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Jack Ma-backed firm unveils humanoid robot butler that can cook garlic shrimp
J ack Ma-backed Ant Group has officially introduced its first humanoid robot, R1, at two major tech events this month in Berlin and Shanghai. At the IFA 2025 in Berlin on September 6, the robot was shown cooking shrimp in a mock kitchen.
At IFA 2025, Neura showcased its humanoid robots, hinting at a future where 4NE1 and MiPA products could soon move from enterprise use to everyday life.
Jack Ma’s Ant Group has entered the humanoid robot race with the launch of the R1 humanoid robot in Shanghai. The new machine was displayed at the 2025 Inclusio
R1 is Ant Group’s latest move into humanoid robotics, which can tackle real-world tasks like cooking, guiding visitors and sorting medicines
People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data. Demographers expect China to join Japan and South Korea as a "super-aged" society, where more than one in five residents are seniors, by 2035.
Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co showcased its first humanoid robot on Thursday, formally joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies to compete with the US in commercialising a frontier technology.
Having nailed the laundry — including loading the washer and later folding everything up — the Figure 02 humanoid robot is now taking on the task of loading the dishwasher. And it seems to have nailed that, too.
Elon Musk may be trying to pivot Tesla Inc. away from electric vehicles and toward humanoid robots, but to skeptical investors there’s no hiding from its stagnating sales and eye-watering
ShengShu's Vidar technology revolutionizes humanoid robot training by using AI-generated synthetic video, reducing required training data from hours to just 20 minutes.
Reinforcement learning—the fancy AI industry term for trial and error—was used to train it, including looking at videos of "human motion references" to improve its movements. The result, as you can see, is a robot that can adjust to different shots on the fly and return the shots very naturally for some long rallies.
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