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  1. 雷科技22

    2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum Held in Guangzhou, with Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements and Embodied Intelligence Among Featured Sessions

    The 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou from October 30 to 31. A special session on sci-tech achievement display and matchmaking took place in Nansha, where the National Technology Innovation Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area signed cooperation agreements with 11 entities including Topstar, Qianxun Intelligence, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Yuandian Intelligence. At the Embodied Intelligence Industry Ecosystem Innovation Forum, Huilun Technology, Zhongke Kaichuang, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Qianxun Intelligence presented technological achievements including world models, intelligent inspection, dexterous manipulation, and general-purpose robot brains. The forum also released the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Precision Medicine Development Consensus (2026) and announced the first Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  3. 量子位62

    Hongqi Chain ends robot unmanned retail system R&D; convenience-store robots still can't sell independently

    After 16 months of R&D, Hongqi Chain has terminated development of its robot unmanned retail system. The company's announcement said the system has not yet met the standard for large-scale commercial deployment, and it is shifting to a 24-hour cloud-staffed operation business. An industry insider close to Hongqi said that in summer, condensation on glass-bottle cold drinks made the robot unable to grip them steadily, and it kept dropping and shattering them; it also could not reliably pick up goods in complex packaging, and operation was even harder when aisles were narrow and customers were nearby. In a robot retail warehouse visited by QbitAI, the robot only handled mobile picking, with each pick taking about 20-plus seconds, and human staff were still needed for restocking and charging. Several practitioners believe robot retail is still in the PoC stage.

  4. 德马科技22

    Tender for Steel Structure Workshop Construction of Damon Technology's Logistics Embodied Intelligent Robot Components R&D and Production Project

    On October 27, 2026, Damon Technology Group publicly tendered the steel structure workshop construction for its logistics embodied intelligent robot components R&D and production project. The site is in Shangqiang Industrial Park, Daixi Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou, with a building area of about 19,000 square meters, a construction period of 10 months, and a planned schedule from November 2026 to August 2027. Bidders must hold a Grade I or higher general construction contracting qualification. Registration closes at 12:00 on November 6, 2026. A bid bond of 50,000 yuan is required, and the performance bond after winning the bid is 500,000 yuan.

  5. 钛媒体82

    The First Public Ledger for Humanoid Robots: An In-Depth Analysis on the Eve of Agility Robotics' Listing

    Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq on November 5 via SPAC under the ticker AGLT, with a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion and confirmed 2025 revenue of only $1.782 million, about 63.5% of which comes from related parties.

    Why it matters: Using Agility's listing filing data as a sample, it breaks down humanoid robot unit economics and RaaS contract structures, and provides transferable metric definitions.

  6. 钛媒体60

    Juqiao Industries completes 100-million-yuan Series A funding, bringing fabric electronic skin into the robot tactile sensing sector

    Shandong-based flexible fabric tactile sensing company Juqiao Industries announced on October 29 that it completed a 100-million-yuan Series A funding round, led by Ant Group, with Lingyi Venture Capital, Weihai Gangrong, and Qingdao Hexin participating. The article states that it weaves functional fibers into sensing networks, and that in September 2025 its 1,000th set of humanoid robot fabric electronic skin rolled off the production line, with customers including Unitree, Songyan Power, and Lingcifang; however, its single-point accuracy is inferior to vision-based tactile solutions, making it better suited to large-area coverage scenarios such as the torso and soles of the feet.

  7. OFweek Robotics42

    Embodied AI Secondary Development Companies: Closest to Demand, Boundaries Are Shifting

    Secondary development companies in the embodied AI supply chain are facing niche compression as robot body manufacturers expand into the application layer. Unitree opened its UniStore shared application platform in May, Leju unveiled its LeTools Skills development toolchain in October, and ANYbotics upgraded Data Navigator to Shift in October, connecting fleet tasks and inspection data to maintenance systems. Secondary development firms are diverging along software platforms, industry solutions, and terminal operations, and their long-term position depends on their own product and service capabilities.

