With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

The achievement addresses one of the biggest obstacles in humanoid design: facial motion that looks off. While robotics has ...

If 2025 was the year we asked, “Can they walk?”, 2026 is the year we are asking, “Can they do the dishes?” The Consumer ...

At the 2026 CES show, Hyundai and Boston Dynamics took the wraps off its next-gen humanoid robot, Atlas, that is nearly ready ...

New framework syncs robot lip movements with speech, supporting 11+ languages and enhancing humanlike interaction.

Foundation’s Phantom robot might be built to fight and die, and Figure’s 03 humanoid robot is probably the smoothest, most agile robot I’ve seen in running, turning, and moving, but EngineAI’s T800 – ...

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Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get there. Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...