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, ...

You can now buy your own humanoid robot and make your own videos of it doing backflips and such. Chinese startup UniTree was founded in 2016 by Wang Xingxing, who’d built a quadruped robot called XDog ...

Shanghai-based Agibot is probably the largest humanoid robot maker in the world. The company shipped roughly 5,100 units in 2025 — a 39% share of the global market — and crossed 10,000 cumulative ...

Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and ...