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Incredible piece of engineering. Boston Dynamics has optimized for simulatability and ease of manufacturing over exact human-likeness. New four-finger hand unlock a huge range of dexterous behavior. Now it's AI's turn to explore the hardware limits.
Humanoid robots building other humanoid robots could soon become a real part of industrial automation. Kepler Robotics K2 Bumblebee is built for factory work, standing 1.75 meters tall with 52 degrees of freedom and a 30 kg dual-arm payload.
The robot has already been tested in real manufacturing environments, including VEICHI Electric’s factory.
Chinese robots in traditional Saudi outfits perform folk dance for Riyadh Mayor and Chinese Ambassador
Chinese robotics company UBTECH has begun delivering its ultra-realistic UWORLD U1 humanoid companion robot. The robot features 88 degrees of freedom, realistic silicone skin, expressive facial movements, emotional AI, and long-term memory. UBTECH received 13,361 pre-orders for the robot.
Physical AI: the next huge phase of the AI revolution
$SYM | Symbotic
• End-to-End Warehouse Automation
$MAAS | Maase Inc.
• Mobile Charging Robotics
$OUST | Ouster
• LiDAR & Robotic Perception
$CGNX | Cognex
• Machine Vision & Industrial Sensing
$ISRG | Intuitive Surgical
• Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Unitree Breakthrough: The World’s First Real-Time World Model-Driven Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat
UnifoLM-X2-1.0 breaks through world-action foundation models' bottlenecks in instant planning, decision-making, and dynamic interactive execution, achieve high dynamics, strong interaction, real-time prediction and planning of the future, achieve fully autonomous combat for humanoid robots. This validates the fundamental feasibility of large-scale deployment of world model-driven humanoid robots.
AI-powered robots organize protest in Poland against the replacement of human workers by AI.
Humanoid Robot as Police Patrol Assistant in Shenzhen, China
Elon Musk wasn’t kidding when he said Tesla would flood Austin with Cybercabs. Downtown Austin looks insane, this is by far the most Cybercabs together in public yet.
A New World Record: 8.8 → 8.6. In less than 3 days we’ve gone from +11 seconds to 8.6 seconds on the 100m sprint for humanoid robots. Wild times.
Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot wins the long jump with a 7.97 meter leap at the World Humanoid Robot Games
The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games have begun. 666 teams from around the world are competing with more than 2,000 humanoid robots
Robot breaking the human speed record and BREAKING an electrical box at the same time.
Unitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity
Tesla on Optimus: "We have decommissioned the manufacturing lines for Models S & X at our Fremont Factory and are installing the first-generation lines for Optimus, where we expect to start production soon.
The initial Optimus builds will be used in our Optimus Academy for training data collection and further functionality development. Additionally, we continued site development at Gigafactory Texas with building construction now in full swing."