MirrorMe Technology's Bolt became the fastest running humanoid robot demonstrated outside computer simulations when it reached a top speed of 22 mph.

Back-flipping, nunchuck-weilding humanoid robots delighted and amazed viewers at China’s annual televised new-year extravaganza with their kung-fu choreography. But they – and their rivals who took to the stage Monday night – also carried a message about just how rapidly Chinese androids are advancing.

China’s humanoid robotics industry is bustling. More than 14,500 automatons were delivered last year worldwide, up from around 3,000 in 2024, according to company reports and estimates from Omdia, a research firm.

At this year's CMG Spring Festival Gala, the world's most-watched television broadcast, four Chinese robotics powerhouses, namely Unitree, MagicLab, Galbot and Noetix, debuted their most advanced units to date. For the robotics industry, this was far more than a cultural performance; it was a high-stakes global product launch.

Beijing-based startup RoboParty has open-sourced its flagship bipedal humanoid, Roboto Origin, just months after

Jeremiah Kithinji had never touched a computer before he finished high school. A decade later, he is teaching robotics, and even took a team of rural Kenyans to the World Robotics Olympiad in Singapore.

Nvidia-led researchers unveiled DreamDojo, a robot “world model” trained on 44,000 hours of human egocentric video to help humanoid robots learn physical interaction faster, cheaper, and with more realistic real-time planning.

AuraML launches India’s first multimodal simulation model for robotics, enhancing development with NVIDIA’s advanced technology at the India-AI Summit.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, a worldwide leader in agriculture AI and robotics, today announced a major breakthrough for global agriculture with the launch of the world’s first Large Plant Model (LPM) - the most advanced AI model for plant ...