Clone Robotics Teleoperates Torso 3 Robotic Hand
A teleoperation demonstration of the hand of Torso 3.
A teleoperation demonstration of the hand of Torso 3.
ANYbotics has launched the ANYbotics Shift operations engine, which unifies the plant digital twin, robot fleet scheduling, inspection analytics, and maintenance system integration, automatically converting sensor data into prioritized work orders.
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Boston Dynamics has released a redesigned hand for the Atlas robot, increasing degrees of freedom from 7 to 13 and adding finger splay, enabling it to grip tools such as trigger-operated drills and welding guns. The design abandons humanlike appearance (dropping the pinky finger) and uses direct-drive actuators embedded in the joints, with no tendon cables and actuator packs that can be replaced as a whole, balancing simulability, mass producibility, and low-cost repair. Alberto Rodriguez said the team is studying the design adjustments needed to produce 100,000 hands per year and plans to use reinforcement learning to explore beyond-human motions such as finger splay.
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Boston Dynamics has unveiled a dexterous hand for its next-generation Atlas humanoid robot, increasing from GR2's 7 degrees of freedom to 13, using a four-finger design with a 4-DOF opposable thumb, direct drive, and only a single actuator type. The design drops the pinky finger to reduce cost and complexity, is equipped with fingertip and palm pressure tactile sensors, supports pinch grasping, three-finger grasping, and pressing tool triggers, and was optimized for high-fidelity simulation for sim-to-real transfer and reinforcement learning, with preliminary sim-to-real results on dynamic tasks already available.
Why it matters: The original article details the degrees of freedom, actuation, and simulation design tradeoffs of the next-generation Atlas dexterous hand, letting readers understand how the hand design serves reinforcement learning and real-world work.
At IROS 2026, Zhijian Dynamics debuted a real-robot demonstration of its self-developed world action model SimpleWAM, with the i7 Pro running on-device to complete tasks such as tape sealing and box packing; the i7 Pro and iX demonstrated motion control capabilities together on site.
Why it matters: The original article provides specific optimization data for on-device inference latency and real-robot demonstration scenarios, which can be used to assess the practical level of this model's deployment.
Stial has launched an AI flexible grinding solution for grinding weld seams on welded boxes, achieving uniform removal of weld seams, smooth transitions between welds and base material, and no damage to thin-walled base material. The solution uses the self-developed SeeV vision system to locate weld seams, and NextBrain™ AI Mushroom Cloud computing to calculate grinding allowance and generate grinding paths. After digital twin simulation verification, a six-axis robot works with the PolishX flexible force control system to execute the grinding, with force control accuracy of ±0.5%FS and output force as low as 4N, suitable for energy storage, electrical, new energy battery housings, and other multi-category box scenarios.
On September 28, the world's first embodied intelligent robot equipped with a fully domestic electronic architecture was released in Yichang, Hubei. The architecture is based on Dongtu Technology's Intewell operating system, AUTBUS deterministic bus, MaVIEW industrial software, and domestic AI processor chips, achieving isolated integration of control and AI computing. Compared with foreign solutions such as Linux/ROS and CAN/EtherCAT, it offers millisecond-level vision-control coordination and microsecond-level motion control response.
X Square Robot has released the TwinDEX system, consisting of a wearable embodiment-free data collection kit, a matching robot end effector, and data processing and policy training pipelines. Using hundreds of purely embodiment-free data samples (none from a real robot), the robot completed a chemistry experiment in a single continuous take, performing 24 sub-actions including opening a bottle and sampling, dropper operation, guiding liquid with a glass rod, and shaking to mix.
SIASUN has launched an automated server assembly solution covering assembly, transfer, inspection, and rack loading and unloading, with flagship projects already deployed, including an AI server automated assembly line, a fully automated OAM compute module assembly line, single-station equipment, and supernode rack loading and unloading equipment. The solution uses vision-based positioning, force-controlled assembly, and in-line error-proofing inspection, supports flexible mixed-model production, and connects to MES data interfaces for full-process traceability. SIASUN can deliver at three levels—smart factory, full line, and single-station upgrade—to suit both new builds and retrofits of existing production lines.
At IROS 2026, under the theme "From Touch to Intelligence," Daimon Robotics publicly demonstrated its tactile intelligence infrastructure on real hardware for the first time, covering three layers: the DM-Tac series of vision-based tactile sensors (more than 12 tactile modalities and over 110,000 sensing units), the Data-Nexus data collection system, and the Daimon-TWM world model released in August.
NEURA Robotics has established a dedicated business unit, NEURA HealthTech, to bring Physical AI into healthcare and life sciences. Its first application is an autonomous mobile robot that transports empty beds between wards and floors on a per-request basis; at roughly 20 trips per day, it can free up more than 1,300 hours per year for nursing teams.
