Humanoids

Explore the humanoid robots we track.

Read each robot report, see how its system works, and check what has been demonstrated or deployed.

Systems

How a humanoid works.

Every humanoid runs the same six-part loop: it senses, understands, predicts, acts, controls and learns. What differs is how much of that loop its maker has actually named.

Senses

Turns cameras, audio and touch into one picture

  • Model not named

Understands

Works out what the job is

  • Helix System 2

Predicts

Not disclosed

  • Not disclosed

Acts

Chooses the movement and the grasp

  • Helix System 1
  • +1

Controls

Keeps the body balanced while it works

  • Helix System 0

Learns

Improves the models between runs

  • Model not named

What it learns feeds back into the models before the next run.

Figure uses a three-layer system: one layer understands the job, one turns everything the robot sees and feels into movement, and one handles fast balance and actuator control.

  • SensesConfirmed, model not named
  • UnderstandsModel publicly namedHelix System 2
  • PredictsNot disclosed
  • ActsModel publicly namedHelix System 1 · Helix locomotion within the full-body policy
  • ControlsModel publicly namedHelix System 0
  • LearnsConfirmed, model not named

Named = the vendor has named the model for this robot. Partner = supplied technology. Confirmed but unnamed stays unnamed, and undisclosed stays undisclosed — adjacent vendor research is never counted as this robot’s system.

Directory

All humanoids

Every humanoid we track, whether or not a full report has been published yet. Filter by status, morphology and evidence floor.

Reports
12
Tracking
12
Vendors
12
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Latest robot changes

What changed recently.

Dated, sourced changes on the robots we track. Each line links to the original report and to ours.

Vendors

Who builds these machines.

We track 12 vendors behind the humanoids in this section. A few of the most active are below.

  • 1X1 machine tracked
  • Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics)1 machine tracked
  • Apptronik1 machine tracked
  • Boston Dynamics1 machine tracked
  • Figure AI1 machine tracked
  • Fourier Intelligence1 machine tracked

Learn

Learn the body and the brain.

Two plain-English routes into the hardware and the intelligence behind every machine in this section.

Ready to judge capability?

Compare the same machines on forty measures and see how much evidence supports each score.