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\n 05\/02\/2026 – 13:01 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n
“Humanoid robots designed for different tasks can now share a single artificial intelligence ‘brain’ that coordinates their actions across multiple locations simultaneously.”<\/p>\n
A UK-based company has unveiled an AI system that can virtually work as a \u201cshared brain\u201d for fleets of robots built for different purposes across factories, services, and homes simultaneously.<\/p>\n
Companies like Tesla, Boston Dynamics<\/a> and XPeng<\/a> have showcased humanoid robot prototypes in recent years, but these demonstrations typically feature robots operating on their own. <\/p>\n The UK firm\u2019s approach is designed to manage multiple humanoid robots together under a single AI.<\/p>\n Shared control systems are already common for industrial robots, however, applying the same approach to robots that rely on human-like movement and manipulation has been rare.<\/p>\n The AI system, called KinetIQ, can assign tasks to entire robot fleets and control individual movements simultaneously in seconds, according to Humanoid, the robotics company behind the new system.<\/p>\n Data from individual robots is shared across the system, helping improve performance fleet-wide.<\/p>\n In a video released by Humanoid, a woman asks a bipedal humanoid robot to order cocoa powder and olive oil. In the next scene, wheeled robots in a warehouse-like environment use five-fingered hands to grasp a glass bottle and a soft paper bag, and then put them in a hard container box before packing them into a paper bag.<\/p>\n Once the order reaches the home, the bipedal robot unpacks the bag and places the items as instructed by the woman\u2019s voice commands.<\/p>\n According to Humanoid, the wheeled robots seen in the video are designed for industrial use, such as back-of-store grocery picking, container handling and packing, while the bipedal robots are intended for service roles and domestic use.<\/p>\n The company describes the bipedal robot as an \u201cintelligent assistant\u201d capable of voice interaction, online ordering, and grocery handling.<\/p>\n