  8. OFweek Robotics60

    Wang Xingxing Enters Hurun Rich List with 69.5 Billion Yuan Fortune; Unitree's First Post-IPO Financial Report Shows Q3 Revenue Growth Without Profit Growth

    Unitree Technology founder Wang Xingxing has appeared on the 2026 Hurun Rich List for the first time with a fortune of 69.5 billion yuan, ranking 78th. Unitree disclosed its first financial report after going public on the evening of October 28: revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year. In the third quarter, however, revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year; R&D investment was 127 million yuan, up 249.58% year on year.

  9. 极客公园32

    DeepSeek unveils Super Agent architecture; Meta and Fourier build Muse humanoid robot prototype Max

    The DeepSeek Harness team unveiled its Super-agent design, which uses a dual-layer architecture, event-driven operation, asynchronous multi-channel interaction, separation of storage and compute, and an external watchdog to let the agent maintain context across sessions and advance multiple tasks in parallel. Internal instances are already involved in reproducing and fixing issues and in code review.

  10. The Humanoid Hub56

    Meta and Fourier Intelligence Partner to Build Humanoid Robot Prototype Max in Three Months

    According to The Information, Meta partnered with Chinese company Fourier Intelligence to build a humanoid robot prototype codenamed Max in about three months, and a second version is already in development. The prototype weighs about 48 kg and stands about 1.5 meters tall, runs on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, and features a display that can simulate facial expressions, speakers, and five-fingered hands; Meta says it has no sales plans and positions the robot as internal research.

  11. Reddit r/robotics15

    Sentinel Dynamics team wins Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with SENTINEL-X teleoperated mobile robot platform

    The Sentinel Dynamics team won the Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with its teleoperated mobile robot platform, SENTINEL-X. The prototype is designed to assist in inspecting suspicious objects from a distance, integrating ESP32 wireless control, ESP32-CAM real-time video, proximity and environmental monitoring sensors, as well as motor control and communication-loss handling. The team's next steps are to refine the system architecture and testing methods, evaluate performance, and explore publishing an engineering research paper.

  13. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号60

    Humanoid Robots Accelerate Into Factories Across China: What Else Must They Learn to Do the Work?

    Shanghai has proposed deploying 8,000 humanoid robots into factories by 2028, while Jiangsu, Shenzhen and other regions are also advancing real-scenario training and production-line deployment; companies including SAIC and CATL have disclosed application progress. Most deployed cases are concentrated in decomposable processes such as cell grabbing and loading, test loading and unloading, and material handling and sorting. For example, AgiBot's "Nengzai No. 1" works at about one unit every 2 seconds on Buick's battery mass-production line, and Galbot S1 has entered CATL's production line to handle material handling and sorting. The article notes that entering factories still requires passing hurdles in stability, battery life and cost accounting, and cross-factory replication also requires reducing technology adaptation and system integration costs.

  14. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号58

    Estun Industrial Robots Rank First in China's Industrial Robot Market for Seven Consecutive Quarters

    According to third-quarter sales data from third-party consulting firm MIR DATABANK, Nanjing Estun's industrial robots have ranked first in China's industrial robot market for seven consecutive quarters. Through the acquisition and integration of Kuzhuo, Estun has built a full-scenario product system spanning heavy-duty industrial robots, lightweight collaborative robots, and embodied intelligent robots, covering more than 30 segmented tracks including automotive, electronics, and new energy. A single production line of a leading customer deploys more than 200 robots and completed installation, commissioning, and production startup within 60 days.

