Shenzhen-based UBTECH has secured another major contract for its Walker S2 humanoid, bringing its 2025 order total for the series to over 800 million yuan and highlighting growing demand for its autonomous battery-swapping robots.
Xpeng's 2025 AI Day featured a new, highly realistic humanoid robot walking onstage. CEO He Xiaopeng detailed the 'human-like' design, a new VLT AI model, and a commercial strategy that avoids factories and homes—for now.
German industrial giant Schaeffler will not only deploy thousands of Neura''s 4NE-1 humanoids by 2035 but will also co-develop and supply key actuators for the robots, feeding real-world data into Neura''s ''Neuraverse'' AI ecosystem.
Cobot manufacturer Doosan Robotics is partnering with sensor specialist Aidin Robotics to co-develop a standardized dual-arm humanoid platform. The collaboration aims to combine Doosan's control systems with Aidin's advanced force-torque sensors to create a 'physical AI' capable of autonomous, human-level tasks.
AgiBot has deployed a real-world reinforcement learning (RW-RL) system on a pilot production line with Longcheer Technology. The company claims this allows its industrial robots to learn new, complex tasks in 'tens of minutes,' a significant speed-up from the weeks of programming and tuning typically required for rigid automation.