Humanoid robot companies - makers, suppliers, researchers

Unitree Robotics

Robot Maker

Hangzhou, China

Unitree Robotics is a robotics company offering robot dogs, quadruped robots, humanoid robots, and 4D LiDAR products.

AgiBot

Robot Maker

Shanghai, China

AGIBOT is a pioneer in the global general-purpose AI robotics industry, with its core technology focused on embodied AI. AGIBOT's "Three Intelligences in One" architecture integrates Locomotion Intelligence, Interaction Intelligence, and Manipulation Intelligence into a unified embodied system. Its portfolio spans humanoid robots, quadrupeds, dexterous systems, and commercial cleaning solutions. In June 2026, AGIBOT announced that its 15,000th robot had rolled off the production line.

Boston Dynamics

Robot Maker

Waltham, USA

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Figure AI

Robot Maker

Sunnyvale, USA

Figure AI develops general-purpose humanoid robots for both commercial and residential applications. Its lineup includes the Figure 01, which has been piloted in warehouse and manufacturing settings, and the Figure 02, designed for industrial tasks like automotive sheet-metal handling. The company is also prototyping the Figure 03 for household environments, using its Helix AI system for navigation in unstructured spaces.

Tesla

Robot Maker

Austin, USA

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and solar products. Founded in 2003, Tesla is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is known for models including Model S, 3, X, Y, Cybertruck, and its Optimus humanoid robot program.

UBTECH Robotics

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

UBTECH provides humanoid service robots and robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing, exhibitions, AI education, logistics, commercial services, elderly care, and consumer smart hardware. Its portfolio includes humanoid robots, AI education solutions, commercial service robots, logistics robotics, and smart hardware for home environments.

Hyundai

Robot Maker

Seoul, South Korea

Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer and the flagship brand of the Hyundai Motor Group, producing vehicles under the Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis marques. Through its 2021 acquisition of Boston Dynamics, Hyundai owns and develops the Atlas bipedal robot and is piloting it for automotive assembly tasks in Hyundai and Kia plants. The company also develops the DAL-e mobile service robot, deployed in Hyundai dealerships for customer guidance and contactless service.

Humanoid

Robot Maker

London, UK

Humanoid develops commercially scalable, safe humanoid robots for industrial work, supported by its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for end-to-end robot fleet orchestration.

Realbotix

Robot Maker

Las Vegas, USA

Realbotix Corp develops and manufactures lifelike AI-powered humanoid robots. The company unveiled its $175,000 female humanoid robot named Aria, featuring advanced artificial intelligence for realistic interactions. Realbotix Corp provides investors with presentation materials and maintains a public newsroom for company updates.

Agility Robotics

Robot Maker

Salem, USA

Oregon-based humanoid robotics company spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, best known for Digit — a bipedal humanoid robot designed for logistics and warehouse automation. Also offers Arc, a cloud platform for operating Digit fleets.

Fauna Robotics

Robot Maker

New York, USA

Fauna Robotics is an American robotics company that designs and assembles small-scale humanoid robots in the United States for consumer, educational, and everyday environments. Their flagship product, Sprout, is a commercially available humanoid platform built for home assistance tasks. The company also offers the Sprout Creator Edition, a variant targeted at research and developer use, positioning Fauna Robotics within the emerging market for accessible, entry-level humanoid platforms.

Faraday Future

Robot Maker

El Segundo, USA

Faraday Future is the parent brand of Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., an American electric vehicle company developing AI-powered mobility solutions including the FF 91 luxury EV and the Faraday X (FX) mass-market brand. The company also develops the Aegis, an AI-powered system designed for industrial, educational, and research applications, reflecting its effort to extend its vehicle technology stack into broader robotics and embodied AI domains.

Google DeepMind

Robot Maker

London, UK

Google DeepMind brings together the former Google Brain and DeepMind AI labs to build the next generation of AI systems safely and responsibly. Its research spans general AI, science, robotics, weather prediction, biology, mapping, and speech.

HONOR Device Co., Ltd.

