BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Barclays Research today released a new Impact Series report The Future of Work: AI Gets Physical, highlighting humanoid robots as the next frontier for artificial intelligence. Designed in human form, these robots are moving from ...

HANOI, VIETNAM / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / VinDynamics, a technology company of Vingroup, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Schaeffler, a leading global motion technology company headquartered in Germany.

Amazon's acquisition of Fauna Robotics and its Sprout humanoid looks more like a platform move than a consumer robotics play.

Schaeffler and VinDynamics sign a strategic partnership to foster joint research and technology development for advancing humanoid roboticsCombining strengths for innovation: Schaeffler's expertise in high-performance actuators with VinDynamics' cutting-edge robotics capabilitiesSchaeffler will supply high-precision actuators designed for humanoid robots for real-world deployment and data-driven optimizationHANOI,

At BMW’s sprawling plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a humanoid robot called Figure 02 has been clocking 10-hour shifts on the assembly line, picking up sheet-metal parts and placing them into fixtures alongside human workers.

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has introduced Sprout, a compact humanoid robot designed from the ...

A blue-eyed humanoid robot carefully opens a box and places a tool inside as a crowd of visitors watch the demonstration of "physical AI" skills at a major industrial trade fair in Germany.

Somewhere in China, a humanoid robot reportedly stands in a private living room rather than on a trade-show stage. UniX AI announced on April 12, 2026, that its Panther service robot had begun what the company calls the first real-home deployment of a mass-produced humanoid.