About We Build Humanoids

We Build Humanoids (WBH) is a structured, sourced reference for humanoid robotics: robot records with specifications and development support, a feed of significant releases and research, and topic hubs and guides that connect them. It is written for engineers, researchers and students who need to know what a platform actually offers before they build on it.

It exists because the facts developers need are scattered across product pages, repositories, papers and release notes, and are often repeated without a source. WBH collects them in one place and shows where every fact comes from.

Each robot is a structured record, not an article: its manufacturer, status, specifications, software and simulation support, resources and topics. Every published value links to a source, with the place in the source it comes from. A value no reliable source states is shown as Not published; it is never estimated. Differences between sources are recorded in the record's verification report rather than hidden.

Topic hubs and guides draw on the same records, so a robot's ROS 2 support shown in a guide is the value on its own page, with the same source.

For robot facts, WBH prefers the most primary source available, in this order:

1. the manufacturer's product pages and technical documentation;
2. the manufacturer's developer documentation, repositories and SDKs;
3. the manufacturer's research papers and technical reports;
4. reputable third parties (for example a simulator project's own model of the robot), for community support only.

Search-result snippets, resellers, social media, AI summaries and uncited blog posts are never used as evidence. A third-party source can support a statement that community support exists; it can never support an official hardware specification.

A robot record passes through two separate steps:

• Evidence verification. Every claim is checked against the cited source: the value, the unit, the variant it applies to, and a short verbatim excerpt. Records at this stage are public and say so: “AI-assisted · awaiting editor review”.
• Sign-off. A named human editor reviews the record and its verification report and signs it off. Or, since November 2026, the record is published automatically once every value and every sentence was found in its sources and it passes the checks below; it then says “auto-checked · not reviewed by an editor”. Only a signed-off record can be indexed by search engines. Changing a signed-off record resets its sign-off.

Records carry the date their sources were last checked. Guides and updates follow the same principle: they are public only after an editor has signed off the exact version shown, or after the automatic checks passed on exactly that version.

WBH uses AI to assist research and drafting: reading product pages and documentation, extracting candidate values with their excerpts, and drafting overviews, topic introductions and update summaries from the cited sources. Every excerpt is then checked mechanically against the saved source text.

AI output is not editorial verification. Nothing drafted with AI assistance is published as reviewed by an editor unless an editor reviewed it. Text drafted with AI assistance can be published without an editor only when an independent check found every factual sentence in its cited sources, every excerpt was confirmed on the live page, and the text passed fixed checks for length and context. It is recorded as “WBH auto-publisher”, never under a person's name, and the page says it was checked automatically and not reviewed by an editor. Photographs, affiliate recommendations, withdrawn values and possible duplicates always wait for an editor. The rules that decide which discovered developments are written up are deterministic and recorded with their reasons; they are not a language model's judgement.

WBH monitors a small, fixed list of official channels: manufacturers' release pages and repositories, simulator and framework releases, and arXiv for research that uses robots in the database. Discoveries go to an editorial queue or a private weekly research digest. One exception is published automatically: a release note from a manufacturer's own release channel, once it has been checked against the live source page. It appears in the feed only, marked AUTO · VERBATIM, and quotes a few lines of the source verbatim with a link to the original; an editor may review or correct it later. A written article is published automatically only when every sentence was found on its source page (see How AI is used); everything else waits for an editor. Every update links to its original source; edited updates carry an original summary, never a copy of the source text.

See the update feed. Developments WBH first recorded long after they happened are listed as history, with their original date, not as news.

Editorial coverage and affiliate links are kept apart. Which robots, updates, guides and comparisons WBH publishes, and what they say, is decided by WBH's editors alone; no manufacturer or seller pays for them or approves them. Affiliate links appear only in the labelled “Hardware named on this page” block at the end of a page.

Some robot, guide, topic and comparison pages end with “Hardware named on this page”: at most three products that the page itself names by their exact model, such as the on-board computer a manufacturer lists in a robot's specifications. Each links to the seller's own product page with WBH's affiliate code. If you buy there, the seller may pay WBH a commission; the price you pay is the same.

• A product is listed only when the page names its exact model, and only after a WBH editor has approved it. Nothing is listed because it pays.
• Being named on a page is not evidence of compatibility. The list says only that the page names the product, and where: it makes no claim that a product is compatible with, or identical to, what a robot uses, and none about price, stock or quality.
• The seller's page is checked automatically every day; a product that is no longer offered drops off within days.
• Commissions play no part in which robots, products or updates WBH covers, how it describes them, or what it compares.
• The links are marked as sponsored for search engines. Today they use one programme: Seeed Studio's.

How often a recommendation is shown and followed is counted anonymously, like every other page event: see Privacy.

If a fact on WBH is wrong, out of date or unsourced, please tell us which statement it is and link an authoritative source. You do not need an account. How corrections work explains what helps and what happens next.

We Build Humanoids is an independent knowledge project about humanoid robotics. It is not a company or any other legal entity: it is run privately, on a non-commercial basis, by the site owner.

WBH is not affiliated with any manufacturer. Write to hello@webuildhumanoids.com for corrections, suggestions and anything else; Contact lists the reasons.