CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his Monday keynote.
Of these, Agility’s Digit also showed up alongside a miniature conveyer belt at a closed-access Nvidia booth. It was a nice return for the bipedal robot, an older form of which appeared at CES 2020 as part of Ford’s showcase.
Beyond this, humanoid representation has largely been limited to smaller companies, with the exception of Apptronik. The Austin firm’s Apollo robot made an appearance as part of Texas Instruments’ presence at the show. The humanoid utilizes some of the Dallas-based semiconductor giant’s modules internally.
After a few near misses, this was the first time…