ASICS America has deployed Corvus Robotics' Corvus One autonomous inventory drones at its Byhalia, Mississippi distribution center, flying 7 times each night. Counting frequency in two high-risk storage areas has increased 6x and those areas are now counted monthly, while misplaced inventory is recovered about 60% faster.
IIC Shenzhen 2026 will be held on December 9-10 at the Sheraton Shenzhen Futian Hotel. The series of summit forums will break down the industrialization path of physical AI across dimensions including edge computing power, visual perception, storage architecture, power devices, quadruped robot practices, and open-source AIoT solutions.
EDGE Sound Research has raised a new $2 million round led by Stormbreaker Ventures, bringing its cumulative funding to $9 million, to expand its sound-based perception technology into robotics and physical AI.
REEMAN completed on-site deployment of the Fly Boat factory delivery robot (AMR) at a large garment factory in Dongguan in about half a day, and configured multiple pickup and drop-off points. The robot has a rated payload of 300kg and actually carries about 200–250kg per trip (including a custom rack of about 80kg). It lifts the rack with a 10cm autonomous lift, navigates via laser SLAM, travels about 150m per loaded trip, and performs 70–90 tasks per day on average. Workers trigger deliveries via a physical one-button call button. Reference price is about USD 5,780, depending on configuration.
At the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE), Linde Material Handling exhibited the compact pallet-handling robot L-MATIC, which demonstrated an automated workflow in unmanned operation. L-MATIC weighs 850 kg and has a load capacity of up to 1.2 tons; it features an ultra-narrow body design with built-in laser navigation and a multi-sensor fusion scheme. On site, a "threading the needle" segment, in which a thin steel wire at the front of the fork passes through a small-diameter ring, demonstrated positioning and control precision. Linde also presented KION's multimedia interactive software system, which can automatically generate suitable logistics solutions based on customer operating conditions and logistics needs.
Deep Blue AI reviewed the trend of panoramic cameras being moved into the embodied data collection field, arguing that they are better suited as a spatial context layer within hybrid collection setups rather than as a replacement for fine-grained motion data. The article traces the evolution of data collection routes from real-robot teleoperation, UMI handheld grippers, and DexCap motion-capture gloves to EgoMimic first-person-view glasses, and notes that panoramic recording defers framing decisions until after collection, so the same footage can generate multiple observations.
Ubot's "Xingzhe Taishan" humanoid robot completed the official course as the only fully autonomous entrant in the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, taking second place. The entire climb was free of remote-control intervention, with the "brain" recognizing terrain and planning routes in real time and the "cerebellum" dynamically adjusting gait to handle uneven steps and slippery surfaces. Ubot says its commercial quadruped robot for inspection scenarios has carried out regular autonomous inspection in limited scenarios across multiple pilot projects in power and mining.
Carnegie Mellon University's Team Chiron is competing in the DARPA Triage Challenge finals, using drones and ground robots to locate and assess casualties from a distance. The finals are being held November 5 to 13 at Disaster City in Texas and require the system to operate under complex conditions including darkness, smoke, flames and rubble.
Changan Automobile announced that its first painting visual AI adhesive robot has officially gone live at the Liangjiang plant, with risk detection rate and reporting accuracy both exceeding 99.5%. The robot uses a large-model detection system built on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to lock in optimal adhesive application points and standardized operating trajectories, with single-inference response at the millisecond level. After clearing the PVC area bottleneck, line JPH increased by about 8%.
PaXini has entered a strategic partnership with 58AIR, the AI industry service platform under 58.com, and 58AIR has officially become a PaXini inside ecosystem partner. The two parties will work with N data-collection companies to explore a "1+1+N" open collaboration model. PaXini will provide partners with high-precision tactile sensors and device integration support, aligning tactile, posture, and visual information by task timeline; 58AIR will open up real-world operation scenarios such as home repair and intra-city logistics. The two parties will also connect collaboration steps including collection interfaces, quality requirements, task design, and data security compliance.
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Fibocom exhibited products and solutions in 5G FWA, on-device AI computing, and robotics, including an FWA solution based on the FG390 series 5G-A modules supporting 3GPP Release 18 and Wi-Fi 7, as well as a 48 TOPS AI edge computing gateway.
