The humanoid robot industry didn’t slow down in the first month of 2026. According to statistics from China Humanoid Robot Scene Application Alliance (HRAA), over 13 new humanoid robots were launched globally in January, continuing the high-frequency release pace of “one every two days on average.”
While the number of new products in January wasn’t the historical peak, the quality of the lineup was high. Influenced by major exhibitions like CES, prominent manufacturers such as LG Electronics, Boston Dynamics, and Sharpa chose this time to showcase their products, making January a significant window for new product launches.
LG Electronics Launched LG CLOiD
At CES 2026, LG Electronics announced the launch of LG CLOiD™, an AI-powered home robot, which aims to perform and coordinate various household chores between smart home devices, thereby reducing the time and effort required for daily tasks. This system represents LG’s latest achievements in AI-powered home robots and smart home platforms, and can work in synergy with its smart home ecosystem.
Boston Dynamics Unveiled New Atlas Robot
Boston Dynamics unveiled the product version of its new Atlas robot at CES 2026. This all-electric humanoid robot was showcased at Hyundai Motor’s global CES media day presentation, which also featured a live stage demonstration of the prototype version of Atlas. The company announced that it would immediately begin production of the new Atlas robot at its Boston headquarters. Deliveries are expected to be made to Hyundai Motor’s Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) and Google DeepMind in 2026. Meanwhile, the Hyundai Group announced that it would produce 30,000 Atlas humanoid robots annually by 2028, then integrate them into factories and warehouses around the world.
Sharpa Debuted its First Full-Size Humanoid Robot, North
Sharpa debuted its first full-size humanoid robot, North, at CES 2026. Built to improve productivity, the robot is designed for autonomous operation. It combines dexterous manipulation with fluid full-body control, enabling it to autonomously perform complex tasks in a variety of real-world environments. At the show, the North robot performed four fully autonomous live demonstrations. In these demonstrations, North won a ping-pong match with a reaction time of 0.02 seconds. It can also take instant photos with an accuracy of approximately 2 millimeters. Furthermore, it can utilize multimodal reasoning, combined with real-time visual and verbal input, to perform card dealing operations. North also successfully created a paper windmill through a manual process of over 30 steps.
Generative Bionics Unveiled Humanoid Robot GENE.01
Italian startup Generative Bionics unveiled its first concept product, GENE.01, at CES 2026. GENE.01 was showcased on the global stage during AMD’s opening keynote. The design of GENE.01 integrates full-body haptic sensors, making it not a decorative layer added after engineering, but an active component for intelligence and safety. This unveiling follows Generative Bionics’ recent announcement of an $81 million funding round, one of the largest in the European humanoid robotics field.
OneRobotics Launched the Humanoid Robot Onero
Recently, OneRobotics officially released Onero, a humanoid embody intelligent robot dedicated to liberating people from repetitive and tedious housework, allowing them to truly return their precious time and energy to their lives. Onero is the culmination of OneRobotics’ years of accumulated “AI + Robotics” technology, and represents another deep application of OneRobotics’ core embody intelligence technology in the home setting.
NEURA Robotics Unveiled its Third-Generation 4NE1 Humanoid Robot
NEURA Robotics unveiled its third-generation 4NE1 humanoid robot at CES 2026. This robot utilizes a new platform developed in collaboration with Studio F.A. Porsche. The demonstration focused on the Neuraverse operating system, which allows the robot to share learned skills in real time. In terms of technology, the third-generation 4NE1 is equipped with high-torque joints, with a maximum lifting capacity of 100 kg, and adopts a patented artificial skin technology that can detect distances to prevent collisions.
NEURA Robotics also launched the 4NE1 Mini, which is approximately 132 cm long and provides cognitive intelligence in a multi-purpose form. It combines natural language interaction, computer vision, and reinforcement learning, and has multi-language recognition and human detection safety functions, making it suitable for scientific and educational fields.