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

HONOR is a consumer electronics brand best known for its smartphones, tablets, and wearables. The company has extended into robotics with the HONOR humanoid robot, a prototype targeting home assistance applications, and Lightning, a bipedal humanoid platform developed for high-speed locomotion research and dynamic athletic performance benchmarking.

1X Technologies

Robot Maker

Palo Alto, USA

Norwegian-American humanoid robotics company (formerly Halodi Robotics) developing general-purpose humanoid robots for home use, including its NEO consumer robot. The company is backed by OpenAI and EQT Ventures and began full-scale production in 2026.

Apptronik

Robot Maker

Austin, USA

Apptronik develops humanoid robots and other robotic systems intended to work alongside people and perform physical work. Its work spans humanoid mobility, manipulation, actuation, controls, mobile manipulation, and wearable robotics.

Amazon

Robot Maker

Seattle, USA

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BYD

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

BYD is a Chinese multinational manufacturer of electric vehicles, batteries, and electronics that has launched a major humanoid robotics initiative with over 4,000 engineers dedicated to robot development.

MANUS Technology Group

Robot Maker

Frankfurt, Germany

manus is a temporary staffing and personnel services provider that has placed qualified professionals, new entrants, and career changers since 1984. It serves the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main region, Hesse, and Thuringia from its headquarters in Frankfurt and branches in Bad Salzungen, Suhl, and Erfurt.

SoftBank Robotics

Robot Maker

Tokyo, Japan

SoftBank Robotics Group Corp. is a Tokyo-based robotics company formed in 2012 when SoftBank Group acquired Aldebaran Robotics of France. The company develops autonomous humanoid robots for social and commercial interaction, including Pepper (the world's first mass-produced humanoid robot per Guinness World Records) and NAO (widely used in education and research). SoftBank Robotics has approximately 201-500 employees and its robots are deployed across more than 70 countries. The company also expanded into commercial cleaning with the Whiz autonomous vacuum, with over 35,000 systems in use globally.

LG Electronics

Robot Maker

Seoul, South Korea

LG Electronics is a South Korean multinational best known for consumer electronics, home appliances, and display technologies. The company has expanded into robotics through its CLOi commercial service robot line and is developing humanoid robots, including the CLOiD — a wheeled household assistant unveiled at CES 2026 — and the KAPEX prototype. These efforts draw on technology from majority-owned subsidiary Bear Robotics and position LG as a participant in the Korean government's K-Humanoid Alliance alongside Samsung, Doosan Robotics, and Rainbow Robotics.

Neura Robotics

Robot Maker

Metzingen, Germany

NEURA Robotics is a global Physical AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Metzingen, Germany. It develops cognitive robots that can see, hear, feel and learn, along with the software, AI and data infrastructure required to deploy them at scale.

UniX AI

Robot Maker

Suzhou, China

UniX AI is a Chinese humanoid robotics company focused on R&D, mass production, and real-world deployment of general-purpose humanoid robots. Its product lineup includes the Wanda wheeled dual-arm series, the Martian biped, and Panther — claimed to be the world's first service humanoid to enter real household deployment. Core technologies include UniTouch (tactile sensing), UniFlex, and UniCortex (embodied AI brain).

Toyota Research Institute

Robot Maker

Los Altos, USA

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is Toyota Motor Corporation's R&D subsidiary focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science. TRI developed Large Behavior Models (LBMs) to advance general-purpose humanoid robots and partnered with Boston Dynamics to power the Atlas robot.

FANUC

Robot Maker

Oshino, Japan

FANUC Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of CNC systems, industrial robots, and factory automation equipment, and is one of the world's largest industrial robot makers with over 27 million CNC systems shipped.

Toyota

Robot Maker

Toyota City, Japan

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda. It is one of the world's largest automakers and is actively engaged in humanoid robotics research, including the T-HR3 robot and a partnership (via Toyota Research Institute) with Boston Dynamics on Large Behavior Models.

Chery

Robot Maker

Wuhu, China

Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. is a Chinese automaker and the fifth-largest automobile manufacturer group in China, producing passenger vehicles sold domestically and exported to over 80 countries. The company has developed an AI-powered humanoid robot designed for automotive dealership sales assistance, customer service, and product demonstration, applying robotics to enhance its own retail and brand experience.

