Viral mishaps underscore a big challenge for robot makers... aiming to put them to work in factories and warehouses: How can they ensure a humanoid doesn’t hurt a human? 🔗show more

Learn about how to make humanoid robot teleoperation work... for humanoid *mobile* manipulation in this podcast. Really cool work by Siyuan Huang and yixuan_li!show more

Turns out you can train humanoid hands without any... robot data. The idea in HUG is quite simple: (a) collect human data with smart glasses, (b) train a human manipulation model, (c) retarget to multi-fingered robot hands.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

They put a robot dog in to see how... a leopard would react and the reaction was worthy of any cat.show more

AheadForm Elf V1 is a hyper-realistic humanoid robot designed... to blur the line between machine and human appearance for highly engaging emotional companionshipshow more

Have you ever wondered what a fully autonomous robot... does in a work day? We recorded Bytes the robot dog and Iris the humanoid as they conference-maxed Chicago Automate 2026.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

Most Americans don't get how fast Chinese robots are... improving and scaling. I can buy this robot and get it to my door in 2-3 weeks. Meanwhile you can't buy a single American humanoid robot (yet).show more

At China's first facility dedicated to training heterogeneous humanoid... robots in Shanghai, over 100 humanoid robots can train simultaneously to perform a variety of tasks including playing football, item sorting and equipment operation. #robot #humanoid #training #Shanghaishow 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

🚨 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

Don't you have a haptic chair for VR gaming?... Don't worry, your friendly humanoid robot can help you with that! In a recent research paper from the University of Colorado, researchers experimented with using a humanoid robot to literally grab your chair and move it during VR racing sessions to make the game more realistic. And from the users' feedback, it seemed to work. I guess they took inspiration from those viral videos, where in some low-budget arcades, the owner literally moved the station with his own hands. I can't wait for the fail videos caused by this technology... Full video is available here: #VirtualReality #VR #technologyshow more

I might feel nostalgic watching the last Tesla Model... X roll off the line—except it's being replaced by the Optimus humanoid robot line, with plans to scale production to a million units per year. They will soon be in our factories, homes and operating rooms changing our world forever. What your thoughts about the coming humanoid revolution?show more

Focus Mode, a way for hunters to have more... precise control over how they guard, aim, and attack. Aiming at a monster's weak points in Focus Mode can also lead to special actions that inflict heavy damage! #MHWildsshow more

Yes, but can it curtsy?! 😉 🤖 In South... Korea, The Princess Royal and Sir Tim Laurence visited a Smart Mobility Laboratory, where they were shown demonstrations of a humanoid robot, a dual-arm robot and a motion capture system. Korea University and University College London signed a cooperation MoU in 2023 and now operate a joint fund to support science research projects.show more

How can we leverage diverse human videos to improve... robot manipulation? Excited to introduce EgoVLA — a Vision-Language-Action model trained on egocentric human videos by explicitly modeling wrist & hand motion. We build a shared action space between humans and robots, enabling seamless transfer. With some robot demos, EgoVLA becomes a powerful, generalizable robot policy.show more

Today we are showing two humanoid robots performing collaborative... grocery storage A single set of Helix neural network weights runs simultaneously on two robots They then work together to put away groceries neither robot has ever seen beforeshow more

This work makes a humanoid robot do simple parkour... moves by looking with a depth camera and choosing the right move on the fly. The big deal is that it turns lots of small human moves into long, real-time robot behavior, without hand-coding every transition or retraining for each new course. A humanoid robot is usually good at steady walking, but it often fails when it has to do fast moves like jumping up, vaulting, or rolling, and then keep going to the next obstacle. The hard part is that you cannot easily collect training data for every possible obstacle shape, distance, and mistake, so robots end up learning a few moves that only work in a narrow setup. This work starts from short clips of real human parkour moves, like stepping over, vaulting, climbing, and rolling. It uses motion matching, which is basically a smart “pick the next clip that fits best right now” search, to stitch those short clips into a long, smooth plan that looks like a human doing a whole course. Then it trains a controller with reinforcement learning (RL), which means the robot learns by trial and error to copy that plan while staying balanced and not falling. After training separate expert controllers for different moves, it compresses them into 1 controller that uses only onboard depth sensing and a simple “go this fast in this direction” command. In real tests on a Unitree G1 humanoid, it can clear multiple obstacles in a row, adapt when obstacles get moved, and climb a wall up to 1.25m.show more

Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas in new note: "We estimate... 1 humanoid robot at $5/hour can do the work of 2 humans at $25/hour, generating an NPV of ~$200k/humanoid. 1 robot car can potentially drive down cost/mile of a ride share vehicle to <$0.20/mile (1/10th human-driven ride share). The marginal cost of your personal C-3PO robot should, over time, approach the marginal cost of power - you can't have GPUs without BTUs."show more