MobED has more than one task to do. At RobotWorld 2026, Hyundai Motor Group's mobile robot platform demonstrated different applications, such as patrol, parcel delivery, and recyclable collection.
At the 2026 World Hydrogen Expo, Hyundai Motor Group publicly demonstrated for the first time ACR-H, an automatic hydrogen refueling robot for hydrogen fuel commercial vehicles. It uses visual AI to identify the location of the refueling port, automatically opens the protective cover, and connects the refueling nozzle to complete refueling. At the same event, the group also showcased for the first time an upgraded fuel cell system for commercial vehicles, focused on improving stack durability, and exhibited the Bluelink Uptime Care fleet management platform and a 5 MW-class PEM electrolysis hydrogen production solution. The automatic refueling robot is still in the stage of technology demonstration and application validation.
SmartSens will exhibit three CIS products at IIC Shenzhen on December 9–10: the SC2150 with 12μm ultra-large pixels for long-distance, low-light telephoto; the SC365AT, the industry's first three-in-one automotive CIS combining Sensor, SerDes, and ISP; and the SC5D8XS, the industry's first 1X/2X dual-focal-length LOFIC smartphone main camera.
Hugging Face's LeRobot has released v0.7.0-rc1; this commit bumps the lerobot dependency version to 0.7.0 (#5268). This is a release candidate ahead of the official version, and the commit is verified and signed by GitHub.
The iFlytek Input Method team has launched Gununu, an AI toy that supports touch and shake interactions. Its base has a built-in rotating servo, so it proactively turns toward users when they come near. The product uses a growth system: speech and expression abilities are gradually unlocked the more the user interacts with it, and it comes with the NuNu Planet app to record exploration and development. The team says it conducted more than 1,200 person-times of research across more than 12 rounds, developed a separate five-layer memory system for long-term memory, and removed the camera from the final version to protect privacy.
Texas Instruments has released the pre-certified multiprotocol communications system-on-module TICS100MOD and the dual-channel IO-Link master TIOM2212. The former is based on the AM2612 MCU and DP83826AI Ethernet PHY and can switch between EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, and Profinet via a firmware update at startup.
DJI has released the all-scenario lightweight flagship industry drone DJI Matrice 5T, the first lightweight industry model to come standard with LiDAR, millimeter-wave radar, and a full-color omnidirectional visual perception system. The official mainland China price is 57,488 yuan, and pre-orders are open.
Force Machine has fully upgraded Dexmal MaaS, connecting the complete chain from data collection and policy training to cloud inference and real-machine deployment, and supports three model optimization pipelines: SFT, DAgger, and RECAP.
A REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 autonomous forklift completed on-site deployment in about one day at a lighting equipment manufacturing plant in Zhejiang, handling pallet transport between a covered outdoor storage area and an indoor warehouse. The project has an actual load of about 600 kg, a one-way route of about 100 m, aisles 2–3 m wide, and performs 140–180 tasks per day; the vehicle model has a rated load of 1,500 kg. Laser SLAM navigation requires no floor QR codes or magnetic strips, but WMS/MES integration, elevators, automatic doors, and multi-route networks can extend deployment time.
Galaxis exhibited its full-stack robot lineup at CeMAT ASIA 2026, unveiling for the first time the 3-ton-class FLASH-TP heavy-duty four-way pallet MSR robot, which can fully automate pallet storage and retrieval across aisles and floors. The product features a 125mm ultra-thin chassis, RFID aisle positioning, and a 16-wheel structure, replacing traditional barcode identification to reduce maintenance. The booth also presented tote and pallet solutions comprising the Flying Box system, the FM series, the VFR ultra-narrow-aisle forklift robot, and the CP picking robot.
Zhongli shares displayed its 45-ton unmanned reach stacker and railway unmanned transfer system solution at the China Railway Group's railway modern logistics system construction site meeting held October 27-28. The reach stacker is said to achieve a fully closed-loop unmanned container transfer operation and supports switching between autonomous operation and remote teleoperation modes. The transfer solution covers box unloading from boxcars, platform transfer, in-warehouse intelligent management, and loading and outbound shipping, carried out collaboratively by a 1.5-ton omnidirectional loading and unloading robot, a 2.0-ton embodied loading and unloading robot, and a 25-ton unmanned flatbed vehicle.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has launched the F Series Controller S-type controller for industrial robots, strengthening cybersecurity functions while inheriting the F series' operability and expandability. The controller supports username-password authentication, access permission management, operation log recording, and secure communication protocols such as SSH, FTPS, and HTTPS, and performs integrity checks at OS startup and application execution.
