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Elf-Xuan 2.0, a bionic humanoid robot designed and developed by AheadForm, was exhibited at Inclusion 2026 in Shanghai, showing natural expressions and movements such as looking back. The original post says it combines lifelike design, natural expression, and embodied AI, aiming at the future form of bionic humanoid robots; this was an on-site demonstration.
On September 11, the Qianxing Future P30 series industry-grade quadruped robots were demonstrated in live operation at the 16th Smart City and Smart Economy Expo (Smart City Expo) at the Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. The P30 offers both quadruped and wheeled-leg configurations, reserves mounting, power, and communication interfaces, and supports scenario adaptation and secondary development. Qianxing Future is exploring possible applications of the P30 in target scenarios such as power grid inspection, campus security, and petrochemicals, and is using the expo to establish connections with industry partners in Hangzhou and Ningbo.
At CIOE2026 (China International Optoelectronic Exposition), LightEra Photonics showcased its CHIP TEST laser chip mass-production test system for the first time. The system provides one-stop testing of optoelectronic performance, spectra, and divergence angle, and is compatible with DFB and EML chips. The company also exhibited a dual-FA automatic coupling system for mass production of 800G/1.6T optical devices and a fully automatic coupling system for pump lasers. Topstar, as a shareholder of LightEra Photonics, provides scaled manufacturing and supply chain support, and plans to launch an integrated optical communications full-line solution.
Tennant's X4 ROVR and X6 ROVR autonomous floor-cleaning robots use RealSense depth cameras as their core perception component, achieving millimeter-level depth accuracy and real-time 3D perception for obstacle detection, recognition of people and moving objects, environment mapping, and safe navigation.
Boston Dynamics has released Spot 5.2, positioned as a middle layer connecting the various AI systems in a factory. The Orbit software has been restructured to organize data around assets, can import asset hierarchies and link them to inspections, supports connecting external data sources such as PLC sensors and security cameras, and adds an MCP layer for AI agents to autonomously schedule Spot deployments.
Why it matters: The original article details the specific changes in Spot 5.2 regarding data connectivity, inspection modalities, and predictive maintenance, allowing readers to assess whether to update their own deployments.
Westwood Robotics has launched the new Gummy BEAR — GB01 and GB01X, with 3.8 Nm rated torque, 14 Nm / 1.5 s stall torque, and weights of 235 g / 248 g.
How about the "ZH Connection Cable Set 2 [for KHR-3HV Serial]" for KHR-3HV maintenance? https://kondo-robot.com/product/02248 Cables worn from long use can cause failures at event venues. Replace them before attending! They are also ideal as emergency spare parts during events!
How to scale whole-body data? Start from the ego perspective—vision only, full-body mesh, whole-body error of about 3 cm, 100,000 hours per month. Generate whole-body manipulation data directly usable for policy training from real human behavior, at scale. See the blog for details👉: https://www.genrobot.ai/blog/whole-body
At WRC 2026, Youren Intelligence made the global debut of a robotic dexterous hand that can perform pulse diagnosis: three fingers rest on the wrist, and on-device processing analyzes 28 pulse types and draws on traditional Chinese medicine knowledge to offer suggestions. The angel-round company, founded less than a year ago with a team of about 20 people, believes the tactile bottleneck lies in data trustworthiness rather than volume. Its CrediTac framework uses heterogeneous fusion sensors based on multiple mechanisms—capacitive, piezoresistive, and piezoelectric—and aims to deliver tactile data with 99.9% trustworthiness.
Wanxun Technology has released NOVA2.0, its second-generation flexible embodied brain, built on a touch-native multimodal hierarchical architecture based on the concept of "body intelligence." It supports native one-brain-multiple-forms, 1B+ dynamic parameter combinations, and 20ms ultra-fast trajectory generation. The architecture has completed over 10 million extreme-condition operations across 40+ real industry scenarios, including real estate and construction, power and energy, and transportation. It can adapt to flexible single-arm, dual-arm, dexterous hand/bionic human and other body configurations, and can generalize to new scenarios with as little as 1% of the startup data volume required by conventional approaches.
GenRobot.AI introduces its Whole-Body Manipulation Data production system, which uses DFM to reconstruct coherent whole-body motion from first-person video, unifying the body, both hands, objects, contact, vision, and task semantics.
