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The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on 14 August 2025, bringing hundreds of humanoid robots and teams from more than a dozen countries into competition across athletic, performance and workplace-style scenario events.
In July 2025 Unitree began IPO coaching with CITIC Securities and said it expected to file listing documents between October and December, against 2024 sales of 23,700 quadruped robots and 1,500 humanoid robots.
In April 2025 twenty humanoid robot teams raced a half marathon in Beijing on the same 21.0975 km course used by human runners. Tiangong Ultra won in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds.
UBTECH, a Chinese robot maker founded in 2012, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board on 29 December 2023 at HK$90 per share; the company calls itself the first humanoid robot company on the exchange.
Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO formally retired on 31 March 2022, after a final demonstration at Honda's Tokyo headquarters; Honda said it would focus on remotely controlled avatar robots instead.
On 10 April 2012 DARPA announced a challenge to build ground robots that can carry out complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-built environments, backing it with a $2 million prize and a list of tasks from driving a vehicle to closing a valve.