Boston Dynamics has released Stretch Gen 2, its second-generation autonomous mobile unloading robot, with hardware and structural upgrades based on first-generation deployment data and more than 100,000 hours of operating data. The new machine reduces internal cabling by 81%, uses automotive-grade connectors, joints that can rotate continuously more than 360°, and an upgraded gripper. It can unload up to 1,000 boxes per hour, its battery can support two shifts, and fast charging takes about 75 minutes to 90%.
Perceptron has released the Egocentric 1.0 self-serve API, which converts first-person human and robot video into structured training data, outputting a timestamped subtask timeline (with sub-second-level action precision), independent activity timelines for each hand or gripper, and 3D hand reconstruction without camera calibration. The API claims to match GPT-6 Astra on subtask quality at about 1/8 the cost ($9 per video hour versus about $76), with a full-stack price of $29.
A developer used SolidCraft and HappyCAD to model each part individually and complete the full assembly of a quadruped robot, and also made an animation showing how the components fit together. The main body shell took the longest, with the difficulty lying in handling the mounting points and clearances around the leg joints. The author is asking for direction on what to refine next: part modeling or assembly setup.
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UBTech has released Thinker-Sim, an embodied intelligence simulation platform that builds a one-stop system covering digitization of real scenarios, large-scale synthetic simulation data, and robot capability evaluation. The platform uses the self-developed Thinker-GS high-fidelity scene reconstruction algorithm and an end-to-end SimReady asset automated generation technology, enabling 3D reconstruction based on real factory production line environments and flexible loading of foreground assets such as robots, production equipment, and personnel.
GlobalLogic's Silicon & Embedded division partnered with Haystack Robotics to design an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) from the concept stage, combining real-time perception, edge intelligence, and navigation to perform hospital-grade UV disinfection with as little manual intervention as possible. The robot offers two modes, autonomous navigation and "follow me"; the platform separates the mobile chassis from the UV payload so other modules can be swapped in later, and it reuses components such as ROS and sensor fusion.
Geek+ will exhibit its full-category robot matrix at CeMAT 2026, including the global debut of the RoboShuttle Hyper case-to-person climbing robot and a live on-site demonstration of the RAPS unmanned picking station.
Geek+ launched the RoboPallet pallet large-and-small vehicle solution during CeMAT ASIA 2026. Aimed at medium-throughput pallet operations, it uses the RP11 high-bay forklift for vertical storage and retrieval within racks, and the RP2 low-level forklift or P-series robots for horizontal transport, with all equipment dispatched centrally by the RMS robot management system.
Yuequan Bionics exhibited its YingShou Y-Hand M2 bionic dexterous hand at Hong Kong Fintech Week, stating that it has 38 degrees of freedom, a whole-hand grip strength of 330N, a five-finger closing time of 0.2s, and a single-fingertip repeat positioning accuracy of 0.04mm. The hand can perform all 33 categories of human-like dexterous manipulation with a 96% success rate, and when mounted on a humanoid robot platform it can adaptively grasp square, spherical, irregularly shaped, and thin, brittle, or soft objects. The company also introduced its integrated software-hardware in-house development system, which is built on core components such as motors and artificial muscle modules and extends to dexterous hand manipulation units and bionic full-robot platforms.
Automation should not stop at the building entrance. A Sherpa 10K #AMR carries a fully loaded cart across the yard, turns in, and passes through a rolling shutter door. From outdoor to indoor, all dispatched as one unified system.
The SoftSync FlexHand bionic tendon-driven hand was featured on CCTV-4's national science entrepreneurship program Youth Innovation+. The hand is designed with a 1:1 human hand appearance and offers softness, safety, waterproofing, and shock absorption; under the same pose and motor settings, it relies on compliance to adapt to objects of different sizes, enabling pinching and three-finger grasping.
Kinetix AI presented its full-stack embodied intelligence matrix at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026, including the high-dynamic humanoid ping-pong system SMASH, the 117-DOF humanoid robot body KAIBot, the 37-DOF dexterous hand KAI Hand, and the first-person data collection headband KAI Halo.