The REEMAN X-ant autonomous forklift at a large auto parts factory in Shanghai achieves about 125–140 pallet transport cycles per day, carrying 800–1,000 kg per trip over a full cycle of about 100 meters. The narrowest point of the plant's transport route is only 1.55 meters, and the pickup and drop-off area offers about 2.8 meters of operating space. With a one-button call, the forklift automatically picks up goods, transports them under load, drops them off, and returns to its charging station to stand by. The X-ant JBOT20F is 695 mm wide, has a turning radius of 1,448 mm, and a rated load of 2,000 kg.
REEMAN completed the on-site deployment of the Ironhide autonomous forklift in about one day at a lighting manufacturing factory in Zhejiang, for pallet transport between a covered outdoor storage area and an indoor warehouse. In actual operation, the forklift has a maximum payload of about 600 kg, a one-way route of about 100 meters, and performs about 140–180 transport tasks per day; the reference equipment price is about USD 9,900. During deployment, engineers also adjusted the transport route based on the actual situation of temporary inventory occupying the aisle.
The project "Key Technologies and Systems for Highly Stable Mobile Manipulator Robots for Semiconductor Manufacturing," led by Youibot, won the first prize of the Technology Invention Award at the 2025 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Awards. The project claims breakthroughs in three areas: material vibration control, wide-range navigation and positioning with end-effector grasping precision, and integrated "hand-eye-foot" safety control. The OW series and ATS series mobile manipulator robots have entered more than ten wafer fabs in China and abroad, integrating into 8-inch and 12-inch wafer and 28nm chip production processes and operating 24/7.
The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition concluded on the course from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen in Tai'an, Shandong. The Unitree A2 robot dog won the legged robot sprint with a time of 43 minutes 41 seconds (actual 41 minutes 41 seconds plus a 2-minute penalty), using fully autonomous mode throughout to perceive and make decisions in real time on irregular stone steps.
Yobotics' "Xingzhe Taishan" humanoid robot fully autonomously traversed more than 3,100 stone steps on Mount Tai at the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, relying on its own perception and decision-making systems. The robot is equipped with multimodal perception, autonomously identifies step edges and obstacles, builds a map of the mountain path and plans its route, and then dynamically adjusts stride length, step height and landing posture through its self-developed joint modules and motion-control cerebellum. The team said the competition was a real-world validation of its full-stack self-development approach, and that it will next advance deployment in scenarios such as mountain inspection and emergency rescue.
Wangyuan Technology received a CSRC overseas listing filing notice on October 30 and plans to issue no more than 12.6886 million shares in a bid for a Main Board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its prospectus shows revenue rose from 378 million yuan in 2023 to 812 million yuan in 2025, while net margin fell from 16.1% to 12.4% and sales and marketing expenses reached 303 million yuan in 2025.
Rockchip and SigmaStar reported a combined net profit of 1.174 billion yuan in Q3 2026, with Rockchip at 473 million yuan for the quarter, up 90.49% year on year, and SigmaStar at 701 million yuan, up 752.76% year on year. Rockchip's RK3588, RK3576 and other chips handle robot visual recognition, 3D mapping and path planning, and the company has launched a multi-sensor data acquisition solution; SigmaStar shipped more than 10 million robot vision chips in 2025 for a 23% global share, and its SSU9366 targets outdoor and companion robots.
Two NIOSH projects use computer vision to detect potential collisions while a masonry robot assists workers in placing concrete blocks, and to identify workers, equipment, and openings that may create fall risks from aerial video. Both scenarios are affected by dust obscuring sensors, lighting changes within a shift, and equipment and building materials blocking camera views; mobile robots also face uneven ground and changing temporary pathways. The NIOSH bulletin recommends tracking sensor failures, localization failures, and manual takeover frequency during deployment, and distinguishing between using cameras to flag hazards for review and relying on them for shutdown protection.
On October 26, the qualifier of the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition started on the trail from Tai Shan's Red Gate to the Mid-Heaven Gate, with multiple domestic teams fielding legged and wheel-legged hybrid robots. The course runs about 3.8 km and includes more than 3,100 steps. Rain fell during the competition, and the slippery stone steps tested the robots' balance control, perception and decision-making, and endurance. The event also features a legged-robot load-carrying race and an all-terrain mobility pathfinding challenge. Zhishen Technology's "Tongchui M1" has a maximum payload of 30 kg and can clear obstacles 80 cm high; Dongtai Technology's robot finished the speed race in about 58 minutes with roughly 80% battery remaining.
