News, intelligence, and brand coverage on the humanoid robots reshaping manufacturing, services, and daily life across the Asia-Pacific region.
Shanghai-based AGIBOT, backed by Tencent, BYD, and Baidu, has rolled out its 10,000th humanoid robot — the first company globally to reach this commercial scale. With deployments across logistics, retail, and manufacturing in China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, it marks a decisive shift from R&D prototype to real-world deployment.
Tokyo-based Kawada introduces precision assembly robot designed to work shoulder-to-shoulder with human workers on automotive and electronics lines.
Read more →South Korea's leading humanoid startup secures major growth round with Samsung as lead investor, targeting US and EU industrial deployments by Q3 2026.
Read more →The Economic Development Board announces a landmark fund to attract global humanoid manufacturers, targeting 20 new research centres by 2028.
Read more →Hangzhou-based Unitree's latest G1 model clocked 3.8 m/s at the annual Boao Forum for Asia, outpacing previous records and signalling China's lead in bipedal locomotion AI.
Read more →Built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Isaac GR00T, Techman's TM Xplore I targets smart factory deployment with vision-language-action AI — signalling Taiwan's shift from supply chain to humanoid maker.
Read more →China alone shipped 90% of all humanoid robots globally in 2025. With Japan, South Korea, and Singapore accelerating investment, APAC is the definitive centre of gravity for the next industrial revolution.
Explore APAC Brands →General-purpose humanoid manufacturer. #1 globally by shipment volume in 2025. Backed by Tencent, BYD, Baidu.
Maker of H1, G1, and B2 series. Known for best-in-class price-to-performance bipedal locomotion. Global developer community.
Pioneer in AI humanoid robots. Walker S2 deploys on BMW, JD.com production lines. IPO-listed on HKEX.
Developer of NEXTAGE and HRP series. Specialises in dual-arm cobots for precision assembly in Japan's automotive and electronics sectors.
Spinout from KAIST. RB-Y1 humanoid targets service and industrial use. Samsung-backed with global expansion underway.
Taiwan's first humanoid maker. TM Xplore I is powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Isaac GR00T, targeting smart factory automation. Partnered with Quanta Technology and NVIDIA.
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Apply for Free →Foxconn's Houston AI server plant — the world's first to deploy humanoid robots on a production line — is a template for Taiwan's own next-generation smart factories, using NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins and Isaac GR00T.
Taiwan's dominance in harmonic drives, servo motors, actuators, and NVIDIA-class chips gives its robot makers a structurally lower cost base and faster time-to-market than any other humanoid hub in APAC.
Developed by Foxconn and Kawasaki, Nurabot began real-world deployment at Taichung Veterans General Hospital — delivering medicine, carrying samples, and reducing nurse workloads by up to 30%, pioneering healthcare humanoids in Asia.
Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved a NT$10B NSTC budget plus NT$10B National Development Fund to build a national robotics ecosystem — targeting NT$50B in service robot output and establishing R&D hubs in Tainan by 2028.
Humanoid APAC was founded to fill a critical gap: as Asia drives the global humanoid robot revolution, there was no dedicated editorial platform covering it. We bridge that gap — delivering original news, brand intelligence, market data, and trend analysis for the APAC humanoid ecosystem.
We cover China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Southeast Asia — the markets where humanoid robots are being built, deployed, and scaled faster than anywhere else on Earth.
