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The new arms can perform a variety of precise tasks in factories, restaurants, and even in the home.

RealMan's massage robot during a demo.

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RealMan Robotics has revealed its latest innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. The company’s robots are designed to perform tasks in retail, healthcare, industrial, and domestic settings.

This year’s CES has seen a host of robotics firms reveal new technologies and designs.

For many of these, the focus has been on highlighting robots as a real-world technology that could soon be mass produced on a global scale, enabling assistant robots in your homes, hospitals, restaurants, and more.

RealMan’s new robot models​

RealMan Robotics has several new innovations on display at CES 2025. The company’s new ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arms “offer unmatched agility, strength, and precision,” the company explains in a press statement.

The new arms can perform a variety of precise tasks in factories, restaurants, and even in the home, the company says.

One of these mechanical arms, the GEN72, is a consumer-grade robotic arm that will cost just over $1,000. It has a load capacity of 4.4 lbs (2 kg).

According to RealMan, the GEN72 is “suitable for large-scale applications such as personal research and development, and commercial service scenarios, truly bringing robotic arms into thousands of households and industries.”

Some of RealMan’s robotic devices. Source: RealMan Robotics

This is in line with the trend at this year’s CES for new robots designed for mass production. The Unitree G1 humanoid robot, for example, will cost a relatively low $16,000. Unitree, a Chinese Boston Dynamics rival, hopes that price tag will help its robot become a mainstream commodity. For the price of a laptop, RealMan’s GEN72 may also gain widespread adoption.



RealMan also revealed its Embodied Intelligent Development Platform, which it says is “ideal for industrial assembly lines, heavy-duty tasks, and collaborative operations in warehouses and factories.” It uses machine learning to imitate movements with impressive precision, and provides a more traditional automation platform for factory tasks.

Robotic medical workstations​

The focus for RealMan seems to be its design adaptability. The company also showed off a new robotic medical workstation at CES 2025.

According to the firm, it “supports healthcare professionals by automating reagent extraction processes. Its design improves laboratory efficiency and ensures consistent, accurate results.”

New massage robots, meanwhile, feature AI-driven touch sensitivity as well as adaptive control that enables therapeutic treatments. While RealMan wasn’t demoing free robotic massages on the show floor, it would be interesting to see how one of these compares to the work of a human therapist.




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All of this provides an interesting vision of a future that may be within reach. Last year, Elon Musk stated that Tesla will have a thousand Optimus robots working in its factories by the end of 2025. That remains to be seen, and Musk is known to make bold promises he doesn’t always keep.

Still, if this year’s CES is an indications of what is to come, we could be on the verge of seeing robots go mainstream, helping out in our hospitals, shops, restaurants, and homes.

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