🚨NEWS:Texas Instruments has purchased UBTECH's industrial humanoid robot Walker... S2 and is currently deploying and testing it on its production lines. UBTECH will also integrate more Texas Instruments components into the core components of its humanoid robots.show more

UNUSUAL The humanoid robot “Tiangong” showcases its advanced industrial... capabilities, from interacting with tools to operating production lines, reflecting its potential in assembly and logistics within factories.show more

Pi Ventures-Backed OpenMind Opens Waitlist For Humanoid Robot Control... Pi Network (Pi Network) Ventures backed OpenMind (OpenMind) has opened the waitlist for Instabody, a platform that lets users remotely control a real humanoid robot. The company said users can see the world through the robot's eyes and directly control its movements. It believes giving people the controls will help shape how robots evolve. OpenMind previously launched a robot app store built on its OM1 operating system, allowing developers to add new skills to humanoid and quadruped robots.show more

UBTECH just released Walker C1, its next-generation full-size humanoid... robot built for “urban co-existence” 🤖 At the upcoming China International Supply Chain Expo, it will serve as the event’s first official “silicon spokesperson,” handling navigation, reception, information queries, and host-style interaction.show 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

Booster Robotics is gearing up to launch a new... humanoid robot, the K1! The price won't be ¥99,000 RMB (approx. $13,600 USD), nor will it be ¥39,000 RMB (approx. $5,400 USD). Its final price point is expected to be significantly lower than other robots currently on the market.show more

🚨🇺🇸 ELON: HUMANOID ROBOTS WILL BE BIGGER THAN CELL... PHONES, EVERYONE WILL WANT ONE Elon is once again thinking far beyond EVs, declaring that humanoid robots will be “the biggest industry or the biggest product ever,” even surpassing smartphones. Elon is especially referring to Tesla’s Optimus robot, which he claims will eventually be capable of doing anything humans don’t want to. Tesla is already training Optimus with real-world tasks using AI and data from its vehicle fleet, and Musk believes mass production could redefine both labor and consumer tech. Some call it hype, but Elon calls it inevitable. If he’s right, we’re not just talking about the next iPhone… we’re talking about the next industrial revolution. Source: Tesla Owners Silicon Valleyshow more

A full-size humanoid robot is now for sale online... in China. Shenzhen’s UBTECH launched its humanoid robot Tiangong (天工行者), developed together with X-Humanoid, on China’s e-commerce platform Open-source and built for research & education, it supports secondary development by developers. Base model price: RMB 299,000 (over USD 41,000) tphuang S.L. Kanthan Li Zexin 李泽欣 Jason Smith - 上官杰文 Mao Ning 毛宁 Zhu Jingyang Zhang Meifangshow more

China has put its first Spider-Man-like humanoid robot that... sticks to vertical walls into use. It can handle welding, flaw detection, and rust removal in dangerous environments, keeping humans out of harm's way.show more

The T800 is the best humanoid robot ever created.... Its power balance and movement put it ahead of Tesla Optimus Atlas Figure 03 and Unitree H1. Think I’m wrong? Name one robot that beats it and tell me exactly what it does better.show more

Midea has just introduced a six-armed super-humanoid robot designed... for complex task handling and multi-step operations,essentially functioning as a self-contained workstation. The new humanoid is an upgraded version of the earlier Miro wheeled humanoid robot. In August, Miro was deployed at Midea’s Jingzhou factory in Hubei, working alongside AMRs, single-arm four-wheel robots, KUKA robots, and human workers. The six-arm Miro will soon join this lineup as well, further boosting the factory’s intelligent automation and operational efficiency.show more

A new wheeled humanoid robot DARWIN-01 From Shenzhen Standard... Robotics. This is a humanoid robot for industrial manufacturing and warehouses. The foldable body can adapt to a variety of spatial operations, and the end effector can also be switched to adapt to personalized business goals. The maximum load is 10kg. The universal wheels can shuttle between shelves, workshops and assembly lines at will, with a speed greater than 2m/s. Automatic charging or battery replacement, with a battery life of 12 hours.show more

