When Realbotix rolled its humanoid robot Melody onto the CES 2025 show floor in Las Vegas in January of that year, the machine did something most consumer-grade androids still cannot: it moved like it meant to.

Humanoid robots built for caregiving tasks are moving from research labs into real living rooms, pushed by a wave of new hardware launches, open AI models, and early clinical evidence that older adults can benefit from robot-led support at home. Companies ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has introduced Sprout, a compact humanoid robot designed from the ...

US Robotics player Figure has rapidly scaled production of its Figure 03 humanoid robots,