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Countries with the highest humanoid robot startups

As of January 2026

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Musk discontinues Tesla Model S and X to focus on humanoid robots

A humanoid robot Tiangong by Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics Co, moves an orange as a demonstration at its company, during an organised media tour to Beijing Robotics Industrial Park, in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, China May 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

China issues draft rules to regulate AI with human-like interaction

Torchbearer humanoid robot 'Kuavo' (front) runs during the torch relay for China's 15th National Games in Shenzhen, on 2 November 2025. Photo: UNB/Xinhua/Jiang Han

Robots, AI, and high-tech innovations on display at China's National Games

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UK turns to helper robots as social care crisis deepens

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Jack Ma-backed company launches China’s first humanoid robot

A remote-controlled robot unit for removing nuclear contamination is unveiled in Japan, aiming to clean Fukushima nuclear plant that suffered a meltdown following the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. Photo: AFP

Robots deployed for Fukushima radioactive debris removal

Robots march in for the opening ceremony of The World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China,15 August, 2025. Photo: AP/Ng Han Guan/UNB

Beijing launches first World Humanoid Robot Games with hip-hop and martial arts

Humanoid robot "Tiangong" participates along with human runners in the E-Town Half Marathon & Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in Beijing, China April, 19 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon

MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. Image: MIT

MIT engineers create artificial muscle that mimics real tissue

Ai-Da Robot, a humanoid robot artist. Photo: Collected

First artwork by humanoid robot sells for $1.3m

A humanoid robot developed by Ex-Robots winks at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, China August 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS

China robots conference spotlights the changing face of humanoids

A 6-axis robotic arm picks up sorting containers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

Amazon advances automation with over 750,000 robots, replacing 100,000 jobs