  15. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号28

    First Intelligent Robot Application Skills Exhibition Nanjing Stop: 51 Companies and Over 100 Robots in Live Demonstrations

    The Nanjing stop of the "Smart Competition for the Future — First Intelligent Robot Application Skills Exhibition" was held at the Southeast University Gymnasium. 51 Nanjing robotics companies brought over 100 robots, covering tracks including industrial manufacturing, power grid inspection, minimally invasive medical treatment, and special emergency response. Estun presented 18 iER-series industrial robots performing coordinated demonstrations with hand-held cutting, arc welding, grinding, and painting tools; Yijiahe showed the Z200 live-line working robot for 10kV distribution networks, and Tuodao Medical brought the Tuoling endoscopic surgical robot. The "Nanjing Top Ten Intelligent Robot Application Scenarios" were also released during the event.

  16. 机器人前瞻 · 微信公众号58

    Tianjin Wangyuan Technology Receives Overseas Listing Filing, Plans Hong Kong IPO

    Tianjin Wangyuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has received a filing notice from the CSRC for an overseas offering and listing and for full circulation of its domestically unlisted shares, and plans to issue no more than 12,688,550 overseas-listed ordinary shares and list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company focuses on pool-cleaning robots; by 2024 shipments of self-manufactured products, it ranked third globally and first in China with a 9.2% share. In 2025, revenue was 812 million yuan, up 49.4% year on year, and profit for the year was 100 million yuan.

Oct 31Sat
  1. 移动机器人产业联盟 · 微信公众号22

    Hangcha Group Q3 revenue 5.024 billion yuan; Lanjian Intelligent signs 258 million yuan lithium battery project; Inge Intelligent launches Messol-B loading and unloading robot

    Hangcha Group's third-quarter operating revenue was 5.024 billion yuan, up 7.45% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 575 million yuan, down 9.76% year on year. Multiple scenarios at its Hengfan plant have completed trial runs of unmanned forklifts, and forklift robots are expected to be brought to market next year. Lanjian Intelligent signed a warehousing and logistics equipment project for phase two of Wuhan Chuyang New Energy, valued at about 258 million yuan. Inge Intelligent launched the Messol-B embodied intelligent loading and unloading robot, equipped with its self-developed OmniPredict 2.0 loading and unloading world model.

  2. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号22

    Tiejin Electromechanical's 2.5 billion yuan humanoid robot components project breaks ground; Orbbec secures 10,000-unit purchase order from Daxiao Robotics | Market Watch

    Tiejin Electromechanical broke ground on October 23 in Wujiang District, Suzhou, on a project for humanoid robot core components and micro precision bearings, with planned total investment of 2.5 billion yuan; once completed, it plans annual output of 1 billion sets of micro precision bearings and 1 million sets of humanoid robot core components. Orbbec signed a 10,000-unit strategic procurement agreement with Daxiao Robotics on October 29, under which it will supply depth cameras, RGB cameras, and bodyless data collection hardware, along with software adaptation and large-scale manufacturing and delivery services.

  5. 36氪 · 微信公众号58

    XHEART Launches X7 Ultra Chip, 700 TOPS Compute Aimed at Bringing Large Models to Vehicles

    XHEART has launched the X7 Ultra autonomous driving chip, with large-model compute reaching 700 TOPS, memory bandwidth consumption reduced by 80% versus industry flagship products, and energy efficiency improved by 100%. The chip follows a "large models define the chip" approach, working backward from model inference requirements to the architecture, with measured NPU compute utilization reaching 98.7%. As of October, its first-generation X7 series has been deployed in more than 10 vehicle models, with cumulative shipments exceeding 200,000 units, and another 40 vehicle models designated for future delivery.

  6. The Robot Report22

    From KAIST robot beetles to Harvard robot bees: the practical value of biomimetic robotic animals

    KAIST and other institutions are developing biomimetic robotic animals such as robot beetles and robot ants to solve practical problems including rescue and detection. A cyborg cockroach at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore carries a microcomputer, gas sensors, and an infrared thermal camera, and is remote-controlled via electrode pulses; a single roach can survey about 100 square meters of rubble, but a full survey of a building would require about 500 roaches and 500 operators. A robot ant at Stanford University can carry a payload 2,000 times its own mass, grips using a gecko-inspired foot design, and requires wired power in industrial settings due to its high energy consumption.

