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Helix (VLA model)

Helix is a vision-language-action model (VLA) developed by Figure AI that controls humanoid robots by mapping camera images and natural language commands directly to continuous control.

AI ModelsEmbodied AI

Hexagon AEON

Hexagon AEON is an industrial humanoid robot developed by the Robotics Division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational technology company known for precision measurement, sensor technology, and industrial…

Humanoid Robots

HighTorque Mini Pi+

HighTorque Mini Pi+ is a small humanoid robot platform made by High Torque Robotics. The manufacturer styles the name as Mini Pi plus, Mini Pi Plus, and Mini Pi+ across its English and Chinese materials.

Humanoid RobotsRobot Hardware

History of humanoid robots

The history of humanoid robots runs from pre-modern automata, such as the programmable musicians described by the Muslim engineer Al-Jazari around 1206 and Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical knight of about 1495…

AI HistoryHumanoid Robots

Hobbs W1

The Hobbs W1 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based Chinese startup, and unveiled in December 2025 as what the company calls "the first wheeled bionic robot with 54 active…

Humanoid Robots

Human-Robot Interaction

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is the interdisciplinary field that studies how humans and robots perceive, communicate with, and physically share space and tasks with one another, and how to design robots that…

Humanoid robot market

The humanoid robot market is the global commercial ecosystem for designing, manufacturing, selling, and deploying humanoid robots, robots built to resemble and replicate human body structure and movement.

Humanoid Robots

Hydra-0

Hydra-0 is an experimental world model for robot manipulation that represents actions as trajectories of visible points in an image.

AI ModelsNVIDIA

Hyundai

Hyundai Motor Group is the South Korean automotive conglomerate that controls Boston Dynamics (80 percent at the 2021 closing, 90.35 percent by July 2026 according to Yonhap), making it the parent of the Atlas…

AI CompaniesAutonomous Vehicles

Industrial robot

An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which can be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation…

Inspire Robots

Beijing Inspire-Robots Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 北京因时机器人科技有限公司; trading as Inspire Robots or 因时机器人) is a Chinese robotics-component maker, founded in Beijing in 2016, that produces micro linear servo…

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Intel RealSense D555

The Intel RealSense D555 (also branded simply as RealSense D555 PoE) is a stereoscopic depth camera announced in mid-2025 that is the first product in the RealSense D400 family to integrate Power over Ethernet…

Computer VisionRobot Hardware

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (officially born January 2, 1920, died April 6, 1992) was an American writer and biochemist whose science fiction gave robotics and AI ethics two of their most durable pieces of vocabulary: the…

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JAKA K1

The JAKA K1 (also written as JAKA K-1) is a humanoid robot developed by JAKA Robotics, a Chinese collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai.

Humanoid Robots

Jeff Hawke

Jeff Hawke (published as Jeffrey Hawke) is a New Zealand robotics and machine learning engineer who is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Odyssey

Autonomous VehiclesPeople

Jetson Thor

NVIDIA Jetson Thor (also marketed as Jetson AGX Thor) is a Blackwell architecture edge AI computing module developed by NVIDIA that delivers up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI compute in a 40 to 130 watt power…

AI HardwareNVIDIA

Jim Fan

Linxi "Jim" Fan is an artificial intelligence researcher at NVIDIA, where he co-leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group with Yuke Zhu.

Embodied AINVIDIA

K-Bot

K-Bot is an open-source bipedal humanoid robot developed by K-Scale Labs, a Y Combinator-backed robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California.

Humanoid Robots

KAPEX

KAPEX is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot jointly developed by LG Electronics, LG AI Research, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and powered by LG's EXAONE vision-language AI.

Humanoid Robots

KEENON Robotics

KEENON Robotics (Chinese: 擎朗智能, also known as Keenon) is a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shanghai, China that builds autonomous commercial service robots for the hospitality, healthcare, retail…

Humanoid RobotsRobotics Companies

Karol Hausman

Karol Hausman is a roboticist and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024 that builds foundation models for robotics.

