For better or worse, CES 2026 is already shaping up to be a big year for humanoid robots. Chinese company Agibot showed up with two: the roughly human-sized A2 and the slightly smaller X2, both of which were displaying their surprisingly impressive dancing abilities.

Robots at CES 2026 are smarter, more helpful and more fun. Here are our favorites so far.

Gone are the days when robots fell over after three steps. Agibot is working on a unified architecture for four quite agile robot types.

A highly anticipated Russian humanoid robot's debut fell flat when the machine face-planted during a live presentation in Moscow this week. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the robot, named AIDOL, made its long-awaited introduction. In a video of the event circulating ...

TL;DR: FigureAI has developed an AI-powered walking controller for its Figure 02 humanoid robot, enhancing its movement to be more human-like with features such as heel strikes and synchronized arm swings. Trained via reinforcement learning, the system ...

A fully 3D-printed walking robot made from a single material and powered by compressed gas works without electronics or external control systems. (Nanowerk News) Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge ...

Roborock caught our eye last year when it released a robot vacuum with an arm, but at CES 2026, it's going a step further with jumping robovacs.

Before there was Arnold (or AH-nuld), there were probably things like this: robots that can walk without sensors or other special means of propulsion. What would it say if it could talk? Probably “Look ma, no motors or electricity!” The Center Lab at ...

When we think about robots, we think about complex electronic devices. We're conditioned to think about robots as sophisticated machines controlled by intricate programming and powered by advanced electronics. But a group of researchers at UC San Diego has ...

Today’s robots invite both passive and active observers into our homes and leave our data exposed to bad actors. The bar is high.

This robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the ...