EngineAI

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

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Fourier Intelligence

Robot Maker

Shanghai, China

Fourier Intelligence is a humanoid robotics company. Public information is limited.

Robbyant (Ant Lingbo Technology), part of Ant Group (China)

Robot Maker

Shanghai, China

Robbyant (Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology, subsidiary of Ant Group, founded 2024) develops the R1 wheeled humanoid robot and the open-source LingBot foundation model family. LingBot-VLA is a vision-language-action model trained on 60,000 hours of real-world physical data enabling cross-morphology transfer across robot platforms. LingBot-Depth provides high-precision 3D spatial perception. Strategy is AI-first: building large foundation models for perception, planning, and control, then partnering with hardware specialists. Deployments in retail sorting, logistics, and industrial automation with partners including Leju, Ti5 Robot, GuoDa Drugstore, and Longsheng Technology.

Stanford University

Robot Maker

Stanford, USA

Private research university in Stanford, California, with one of the world's foremost robotics research programs. The Stanford Robotics Center (SRC) houses 13 labs spanning CS, ME, EE, Bioengineering, and Aeronautics — researching field robotics, domestic robotics, medical robotics, humanoids, and autonomous systems.

DEEP Robotics

Robot Maker

杭州, China

DEEP Robotics (云深处科技) develops quadruped and humanoid robots built on embodied intelligence technology, with deployments in power grid inspection, emergency response, tunnel and pipeline monitoring, metallurgy, construction surveying, and education. Its product lineup includes the X20 and X30 quadrupeds, the Lite3 and Mini platforms, the DR02 humanoid (currently in pilot for industrial inspection and logistics), and the wheeled 山猫M20. The company also supplies its own J60, J80, and J100 series joint actuator modules, making it both a robot maker and a component supplier for the broader humanoid and quadruped ecosystem.

Agile Robots

Robot Maker

Munich, Germany

Munich-based robotics company founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), developing AI-powered collaborative robot arms and intelligent automation for precision assembly and manufacturing. Germany's first robotics unicorn after a $220M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in 2021.

Generalist AI

Robot Maker

Bay Area, CA and Boston, MA, USA

Generalist AI is building general-purpose robots by developing embodied foundation models focused on dexterity. The company combines large-scale AI, robotics, data, models, and hardware to enable robots to interact intelligently with the physical world.

Hyundai Robotics

Robot Maker

대구, South Korea

HD Hyundai Robotics (formerly Hyundai Robotics) is South Korea's leading industrial robot manufacturer, with roots going back to 1984 within Hyundai Heavy Industries and incorporated as an independent company in 2020 under the HD Hyundai Group. The company produces industrial robot arms, collaborative robots, and clean robots for automotive, shipbuilding, electronics, and battery industries, and is the parent of Boston Dynamics following a $1.1B acquisition from SoftBank completed in June 2021.

X Square Robot

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

X Square Robot (also known as Zibianliang Jiqiren) is a Chinese AI robotics company developing embodied AI foundation models and general-purpose robot hardware. Their products include the WALL series of AI models, QUANTA series of wheeled humanoid robots, and ArtiXon dexterous hand, targeting industrial, logistics, healthcare, and home applications.

Foundation

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Foundation develops autonomous machines designed for general-purpose physical work, with a focus on humanoid robotics. Its flagship product, the Phantom MK1, is a bipedal humanoid robot being piloted for industrial automation, logistics, and defense applications, building on the earlier Phantom platform. The company positions its systems as fully autonomous machines intended to perform a wide range of tasks traditionally done by humans.

Kawasaki Robotics

Robot Maker

Akashi, Japan

Kawasaki Robotics is the industrial and humanoid robotics division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with a history of manufacturing industrial robots in Japan since 1969. The division supplies articulated industrial robots for welding, assembly, material handling, painting, and palletizing applications across global automotive and manufacturing sectors. Its humanoid program, Kaleido, has been under R&D since 2015, with the Kaleido 9 prototype—targeted at disaster response applications—representing its ninth-generation bipedal platform.