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Kawada Robotics

Kawada Robotics Corporation (川田ロボティクス) is a Japanese manufacturer of industrial and humanoid robots, best known for the Nextage dual-arm collaborative robot and for building several of the full-size humanoid…

Humanoid Robots

Kawasaki Robotics

Kawasaki Robotics is the industrial-robotics business of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., the Japanese heavy-engineering and transportation conglomerate.

Humanoid Robots

Keenon XMAN-R1

The Keenon XMAN-R1 is a humanoid service robot built by KEENON Robotics, a Shanghai-based commercial robotics company, and unveiled on March 31, 2025.

Humanoid Robots

Kepler Forerunner D1

The Kepler Forerunner D1 is a dexterity-focused, general-purpose humanoid robot unveiled by the Shanghai company Kepler Robotics at CES 2024, the "Da Vinci" of the three-model Forerunner lineup, optimized for…

Humanoid Robots

Kepler Forerunner K1

The Kepler Forerunner K1 is a full-sized general-purpose humanoid robot introduced in November 2023 by Kepler Robotics (Shanghai Kepler Exploration Robot Co., Ltd.), a Chinese company based in Shanghai.

Humanoid Robots

Kepler Forerunner S1

The Kepler Forerunner S1 is an agility-focused general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Chinese robotics company Kepler Robotics (Shanghai Kepler Exploration Robot Co., Ltd.) and unveiled at CES 2024 in Las…

Humanoid Robots

Kepler K2 Bumblebee

The Kepler K2 Bumblebee (also called the Forerunner K2) is a general-purpose humanoid robot built by Chinese company Kepler Robotics (Shanghai Kepler Exploration Robot Co.

Humanoid Robots

Kind Humanoid

Kind Humanoid was a small American robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California, that set out to build an expressive, general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot for the home and for healthcare.

AI CompaniesHumanoid Robots

Kinisi 01

The Kinisi 01, also designated the KR1, is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Kinisi Robotics for warehouse automation, logistics, and light manufacturing.

Humanoid Robots

Kinisi KR1

The Kinisi KR1, also marketed as the Kinisi 01, is a wheeled mobile manipulator (a humanoid-style upper body mounted on an omnidirectional wheeled base) developed by Kinisi Robotics for warehouse automation…

Humanoid Robots

Kuavo-5

Kuavo-5 is the fifth-generation humanoid robot in the Kuavo series developed by Leju Robotics (officially Leju Intelligence (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.), a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen.

Humanoid Robots

Kuka

Kuka (KUKA SE & Co. KGaA, known as KUKA AG until October 2025) is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and factory automation systems based in Augsburg, Bavaria, and one of the four dominant…

AI Companies

LG CLOiD

LG CLOiD is an AI-powered home robot developed by LG Electronics and unveiled at CES 2026 on January 5, 2026, designed to automate household chores such as cooking, laundry, and cleaning.

Humanoid Robots

LIBERO

LIBERO ("LIfelong learning BEnchmark on RObot manipulation tasks") is an AI benchmark for studying knowledge transfer in lifelong robot learning.

AI Benchmarks

Lanxin VB1-I

The Lanxin VB1-I is a wheeled humanoid robot and mobile manipulator developed by Lanxin Robotics (Hangzhou Lanxin Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese 3D vision company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Humanoid Robots

Lanxin VB2

The Lanxin VB2 is a wheeled humanoid robot built by Lanxin Robotics (Hangzhou Lanxin Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese 3D machine-vision company in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Humanoid Robots

LeRobot

LeRobot is an open-source, PyTorch-native library for end-to-end real-world robot learning developed by Hugging Face and a global community of contributors, often described as the "Transformers for robotics"…

Developer ToolsEmbodied AI

Leadscrew

A leadscrew (also written lead screw, and sometimes called a power screw) converts rotary motion into linear motion using a threaded shaft and a matching internally threaded nut that slide directly against…

Robot Hardware

Lei Jun

Lei Jun (Chinese: 雷军) is a Chinese entrepreneur and angel investor who founded Xiaomi in April 2010 and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer and executive director.

AI HardwareChinese AI

Leju Kuavo-my

The Kuavo-MY is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot and open embodied-AI development platform built by Leju Robotics (officially Leju Intelligence (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.)

Humanoid Robots