At its online launch event on October 15, Jiexiang debuted its full lineup of forklift robots across the E series, FK series, and RS series for the first time, and added the FK-80 model, whose maximum lifting height has been raised from 6.5 meters to 8 meters while maintaining a 1.2-ton full-stroke zero-load-loss capability; the products have entered the stage of actual project deployment.
Yuequan Bionics has revealed the internal precision bionic structure of the Yingshou Y-Hand M2 bionic dexterous hand. The product is an industrialization outcome of the bionic tension-compression body robot theory of Professor Ren Lei of Jilin University, and with 38 degrees of freedom, it is currently the bionic dexterous hand with the highest number of degrees of freedom in the world.
A developer has released the first release candidate, 0.1.0rc1, of KORDEX Core, a robot telemetry investigation toolkit, on GitHub. This version includes rule-based telemetry pattern analysis, data quality checks and uncertainty reporting, historical telemetry investigation, optional read-only MQTT integration, a ROS2-style diagnostic payload adapter, and structured conclusions for human review. The author states that this is an early prototype, has not been validated on physical robots, does not send control commands, and seeks technical feedback from the robotics and reliability engineering fields.
At the 26th China International Industry Fair, which opened on October 12, 2026, Yaskawa Electric debuted its autonomous robot series MOTOMAN NEXT and its next-generation controller YNX1000. MOTOMAN NEXT covers payloads from 4 kg to 35 kg and reaches from 550 mm to 2060 mm, and includes models such as NEX4, NEX7, NEX10, NEX20, NEX35, and NHC12, with vision, force sensing, AI, and path planning services included as standard.
At ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Canada, Intrinsic announced that it is open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform under the Apache 2.0 license and launching Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible foundation software platform.
Why it matters: The article clearly lists the control, perception, and planning components included in the platform and their open-source license, so readers can judge which repetitive foundation software work it can replace.
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Boston Dynamics has unveiled its next-generation Atlas dexterous hand design, featuring a four-finger configuration, 13 degrees of freedom, direct joint drive, and a single actuator for the whole hand, with dense pressure tactile sensors covering the fingertips and palm. The team once had members work a full day with their pinky and ring fingers bound as an experiment, concluding that in most cases the pinky provides only redundancy, and removing it reduces actuators, cabling, and failure points. During the same period, Atlas was training on part sequencing and material handling at Hyundai's Georgia robot metaplant application center, and the article also compares this with Tesla Optimus Gen 3's five-finger, 22-DOF humanlike approach.
Aipula has launched a lithium battery smart charger built on LLC resonant topology and an active PFC architecture, with power ranging from 2.4kW to 80kW and compatibility with 16V to 1000V voltage platforms, suitable for lithium battery forklifts, tow tractors, and other industrial vehicles. The device features more than 10 safety protections, supports CAN, wireless, and Ethernet communication with BMS integration, operates across a wide temperature range of -25°C to 55°C, and has been supplied to companies including Heli, BYD, and XCMG and exported to Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Newton has released the v1.7.0 feature version, expanding simulation diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. Experimental features include composable solver diagnostic output, GRU actuator driving (with ONNX checkpoint support), and particle-rigid body attachment; mimic joints now cover the Featherstone, SemiImplicit, XPBD, MuJoCo, and VBD solvers.
NEWSLabNTU's nano-ros has released nros 0.6.0-nros2, with the nros CLI at codegen version 17.
tatolab/streamlib has released v0.46.9. This update improves CI: the Linux integration test lane now runs on the device's bundled driver, and the values of rig_only_capability(reason=…) are restricted to a closed list.
nano-ros's nros CLI has released 0.6.0-nros3, corresponding to codegen version 18. Per RFC-0097 D7, if another release declares the same codegen version, nothing is regenerated; nros pin first reads both manifests from storage before modifying nros-toolchain.toml, and nros toolchain manifest can print the declarations of an installed toolchain.
The open-source Rust robotics framework Copper has released copper-rs 1.3, adding Profile Guided Scheduling (PGS), which can automatically search for better task schedules from real execution logs according to target rates and deadlines. This feature measures candidate schemes on real hardware and compiles them into the robot OS; tuning is completed entirely offline, deterministic execution and replay features remain unchanged, and the project is open source on GitHub.
Javierw60 released version 2.0.0 of awesome-text-to-motion on GitHub (65e6364). This update simplified the changelog and fixed documentation and example issues. There are 2 release assets.
The Javierw60/awesome-text-to-motion repository on GitHub released version 2.8.139 on the 15th. This update includes support for the readme and support for package metadata, along with 2 resource files; since this release, the main branch has had 157 new commits.
The awesome-text-to-motion project on GitHub released version 2.148.181 on October 15. This update patches exit codes, adds logging functionality, and adds Windows path support.
The RM-Arena project on GitHub has released Arena-1 v0.4.3. This update only notes a Full Changelog; the release notes do not list specific changes.
uMerkel19 released version 0.1 of the GitHub project awesome-text-to-motion on the 15th. The update includes a new cache layer, support for exit codes, a patch for exit code issues, and simplified Windows paths.
uMerkel19 released the 0.9 pre-release version of awesome-text-to-motion on October 15. The update includes a new CLI output and cleaned-up retry logic, and comes with 2 asset files.
The awesome-text-to-motion project has released version 0.8.764, which adds documentation and examples, improves Windows path handling, and introduces input validation.
FUMI v0.1.1 is released with firmware and developer experience improvements: ESP32-S3 firmware is compiled automatically via GitHub Actions, with downloadable build artifacts and a usage guide provided, plus a fix for ESP-SR command compatibility issues and improved configuration documentation. The hardware is based on the Waveshare ESP32-S3 Touch LCD 1.46 development board; CI only confirms that the firmware compiles successfully and does not verify hardware compatibility, and build artifacts are temporary files that may expire under the retention policy.
