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Humanoid robots are going through what electric vehicles experienced in China about ten years ago: a boom fueled by policy and capital. Most startups will not survive the funding winter that follows. Those who know the patterns from the EV market have a much better chance. Key takeaways The humanoid robot market follows a double-peak cycle: hype bubble, funding winter, then a sustainable breakthrough. Investors watching the Chinese market expect more than 90% of today's rob

A robot may look like a single machine, but mechanically it is made up of a wide range of components – each with its own requirements. And with them comes a surprisingly diverse selection of materials: steel, aluminium, titanium, carbon-fibre composites, engineering plastics, elastomers, copper, ceramics and more. There is a reason for this diversity: every material has its strengths, and the right choice depends on what a particular component needs to achieve. Material selec

The robotics community is fighting a duel. On one side stands imitation learning, on the other reinforcement learning. But anyone who reads the 2026 debate as a pure algorithm contest misses the actual story: the bottleneck isn't the learning method — it's the data. Imitation learning vs. reinforcement learning: what is the debate about? Imitation learning is a method in which a human teleoperates the robot and the model clones the demonstrated behavior. The upside: no reward

Six practical efficiency gains, backed by IFR data and peer-reviewed research — not vendor hype. Robotic industrial arms improve manufacturing efficiency by working continuously without fatigue, holding sub-millimetre precision across every cycle, cutting defects and rework, and freeing skilled staff for higher-value tasks. Peer-reviewed research links their adoption to measurable gains in labour productivity — on a par with earlier general-purpose technologies like the steam

In early June 2026, a Robot Valley delegation traveled to Guangzhou — to the trade show floor, the conference stage, the factory halls, and the university. We didn't come back with souvenirs. We came back with five observations that matter to every robotics company in Saxony. There are two ways to talk about China's robotics market. One runs on numbers, market share, and threat scenarios. The other emerges when you spend a week on the ground, standing in production halls, deb

Humanoid robots dominate tech feeds, investor decks, and trade show floors. But how far are they really from actual deployment in manufacturing? At the first Sino-German Roundtable on Embodied AI and Robotics, we brought together 130+ companies, research institutions, and end users from China and Germany to discuss exactly that. Here are the most honest answers we heard. 1. The factory doesn't care about the demo reel What moves a project to budget approval isn't the most imp

Ein Dresdner Pilotprojekt zeigt, wie produzierende KMU Cobots flexibel und kosteneffizient einsetzen können — ohne Investitionsrisiko, ohne Lock-in. Was dahintersteckt und was das für Ihren Betrieb bedeutet.