We are now in the humanoid robot era, and they're starting to show up in our homes. But are they any good? And what's the path to improvement?

The runner who beat a half-marathon faster than any human has didn’t need to eat bowls of pasta the night before or buy pricey running shoes. All Lightning, a 5’5″ bright-red humanoid robot, had to do was show up at 7.

China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics plans to take its most affordable humanoid robot global

SamuRoid is a 22-DOF bionic humanoid robot built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Designed for researchers, educators, and robotics developers, the robot combines a traditional Robot Operating System (ROS) environment with modern embodied AI capabilities.

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange.

A full-size humanoid robot has marked a major step toward real-world autonomy after securing

CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make us all scared (or curious), evolved into proper ...

Engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also known as KAIST, built a humanoid that runs, jumps and even moonwalks with smooth control. In a recent field test, the robot sprinted across a soccer field, kicked a ball toward the goal ...

Figure AI's third generation humanoid robot appeared at a White House event next to Melania Trump on Wednesday. While the first lady used the robot to promote her push for artificial intelligence in children's education, Figure AI and its billionaire CEO ...