  7. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号62

    WeRide subsidiary JingShuo Technology completes tens of millions of US dollars Pre-A funding round

    JingShuo Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of WeRide, disclosed on October 29 a Pre-A funding round of tens of millions of US dollars, jointly invested by Joy Capital, Hong Kong Science Park, and Sirius Capital; the funds will be used to expand the R&D team and broaden the task types and scenario coverage of its datasets.

  8. 雷科技58

    Qiyuan Robotics' 5,000th robot rolls off the line and connects to Tencent WorkBuddy

    Qiyuan Robotics completed production of its 5,000th robot on October 25, taking 35 days since the September 20 launch of the Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1, with daily capacity rising from more than 10 units to more than 200. The company says it uses a general large model plus a self-developed VLA embodied model, and improves data collection efficiency with HIL-UMI post-training technology and uses the PrimeSim world model for simulation-based inference.

  9. XSTO 小神童创新18

    XSTO Xiaoshentong Innovation Mobility Matrix Debuts at the 140th Canton Fair

    XSTO Xiaoshentong Innovation is showcasing its X13 series embodied mobile robot, M9 series light off-road electric wheelchair, M4 series smart wheelchair, and EzGo3 carbon fiber electric wheelchair during Phase 3 of the 140th Canton Fair. The X13, which recently won a 2026 G-MARK Design Gold Award, highlights "AI + all-terrain" capabilities, integrating a dynamic self-balancing seat, multi-posture adjustment, and intelligent risk warning; the M4 has already received three major design awards: Germany's iF, Red Dot, and G-MARK. The exhibition runs until November 4 at booth 21.2 B51-58, and customers expressed cooperation intentions on the first day.

  10. 自变量机器人 · 微信公众号26

    Second Embodied Agent Hackathon opens registration; X Square Robot opens VLA and WAM model APIs

    X Square Robot will hold the second Embodied Agent Hackathon in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen in November 2026, directly providing APIs for VLA and WAM embodied foundation models, so contestants can develop tasks combining agents and robot hardware without collecting data or fine-tuning models.

  11. 至简动力 · 微信公众号18

    Simplexity Robotics Showcases i7 Pro, iX Robots and In-House Arm Joint Modules at IZB 2026 Sino-German Auto Show

    Simplexity Robotics exhibited its i7 Pro and iX robots along with in-house arm and joint modules and other core hardware at the Sino-German Automotive Technology, Parts and Services zone of IZB 2026, held October 27-29 in Wolfsburg, Germany. The company presented embodied intelligence technology achievements centered on robot motion control, teleoperation and body development. Liu Minqiang, Director-General of the Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce, visited the booth for a tour and exchange.

  12. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号15

    Daimon's "Robot Artist" Appears at the Shanhua Award Exhibition's "Embodied Artistry" Special Event

    Daimon Robotics has partnered with the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen to present the "Embodied Artistry" special event, where a robot artist uses touch to iron-dye the colors of blossoms and uses intelligence to continue craftsmanship, appearing at the Shanhua Award exhibition. The event is open from October 30 to November 5, 2026, at the L2 Literature Space of the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen.

  13. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号22

    FAIR plus × Guoxian Demo Hub concludes its 11th session: six projects pitch, including Saisuode, Zhidongli, Juqiang, Chaowei, Fanbote, and Yuling

    On October 29, the 11th "FAIR plus × Guoxian Demo Hub" industry-finance matchmaking event, co-hosted by the Shenzhen Robotics Association and the International Advanced Technology Application and Promotion Center (Shenzhen), concluded, with 6 emerging companies pitching and more than 20 investment institutions participating.