In the Kepler Bumblebee smart coffee cabin, the Bumblebee humanoid robot handles the entire coffee-making process. Powered by a self-developed VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) omni-modal large model that coordinates and controls a professional coffee machine, it produces a cup in about 45 seconds, runs continuously for 8 hours on a 1-hour charge, and supports 24/7 unattended operation.
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How do you scale whole-body data? 😜 Start with Ego! Vision only, full-body mesh! ≈3 cm whole-body error 100,000 hours of data per month. From real human behavior to whole-body manipulation data usable for policies—acquired at scale. See the whole body. Learn complete skills. #PhysicalAI #Robotics
Pangolin Robot has launched Speedybot Max, featuring large-capacity multi-compartment storage and emphasizing safety and eco-friendly performance. It is aimed at schools, communities, and various semi-closed areas for daily autonomous delivery service. The original text does not provide specific figures such as payload, battery life, or success rate; it only states that the robot is positioned for autonomous delivery scenarios.
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NexArm ROS is an educational robotic arm designed for schools. It uses a dual-control architecture with an NVIDIA Jetson or Raspberry Pi host paired with an ESP32 controller, comes preinstalled with the OpenClaw agent, and supports voice and vision operations driven by large models such as Qwen and DeepSeek.
Anthropic has launched the Model Hardware Standard, which lets AI agents control lab equipment and autonomously run experiments. It is currently available as a research preview to a first group of labs and manufacturers.
IFA 2026 closed in Berlin, Germany, with highlights including the iRobot Roomba Duo robot vacuum concept and the Tecno Bezelless borderless phone concept. The Roomba Duo pairs the Roomba Plus 757 with iRobot's most powerful main vacuum ever, deploying the secondary unit from a lifting garage to clean narrower spaces.
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iRobot showcased the Roomba Duo concept at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The main floor-washing unit navigates using lidar and cameras, its steam-mopping roller brush applies 46 newtons of downward pressure, and it carries a Roomba Plus 757 on top, which a robotic arm lowers to clean under tables and in corners. In the demo, the main unit picked pasta up from a carpet and cleaned the carpet. New CEO Hao Li introduced the machine; as a concept product it has no price or launch date, and its specifications are still in development.
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DJI has launched the Romo 2 series of robot vacuums, including the transparent-bodied P2 and the opaque-bodied A2. A new Local Data Mode cuts off the DJI Home app's internet connection to protect privacy. The P2 sells for 1,299 euros (about $1,500), and the A2 is 100 euros cheaper.
The dataflow robotics framework dora-rs/dora has released version v1.0.1. This maintenance release mainly fixes bugs such as packaging the cmake templates into dora-operator-api-c and improving the release verification process, and adds a CI gate check on every PR for the interfaces frozen in dora 1.x. It also updates the documentation to list the 1.0.0 breaking changes, cleans up unused dependencies, and updates Cargo.lock.
Pangolin Robot's Speedybot claims all-weather operating capability, equipped with an L4 autonomous navigation system that enables seamless indoor-outdoor transitions, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and dynamic rerouting without remote control. The robot supports 24-hour continuous operation and targets scenarios including factories, campuses, communities, hospitals, and food delivery, aiming to reduce outdoor human exposure and operational risk.
STIER has launched the PolishV series radial compliant spindle, featuring three main characteristics: high torque, precise force adjustment, and automatic tool change. The spindle delivers output torque of over 2.7 N.m and a floating torque of up to 24 N.m, providing 360° circumferential compliance and ±5° oscillating radial force, with floating accuracy of ±1 N, and supports automatic tool change in conjunction with a robot tool magazine. It has already been deployed in fields including liquid-cooling computing, chip manufacturing, aluminum alloy die casting, bearing manufacturing, medical devices, and 3C consumer electronics, and together with PolishX compliant force control and six-axis force sensors, forms its AI compliant grinding product system.
Stial has built a full-stack physical AI technology system spanning flexible force control, AI process decision-making, motion control, and robotic execution, focused on complex grinding, polishing, and deburring scenarios. Its PolishX flexible force control system can achieve contact force control accuracy of up to ±0.5% FS within the specified range and test conditions, and NextBrain™ AI Mushroom Cloud provides robot modeling, task planning, simulation, digital twin, and AI process decision-making capabilities. The related solutions have been applied in computing infrastructure, shipbuilding, auto parts, 3C electronics, and other fields, and have entered overseas markets such as Southeast Asia.
