AI is now popular worldwide, with familiar names like Doubao, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT, which even ordinary people can use for short video promotions, personal image clips, and office document production.
Recently, it was mentioned on China National Radio that elderly care robots will enter a phase of large-scale application, with prices becoming more affordable, bringing much anticipation for the elderly.
How to scale up? Let’s take a look at the research results and testing scenes of humanoid robots worldwide!
First, let’s look at the latest news about humanoid nursing robots.
The newly developed wheeled humanoid robot AIREC has begun testing. Here are some scenes from the testing site:
The humanoid robot AIREC can gently touch a person’s knee and shoulder, successfully turning a man gently during the demonstration. This action is crucial for elderly care tasks such as changing diapers or preventing bedsores!
This robot weighs 150 kilograms, with a single unit priced at least 480,000 RMB. The robot AIREC currently has basic care functions such as assisting with dressing, putting on socks, and cooking, but it is still in the testing phase. It is expected to be used in care institutions by 2030.
Next, let’s look at the latest situation of humanoid working robots.
What you see now is the humanoid working robot Figure02, developed in the United States, which is currently scanning packages. This is a demonstration of the latest robot brain results from June 2025. According to the founder, the robot’s ability to sort packages is controlled by its brain Helix, allowing it to work autonomously. The key to this package sorting demonstration is to show that the robot’s brain has learned to flip the package barcodes face down and flatten the packages for scanning.
The news of hotels using humanoid working robots to clean bathrooms is also eye-opening. The image shows this robot cleaning a toilet, developed by Zero Degree, a Chinese robotics company H1, which will showcase its working capabilities to the public by the end of May 2025. According to official descriptions, this robot is equipped with a self-developed vertical scene, which we can understand as having a brain specifically designed for cleaning bathrooms, allowing the robot to clean toilets, pick up storage baskets, organize sinks, collect trash, and mop the floor and other tasks.
In the room, the robot busy cleaning is equipped with the world’s most powerful robot brain developed by Physical Intelligence and demonstrated its room cleaning capabilities in April 2025. This robot, due to its powerful brain, operates completely autonomously during the entire process of organizing the room, as shown in the demonstration where it places clothes on the floor into the laundry basket.
After organizing the dirty clothes, it will autonomously arrange the pillows on the bed, with no interruption between the two tasks, demonstrating a smooth transition. This means that this robot can not only autonomously carry out room organization tasks but also has the ability to complete different tasks. The official statement indicates that we need to continue observing the evolution of this super robot brain.
The humanoid robot Kuafu developed by the Chinese company Leju Robot demonstrated its ability to transport items in logistics scenarios and install automotive parts in production scenarios in April 2025.
Now, everyone must be amazed: the behavior of humanoid working robots is very similar to that of humans!
There will surely be people saying, “this means we can directly convert humanoid working robots into humanoid nursing robots,” but that is not feasible, as nursing robots still have industry standards, and working robots have not yet reached that standard level.
Currently, our country has over 300 million elderly people, and the issue of elderly care is a top priority.
Home-based elderly care puts a lot of pressure on only children
because they have to work while also taking care of the elderly, and the professional level of elderly care is also concerning.
Elderly care institutions can only sigh: public facilities are hard to come by, while private ones are expensive and the service quality varies…
Some people are trying group elderly care while the government promotes community elderly care, but these mainly address the care of non-disabled elderly people, while the care of disabled elderly people still largely falls to children hiring domestic help, so group and community elderly care are only temporary solutions.
Scaling up elderly care robots is the most effective way to solve the above problems. To accelerate the pace of scaling, in recent years, pilot scenarios for the “AI+ elderly care model have emerged in many places, including Beijing and Shanghai.
At the China International Fair for Trade in Services, Beijing Kangyang Group showcased the smart radar inspection device that can continuously monitor the health status of the elderly, achieving 24/7 safety and health monitoring, reducing safety and health risks for the elderly and decreasing the probability of accidents.
According to on-site technicians, “The home smart platform has detected an anomaly with your family member at home. Don’t worry, please contact your family, the station, or the community to confirm the specific situation in a timely manner.” Relying on artificial intelligence technology, based on visual “stickman” front-end AI cameras and smart mattresses, once someone falls at home, the “stickman” technology front-end AI camera will transmit monitoring information and video in real-time to the station screen and the caregiver’s mobile phone. The station staff will contact the caregiver immediately based on the screen alert, and the caregiver can also enter the monitoring interface through the warning SMS sent by the system. This “double insurance” allows the elderly to receive timely treatment, greatly reducing the harm caused by sudden events.
In addition to considering the ability of humanoid robots to care for the elderly, we must also consider the mental health of the elderly. The humanoid robot Dexie, developed in Singapore, can lead the elderly in daily exercises, organize bingo games and singing activities, and collect sounds through interaction with the elderly, analyzing sound features to detect early signs of depression in the elderly.
The display of so many new humanoid robots tells us an undeniable fact: humanoid robots can now possess their own robot brains, which can analyze, record, and practice to work autonomously. Besides simple tasks, robots can also interact with humans and analyze human emotional fluctuations.
These are significant advancements in the “AI+ elderly care” model, marking a major milestone in its promotion. In the future, humanoid nursing robots will appear before us in forms that are more capable, closer to human activities, and more empathetic. The most concerning issue is the pricing of these robots. Many research companies have stated that they will launch elderly care robots at the most affordable prices in the market, so let’s wait patiently for the flowers to bloom!
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