Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids

Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics·2026-08-04 00:05Publish time unverified

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first couple of years of the humanoid explosion has stuck around, but there’s also been an industry-wide sobering leading to pointed questions about practicality and value.