIDIA's Isaac Lab simulation platform to teach a humanoid robot to walk in one...

A humanoid robot from Honor completed a half-marathon seven minutes faster than the human world reco...

Eastworlds Labs, the AI robotics arm of Virgin Group, deployed a modified Unitree G1 humanoid to the...

A South Korean robotics firm demonstrated a humanoid robot that acquires complex dance sequences by ...

He Xiaopeng, founder and chief executive of the $11 billion electric vehicle maker, has assumed lead...

The Intelligent Racing Foundation and Beao Group will stage a table tennis competition pitting auton...

Industry experts sparred over the feasibility of delivering general-purpose humanoid robots at consu...

A small AI company recently named to Google DeepMind's European robotics partnership program posted ...

He Xiaopeng has assumed direct leadership of Xpeng's robotics unit as the Chinese electric vehicle m...

UBTECH's consumer spinoff brand UWORLD moved more than 3,000 units of its full-size humanoid compani...

The NASDAQ-listed company plans to deploy humanoid robots in its own commercial real estate holdings...

The Singapore-based integrated facility management firm has purchased an undisclosed number of Unitr...

Jensen Huang visited Hyundai's Seoul headquarters Monday to formalize deeper collaboration on roboti...

Manufacturing cost breakdowns for Tesla's humanoid robot reveal actuator-heavy legs account for 38% ...

Three American robotics firms are pursuing a long-term intellectual property strategy while Chinese ...

The Tokyo-based humanoid robotics firm is using INTEC 2026 in Coimbatore as a sourcing venue for con...

Catalyst Brands will deploy Figure's humanoid robots at its Reno facility handling fulfillment for J...

Nvidia announced a partnership with Unitree Robotics at GTC Taipei to create the world's first open ...

WisdomTree Inc. debuted its Physical AI, Humanoids, and Drones Fund on May 14, marking one of the fi...

Spencer Huang, NVIDIA's robotics lead, confirmed the company selected Unitree's six-foot G1 humanoid...

The Texas-based distributor's new Empowering Innovation Together program tackles actuator selection,...

Unitree Robotics has received approval to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, becoming the first in...

The San Diego chipmaker unveiled a Snapdragon platform targeting budget Windows devices alongside a ...

NVIDIA released a collection of open source tools and pre-built skills designed to convert robotics ...

The Santa Clara chipmaker chose a $16,000 Chinese-built humanoid as the reference hardware for its n...

Unitree Robotics ships a complete humanoid research platform combining its H2 chassis, Sharpa dexter...

Defiance ETFs has introduced ROBO, the first exchange-traded fund dedicated exclusively to humanoid ...

Humanoid robotics developers gathering in Sunnyvale this month discussed production capacity and sup...

AI Robotics deployed its AlphaBot humanoid at BEYOND Expo 2026 to run an unassisted coffee service a...

Boston Dynamics released footage showing its Atlas humanoid executing soccer maneuvers including bal...

Japanese robotics developers demonstrated needle-threading precision at the Humanoids Summit Tokyo, ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has registered 28,000 humanoid robots in a n...

Japanese robotics firms demonstrated humanoid robots threading needles at the Humanoids Summit Tokyo...

Unitree Robotics has filed for an IPO in China despite financials showing eroding profits as product...

Taiwan's robotics component suppliers reported strong Q1 2026 earnings as manufacturers accelerated ...

Hugging Face published complete design files for a bipedal robot lower body built from $2,500 in off...

The home humanoid robot market will reach $8.56 billion by 2031, up from $1.29 billion in 2024, acco...

Air New Zealand will assess humanoid robots for passenger flights individually rather than ban them ...

Beijing municipal authorities have deployed China's first lifecycle management platform for humanoid...

Gatsby charged a customer $150 for what it claims is the first residential cleaning by a humanoid ro...

Chinese developers released a robot operating system built on OpenHarmony, positioning it as the cou...

Figure AI ran three humanoid robots for more than 24 consecutive hours sorting packages in a warehou...

A former chief of NASA's robotics division says American humanoid developers prioritize speed and ag...

Orbit Robotics has built Helios, a four-armed robot with no legs, optimized for microgravity environ...

An unnamed Chinese robotics manufacturer has placed 100 humanoid robots in employee homes this month...

Taiwan precision component maker Khgears International plans to manufacture humanoid robot parts sta...

Robot.com will deploy its autonomous fleet as mobile billboards through R-ads, a new platform that p...

Boston Dynamics advances toward public markets and factory deployment of Atlas as Hyundai accelerate...

The world's largest humanoid robot manufacturer projects the industry will reach commercial viabilit...

Boston Dynamics disclosed technical details of its training pipeline for Atlas, the electric humanoi...

A market analysis covering nine humanoid robotics companies through 2030 reveals American firms purs...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs awarded Solomon NT$100 million ($3.16 million) on May 18 to de...

Physical AI systems—robots that perceive and navigate real-world environments—will grow from $1.50 b...

An unnamed regional carrier barred humanoid robots from passenger cabins after travelers crowded aro...

A volunteer-led project has published design files for a full-scale humanoid robot intended for rese...

Southwest Airlines banned humanoid robots from occupying passenger seats two days after Dallas entre...

Figure AI streamed 72 consecutive hours of its humanoid robots sorting packages in a warehouse envir...

Beijing has designated humanoid robotics a strategic national priority, directing industrial policy ...

Figure AI's unedited livestream of its humanoid robot sorting warehouse packages attracted millions ...

Unitree Robotics revealed the GD01, a 2.8-meter piloted mecha that transforms between bipedal and qu...

Figure's Sunnyvale facility now produces 55 humanoid robots weekly, a manufacturing milestone that p...

Bipartisan legislation introduced in March by Senators Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer would bar federa...