If humanoid robots ever become genuinely useful for everyday people, 2025 may be remembered as the year they tried—and failed—to learn how to crawl. In some ways, robots falling down isn’t entirely new. But they were not even the first high-profile case of Chinese-made humanoid robots flopping in public. Months earlier in May, robot maker Unitree streamed what it dubbed the world’s first boxing match between humanoid robots. To put it another way: expect to see many more instances of robots falling down in public in the near future.