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Oct 27Tue
  1. Robotics & Automation News73

    Qualcomm announces acquisition of PickNik, will continue maintaining open-source MoveIt framework

    Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to acquire robotics software company PickNik, which has long maintained the open-source manipulation framework MoveIt. Qualcomm said MoveIt will retain its existing open-source license, community roadmap, and support for third-party hardware, and it plans to integrate MoveIt and the commercial MoveIt Pro more closely with the Dragonwing robotics platform and Arduino VENTUNO Q boards, connecting vision-language-action models with motion planning, manipulation, and real-time control.

  2. Robotics & Automation News60

    Omron to acquire US industrial computer maker OnLogic for $675 million

    Omron has agreed to acquire US industrial computer manufacturer OnLogic and its parent company Interlogic for $675 million in an all-cash deal. The transaction is expected to close around January 2027, subject to regulatory approval. OnLogic was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, with about 300 employees. Its 2025 sales were $154.2 million, up from $122.3 million in 2024.

  5. The Robot Report58

    OMRON to acquire OnLogic for $675 million, expanding into edge AI computing

    OMRON announced it will acquire all equity in industrial computing vendor OnLogic for $675 million, in order to combine edge computing and AI with real-time automation control. OnLogic will remain an independent business within the OMRON Group, retaining its brand, direct sales model, and offices in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, and Malaysia, with its management team staying on. The transaction is expected to close around January 2027, subject to regulatory approval.

  6. Robotics 24/758

    Wonder and Avride expand partnership to deploy autonomous delivery robots in multiple Grubhub markets

    Wonder and Avride announced an expansion of their partnership, bringing autonomous delivery robots to Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey; Arlington County, Virginia; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, covering dozens of new merchants on the Grubhub platform. The two companies said that in the Jersey City pilot launched in October 2025, nearly 20% of deliveries from Wonder's local stores were completed by robots. Customers can choose robot delivery when placing an order, and Avride says its robots use the latest fully autonomous driving technology, can make real-time route decisions on their own, and adapt to sidewalks and weather changes.

  7. Ars Technica55

    Over 300 Boston Dynamics employees petition against selling robot dogs to ICE; company insists on honoring the deal

    More than 300 Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition demanding that executives stop selling robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while company management insists on the deal. On September 25, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Radeco a $1.3 million contract to supply ICE with 4 modified Spot units named Cerberus, equipped with oxygen sensors, 30x zoom cameras, 360-degree cameras, infrared thermal imaging, and an optional robotic arm, for detecting radiation, toxic gas leaks, and explosive threats.

  9. The Humanoid Hub22

    Tesla Optimus battery about 2.5 kWh, may enter delivery sector

    Tesla Optimus uses a single battery module of about 2.5 kWh, and this component is not the robot's main cost. Optimus is expected in the near term to plug in and charge Robotaxi fleet vehicles, and in the future may also serve vehicles and enter delivery scenarios. In a Munro Live interview, Tesla executives proposed a combination of Cyber Cab, Optimus, and Robo Van, and said Tesla Semi could be added for long distances.

  10. Reddit r/robotics22

    Formulate Robotics hopes to become the "AWS" of physical production

    Formulate Robotics proposes combining AI with robotic batch production to lower the programming and setup costs of small-batch manufacturing, enabling manufacturers to produce more product variants in smaller batches. The goal is to reduce minimum order quantities and cut inventory buildup. The approach is still early-stage, with a public demonstration planned for the first quarter of 2027; issues such as production reliability, regulatory requirements, and protection of customers' recipes remain unresolved.

Oct 26Mon
  1. 电子工程专辑 · 微信公众号60

    Wujing Dynamics, which raised RMB 110 million and has nearly RMB 1 billion in orders, reportedly owes wages and has halted work

    Employees of Nanjing Wujing Future Power Technology Co., Ltd. report that wages have been unpaid since August of this year, housing provident fund contributions stopped in September, and social insurance contributions stopped in October, involving 30 to 40 employees and cumulative amounts approaching RMB 8 million; the company has halted work, and some employees are pursuing unpaid wages through labor arbitration.

  3. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号62

    Qiyuan Robotics' 5,000th personal robot rolls off the line, daily capacity rises to over 200 units

    Qiyuan Robotics announced that its 5,000th personal robot has officially rolled off the line; its Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1 personal robots went on sale on September 20. Co-President Gao Quanzhong said that one robot now comes off the line every 2.5 minutes, with daily capacity rising from more than 10 units previously to more than 200 units. The company has also worked with suppliers to build a raw material warehouse and set up an end-to-end manufacturing IT system to achieve full-process traceability.

