Chinese startups are churning out more humanoid robots than their U.S. rivals, despite far lower valuations.

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you'd actually do with it remains open.

Chinese robotics firm UniX AI has unveiled Panther, touted as the world’s first service

CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make us all scared (or curious), evolved into proper ...

A humanoid robot about the size of a primary school student had something to share in Hong Kong — it sang songs and spoke to people in Mandarin

Can a robot keep up with Serena Williams? Researchers have taught a humanoid robot to play tennis with humans — and it can hold its own. Chinese AI robotic company Galbot designed software to teach a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play tennis against a ...