China's humanoid robots industry is booming, but analysts say the units showcased at the Spring Gala aren't all they seem.

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like just another software update, but for the robotics industry, it signaled a ...

Chinese smartphone giant Honor wowed the viewers at the Mobile World Congress 2026 in ...

The world’s earliest humanoid robot, WABOT-1, was created by researchers at Waseda University in Japan. It was capable of walking, picking up objects, and performing simple forms of communication.

The first robots to appear were Noetix’s Bumi models, who performed a comedy sketch. Unitree’s robots later exhibited martial arts alongside child artists, including backflips and trampoline jumps, ...

The 'Big 5' humanoid robot manufacturers will participate in the China Humanoid Robot Conference as part of AW 2026.

A fleet of 50 G1 humanoid robots developed by Chinese robotics company Unitree delivered a synchronized martial arts ...

Humanoid robots are on the brink of being commercially useful, say Chinese and US firms that in the past three months have announced plans to produce them at scale. Many researchers agree that there ...

With companies such as Toyota Canada trying out the new tech, what’s the impact on workers? Researchers call for transparency ...

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 – ...