China’s humanoid robotics industry is bustling. More than 14,500 automatons were delivered last year globally, up from around 3,000 in 2024, according to company reports and estimates from Omdia, a ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold: they are no longer just research prototypes or sci-fi props. They walk, run ...

Back-flipping, nunchuck-weilding humanoid robots delighted and amazed viewers at China’s annual televised new-year extravaganza with their kung-fu choreography. But they – and their rivals who took to ...

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like ...

A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...

MirrorMe Technology's Bolt became the fastest running humanoid robot demonstrated outside computer simulations when it ...

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When interacting with highly realistic humanoid robots, the simple presence of eyes strongly shapes how humans perceive the machine’s mental abilities. A recent study published in Consciousness and ...