What do the events at the World Humanoid Games tell us about the state of humanoid robots? Plenty ... including a market map of where they'll be commercialized first.

The race to build humanoid robots has drawn in an increasingly unexpected group of players, and now one of the world’s largest carmakers has joined it. BYD unveiled its first humanoid robot, stepping off the assembly line it is best known for and into a field crowded with technology firms and rival automakers.

Unitree, China’s humanoid robotics firm, saw its shares soar 460% on its Shanghai stock market debut on Wednesday, as investors rally behind homegrown beneficiaries of the A.I. boom.

More, more, more: humanoid robot shipments are growing fast, according to three different sources. But there's some nuance as to where all those humanoids are going

Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies which seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona’s approach has been to carefully select a job that is economically viable for robots right now,

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots ...

Despite jogging backwards, the blundering bot is unable to correct course. The hapless humanoid topples backwards onto its noggin and seemingly breaks its waist, causing sparks to fly like one of the ill-fated police prototypes in “Robocop 2.”