// Unofficial Tracker · Every Robot · Every Demo
The machines are learning to walk, work and live among us. We track every humanoid on Earth — Tesla, Boston Dynamics, Figure, Unitree, 1X and the whole robot race.
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01 // The Race
Car makers, AI labs and startups on three continents are sprinting to put a working humanoid in every factory — then every home. The numbers are going vertical.
Robots at Beijing Games 2026
Teams competing worldwide
Walker S2 units mass-built
Units/year — Tesla's target
The new generation ditches scripted routines for end-to-end neural nets: cameras in, motor commands out. They learn skills from video like we do.
Tendon-driven fingers, 22+ degrees of freedom, tactile skin. The hand is the hardest problem in robotics — and it's falling fast.
Humanoids already move totes, sort cells and load machines at Tesla, BMW, GXO and Foxconn plants. The job market for robots is open.
1X ships NEO to real households. Laundry, dishes, tidying — the first consumer humanoids are literally taking orders today.
Silicon Valley has the AI models; Shenzhen has the supply chain and state backing. Both sides are shipping. Nobody is slowing down.
Beijing now hosts the World Humanoid Robot Games — sprints, kickboxing, dance. Machines set records; some burst into flames. We watch it all.
02 // The Contenders
The full grid of the humanoid race. Tap any robot to watch its flagship footage right here.
Tesla
The mass-production bet: built like a car, trained like FSD, targeted at millions of units per year.
Boston Dynamics
The legend, reborn fully electric. Moves in ways human bodies can't — 360-degree joints included.
Figure AI
Powered by the Helix vision-language-action model. Unloads dishwashers, folds laundry, learns on the fly.
Unitree Robotics
The $16K athlete. Backflips, kung-fu kicks and the smoothest running gait in the game — updated monthly.
1X Technologies
The first humanoid you can actually order for your house. Soft-bodied, quiet, built to live with humans.
Apptronik
Austin's answer: swappable batteries, friendly face, Mercedes and GXO deals already signed.
Agility Robotics
The warehouse veteran — 100,000+ totes moved in real logistics operations. Backwards knees, forward thinking.
UBTECH
First humanoid mass-delivered by the thousand. Hot-swaps its own battery and never clocks out.
XPeng
So lifelike the internet accused it of being a person in a suit. Solid-state battery, catwalk gait, 2026 production.
EngineAI
The $13.7K acrobat that landed the world's first humanoid front flip. Shenzhen's dark horse.
Fourier
The soft one: a care robot built for warmth, companionship and eye contact instead of factory shifts.
| Robot | Maker | Height | Weight | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimus | Tesla | ~1.73 m | ~57 kg | Factory work, pilot production |
| Atlas | Boston Dynamics | ~1.50 m | ~89 kg | Factory pilots |
| Figure 03 | Figure AI | ~1.68 m | ~60 kg | Home + logistics pilots |
| G1 | Unitree | ~1.32 m | ~35 kg | On sale (~$16K) |
| NEO | 1X | ~1.68 m | ~30 kg | Shipping to homes |
| Apollo | Apptronik | ~1.73 m | ~72 kg | Factory pilots |
| Digit | Agility Robotics | ~1.75 m | ~65 kg | Deployed in warehouses |
| Walker S2 | UBTECH | ~1.76 m | ~76 kg | Mass production (1,000+) |
| IRON | XPeng | ~1.78 m | ~70 kg | Production ramp 2026 |
| PM01 | EngineAI | ~1.38 m | ~40 kg | On sale (~$13.7K) |
| GR-3 | Fourier | ~1.65 m | ~71 kg | Care & companionship |
03 // Skills Lab
Forget the brand wars — this is the scoreboard that matters. One skill at a time, the machines are catching up to us.
04 // The Brains
Hardware is only half the race. Vision-language-action models — robot GPTs — are what turned clumsy mannequins into workers. These are the big three.
05 // The Arena
Highlights from the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — 2,000+ machines, real records, glorious chaos.
06 // Crash Reel
A decade of faceplants, sparks and one robot on fire. Every wipeout here taught the next generation how to stand.
07 // History Vault
Before the race there were pioneers. Pay your respects.
08 // Deep Dives
When you have more than three minutes: documentaries and field tests from inside the race.
09 // News Wire
Live scanner across the entire humanoid race — auto-refreshes while you watch. Each headline links to the original article.
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10 // Mission Log
A quarter century of machines learning to walk.
2000
Honda's little astronaut becomes the first humanoid the world falls in love with. It could walk, wave and pour a drink — decades ahead of its time.
2013
Boston Dynamics unveils hydraulic Atlas for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Years of parkour, flips and viral videos follow.
2021
Elon announces the Tesla Bot with a dancer in spandex. The internet laughs — and the entire car industry quietly starts humanoid programs.
2023
Figure, 1X, Apptronik and Unitree all show working prototypes. Venture money floods in; the race goes global.
2024
Boston Dynamics retires hydraulics and goes all-electric. Tesla fields dozens of Optimus units serving drinks at We, Robot.
2025
Optimus works Tesla's lines, Digit passes 100,000 totes, UBTECH mass-delivers Walker S2 by the thousand. Deployment stops being a demo.
2026
Beijing hosts 2,000+ robots at the World Humanoid Robot Games while 1X ships NEO into real homes. The race hits the mainstream.