Jinrong Robotics launched its new vision-based welding product "Zhihanxing" on September 29, using the welding-specific 3D camera from Weijing Intelligent's Starlight Eye series. The camera offers high-precision, high-frame-rate 3D imaging, resists interference from strong light, reflections, light-absorbing surfaces, and arc light, supports combined dynamic and static modes, and reduces hand-eye calibration through zero-error positioning at the coordinate origin. The system can preset photo positions, then use vision to locate the workpiece and weld seam before welding, reducing reliance on fixed positions and preset trajectories.
Yaskawa Electric began sales on September 29, 2026, of the CPU-14U CPU unit for the MPX1010 and the CM-EC02 and CM-EC02M EtherCAT communication units/modules, all new additions to the MPX1000 series. The CPU-14U's processing performance is 1.5 times that of the CPU-12U within the series and 12 times that of the MP3300's CPU-301; the CPU alone can synchronously control up to 256 servo motors, and with the addition of the SVF-12 motion unit this reaches 640 axes. Pricing is open.
Sharpa launched three products at IROS 2026: the D01 manipulation robot with integrated tactile sensing, featuring an end-effector speed over 10.5 m/s, repeatability of 0.2 mm, and electronic-skin tactile sampling at 100 Hz; the W02 fully tactile compact dexterous hand, with 21 active degrees of freedom, about 30% smaller than the W01, and fingertip force sensing from 5 mN to 30 N; and the AE01 high-fidelity tactile exoskeleton data glove, which uses 22 encoders for teleoperation and data collection and supports 256-level continuous tactile feedback per fingertip.
On September 28, the 2026 Domestic Electronic Architecture Embodied Intelligent Robot Launch Event was held in Yichang, Hubei. LimX Dynamics and Kyland Technology officially released China's first humanoid robot equipped with a domestic electronic architecture, achieving end-to-end integration of domestic industrial-grade real-time communication capabilities within the complex system of a humanoid robot. LimX Dynamics provided the body hardware, the brain-cerebellum integration technology, and the humanoid brain system COSA as the full-robot validation platform, while Kyland Technology provided the fully domestic underlying electronic architecture. Through full-robot collaboration, the two parties are driving the domestic electronic architecture toward real-world deployment.
AGIROS has released its fifth version, AGIROS 26.06 DEV, which includes two distributions, loong and pixiu, with installation packages named agiros-loong- and agiros-pixiu- respectively.
Sharpa unveiled three fully self-developed new products on-site at IROS in Pittsburgh: the tactile-sensing dexterous manipulation robot D01, the dexterous hand W02, and the exoskeleton tactile data glove AE01. D01 has a maximum end-effector speed exceeding 10.5 m/s, repeat positioning accuracy of 0.2 mm, and is equipped with a full-body electronic skin; W02 integrates 21 active degrees of freedom and is about 30% smaller than W01; AE01 includes 22 encoders and 256-level tactile feedback per fingertip, for teleoperation and data collection. The IROS exhibition runs until October 1 Beijing time, at booth 514.
Highpower Technology has officially unveiled its new-generation solid-state battery technology, with volumetric energy density exceeding 1200Wh/L and gravimetric energy density of 400Wh/kg, roughly 30% higher than mainstream mass-production levels in the industry. It has passed the 160°C hot-box test and nail-penetration test, and mass production is expected in 2027. Its solid-liquid battery has already achieved volume delivery at 950Wh/L, the new-generation quasi-solid-state battery has completed small-scale trial validation, and multiple strategic customers are simultaneously advancing validation and adoption.
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SoftBank Robotics has launched Servi Q, a next-generation delivery robot jointly developed with Bear Robotics, in Japan, and will gradually roll it out to international markets as the exclusive distributor for markets outside the US and South Korea.
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Lumos Robotics has launched the Lumos Ego Vue, a head-mounted first-person multimodal data collection device designed to turn real-world operational experience into structured skill data usable for robot learning. The device supports binocular first-person capture, high-precision hand tracking, and multimodal time synchronization, and can collect real task workflows and operational data. When connected to Lumos NexCore, the data pipeline covers multi-source data input, quality control and preprocessing, scene semantic understanding, spatial intelligence modeling, and standardized skill data delivery.
IEEE Spectrum released this week's robotics video roundup, including the Skydio F10 fixed-wing drone using a robotic arm for autonomous launch and recovery, a look back at the Honda P2, Unitree's biomimetic dexterous hand starting at $6,500, and 19 Unitree humanoid robots performing alongside 120 dancers at the WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 opening ceremony on September 22.