  4. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号52

    OpenAI to develop humanoid robots; Altman says the core is building the "brain"

    Speaking on the Sources podcast, Altman confirmed that OpenAI will manufacture humanoid robots itself, arguing that appearance matters far less than the "brain" that drives the robot. He expects a striking demo prototype in 2027, but robots reaching the streets will take several more years, and the company has not announced the appearance, price, or launch date. OpenAI's careers page currently lists 27 robotics positions, covering motion control, state estimation, actuator control, whole-body behavior development, and in-house mechatronic actuators.

  5. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号20

    Musk: Optimus humanoid robot and Cybercab will make up the vast majority of Tesla's value

    In a post on X, Musk said the Optimus humanoid robot and the Cybercab self-driving car will make up the "vast majority" of Tesla's value, reiterating that he is focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence. He also proposed that superintelligence, robots, solar power, and large-scale space transportation are among the few business directions with extremely high potential for economic expansion.

  6. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号42

    SoftBank-backed XAG: Hoping every farmer can have their own robot

    SoftBank-backed Chinese agricultural drone company XAG hopes to let "every farmer have their own robot." Its pilot-free crop-protection drones work with automated drone docks that can automatically handle cleaning, charging, and refilling of spray liquid, and plan spraying routes. By revenue, XAG is the world's second-largest agricultural drone manufacturer after DJI, with products sold to nearly 70 countries, and is currently preparing for a Hong Kong listing. Senior Vice President Gong Jiaqin estimates that China will need 3 million drones over the next three years, with coverage of the country's farmland reaching as high as 12 million drones.

  7. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号42

    Robot CEOs Losing Sleep? Commercialization Anxiety as Embodied AI Funding Cools

    As of October 15, the embodied AI sector saw 19 funding deals in October totaling 4.934 billion yuan, a marked pullback from 91 deals and 31.323 billion yuan in August, with some founders anxious over delayed IPOs. Industry technology routes have yet to converge, with VLA and world-model directions still shifting, and capital mainly going to talent, compute, data, and production-line supply chains. Leading companies are beginning to try revenue models such as leasing, software subscriptions, and data services, including AgiBot's Qingtian Leasing platform, Agility Robotics' RaaS model, and 1X's $499-per-month subscription plan for NEO.

  8. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号47

    Embodied AI robot mountain-climbing training ground built at foot of Mount Tai, replicating 3.8 km Mount Tai course to prepare for first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition

    Taiying Technology Group has built an embodied AI robot mountain-climbing training ground at the foot of Mount Tai, replicating the 3.8 km, more than 3,100-step terrain of the Mount Tai section from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen, with 11 test tracks for humanoid robots and quadruped robot dogs to test and tune for the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition. The training ground includes special tracks such as low-recognition steps, steep, slippery, narrow steps, and S-shaped sharp-turn steps, focusing on assessing environmental perception, dynamic balance, and gait-switching capabilities. It has been selected as one of Shandong Province's first batch of key-supported regional hub training grounds.

  10. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号42

    CITIC Securities Research Report: GPT-6 Astra Enters Robot Control, Physical AI Reaches a Major Inflection Point

    A CITIC Securities research report concludes that GPT-6 Astra, released by OpenAI on September 3, 2026, is extending from high-level robot task planning toward motion generation and execution control, and that general and specialized models are more likely in the near term to divide work and coordinate.

  11. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号58

    Nomura report assesses humanoid robots: brain not yet at GPT-2 stage, dexterous hands to scale first

    Nomura Securities released a research report on humanoid robots and China's embodied intelligence industry, arguing that robots are developing along the path of large language models, but their current brain has not yet reached the GPT-2 stage, and world model maturity is even lower than AI in 2012. The report proposes five test metrics: continuous working hours, fine hand manipulation, speed of adapting to new embodiments, number of demonstrations, and factory-floor accuracy. It says robots currently fall far short on all metrics, with factory-floor accuracy at about 60% versus the industrial requirement of over 98%.

  12. 机器人产业应用 · 微信公众号72

    Zhongke Huiling completes several hundred million yuan A++ round to advance humanoid robot mass production and embodied brain R&D

    Zhongke Huiling has completed an A++ funding round worth several hundred million yuan, jointly invested by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, Luning Investment and others. The funds will be used for product mass production and delivery, R&D and iteration of embodied brain technology for key scenarios, and market expansion.

