A September 2026 paper proposes a six-level scale of physical generality, P0 to P5, and places the field at the boundary between P2 and P3, with the best systems reaching 56% zero-shot success on hous…
Figure reported that pretraining on its Index dataset raised full-task success in 30 previously unseen homes from 9% to 56%, a 47-percentage-point gain, in a September 17, 2026 evaluation that held ar…
XPENG's IRON humanoid robot, which demonstrated a catwalk-like gait at XPENG AI Day in November 2025 and performed a runway-style walk at Shenzhen Bay MixC on January 31, may find a credible near-term…
Humanoid robotics is developing a training-data market, but it is not yet a commodity market, according to an analysis of robot developers and data suppliers. Figure AI introduced its Index physical-d…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a September 1 interview that the company 'will definitely do a humanoid,' signaling OpenAI's entry into humanoid robotics, while Anthropic is pursuing a different approac…
Anthropic's August 27, 2026 research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) proposes a shared driver layer to let AI agents discover and operate programmable devices through common primitives, a…
Humanoid Analytics' July 2026 market snapshot shows that 126 of 351 tracked Core and Adjacent entities (35.9%) are in Adjacent segments such as dexterous manipulation, sensing, and AI, rather than bui…
Humanoid Analytics' July 2026 snapshot identified 351 Core and Adjacent entities in the humanoid robotics ecosystem, with 225 humanoid builders and 126 adjacent companies (35.9% of the universe), sugg…
Humanoid robotics may never have a single ChatGPT moment, but the industry could still succeed through a staircase of narrower commercial breakthroughs, according to an analysis of recent developments…
Humanoid robotics is hard because robots must simultaneously perceive, decide, move, and adapt, with the long-term competitive edge hinging on building a strong loop between physical operation, data c…
A credible forecast through 2035 sees AI transforming digital workflows first, with humanoid robots adopting later, as the gap between AI capability and organizational integration remains substantial.…