Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in fashion campaigns and even stepped into kickboxing rings, only to trip, ...

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This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...

Seemingly overnight, humanoids are crowding social media feeds and headlining major financial news outlets. Five viral moments in particular, driven by breakthroughs from Tesla, 1X, XPeng, Figure AI, ...

SHANGHAI, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AGIBOT, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, was ranked No.1 globally in both humanoid robot shipment volume and market share in ...

The Agibot G2 is the first humanoid robot to get a job alongside humans on a high-speed electronics production line, Agibot ...

China’s humanoid robots were the talk of the internet after this year’s Spring Festival Gala, where dozens of them kicked, flipped, and danced their way through a four-hour state television broadcast ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

The global humanoid robot market moved into a clear expansion phase in 2025, according to a new industry assessment by Omdia. Worldwide shipments reached around 13,000 units during the year, ...

The humanoid robot industry experienced notable commercial growth in 2025, with an annual increase of 16,000 new units installed worldwide, according to reports from multiple research agencies. The ...

The race was sponsored by a department of the Beijing municipal government. While both humans and androids took part, the ...

Humanoid robots have come on leaps and bounds in recent times, and much is expected of the advanced machines in the coming year. The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree ...