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...

ALLEX – Degree of Freedom hand control

A quick look at ALLEX’s core capabilities—micro-pick & fastening, high-DOF hand control, safe HRI, and lifting heavy payloads. Engineered for safe, precise, real-world tasks. The name “ALLEX” stands for “ALL-Experience”. Vendor: WIRobotics (We Innovate Robotics)...

One Billion Humanoids by 2050

More Human Than Human Morgan Stanley recently predicted “there could be more than 1 billion by 2050, with 90% used for industrial and commercial purposes.”   That’s 25 years away and well beyond the time scale of most business plans (unless...

AI and Education

ChatGPT Is the World’s Largest Learning Platform Leah Belsky, the head of education at OpenAI, talked on this recent podcast about some of the challenges and opportunities involved in AI being used in the education space. As I wrote recently, I don’t think...