Designed for public-facing roles, Noetix’s Hobbs W1 combines a “female-styled” lifelike bionic head and interactive display with dexterous 6-DoF hands and 5-DoF robotic arms. The robot features fully ...

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

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 ...

Its creator, also called AIDOL, said the robot can move up to 3.7 mph and reproduce 12 basic emotions Organizers told reporters at the event that calibration and lighting issues led to the robot ...

Humanoid robots are having a moment. Companies are racing to build the market for robots, with Tesla's Optimus set to enter mass production next year. Morgan Stanley analysts identified 25 companies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...