{ "segment": "asia-other-oceania", "companies": [ { "company": "Awakening Health", "hq_country": "Hong Kong", "website": "https://www.awakening.health/", "humanoid_product": "Grace — humanoid healthcare and eldercare assistant co-developed with Hanson Robotics", "founded_year": 2020, "source_url": "https://singularity.studio/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Joint venture explicitly identified by its parent as developing Grace and as Hong Kong based. Launch year: https://medium.com/singularitynet/singularity-studio-and-hanson-robotics-launch-new-healthcare-robotics-venture-awakening-health-75a1ccc5f191 . Independent research-user confirmation: https://ri.hkust.edu.hk/zh-hant/node/325 . Borderline because a qualifying mobile base is not established in these sources, and hardware overlaps Hanson’s Sophia platform. Historical website; current standalone operating status not verified." }, { "company": "Hanson Robotics", "hq_country": "Hong Kong", "website": "https://www.hansonrobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "Sophia Utility — expressive humanoid research and service platform with optional mobile base", "founded_year": 2007, "source_url": "https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia-utility", "include": "yes", "note": "Official product page offers optional self-charging mobile bases and research/commercial use; this is the qualifying configuration. Founding and relocation from Dallas to Hong Kong: https://www.hansonrobotics.com/about/ . Site is JavaScript-rendered; product and company text were also confirmed in its served application bundle. Grace is separately recorded under joint venture Awakening Health; avoid double-counting the same robots." }, { "company": "Rice Robotics", "hq_country": "Hong Kong", "website": "https://www.ricerobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "TOMO — wheeled humanoid for reading, STEM education and school assistance", "founded_year": 2019, "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1998560/000121390026109602/ea030871801ex99-1.htm", "include": "borderline", "note": "October 2026 launch by Rice Robotics (Hong Kong), an Axonex AI majority-owned joint venture. Borderline pending published height: the announcement establishes a wheeled humanoid with arms/grippers but does not establish the 60 cm threshold for an education robot. Founding/HQ for the Rice Robotics business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ricerobotics . The founding year is for the business, not necessarily the joint venture entity. Unrelated to Emage’s TomO." }, { "company": "Roborn", "hq_country": "Hong Kong", "website": "https://www.roborn.com/", "humanoid_product": "ME series — full-size motion-controlled humanoids for inspection and telepresence", "founded_year": 2017, "source_url": "https://www.roborn.com/?page_id=961", "include": "yes", "note": "Chinese name: 路邦科技. Manufacturer specifies 1:1 humanoid design, head camera and multi-purpose teleoperation, with Hong Kong address. ME-2 product listing: https://sourcing.hktdc.com/en/Product-Detail/5G-Motion-Controlled-Humanoid-Robot-1X22ZIVN . Founding year: Hong Kong government-hosted company case study, https://www.smefund.tid.gov.hk/english/sdf/deliverables/d17004009_guidebook_eng.pdf . Teleoperation counts as a robot platform, not demonstrated autonomy." }, { "company": "SMERT", "hq_country": "Hong Kong", "website": "https://smert.ai/", "humanoid_product": "Smerty / Smerty+ — wheeled two-arm home assistance humanoid prototype", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://smerty.ai/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Manufacturer claims in-house Hong Kong design, assembly and lab prototype testing; website explicitly distinguishes tested functions from planned home capabilities. Borderline pending independent public hardware demonstration; first home deliveries are advertised for March 2027, not established shipments. Founding year not published in the checked product page." }, { "company": "Robopreneur", "hq_country": "Malaysia", "website": "https://www.robopreneur.com/", "humanoid_product": "ADAM — human-sized expressive humanoid assistant prototype", "founded_year": 2015, "source_url": "https://www.robopreneur.com/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Official site identifies Robopreneur as producer of ADAM, activated in March 2019. Borderline because the sources establish an upper-body humanoid but do not establish legs or a mobile wheeled base. Founding: https://www.robopreneur.com/about-us . Do not attribute its resold Pepper, NAO or Mirokai robots to its own design." }, { "company": "Dex-Lab", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://www.dex-lab.com/", "humanoid_product": "Daisy — humanoid social robot for eldercare activities and companionship", "founded_year": 2020, "source_url": "https://www.dex-lab.com/copy-of-about", "include": "yes", "note": "Official timeline dates the start of Dex-Lab to 2020 as an NTU research-led programme, followed by Dexie in 2022 and Daisy in 2025; 2020 is programme origin, not independently verified legal incorporation. Now a company with Singapore address and its own robots. Daisy product page: https://www.dex-lab.com/about-6 ." }, { "company": "Doozy Robotics", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://www.doozyrobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "Doozy V1 / S1 (NS1) — wheeled and bipedal industrial humanoids for material handling", "founded_year": 2019, "source_url": "https://www.doozyrobotics.com/aboutus.html", "include": "borderline", "note": "Official