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

Humanoid robots are starting to look less like science fiction props and more like the next major workforce technology. For decades, the idea of machines shaped like us belonged mostly in movies, ...

Foundation Future Industries, a start-up founded in 2024, aims to leverage humanoid robots for military and industrial work, rather than household tasks and the service sector. The start-up has ...

Humanoid robots are increasingly viewed less as futuristic prototypes and more as a practical route to bring artificial intelligence into human-designed environments. Over the last 12 months, market ...

Researchers have achieved a world first by successfully using teleoperated humanoid robots to perform two surgeries during a preclinical trial. The procedures included a gallbladder removal completed ...

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled ...

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 ...