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Sprinting robots beat human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games, but boring chore events exposed how far autonomy still has to go.
Chinese firms delivered nearly 90% of the 13,000 two-armed, two-legged robots shipped globally last year, and now they're playing to the public.
The $13,500 Chinese humanoid is dancing at World Cup parties and racking up billions of views — but most operators are still teleoperating it.
The Bangalore-based startup already runs several hundred robots at 50-plus US customers, with one model at less than 5% Chinese parts.
The update extends the model from upper-body manipulation to full-body motion, letting Apptronik's Apollo 2 walk, crouch and pick items off shelves.
Microagi's Shift division sends camera-hatted chefs into homes in exchange for egocentric video to train humanoid robots.
The automaker plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting in 2028, while South Korean workers strike over pay and retirement age.
The humanoid maker has $300M in contract orders, dozens of Digits deployed, and a reverse-merger IPO planned for later this year.
CEO Sankaet Pathak says weapons systems arrive in months, with Phantom MK1 already tested by Ukrainian forces.
39,000 South Korean workers walked out as Hyundai plans 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas units across its plants starting 2028.
UC San Diego surgeons remotely controlled $13,500 humanoid robots to perform two minimally invasive operations, published in Nature.
The Swiss startup, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, stacks reinforcement learning across every layer to make humanoids work without a human puppeteer.
The humanoid maker behind Digit is raising $620M to scale Digit v5 production against a $300M order book.
The startup pays operators to wear VR rigs and steer factory humanoids, harvesting the teleoperation data needed to make the bots autonomous.
The French startup backed by Eric Schmidt is targeting factory, lab and logistics deployments by the end of 2026.
Agility's Jonathan Hurst and Berkeley's Sergey Levine say viral humanoid clips routinely mask human control, replayed environments, and sped-up footage.
Jensen Huang's blueprint puts a Thor T5000 brain inside a 6-foot, 150-pound Chinese-built body — and undercuts rival humanoids on price.
The startup streamed Figure 03 robots sorting packages nonstop, then pitted them against a human intern in a 10-hour competition.
The Hangzhou robotics maker known for cheap humanoids is now selling a wall-smashing piloted mecha — and yes, it is a real product.
Assured Robot Intelligence's founders join Meta's AI unit as the company chases a humanoid market Morgan Stanley pegs at $5 trillion by 2050.
Sony AI's table tennis robot is the first autonomous machine to win real matches against professional players, with planning loops under 200 milliseconds.
JAL will test Unitree's G1 and UBTECH's Walker E on cargo loading and cabin cleaning through 2028 as ground crew numbers keep falling.
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