Run it now 👉 https://www.genrohub.com/blog/gen-human-ego Quoted tweet highlights: Introducing Gen-HumanEgo, a more readily usable open-source egocentric human dataset for robot learning. Powered by its Data Foundation Model (DFM), synchronized egocentric video is converted into ready-to-use signals: video, motion, robust hand tracking, depth, and semantic annotations are precisely aligned and encoded into unified tokens, forming a shared representation. It aims to turn real-world human experience into ready-to-use training data to help models learn better—Gen-HumanEgo is the starting point. #EgoData #Opensource #EmbodiedAI
The EBO SE 2 FamilyBot is a small indoor robot from Enabot that moves freely around the home, records video, and lets users interact with their pets remotely through an app; it is recommended as a Halloween gift. It features a 2K (2304×1296) camera with a 137° field of view, supports 24/7 recording and motion alerts, runs for 4–7 hours before automatically recharging via route memory and infrared docking, can climb over 6mm obstacles, and can slip under low furniture as low as 9cm.
Mondo Robotics announced that the open-source reinforcement learning environment for Beni is now live, allowing developers to train their own policies with MJLab and test them on the track. The environment already provides entry points on Hugging Face Space and GitHub. The quoted content states that Beni is the most-funded personal robot on Kickstarter.
On September 23, Mifeng Technology launched Mifeng Pai, a full-category physical AI data crowdsourcing service platform, in Shanghai. Its foundation consists of the MEgo series collection devices, the Mifeng Pai app, and MEgo Engine, while its upper layers are a scenario network and a collector network.
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Qiuzhi Technology launched the DEGO S1 life recorder at the 2026 Yunqi Conference. It is thumb-sized and magnetically worn, features a built-in AI Agent that automatically selects and edits footage, and adds a data-collection task mode. It is now recruiting 499 co-creators for limited pre-orders.
Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, launched APXInf, an open-source embodied edge inference engine that has been adapted to 2 embodied models and 3 chips.
Why it matters: The team tested the migration and optimization of π0.5 and Qwen3-VL following the repository's built-in workflow; readers can refer to this division-of-labor approach for Agent-assisted adaptation.
Donut Robotics announced that its new humanoid robot Cinnamon 2 is planned for release this fall. The model is the successor to Cinnamon 1, and the company has not yet disclosed specific specifications or feature details.
Simplexity Robotics showcased two embodied intelligence demos at the 2026 Yunqi Conference: logistics parcel handling and parcel tape sealing and packing, and played a video of a CNC loading and unloading application already in a real production environment. The two logistics demos cover, respectively, autonomous recognition, grasping, and posture adjustment of randomly placed parcels, and task understanding, continuous operation, and dual-arm collaboration. Simplexity Robotics is training and iterating its self-developed LaST embodied foundation model based on infrastructure including Alibaba Cloud's Platform for AI (PAI) and Zhenwu AI chips.
At its Suzhou Technology Innovation and Industry Ecosystem Conference, Intel launched the Intel Agent Box and an embodied intelligence development kit, and introduced a brain-cerebellum fusion solution based on third-generation Core Ultra.
At Ascend 2026, Skydio launched its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, the accompanying MegaDock hangar, the Controller 2 remote controller, and two software platforms, Asset Command and Security Command.
Why it matters: The same autonomy engine is being extended to a fixed-wing form factor for the first time, together with a hangar and command software, which lets readers assess its path toward fleet-scale operations and workflow integration.
On September 23, Mifeng Technology launched Mifeng Pai in Shanghai, a full-category, high-quality crowdsourced physical AI data service platform. It is positioned as an underlying hub connecting people, tasks, devices, and a closed loop of robot training data, linking 22 major categories of real-world work scenarios such as hotels, catering, and factories.
Digital China's bionic robot Xialan R03 is on duty at the Huawei AI Park booth at the 2026 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (PT Expo), independently handling front desk reception, including greeting visitors, route guidance, exhibit explanations, and business inquiries. Xialan R03 adds an expression mirroring feature that can synchronously mimic the expressions of visitors in front of it in real time. The robot targets public service scenarios and supports multilingual communication; it is currently undergoing pilot deployments in public spaces such as government service halls, hospital guidance desks, hotel front desks, and libraries.
Hanwei Technology Group has launched a full-scenario gas safety solution for the semiconductor industry, covering specialty gas monitoring, cleanroom AMC micro-contaminant monitoring, system integration, dynamic inspection, and platform operations and maintenance. The GD-HS10 gas detector offers detection precision down to the ppb level, with an optional GD-PU10 pyrolysis unit enabling detection of hundreds of electronic specialty gases; the trace water cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyzer can achieve quantitative measurement at the ppt level. The solution also includes the GMS programmable control system, the FGS fire and gas alarm control system, and an intelligent inspection robot equipped with a Fourier-transform infrared scanning imaging system, with data transmitted back to the semiconductor facility intelligent operations and maintenance system.
See you at IROS 2026 🤖 T1 overseas debut — one platform, infinite scenarios 🧠 Lumo-2, the next-generation world-action model — live demonstration of high-precision manipulation AI that grows through practice 📅 September 27–October 1 📍 Pittsburgh, USA 📌 Booth #921 #IROS2026 #PhysicalAI #Astribot