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It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

Compare eight top robotics companies for 2026, from humanoids and cobots to surgical and warehouse robots, with use cases, pricing, and buying models.

Humanoid robots built for caregiving tasks are moving from research labs into real living rooms, pushed by a wave of new hardware launches, open AI models, and early clinical evidence that older ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics has been granted two design patents for humanoid robots, according to the latest public disclosures from China’s National Intellectual Property Administration.