The companies racing to make humanoids real.

China's fast-expanding embodied-AI robot stack.

Hands, first.

Publicly traded, Chinese-OEM-focused.

Soft humanoids for the home.

The deepest lineage in legged robotics.

Shenzhen humanoid startup focused on anthropomorphic-gait robots.

Rehab roots, research customers.

Optimus is the side project.

Cheap, fast, public.

Munich automation company bringing Physical AI to industrial robotics.

Built for warehouses, not press releases.

French-origin humanoid robotics company best known for NAO.

Russian anthropomorphic robotics for space and hazardous environments.

NASA Valkyrie, descended.

UK maker of expressive social humanoids including Ameca.

Chinese embodied-AI company building world-model-driven robots for physical tasks.

The company behind ASIMO, the foundational modern humanoid walker.

UK AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots.

Public research institute behind the iCub humanoid platform.

Chinese humanoid company pushing industrial Forerunner robots.

Chinese physical-intelligence company behind the MATRIX humanoid line.

German cognitive robotics company building 4NE-1.

Barcelona's long-running humanoid and service-robotics lab-builder.

Carbon-stack robotics from Vancouver.

EV maker extending its Physical AI stack into humanoid robots.