NVIDIA and Foxconn discussing the deployment of humanoid robots to make AI servers in the USA

NVIDIA and Foxconn are reportedly in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Foxconn's new factory in Houston, where the robots would make AI servers for NVIDIA.

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In a new report from Reuters, the new humanoid robots would make AI servers marking the first time that an NVIDIA product would be made with the help of humanoid robots, and it would be Foxconn's first AI server factory to use humanoid robots on its production line according to Reuters' sources.

The deployment would be finalized in the coming months, marking a milestone in the adoption of humanoid robots that plan to transform the manufacturing processes.

Foxconn has been developing its own in-house humanoid robots with NVIDIA, as well as trialing humanoids made by China's UBTech, with Reuters' sources adding that it wasn't clear which type of humanoid robots are being planned for use at its Houston AI factory, what they'll look like, or how many robots would be deployed at first.

Foxconn and NVIDIA are reportedly aiming to have humanoid robots hard at work by Q1 2026, when Foxconn's new Houston factory would start making NVIDIA's new GB300 AI servers. We don't know exactly what jobs the new humanoid robots would be doing exactly, but Foxconn has been training them to pick up and place objects, insert cables and perform assembly work, according to a presentation by the company in May 2025.

The new Foxconn facility is perfect for the deployment of humanoid robots, as it has new and even more space than previous AI server manufacturing sites according to one of Reuters' sources.

Leo Guo, the general manager of the robotics business unit at Foxconn Industrial Internet, which is a subsidiary of Foxconn, said at an industry event in Taipei last month that the company plans to showcase at its annual technology event in November two versions of its humanoid robots that it's developed.

One of those robots will have legs, while the other will use a wheeled autonomous mobile robot (AMR) base, which would cost less than the version of the robot with legs.