  13. 36氪 · 微信公众号27

    Tsinghua AI4S Forum: Li Luming, Yaghi and others discuss how to use AI for scientific research

    The Tsinghua University Student AI4S Association held a forum on October 9. President Li Luming said bluntly that "a lot of research work is already meaningless," while Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi proposed "choosing science" and described an autonomous running laboratory in which AI proposes materials solutions and robotic systems synthesize and characterize them. Several professors stressed the building of foundational databases: Gao Xiangyu of Peking University Cancer Hospital advocated "one person, one file" with multi-point sampling throughout, Tsinghua's Xu Zhiping used physical transmission to connect simple and complex systems, and Sinopec's Sun Lili warned that data errors amplify step by step along the chain.

  14. 36氪 · 微信公众号38

    Embodied AI talent scramble: intern monthly salaries reach 100,000 yuan, chief scientist annual pay up to 124 million yuan

    The embodied AI industry is seeing hot financing but a severe talent shortage. A leading humanoid robotics company is offering a chief scientist position starting at 15 million yuan and up to 124 million yuan in annual salary, while another startup is offering interns a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan. From January to July 2026, newly posted embodied AI positions increased 6 to 7 times year-on-year, recruitment volume at some leading humanoid robotics companies rose 831.88% year-on-year, and the supply-demand ratio for embodied AI R&D roles reached 1:10.

  15. 低空产业纵横 · 微信公众号31

    Ye Sheng Aviation signs over 600 eVTOL aircraft at Canton Fair, wins $40 million in intent orders

    At the first phase of the Canton Fair, Ye Sheng Aviation signed cumulative intent orders for over 600 eVTOL aircraft, totaling more than $40 million, with buyers from the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, New Zealand, Australia, India, and other regions. During the exhibition, the company debuted two ultralight passenger eVTOL models, the WingShip Max and WingCool Max (offering 100KG and 120KG payload options and featuring swappable battery technology), along with the SoarPatrol 280 compound-wing drone and the LandWing land-air integrated AI inspection robot.

  16. Agility Robotics62

    Agility Robotics reports Digit commercial progress: GXO expands to two new facilities, three new manufacturing customers added

    Agility Robotics announced the commercial progress of its Digit humanoid robot on October 26. GXO said it will deploy Digit at two new facilities in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, with deployment expected to begin in early 2027 using Digit 4, followed by a transition to Digit 5.

    Why it matters: The original article disclosed Digit's expansion at GXO, three new manufacturing customers, and more than 30 potential customers, which can be used to observe the pace of commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

  17. 智东西60

    Qiyuan Robotics' 5,000th personal robot rolls off the line, daily capacity raised to over 200 units

    Qiyuan Robotics rolled out its 5,000th personal robot on October 25, about a month after the Qiyuan Q1 and T1 went on sale on September 20. Co-President Gao Quanzhong said the line now produces one robot every 2.5 minutes, with daily capacity up from just over 10 units to over 200, and that the company has set test standards including million-cycle wiring harness bending and 100,000-cycle joint durability. A Qiyuan T1 numbered NO.5000 was delivered to a user at the event. The company plans an OTA upgrade at the end of October to add features such as children's spoken English practice, following in complex environments, and remote video-call control.

  18. 移动机器人产业联盟 · 微信公众号55

    Mobile Robot Industry Alliance statistics: 23 executives have left embodied intelligence robotics companies

    According to an incomplete tally by the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance and the New Strategy Mobile Robot Industry Research Institute, as of October 26, 2026, 23 executives had left companies in the embodied intelligence robotics field, involving teams including AgiBot, UBTech, Galaxea, Qianxun Intelligence, Unitree Robotics, LimX Dynamics, Magic Atom, Luming Robot, as well as XPeng Robotics, JD.com, and Alibaba DAMO Academy.

  19. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号38

    Embodied AI industry raises over 203.2 billion RMB in first 9 months of 2026

    Statistics from Gaogong Humanoid Robot show that in the first 9 months of 2026, the embodied AI industry saw 437 financing events, raising a cumulative total of approximately 203.2 billion RMB, with the number of events up 146.07% year on year and the amount up 317.39% year on year. In September alone, there were 52 financing events totaling approximately 13.4 billion RMB: 48 domestic deals worth about 11 billion RMB, and 4 overseas deals worth about 352.6 million USD. In September, Diguo Robotics completed a 400 million USD Series C round to strengthen the product layout of its Sunrise chips across all compute tiers and to build a full-link software platform.