.Xynova is one of the top rising players in... China’s dexterous hand and humanoid robot components space, based in Hangzhou • They develop not only the hands but also all core components (linear actuators, motors, etc) and algorithms fully in-house • They use a hybrid drive system, combining tendon-driven and direct-drive methods • One of the most exciting features is wrist control and finger abduction/adduction, delivering much more natural hand and arm dexterity • They prevent the hand from overheating by placing one of the actuators in the arm (below the palm) • Hands are equipped with tactile sensors and lidars, with 23 DoF (human hands have ~27 DoF) The overall design is deeply inspired by real human hand and arm muscle movements, impressive biomimicry approach The Humanoid Hub and I interviewed their tech lead so stay tuned for more technical details!show more

Model S and Model X just created room for... Tesla's next obsession. And what gets the floor space? Optimus. Think about that for a second. The company that built its name on cars is now prepping production lines capable of building millions of humanoid robots. When Tesla starts rearranging factories around a product, pay attention. Optimus at scale is coming. Clear the way. Teslashow more

✍️tldraw is using Gemini 3 Flash to power its... natural language computer, tldraw computer. Networks of components on an infinite canvas each use Gemini to process data and generate content that flows into other components. These flows are faster, smarter, and more reliable with Gemini 3 Flash.show more

“The hand is where the mind meets the world.”... — Carl Zimmer Humanoid hands closely replicating human degrees of freedom enable robots to seamlessly integrate into our world and learn more efficiently from human demonstrations. A look at some of the impressive hands from 2024🧵show more

teleoperator kicking himself over not programming Asimov's Laws of... Robotics... Worth considering if we should base today's reality on the science fiction musings from the past. Testing with humanoid robots is a very interesting new challenge. Historically robots have been confined to keep out zones with rigid walls and laser barriers, lock-out/tag-out, etc. This is the easy way to ensure people don't get hurt by very capable machines. But the more we integrate humanoid robotics into collaborative roles with humans the more we need to remove those barriers by nature of the work.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

China now has its own “Bolt” — a robot... named after sprint legend Usain Bolt. A Chinese research team has unveiled the world’s first full-size humanoid robot to reach a peak speed of 10 meters per second, setting a new global benchmark for humanoid running. Bolt runs like a body pushed to the limit. Its joints and power systems work in tight coordination, keeping it balanced even at sprint speed. Built to match the build of an adult man—1.75 meters tall and 75 kilograms—it is a life-sized system operating at the edge of physics. Compared with Usain Bolt’s iconic 9.58-second 100-meter world record, which many experts believe may stand for decades, the gap between humans and machines is narrowing fast. Chinese robots are now challenging the ceiling of human performance—much as AlphaGo once challenged Go champion Ke Jie. The breakthrough builds on earlier world-record achievements in high-speed robotic running and marks a giant leap for China in humanoid motion and control. Beyond records, Bolt also carries practical value: robots are leaving the lab and stepping into real-world settings—sports training, emergency response, and demanding industrial tasks where speed, balance and control truly matter.show more

BOOM! Humanoid Robots Just Performed Surgery for the First... Time! REAL VIDEO! In a groundbreaking preclinical breakthrough, researchers at UC San Diego have achieved what many thought was years away: teleoperated humanoid robots successfully completing live surgeries. Published in Nature, the study marks the world’s first use of humanoid robots for in-vivo laparoscopic procedures on large animals (pigs). Two separate surgeries were completed: Key Details •. Procedure: Laparoscopic gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy) •. Team 1: Human surgeon + one humanoid robot (the robot performed core tasks while the human assisted) •. Team 2: Two humanoid robots working together with no human at the operating table •. Robots: Custom “Surgie” humanoids (~5 ft tall, ~60 lbs) using standard surgical tools •. Control: Fully teleoperated by surgeons (remote human control, not autonomous) •. Significance: First demonstration of humanoid robots handling real surgical workflows in a live setting, proving compatibility with existing OR tools and spaces This proof shows humanoid robots could one day help address surgeon shortages, enable remote procedures in rural areas, battlefields, or even space all at a fraction of the cost and space of traditional surgical robots like da Vinci. Read the full publication here: Project page with video: The future of surgery just got a whole lot more interesting. And medical cost for the first time in decades will be scheduled to go down, much further down.show more