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RoboSense has made it back onto two key rankings in Morgan Stanley’s latest humanoid robotics report, cementing its place among the most closely watched component suppliers in the space. The report, “Humanoid Horizons: Money Meets Machines,” came out on May 7, 2026. It includes the “Humanoid 100” – a list of 100 companies that Morgan Stanley’s analysts see as holding decisive influence across humanoid robot technology, components, and applications. RoboSense appears on that list alongside names like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Alphabet. The firm also mapped China’s humanoid robot value chain, and RoboSense shows up there as well. Across both rankings,…

China’s robotics industry is no longer just a manufacturing base for overseas brands. In 2026, the country has built one of the world’s most complete robotics supply chains, covering everything from core components and motion systems to humanoid robots and industrial automation platforms. Localization rates for key robotics components now range between 70% and 85%, while Chinese companies account for more than 84% of global humanoid robot shipments. In industrial robotics, domestic brands have captured 58.5% of China’s home market, marking a major shift from the import-dependent landscape of a decade ago. For global investors and manufacturers, China’s robotics ecosystem…

A 15-page Morgan Stanley note has drawn a direct line between humanoid robots and the early days of electric vehicles. Its headline take: humanoid robots may well be the next industry catapulted forward by China, even capable of lifting the country’s global export share from 15% to 16.5%. That’s not a wild guess. The report lines up a striking comparison — the current export scale of China’s humanoid robotics sector, it says, is roughly where Chinese EV exports were in 2019. What happened next is well known: EV exports went on a tear, eventually reaching an annualized $86 billion. In…

ICRA is one of the world’s landmark events in the field of Robotics and Automation，which is a professional B2B trade fair in Central Europe focusing on industrial automation, robotics, and smart manufacturing. Its main venue is located in Wels, Upper Austria, serving as a k]y stop in the automation exhibition alliance of the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Rooted in Austria’s robust industrial base in mechanical engineering, automotive components, and metal processing, the exhibition serves as a pivotal platform connecting global suppliers with manufacturing decision-makers from Austria and neighboring countries. The exhibition comprehensively covers the entire industrial chain, including industrial…

If you want to understand why humanoid robots still aren’t common in factories, watch what happens the moment a production line shifts from a fixed sequence to something that unfolds over dozens of steps. Most models can handle the immediate decision. They can look at a scene and plan a short move. But they’re not great at imagining what the scene will look like five or ten steps later, or what could go wrong in between. That lack of foresight makes long-horizon tasks — the kind real factories are full of — surprisingly brittle. Enter Thinker-WM and the LIBERO benchmark…

What if a robot could cry with you? Not a scripted trick, but something closer to the real thing: eyes welling up, a tear slowly marking its face. That’s what Ningbo-based Yanxi Technology showed on April 29, at the company’s official launch event. The robot, called Xirui (model Yansyn-X2), is billed as the world’s first interactive emotional robot capable of actual crying. It wasn’t presented as a stunt. Behind it is a push to move affective computing and embodied intelligence from the lab into something you could one day have at home. The broader idea is simple enough. A machine…

TOKYO — On May 6, 2026, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport took on a batch of new workers that look nothing like the usual ground crew. The arrivals were humanoid robots made by Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics. For the next two years, they will be deployed to push baggage containers, move cargo and handle basic ramp tasks at one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs. At first glance the deal looks like a straightforward commercial pilot. In reality, it captures how China’s robotics industry is moving beyond lab demos and rewriting long-held assumptions about who leads in automation. Why a robotics powerhouse looked…

In the spring of 2026, a humanoid robot half‑marathon in Beijing’s E-Town may go down as a landmark moment in the history of China’s robotics industry. Honor’s robot “Lightning” crossed the finish line first in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — not only breaking the human men’s half‑marathon world record of 57 minutes and 20 seconds, but also slashing the previous year’s winning time by nearly two hours. Off the track, another piece of news was equally eye‑catching: the first domestic humanoid robot production line with an annual capacity of 10,000 units — jointly built by Leju Robots and Dongfang…

Last April, a humanoid robot ran a marathon alongside humans for the first time. This April, a robot crossed the finish line faster than any human runner. But the applause came with a familiar question: what exactly is the point of a sprinting robot if it still can’t do a real job? This time, Chinese robotics firms are offering a more pragmatic answer: If you want to work, go get an internship first. Agibot recently announced that its new A3 humanoid robot will be deployed at tourist sites through its “BotShare” platform. XSquare Robot, meanwhile, has teamed up with the…

Global Competitive Landscape: Four Paths, Four Logics From 2026 onward, the global race in humanoid robots is no longer a single‑dimension sprint of “who runs faster or jumps higher.” Instead, it is a simultaneous game of four distinct technological routes and industrial logics. Different countries have chosen different breakthrough paths based on their endowments: Japan solidifies its technological moat in precision components, the United States shifts from “showmanship” to “real‑world deployment,” China seizes the market with diverse scenarios and tiered pricing, and Europe seeks influence through standards and compliance. According to the latest research from TrendForce, China, Japan, the US,…