Humanoid robot companies

1X Technologies

Norway-rooted humanoid maker focused on safe, soft-bodied robots for homes and light services.

Founded

2014

Robots

1

AgiBot

Shanghai humanoid maker that topped global shipment rankings in 2025.

Founded

2023

Robots

1

Agile Robots

Force-controlled robotic arms and dexterous manipulation for the humanoid supply chain

Agility Robotics

Bipedal logistics robot purpose-built for warehouse work.

Founded

2015

Robots

1

AIST

Japan's national institute and creator of the long-running HRP humanoid series

AMETEK

A top-three global supplier of coreless motors for precision robotic actuation

Amprius Technologies

Ultra-high energy-density silicon-anode cells for weight-critical humanoids

Apptronik

Texas-based humanoid builder developing Apollo for logistics and manufacturing partners.

Founded

2016

Robots

1

Arm

The compute IP foundation underlying edge-AI silicon across humanoid platforms

Astribot

Ultra-fast dual-arm robot built for precision and speed

Founded

2022

Robots

1

ATI Industrial Automation

The benchmark in six-axis force/torque sensing for robotics

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

China's leading AI research institute advancing embodied AI and robot foundation models

Booster Robotics

Champion-grade humanoid robotics platform for research and education

Robots

1

Boston Dynamics

Pioneer of dynamic mobility, building the Atlas humanoid and Spot quadruped.

Founded

1992

Robots

1

Bota Systems

Compact force/torque sensors built for humanoid and collaborative robots

BYD

China's battery and EV giant investing in the humanoid value chain

Caltech

AMBER Lab: rigorous bipedal and legged locomotion control research

Cambricon

Chinese AI-chip designer developing embodied-AI processors for robotics

Carnegie Mellon University

Pioneering robotics research across manipulation, locomotion and soft robotics

CATL

The world's largest battery maker, pushing into humanoid power

Clone Robotics

Building anatomically accurate musculoskeletal humanoid robots

Robots

1

Covariant

Foundation models for robotic picking and manipulation.

Dexterity

AI software that gives warehouse robots human-level dexterity.

Dobot

Established collaborative-arm maker that entered humanoids with the low-cost Atom.

Founded

2015

Robots

1

EngineAI

Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics company delivering commercially available platforms for R&D and industry

Founded

2023

Robots

1

Engineered Arts

UK pioneer of expressive humanoids built for human-robot interaction.

Founded

2004

Robots

1

ETH Zurich

Creator of ANYmal and a global leader in legged and humanoid robotics

EVE Energy

Major Chinese lithium-cell supplier for humanoid power systems

Field AI

Foundation models for robots operating in unstructured real-world environments.

Figure AI

Vertically integrated humanoid built around a custom vision-language-action model.

Founded

2022

Robots

2

Fourier

Shanghai robotics firm bridging rehabilitation hardware and general-purpose humanoids.

Founded

2015

Robots

2

Foxconn

The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, deploying humanoid robots on its own production lines.

FUTEK

Precision strain-gauge sensors for robot joints and feet

Galaxy General

Beijing maker of wheeled dual-arm manipulators, China's most-funded humanoid startup.

Founded

2023

Robots

1

GelSight

High-resolution optical tactile sensors that give robots a sense of touch

Genesis AI

A general robot brain with simulation tooling at its core.

Google DeepMind

Bringing web-scale AI reasoning into the robot body.

Harmonic Drive Systems

The precision joint reducer that powers most of the world's robot wrists

Founded

1970

Hesai Technology

High-volume LiDAR scaling from automotive into humanoid robotics

Horizon Robotics

Chinese AI-chip maker supplying edge inference processors for humanoid robots

Hyundai Mobis

Hyundai's tier-one parts giant supplying actuators for Boston Dynamics' all-electric Atlas

Inovance Technology

China's leading motion-control specialist supplying servo drives for humanoid joints

Founded

2003

Inspire Robots

Pioneer of China's first commercial mass-produced five-finger dexterous hand

Founded

2016

Intel RealSense

Depth cameras spun out of Intel, now focused on robotics and humanoids

Intrinsic

Making industrial robots easier to program through AI-powered developer tooling.

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Creator of iCub, ergoCub and R1 — Europe's humanoid robotics powerhouse

Jabil

A global contract manufacturer building humanoid robots and deploying them on its own factory floor.

KAIST

Creator of HUBO and part of the lineage behind Rainbow Robotics

Keenon Robotics

Embodied AI for service robots, powered by a vision-language-action model.

