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The article highlights the rapid progress in humanoid robotics from 2015 to 2026, showcasing advanced capabilities like running and industrial tasks, and speculates on future developments by 2036.
SoftBank is negotiating to take control of humanoid robotics company 1X Technologies at a $6 billion valuation, following a challenging fundraising attempt by 1X at a higher valuation.
Sergey Levine discusses humanoid robotics, the Chinese robotics ecosystem, and future predictions in a chat with Ryan Peterman.
Unitree's valuation of around $50B reflects the market's substantial investment in the future of humanoid robotics as a real industry, suggesting either early positioning or missed opportunities by others.
The biggest Humanoid Olympics is currently happening in China, featuring clips of robot performances such as a finish-line wipeout.
Booster Robotics showcased 80 T2 humanoid robot platforms at the opening of the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
Alexander Koch announced that humanoids can be booked for cleaning services in San Francisco, with pricing for one or two humanoids and a timelapse video demonstration.
This paper introduces LUCID, a hierarchical model-based reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation. It learns reusable latent skills and a macro-dynamics world model, enabling high-level planning via imagined rollouts and improving success rates in simulated multi-object rearrangement tasks.
Humanoid robotics showcased at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference still face major technological bottlenecks and rising costs, remaining immature for widespread commercial deployment despite increased capital and company participation.
Elon Musk predicts that scaling real-world AI and humanoid robotics will eliminate the bottleneck of human labor, making current global GDP growth seem primitive.
The author visited the world's #1 humanoid robotics company in Shanghai, which shipped 10,000 robots into real factories last year.
A Unitree Robotics humanoid robot performed a traditional Chinese martial arts sequence outdoors, demonstrating fluid kicks, stances, and precise movements with strong balance and coordination.
GRAIL generates diverse humanoid manipulation and locomotion data using 3D assets and video foundation models, enabling effective sim-to-real transfer for humanoid robot control with high real-world success rates.
Lumos Robotics officially launches Project EDGE, offering 100 free Lumos Nix units to global builders, universities, and robotics labs.
A Twitter thread highlights that Unitree is about to IPO in China at a $7B valuation despite being the only profitable humanoid robotics company, with strong revenue and profit growth, contrasting sharply with unprofitable competitors like UBTech, Boston Dynamics, and Figure AI.
Unitree Robotics has launched the GD01, a mass-produced rideable transformer robot priced at roughly $537,000, featuring both bipedal and quadrupedal movement modes. The device targets commercial and luxury markets in China while the company prepares for a Shanghai stock exchange listing.
OmniHumanoid is a framework that enables scalable cross-embodiment video generation by factorizing motion transfer and embodiment-specific adaptation, using unpaired data and branch-isolated attention to reduce interference.
The NVIDIA Shanghai Embodied AI team is recruiting Full-Stack Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and Mechanical Engineers, focusing on humanoid robot control, sensor integration, and hardware development.
This article covers a simulated or staged fight between Unitree's G1 humanoid robot and EngineAI's PM01 robot.
Unitree is launching a global digital store where developers and users can download SDKs, dance routines, martial arts modules, and custom task files for its G1 humanoid robot.