Companies building humanoid robots

Diligent Robotics develops Moxi hospital logistics robots. Based in Austin, Texas, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Serve Robotics on January 27, 2026.

Moxi 46

Nasdaq-listed (RR) maker of AI-driven service robots for hospitality and healthcare; best known for ADAM, a fixed-base dual-arm bartender/barista robot.

ADAM 46

World's largest EV and battery maker, exploring humanoid and service robots for its own factories and car showrooms; executives have discussed home/service robots, but BYD had not announced a publicly named humanoid model as of mid-2026.

Xiao Di 46

Taiwanese collaborative-robot maker and Quanta Computer subsidiary; unveiled its first humanoid, the wheeled TM Xplore I, with NVIDIA and Quanta Cloud Technology.

TM Xplore I 46

University of Tokyo-born startup building a 'physical AI' foundation model and humanoid fleet; signed the first mass-production MOU between an automaker and a humanoid developer, with Mitsubishi Motors.

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Embodied-AI startup (Xinghaitu) building wheeled dual-arm humanoids as a 'physical engine' platform for embodied AI research; reached a ~$1.4B valuation in Feb 2026.

Galaxea R1 Pro 44

Major South Korean electronics conglomerate; CLOiD, unveiled at CES 2026, is its first dedicated home-labor humanoid, extending its CLOi service-robot family.

CLOiD 43

Italian public research institute whose Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence lab built the iCub and ergoCub humanoid research platforms with INAIL.

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Academic lab at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (led by Prof. Tamim Asfour) that has built the ARMAR family of humanoid research robots since 2000.

ARMAR-DE 43 ARMAR-7 40 ARMAR-6 39

Japan's largest public research institute; its Humanoid Robotics Research Group built the HRP series of full-size research humanoids.

HRP-5P 42

General-purpose humanoid robotics/AI company co-founded by Dr. Harry Kloor and Ray Kurzweil, building the wheeled, teleoperated Beomni platform.

Beomni 41

Riyadh robotics/AI company building the first Saudi-made humanoid robots as part of Vision 2030 localization, partnered with UK's Humanoid for local assembly.

Saud 41 SARA 18

Founded by ex-NASA Valkyrie lead Nic Radford and former Figure AI CTO Jerry Pratt to build heavy-duty humanoids for shipyard welding and industrial fabrication.

Gen 1 39

Melbourne startup building AI-powered companion robots for aged care; its Abi robot is deployed across mecwacare aged-care homes in Australia.

Abi 39

TU Munich Roboy spin-off building 'Robody' teleoperated care avatars for elderly home care, VR-controlled with sub-200ms latency.

Robody 39

Hong Kong-based robotics company founded by American roboticist David Hanson, known for lifelike social humanoid robots using its patented Frubber skin. Its most famous creation, Sophia, became a global media and AI-marketing phenomenon after activation in 2016.

Sophia 38 Desdemona 27

Kerala deep-tech startup building humanoid robots in-house; first Indian company selected for NVIDIA's Humanoid Robotics Program.

Tara Gen 1 38

Part of the Kawada Technologies group; has built the dual-arm NEXTAGE collaborative torso robot for Japanese factory automation since 2009.

NEXTAGE Fillie 38

European research-robotics veteran whose fully electric, torque-controlled TALOS humanoid is sold to robotics labs worldwide.

REEM-C 37 TALOS 34 Kangaroo 28

World's largest automaker by volume, with a long-running Partner Robot research program. Its T-HR3 (2017) is a third-generation teleoperated humanoid research platform built to explore safe, force-feedback-based human-robot interaction rather than commercial deployment.

CUE7 35 T-HR3 23

Tokyo-founded space-robotics startup building humanoid-torso robots to replace astronauts for routine space-station and lunar-base work; partnered with JAXA.

G1 34

French open-source robotics pioneer (Inria spin-off) behind the Reachy line; acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025 to open-source hardware and software for embodied AI.

Reachy 2 34

Startup building musculoskeletal androids with synthetic water-hydraulic 'Myofiber' muscles over a polymer skeleton instead of rigid servo actuators.

Protoclone V1 34

Paris humanoid startup founded by Remi Cadene (former Tesla Optimus scientist, creator of Hugging Face's LeRobot) targeting Europe as its beachhead market.

Northstar 29

KOSDAQ-listed Korean robotics component and platform maker best known for DYNAMIXEL smart actuators; builds the open-source THORMANG humanoid research platform.

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