This Week in Humanoid News 2025-12-19

Here are a few stories about humanoids that caught my attention this week.       Mildly terrifying video from EngineAI featuring their appropriately-named T800 emerged last week, prompting redditors to call it fake and AI-generated. That prompted the...

Why Humanoid Robots Actually Work Now

If you’re like me, you might be wondering why humanoid robots have suddenly exploded into reality. For decades they seemed to be going nowhere and then, like AI in 2023, they suddenly seemed to become much more possible.  Here’s a quick breakdown on...

This Week in Humanoid News 2025-12-04

Here are a few stories that caught my attention this week.   Humanoids in 2025 occupy a strange space. Public imagination is running far ahead of reality, yet the underlying capabilities are improving faster than most analysts predicted even two years ago. The...

T800 – ”Combat-Ready”

Shenzhen-based robotics firm EngineAI has raised nearly 200 million yuan (US$28 million) in a pre-A funding round. The investment was led by Stone Venture, with contributions from SenseTime’s Sense Capital and Honghui Capital. (source) Their PM01 robots are...