China demonstrated a motion controlled humanoid robot for military operations, highlighting teleoperation, dexterity, and potential roles in remote combat scenarios.

A 60 Minutes report documents Boston Dynamics running its Atlas humanoid robot in early real world tasks, highlighting progress toward industrial deployment.

How fast is this market really moving?One year ago, we published our very first Humanoid.Guide poster.At the time, it felt ambitious: 30 humanoid robots, carefully researched, mapped, and visualized in one place.Fast forward to today — and that same market now counts 119 humanoid robots.That’s not linear growth. That’s acceleration. A year that changed everything…

India plans an uncrewed Gaganyaan G-1 flight carrying humanoid robot Vyommitra to validate crew systems, human interfaces, and safety ahead of human spaceflight.

Qingtianzhu is piloting 1 RMB flash rentals in China, giving short term access to humanoid robots and pointing to a strategy for mass exposure, usage data, and faster iteration.

MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks argues that current humanoid robots cannot meet Elon Musk’s assistant ambitions, warning of technical limits, cost overruns, and fading projects.

The third edition of the Humanoids Summit was held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley from December 11–12, 2025, following the previous edition in London. The event brought together approximately 2,000 participants from 40 countries, featuring 75 speakers, 60 exhibitors, and more than 60 journalists. Through a series of presentations, exhibition booths, and…

This week marked a breakthrough moment in humanoid robotics as three leading platforms – EngineAI’s T800, Tesla’s Optimus 2.5, and Figure’s Figure 03 – demonstrated running abilities that resemble human biomechanics more closely than ever before. While each company has pursued different actuator systems, balance controllers, and gait-learning approaches, their newest demos showcased a striking…

The humanoid robot market is exploding – but it’s also a confusing maze of glossy demos, unreliable promises, and vendors who all claim to have the perfect solution. For many teams, choosing the right humanoid ends in wasted time, stalled pilots, and incomplete information. …but it doesn’t have to be that way. This is how…

Humanoid Guide has compared the US launch impact of this Quarter´s top contenders for the Humanoid Throne Figure 03, 1X Neo, and XPENG Iron using Google Trends, social video views and media coverage from the last two months. We found some interesting data, showing a high difference in peak interest, comparing the 3 launches. Two…