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.
CASBOT has partnered with AMD to complete on-device large-model inference, multimodal interaction, and Agent scheduling validation on the CASBOT 02 by externally connecting the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 series, enabling local multilingual multi-turn dialogue and semantic invocation of motion skills. The next-generation humanoid robot plans to upgrade the X100 series from an external connection to a built-in chest "brain" computing unit, and to adopt the P100 series as the "cerebellum" to handle real-time tasks including bipedal locomotion, dual-arm coordination, and joint control. The two series share a unified architecture and software stack and can be flexibly configured as single-processor or multi-processor solutions according to modular requirements.
REEMAN completed a one-day on-site route deployment for its Fly Boat factory delivery robot at a precision electronic connector factory in Dongguan, establishing a roughly 150-meter workshop-to-warehouse transport route with a payload of about 120 kg per trip and a daily transport demand of about 90–110 trips. The route integrates automatic door and elevator control, and employees can call the robot via a one-key remote call button. Shelf lifting and point-to-point shelf transport remain in the next planned phase and have not yet been deployed.
Packsize and Swisslog Logistics have formed a partnership to incorporate packaging automation into overall warehouse automation design, helping customers design, sequence, and implement fulfillment systems. The two companies say the joint solution reduces touches, eliminates waste, and increases throughput, and has already been deployed in multiple global projects, integrating on-demand custom packaging, ASRS, fulfillment systems, and orchestration. Packsize emphasizes that packaging equipment is a strategic control point affecting the ROI of warehouse automation investment, not an end-of-line ancillary investment.
London, UK-based robotics startup Rogue Cortex has exited stealth, raised about $4.5 million in venture capital, and launched a hardware-agnostic software development kit (SDK), ready-made robotics applications, a developer program, and a customizable drone development platform.
Comau and Automha jointly showcased integrated food and beverage automation solutions covering production, packaging, warehousing, and distribution at Cibus Tec 2026 in Parma, Italy, also integrating Invent's software capabilities.
Kassow Robots, Joytek, Bosch Rexroth and Reply have jointly developed an automated kitting system for automotive manufacturing that combines a Joytek AMR carrying two Kassow KR1018 seven-axis collaborative robotic arms with a unified control architecture.
At CeMAT ASIA 2026, Hai Robotics is exhibiting the FlashPick system's double-deep solution and the K1200 heavy-duty latent lifting robot. Global signed cooperation for the FlashPick system has exceeded 20,000 units, with the largest single project surpassing 5,000 units. The double-deep solution can store 45,000 totes within 1,000 m² of space, with throughput of 4,000 totes per hour; the K1200 can collaborate with ACRs and supports unified scheduling of up to 6,000 robots on the same site.
One year after NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, global developer adoption of its AI Aerial and Sionna software has grown 10x, downloads of its open source 5G/6G tools have surpassed 1 million, and more than 8,000 research and academic institutions are using them.
During Double 11, the Cainiao Zengcheng Tmall Supermarket warehouse in Guangzhou deployed 135 ZeeBot climbing robots to complete 28 hours of peak order fulfillment in a storage area with 9-meter-high, 20-tier racks and 42,000 bins, achieving a 99.99% on-time rate for wave outbound orders. The robots accumulated over 140 km of vertical travel, with a peak of 11 km in a single hour and a vertical climbing speed of 1.2 m/s; they attach to racks with dual grippers and require no dedicated tracks. Overall warehouse storage efficiency is about 3 times the original, labor efficiency has risen to about 2.5 times, and output per workstation equals 2 to 3 picking employees.
Dream Labs, spun out of NVIDIA's GR00T team, has completed a $90 million seed round and launched Dream API, a publicly registrable, explicitly priced robot foundation model API service.
Why it matters: Dream Labs prices robot brains by the hour, giving readers a clear view of how embodied intelligence is shifting from project-based pricing to an on-demand cost structure.
Shanghai Kepler has built a closed loop from simulation training to real-machine validation for industrial humanoid robots based on NVIDIA Isaac Lab, Isaac GR00T, and Cosmos. The company develops its own planetary roller screws, linear and rotary actuators, joint modules, and robot bodies, introduces real dynamics parameters into Isaac Lab for Sim2Real iteration, and validates them in scenarios such as workshop assembly and CNC machine loading and unloading. Kepler is also working with a team from Zhejiang University's College of Artificial Intelligence to develop an embodied intelligence foundation model for long-horizon tasks.
Intel will hold the Embodied Intelligence & Robotics Frontier Trends and Solutions Exchange in Shanghai on November 10, limited to 100 attendees, with a live demo based on Intel Core Ultra X7 358H (Panther Lake).
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.
