--- title: "Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Preparing Elaborate Breakfast" description: "Chinese robotics company Dobot has shown off its humanoid robot, dubbed Atom, preparing a sumptuous breakfast." date: "2025-03-23" modified: "2025-03-23" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/wild-video-humanoid-robot-preparing-breakfast" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "Bipedal Robots" - "china" - "Humanoid Robots" - "tesla" --- # Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Preparing Elaborate Breakfast ![Chinese robotics company Dobot has shown off its humanoid robot, dubbed Atom, preparing a sumptuous breakfast.]() *\Image: Dobot\* Chinese robotics company Dobot has shown off its humanoid robot, dubbed Atom, preparing a sumptuous breakfast. The [video](), titled "Rise and Shine with Atom, Your New Breakfast Buddy!" shows the robot using its long, flexible arms to place pieces of ham, sausages, slices of toast, and cherries onto a plate. The robot even poured a glass of milk and lifted the tray for serving. "Add some cherries, too," an American-accented voiceover says. "Such thin stems won't trouble me. Just two fingers are enough to grip it firmly." "All done!" the voice says. "A nutritious breakfast sets the tone for a perfect day." While it's unclear how much of Atom's skills could actually be transferred to a messy and unpredictable real-world kitchen — rather than what's obviously a carefully controlled studio — it's yet another demonstration that highlights how far the technology has come. https://youtu.be/6Q8C5p2EmZM There's a strong sense of enthusiasm in the industry for the future of humanoid robots that can assist in the home, with companies like [Tesla](), [Figure](), [Agility Robotics](), [Unitree](), and [1X]() showing off bipedal machines that could feasibly prove useful in a future home environment. Whether these robots will ever be affordable for the average consumer is an open question. But the [costs are already starting to come down](), with Chinese robotics company Unitree, for instance, [offering a lineup of capable quadripedal robots]() for a fraction of the price of a Boston Dynamics Spot Mini. Its humanoid robot G1 is also already [being mass-produced and goes for $16,000](). Dobot's Atom is no slouch, with 28 degrees of freedom and an arm movement precision of just 0.05 mm. An AI system dubbed Robot Operator Model-1 allows the five-foot bot to adapt to its environment autonomously. It boasts a computing power equivalent to a contemporary gaming graphics card, as the [*South China Morning Post* reports](). The company [claims]() Atom can also solder electronic components and calibrate precision instruments, which require extremely steady and precise arms and hands. Dobot announced its humanoid robot will go on sale for $27,500 sometime later this year, and has already started taking preorders. It wouldn't be the first to enter mass production. Humanoid robots have [already started working at warehouses]() to complete human jobs. "Humanoid robots are the first category of robots that can be doing completely different tasks based on the needs of the business or the time of the shift," Adrian Stoch chief automation officer of GXO Logistics, which recently employed two Digit bipedal robots from the firm Agility Robotics, [told the *Wall Street Journal*](). "In the future, we could have Digit unloading a trailer in the morning, picking goods in the afternoon, and loading trucks in the evening," he added. **More on humanoid robots:** *[Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()