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.
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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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
Friday is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Holiday Robotics, a South Korean robotics startup founded by serial entrepreneur Song Ki-young.
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" redirects here. For the London-based robotics company, see Humanoid (company).
Humanoid robot applications span a growing range of industries and use cases where the human-like form factor provides distinct advantages over traditional fixed-base or wheeled robots.
Humanoid robot autonomy levels describe a graduated framework for classifying the degree of independent operation that a humanoid robot can achieve.
Humanoid robot deployment refers to the placement of full-size or general-purpose humanoid robots into real operating environments: factories, warehouses, retail floors, research laboratories, and public…
Humanoid robot manufacturers are companies that design, develop, and produce humanoid robots.
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.
Hydra-0 is an experimental world model for robot manipulation that represents actions as trajectories of visible points in an image.
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…
I3L (Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning) is a robot learning system from researchers at Stanford University and Lambda Inc. that improves whole-body mobile manipulation policies by letting a human…
IGRIS-C is a compact humanoid robot developed by South Korean robotics company Robros.
Imitation learning is a family of methods for learning sequential behavior from demonstrations.
Index is a proprietary data-collection program and mobile application operated by Figure AI.
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…
An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures a body's specific force and angular rate
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…
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…
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…
Isaac GR00T N1.5 is an open vision-language-action model from NVIDIA built as a generalist foundation model for humanoid robots.
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.
JAKA Robotics (Chinese: 节卡机器人), formally Shanghai JAKA Robotics Ltd., is a Chinese robotics company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai, China.
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
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…
Linxi "Jim" Fan is an artificial intelligence researcher at NVIDIA, where he co-leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group with Yuke Zhu.
Jumper is a crab-inspired robot from KingKong Robotics with 22 degrees of freedom.
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.
The K-Humanoid Alliance (Korean: 케이-휴머노이드 연합) is a South Korean industry-academia-government consortium for developing humanoid robots and the artificial intelligence that controls them.
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.
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…
The Kalman filter is a recursive algorithm that estimates the hidden state of a dynamic system from a sequence of noisy measurements.
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.
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…
Kawasaki Robotics is the industrial-robotics business of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., the Japanese heavy-engineering and transportation conglomerate.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
The Kinisi 01, also designated the KR1, is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Kinisi Robotics for warehouse automation, logistics, and light manufacturing.
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…
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.
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…
Kyber Labs is a United States robotics startup, based in Brooklyn, New York, that builds a low-cost, high-speed
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.
LIBERO ("LIfelong learning BEnchmark on RObot manipulation tasks") is an AI benchmark for studying knowledge transfer in lifelong robot learning.
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.
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.
A Large Behavior Model (LBM) is a single neural network for robotics that is pretrained on large, diverse datasets of robot demonstrations and outputs robot actions
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"…
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…
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.
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.)
Leju Robotics (Chinese: 乐聚机器人; pinyin: Lèjù Jīqìrén), legally registered as Leju Intelligence (Shenzhen) Co.