An internet user has launched a trial of a remotely controlled ground robot, allowing people to drive the robot over the internet for 5 minutes per day, with real-time video and thermal sensors. The trial sessions were initially 17:15-18:15 CET, with an additional session on October 15 from 17:00-19:00 CET.
Startup ATDev has developed the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation (RAMMP) platform, which pairs a powered wheelchair with a collaborative robotic arm running on an open software platform. The platform aims to help wheelchair users with limited mobility independently complete everyday tasks such as retrieving, grasping, and carrying objects without a caregiver.
Timken Precision Drives integrates its Cone Drive, SPINEA, CGI Motion, and Timken Encoders businesses to provide humanoid robot developers with a motion control technology portfolio.
physiclaw/PhysiClaw has released hardware v0.44 build files for assembling a PhysiClaw rig. It includes a complete assembly manual in English and Chinese (HTML+PDF with exploded-view/step SVGs), a sourcing guide with technical drawings for 7 extrusions, and STEP files for 9 custom 3D-printed parts, recommended to be printed in black PA12 via SLS/MJF, along with a bilingual print guide.
The author built the TAKTO ONE tendon-driven hand exoskeleton for a master's thesis, with one magnetic encoder for each of 12 finger joints and two IMUs driving a digital twin in a headset, without relying on camera tracking, so occluded fingers can still be measured. The CAD, PCB, firmware, and build guide are all open source, and a browser demo that requires no hardware is available at https://takto.one and https://github.com/molanocortes/takto-one.
Hui Ling Technology officially released the eHand-20 dexterous hand at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, priced at 9,999 yuan. The product is a direct-drive design with 20 fully active degrees of freedom and 4 joints per finger across five fingers. The entire hand weighs 650 grams and measures 196×87×40 mm. Compared with the previous-generation 6-DOF eHand-6, degrees of freedom are increased 3.3 times, while the unit price remains unchanged at about 500 yuan per degree of freedom.
Why it matters: The original article uses a unit-price comparison to show that degrees of freedom increased while the price per degree remained unchanged, allowing readers to understand the change in the cost logic of high-DOF dexterous hands.
lidarslam_ros2 has released v0.10.0, the first release since v0.9.0 of the rosbag2-to-Autoware-compatible map workflow that supports Humble and Jazzy. It adds camera coloring, a MID-360 handheld preset, and a degenerate-scenario LiDAR-inertial odometry (tunnel) research branch, and fixes the default workflow after the sota-v6 merge; release-gate benchmarks show most profiles passing, with v1.0 readiness at 8/10.
The dancxjo/Conduit project on GitHub has released a new version, f9419414896b, with a commit bearing a GitHub-verified signature. This version records the tested source code, the accepted main-branch commit e31d387, and integration run information, and records proof classes separately for each target in manifest.json, with 19 release assets in total.
The Galaxea LEMO dual-arm development platform is officially on sale, with a launch price of 49,999 yuan. The platform integrates dual A1Z seven-degree-of-freedom robotic arms, G1Z grippers, a multi-view synchronized vision system, and a CCU controller. It supports 14-DOF dual-arm coordination, a 3 kg rated payload (5 kg peak, excluding end effectors), and ±0.1 mm repeat positioning accuracy, and can connect to external compute such as Orin, PC, and Mac.
MuJoCo 3.16.0 was released on October 14, 2026. Frames gain scale, scaling, and massscale attributes that can scale their contents at compile time without modifying mjSpec. New savecompiled and savecanonical compile attributes preserve the original modeling style, and the core library, simulate, plugins, and examples can now be built with Bazel.
Why it matters: This release makes compile-time scaling and save round-trip consistency explicit capabilities, so you don't have to worry about losing original editing information when changing model specifications.
armature-ai-labs' indieduck project has released R25 simulation study v1, including a project hub and interactive assembly guide, showing the R25 CAD and re-authoring assembly steps for the R25 head base, jaw, and exterior.
