Nuclear materials giant Orano and tech partner Capgemini are testing a humanoid robot, Hoxo, at a French facility. The project, which uses a Unitree G1, aims to enhance safety and performance in sensitive industrial environments.
A definitive analysis of the humanoid robotics landscape in late 2025. We rank the highest-valued "pure-play" companies like Figure, Neura, and Unitree, and analyze the "proxy war" being waged by "Titans" like Tesla, Samsung, and Nvidia.
With the new G1-D, Unitree Robotics is pivoting from bipedal agility to stability, offering a wheeled humanoid and a full-stack software platform designed to accelerate data acquisition and model training.
New research from Stanford University, following MIT's recent SoftMimic project, uses a novel RL framework to teach humanoid robots upper-body compliance, enabling them to safely hug, provide support, and handle fragile objects.