This Week in Humanoids 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...

The Rise Of Unlimited Intelligence

In November 2022, the world was shocked when OpenAI released ChatGPT, an application that could engage in human-like conversations and write human-like text. A mere two-and-a-half years later, xAI released Grok 4, which has demonstrated a PhD-level intelligence in...