NEURA Robotics unveiled the third-generation 4NE1 humanoid at CES 2026, presenting a redesigned platform developed in collaboration with Studio F.A. Porsche. The robot was showcased performing both industrial and household-oriented tasks, reflecting NEURA’s goal of building a general-purpose humanoid suitable for shared human environments.

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is testing warehouse work at Hyundai’s Georgia plant, showing how fast humanoid robots are moving from demos to factories.

The much promised AI-driven, do-it-all humanoid robots sure can dance in canned demos, but they bumble about slowly when faced with objects in the real world. Even when it’s just... carpet. As my colleague Dom summed up yesterday,

MenteeBot autonomously fetches a Coke, showing how robots can learn tasks through demonstration and verbal instructions.

The deal positions Mobileye to compete with Tesla, where CEO Elon Musk expects humanoid robots will become the company's largest business long-term.

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The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble quadruped robots, has unveiled something that’s ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, among others, are very bullish on the growth potential of the humanoid robot market. Rapid advances in AI have accelerated the timeline for when general-purpose humanoid robots are likely to be ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly sparked online discussion concerning the IRON's ...