Humanoid robots are impressive, but companies should judge them by economics, reliability, and cost per task, not by how human they look.

From Tesla and Boston Dynamics to Figure AI, Unitree, UBTech and 1X, these are the companies shaping one of the most exciting ...

How will you know when "the robots are here"? Morgan Stanley research forecasts that 10% of U.S. households could own a humanoid by 2050, with the devices selling at an average price of $50,000.

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

Last September roboticist Benjie Holson of Robust AI posted on Substack the “Humanoid Olympic Games”: a set of increasingly difficult tests for humanoid robots he demonstrated himself while dressed in ...

Automaker BMW says it will introduce humanoid robots for use in its car manufacturing operations in Europe, reports BBC News. Two Aeon robots made by Hexagon Robotics have been assigned to work in ...

At 2025's Nvidia GTC event, a bipedal robot named Blue fumbled around stage and disobeyed simple commands. This year at the show, Olaf the robot did better. Every year, the highlight of Nvidia’s GTC ...

In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the ...

Automakers are prioritizing long-term automation gains over current productivity limits of humanoid robots. Tesla and Hyundai are among the leaders pushing humanoid robots into factories within the ...

The tech industry has become obsessed with the idea of humanoid robots, bipedal androids designed to complete tasks on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts. But as many experts have argued, ...