⚠️ NO MAGIC INVOLVED. JUST THE SAME ACTUATORS FROM... HUMANOID ROBOTS, POINTED IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. What looks like sci-fi on an auto show floor runs on the same three technologies now putting robots on their feet. → Electric actuators instead of hydraulics, the same components going into today's humanoid joints → Real-time balance under dynamic load, the exact problem a humanoid solves with every step → Lightweight composite materials that were lab exotica five years ago, now standard on a showroom stand The gap between a robot that walks and a vehicle that hovers isn't physics anymore. It's just where engineers pointed the same toolkit.show more

Humanoids = stacked actuators. Pure and simple. If you... don't understand actuators, you don't understand robots. Actuators are not solved: too heavy, too hot, too inefficient. This is a mega thread on actuator design for humanoid robots, directly from the mind of Humanoid Scott Bookmark it for later 👇show more

26 years of humanoid robotics in 16 seconds. In... 2000 keeping a biped robot upright was already an achievement. In 2026 humanoids are exchanging kicks, maintaining balance and recovering inside a robot combat arena. The progress in actuators, control systems and mechanical stability is impossible to ignore. What will humanoid robots be doing in 2036? #HumanoidRobots #Robotics #PhysicalAIshow more

⚠️ THE WEIRDEST PART OF THIS ROBOT DEMO? NOBODY... SEEMS SURPRISED ANYMORE! Humanoid robots are moving through a crowded public space while people walk around them like they're just another part of the environment. There’s no empty laboratory, no isolated testing area and no perfect path marked on the floor — just machines and humans sharing the same space. That makes this feel less like a robot demonstration and more like a preview of everyday life. Getting one humanoid to walk is one problem. Getting several machines to move safely around unpredictable people is another, because humans constantly stop, turn, cross paths and change direction without warning. Every movement requires the robots to perceive what is happening around them, maintain balance and continuously adjust their path. That's the shift worth paying attention to. The milestone isn't simply that robots can walk among humans — it's that we're starting to see environments where they can actually belong. Once that becomes reliable enough for shopping centers, airports, factories and offices, the question stops being whether humanoids can enter our world. It becomes what we're going to ask them to do once they're here.show more

🇨🇳 CHINA JUST ROLLED OUT A NATIONAL ID SYSTEM... FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS. They built the global standard. Every robot now carries a 29-digit ID. Modeled on China's citizen ID, but with cross-border tracking baked into the first 2 digits. This isn't surveillance. It's a passport system. The play: set the framework domestically, scale the install base, export the protocol as the global default. Same playbook that made Huawei the backbone of 5G. While the West argues about whether AI needs rules, China is already writing them.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

Humanoid robots hit the racetrack in Beijing ahead of... the opening of the second World Humanoid Robot Games on August 22. During race tests, some robots showed off rather unusual running styles. Take a look! (Courtesy of jiqirenzhubo818, 375881035/Douyin)show more

This is getting f*cking dangerous: when Tesla promised a... $20,000 humanoid, they didn't even realize what chain reaction they were triggering 1. Every humanoid runs on dozens of joints, and every joint needs a precision reducer 2. By Tesla's own numbers Optimus has 28 structural actuators, so 28 reducers per robot 3. The Fremont line is built for 1M robots a year, which means tens of millions of precision gears 4. Strain wave gears at this level come from a handful of factories, mostly in Japan and China 5. Japanese reducers would eat the budget of a $20,000 robot, so whoever makes cheap ones at scale wins 6. That's how a gear factory nobody has heard of becomes more important than the logo on the shell 7. The humanoid race will be decided by whoever controls the metal under the plastic 6,000 RPM in, 20 RPM out, and the money of the whole industry hides in that 300:1show more

BEAR SWIPE ENDED YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT IN SECONDS A... grizzly weighs up to 300 kilograms and swings a paw with enough force to break a moose’s spine, so this clip doesn’t show the robot’s endurance, it shows the actual limit of what counts as field readiness. The humanoid runs on balance algorithms built for flat lab floors, wild grass and a sudden strike from a living animal are an entirely different class of problem. ▹ balance systems are optimized for predictable scenarios, not a chaotic hit ▹ the fall here isn’t a software glitch, it’s physical proof the actuators can’t react fast enough to force at that level ▹ companies test robots against people and objects on flat floors, almost nobody tests against actual wildlife, and this clip explains why Every new meter of demo-floor walking costs millions. One wild bear proved that for free in three seconds.show more

A ROBOT WALKS A WIRE OVER A 1200 M... DROP, AND WHEN AN EAGLE FLIES PAST, NOTHING BREAKS ITS FOCUS The cable is a couple centimeters wide. Below the feet, nothing but air down to the valley floor. ▸ every step on the wire is constant ankle correction, since the support rotates and flexes at the same time ▸ the eagle passes inches from its head, a sudden rush of air and visual contrast, and the system just reads it as noise ▸ full attention stays locked on the wire, no stray head or torso movement to break concentration A human tightrope walker spends years training to not react to sudden stimuli so focus never slips mid-crossing. A robot gets that same discipline from an attention-control model that can be dropped onto a different body the same day. When something alive flies inches from your head mid-crossing over a drop like that and the reaction is zero, that's not about balance anymore. That's a system telling real threats to stability apart from plain background noise.show more

A humanoid robot won a half-marathon race for robots... and humans in Beijing on Sunday. The winning robot ran several minutes faster than the men's world record.show more

Check out a Shanghai robot factory where humanoid robots... are now in mass production. These "future workers" can handle tasks in areas ranging from sales to heavy-load transport. #humanoid #robots #technology #China #Shanghaishow more

Elon Musk recently said that in 10 years there... will be well over a billion humanoid robots on Earth Optimus will be the leadershow more

A Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot clocked 39.70 seconds to... rank the first during a preliminary event at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday night, beating the men's 400m world record of 43.03 seconds along with other robots. #China #HumanoidRobots #Robotics #RobotGames #Beijingshow more

🚨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

There may be other humanoid robots that exist right... now, but nothing comes close to Optimus. Optimus Gen 3 is going to revolutionize the humanoid robot scene 👀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

Two companies. Two visions of the future of robotics.... One image that millions of people have already mistaken for a real photograph. On one side—rows of Tesla Optimus robots. On the other—a Unitree army. People are debating who will win the "humanoid race." The real competition between these companies is playing out not on the factory floor, but in the capital and patent markets.show more

Nobody shows you this part of a companion robot.... Now you can't unsee it. A bare lattice skeleton, actuators at every joint, engineers hand fitting the frame before any skin goes on. No face. No personality. Just the mechanical body that has to move like a person before it's allowed to look like one.show more