Hyundai’s Atlas Robot Trains for Soccer Ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026
Hyundai Motor Group has released a video showing Atlas analyzing and learning soccer movements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, where the...
Humanoid robots are robotic systems designed with a human-like form factor, enabling them to move, manipulate objects, and operate in environments built for people. Unlike traditional industrial machines, humanoids aim to combine mobility, dexterity, and embodied intelligence to perform a wide range of physical tasks. This topic covers advances in locomotion, balance, manipulation, perception, and AI-driven control systems, as well as real-world deployment in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and service roles. It also examines the technical, economic, and safety challenges of scaling humanoid platforms beyond research and pilot programs. As hardware matures and AI models improve, humanoid robots are increasingly positioned as general-purpose systems for complex, unstructured environments.
Hyundai Motor Group has released a video showing Atlas analyzing and learning soccer movements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, where the...
Across delivery, medicine, construction, agriculture, and defense, robots are moving from controlled pilots into real-world operations at the same time – a convergence economist Richard Baldwin...
Hyundai Motor Group has established dedicated organizational units for its software-defined factory initiative and robot component procurement, as it advances toward deploying 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots...
China has launched the Humanoid Full Lifecycle Management Service Platform, assigning every humanoid robot a unique digital ID from production through recycling, with more than 28,000...
JD.com has announced the world's first humanoid robot auction as part of its 2026 618 shopping festival campaign, with Unitree Robotics and Noetix Robotics among companies...
A Unitree humanoid robot fell twice and had to be dragged off stage while performing Michael Jackson's moonwalk at an event in Shenzhen, in a video...
GigaAI has unveiled the SeeLight S1, China's first general-purpose household humanoid robot, with plans to deploy it free of charge in Wuhan family homes in the...
Elon Musk predicted at Forbes' Innovator 250 Celebration that between 100 million and one billion humanoid robots will arrive within five years and that digital intelligence...
Boston Dynamics has published a technical blog explaining how Atlas learned to lift and carry objects exceeding 100 pounds using reinforcement learning trained across millions of...
Hyundai Motor Group has outlined plans to deploy more than 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia manufacturing facilities, targeting 30,000-unit annual production capacity by...