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Humanoid robots had a lot of wins and losses in 2025, and 2026 could be a major turning point for this technology if the companies developing them can find solutions to some big problems. Read more about the future of humanoid robots in 2026: 2026 and the Rise of Humanoid Robots: Looking at Trust, Privacy…

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Humanoid robots had a lot of wins and losses in 2025, and 2026 could be a major turning point for this technology if the companies developing them can find solutions to some big problems.

Read more about the future of humanoid robots in 2026:
2026 and the Rise of Humanoid Robots: Looking at Trust, Privacy and the Future of Work

0:00 Intro: Big Plans and Major Hurdles for 2026
0:25 The First Challenge: Safety
0:46 The Danger of Hard Bodies and Pinch Points
1:18 Solution: Padding and Clothing for Home Robots (Neo, Figure 3)
1:42 Major Challenges: Privacy and Trust
1:46 The Privacy Risk of Teleoperation (1X Neo)
2:46 How Robot Design Builds Trust (Eyes and Communication)
3:38 The Uncanny Valley and Hyper-Realistic Robots
4:13 3 Ways Companies Can Generate Public Trust
4:44 The Challenge of Autonomy and Data Sharing
5:06 Humanoid Robots and the Future of the Labor Market
6:05 Global Competition and Conclusion

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  1. @Jack-c3l2w

    December 14, 2025 at 10:10 am

    I want BB-8

  2. @TheLegendOfNiko

    December 14, 2025 at 10:48 am

    Automation has already taken over the computer sciences (software and data science). I know so may people with advanced degrees that are unemployed right now due to these darned machines / automation.

  3. @urbanstrencan

    December 14, 2025 at 10:59 am

    Skynet is coming 😅😅

    • @donkalzone6671

      December 14, 2025 at 5:09 pm

      Don’t look at Rokos Basilisk and Shoggoth🦎

  4. @w6263

    December 14, 2025 at 11:38 am

    iROBOT!

  5. @thenotoriousgryyn342

    December 14, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    So Many Scardy Cats in these comments, OH NO HERE COMES BIG BAD ROBOT COMMING TO GET ME😢
    LOL!! Embrace The Future and Progress it will bring, Awesome Things are in-store for Humanity, I look forward to interacting with many Robots, The Future looks Fantastic 👍
    But, if you Cry Babies don’t want be a part of it, perhaps you should move secluded islands, where you can implement no Tech Zones, and live out your lives in ancient fear, while the rest of The World moves on without you 🧐🤖

  6. @Ali.Sohar.82

    December 14, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    دمار البشريه مستقبلآ

  7. @howlinhauler

    December 14, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    humanoid robots will take over. why? decause humans are flawed, untrustworthy and dangerous. Hurting each other in the name of religion, greed and ego. 😢

    • @samanthajones4877

      December 14, 2025 at 3:10 pm

      Bingo

    • @maximusasauluk7359

      December 14, 2025 at 5:58 pm

      Not anytime soon, the way AI is designed right now making incapable of having true independent thought. AGI will take a while simply because all current architectures (GPT, Gemini, etc) use what in a decade or more will be considered “legacy”. No one knows how long that will take but robots are coming sooner than true general intelligence.

  8. @Eli-b5d6c

    December 14, 2025 at 1:04 pm

    They pick up object of the floor like old people. They really have to put a lot effort into it.

  9. @fluxcapacitor

    December 14, 2025 at 1:31 pm

    3:41 Humanoid robots should look like droids from Star Wars, not replicants from Blade Runner.

  10. @AAAAAA-tj1nq

    December 14, 2025 at 2:08 pm

    I will be clank clank clank

  11. @user-tx9zg5mz5p

    December 14, 2025 at 2:10 pm

    Humans need to unionize against a.i. and robots before it’s too late

  12. @nooahchannel

    December 14, 2025 at 2:37 pm

    Good video.

  13. @georgiawilliams9621

    December 14, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    Wasn’t ‘Westworld’ about robots? “Runaway” Blade Runner” “Short Circuit” All are movies about robots. Best thing to do is get rid of robots.

  14. @geoms6263

    December 14, 2025 at 2:57 pm

    Top Challenges Human Face in 2026 . AI takes Full Control

  15. @jasonshere

    December 14, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    1:13 Don’t finger the robots.

