Terms of Use and Editorial Notice
Last updated: May 31, 2026
These Terms of Use and Editorial Notice govern the use of the Humanoids Watch website.
Humanoids Watch is operated by:
Christian Metzner Albertusweg 3 50999 Köln Germany
Contact: [email protected]
1. Purpose of Humanoids Watch
Humanoids Watch provides editorial market information, public-source analysis, and deployment-oriented intelligence about humanoid robotics.
The website is designed to help professional readers understand the public evidence around humanoid robot vendors, robot models, deployment claims, use cases, readiness signals, and market developments.
Humanoids Watch is an independent editorial information service. Unless expressly stated otherwise, Humanoids Watch is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with any robot manufacturer, vendor, integrator, investor, research institution, or public authority mentioned on this website.
2. Informational Use Only
All content on Humanoids Watch is provided for general informational, editorial, and market-orientation purposes only.
The content is not intended to be a complete factual record, technical audit, safety assessment, procurement recommendation, investment recommendation, legal opinion, certification, or commercial endorsement.
Users remain solely responsible for conducting their own technical, commercial, legal, procurement, safety, operational, and financial diligence before making decisions.
3. No Certification, Approval or Professional Advice
Humanoids Watch does not certify robots, vendors, deployments, use cases, safety performance, technical readiness, commercial suitability, or regulatory compliance.
Nothing on this website constitutes:
procurement advice
investment advice
legal advice
tax advice
safety advice
engineering advice
certification
product approval
vendor approval
deployment approval
technical verification
commercial recommendation
Scores, evidence levels, readiness labels, buyer statuses, red flags, recommendations, rankings, comparisons, and other assessments are editorial intelligence signals. They are not a substitute for independent due diligence.
4. Public Evidence, Vendor Claims and Editorial Interpretation
Humanoids Watch relies primarily on public evidence, public claims, public demonstrations, public announcements, public media, public documentation, and other publicly accessible sources.
Public information may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, selective, promotional, or later withdrawn.
Vendor claims are not treated as proof unless they are supported by public evidence or otherwise identified as independently verifiable. A vendor claim may be relevant as a market signal, but it should not be understood as confirmed performance, certified readiness, or proven deployability.
Humanoids Watch may distinguish between:
public claims
observed evidence
third-party reporting
deployment signals
editorial interpretation
buyer-facing risk indicators
red flags
open questions
This distinction is part of the editorial methodology, but it does not guarantee completeness or accuracy.
5. Scores, Buyer Statuses, Red Flags and Recommendations
Humanoids Watch may use scores, evidence levels, readiness labels, buyer statuses, red flags, recommendations, and similar editorial indicators.
These indicators are analytical interpretations based on the available public information at the time of review. They may change as new information becomes available.
A score, label, recommendation, or red flag does not mean that a robot, vendor, deployment, or use case is objectively safe, unsafe, successful, unsuccessful, commercially suitable, technically ready, or legally compliant.
Humanoids Watch does not guarantee that its scoring model captures all relevant technical, operational, commercial, legal, regulatory, ethical, safety, or financial factors.
6. No Guarantee of Accuracy, Completeness or Availability
Humanoids Watch works to provide useful and careful editorial analysis. However, the website and its content are provided without any guarantee that the information is complete, accurate, current, suitable for a specific purpose, or continuously available.
Humanoids Watch may update, revise, remove, reorganize, or discontinue content at any time.
Users should verify important information directly with the relevant vendor, operator, customer, regulator, certifier, technical expert, legal advisor, or other qualified source before relying on it.
7. External Links and Third-Party Sources
The website may contain links to external websites, public sources, manufacturer pages, media articles, research publications, videos, documents, or other third-party materials.
External links are provided for reference and convenience only.
Humanoids Watch has no continuous control over external websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, security, privacy practices, or legal compliance.
Responsibility for external content remains with the respective operators or authors.
8. Evidence Submissions and Corrections
Users may contact Humanoids Watch to submit public evidence, corrections, source links, updates, or contextual information.
By submitting material to Humanoids Watch, you confirm that:
you are allowed to submit the material
the material is not confidential
the material is not protected by a non-disclosure agreement or similar restriction
the material does not contain trade secrets
the material was not obtained unlawfully
the material does not infringe third-party rights
the material does not contain unnecessary personal data
the material is not knowingly false, misleading, defamatory, or manipulative
Humanoids Watch is designed to work with public evidence and public-source material. Do not submit confidential, proprietary, NDA-protected, trade-secret, illegally obtained, personal, sensitive, or otherwise restricted information.
By submitting material, you grant Humanoids Watch the right to review, store, assess, summarize, quote short excerpts from, transform, combine with other sources, and use the submitted material for editorial analysis, correction handling, source verification, and publication of derived insights.
Submitting material does not create any obligation for Humanoids Watch to review, respond, publish, correct, remove, or update any content.
Humanoids Watch may decline, ignore, edit, remove, archive, or delete submissions at its discretion.
9. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the original content, structure, design, methodology, scoring logic, classifications, profile formats, editorial analysis, compilations, and other materials created by Humanoids Watch are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
Users may read and reference the website for normal professional information purposes.
Without prior written permission, users may not:
copy substantial parts of the website
reproduce the database structure or profile structure
systematically extract, scrape, crawl, or harvest content
republish Humanoids Watch content as a competing database, directory, benchmark, report, or intelligence product
use the content to build or train a competing market-intelligence service
remove attribution or copyright notices
present Humanoids Watch analysis as their own
commercially exploit the content beyond normal reference use
Short quotations and references are permitted where legally allowed, provided that Humanoids Watch is clearly identified as the source and the use remains fair, proportionate, and non-misleading.
10. Trademarks and Third-Party Rights
All company names, product names, robot names, trademarks, logos, brands, and other third-party identifiers mentioned on this website are the property of their respective owners.
Their mention is for identification, reference, commentary, comparison, and editorial analysis only.
No mention of a vendor, robot, product, trademark, logo, or brand implies endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, certification, approval, or affiliation unless expressly stated.
If you believe that content on Humanoids Watch infringes your rights, contact [email protected] with sufficient detail to identify the relevant content and explain the issue.
11. Prohibited Use
You must not use this website in a way that:
violates applicable law
infringes third-party rights
interferes with the security, availability, or integrity of the website
attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems, data, or infrastructure
uses automated extraction, scraping, crawling, harvesting, or bulk downloading without permission
copies or reconstructs the Humanoids Watch database, methodology, scoring system, taxonomy, or profile structure for a competing service
submits false, misleading, defamatory, confidential, unlawful, infringing, or unauthorized material
uses Humanoids Watch content to imply endorsement, certification, approval, partnership, or affiliation where none exists
12. Changes to the Website and These Terms
Humanoids Watch may update, change, suspend, or discontinue parts of the website at any time.
These Terms of Use may also be updated from time to time. The current version is published on this page.
Continued use of the website after an update means that the updated terms apply from that point onward.
13. Liability
Humanoids Watch is responsible for its own content in accordance with applicable law.
However, Humanoids Watch does not guarantee that the website or its content will be uninterrupted, error-free, complete, accurate, up to date, or suitable for a specific purpose.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability where liability cannot legally be limited, including liability for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, or mandatory statutory liability.
14. Privacy
Information about the processing of personal data is provided in the Privacy Policy.
Information about cookies, tracking, and similar technologies is provided in the Cookie and Tracking Notice.
15. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of Germany, to the extent legally permitted.
Mandatory consumer protection laws and mandatory rules of the country in which a user has their habitual residence remain unaffected where applicable.
16. Contact
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