The Reachy Mini tool Homebody has released version 0.5.15, focused on a Marketplace-first onboarding setup foundation, supporting a resumable, owner-protected installation process, and offering English/Dutch selection, privacy checks, and silent connection verification.
Homebody 0.5.16 adds a host-configured Dutch Kids voice override, Ruth, resolved through validated language bound to a single approval. The English Kids voice and adult speech engines are unchanged, and Ruth is not activated by default on other installations.
Homebody has released version 0.5.18, which includes fixes to Strict Kids speech and the cancellation mechanism and adds five additional Kids languages configured by the host. This release enforces tool-free, same-session native Workspace discussion and improves Python 3.11-compatible Bluetooth pairing and more truthful daemon model readiness. Native discussion requires a compatible listener deployed separately, and no claim is made that physical microphone, camera, motion, or child gameplay have been accepted.
Agility Robotics officially announced the battery specs for Digit 5: it uses Nyobolt's ultra-fast charging technology, with a design target of a 10:1 run-to-charge ratio, enabling more than 20 hours of work within a 24-hour day, i.e., 90 minutes of work and 9 minutes of charging. The official post includes a link to detailed information.
ADI (Analog Devices) is building an Emerging Tech Hub within its Analog Garage to support robotics startups and established companies from prototype to mass production. The program offers technical expertise in robotics, control, edge AI, power, and system integration, along with labs, prototyping tools, reference designs, and testing and validation resources, supplemented by procurement guidance and industry connections, using a collaboration model in which startups retain their intellectual property. Applications are expected to open before the end of 2026.
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Genesis 0.2.0 is released, covering the Booth/Diniz Behn sleep-wake network (schema v5), the ion layer, and BodyState wire v3 (pulse.
David1726 released the first public version of Embodied Agent Harness 0.6.0, providing two Python entry points to implement agents and skills, with built-in Panda insertion, nut placement, stacking, and LIBERO placement examples, and support for connecting external inference workers through a UTF-8 JSON process interface.
EmplifAI released the open-source experiment G1 / ARGON v0.2.0 for language-guided humanoid robot control, offering an English local web console that lets users view images without a robot SDK, with credentials stored only in memory. The code is under Apache-2.0 and includes 43 offline tests covering observation isolation, credential handling, and stop behavior. The project is a research preview; the video shows lab bottle transport, and the new console has not been revalidated on hardware. It does not claim a success-rate benchmark or independent reproduction.
PhysiClaw has released hardware v0.46, offering a bilingual assembly manual, sourcing guide, extrusion drawings, and custom STEP part files. The version includes source code commit records, with artifact SHA-256 checksums and build provenance information collected in manifest.json.
Strutt ev¹ software 1.3.6.3 adds Follow Mode, which can automatically follow a person walking directly ahead and adjust the distance, and when the person stops, the vehicle comes to a controlled stop at about 30 cm.
active-suspension-lidar-preview v3.1.0 has been released, the first version to build completely in a clean ROS Humble environment; previously v3.0.1 and earlier could not compile any of the five packages, and after CI was added, 8 real defects were exposed and fixed.
active-suspension-lidar-preview released v3.2.1, corresponding to 3.2.x of suspension_control_v3; the core change is switching feedforward sampling from a fixed-distance single point to speed-adaptive (distance = clamp(vehicle speed × lookahead_time_s.
Hexapod robot releases version v0.1.0. Main updates include support for Bluetooth gamepad control, improved Bluetooth throughput, migration from Arduino to ESP-IDF, and a new animation system and SpotMicro port. This version targets open-source quadruped/hexapod robot control firmware development.
The dancxjo/conduit project under the GitHub robotics topic released tag e79867321ae1. The commit is verified by GitHub signature, the tested source is e798673, and the accepted main is ede29cb. The release record shows that proof classes are recorded separately for each target in manifest.json, and it includes 19 Assets.
A job seeker, finding robotics job and event information scattered, built an aggregation website that catalogs 500+ robotics companies, 11,000+ jobs, and related events and news. The author notes the database skews toward easily searchable companies in the US and UK, invites job seekers to add missing small teams and university spin-offs, and says the demo video and link are in the comments.
Tsinghua-affiliated startup Shenyi Robotics unveiled its end-to-end model-driven single-arm loading/unloading robot Sculptor, its embodied foundation model SEEN·E SE-1, and its dual-arm fine-manipulation robot Edge at the 2026 Industry Expo. Sculptor has a working radius of 1.8 m, a maximum payload of 35 kg, handles cartons of 10–80 cm, runs continuously for 8 hours, and operates at 400–800 boxes per hour; the team completed a new mixed palletizing task demo after about three days of data collection and two days of reinforcement learning.
On October 15, Jiexiang held the "Natively Defining the Future" online launch event for its forklift robot product family, where the E Series, FK Series, and RS Series made their first joint appearance, with the FK Series adding the FK-80 model. The FK-80's maximum lifting height has been raised from 6.5 meters to 8 meters, maintaining zero load loss at 1.2 tons across the full stroke, and it has entered the stage of implementation in actual projects. The entire lineup is based on a native robot chassis; the E Series targets pallet-level horizontal transport, while the RS Series targets high-bay dense storage in narrow aisles. Standalone autonomous operation combined with the self-developed JMS fleet management system enables multi-robot coordination.
At ROSCon China 2026, Intel showcased two embodied intelligence development kits — Digital China 358H and Comtech FoxJack X1 — both equipped with 3rd Gen Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and the Intel® Robotics AI Suite.