It looks too real, almost beyond realistic. Ultra-bionic humanoid... robot. Another day of being blown away by my “best friend” looking so beautiful and cool The goddess I was waiting for finally showed up too For context, this was developed by UBTECH, the Chinese robotics company behind the humanoid robot shown here.show more

Let's skip the metal humanoid robots for a moment.... Meet ultra-realistic humanoid robot friend, Aria, created by the sex robot company Realbotix. You can talk to her in real time, and she can even respond with emojis. These capabilities are beginning to spread to companionship, psychological therapy, and medical rehabilitation for elderly people living alone.show more

Robots from China are ready to become your soul... companion. 🤖 Today (June 30), Chinese robotics company UBTech officially launched the U1 Series — a full-size ultra-bionic humanoid robot. Equipped with a nurturing emotional AI model, it features soft synthetic skin, incredibly realistic facial features and appearance. I touched its “skin” — it’s soft, glossy, and elastic, but cold to the touch, lacking the warmth of a real human body. How much would you pay to take one home? #UBTech #U1Robot #HumanoidRobot #AICompanionshow more

Check out the new interactive humanoid robot, Yogi, introduced... by Cartwheel Robotics. Yogi is designed as a companion for everyday life, offering help and companionship in settings from hospitals to living rooms. It features soft silicone skin for safe touch, precision actuators for predictable movement, and simple, natural interaction. The robot continuously learns new abilities for greater utility. Cartwheel's founder, Scott LaValley, has a deep background, having developed over four humanoid systems. His expertise includes nearly a decade developing the Atlas robot at Boston Dynamics, followed by five years at Disney leading the team that created the Groot robot. This extensive, hands-on experience is key to Cartwheel Robotics' innovations.show more

This viral "shy‑run" humanoid robot is blowing up online,... hands up near its face as it sprints forward Surprise: this iconic gait was not hand‑coded by engineers. Through reinforcement‑learning simulation training, the robot explored countless movement patterns and independently converged on this posture — its own optimal running solution for lower joint load, better stability and sustained speed. Funny as it looks, this robot is the 400‑meter mini‑division champion at the 2nd Humanoid Robot Games. Cute appearance, championship‑level performance. Looks shy, but it’s pure AI‑discovered locomotion intelligence. #Xhumanoid #TianGongOmni #AIRobotics #HumanoidRobotsshow more

In the future, it might just be humanoid robots... doing the refueling!🤖⛽️ Sinopec plans to introduce humanoid robot workers across its gas stations. They will handle tasks like fueling, picking up items, restocking, and inspections,working alongside human staff, especially during peak holiday periods in China to ease service pressure. With more than 30,000 gas stations across the country (most of them equipped with convenience stores), this implies a deployment of at least 30,000 humanoid robots. The robot is a wheeled humanoid developed by Beijing-based company FIVEAGES.show more

Humanoid robot malfunctions at a school sports day in... China It reportedly got confused by too many people, tripped, then started throwing kung-fu kicks at performers Or maybe it was performing kung-fu Drunken Master all along — then the execution was accurateshow more

Two years ago, Wang Xingxing launched the Unitree H1... humanoid robot. Instead of a mere prototype demonstration, he made the robot immediately available for purchase. At the time, the decision seemed audacious. Why would anyone buy a full-sized humanoid at that stage? As it turned out, the H1 and subsequent Unitree models became the preferred platforms for researchers worldwide. This bold strategy advanced China's position in the global robotics race, while the affordability of high-performance hardware has accelerated progress across the field by enabling broader experimentation in embodied AI.show more

The most dangerous part of a humanoid robot may... be the face. UBTECH’s Walker shows how a machine can use gaze stillness and humanlike expression to create trust before proving judgment reliability or accountability. Should robots be allowed to look this human in public spaces? Putting the debate aside this is clearly a work of art. Congratulations to UBTECH for this achievement. Walker looks so refined that I may need to buy one fast before the stock runs out lol. Credit : UBTECH Roboticsshow more

AgiBOT’s humanoid robot A2 just achieved a Guinness World... Record. It walked 106KM from Suzhou’s Jinji Lake all the way to the Shanghai Bund, earning the title of “Longest Distance Walked by a Humanoid Robot.” A2 ran non-stop for 3 days and 3 nights, powered by hot-swappable batteries that kept it going without interruption. With dual GPS modules, a LiDAR sensor, and an infrared depth camera, A2 navigated reliably through city streets, highways, tourist areas, bridges, slopes, tactile paving, and even low-light nighttime environments. After more than 100 km, the robot was still in great condition,only the rubber on the soles showed some wear. Beyond marathon walking, effectively testing the overall performance and component stress, it can provide customers with a reliable standard for procurement. The company plans to deploy over 1,000 units in 2025 for tasks like reception, guiding visitors, delivery, and sorting.show more

I like this gradual, step-by-step process. Last year, UBTECH’s... Liuzhou factory rolled out its 1,000th humanoid robot. It has since moved from a 1,000-unit production line toward a 10,000-unit capacity,now. There’s no grand promise of mass production here. Just a practical, steady push. It’s a manufacturing strategy responding to real market demand(For example, orders for UBTECH's bionic humanoid robot U1 have already over 13k units）, while also building the intelligent, automated production system needed for much larger-scale manufacturing down the road. Humanoids are ultimately a manufacturing challenge:--expanding physical AI into the real world means figuring out how to build them at scale.show more