  16. @mouazaljamil2276

    December 14, 2025 at 3:37 pm

    I need 5 or probably 10 of these 🎉

  17. @Royce16727

    December 14, 2025 at 3:48 pm

    Remember, the Space Pope says: “Don’t. Date. Robots.” But, knowing myself, it’s probably only a matter of time. Lol

  18. @pazzariatv

    December 14, 2025 at 4:18 pm

    Bring it. I hate doing the dishes and I hate cleaning the house.

    For privacy concerns….

    I mean, really…..

    What do these companies care what is in your home?

    If there was ever a serious scandal, that made the news, it would ruin said company.

    So, likely, they want to take every precaution to avoid that altogether.

  19. @e.v.k.3632

    December 14, 2025 at 4:24 pm

    I want a robot as soon as possible
    But only if it is useful

  20. @johnbarry3541

    December 14, 2025 at 4:46 pm

    How many falls can they withstand?

  21. @BigO1108

    December 14, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    Humanoid robots really are an impractical design

    • @smittyvanjagermanjenson182

      December 14, 2025 at 5:57 pm

      Not really. Yes, a single purpose machine, built for one linerar task will always beat a humanoid robots at the same task, but a single purpose machine loses every time against a humanoid robots, as soon as you ask it to do something different. A versatile machine is what a humanoid robot is.

    • @BigO1108

      December 14, 2025 at 6:19 pm

      @smittyvanjagermanjenson182 The overall kinesthetics of humanoids, aren’t that practical or efficient. There are much better forms to give a robot that are good for all tasks rather than a human (and less scary). Think Wall-E design

  22. @yuglobalcitizen2246

    December 14, 2025 at 5:51 pm

    Neo sucks, why even mention neo here? All other chinese bots r way better than neo. Tesla is the best

  23. @ddw6523

    December 14, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    3 rules of robotics should be programmed every Robot & AI. Issac azmov was a head of his time!!

  24. @wel2myworld

    December 14, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    Men i love machines taking mundane work, but if it don’t work out I have my own contingency plan (I could tell you my plan but if I did they would be listening right) 😂

  25. @Ray__E

    December 14, 2025 at 8:08 pm

    Why would anyone with common sense want one of these things around them constantly? This is inevitably going to be a disaster, especially having one in your house

  26. @cyberen

    December 15, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I wouldn’t worry about robots conquering humanity if they can barely carry dishes.

  27. @Vlican

    December 15, 2025 at 8:48 am

    5:12 because hiring a person to do these menial tasks costs a lot. i’d rather pay $20K for a robot that does this for several years (lifespan of a vehicle perhaps) than pay $50K annually for some human to do it. if you think otherwise, put your money where your mouth is.

    • @leonari

      December 15, 2025 at 5:55 pm

      Exactly.

  28. @FortuneOnyeachonam-ps4zw

    December 15, 2025 at 9:02 am

    The bots are coming

  29. @citogrid

    December 15, 2025 at 9:02 am

    this video might be appropriate to make in a decade or so, when these bots “might” do some sort of acceptable tasks. You equate marketing videos with reality… Very poorly researched.

    • @leonari

      December 15, 2025 at 5:57 pm

      You have no clue how fast the tech will advance. None of you are the one who is clueless. You watch them robots do dance and king fu and go: that’s useless! And it is. But that will change fast. Very fast.

    • @citogrid

      December 15, 2025 at 7:24 pm

      @leonari could be, we’ll see. if tesla can’t get level 4 driving with basically 3 degrees of freedom, how do you think 21 or 24 degrees of freedom will be for the robots, any ideas? logic does matter. there is great progress in robotics, but when you dig a little beyond the obvious, you’ll find that there’s many years of development and several paradigm shifts still needed.

  30. @jbird4478

    December 15, 2025 at 10:02 am

    Tesla 2010: Next year we’ll have self driving cars
    Tesla 2011: Next year we’ll have self driving cars
    Tesla 2012: Next year we’ll have self driving cars

    Tesla 2025: Next year we’ll have -self driving cars- super intelligence.

  31. @DCtennisfan

    December 15, 2025 at 10:39 am

    Biggest problem they’ll face… they’re freaking creepy and there’s no guardrails in place to keep them from spying on us for their makers.