LINKERBOT

Robot Maker

Beijing, China

LINKERBOT is a humanoid robotics company. Public information is limited.

WIRobotics

Robot Maker

Cheonan, South Korea

WIRobotics is a South Korean wearable and humanoid robotics company founded in 2021 by former Samsung Electronics robotics engineers. It develops walking-assist wearable robots (WIM series), industrial back-support exoskeletons (WIBS), and the ALLEX humanoid robot platform. WIM has surpassed 3,000 units sold globally with presence in Europe, China, and Japan. WIM KIDS won a CES 2026 Innovation Award.

Universal Robots

Robot Maker

Odense, Denmark

Universal Robots is the Danish pioneer of collaborative industrial robots (cobots), founded in 2005 in Odense. The company commercialized the first viable cobot in 2008 and has since deployed over 100,000 cobots globally across its UR3, UR5, UR10, and UR16 product lines. Acquired by Teradyne in 2015 for $285M, it operates as part of the Teradyne Robotics division.

Pudu Robotics

Robot Maker

Shenzhen, China

Pudu Robotics designs and manufactures commercial service robots for food delivery, hospitality, healthcare, and retail, with over 120,000 robots deployed across more than 80 countries.

Hexagon Robotics

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Hexagon Robotics develops autonomous humanoid robots for industrial environments, building on the broader Hexagon group's expertise in precision measurement and industrial automation. Its flagship platform AEON is a full-scale humanoid currently in pilot deployment, targeting tasks such as manipulation, asset inspection, reality capture, battery and component manufacturing, and operator support. The company positions its humanoids as practical industrial workers for sectors where precision sensing and autonomous operation are critical.

VinDynamics

Robot Maker

Hanoi, Vietnam

VinDynamics is a humanoid robotics subsidiary of Vietnam's Vingroup conglomerate, founded in September 2025. The company researches, develops, and manufactures advanced humanoid robots, including its flagship robot Dyno, targeting security/surveillance and household assistant applications. It has formed strategic partnerships with Skild AI and Schaeffler Group.

Hitachi

Robot Maker

Tokyo, Japan

Hitachi, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, operating across digital systems, energy, mobility, and industrial infrastructure sectors. The company also develops robotics technologies, including the EMIEW3, a small wheeled service robot designed for customer guidance in offices and public spaces using cloud-based AI for speech recognition and multi-robot task coordination. Through its R&D division, Hitachi pursues industrial automation and logistics robotics aimed at social infrastructure applications.

New York University (NYU)

Robot Maker

New York City, USA

New York University is a major private research university founded in 1831 with campuses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai. Its robotics work is anchored by the NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO), launched in 2025 with over 70 researchers.

Sharpa

Robot Maker

Singapore, China

Sharpa Robotics is a Singapore-headquartered AI robotics company founded in late 2024 by three co-founders of Hesai Technology (the lidar maker), specializing in high-dexterity robotic hands and full-body humanoid robots. The company's flagship product, SharpaWave, is a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand with over 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip that has reached mass production; its North humanoid robot integrates these hands for autonomous industrial and service deployment. Sharpa has a strong European go-to-market presence and collaborated with Nvidia and Unitree on the H2+ humanoid reference design.

Kepler Robotics

Robot Maker

Shanghai, China

Kepler Robotics is a Shanghai-based humanoid robotics company that designs and manufactures general-purpose bipedal robots targeting factory automation and logistics applications. Its Forerunner lineup includes the K2 and Pioneer K2, full-size humanoids with around 40 degrees of freedom and dual-arm payloads of roughly 25–30 kg, designed for tasks such as assembly, material handling, and quality inspection. The company has moved into small-batch production and has deployed units in real factory environments alongside human workers.

Xiaomi

Robot Maker

Beijing, China

Xiaomi is a Chinese electronics company that designs and manufactures smartphones, smart hardware, and IoT devices, offering a connected ecosystem for human, car, and home experiences.