  20. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence58

    Toyota and Honda test humanoid robots at Japanese factories; Toyota plans to deploy about 400,000 robots in 2028

    Toyota Motor and Honda Motor are testing humanoid robots at factories in Japan, with tasks ranging from wire harness installation to final inspection. Both automakers showcased their latest products at the 2026 Japan Mobility Show. Toyota plans to put as many as 400,000 robots of various types into operation starting in 2028, with about 150,000 of them deployed at its headquarters factory, and stressed that the robots will work alongside humans rather than replace them.

  21. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号58

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology closes tens-of-millions-yuan seed round four months after founding, building bionic faces for humanoid robots

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. The seed round was backed by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, while the seed+ round included Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. Founded four months ago, the company's flagship product, FaceSoul Agent, uses a cable-driven design to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed on-device expression-generation model. It has launched four product series: Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng. The funds will go toward product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion.

  22. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Tiejin Technology's 2.5 billion yuan micro bearing and humanoid robot component project breaks ground in Suzhou

    Suzhou Tiejin Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd.'s micro precision bearing and humanoid robot core component project has broken ground in Wujiang District, with total investment expected to reach 2.5 billion yuan. Once completed, it plans an annual output of 1 billion sets of micro precision bearings and 1 million sets of humanoid robot core components, focusing on R&D of ultra-micro cycloidal reducers and actuators.

  23. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号60

    Shenmou Intelligent's "Dragon Claw" drone wins State Grid power aerial operations project

    Shenmou Intelligent's "Dragon Claw" aerial-operations drone has won State Grid Power's "High-Stability UAV for Aerial Operations" project, using a drone-plus-robotic-arm-plus-dexterous-hand configuration to address foreign-object hazards on overhead transmission lines. The system identifies foreign objects such as bird nests through inspection, then uses the robotic arm and dexterous hand to carry out integrated detection, handling, and verification. Shenmou says its self-developed technologies include the drone and robotic arm bodies, a multi-redundant flight control system, target grasping control, dynamic visual guidance, and piezoelectric six-axis force sensors.

  24. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号47

    MOONS' headquarters and R&D center project tops out, expected to be operational in 2028, with focus on embodied intelligence

    The main structure of the MOONS' headquarters and R&D center project has topped out. The project covers 17,800 square meters with a total investment of 1.009 billion yuan and is expected to be operational in 2028. Its R&D directions cover embodied intelligence, data center liquid cooling, semiconductors, and high-end equipment. MOONS' already has volume supply capability for dexterous hands, upper-limb joints, and wheel-hub/wheel-side modules for wheeled chassis. In the first half of 2026, revenue from robot-related application areas grew about 58% year on year, but accounted for about 9% of operating revenue.

  25. Agility Robotics68

    GXO and Agility Robotics expand partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at North Carolina and Tennessee sites

    GXO and Agility Robotics are expanding their partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, handling repetitive material-handling tasks in e-commerce fulfillment. Deployment of Digit 4 is expected to begin in early 2027, with a migration once Digit 5 is commercially available.

    Why it matters: After Digit cumulatively moved more than 100,000 totes in GXO warehouses, the partnership has expanded from a single-site pilot to multiple sites, offering a way to observe the pace of commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

  26. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence42

    SWANCOR: Consumer-grade embodied intelligent robot business in scale-up production ramp and commercialization validation stage

    SWANCOR announced that its consumer-grade embodied intelligent robot business is in the stage of scale-up production ramp and commercialization validation. Related products have been launched and sold, but its capabilities for scale production, delivery, and commercialization remain uncertain, and the company cannot yet predict the impact on its 2026 revenue and profitability. The company's related robot and model development products remain in the R&D stage, and their technical routes, R&D progress, performance, and commercial applications all require continued validation.

  28. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence22

    Dolun Technology, up 3 straight sessions: not involved in R&D or production of core humanoid robot bodies

    Dolun Technology issued a risk warning announcement stating that the company is not involved in the R&D or production of core humanoid robot bodies; its robotics business mainly consists of scenario applications for traffic management robots and custom production of coffee robots. The company said revenue and profit from this business account for a very small share and are not expected to have a material impact on its operating results for 2026.

  29. Robohub27

    September 2026 robotics society, business, and culture roundup: Global industrial robot stock tops 5 million units, Toyota plans to invest 1 trillion yen, ETH Zurich achieves humanoid hand walking

    The International Federation of Robotics' "World Robotics 2026" report shows that more than 5 million industrial robots are now in operation in factories worldwide; in 2025, more than 600,000 units were newly installed, up 11% year on year, with China accounting for 354,000 units, or 59% of the global total.