Samsung wants to build humanoid robots, but its new RX division is starting with practical factory machines while consumer models and robot butlers remain distant ambitions without a launch timeline.
1X’s NEO home robot has tendon-driven hands with tactile sensing, force control, and water resistance, but impressive hardware still needs reliable autonomy before it can handle everyday chores.

Elon Musk has directly rejected a popular fan theory that Tesla is secretly further ahead on Optimus than it lets on, warning instead that production of its humanoid robot “will be extremely slow at first.”
The comment cuts against a bullish narrative …
UBTech’s new Uworld U1 humanoid robots are designed to live alongside people, learning routines, recognizing emotions, and holding natural conversations. The company even envisions customized versions that can recreate a person’s face and voice.
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, an…

On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hours.How did they do it? Is there some magical technol…

This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate amount of attention.Two robotic hands were making …

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called I…
China’s new humanoid robot ID system works like a citizen identity code. a unique number that follows each bipedal machine through its entire life cycle.