Lanjian Intelligent announced that it signed a contract with Wuhan Chuyang for the Wuhan Phase II warehouse logistics equipment project, valued at RMB 258 million, which is expected to have a positive impact on its 2027 performance. As of June 30, 2026, Lanjian Intelligent's order backlog stood at RMB 2.53 billion; in the first three quarters of this year, revenue was RMB 1.215 billion, up 7.40% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders was RMB 67.813 million, down 27.67% year on year.
Orbbec's 2026 Q3 report shows robot vision solution revenue reached more than double the year-earlier level, cumulative robot customers exceeded 1,000, and the delivery cycle was compressed from about 40 days to 20 days. First-three-quarter revenue was 711 million yuan, down 0.43% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was 73.8615 million yuan, down 31.62% year on year; gross margin rose from 42.8% to 49.09%; and R&D investment was 175 million yuan, up 19.20% year on year.
The BMW Group and Embotech say they have used Automated Driving In-Plant technology to move a cumulative 1 million vehicles at four production sites in the UK and Germany, with roughly 3,500 vehicle movements per day and availability above 99.5%.
REEMAN has published a deployment case at a chemical shipping company in Shanghai, where the Ironhide autonomous forklift links pallet pickup, automatic stretch wrapping, elevator floor transfer, and indoor and outdoor delivery, covering about 600 kg per trip, about 650 meters round trip, about 12 minutes per cycle, and about 50 cycles per day. The forklift exchanges station-ready and wrapping-complete status with the wrapper through an industrial interface, and coordinates requests, entry, and exit with the building elevator control system. During commissioning, the team adjusted drive-wheel downforce to resolve ramp slipping, and worked with the wrapper manufacturer to correct the pallet handover process.
On November 1, the bipedal robot "Hangxing No. 2," developed by DEEP Robotics in collaboration with Hangzhou public security traffic control authorities, made its debut at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon, stationed at 4 key points around the Huanglong Sports Center to handle tasks such as intersection monitoring, autonomous patrols, dissuading traffic violations, and answering public inquiries.
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.
The inaugural Global Ocean Robotics Day was held on October 21, with Constructor University as one of 10 in-person hubs worldwide. The event focused on how artificial intelligence and autonomous robots are transforming ocean research and exploration. Topics covered marine AI, autonomous underwater vehicles, and ocean observation robotic systems, including mapping ocean currents using marine vehicle trajectories, simulating autonomous docking with digital twins, and underwater robot swarms. The university's Ocean Systems and Robotics research group also demonstrated several autonomous marine robots developed by the team on site.
Maximo Robotics announced that its US-made robotic systems have completed more than 300,000 construction tasks under task-based robotics-as-a-service contracts, and that workers collaborating with the Max 4.0 system achieved installation efficiency 2.5 times that of manual labor per person per shift hour.
Taiying Technology Group has built an embodied AI robot mountain-climbing training ground at the foot of Mount Tai, replicating the 3.8-kilometer, more than 3,100-step terrain from Mount Tai's Hongmen Gate to Zhongtianmen, with 11 test tracks for humanoid robots and quadruped robot dogs preparing 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.
Smart wheelchair makers are redefining their products as 'travel robots' or home entry points for embodied AI, seeking to attract younger users with 'light autonomous driving.' Strutt's EV1 carries 20 sensors—2 LiDARs, 10 ToF sensors, 6 ultrasonic radars, and 2 cameras—enabling 360° environmental perception and 3D mapping; Xcan Mate X from Xingcan Intelligence uses a LiDAR, ultrasonic radar, and camera setup. By 2026, the sector has seen at least 9 publicly disclosed funding rounds, but buyers remain concentrated among people aged 30-50 purchasing for their parents.
Xuanyuan has extended its explosion-proof inspection robots, already delivered at scale to chemical enterprises such as Wanhua Chemical, to urban gas pipeline networks; the solution has been put into operation at a gas station. The robot first scans and builds a model to calibrate instrument and valve points, then automatically inspects on a periodic basis via the backend, integrating image-based meter reading, infrared thermal imaging for temperature measurement, and gas-sensor leak detection; its four-wheel, eight-drive omnidirectional chassis can pass through narrow passages and recharge autonomously. On-site data is transmitted back to the central control in real time, anomalies are flagged by the system and reviewed by on-duty personnel, and manual steps remain in risk handling.
