F or decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs. That’s changing. Engineers and companies across the world are now building human-shaped machines that walk, grasp, and collaborate well enough to start showing up in factories and warehouses, and potentially in daily life.

Electric car manufacturer Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, has projected that the company will switch from autonomous automobiles to robotics. He further suggested in the firm’s Master Plan Part 4 that 80% of the company’s value will come from the Optimus robots.

Recently, humanoid robots have made significant progress again: Ubtech signed a 250 million yuan order for embodied intelligent humanoid robots, and Zhiyuan Robotics is expected to win the bid for the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center project, marking a comprehensive acceleration in the industry.

China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble quadruped robots, has unveiled something that’s turning heads: the Unitree R1.

South Korea has set an ambitious timeline to begin mass production of humanoid robots by 2029, followed by AI-powered autonomous vehicles in 2030, as part of its push to lead the global transformation of manufacturing through artificial intelligence,

Humanoid robots are poised to reshape manufacturing and warehousing operations due to their ability to perform very different tasks, low IT integration requirements and high

Recently, Tesla officially joined the Weibo platform and launched an official verified account named 'Tesla AI.' The account quickly attracted attention from the tech community, with its verification information clearly indicating that it is operated by Tesla China.

Robots used to need our help to keep going. They had to be plugged in or manually recharged. Now, UBTech is changing that. The company’s new humanoid, the Walker S2, has a feature that could reshape the future of factory work. It can swap out its own ...

Humanoid robots dominated the spotlight at this week's World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. According to Chinese outlets TMTPost and Chinastarmarket.cn, the 2025 event featured over 80 robotics firms — among them Ubtech Robotics ...

Discover HITTER, a UC Berkeley humanoid robot that plays table tennis using AI-powered planning to outsmart human players.

What if owning a humanoid robot wasn’t just the domain of tech giants or research institutions, but something you could achieve for the price of a mid-range smartphone? It sounds like science fiction, but thanks to Kscale Labs, it’s now a reality.