Skydio DFR Command has received and processed more than 25 million calls for service (CFS), more than double the 10 million reported in February 2026.
Physical AI company ZINOVA, using the LimX Dynamics TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot, partnered with construction robotics company RIC Robotics to complete a scaled demonstration of a concrete tilt-up panel construction scenario, covering processes including formwork and frame assembly, and multi-layer rebar laying and tying.
Mondo Robotics' all-terrain camera robot Beni follows with one tap and autonomously shoots 4K footage, with a top tracking speed of 18 mph and about 1 hour 45 minutes of battery life per charge. More than 3,000 households and creators have backed the project, which raised over $2 million within two weeks of launch; assembly begins in September 2026, with shipping in the fall. All footage is stored locally, and the robot can right itself after a fall.
XSTO held the global debut of its M9 series light off-road electric wheelchair at a new product launch on September 3 at the China International Welfare Expo in Beijing. The series uses an intelligent all-time four-wheel-drive system, four-wheel independent suspension, and high-grip off-road tires to handle unpaved terrain such as grass and stone paths, with a maximum range of 54 kilometers; the M9 Pro supports fully electric posture adjustment and one-touch flat recline. The X13 embodied mobile robot, M4 Ultra smart wheelchair, and A7 wheeled bipedal robot also appeared at the same exhibition, which runs until September 5, with on-site preorders available at booth 3B04.
dora-rs/dora has released version v1.0.0, published by GitHub Actions on September 2. This release is an immutable version, with only the title and description editable, and the release notes include a link to the release notes article.
Introducing Zeroth Bridge: the world's first high-performance personal humanoid robot under $4,000. 🤖💥 🔗 https://zeroth-openbridge.com
Qiuzhi Technology, together with Qihang Information Technology and Xuanji Dynamics, integrated the AIRBOT Play six-axis robotic arm with the Qihang Insight Cloud OS teleoperation system and mounted it on Xuanji Dynamics' quadruped robot platform, building a "mobile + manipulation" inspection solution that was validated in three scenarios: sanitation inspection, construction site operations, and hazardous-material simulation experiments.
zeroth_official has released the personal humanoid robot Zeroth Bridge, priced under $4,000 and now open for orders. The robot stands 88 cm tall and weighs 13 kg, uses custom actuators to support dynamic movements such as backflips, supports teleoperation and expansion, and is positioned as an open-source platform. Order at: https://zeroth-openbridge.com/
X Square Robot releases TwinDEX, a pair of twin three-finger, nine-degree-of-freedom dexterous hands: one is wearable for data collection, and one is mounted on a robot for real-machine deployment, enabling dexterous manipulation driven purely by embodiment-free data with zero real-machine teleoperation data.
Why it matters: The original text provides specific design dimensions for consistency between the collection end and the execution end, along with a data-efficiency comparison, offering a transferable understanding of the engineering path for replacing real-machine teleoperation with embodiment-free data.
Stial has released an AI flexible wet grinding solution for repairing scratches and pits in titanium alloy plates. The process includes the SeeV AI perception system to identify defects, the NextBrain™ AI brain to plan grinding paths and process parameters online, and PolishX flexible force control to stabilize contact force, with wet cooling simultaneously carrying away grinding heat. Under the specified range and test conditions, the system's contact force control accuracy can reach ±0.5% FS. The solution transforms experience-driven grinding into a controllable process driven by data and algorithms, and the related technology has been applied in multiple high-end manufacturing fields such as shipbuilding, automotive parts, and 3C electronics.
The Kepler Qilin quadruped robot makes its debut; the company says it offers up to 8 hours of battery life at full load and is designed for heavy-duty industrial work across a range of operating conditions. The robot can carry out joint missions in coordination with the Kepler K2 Hornet humanoid mech.
iRobot has released the flagship robot vacuum-and-mop Roomba Max 875 Combo ($1,199) and the mid-range Roomba Plus 678 Combo ($899), now on sale at irobot.com and set to appear at IFA Berlin under its new shareholder Picea Robotics.