Orbbec has signed a 10,000-unit strategic procurement agreement and reached comprehensive strategic cooperation with embodied intelligence company Daxiao Robotics. Orbbec will supply depth cameras, RGB cameras, and bodyless data collection hardware, along with supporting software adaptation and large-scale manufacturing and delivery. The equipment is used in Daxiao Robotics' robot bodies and environmental data collection system, supporting multi-view real-interaction data collection and providing a data source for embodied intelligence model training. The two parties have now entered the product delivery stage.
REEMAN Rhino autonomous stacker forklifts are deployed at a food-service packaging plant in Shanxi, automatically completing pallet transport from the pickup area to the warehouse over a one-way distance of about 280 meters and a round trip of 560 meters, with a payload of about 800 kilograms per trip and roughly 64 tons of cargo moved per day based on an estimated 80 trips per day. The vehicle has a rated load of 1.5 tons and a lift height of 2.5 meters, uses laser SLAM navigation, is priced at about 11,000 USD for reference, supports automatic docking and charging at low battery, and its charging station can be relocated. On-site deployment took about 1 day, and the LiDAR mounting position was raised by 1 meter for future rack-storage planning.
A leadership talent delegation led by the UAE Ministry of Investment recently visited Lanxin Robot, where they observed on-site demonstrations of 3D vision sensors, 3DGS technology, and the humanoid robot VB 2 performing supermarket picking tasks. VB 2 demonstrated exploration integrating spatial perception and manipulation, relying on 360° environmental perception and omnidirectional mobility capabilities. The M4-G 3D camera, designed specifically for close-range perception in embodied humanoid robots, has already been deployed at scale in scenarios at leading industrial humanoid robot companies. The visit provided a platform for exchange and created opportunities for Lanxin Robot to expand cooperation in the Middle East market.
On October 26, the qualifying round of the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition started on the trail from Red Gate to Zhongtian Gate in Mount Tai, with multiple domestic teams fielding legged and wheel-legged composite robots. The course is about 3.8 kilometers long with more than 3,100 steps. Rain during the race made the stone steps slippery, testing the robots' balance control, perception and decision-making, and battery life in a real mountain environment. One robot from Dongtai Technology completed the speed race in about 58 minutes with about 80% battery remaining. The event also includes a loaded-carrying race for legged robots, simulating mountain emergency supply delivery scenarios.
Guangdong robotics industry chain lead company Topstar disclosed its performance for the first three quarters of 2026: industrial robot orders totaled about 10,000 units and shipments about 8,600 units, while revenue from its industrial robot and automated application systems business reached 1.028 billion yuan, up 88.83% year on year. Overall revenue was 1.969 billion yuan, up 16.68% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 146 million yuan, up 196.38% year on year. The company has submitted an application for a Hong Kong listing and disclosed embodied intelligence products including Xiaotuo and Xingzai, as well as the GMU-400E humanoid robot component machining solution.
The JAKA Kargo wheeled humanoid robot, running the JAKA EVO embodied intelligence operating system, has been deployed for bin handling at the headlight plant and electronics plant of a leading Chinese auto parts manufacturer. Per-bin handling time dropped from 105 seconds per bin to 28 seconds per bin, nearly a 4x efficiency gain, and the robot also stacks bins five layers high and recovers empty bins by layer.
The 32-to-16 qualifying round of the first URKL Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League has ended, with 16 teams advancing to the group stage and each receiving an EngineAI T800 robot. The qualifiers held six days of offline training at the Dasha River Cultural and Sports Center in Nanshan, Shenzhen. All teams used the T800 as their unified hardware platform, deploying code refined in simulation onto real robots for the first time, and were evaluated on basic combat moves such as getting up after a fall, navigating complex terrain, and punching and kicking. The event features a prize pool of tens of millions, and industry partner Dison Digital will provide the top 16 with motion capture experience benefits.
San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics announced the completion of a $600 million Series C funding round, co-led by Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG and Emergence Capital, with participation from Temasek, Nvidia, Bessemer and others. The post-money valuation is $4.1 billion.
Embotech and BMW announced that they have completed the movement of 1 million vehicles using autonomous driving technology at four plants in the UK and Germany, averaging about 3,500 moves per day with availability exceeding 99.5%. Their Automated Driving In-Plant solution places perception, including Hesai lidar, on the production line infrastructure side, so vehicles need no additional sensors, and it is paired with a deterministic safety architecture independently certified by TÜV SÜD.