As soon as physically possible, the Iron humanoid robot made itself useful by getting out of the assembly space, making room for the next one.

We highlight some of the craziest robots showcased at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, from realistic humanoids to robot horses.

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a new humanoid designed to safely work alongside people without the physical barriers ...

Elon Musk predicts more than 1 billion humanoid robots within 10 years and says robots will eventually outnumber humans.

XPENG’s IRON humanoid has walked off a newly commissioned production line, with the automaker targeting mass production this ...

A humanoid robot has entered an industrial training facility to learn manufacturing tasks, marking a step towards planned ...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) - At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 ...

The development of ultra-realistic humanoid robots, such as UBTech's U1 Ultra, is rapidly progressing, enabling the replication of specific individuals' faces, voices, and behaviors, even deceased ...

At an event in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, UBTech Robotics launched the world's first mass–produced ultra–realistic humanoid robots. These Uworld U1 androids are covered with 'biomimetic skin' ...

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Can a robot keep up with Serena Williams? Researchers have taught a humanoid robot to play tennis with humans — and it can hold its own. Chinese AI robotic company Galbot designed software to teach a ...

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near ...