JD.com plans to create 100,000 robot repair technician jobs over the next 5 years, promoting the transition of frontline personnel such as couriers, and has reached after-sales maintenance cooperation with nearly 100 robotics companies including AgiBot, DEEP Robotics, and EngineAI, while launching the JoyRobocare brand for the European market.
The FCC's new component restriction rules took effect on October 13, 2026, and the author has compiled a usage guide for robotics teams based on them. The article distinguishes three types of checks: restricted suppliers, restricted components, and restricted complete devices. It notes that the component rules are based on whether the actual producer is a Covered List entity, that already-authorized equipment is not affected by the new ban, but that redesigns or component replacements require separate review. It also recommends collecting component model numbers, producers, FCC records, and intended use for evaluation by testing labs or lawyers.
The article reviews the approaches of 9 organizations addressing the shortfalls in first-person (Ego) data collection: Sharpa uses an EMG wristband moved forward as an intent entry point to fill visual blind spots, Xspark AI released the HumanTouch tactile multimodal system and a 1,000-hour tactile dataset, Wuji Technology open-sourced MINT and EgoPipeline and released 1,021 hours of first-person annotated data, and Daxiao Robotics open-sourced ACE-Ego-Hand and produced about 5,000 hours of training data.
ROSCon China 2026 will hold the NVIDIA Physical AI Full-Stack Robotics Workshop on October 17 from 13:30 to 17:00, led on site by NVIDIA technical experts. It will cover the Isaac GR00T end-to-end architecture, Isaac Lab 3.0 perception reinforcement learning and whole-body control training, Physical AI Agent skill development, Jetson on-device model inference acceleration and memory optimization, and an industrial deployment case study from Techmach.
As a robot platform support partner for the final stage of the 2026 Huawei Cloud CloudRobo Embodied Intelligence Competition, Galaxea provides participating teams with the A1Z robotic arm and related technical support, helping developers complete VLA model deployment, robot control, and real-world task validation. Meanwhile, the G0.5 reproduction and open-source co-creation challenge is ongoing, offering developers simulation reproduction, real-robot deployment, and open-source co-creation.
The ROS Summer School "Embodied Intelligence VLA Bootcamp" organized by Qiuzhi Technology concluded at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University from July 20 to July 23, with more than 40 trainees from universities, research institutes, and enterprises taking part. The course used the AIRBOT Play six-axis robotic arm as its hands-on platform; participants completed motion planning with MoveIt2 and ran through the Real2Sim2Real pipeline using DISCOVERSE 3DGS rendering and MuJoCo simulation, then carried out data collection, model training, and deployment inference on the real robot, finishing with a group task challenge.
The RoboParty 'LuoBo Top Player' summer camp officially opened on July 6, running for 8 weeks and 40 working days, centered on hands-on practice with real robotics projects.
On April 7, 2021, the 2021 (10th) China Robotics Industry Conference, hosted by OFweek, was held in Shenzhen under the theme "Innovation Empowers, Intelligent Manufacturing Future." Academician Tan Jianrong, Professor Cao Qixin, and executives from Han's Robot, Universal Robots, Elite Robots, Midea, MiR, Topstar, and Peitian delivered speeches on topics including collaborative robots, AI plus robotics, autonomous mobile robots (AMR), medical robots, and supply chains.