PhysiClaw released hardware v0.43 build files for assembling the PhysiClaw device, with English and Chinese materials. Contents include a full assembly manual (HTML + PDF with exploded-view SVGs), a sourcing guide with extrusion technical drawings, technical drawings for the 7 frame extrusions, and STEP files for the 9 custom 3D-printed parts (recommended to print in black PA12 via SLS/MJF) plus a bilingual print guide.
cycloidgen v7.10.0 has been released, adding assembly and fastener modeling to the cycloidal reducer design tool. Bearing seats are now bored to the bearing's actual outer diameter and given a lip; new additions include sleeves, washers, ISO 4762 screw and ISO 4032 nut tables, a 0.5 mm default edge_chamfer, and a 0.3 mm first-layer relief for FDM-printed parts.
BAAI, together with Inverse Matrix, Peking University, and vLLM, released PhysisServe, described as the first physical AI inference system that balances intelligence and high-frequency throughput, enabling world models with tens of billions of parameters to output in real time at kilohertz frequencies, one to two orders of magnitude faster than existing frontier solutions.
gzchenhao/openhire has released version v0.8.10; the release notes list only "Full Changelog" and provide no specific changes.
On October 14, Poxiao Intelligence and Tinno Mobile jointly launched the full-body multimodal data collection system SeePhys Hub, consisting of a four-eye headband, two wrist bands, three waist and leg motion trackers, and optional tactile gloves, capable of synchronously recording first-person vision, hand poses, contact pressure, and full-body posture and force estimation.
Newton has released v1.7.0rc2, the second release candidate for Newton 1.7, expanding solver diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. The MPM material scaling fix changes existing tuning; parameters such as mpm.young_modulus must be halved and retested. URDF damping and USD unit compatibility modes must be adjusted according to the migration notes. The simulation stack is upgraded to MuJoCo 3.15, and CUDA 12 GPU support is deprecated in this version.
The author connected their own YAM robotic arm to the Astra (GPT6) model, letting people try a robot manipulation model on real hardware, and launched a remotely controllable playground website and API. Astra uses camera images as input to control the gripper based on prompts, performing well zero-shot across a variety of manipulation tasks. The website targets curious users who want to give it a try, while the API targets advanced users who want to run their own experiments.
A developer built a remote access interface for their YAM robotic arm, connecting it to the Astra (GPT6) model so others can try manipulation models on real hardware without buying their own equipment. Astra takes camera images as input and controls the gripper based on prompts, performing well in zero-shot execution across a variety of manipulation tasks. The website is aimed at visitors who want to give it a try, while the API is for users who want to conduct in-depth experiments.
Under the theme "AI, Embodied," KUKA appeared at the 26th Shanghai Industrial Fair in 2026, launching the "KAI" intelligent platform and introducing Visual Components CN, the KUKA LBR NEXUS collaborative robot, embodied products, and new automated welding solutions.
LunCoSim has released a nightly test build dated 2026-10-14, with installers for Windows x86_64, macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, and Linux x86_64. A built-in auto-updater can check for and download the latest nightly build, and users can have an AI agent read the bundled documentation, skills, and examples to build and validate missions. The official notes state that these unsigned nightly builds are intended for testing only.
tatolab's streamlib releases v0.46.0, including one breaking change: frames held by one node in the engine will no longer cause frames from other nodes to be dropped, and the shared memory pools are now bounded by device memory (#2741). The change is also fixed as a Bug Fix, with a version date of 2026-10-13.
tatolab/streamlib released v0.46.2 (2026-10-13), including one engine feature update: a native node's one-off acquisitions are now counted per shape and refused by name at 16 (#2748). This is a minor version update with no other changes recorded.
At the 26th Shanghai Industrial Fair 2026, KUKA launched the "KAI" intelligent platform and introduced Visual Components CN, the KUKA LBR NEXUS collaborative robot, embodied intelligence products, and automated welding solutions.
Geek+'s RS Hyper RMS scheduling system brings floor travel, rack climbing, and workstation handoffs into unified scheduling, supporting coordinated operation of 5,000 robots, 50,000 square meters, and 3 million storage locations. The rack area locks only 2 columns and supports two vehicles climbing in the same column, while the bidirectional high-density road network increases travel efficiency by more than 30%; in testing, system throughput within 1,000 square meters reached 6,000 cases per hour, Max workstation processing efficiency exceeded 800 cases per hour, and the company says its AI ultra-large-scale scheduling capability leads the industry by 20%+.