Kepler

Tactile humanoid robots engineered for the factory floor

Robots

1

Leaderdrive

China's largest harmonic-reducer maker, now a certified humanoid supply-chain partner

Founded

2011

Leadshine

Chinese motion-control specialist supplying the humanoid robotics value chain

Founded

1997

Leju Robotics

Maker of the KUAVO humanoid, preparing for mass production

LG Electronics

Bringing appliance-motor scale to standardized humanoid joint modules

LG Energy Solution

Leading Korean battery maker and K-Humanoid Alliance partner

LG Innotek

LG Group camera modules for humanoid robots, including Figure AI and Boston Dynamics

LimX Dynamics

Shenzhen-based humanoid locomotion specialist

Robots

1

Linkerbot

High-volume manufacturer of dexterous hands at industrial scale

Founded

2023

MANUS

Data gloves that capture the hand's full motion for robot training.

maxon Group

Precision motors from Mars rovers to humanoid joints

Founded

1961

Mentee Robotics

Israeli AI-native humanoid robotics with Samsung backing

Founded

2022

Robots

1

MIT

Advancing manipulation, tactile sensing and legged locomotion for humanoid robotics

Moog Inc.

High-precision motion control from aerospace to advanced robotics

Founded

1951

Nabtesco

World leader in high-torque precision reducers for robot shoulders and bases

Founded

2003

NEURA Robotics

Europe's cognitive humanoid pioneer

Nidec

From EV motors to humanoid actuators — Nidec drives precision motion

Founded

1973

NVIDIA

The dominant compute and AI platform powering the humanoid robotics wave

Orbbec

Full-stack 3D vision depth cameras for humanoid and service robots

Oregon State University

Cradle of the Cassie bipedal robot and Agility Robotics

Ouster

Digital LiDAR for robotics and autonomy, born from the Ouster-Velodyne merger

Peking University

Top Chinese research university with embodied-AI work and ties to Galbot

Persona AI

Rugged humanoids built for heavy industry

Founded

2024

Physical Intelligence

A universal robot brain built on vision-language-action models.

Founded

2024

PNDbotics

Builders of the Adam full-size research humanoid

Pollen Robotics

French maker of the open-source Reachy humanoid, now part of Hugging Face.

Founded

2016

Robots

1

Qualcomm

Edge-AI processors with vision-language-action support for humanoid robots

RoboSense

Chinese LiDAR and perception sensors for automotive and humanoid robotics

RobotEra

Tsinghua-incubated humanoid robotics at commercial scale

Founded

2023

Robots

1

Samsung Electro-Mechanics

Samsung's components arm evaluating entry into humanoid actuators

Samsung SDI

Samsung's battery arm, developing solid-state cells for Korea's humanoid supply chain

Sanctuary AI

Vancouver firm building the Phoenix humanoid around highly dexterous, haptic hands.

Founded

2018

Robots

1

Sanhua Intelligent Controls

Automotive thermal-management supplier expanding into humanoid actuator modules

Scale AI

The data engine behind AI, now expanding into robotics training data.

Shadow Robot Company

The world's most advanced research-grade dexterous robot hand

Sharpa

Dense tactile dexterous hands chosen by NVIDIA for its reference humanoid

Founded

2024

SK On

Korean battery maker and K-Humanoid Alliance partner in the humanoid supply chain

Skild AI

A robot-agnostic foundation model built to scale across any hardware.

Sony

IMX-series CMOS image sensors powering machine vision in robots and humanoids

Stanford University

Home of ALOHA, UMI and the Stanford Robotics Center

STMicroelectronics

European semiconductor leader supplying MEMS IMUs for humanoid balance and motion

Tesla

Reuses its Autopilot AI stack to build a low-cost, mass-manufacturable humanoid.

Founded

2003

Robots

1

Tsinghua University

China's leading robotics university and incubator of RobotEra

Tuopu Group

Automotive chassis specialist turned rotary actuator supplier for humanoid robots

UBTech

Shenzhen humanoid maker putting Walker robots onto Chinese automotive production lines.

Founded

2012

Robots

1

UC Berkeley

A world-leading hub for robot learning and embodied AI

UC San Diego

Advanced robotics and controls research, partner in NVIDIA's GR00T humanoid work

Unitree Robotics

Aggressive pricing on bipedal and quadruped robotics from China.

Founded

2016

Robots

4

University of Tokyo

JSK lab: tendon-driven, musculoskeletal humanoid research at its deepest

UT Austin

Birthplace of Apptronik and NASA Valkyrie humanoid heritage

Wonik Robotics

Makers of the world's most widely adopted research dexterous hand

Wuzhou New Spring

Specialist in planetary roller screws for the high-torque joints of humanoid robots

Xiaomi

Consumer-electronics giant stepping into humanoid robotics

Robots

1

XPeng

Chinese EV maker turning its automotive AI and chips toward the IRON humanoid.

Founded

2014

Robots

1

Zhaowei Electromechanical

Integrated drive modules combining micro-motors, gearboxes and lead screws for humanoid hands