  14. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号42

    Xuanji Dynamics' Hypertron Series Quadruped Robots Win High-Rise Fire Rescue Track at Guangzhou Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition

    Xuanji Dynamics' Hypertron series quadruped robots won the "High-Rise Fire Rescue Track" championship and first prize in the "Load-Bearing Climbing and Material Transport" category at the 2026 Guangzhou Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition. The Hypertron-SW01 is equipped with a self-developed high-torque joint motor module and a multimodal fusion perception system, features IP67 protection, and continued stable motion control, perception, and communication during a 3-minute continuous bake test at 120°C–130°C.

  15. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人10

    2026 Fall Campus Recruitment Tour | Atomrobot Awaits Fellow Travelers

    Atomrobot is joining the 2026 Tianjin group talent recruitment "fall recruitment" campaign and visiting universities. In September and October it has already visited Tsinghua University, Zhengzhou University, Dalian University of Technology, Northeastern University, Chongqing University, Sichuan University, and Tiangong University, and will subsequently visit Nankai University and Tianjin University. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on parallel robots, high-speed SCARA robots, heavy-load collaborative robots, embodied intelligent robots, and core controllers, among other products. Its parallel robots have ranked first in domestic market share among Chinese independent brands for 6 consecutive years since 2020.

  17. Robotics & Automation News38

    Tokio Marine HCC International and Adrian Flux launch UK's first home robot insurance

    Tokio Marine HCC International has partnered with Adrian Flux to launch the UK's first home robot household insurance policy, underwritten by TMHCCI and sold through Adrian Flux's home insurance channel. The policy covers damage to and theft of the robot itself, sudden damage the robot causes to the home or belongings, personal liability if the robot injures someone or damages property, and emergency recovery or safe shutdown after a sudden malfunction. In the US, a home robot is already available for pre-order at $20,000, and the UK expects them to enter homes in 2027.

  18. 雷科技30

    Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit: WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition deployed in over 50 industries; the challenge for agents entering enterprises lies in cost and workflows

    At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent disclosed that WorkBuddy has completed 9 billion task requests cumulatively since launching in March this year; its Enterprise Edition has been deployed in over 50 industries, covering 50% of China's Fortune 500 companies and 60% of China's Top 100 companies.

  19. The Humanoid Hub40

    Zhiyuan's Peng Zhihui proposes Worken metric for robot workload

    Peng Zhihui of Zhiyuan Robotics proposed using Worken (Work + Token) to measure a robot's actual workload, with the formula: number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency. It counts only time spent genuinely executing tasks and running autonomously, with output compared against a human baseline. The metric draws on cloud computing's usage-based metering approach and is intended to shift the industry's competition from shipment volumes, units off the line, and fleet size toward work actually completed.

  20. Droidup/卓益得42

    Zhuoyide and Tencent Cloud sign strategic agreement: Moya embodied intelligence edge inference first-token response 30% faster

    Zhuoyide and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit. The collaboration centers on embodied intelligence edge inference, moving Moya's voice interaction tasks to nearby edge nodes via Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. On-site testing at the summit showed Moya's first-token response was 30% faster and interaction jitter was reduced by 4.6 times, with end-to-end latency dropping from roughly 1–2 seconds to under 1 second. As a result, the Moya body can carry less onboard compute, balancing battery life, safety, and interaction experience through device-edge collaboration.

  21. 爱范儿58

    Exin Therapeutics has AI agent perform brain surgery on mouse, refusing to proceed midway due to calibration anomaly

    Exin Therapeutics used an Arduino-modified surgical platform to let an AI agent complete a brain injection in a mouse; the agent selected the gene therapy vector and injection coordinates itself, injecting 250 nanoliters of solution within five minutes. A connection interruption caused the Y-axis target position to deviate 34 millimeters from the bench, and the agent refused to retry twice citing calibration issues, so the team ultimately modified the code manually. The craniotomy was still performed by a human, a licensed veterinarian held a physical emergency stop switch on site, and the entity that ultimately performed the surgery was Sonnet 5.