Humanoids, which move like humans and are equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) brains, swept the world’s largest information technology (IT) and home appliance exhibition “CES 2026.” This year, humanoids are expected to be deployed in earnest as “robot workers” at industrial sites and in homes, accelerating global competition.

On the 5th (local time), Hyundai Motor Group held CES 2026 Media Day at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, United States, and unveiled the humanoid “next-generation electric Atlas.” Hyundai Motor plans to train Atlas to be suitable for automobile production and deploy it at Metaplant America (HMGMA), its production plant in Savannah, Georgia, in 2028. It will begin with simple tasks such as parts sorting, and from 2030 it will also be responsible for assembly work. Hyundai Motor aims to build a system capable of producing 30,000 robots per year by 2028 and has selected Atlas as its first mass-produced humanoid.

On the same day, LG Electronics unveiled the home robot “LG Cloyd,” which helps with housework. LG Electronics set a goal of realizing a “Zero-Labor Home” by integrating Cloyd with AI home appliances so that humans can be freed from household chores. Chinese robot company Unitree is also sending a “robot corps” to CES, and competition among global companies in humanoids is expected to intensify.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, also emphasized humanoids. Huang held “Nvidia Live” at the Fontainebleau hotel in Las Vegas on this day and appeared on stage with two humanoids. He said, “The next phase of AI is robots,” adding, “AI must interact with humans in the physical world, not just through text or video.” Huang also stressed at last year’s CES that physical AI is the “next wave.”

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