In April 2025, Beijing-based startup RoboParty formally launched with an ambition to build a fully open-source bipedal humanoid robot platform. The founder, Huang Yi (born 2004), made headlines as one of China’s youngest humanoid-robot entrepreneurs.

AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.

Electric vehicle company XPeng has released a video of its "Iron" robot without skin, and the results are pretty disturbing.

Capgemini and Orano have unveiled Hoxo – a robot that combines AI computer vision and advanced robotics to address operational challenges in nuclear facilities. The robot was launched at the Orano Melox facility in Gard, France.

We have long been fascinated with our own image. In the 1920s play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the term robot to describe human-looking creatures forced to work in factories. Since then, we have built many humanoid robots that can move and interact with the world in anthropomorphic ways.

Ian says 1X's NEO robot might mark the beginning of a new era when humanoid robots earn a place in our daily lives. Are we ready for it?

At RoboWorld 2025 in South Korea, Oh Jun-ho, head of Samsung’s Future Robotics Division, revealed the comapny is deep into humanoid development, working on robotic hands, actuators, and sensors and collaborating with Nvidia to power its AI core.