XPeng Robotics

Robot Maker

Guangzhou, China

XPeng Robotics is the robotics division of XPeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV), developing the IRON humanoid robot with 76 degrees of freedom, 3 Turing AI chips providing 2,250 TOPS compute, and 21 DOF per hand. The unit raised $900M at a $6.3B valuation in August 2026, led by IDG Capital with Tencent and Alibaba as strategic investors, targeting 1,000 units/month production by end of 2026.

KUKA

Robot Maker

Augsburg, Germany

KUKA is a global leader in intelligent automation solutions headquartered in Augsburg, Germany. Founded in 1898, it provides industrial robots, automated production cells, and fully integrated systems for automotive, electronics, consumer goods, e-commerce, and healthcare industries. KUKA is a subsidiary of Midea Group.

Honda

Robot Maker

Tokyo, Japan

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that designs and manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment. The company is also a recognized pioneer in humanoid robotics, having developed the ASIMO bipedal humanoid robot, whose program was officially discontinued in 2022. Honda continues advancing robotics research through its Honda Research Institute, focusing on mobility, AI, and humanoid technologies that build on decades of expertise in bipedal locomotion and balance control.

CloudMinds

Robot Maker

Shanghai, China

CloudMinds Technology develops cloud-connected intelligent service robots through its HARIX platform, which combines a secure virtual backbone network with on-board intelligence to enable real-time robot control and AI processing. Founded in 2015 by Bill Huang and headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing, the company produces reception, delivery, cleaning, patrol, and digital human avatar robots deployed across restaurants, hotels, and supermarkets. Backed by approximately $727 million in total funding including a $300 million SoftBank Vision Fund investment, CloudMinds holds over 1,800 patents covering its cloud robotics architecture, making it one of the more capital- and IP-intensive players in the Chinese service robotics sector.

Mind Robotics

Robot Maker

Palo Alto, USA

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Naver Labs

Robot Maker

Seongnam, South Korea

NAVER Labs is the robotics and AI research division of NAVER Corporation (South Korea's largest internet platform). Develops mobile service robots, ambient intelligence systems, and the AMBIDEX robot arm. Operates ARC (NAVER's robotics-integrated office building in Seongnam) as a live testbed for service robots navigating real environments.

Physical Intelligence

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Physical Intelligence develops generalist robot foundation models — AI systems designed to control any robot for any task using a single model architecture. Their flagship π0 is a Vision-Language-Action model representing the state of the art in robot learning, with over $1B raised and a $5.6B valuation.

TetherIA

Robot Maker

Santa Clara, USA

TetherIA (also known as Chestnut Robotics) is a Silicon Valley-based full-stack robotics startup founded in January 2025, developing a dexterous robotic hand platform for general-purpose manipulation in humanoid and embodied AI systems. The hand uses tendon-driven actuation with 7 active degrees of freedom and 16 joints, with open-source CAD, firmware, and ROS2 support. The founding team includes engineers from Tesla Optimus, Apple Vision Pro, Waymo, and XPeng.

Bear Robotics

Robot Maker

Redwood City, USA

Bear Robotics is a Redwood City company building AI-powered service robots for the food service and hospitality industry, including the Servi robot that autonomously delivers food in restaurants and commercial kitchens.

BOSHIAC (Harbin, China)

Robot Maker

Harbin, China

Harbin Boshi Automation Co., Ltd. (BOSHIAC) is a Chinese industrial automation company that develops intelligent manufacturing equipment, industrial robots, and smart factory solutions, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company co-developed the DexBot humanoid robot with Harbin Institute of Technology, targeting industrial automation, factory tasks, and warehouse operations. As a prototype, DexBot represents BOSHIAC's effort to extend its established industrial robotics capabilities into the humanoid space.

Hello Robot

Robot Maker

Martinez, USA

Hello Robot is a US robotics company founded in 2017 by Aaron Edsinger and Charlie Kemp that develops the Stretch series of open-source mobile manipulator robots for developers and researchers working on assistive applications for older adults and people with disabilities. The Stretch RE2 features a lightweight arm on a compact, repositionable base designed for safe operation in human environments, with a software stack built entirely on open-source Python and ROS. The platform has been deployed in academic labs and pilot studies focused on in-home manipulation assistance, making it one of the more accessible research-oriented mobile manipulators on the market.