humanoids
ETH researchers use 13.2 minutes of human motion to guide humanoid contacts News
ETH researchers report a humanoid mobility system that turns 13.2 minutes of human motion into contact-planning guidance, rather than arbitrary task learning.
HIVE’s supermarket humanoid pilot still has a human at the controls News
HIVE and føtex are testing humanoid shelf replenishment through one-to-one human teleoperation that also collects training data.
Figure reports zero-shot household transfer across 30 homes News
Figure says Helix 2.5 completed three predefined household behaviors in unfamiliar homes 56% of the time, demonstrating environment transfer rather than a general autonomous housekeeper.
Unitree lists in Shanghai as the rare profitable humanoid robot maker News
Unitree Robotics shares begin trading on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19 under ticker 688836, and its filing shows 1.70 billion yuan of 2025 revenue and 278 million yuan of net profit against comparable listed robot companies that the prospectus says are all loss-making.
Figure's viral ladder climb is a two-hour stair timelapse News
A widely shared clip of Figure's F.03 humanoid was reposted as an autonomous ladder climb; the company's own post describes a timelapse of repeated stair traversal that is helping move its robots closer to full autonomy.
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 controls a humanoid from feet to fingertips - for a waitlist News
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body humanoid control, 22-degree-of-freedom hands and robots that delegate tasks to each other, but only the reasoning model is available to developers; the control models are in private preview.