  32. @fishshipemployee

    December 15, 2025 at 12:34 pm

    There is been a craze about humanoid robots recently due to two factors: one is the AI hype, people now are more prone to believe they will be able to perform the tasks we tell them to. The other are advancements in manufacturing of sensors and actuators that made bipedal walking possible. The problem is, the humanoid form is not the most effective for most use cases, while for sure is the most complex and expensive way of locomotion. And AI has proven to be not that smart and not capable of performing real life tasks when they deviate a bit from their training data. Much of what we have been seeing are just RC controlled animatronics.

    • @leonari

      December 15, 2025 at 5:54 pm

      You are clueless about what’s coming. Maybe not in 2026 but it’s coming.

  33. @CNET

    December 15, 2025 at 1:04 pm

    Read more about the future of humanoid robots on CNET.com: 2026 and the Rise of Humanoid Robots: Looking at Trust, Privacy and the Future of Work

  34. @hayatojp1249

    December 15, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    put arnolds face already

  35. @aadityachourasia2124

    December 15, 2025 at 2:21 pm

    There should be a law that humanoid robots cannot have face

    • @menliwi

      December 15, 2025 at 8:08 pm

      why?

  36. @josejesusamayz2495

    December 15, 2025 at 2:42 pm

    Buen audio en español

  37. @TroyArn

    December 15, 2025 at 2:50 pm

    any robot not air-gapped will spy. any updates should be manually delivered by USB.

  38. @abidd

    December 15, 2025 at 2:53 pm

    I just can’t see home robots happening for a very long time, if ever. There is alway another seemingly insurmountable problem popping up. Security, privacy, and the complexity and diversity of the home tasks, and until a comment in the posts, I had never even considered toddlers. But think: before anyone could react I could see a 4 year old run and grab a robot around the legs (as they do with us) and then down would go robot and toddler, and anything the robot was carrying would be fall on top of the toddler! It is seeming like more and more that this idea of a home robot (slave) is just hype to get funding from gullible investors! The same with AI. Which outside of the office seems to have no useful purpose. Unless you like AI slop videos. Or want to be constantly told how smart you are or how much your AI companion loves you!

  39. @Steve-racer

    December 15, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    There is no future, unless you’re talking, maybe 100 years from now

  40. @stickynorth

    December 15, 2025 at 4:56 pm

    Universal Basic Income = Socialism. So why not just cut to the chase now? Socialism is the future…

  41. @stickynorth

    December 15, 2025 at 4:57 pm

    We are going to be entering the Ready Player One enter soon enough where people in India, Philippines, etc. who already do call centre work are pressed into more active labor rolls via tele-operated robotics… I see McJob’s being McOutsourced soon enough via these contraptions..

  42. @Tojoj22

    December 15, 2025 at 4:58 pm

    As long as the robots are not nosey I’m ok with it

  43. @Mr_Fahrenheit_200

    December 15, 2025 at 5:24 pm

    If they ever reach the market, people will but them. For about 10 minutes.

    Then realise that they have a walking, seeing, listening device connected to a random company in their home. It can: set fire to your house, flood your house, kill a pet or a child, record your most private life and capture all your data.

    All because you don’t want to load the dishwasher? 😂

  44. @CRASS2047

    December 15, 2025 at 5:37 pm

    Like AI, there will be a bubble. I doubt there will be a truly autonomous robot widely available for a decade. Probably 30-40 years before they can come close to passing as humans

  45. @js6728

    December 15, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    super computers can reach 37*0^90 and probably faster better, been a couple of years, and couple more… they are doing the dishes, everynight, without breaking a single thing, and probably in a couple years from then, you would never worry it would have many accidents with dishes…

  46. @austin4700

    December 15, 2025 at 6:34 pm

    Were not in the future untill everything is crome.

  47. @musicover5

    December 15, 2025 at 6:39 pm

    Remote control is a huge no go

  48. @hardheadjarhead

    December 15, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    The hype is just ridiculous. I’ll be surprised if anybody actually finds these useful in the next 15 years.

    AI can’t even take your order at a drive-through restaurant.

  49. @aknetworkedit

    December 15, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I can’t believe you featured the NEO robot, its a scam.

  50. @maximthefox

    December 15, 2025 at 7:46 pm

    I don’t think there are any humanoid robots currently in operation working autonomously. All humanoid robots that currently exist have pretty limited capability scripted movements that are slow and barely productive, or are directly human controlled. Humanoid robots have a long way to go before they’re genuinely being used in a productive capacity or as house assistants. I predict the end of 2027 we will see legitimate autonomous and useful humanoid robots.

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