VinMotion, Vietnam’s leading humanoid robotics firm, just unveiled the second-generation iteration of its flagship product.
The Hanoi-based robotics firm shared a video on social media featuring the robot, called the Motion2, with a more refined design compared to the first-generation prototype introduced earlier in 2025. The 1-minute-and-13-second video shows the robot with a humanlike walking gait, lifting 40 kg (88 lbs) with its back, karate chopping wood with its fist, doing a backbend, grabbing and throwing away paper with five-fingered hands, reaching to the ground, and charging itself.
Additional details remain scarce.
The subsidiary of VinGroup, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, emerged in June 2025 with its first bipedal humanoid robot, the Motion1. VinMotion says it designed the humanoid to fit into existing workflows, starting with light-duty industrial tasks like material transport, visual inspections, and basic assembly support on factory floors. The project was backed by $39 million in initial funding.
Heading in 2026, VinMotion plans to open an office in southern California to accelerate the development and deployment of its industrial humanoids. The company is hiring AI researchers with expertise in large language models (LLMs), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and motion (control, planning, manipulation). The robotics division is led by Quan Nguyen, who has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and works as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC).
VinMotion is Vietnam’s first major push into humanoid robotics since the TOPIO series by TOSY Robotics in the late 2000s. That robot, however, was mostly intended for entertainment and research. The robots went viral for their table tennis abilities, though they never reached pro status.