In April 2025, Beijing-based startup RoboParty formally launched with an ambition to build a fully open-source bipedal humanoid robot platform. The founder, Huang Yi (born 2004), made headlines as one of China’s youngest humanoid-robot entrepreneurs.

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course. The robots from Chinese manufacturers such as DroidUP and ...

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands about four feet tall, and is built with a Large Multimodal ...

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Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this breakthrough Wednesday in a press release. In a video ...

TESLA has Optimus and Xpeng has Iron. Both humanoid robots are common in concept but very different in execution. Clearly, in the evolution of automated machines, these two humanoid robots represent the fusion of centuries of mechanical ambition with modern,