Top 10 most popular robotics stories of 2025 - The Robot Report
The Robot Report # Top 10 most popular robotics stories of 2025 By Brianna Wessling | In 2025, we saw big changes in the robotics industry. The fates of some well-known players in the ecosystem are uncertain, while other prominent companies are charting the...
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The most recent headlines on humanoid robots focus on a wave of new deployments and AI partnerships announced at CES 2026 and in early‑January 2026. Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics unit unveiled a production‑ready version of the Atlas humanoid, slated to begin work in its Savannah, Georgia “Metaplant” factory in 2028, initially handling repetitive parts‑sequencing tasks before moving to more complex assembly by 2030. At the same event, Boston Dynamics announced a strategic collaboration with Google DeepMind to embed DeepMind’s foundation‑model AI into the next‑generation Atlas, aiming to give the robot more human‑like perception and interaction capabilities. Nvidia highlighted its new Gr00t vision‑language model and Cosmos reasoning model, describing them as the “ChatGPT moment” for robots and promising human‑level capabilities later this year. Italy’s Generative Bionics introduced Gene.01, a humanoid backed by AMD’s GPUs for industrial use such as shipyard work, while LG debuted its home‑focused CLOiD robot that can fold towels and load washing machines. China’s rapid scaling of humanoid production was noted in an Omdia report, which projects the global market for general‑purpose embodied‑intelligence robots to reach 2.6 million units by 2035, driven by Chinese volume manufacturing and U.S. AI advances. Together, these developments signal a shift from prototype showcases to scaled pilot deployments of humanoid robots across manufacturing, logistics and consumer spaces.
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Top 10 most popular robotics stories of 2025
By Brianna Wessling |
In 2025, we saw big changes in the robotics industry. The fates of some well-known players in the ecosystem are uncertain, while other prominent companies are charting their own paths for the first time. Between advances in humanoid robotics, exciting events, and large robot orders, there was no shortage of news to cover this past year.
Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in 2025. Subscribe to The Robot ReportNewsletter or listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay up to date on the robotics developments you need to know about.
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