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

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S.

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 ...

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On December 24th, Christmas Eve, the first-floor lobby of AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics), a Chinese company leading the world in mass-producing humanoid robots, was filled with "robot Santas" instead of ...

Beijing-based startup RoboParty has open-sourced its flagship bipedal humanoid, Roboto Origin, just months after ...

Some robotics companies develop robots that look like people, but the video from the U.K. capital appeared to show a human woman in costume.

Persona AI agreed to pilot its tech at SSE Steel Fabrication after COO Justin P. Airhart sent a cold email looking for ways to bring automation to the small factory.

China is preparing to send a humanoid robot into orbit, positioning a private startup at the center of a new race to put artificial intelligence to work in space. Chinese firm Engine AI says its ...

Hyundai and Boston Dynamics showed off the latest version of the Atlas humanoid robot at CES, including how it can work in industrial settings such as warehouses. Hyundai Motor Group is getting into ...

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides ...

AGIBOT, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, today marks its official entry into the U.S. market at CES 2026, showcasing one of the industry's most comprehensive humanoid ...