New Chinese Humanoid Robots at ICRA 2026
PRO ROBOTS examines humanoid and other robotics shown at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, focusing on Chinese companies and products alongside demonstrations from South Korea, Vietnam, and NVIDIA.
1054 talks, interviews and lectures on humanoid robots, each summarised with its key moments, so you can read the gist and jump to the part you need.
PRO ROBOTS examines humanoid and other robotics shown at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, focusing on Chinese companies and products alongside demonstrations from South Korea, Vietnam, and NVIDIA.
Allison Okamura, a Stanford University engineering professor, discusses human-centered robotics, haptic feedback, wearable devices, and soft robots for medicine, learning, and hazardous environments with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.
Jiafei, an AI2 and University of Washington robotics researcher and incoming NUS assistant professor, and Henchin Fang, a recent University of Washington graduate joining Stanford for a PhD, discuss MolmoAct 2 with the RoboPapers hosts.
A PAL Robotics representative discusses piloting the TIAGo Base in a Decathlon store in Barcelona to return unwanted fitting-room items and free staff to help customers.
KhanFlicks host reports from the TARS booth at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, where TARS engineers demonstrate tactile robotics, embodied AI, and autonomous task performance.
Matt McMullen, founder of Realbotix, discusses building social robots for companionship with Business Insider host Dan and robotics industry guests in the United States.
Chris Chen, co-CEO of Faraday Future, discusses humanoid and quadruped robot deployments, education, and other markets with John Koetsier on NEXT.
Ji Qi Yang, a second-year PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, discusses RISE and its compositional world model with the RoboPapers hosts.
Dar Sleeper, vice president of design, product, and marketing at 1X, talks with Modern CTO host Joel Beasley about NEO, home robotics, and the path to shipping humanoids.
A Galaxea representative discusses how G0.5 uses large-scale pretraining to generalize robot manipulation across objects, scenes, and instructions.
John Koetsier of NEXT speaks with Alexandra Sukharev, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, about which companies may succeed in humanoid robotics and the challenges of real world deployment.
A company representative for Alpha Robotics describes the company’s technology, product markets, international reach, and ambitions in delivery service robotics.
A Boston Dynamics speaker working with Hyundai explains how football-inspired training is helping Atlas develop more natural movement.
Tutor Intelligence’s presenters, including Joe, Jess, and Sherz, describe their robot data and learning system with RoboPapers hosts and audience members.
A Hugging Face presenter introduces LeLab, a graphical interface for configuring robots, recording training data, training models, and deploying them on robot hardware.
NVIDIA presents Cosmos as an open model for physical AI that learns from synthetic data, predicts how scenes evolve, and generates actions for robots.
NVIDIA presents Isaac GR00T as an open development platform for building and researching humanoid robots.
Jonathan Hurst, a robotics leader at Agility Robotics, explains the promise and practical challenges of embodied AI and humanoid robots at TEDxPortland.
NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz speaks with Seeed Studio CEO Eric Pan and robotics lead Elaine Wu about open-source robot hardware, embodied AI, and building practical robots with NVIDIA technologies.
A representative of IONO Robotics presents the company’s Workmate humanoid and IonoSphere system, developed in Linz, Austria, for industrial use.
Simar Kareer, a robotics researcher at Physical Intelligence, discusses learning robot skills from embodied human data at a talk hosted by the Robot Perception and Learning Lab.
James Bruton, independent robotics creator, explains how to build and balance a five-servo bipedal robot using an ESP32, an inertial measurement unit, and 3D-printed parts.
Dar Sleeper, head of product and design at 1X, discusses Neo’s design, manufacturing, and intended uses with Jon on Humanoid Mega Hub Live.
CNBC host discusses consumer sentiment and inflation, Japanese acquisitions of U.S. homebuilders, and China’s training of humanoid robots.
RealMan Robotics’ Kenneth Ren discusses how instructors train humanoid robots at a Beijing center, with examples from factory work and service jobs.
Josie Hughes, assistant professor at EPFL and head of the CREATE Lab, discusses AI-assisted robot design, soft robotics, and reconfigurable machines with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.
Elvis, co-founder and CTO of Mimic Robotics, discusses video-action models and robot learning with the RoboPapers hosts.
Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock discusses an autonomous package-sorting shift, Helix, robot design, and Figure’s plans for general-purpose robots with the Over The Horizon panel.
Haofei Lu, a Tsinghua University master’s student and Google Robotics research intern, and Yunray Lian, a Tsinghua University master’s student and Google research intern, discuss LATENT and humanoid tennis with the RoboPapers hosts and guests.
David Held, faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, presents research on precise, generalizable robot manipulation at the 2026 Spring Robotics Colloquium, hosted by the Paul G. Allen School and introduced by Abhishek Gupta.
Turner Caldwell, co-founder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, and Drew Baglino, founder and CEO of Heron Power, discuss U.S. minerals, refining, and grid infrastructure with an a16z host.
Danielle Perszyk, cognitive scientist and HCI lead at Amazon’s AGI Lab, hosts an Amazon Science panel on building practical AI agents with Amazon and Bandsintown leaders, recorded live at SXSW.
Paolo Denti, co-founder of Oversonic, discusses safe, human-centered humanoid robots for industrial and healthcare work at the World Technology Congress, following remarks from Dominica and Jodi.
Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, discusses Digit’s design, AI training, safety, production plans and market with the Abundance Summit host.
At HumanX in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s Rebecca Ballon talks with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson about scaling driverless trucking, safety, regulation, and lessons from building physical AI.
Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh, co-founders of General Autonomy, discuss building humanoids, actuators, and robotics AI with Devang on The Humanoid Hub.
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