site identifies its own humanoid systems and 2019 business origin, but also says “Launching Soon”; a completed public hardware demonstration was not independently established. Product names vary between S1 and NS1 on the same page. Product specifications: https://www.doozyrobotics.com/humanoidv1s1.html . The Singapore company’s 2021 incorporation is distinct from claimed business origin: https://recordowl.com/company/doozy-robotics-pte-ltd . Company-issued expansion release corroboration: https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/news/2026/05/21/doozy-robotics-announces-global-expansion-with-seed-funding-to-scale-physical-ai-industrial-workforce/26599/ ." }, { "company": "Emage Group", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://www.emagegroup.com/", "humanoid_product": "TomO 2.0 — dexterous industrial humanoid demonstrated at CES 2026", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://www.emagegroup.com/news/tomo2-ces2026", "include": "yes", "note": "Manufacturer describes its own prototype-to-product hardware evolution and public CES demonstration. Headquarters: https://www.emagegroup.com/about . Humanoid operation is also branded Emage TomO; treated as one programme, not two companies. Founding year of the group not verified. Unrelated to Rice Robotics’ TOMO." }, { "company": "MAJU Robotics", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://www.majurobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "EDGAR series — life-size expressive humanoids for presentations and social interaction", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://www.majurobotics.com/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Company states its team designed and built EDGAR at NTU and markets it for business/events. Borderline because the cited current page does not establish legs or a mobile wheeled base; university origins alone do not exclude the commercial spin-off. Founding year not verified; registration number is not treated as a founding date. Historical demonstrations: https://www.majurobotics.com/events.html ." }, { "company": "Menlo Research", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://menlo.ai/", "humanoid_product": "Asimov 1 — open-source full-body bipedal humanoid sold as a research/build kit", "founded_year": 2023, "source_url": "https://menlo.ai/", "include": "yes", "note": "Commercial company despite “Research” in its name; its own site sells the complete humanoid kit. Asimov 2 is marked in progress, so the evidenced product is Asimov 1. Company’s own HQ/founding profile: https://sg.linkedin.com/company/menloresearch . Design/build history: https://menlo.ai/handbook/about ." }, { "company": "Sharpa", "hq_country": "Singapore", "website": "https://www.sharpa.com/", "humanoid_product": "North / D01 — full-body humanoid and tactile dual-arm manipulation platform", "founded_year": 2024, "source_url": "https://www.sharpa.com/pages/d01", "include": "yes", "note": "Builds whole robots as well as hands. Current official D01 page gives full robot specifications and ordering; North was publicly demonstrated at CES 2026. Singapore base and 2024 founding: founder interview published by Singapore EDB, https://www.edb.gov.sg/en/business-insights/insights/bringing-dexterous-robots-to-the-world-sharpas-founder-on-why-singapore-is-the-launchpad-for-the-future-of-embodied-ai.html . Source does not establish whether D01 is simply a renamed North, so both names are retained without asserting equivalence." }, { "company": "Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn)", "hq_country": "Taiwan", "website": "https://www.foxconn.com/", "humanoid_product": "Unnamed wheeled humanoid — dual-arm industrial assembly prototype", "founded_year": 1974, "source_url": "https://www.foxconn.com/en-us/press-center/press-releases/latest-news/2044", "include": "yes", "note": "Chinese name: 鴻海科技集團. Official COMPUTEX 2026 announcement documents its demonstrated wheeled humanoid for assembly. Own bipedal and wheeled development also reported at https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/99356-foxconn-may-deploy-humanoid-robots-at-texas-assembly-plant . Group founding and Taiwan address: https://www.foxconn.com/en-us/about/group-profile . Do not count deployments of UBTECH robots as Foxconn-built units." }, { "company": "NUWA Robotics", "hq_country": "Taiwan", "website": "https://www.nuwarobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "Kebbi series — small humanoid social/education robots; larger humanoid development programme", "founded_year": 2016, "source_url": "https://www.nuwarobotics.com/en/humanoid-robots/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Chinese name: 女媧創造. Established Kebbi robots are below the 60 cm cutoff; the newer official humanoid page describes development but does not identify a completed larger model. Kebbi product: https://www.nuwarobotics.com/en/product/ ; size evidence: https://www.tsukasakeiki.co.jp/pdf/kebbi.pdf . Taipei founding in 2016: https://www.nuwarobotics.com/en/team/ ." }, { "company": "SYSCOM Computer Engineering", "hq_country": "Taiwan", "website": "https://www.syscom.com.tw/", "humanoid_product": "Ayuda — wheeled humanoid service robot for reception, guidance and healthcare", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://syscomgo.com/products/ayuda/", "include": "yes", "note": "Chinese name: 凌羣電腦. Official product page identifies in-house design and Taiwan manufacture. Manufacturer’s annual report confirms a mobile robot with movable head and hands: https://www.syscom.com.tw/investor/20160111/%E5%B9%B4%E5%A0%B1%28%E8%8B%B1%29-113.pdf . Founding year not verified in the cited product materials. Excludes the head-only Ayuda Nano variants." }, { "company": "Techman Robot", "hq_country": "Taiwan", "website": "https://www.tm-robot.com/", "humanoid_product": "TM Xplore I — wheeled humanoid for industrial and service tasks", "founded_year": 2015, "source_url": "https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/08/27/techman-robot-unveils-humanoid-prototype-aims-for-2026-launch/93937/", "include": "yes", "note": "Chinese name: 達明機器人. Publicly shown prototype; announced commercialization timetable is not proof of shipments. Founding year follows the manufacturer’s 2015 establishment statement at https://www2.tm-robot.com/en/company-profile/ rather than the article’s 2016 date. Manufacturer confirmation of continued humanoid development: https://www2.tm-robot.com/en/tm-news/ ." }, { "company": "CT Asia Robotics", "hq_country": "Thailand", "website": "https://www.dinsaw.com/", "humanoid_product": "Dinsaw Pro4 — wheeled two-arm service humanoid for healthcare and customer interaction", "founded_year": 2009, "source_url": "https://www.dinsaw.com/dinsaw-pro4-opd/", "include": "yes", "note": "Official product family includes a full-arm humanoid as well as smaller monitoring devices; inclusion is for full-size Dinsaw, not Mini alone. Manufacturer and Bangkok address: https://www.dinsaw.com/en/home-english/ . Parent’s company/product origin account: https://www.ctasia.com/about-us/ ." }, { "company": "KHONDROID", "hq_country": "Thailand", "website": "https://www.khondroid.com/", "humanoid_product": "KHR-01 Industrial / KHR-02 Healthcare — advertised full-size Thai humanoid platforms", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://www.khondroid.com/", "include": "borderline", "note": "Official site claims locally designed humanoids and lists models and a Thai address, but a dated public hardware demonstration or completed deployment was not corroborated. Retained as an unverified manufacturer claim, not a confirmed shipped robot. Founding year not published in the checked page." }, { "company": "Andromeda Robotics", "hq_country": "United States", "website": "https://andromedarobotics.ai/", "humanoid_product": "Genesis Abi — wheeled humanoid companion for aged care and assisted living", "founded_year": 2022, "source_url": "https://andromedarobotics.ai/news", "include": "borderline", "note": "Qualifying robot builder founded in Australia with Melbourne development/manufacturing; retained for regional handoff because Australian startups were requested. Geography is borderline: current company LinkedIn lists San Francisco as headquarters, https://www.linkedin.com/company/andromedarobotics . Deduplicate against the US segment. Official product: https://andromedarobotics.ai/product ." }, { "company": "TOSY Robotics", "hq_country": "Vietnam", "website": "https://www.tosyrobotics.com/", "humanoid_product": "TOPIO / TOPIO Dio — historical humanoid table-tennis and hospitality robot prototypes", "founded_year": null, "source_url": "https://www.roboticstoday.com/robots/topio-dio", "include": "borderline", "note": "Historical manufacturer, not established as an active general-purpose humanoid supplier today. TOPIO Dio is identified as a 2010 humanoid developed by Vietnam’s TOSY. Original prototype and Hanoi company: https://english.vov.vn/en/vietnam-introduces-robot-to-play-ping-pong-21394.vov . The original TOPIO had six supports; later bipedal lineage should not be confused with that version. Founding year not resolved from the cited sources." }, { "company": "VinDynamics", "hq_country": "Vietnam", "website": "https://vindynamics.net/", "humanoid_product": "Dyno — humanoid versatile assistant for security, guiding and household tasks", "founded_year": 2025, "source_url": "https://vingroup.net/en/news/detail/6948/vindynamics-debuts-its-first-humanoid-robot-at-two-of-the", "include": "yes", "note": "Official June 2026 release documents a complete robot, live demonstrations and an earlier Vinpearl Safari pilot, and states September 2025 founding. Separate Vingroup company from VinMotion and VinRobotics. Hanoi HQ: https://vindynamics.net/about-us ." }, { "company": "VinMotion", "hq_country": "Vietnam", "website": "https://vinmotion.net/", "humanoid_product": "Motion 2 — general-purpose bipedal humanoid for industrial and service deployment", "founded_year": 2025, "source_url": "https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/01/qualcomm-introduces-a-full-suite-of-robotics-technologies-power", "include": "yes", "note": "Vingroup subsidiary, distinct from VinRobotics and VinDynamics. Qualcomm documents the actual Motion 2 CES 2026 exhibit. January 2025 founding and Motion 1/2 development: Vingroup annual report, https://ircdn.vingroup.net/storage/Uploads/0_Bao%20cao%20thuong%20nien/2025/ENG%20Vingroup%20AR25.pdf . Hanoi HQ shown at https://vinmotion.net/ ." }, { "company": "VinRobotics", "hq_country": "Vietnam", "website": "https://vinrobotics.net/", "humanoid_product": "VR-H5 / VR-M3 — commercial humanoid hardware platforms for research and industrial deployment", "founded_year": 2024, "source_url": "https://vinrobotics.net/blog/vin-robotics-officially-launches-the-vin-robotics-humanoid-platform-and-open-source-ecosystem", "include": "yes", "note": "Current manufacturer announcement names VR-H5 and VR-M3 as its latest high-end and mid-range humanoids. Hanoi address on same page. End-2024 establishment and distinction from sister companies: https://vindynamics.net/about-us . 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