A Forbes survey of 18 humanoid robot companies shows a market splitting between factory pilots, Chinese volume claims, and riskier home robots.

China is assigning four part, 29 digit IDs to humanoid robots, creating a lifecycle record for manufacturers, sellers, service firms and recyclers.

Forbes cites 1X, Figure AI and others as evidence that US humanoid builders are using vertical integration to reduce China supply chain exposure.

Genesis AI’s Eno takes a headless, wheeled approach to humanoid design while emphasizing 20 degree of freedom hands for lab and wiring tasks before deployment.

Chinese performance humanoids are getting cheaper fast, while industrial robot pricing remains firmer and shipments concentrate around Unitree and Agibot.

MIIT and SASAC are pushing humanoid robots into more than 100 real world scenarios by the end of 2026, with data collection central to the plan.

A Boston summit showed the split around humanoid robots, with Agility citing commercial pilots while engineers warned on safety, power, dexterity and cost.

Clone Robotics’ Protoclone V1 uses a polymer skeleton, synthetic muscle fibers and hundreds of sensors instead of typical rotary joints.

Foundation Robotics is pitching Phantom for military support and future weapon use, but its current humanoid still lacks field ready basics.