SkyWalker 2
The SkyWalker 2 (Chinese: 天行者2号, Tianxingzhe 2 Hao) is a full-size humanoid robot built by EIR Technology
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Skydio
Skydio is an American drone manufacturer based in San Mateo, California, that builds autonomous flying robots guided by onboard computer vision rather than manual piloting.
SmolVLA
SmolVLA (Small Vision-Language-Action) is a compact, open-source vision-language-action model (VLA) for robotics developed by Hugging Face and released in June 2025.
Social Robot
A social robot is an autonomous or semi-autonomous robot designed to interact and communicate with humans (and sometimes with other robots) by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role.
Sophia (robot)
Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics, activated on February 14, 2016, and best known for its expressive, human-like face and for becoming, on October 25, 2017
Spirit AI Moz1
The Moz1 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Spirit AI (Chinese: 千寻智能, Qianxun Intelligence), a robotics startup headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Spot (robot)
Spot is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics, a four-legged, all-electric mobile platform marketed as "the agile mobile robot" for automating sensing and inspection in industrial environments.
Standard Bots
Standard Bots is an American robotics company that designs and builds AI-powered six-axis robotic arms for factory automation.
Stepper motor
A stepper motor (also called a stepping motor) is an electric motor that converts a sequence of electrical pulses into discrete mechanical steps rather than smooth continuous rotation.
Sulu.be Steve
Steve is a 210 cm (6 ft 11 in) social humanoid robot built by Belgian robot designer Jan De Coster for Brightfish, Belgium's leading cinema advertising company, and deployed as a character host in Belgian…
Sunday Robotics MEMO
MEMO is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Sunday Robotics (commonly known as Sunday), an American artificial intelligence and robotics startup based in Mountain View, California.
SuperMimic
SuperMimic is a reinforcement learning method for training a humanoid robot controller to follow human motions.
Surgical robot
A surgical robot is a computer-controlled robotic system used to assist surgeons during medical procedures.
Svaya Robotics Bimanual
The Svaya Robotics Bimanual is a semi-humanoid, dual-arm collaborative robot designed and manufactured by Svaya Robotics, an Indian robotics company headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.
SwitchBot Onero H1
The SwitchBot Onero H1 (stylized as onero H1) is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by SwitchBot, a Chinese smart home technology company known for its line of affordable home automation products.
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation is a 2026 robot learning research system for contact-rich, bimanual manipulation.
TALOS (robot)
TALOS is a full-size, torque-controlled humanoid robot developed by PAL Robotics of Barcelona, Spain, and first presented in February 2017 as a research platform targeted at industrial applications.
TARA GEN1
TARA GEN1 (sometimes written as Tara Gen-1) is a semi-humanoid robot developed by iHub Robotics, a deep tech startup based in Kochi, Kerala, India.
TARS (robot)
TARS is a series of humanoid robots developed by TARS Robotics (Chinese: 它石智航), a Beijing and Shanghai-based embodied AI startup founded in February 2025.
THEMIS V2
THEMIS V2 is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by Westwood Robotics, a Los Angeles-based robotics company founded in 2018 by former members of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at the…
TIAGo (PAL Robotics)
TIAGo (Take It And Go) is a modular mobile manipulator service robot developed by PAL Robotics, a Spanish robotics company headquartered in Barcelona.
TM Xplore 1
TM Xplore I (also written as TM Xplore 1) is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Techman Robot, a Taiwanese collaborative robot manufacturer and subsidiary of Quanta Computer.
TORA DoubleOne
TORA DoubleOne (stylized as TORA-DOUBLE ONE) is a wheeled humanoid robot built around multi-dimensional tactile sensing and developed by PaXini Technology
Tactile sensing
Tactile sensing is the technology that gives robots a sense of touch: the ability to measure the physical contact between a robot and the world, including contact force, pressure distribution, shear, slip…
Tangible Robots Eggie
Eggie is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Tangible Robots, a robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California.
TeknTrash ALPHA
ALPHA (short for Automated Litter Processing Humanoid Assistant) is a humanoid robot developed by TeknTrash Robotics, a United Kingdom-based company specializing in AI-powered robotics and motion intelligence…
Teleoperation
Teleoperation is the operation of a machine by a human at a distance, with commands carried over a communication link and the machine's cameras, microphones and force sensors standing in for the operator's own…
Tendon-driven actuation
Tendon-driven actuation (also called cable-driven actuation) is a method of moving a robot's joints by pulling on thin, flexible cables (the "tendons") that run from motors mounted somewhere else on the…
Tesla Cybercab
The Tesla Cybercab is a two-seat, battery-electric robotaxi built by Tesla, Inc. for its Robotaxi ride-hailing service.
Tesla Optimus
Tesla Optimus, originally announced as Tesla Bot, is a humanoid robot program at Tesla.
TetherIA
The Aero Hand Open is a low-cost, open-source, anthropomorphic robotic hand developed by TetherIA, a Silicon Valley robotics startup, for affordable dexterous manipulation research.