At booth 8.1H F008 of the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Elite Robots uses its self-developed embodied AI model Yuanqi Primo as a unified foundation to coordinate mobile manipulators, wheeled humanoid robots, and collaborative robots working together in simulated production line and unmanned store scenarios.
Zhongke Fifth Era unveiled its new-generation embodied brain "Epoch Spirit Brain" and its pillar-type embodied intelligent robot "Jiling-S1" at the Industry Expo. Jiling-S1 has 19 degrees of freedom, covers a three-dimensional workspace through pillar lifting and 360° waist rotation, and supports force control and modular end-effector quick changes; Epoch Spirit Brain relies on the FAM series of embodied large models, uses Action Flow technology to achieve cross-embodiment generality, and combines few-shot learning to adapt to new tasks. On site, three Jiling-L1 wheeled dual-arm robots autonomously collaborated to complete the full process of depalletizing, pouring, receiving, and palletizing, without manual intervention.
Shenyi Robot appeared at the 2026 CIIF from October 12-16, unveiling its self-developed embodied foundation model SE-1 and the logistics handling robot Sculptor and industrial dual-arm robot Edge. Sculptor demonstrated mixed-category case palletizing, while Edge demonstrated 0.1mm-level precision insertion and interactive candy sorting. Through reinforcement learning and OMPO experience-matching technology, Sculptor showed clear improvement over the supervised fine-tuning stage in behaviors such as case selection, grasp pose, and multi-layer stacking.
ArduPilot released Rover-4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable/official version for rovers and boats. An official release announcement link is provided; specific changes are not listed.
ArduPilot released Sub-4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable/official version for submersibles (ArduSub); the official release announcement is available on the GitHub Releases page. The original text did not provide specific changes or new features for this version.
ArduPilot released Tracker 4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable official version of AntennaTracker. The official release announcement has been made public on GitHub.
ROS and Gazebo PMC members meet with community members every other Friday morning. This session is on October 23 at 9 AM Pacific Time. Participants can bring questions, bugs, or robotics projects, seek help, and show their work.
Pi API has officially entered public beta! 🤖 Many people have already started using it to fine-tune π models for their own robots—here are some examples. We hope to significantly expand the scale of testing. If you're interested, please let us know! Blog: https://pi.website/blog/api-beta Signup: https://pi.website/waitlist
Physical Intelligence announced that the Pi API has entered beta and is opening access to more teams. The company said it has worked with companies across multiple industries to adapt its models to their robots and applications, covering scenarios ranging from strawberry picking to server assembly.
Humaan Studio 0.0.1-alpha.1 extends the workflow from robot assembly and simulation to training, policy management, and physical telemetry. New features include running versioned MuJoCo training experiments locally or over SSH, configuring RunPod compute and monitoring jobs, mirroring robot joint positions in 3D through a read-only Live Link telemetry bridge, and policy registration with compatibility checks.
ANet Drone4D V0.2 builds on the V0.1 multi-agent 4D simulation platform with an interactive sandbox, quantified target perception, nest orchestration and 7×24 zero-gap relay surveillance; a public demo site is now live. The release offers six classes of quantified perception targets, seven task types, a REST API and a Python SDK; 44 of 55 items passed in the second round of acceptance testing. Known issues include a limit of 2 concurrent sandboxes on the public site, short surveillance gaps for daytime random-walk targets, and a median frame time of 50 ms without a hardware GPU.
BAGEL released its first release, v1.7.1, on GitHub, covering all content on the main branch. The web version at https://bagel-ros2.vercel.app can be used without installation.
RealSense explains D585 Pro on-device human detection: the detection model runs on its Gen5 Vision SoC and outputs JSON metadata at 30 fps with class, confidence, pixel box, and millimeter-level distance, without needing a host GPU.
Why it matters: The article breaks down why on-device detection does not use neural-network ranging and provides a detection distance table for different postures, which can be used directly for safety zone design.
AutoStore announced its Fall 2026 product release, covering the FlexBinsPort mixed bin workstation, AutoCase case picking, Pio Pal robotic picking for small merchants, the CubeExplore and CubeStudio design tools, and CubeFleet maintenance management.
OSARO's AI perception software SightWorks uses a deep-learning-first approach, enabling robotic arms to recognize objects, determine grasp points, and complete complex pick-and-place tasks without per-SKU entry or manual programming.