There have been frequent developments in the humanoid robot field lately, and after reading several pieces of news, it really feels like this sector is accelerating.

Starting with domestic news, Morgan Stanley conducted a survey that yielded some pretty striking results—62% of Chinese companies said they might adopt humanoid robots in the next three years. Zhiyuan is also making impressive strides; on December 8th, their 5,000th general-purpose embodied robot will roll off the production line, which is quite a pace. Things are even more ambitious in Beijing, where they're planning to set up the world's first national-level humanoid robot training and competition base in the Olympic Center area. They also plan to host the World Humanoid Robot Games in 2026, and they're already soliciting event proposals.

There’s plenty of activity overseas as well. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang recently expressed that he’s “incredibly excited” about Musk’s ongoing robot project. Figure also flexed their muscles by releasing a demo video of their F.03 humanoid robot running; reportedly, the controller uses an onboard neural network developed by their own Helix team.

With all these moves, it feels like the transition of humanoid robots from concept to real-world application is happening much faster than expected.