With the age of humanoids upon us, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that his robots will curb crime, eliminate poverty and do surgery.

Humanoid robots are leaving the lab and moving onto factory floors, performing real-world tasks alongside humans. In a new video, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas is seen performing real-world manufacturing tasks for the first time at Hyundai’s expansive auto plant near Savannah, Georgia.

Hyundai's subsidiary Boston Dynamics introduced its humanoid robot, "Atlas," at CES 2026. The company says Atlas will be trained to work in its auto plants, adopting the same strategy that Tesla is using to validate its "Optimus" humanoid.

SwitchBot says the Onero is a general-use humanoid robot designed to eliminate housework that can complete “everyday actions such as grasping, pushing, opening, and organizing, while learning to adapt across different tasks and home scenarios.”

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into reality. So far, that momentous effort has mostly produced staged performances,

Hyundai admits humanoid robots in car factories will change the nature of work—but don't expect much of an impact on prices.

From expressive robot faces to factory deployments, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid robotics.

To drive that momentum forward, Nvidia unveiled new open Nvidia Cosmos and GR00T models during its Las Vegas keynote event on Monday. The company stated that these models are designed to enable developers to allocate less time and resources to pretraining and more to building next-generation robots.

With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech companies plan on offering in 2026