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China unveils humanoid robots with dual-battery hot swap for nonstop factory operations

Shanghai Electric used the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026) to unveil a ...

The anti-humanoid: Why Genesis AI’s new robot design isn’t a fake human

Genesis AI is betting against the tech industry’s obsession with bipedal humanoids with Eno, a foldable robot with a minimalist geometric design. Genesis AI is betting against the tech industry’s ...
TMCnet

Generative Bionics Introduces Gene.01, a Fully Functional Smart-Skin Humanoid Robot Platform Designed for Safe Human Collaboration

Gene.01 moved from a concept to a fully functional humanoid robot in just six months Multimodal skin designed for safe human collaboration: Distributed tactile skin detects touch, proximity, force, ...
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NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA GTC Taipei -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, the first open humanoid robot reference design built on ...
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China’s PrimeBOT unveils world’s first transformable personal humanoid robot

A Chinese robotics startup has showcased what it describes as the world’s first transformable ...

Mouser's Rise of the Robots Program Explores Humanoid Design Considerations

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, today announced the latest installment of its Empowering ...
TMCnet

Shanghai Electric showcases embodied intelligence robot matrix and AI-native smart factory solutions at WAIC 2026

"SUYUAN" bipedal humanoid robot: With 41 degrees of freedom for enhanced mobility, it is equipped with a multimodal visul sensing system on the head and torso, along with a dual-battery hot-swap ...

Humanoid Robots: 18 Companies Racing To Build The Next Big Thing In AI

From Tesla and Boston Dynamics to Figure AI, Unitree, UBTech and 1X, these are the companies shaping one of the most exciting ...
The New Yorker

Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed?

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called Halodi, and it sold wheeled security robots from offices south of Oslo. But in ...

iCode Bringing Unitree R1 EDU Humanoid Robots to 16 Campuses for New Youth Innovation Program

Advanced college acceleration program gives high school students hands-on experience in humanoid robotics, AI, ...

In groundbreaking first, humanoid robots performed surgery

In a world first, doctors successfully completed not one, but two surgeries with the use of remotely controlled humanoid robots. The proof-of-concept preclinical trial involved gallbladder removals in ...
Ars Technica

The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...