Monthly evidence digest
Humanoid Robot Market Snapshot — May 2025
10 dated items in our coverage for May 2025.
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market.
Built (UTC) · Latest record date: 2025-05-29
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Notable by recorded evidence
The latest 10 matching items: deployments at E3 or higher in pilot, commercial or production stages (excluding order/capacity rows); official price-history records; and timeline resolutions marked met or slipped. Sorted by record date, then stable record ID. No editorial scoring.
No dated items meet this rule in our coverage for this month.
Robot announcements (4)
Robot announced date. Year-only and unknown dates are excluded.
- Announcement
Hugging Face HopeJR announced →
Announcement date recorded for Hugging Face HopeJR.
- Announcement
Zerith H1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Zerith H1.
- Announcement
Atomrobot Tianbing-1 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Atomrobot Tianbing-1.
Sources (10)
- Atomrobot (阿童木机器人) official website ↗
- 阿童木 launches iterated humanoid 天兵一号 ATOM01 (IT之家 report, reprinted by Phoenix Tech) ↗
- Tianbing No. 1 parallel-waist showcase in Tianjin (Science and Technology Daily) ↗
- 不炫技,重落地:一支机器人IPO军团在天津崛起 (Tianjin robotics IPO feature) ↗
- Tianbing AR-H1 current product listing ↗
- Atomrobot launches Tianjin's first humanoid robot Tianbing-1 ↗
- Atomrobot presents Tianbing-1 ATOM01 at the 2026 High-Tech Innovation Development Conference ↗
- Atomrobot says Tianbing-1 has achieved external sales and actual use ↗
- Tianbing-1 second-generation product sheet ↗
- SkyBot AR-H1 official product page ↗
- Announcement
Kepler K2 announced →
Announcement date recorded for Kepler K2.
Sources (7)
- Kepler official website ↗
- Kepler Robotics showcases K2 Bumblebee at ICRA 2025 ↗
- Kepler announces mass production of its K2 Bumblebee ↗
- China's humanoid robot start-ups race to scale before Tesla arrives ↗
- Kepler K2 completes eight-hour livestream at WAIC 2025 ↗
- Kepler K2 moves into mass production ↗
- Kepler K2 Bumblebee Humanoid Robot ↗
Documented catalog additions (0)
News publication date for an explicit robot record creation (field record, from null). One earliest addition per robot; specification additions do not qualify.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Price-history records (0)
Each dated priceHistory entry, including initial prices, targets and subscriptions. An entry does not necessarily establish an amount change.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
New deployment records (1)
Start date; if absent, the earliest month-dated source publication as a disclosure date. Counts are records, not deployed units. Stage and evidence describe the current ledger at this build.
| Stage | E0 | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pilot | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Commercial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ended | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Deployment start
Mech (Dexterity; described by the maker as an industrial superhumanoid) · Sagawa Express →
pilot · E2 · unknown units basis. Dexterity's release, published on 22 October 2025, retrospectively dates Mech's on-site operational validation at Sagawa's X Frontier center to May 2025 and includes a Sagawa representative's confirmation. Earlier benchmark testing took place at Dexterity's own facilities and is not a measured outcome from Tokyo. No paid deployment terms or robot count are disclosed.
Timeline claims stated (0)
Claim statedAt date, never its future target date.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Timeline claims resolved (0)
Claim resolvedAt date with a recorded non-pending outcome. Statements and resolutions are separate dated items.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Market figures published (1)
PublishedAt date for estimates, forecasts, company reports, capacity and funding, retaining each kind and metric. Figures are never summed.
- Figure publication
Morgan Stanley Research: forecast · installed base →
global · period 2050. Body and key takeaways say more than one billion humanoids in use by 2050; the standfirst says nearly one billion. Value records the one-billion threshold, not annual shipments.
Sources (1)
Policy timeline events (1)
Each policy timeline entry's date; future effective dates do not enter a month-to-date report.
- Policy timeline event
ISO/CD 25785-1: New project approved. →
INTL · ISO/TC 299 — Robotics
Security advisories disclosed (0)
DisclosedAt date, not vendor response or verification dates.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Models released / introduced (2)
Model released date; this can be an announcement or paper introduction, not necessarily public weights.
- Model release / introduction
Hume →
Hume combines value-guided VLA action selection with a faster reactive denoising policy, demonstrated on WidowX, Franka Panda and AgiBot G-1. The repository uses MIT for its own material and retains separate terms for inherited code and models; a complete checkpoint license is not established.
- Model release / introduction
Isaac GR00T N1.5 →
GR00T N1.5 uses a grounding-tuned Eagle 2.5 backbone and a flow-matching action transformer, with real-robot evaluations on Fourier GR-1 and Unitree G1. Its published checkpoint is labeled 3B; weights use NVIDIA OneWay Noncommercial License terms and code uses Apache-2.0.
Sources (5)
- GR00T-N1.5-3B model card ↗
- NVIDIA Powers Humanoid Robot Industry With Cloud-to-Robot Computing Platforms for Physical AI ↗
- GR00T N1.5: model, training mixture and real-robot evaluations ↗
- Isaac GR00T official repository: model versions and code licensing ↗
- NVIDIA OneWay Noncommercial License (22 March 2022) ↗
Datasets released (0)
Dataset released date, retaining its publisher's release scope.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Competition result files (0)
Result date for competition benchmarks only. One edition/run file, not one count per competitor; event dates may precede result publication.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
News articles published (0)
PublishedAt's own calendar date, not the updatedAt or verification date. One count per article.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Task evidence records (1)
Each capability item's date, with evidence type and source-stated autonomy retained.
Calendar events started (0)
Event ledger start date. Future events are excluded until that date; these are calendar records, not a new-event announcement count.
No month-dated records in our coverage.
Method and coverage limits
Computed from dated records in our ledgers; counts reflect our coverage, not the whole market. Month buckets use the record’s own date string, including an article’s written timezone date. We never convert it to another timezone. Month-precision dates are retained; year-only and unknown dates cannot be assigned to a month. Exact dates after the build date are excluded, including future dates within the current month.
Verification dates are not announcements, releases or record-creation dates and do not enter these totals. The catalog has no addedAt field: only explicit robot record creations documented in news count as additions. A robot can appear in both announcements and additions; totals count dated ledger items, not unique robots or independent market events.
Deployments without a start date use the earliest source publication with month precision as a disclosure date, visibly labelled on the item. Undated deployments are excluded. Evidence grades and stages describe the current ledger, so a later verification or reclassification may change a past report’s breakdown.
These pages are generated from current records at each build, including past months. They are not frozen quarterly vintages or a census. Linked records retain qualifications, source attribution and unknowns. A missing item does not establish that nothing happened in the market.
Detail pages are generated for months with at least five dated items, plus the current month to date. Sparse past months are summarised by year on the archive. A current month with fewer than five items is noindex; only generated indexable months appear in the sitemap and Atom feed. Sitemap lastmod uses the latest dated item in that month, preserving month precision when no exact day is known. The Atom feed’s updated date is the UTC build date because every digest is regenerated.