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Light-O1
Light-O1 is a whole-body foundation model for humanoid robots developed by Light Origins (Chinese: 亮源新创), an embodied AI company with teams in Beijing, Shenzhen and Singapore.
LimX CL-1
The LimX CL-1 is a bipedal humanoid robot unveiled in December 2023 by LimX Dynamics, a Shenzhen-based Chinese robotics startup, and it became one of the first humanoid platforms in the world to climb stairs…
LimX Oli
LimX Oli is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by LimX Dynamics, a Shenzhen-based robotics company specializing in embodied AI.
LingBot-VLA 2.0
LingBot-VLA 2.0 is a 6-billion-parameter vision-language-action model developed by Robbyant, the embodied-intelligence unit of Ant Group.
Lingbao CASBOT
Lingbao CASBOT (Chinese: 灵宝CASBOT) is the humanoid robot brand of Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology Co.
Linkerbot
Linkerbot, registered in China as 灵心巧手（北京）科技有限公司 (Lingxin Qiaoshou Beijing Technology Co., Ltd.), is a Beijing-based robotics company founded in 2023 by Zhou Yong (Alex Zhou) that designs and mass-produces…
List of humanoid robots
This is a list of humanoid robots: robots built with a human-like body plan that have been publicly shown as working machines.
Lumo-2
Lumo-2 is a 4B-scale robot-learning model developed by Astribot. Astribot describes it as a latent world-action model: instead of rendering a future video before acting, it predicts an action-relevant…
Lumos LUS 2
The Lumos LUS 2 (often written as LUS2) is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Lumos Robotics, a Shenzhen-based Chinese robotics startup founded in September 2024.
Lumos NIX
The Lumos NIX is a compact, child-sized humanoid robot developed by Lumos Robotics, a Shenzhen-based Chinese robotics startup founded in September 2024.
Lyte
Lyte is an American end-to-end integrated perception company for robotics and physical AI, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
MATRIX-3
MATRIX-3 is a third-generation general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Matrix Robotics (formally Shanghai Matrix Superintelligent System Integration Co., Ltd.), a robotics and artificial intelligence…
MagicBot G1
The MagicBot G1 (also called MagicBot Gen1) is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot built by MagicLab (legally Magic Atom Robotics Technology), a Chinese robotics startup based in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
MagicBot Z1
The MagicBot Z1 is a compact, high-dynamics bipedal humanoid robot developed by the Chinese embodied AI company MagicLab (officially Magic Atom Robotics Technology, headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province).
Make (platform)
Make (stylized make.com, and known as Integromat until 2022) is a visual no-code automation and integration platform that lets users connect web applications and build multi-step workflows on a drag-and-drop…
Manna (drone delivery)
Manna, which trades as Manna Aero and Manna Air Delivery, is an Irish autonomous drone delivery company founded in Dublin in 2018 by the technology entrepreneur Bobby Healy.
Matic
Matic is a camera-based robot vacuum and mop made by Matic Robots, Inc., a robotics company in Mountain View, California.
Matrix-1
Matrix-1 (stylized as MATRIX-1) is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Matrix Robotics, a Shanghai-based robotics startup formally known as Shanghai Matrix Superintelligent System Integration Co.
Meituan
Meituan (Chinese: 美团; pinyin: Měituán) is a Chinese technology platform that operates the country's largest on-demand local services business and, since 2023
MenteeBot
MenteeBot is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Mentee Robotics, an Israeli artificial intelligence and robotics startup headquartered in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
MenteeBot V3
MenteeBot V3 (also referred to as MenteeBot V3.0) is a third-generation humanoid robot developed by Mentee Robotics, an Israeli AI robotics company headquartered in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
Microduck
Microduck is a small biped robot developed by Pollen Robotics, the robotics team within Hugging Face.
Midea MIRO
Midea MIRO is a family of industrial humanoid robots developed by Midea Group, one of the world's largest home appliance manufacturers and a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Foshan, Guangdong, China.
Mimic Robotics
Mimic Robotics is a Swiss robotics company that develops dexterous robot hands, human demonstration equipment, control software, and learned manipulation policies for industrial work.
MimicGen
MimicGen is a data generation system developed by researchers at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab and Learning and Perception Research group that automatically produces large-scale robot manipulation datasets…
Mind Robotics
Mind Robotics is an American industrial robotics company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Mirokai
Mirokai is a character-driven service robot developed by Enchanted Tools, a Paris-based robotics startup founded in 2021 by Jerome Monceaux, a co-creator of the NAO and Pepper robots.
Mirsee MH3
The Mirsee MH3 is a third-generation teleoperated humanoid robot developed by Mirsee Robotics, a Canadian robotics company headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario.
