Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring”. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has sparked new interest in building humanoid robots that can move like humans and do things that people do.
 　Modar Alaoui, founder of the Humanoids Summit in Silicon Valley, gathered more than 2,000 people in December 2025, including top robotics engineers from Disney, Google and dozens of startups, to showcase their technology and discuss how to grow this new industry.
 　Disney’s walking robotic version of “Frozen” character Olaf will roam on its own through Disneyland theme parks in Hong Kong and Paris early this year. Complex robots that look like humans are already here, but “general purpose” robots that can work productively in workplaces or homes are still far away.

　長久以來，機器人一直被矽谷投資者視為一項糟糕的投資——運作太複雜、資本密集，而且「無聊」。但近年人工智慧在商業領域的蓬勃發展，點燃了人們長期醞釀的願景，投入研發像人類一樣能夠移動，並做人類所做的事情的人形機器人。
　2025 年12 月，矽谷人形機器人高峰會創始人莫德．阿拉維召集了2 千多名相關領域的人才，包括來自迪士尼、谷歌，以及數十家新創公司的頂尖機器人工程師，展示他們的技術，並討論如何加速這個新興產業的發展。
迪士尼設計《冰雪奇緣》角色「雪寶」形象的步行機器人，今年初將在香港和巴黎的迪士尼樂園自行走動。雖然外形酷似人類，功能複雜度高的機器人已經問世，但要發展成在工作場所或家庭中發揮高效能的「通用」機器人，可能還有很長的路要走。