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, moonwalk into the floor and literally fall on their faces in ...

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Honor's "Lightning" android won the 2026 robot half marathon, smashing the human world record for the same distance. The robot is said to use the same cooling tech as Honor's smartphones. Honor might be best known for its smartphones,

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, and UBTECH, have not only captured global attention but ...

AI breakthroughs are reviving investor interest in humanoid robots More than 2,000 engineers and investors gathered at the Humanoids Summit China leads global funding and development of humanoid robotics Skepticism remains over how soon robots ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors poured $4.6 billion into the humanoid robotics ...

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 human can, simply because they have the same appendages.