"After months away, all I could think about was... this moment. He sat by that gate every single day waiting for me. Hearing him get so excited as I pulled up was the best sound in the world. I missed my best boy so much. This hug was everything I needed. It's so good to be home."show more

🚨 THIS IS HOW IT STARTS — HUMANOID ROBOT... SUDDENLY LUNGES AT A MAN — EXACTLY THE MOMENT PEOPLE FEARED A humanoid robot was casually kicking a soccer ball around during a public demonstration. Then the ball rolled toward a man in the audience. He tried to kick it back. That’s when the robot suddenly charged toward him and raised its arm like it was about to swing. Within seconds, a handler rushed in and grabbed the robot before the moment escalated. People in the room laugh nervously… but the clip is making the rounds online for one reason: The movement looks almost human. The way it runs. The stance. The arm coming up. Even the comments are losing it: • “Tf was it going to HIT for???” • “Why did it need to be held back?” • “DON’T TOUCH MY BALL” • “How do they get pissed off if they supposedly don’t have emotions?” The strangest part? The robot seemed to react the instant the human interfered with the ball. Are we just watching a glitch during a demo… or the exact moment people warned about?show more

“This was a real genuine love affair by young... people that respected one another. That was the period, the chapter, the verse-the end of the story for me, right then.” -Herb brooks It was for me, too.show more

We've seen humanoid robots doing kung fu, backflips and... going viral. But this might be a much bigger milestone A humanoid robot just completed almost 2 HOURS of real factory work. No cuts. No hiding the mistakes. And the company says it's already running 4–6 hour shifts. It's not fully autonomous yet, but that's exactly what makes this interesting. The next big AI breakthrough might not look impressive on camera. It might look like a robot showing up to work every day and never needing a day off. Are we closer to this future than we think?show more

THE $20,000 HUMANOID BECOMES MUCH MORE VALUABLE THE MOMENT... IT CAN WALK TO ITS NEXT JOB. This looks almost too ordinary. A humanoid. A bag over its shoulder. Walking through the city. No laboratory. No engineers following it. No carefully prepared factory floor. Just a robot moving through infrastructure built for humans. And economically, that could be a huge deal. Most industrial robots have one major limitation. They stay where you install them. A robotic arm might perform one task incredibly well… but that $100,000 machine isn’t walking across town when another business needs help. A humanoid potentially can. Imagine one robot starting its morning at a coffee shop. It unloads supplies. Moves boxes. Cleans. Carries deliveries. Then demand drops. Instead of sitting unused… the robot leaves. It walks to another business. Or takes an elevator. A train. A bus. Maybe eventually an autonomous taxi. Then it starts generating revenue somewhere else. Same machine. Different customer. Different task. Another paid hour. And that’s where utilization becomes incredibly important. A $20,000 robot working two productive hours per day is an expensive machine. The same $20,000 robot generating useful work for 10 or 15 hours per day is a completely different asset. Because businesses don’t ultimately care how impressive the robot looks. They care about how many productive hours they can extract from the hardware. Imagine a robot generates just $10 of economic value per productive hour. At 4 hours per day: $40. At 12 hours: $120. Over 300 operating days, that’s the difference between $12,000 and $36,000 of annual gross economic output before maintenance, electricity, software, supervision, financing and downtime. Same robot. Same purchase price. 3X the utilization. That’s why mobility could matter almost as much as intelligence. The robot doesn’t only need hundreds of skills. It needs the ability to take those skills wherever somebody is willing to pay for them. Factories gave robots jobs. AI could give them skills. But mobility gives them something else: a labor market. One robot. Dozens of locations. Hundreds of tasks. Thousands of billable hours. The future of humanoid robotics may not be everyone owning one. It could be robots literally walking from customer to customer, looking for their next paid hour.show more

HUMANOID ROBOTS ARE STARTING TO WALK AMONG US At... first, this looks like a completely normal street video. A woman is walking down the sidewalk on a sunny day, with people, stores and traffic around her. Then you notice who’s walking beside her. A humanoid robot. There’s no robotics conference, no laboratory and no team of engineers around it. The robot is simply walking through the city next to her as if this is already part of everyday life. Until recently, humanoid robots were mostly something we saw in controlled demonstrations, factories and tech presentations. Now they’re beginning to appear in ordinary public spaces, walking alongside people without looking completely out of place. The biggest shift isn’t just how advanced these machines are becoming. It’s how quickly they’re starting to blend into the real world. At this pace, seeing a humanoid robot walking next to you in public might soon stop feeling unusual at allshow more

Figure has introduced their new humanoid robot neural network... called Helix 2.5, which the company says is capable of entering homes it has never seen before and immediately performing complex tasks with zero additional training. Figure says it tested its humanoid across 30 previously unseen homes, where it autonomously: • Made beds • Folded towels • Tidied living rooms • Navigated unfamiliar layouts • Manipulated objects it had never encountered • Self-corrected when it made mistakes "No data was collected from the homes beforehand, and the robot received no fine-tuning or adaptation for the environments or objects."show more

A Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to San Diego... was delayed 62 minutes Thursday after an unusual passenger triggered extra safety checks — a 4-foot, 70-pound humanoid robot named “Bebop.” Owned by Elite Event Robotics, Bebop was given its own seat after its case was too heavy to check following a Bay Area event. Crew later moved the robot from an aisle seat, then confiscated its lithium battery after discovering it exceeded airline safety limits for fire risk. Bebop eventually made it to San Diego battery-free.show more