A Chinese humanoid robot has just delivered one of the most surreal tech demos of the year, flooring its own chief executive ...

Humanoid robots have gone from lab curiosities to viral performers, and few moments capture that shift as vividly as a recent concert in China where metallic dancers moved with uncanny human-like ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

China has been teaching humanoid robots in its country's decision-making rooms for years. Now they have been taken to a much more practical, albeit dystopian, ...

Some of the world's most advanced robots showed off their skills at tech shows and sporting events, doing everything from ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can't really do much yet.

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Chinese Tesla rival Xpeng said it plans to start mass production of its robot, called Iron, next year. The EV startup's CEO said Xpeng built Iron to be so "human-like" that people are comfortable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

PALO ALTO, CA - JUNE 27: Neo, a humanoid robot that can be both autonomous and "driven" remotely by an operator, poses for a portrait in the 1X office in Palo Alto, California. Startup 1X is building ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...