The Humanoid 100
The Humanoid 100 is a research report published by Morgan Stanley Research on February 6, 2025, under the title "The Humanoid 100: Mapping the Humanoid Robot Value Chain." It sorts roughly 100 publicly traded…
The Robot Studio
The Robot Studio is an independent open-source robotics design studio run by British roboticist Rob Knight, best known for publishing free, buildable designs for anatomically inspired humanoid robots and their…
Tian Yi 2.0
Tian Yi 2.0 (Chinese: 天轶2.0, also written Tianyi 2.0) is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, commonly known as X-Humanoid.
Tien Kung 2.0
Tien Kung 2.0 (Chinese: 天工 2.0; pinyin: Tiangong 2.0) is a full-size, bipedal humanoid robot developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, commonly known as X-Humanoid.
Torobo
Torobo is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Tokyo Robotics, a Japanese robotics startup that originated from Waseda University.
Toyota Human Support Robot (HSR)
The Human Support Robot (often abbreviated HSR) is a compact, single-armed mobile manipulation robot built by Toyota Motor Corporation as a standardised research platform for domestic and assistive robotics.
Toyota Research Institute
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is the United States-based research and development subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, founded in 2015 with an initial commitment of about $1 billion over five years to…
Toyota T-HR3
The Toyota T-HR3 is a teleoperated, third-generation humanoid robot that Toyota Motor Corporation unveiled on November 21, 2017
TurtleBot
TurtleBot is an open source, low cost mobile robot platform built around the Robot Operating System (ROS) and intended primarily for robotics education and research.
UBTECH Cruzr S2
The UBTECH Cruzr S2 is a full-size wheeled humanoid robot developed by UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen-based robotics company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
UBTECH Robotics
UBTECH Robotics Corp Ltd (Chinese: 优必选科技; stock code: 9880.HK) is a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen.
UBTECH Walker C
The UBTECH Walker C is a full-sized bipedal humanoid robot built for commercial service work (reception, guided tours, and visitor engagement) that is developed by UBTECH Robotics, the Shenzhen-based
UBTECH Walker S1
The UBTECH Walker S1 is a full-size industrial humanoid robot developed by UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen-based company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, designed for factory automation tasks such as…
UBTECH Walker S2
The UBTECH Walker S2 is a full-size industrial humanoid robot developed by UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen-based company.
UBTECH Walker Tienkung
The UBTECH Walker Tienkung (Chinese: 天工行者, pinyin: Tiangong Xingzhe; also written Tiangong Walker, Tien Kung Walker, or Tien Kung Xingzhe) is a full-size, research-grade humanoid robot jointly developed by…
UBTECH Walker X
The UBTECH Walker X is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen-based Chinese company, and unveiled at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai in…
UWORLD
UWORLD is a consumer robotics brand launched in 2026 by UBTECH Robotics, the Shenzhen-based maker of the industrial Walker humanoid line.
UWORLD U1
UWORLD U1 is a series of hyper-realistic companion humanoid robots developed by the Chinese firm UBTECH Robotics and sold under its new consumer sub-brand UWORLD.
UWORLD U1 Lite
UWORLD U1 Lite is the entry-level model of the UWORLD U1 series, a line of hyper-realistic companion humanoid robots from UBTECH Robotics sold under its consumer sub-brand UWORLD.
UWORLD U1 Pro
The UWORLD U1 Pro is the standard full-body model in the UWORLD U1 line of emotional-companionship humanoid robots from UBTECH Robotics, sold under the company's UWORLD consumer brand.
UWORLD U1 Ultra
The UWORLD U1 Ultra is the premium flagship trim of the UWORLD U1 line of ultra-bionic companion humanoid robots, made by UBTECH Robotics and sold under its consumer UWORLD brand.
Uncanny valley
The uncanny valley is the dip in human affinity that occurs when a robot, computer-generated character, or other artificial figure looks and moves almost like a real person but not quite, triggering a sudden…
UnderControl AI Moby
Moby is a general-purpose industrial humanoid robot developed by Noble Machines (formerly Under Control Robotics, or UCR), a robotics startup based in Sunnyvale, California.
Unitree AS2-W
Unitree AS2-W is a compact wheeled-legged quadruped announced by Unitree Robotics on July 24, 2026.
Unitree G1
The Unitree G1 is a compact, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Unitree H1
The Unitree H1 is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Unitree H2
The Unitree H2, officially titled "H2 Destiny Awakening" (命运觉醒), is a full-size humanoid robot from Chinese manufacturer Unitree Robotics that stands 182 cm tall, weighs 70 kg, carries 31 degrees of freedom…
Unitree R1
The Unitree R1 is a compact bipedal humanoid robot that, at a starting price of $5,900 (and $4,900 for the entry-level R1 Air), is one of the least expensive walking humanoid robots on the market.
Unitree Robotics
Unitree Robotics is the international brand of Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. (宇树科技股份有限公司), a Chinese robotics manufacturer based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.