Mobile ALOHA
Mobile ALOHA is an open-source, low-cost system for collecting bimanual mobile manipulation data and learning household tasks from it, developed at Stanford University by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao
Model Predictive Control
Model Predictive Control (MPC), also called receding horizon control (RHC), is a feedback control method that, at every sampling instant, solves a finite horizon optimal control problem using the current…
MonoRace
MonoRace is an onboard perception and control system for autonomous racing drones, developed at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab) of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
Monumental (construction robotics)
Monumental is an Amsterdam based construction robotics company that runs a fleet of small autonomous robots that lay brick and mortar on live building sites.
Moravec's paradox
Moravec's paradox is the observation that tasks requiring abstract, high-level reasoning, playing a board game, proving a theorem, filling out a tax form, take relatively little computation for a machine…
Motion 2
Motion 2 is the second-generation general-purpose humanoid robot developed by VinMotion, a robotics subsidiary of the Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup.
Motion planning
Motion planning is the computational problem of finding a sequence of valid configurations or controls that moves a robot (or another articulated or dynamical system) from a start state to a goal state while…
MuJoCo
MuJoCo (short for Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) is an open-source physics simulator designed for fast and accurate simulation of articulated mechanical systems with rich contact interactions.
Muks Spaceo M1
The Spaceo M1 is an autonomous social humanoid robot built by Muks Robotics, a Pune-based artificial intelligence and robotics startup in India, for customer-facing service roles in airports, malls, hotels…
Muks Spaceo Pro
The Muks Spaceo Pro is an autonomous, wheeled industrial humanoid robot built by Muks Robotics, an artificial intelligence and robotics startup in Pune, India.
Mundane Systems
Mundane Systems Inc. (styled mundane) is an American robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California, that builds teleoperated robots for hazardous skilled-trades work, starting with energized electrical work.
Mytra (company)
Mytra (Mytra Inc.) is an American warehouse robotics and automation company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
NAO (robot)
NAO is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot originally developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French company founded in Paris in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier.
NASA Valkyrie
NASA Valkyrie, officially designated R5, is a 188 cm (6 ft 2 in), 136 kg (300 lb) electric humanoid robot built by NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, and unveiled in December 2013 as NASA's…
NAVAI-I3
The NAVAI-I3 (also written NAVIAI-I3) is a full-size humanoid robot developed by the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (浙江人形机器人创新中心), a government-backed research and commercialization hub located in…
NEURA Robotics 4NE-1
The NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 (pronounced "for anyone", also written 4NE1) is a cognitive humanoid robot built by the German company NEURA Robotics, which is headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
NVIDIA COMPASS
NVIDIA COMPASS is a framework and trained model for cross-embodiment robot navigation. Its name expands to Cross-Embodiment Mobility Policy via Residual RL and Skill Synthesis.
NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world foundation model platform developed by NVIDIA for physical AI applications, including autonomous vehicles and robotics.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open family of "world foundation models" for physical AI that NVIDIA launched on June 1, 2026 at GTC Taipei, held alongside COMPUTEX 2026.
NVIDIA Cosmos Framework
NVIDIA Cosmos Framework is NVIDIA's Python software for training, adapting, evaluating and serving world models.
NVIDIA Halos
NVIDIA Halos is a full-stack, comprehensive safety system developed by NVIDIA that unifies AI compute and safety across silicon, systems, software, and tools and services.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 is an open foundation model for humanoid robots developed by NVIDIA and unveiled by Jensen Huang on March 18, 2025 at the company's annual GTC conference in San Jose, California.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6 is a 3-billion-parameter vision-language-action model and cross-embodiment robot foundation model developed by Nvidia.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 is a 3-billion-parameter, cross-embodiment vision-language-action model developed by NVIDIA for humanoid and manipulation robots.
NVIDIA Isaac Lab
NVIDIA Isaac Lab is an open-source, GPU-accelerated framework for robot learning that trains robot control policies at scale by running thousands of physics simulations in parallel on GPUs.
NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena
NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena is an open-source framework for composing simulated robot tasks and evaluating learned policies at scale.
NVIDIA Isaac Sim
NVIDIA Isaac Sim is an open-source robotics simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developing, simulating, and testing AI-driven robots in physically based virtual environments.
NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare
NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare is NVIDIA's open-source developer framework for building, simulating, training, and deploying medical robots.
NVIDIA Jetson T4000
NVIDIA Jetson T4000 is a commercial system-on-module developed by Nvidia for edge AI and robotics. It is a member of the NVIDIA Jetson Thor family and became available on January 5, 2026.
NVIDIA Newton
Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine built for robotics simulation and robot learning, co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research and stewarded by the Linux Foundation.
NVIDIA OSMO
NVIDIA OSMO is an open-source workflow orchestration platform developed by Nvidia for physical AI and robotics development.