Matrix Robotics Debuted its Third-generation All-around Flagship Humanoid Robot
On January 10, Matrix Robotics officially launched its third-generation all-around flagship humanoid robot—MATRIX-3. This iteration features a systematic reconstruction from the underlying algorithm to the top-level application. MATRIX-3 is a safe, autonomous, and generalizable physical intelligence robot capable of performing human-like tasks and ready to move from professional scenarios into the wider world of daily life, marking a new stage for humanoid robots from “executing preset instructions” to “understanding and adapting to the physical world.”
Galbot Launched its Heavy-Duty Robot Galbot S1
Galbot recently announced the launch of the Galbot S1 heavy-duty embodied robot, an industrial-grade heavy-duty embodied intelligent robot designed to meet the growing demands of modern manufacturing. It breaks through the industry’s long-standing payload limit, achieving a continuous dual-arm payload of 50 kg. This groundbreaking robot has been successfully deployed on the core production lines of manufacturing giants such as CATL, marking a historic shift for embodied artificial intelligence from experimental demonstrations to practical industrial applications.
Damon and LUMOS Jointly Unveiled a Heavy-duty Embodied Robot
On January 21, 2026, Damon successfully held a joint product launch event for its heavy-duty embodied robot, “Damon X LUMOS,” at its Huzhou manufacturing base. As a leading company with nearly 30 years of experience in logistics automation, Damon is committed to a dual-drive strategy of “intelligent logistics + embodied robot.” This newly launched heavy-duty embodied robot is specifically designed for intelligent logistics scenarios, using core technologies to solve the pain points of high-load automated handling and sorting in the industry, injecting strong momentum into the digital upgrade of the logistics industry.
DroidUp Launched World’s First Fully Bionic Humanoid Robot, Moya
On January 30, DroidUp officially launched Moya, the world’s first fully bionic humanoid robot. Standing 1.7 meters tall and weighing only 34 kg, this robot represents a weight reduction of over 20% compared to the industry average of over 60 kg for similar robots. This is thanks to its innovative hip-focused motor group and hybrid tendon transmission technology, which not only achieves extreme lightweighting but also reduces energy consumption by 50%, resulting in over 6 hours of continuous operation. With 30 high-degree-of-freedom joints throughout its body, combined with DroidUp’s self-developed cerebellar motion control model and cross-modal transfer learning algorithm, its movements, whether walking, turning, or bending over to pick up objects, are smooth and elegant, allowing for flexible adaptation in unstructured environments.
Panda Humanoid Robot “J-PANDA” Made its Grand Debut
At the recent Chengdu Municipal People’s Congress and CPPCC sessions, the world’s first panda humanoid robot, “J-PANDA,” officially made its debut. “J-PANDA” was developed by Chengdu Xingjin Humanoid Robot Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Standing 1.52 meters tall with 21 degrees of freedom, “J-PANDA” showcased its smooth, high-speed straight-knee walking, dynamic balance, and adaptive capabilities to complex terrain, supported by the team’s self-developed advanced “cerebellum” technology and high-speed motion control model. This demonstrated its high-speed, stable movement capabilities, reaching a new level of performance.
Westwood Robotics Released its New Full-size Humanoid Robot, THEMIS Gen2.5
On January 26, Westwood Robotics released its new full-size humanoid robot, THEMIS Gen2.5. THEMIS is 1.6 meters tall, weighs 36.5 kilograms, has a payload capacity of 15 kilograms, integrates 44 active degrees of freedom, and is equipped with a fully self-developed AOS humanoid robot operating system.
Fauna Robotics Launched its Humanoid Robot Sprout
On January 27, New York-based Fauna Robotics launched Sprout, a lightweight, interactive humanoid robot platform designed for environments shared with humans. Available as a “developer edition,” Sprout is positioned as a developer platform for researchers and creators, aiming to help them explore applications in retail, entertainment, and home services without “addressing fundamental issues such as hardware and low-level control.”