Geek+ announced a 24/7 warehouse autonomous operations plan, aiming to keep warehouses running around the clock and continuously optimize through real operational experience. The plan relies on its end-to-end robotics product portfolio, the Geek+ Warehouse Brain software platform, and its global deployment and service network, and uses the Gravity unified embodied AI framework and the Gravity 4D embodied world model to extend automation from structured handling to more variable operations and exception handling.
Ambi Robotics is installing new versions of its AmbiSort sortation system at 8 sites ahead of peak season and expects customer throughput to grow 9% to 10% year over year. The company sends about half its team to sites for inspections while the other half stands by to handle issues; it also pre-positions spare parts at sites in advance and pushes AI system improvements only after controlled-environment A/B testing. Its customer service hotline is answered by the same people responsible for on-site training and repairs, in order to build customer trust.
At CeMAT, Geek+ exhibited the general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, the RoboShuttle Hyper case-to-person system, and the SkyCube pallet-to-person system, and demonstrated a comparison of prediction and execution by its self-developed Gravity embodied model in clearing bins of mixed items and picking unfamiliar items.
Geek+'s wheeled humanoid Gino 1 was released on February 10, featuring 14 degrees of freedom in its dual arms, three-fingered dexterous hands, a Jetson Thor compute platform, and a VLA fast-slow collaborative system; it can perform four types of work: picking, box handling, packing, and inspection. The article compares it with cases such as Agility Robotics' Digit and Robot Era's L7, pointing out that the key to humanoids entering warehouses lies in interfaces, data sources, and the maintenance response radius, rather than the form factor itself. Geek+ says Gino 1 already has mass-production capability and can connect to its own fleet formed by its scheduling system, picking stations, and AMRs for storage, picking, handling, and inspection.
Elite Robot and Shanghai Xijia Semiconductor jointly implemented an 8-inch silicon carbide substrate laser lift-off + thinning fully automated production line. The laser unit processes a single wafer in 20–25 minutes, with yield above 99.5%. A composite robot plus automation system handles autonomous wafer transfer and high-precision alignment; combined with laser modification and ultrasonic lift-off processes, it raises overall production efficiency by more than 30%. The solution uses chained automation to eliminate material transfer and positioning losses between process steps, and applies intelligent scheduling to unify process parameters and ensure line-wide consistency.
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 article notes that humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations to mass production, but the manipulation success rate drops sharply from 89.4% in simulation environments to 12% in real home scenarios, and reliability must be supplemented by a testing system. Integrated joint modules account for about 40% of the BOM cost of the complete machine, and GB/T 43200-2023 has provided a testing framework in four categories: motor performance, control performance, positioning accuracy, and mechanical performance. NI uses a cRIO joint test bench and a hardware-in-the-loop simulation solution based on Isaac Sim, PXI, and RDMA to try to insert an HIL stage between pure simulation and real machines, narrowing the gap in migration from simulation to reality.
Sunzhan Technology released the fully customized AI computing power platform Axon Platform in Shenzhen on October 20. Built on a RISC-V plus DSA foundation, the hardware integrates scalar cores, vector units, a dual-source tensor NPU array, and a NoC, with computing power ranging from 0.1T to 128T.
At CeMAT 2026, Geek+ demonstrated a robotic arm equipped with the Gravity embodied model and its general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, completing grasping of unfamiliar objects, picking, and bin handling. Gravity uses a hybrid Transformer (MoT) dual-brain collaborative architecture and a hierarchical memory mechanism, and through natural-language correction it raised the overall success rate of complex manipulation tasks from 17.5% to 87.5%, with a single picking action stable at about 2 seconds.
At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud showcased AI Infra deployments in embodied intelligence. Manifold Space used a cluster of 512 domestic chips to train stably, improving training performance nearly 3x in about two weeks. Machine Science built a unified data lake in Nanjing with COS, enabling cross-region direct reads of the same data between Beijing and Nanjing and saving tens of millions of yuan that would have gone to building high-performance storage in both locations. Zeroth used COS to handle PB-scale data across multiple campuses in Shanghai, North America, and Europe, with MetaInsight helping engineers quickly extract high-value segments.
Intel will hold an Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Solutions Exchange in Shanghai on November 10, showcasing a multi-channel GMSL real-time perception solution and a 358H embodied intelligence complete system based on the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H (Panther Lake) platform.
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.
Geek+ announced the "24/7 Autonomous Intelligent Warehouse Plan," establishing embodied intelligence and full-warehouse intelligence as its next strategic direction, driving warehouses toward 7×24-hour unmanned autonomous operation and continuous evolution. The plan relies on end-to-end robotic solutions and a warehouse brain software platform comprising RMS, WES, and IOP, focusing on three areas: end-to-end process integration, strengthening intelligent closed loops, and large-scale deployment. Geek+ says it already has a global large-scale commercial deployment and localized operations system, but the autonomous capabilities in the plan remain development goals.
