Airbus ordered UBTech’s Walker S2, a full-size humanoid that stands 176 cm tall (5’9"), weighs 70 kg (154 lbs), and walks at about two meters/second (4.5 mph). It has dextrous hands with 11 degrees of freedom and tactile sensors, and can hold 7.5 kg (16.5 lbs) in each hand and 1 kg (2.2 lbs) with each finger.

On Jan. 22, Louisiana's economic development agency and St. Bernard-based SSE Steel Fabrication announced an agreement with Houston-based tech startup Persona AI to launch a pilot program at SSE to develop humanoid robotics for industrial uses. Greater New Orleans Inc., southeast Louisiana's economic development nonprofit, also is participating.

Raj Subramaniam said "super humanoid robots" with a "couple of elbows" would be better at automating deliveries.

XPeng has completed the first unit of its ET1 humanoid robot prototype, marking progress

Humanoid robots that move and work like people have long been a science fiction staple, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang now says they are only months away from reality. At CES 2026 he argued that advances in artificial intelligence and hardware will let machines reach human-type capabilities in the physical world,

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Investors lost their minds, robots lost their balance and roboticists rolled their eyes. Meanwhile, visions of a $5 trillion robot revolution continued to enthrall. In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and ...

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At China’s first 5G-enabled wind power smart factory, UBTECH’s Walker S2 humanoid robots are