Top 7 must-read humanoid robot stories of 2025

From daily news and career tips to monthly insights on AI, sustainability, software, and more—pick what matters and get it in your inbox. All Rights Reserved, IE Media, Inc. Access expert insights, exclusive content, and a deeper dive into engineering and innovation all with fewer ads or a completely ad-free experience. Access expert insights, exclusive content, and a deeper dive into engineering and innovation all with fewer ads or a completely ad-free experience. If 2025 proved anything, it’s that humanoid robots are no longer content to stand still. One of the year’s most talked-about developments in humanoid robotics came from Chinese startup AheadForm Technology, which unveiled a robot head so expressive it actually blinks, looks around, and conveys emotion like a human face. China’s UBTech Robotics scored one of the largest real-world humanoid deployment contracts in 2025, securing a US$37 million agreement to deploy its industrial humanoid robots, including the advanced Walker S2 model, at border crossings in Guangxi province near Vietnam.

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1. Year of the Humanoid Robot: Top AI Robots to Watch in 2025

# Year of the Humanoid Robot: Top AI Robots to Watch in 2025. A growing array of tech companies particularly from the US and China are racing to mass-produce their advanced humanoid robots. With advanced AI models, they’re training the robots to help out at home, assist patients, do manual labor in factories and logistics, enhance public safety, provide companionship and much more. The following are the humanoid robots you’ll likely to hear a lot about in 2025 and beyond:. In April 2024 the Massachusetts-based robotics leader retired the world-famous humanoid and introduced the world to the new fully electric Atlas. 4NE-1 Humanoid Robot by Neura Robotics. Germany-based Neura Robotics says its humanoid robot, the 4-NE1, has cognitive abilities. In August 2024, Unitree unveiled the mass production ready iteration of the G1, a huge milestone for China as the government aims to mass produce humanoids by 2025 and dominate the emerging market by 2027.

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2. 2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker | WIRED

# 2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker. Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. But while the company’s dog-like Spot and warehouse robot Stretch are already deployed at industrial sites, the Hyundai pilot will be the first time Atlas is used in commercial manufacturing. Boston Dynamics, which was acquired by Hyundai for $1.1 billion in 2021, is coy about how the robot will be used, but the general idea is that it’s designed to be stronger and more reliable than a human worker. “The robot is going to be able to do things that are difficult for humans,” Boston Dynamics spokesperson Kerri Neelon says. With factories already designed to be a safe place for automation, the company says it built Atlas with an eye toward making a robot that could go everywhere else.

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