Geek+ announced the "24/7 Autonomous Intelligent Warehouse Plan," with embodied intelligence and whole-warehouse intelligence as its two main technical thrusts, driving warehouses toward 7×24-hour unmanned autonomous operation and continuous evolution. The plan relies on end-to-end robotic solutions, a warehouse brain software platform (including RMS, WES, and IOP), and a global large-scale delivery system, focusing on three directions: connecting the entire process, strengthening the intelligent closed loop, and achieving large-scale implementation. Its Gravity unified embodied intelligence framework and Gravity 4D embodied world model are used to improve autonomous execution capabilities in complex physical tasks and abnormal scenarios.
Geek+ has released the "24/7 Autonomous Intelligent Warehouse Plan," advancing 24/7 unmanned autonomous operation and continuous evolution of warehouses along two main technical lines: embodied intelligence and whole-warehouse intelligence. Its end-to-end robotic solution relies on the self-developed Gravity unified embodied intelligence framework and the Gravity 4D embodied world model, while the warehouse brain platform consists of three major modules: RMS, WES, and IOP. The plan focuses on three directions: connecting the entire process, strengthening the intelligent closed loop, and achieving large-scale deployment.
The "Embodied Intelligence & Robotics Frontier Trends and Intel Solutions Exchange," hosted by Intel and jointly convened by the Shenzhen Robotics Association, will be held on November 13, 2026, at Shenzhen Weixin Software Park, with limited registration open to algorithm, hardware, complete-machine, and supply-chain partners.
Shanghai INESA and Shanghai Innovation Institute jointly released the "Flywheel Turns, All Things Arise" INESA intelligent computing digital-chain ecosystem. The INESA Intelligent Computing Cloud Token Factory addresses enterprises' question of whether they dare to use token services through triple trust: service operations, an independent ecosystem, and security compliance. The factory provides production-grade inference capabilities through a high-performance inference engine and elastic scheduling, and offers full-stack domestic delivery with full-chain call traceability and evidence retention. The all-in-one machine released at the same time features the first batch of "Data Search" functions, enabling rapid data discovery and precise supply-demand matching after out-of-the-box access.
At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Heli showcased its FICS digital forklift solution and built the FICS industrial internet platform with Tencent Cloud to advance connected, cloud-based forklifts and real-time collection of operating data. More than 70,000 vehicles are currently connected to the platform, serving over 500 customers; the platform can coordinate fleet resources for intelligent dispatch, predict faults and safety risks, automatically remind about maintenance, and track energy consumption.
At the 2026 China Automation Congress, Kyland Technology exhibited its Physical AI solutions and a fully domestically produced embodied intelligent robot electronics architecture. The architecture integrates the Hongdao Intewell industrial operating system, the AUTBUS deterministic industrial bus, MaVIEW agent tool software, and domestic AI processor chips. In on-site technical tests organized by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, robots equipped with this architecture passed tests related to fault isolation, cybersecurity, and real-time control under scenarios including joint power loss, simulated network flooding attacks, and simulated Trojan virus infections.
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.
Alibaba Cloud is advancing supercomputing-intelligence integration through its E-HPC platform, using a unified computing network to simultaneously carry HPC, AI training and inference, and agent tasks, and has launched a four-layer E-HPC agent platform. Its RoboAgent connects the embodied intelligence chain from device-side collection, annotation, and training/inference to simulation deployment; HPDA Robotics includes the built-in APAK acceleration engine and claims that multimodal data processing cost-effectiveness can improve by 2.1 to 5 times. E-HPC has also formed three dedicated solutions for chip design, AI4S and life sciences, and embodied intelligence.
On the eve of the Wuzhen Internet Conference, nearby industrial parks host AI companies that are not competing on large models: Shangyuan Zhixing's unmanned-vehicle intelligent skateboard chassis shipments have led the country for three consecutive years; Freetech's Wuzhen base posted revenue of more than 2 billion yuan last year, with its production line rolling off one product every 13 seconds on average. Xinshengji makes commercial-grade cleaning robots for airports and shopping malls, while Sainade uses a tracked chassis plus a robotic arm to solve the last-20-meter loading and unloading challenge in logistics.
Counterpoint Research's Global Humanoid Robot Tracker report forecasts that cumulative global shipments of humanoid robot AI accelerators will exceed 1 million units by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 144% from 2026 to 2030.
XHEART (XinXin Hangtu) launched the automotive-grade SoC X7 Ultra on October 29, featuring 700 TOPS of large-model compute and achieving 98.7% compute utilization in real production autonomous-driving model tests.
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.
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.