At CeMAT ASIA 2026, Seer Robotics exhibited its Robot Brain product line and several robots equipped with the platform, including the X1 PRO humanoid robot autonomously completing a water-fetching task, the P300 and P1500 AI delivery robots collaboratively avoiding obstacles, and an omnidirectional stacker forklift autonomously identifying and picking up various pallets. Robot Brain consists of three parts: Model, Cerebellum, and Neural pathways. It has been adapted to more than 400 types of core components and supports more than 2000 robot SKUs.
Kinetix AI's ultra-high-DOF dexterous hand KAI-Hand made its debut at HKFW 2026 and was tested live on site. The hand is designed at 1:1 human-hand scale, has fingertip force exceeding 30N, can grip stably for long periods, and its thermal-balance design keeps it room-temperature to the touch.
ROBROS has launched its next-generation humanoid robot IGRIS-MAX, increasing payload capacity to up to 30 kg through enhanced shoulder joint torque. The robot targets heavier tasks in industrial environments, and the company says it can expand the application possibilities of humanoid robots across various industrial sites.
Huaner Technology offers four 18-DOF hexapod robots—miniHexa, SpiderPi, JetHexa, and ROSpider—for different learning needs, all supporting 360° omnidirectional movement and inverse kinematics algorithm learning.
Huaner Technology compares three entry-level robot cars: miniAuto Pro, TurboPi, and ClawPi. The miniAuto Pro is based on ESP32 and supports Scratch and Arduino.
Genrobot.AI has released DAS Ego 2.0 and DAS Dex 2.0, two new products for Physical AI training data collection.
The author wrote open-source firmware for the Feetech STS32XX series servos, claiming it nearly eliminates positioning error in most cases. SO-ARM101 positioning error dropped from 35 mm to 10 mm, and SO-ARM102 from 25 mm to 0–2 mm. The firmware is open-sourced on GitHub.
KUKA Mobile Robotics unveiled three core offerings at CeMAT ASIA 2026: the KMP L series underride lifting mobile robots, a one-stop pallet handling solution, and the KUKA.AMR software 3.0 platform, as the implementation of the "KAI" intelligent platform in warehousing and logistics scenarios.
Xinyan Robotics launched the Bubbo 1 emotional companion robot for the home on October 29, 2026. It is 65 cm tall, carries 26 sensors across 13 categories, is priced at 9,499 yuan on JD.com, and is available to the first 1,000 users at a discounted price of 7,999 yuan.
At CeMAT Asia, which opened on November 3, Ingsmart exhibited the Messol embodied-intelligence loading and unloading robot solution, designed for native mixed-box conditions inside truck trailers; it supports grasping of mixed boxes in multiple box types and orientations, and the operation process requires no manual entry into the trailer for sorting.
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PHYMI released its first Physical Agent action partner, Sagi, on October 28. It uses a four-wheeled legged configuration with a humanoid upper body and a companion cargo box, and is positioned to complete long-range mobility and object manipulation in open, dynamic real-world scenarios.
GelSight released the GelSight Mobile 4.5 inspection platform software update, which improves overall measurement performance through system-level optimizations and adds the Profile Analysis contour analysis tool and the Arc shape for the Offset tool, used to measure angles, radii, line-to-line and point-to-point distances, and height differences of circular features. The new version also offers a refreshed interface and enhanced PDF reports, which can include images and signature lines to facilitate sharing and sign-off of inspection results within organizations. The version is now available.
After merging with ATOMIX, Force Machine made its debut at CeMAT ASIA 2026 with a robot multi-agent tiered operation system that divides case-piece picking into three tiers by difficulty: economical robotic arms handle about 60% of standard goods, embodied robots handle about 20% of irregular, hard-to-grasp goods, and the remaining 20% of long-tail tasks are covered by human workers.
REEMAN developed an enclosed food delivery robot based on the Hussar Pro chassis (HBOT20P), combining a fully enclosed delivery compartment with indoor autonomous mobility. The chassis has a rated payload of 100 kg, uses laser SLAM navigation, avoids obstacles with laser, 3D camera, and ultrasonic sensors, and offers open SDK/API interfaces supporting HTTP API, Android SDK, RS232, and local MQTT integration.
With annual shipments of thousands of mobile robots and chassis units, industrial-grade engineering standards, cross-application customization experience, and a self-developed technology chain spanning navigation algorithms to cloud management, REEMAN provides OEM and custom robot development services. Its public projects include a warehouse picking robot using the Big Dog chassis, a 7-DOF robotic arm, and a 1,200 mm lifting mechanism; an AI library inventory robot based on the Hot Wheels chassis; and an enclosed food delivery robot based on the Hussar Pro HBOT20P chassis.