Schneider Electric, Nvidia and HPE have formed a strategic collaboration to launch AI agents that can monitor and optimize industrial operations inside factories and process plants. The first batch, Industrial AI Agents at the Edge, focuses on operational technology (OT) monitoring, cybersecurity and energy consumption optimization.
At the Industrial World Model session of the 2026 Physical AI and World Models Conference, Tianfu Software made the global debut of its Industrial World Model Generator (IWM Generator), which organizes drawings, engineering models, test data, and operating records into models that can run according to engineering principles.
ROBOTIS has released the HX Friends series robotic hand lineup, built on DYNAMIXEL and covering a variety of structures ranging from five-finger hands to grippers and even single-finger designs. The models include the HX5-D20 (5 fingers, 20 joints), HX4-D12 (4 fingers, 12 joints), HX3-D11 (3 fingers, 11 joints), HX2-D01 (a gripper driven by a single DYNAMIXEL), and HX1-D03 (starting from a single finger and expandable into a full hand).
Robotiq has launched the 2FC physical AI gripper, a production-ready adaptive gripper with tactile sensing and embedded intelligence. Pre-orders open today, with shipping starting in Q1 2027. It is offered in two stroke versions: 85 mm (2FC-85) and 140 mm (2FC-140).
Hunan Viewtrix Robotics Co., Ltd. exhibited a dual-machine collaborative welding workstation, a humanoid welding robot, an intelligent residual-material scanning system, an intelligent grinding workstation, and the KUNWU industrial simulation platform at the 2026 China Marine Economy Expo in Shenzhen.
Origami Robotics has released the S1 skill-capture glove, aimed at high-quality dexterous manipulation data collection. It records 20 finger joint angles via encoders and synchronously captures fingertip and palm pressure and wrist-camera video, all aligned to the same timeline, so it can keep measuring even when the hand is fully occluded and the vision pipeline fails. The original text states that its fingertip accuracy has been verified to reach the millimeter level.
Unitree Technology released a demo video of the H2-X "Kung Fu Legend" humanoid robot on October 21, showing scenes including leaping over a car, kicking a car door, jumping down from a shipping container, blocking a blade in a villa courtyard, lifting a car to rescue a person, and pushing a person to safety. The company says the H2-X has a maximum battery life of about 8 hours; for reference, the publicly stated battery life of the standard H2 is about 3 hours, but the testing conditions were not specified.
Moya, the world's first fully biomimetic robot developed by Zhuoyide, took on the literary character "Cuicui" and completed a virtual-physical linked performance combining a "digital human + physical robot" on October 18 at the 5th Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Tourism Development Conference. The next day, it "reported for duty" as a tour guide at the Qule Visitor Service Center in the Chadong scenic area of Border Town, interacting with tourists.
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Agile Robots unveiled the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot reference platform at Nvidia GTC Berlin, integrating Nvidia's Isaac GR00T robot development platform with the Jetson Thor edge computing system, with launch planned for early 2027.
materialize.cc has launched to host hardware and robotics projects and support 3D printing with more than 200 materials (metals, plastics, resins, and more). Projects can keep 3D files, build guides, source code, component links, and wiring diagrams in one place, and AI agents can organize projects, explore materials, and place orders after user confirmation.
At NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Agile Robots partnered with Audi to demonstrate using Dassault Systèmes' DELMIA virtual twin to evaluate how mobile humanoid robots perform in production logistics systems before deployment.
Kinetix AI has launched a first-person human data solution for embodied AI, centered on the lightweight head-worn data capture device KAI Halo. It combines multimodal data collection with edge-cloud AI capabilities to turn real human activity into high-quality training data.
The author team released the Nuvo Vision One stereo depth camera, which uses two IMX296 global-shutter cameras with shared hardware-triggered synchronized capture, and a Raspberry Pi 5 performs image rectification and stereo matching to output disparity and depth.
This guy lifted a car with ease. Unitree launches: H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian 🤖 Powerful performance, here to serve and protect you, with maximum battery life of about 8 hours. Please use the robot safely and friendly.
Unitree Technology launched its new H2-X Kung Fu Legend (Guardian) humanoid robot on October 21. The only core specification officially confirmed so far is a maximum battery life of about 8 hours; full hardware specifications, pricing, and mass-production delivery timing have not yet been announced.
Differential Review traveled to Chongqing to speak with engineers from Shengtong Energy and Qiten Robotics, and introduced the Metaverse Intelligent Inspection solution for high-risk industrial inspection. The solution first uses reconstruction technologies such as 3D Gaussian to build a digital factory on a computer, and a large model automatically identifies instruments.
The Everbot third-generation robot completed zero-shot grasping of a button and placing it into a tray on real hardware, taking 58 minutes in total (video sped up 175 times); inference, recognition, and movement all ran onboard a Jetson Orin Nano Super, without relying on the cloud.
The author has open-sourced the hand exoskeleton TAKTO ONE, designed during their master's thesis, with CAD, PCB, and firmware all free to download, totaling 29 parts. It can directly read 12 finger joints and is used to collect hand data to train robot hands or drive robotic hands. The author also released a TAKTO Lite version without motors; because motors account for about 85% of the parts cost, the Lite version costs about 164 euros plus circuit board costs, and the author is openly soliciting designs for a thumb module.
Zhongcang Robotics has launched the ADV all-directional narrow-aisle AMR, featuring side-fork access, a dual steering-wheel all-directional chassis, and a centered center-of-gravity layout. It has a rated load capacity of 1500 kg, and its mast offers four maximum lift heights: 5000, 7000, 9000, and 11000 mm. Both parking and navigation accuracy reach ±10 mm, and high-bay storage and retrieval efficiency is 20–25 pallets per hour.
There is no cow level... We're exploring Diablo II: Resurrected in VR, walking physically on the Omni One and using archery to take on the legendary hidden cow level!
The 2026 Physical AI and World Models Conference opened in Nanjing, where Agnes AI showcased its self-developed agent runtime framework, Agnes Harness, in the exhibition area. Through the device access protocol MHS, it extends full-modal model capabilities to hardware including the Go2 robot dog and the Car01 robot vehicle.
At NVIDIA GTC, Agile Robots and NVIDIA unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid reference platform for R&D, built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform and integrating a complete workflow spanning demonstration capture, simulation, training, evaluation, deployment, and real-world testing.
Why it matters: The original article lists the specific configuration of the robot's whole-body degrees of freedom, compute power, and preconfigured software stack, which can be used to assess how this integrated solution for R&D labs connects with the industrial model.
The Shenzhen Robotics Association reposted news from EngineAI that EngineAI has open-sourced a full end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) autonomous navigation pipeline that lets PM01 find its own way. The original body text contains only an association introduction and source attribution; it does not provide specific technical details, a code address, or performance data for the pipeline.
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA showcased its full lineup of local AI hardware and announced multiple software and ecosystem updates for RTX Spark, DGX Spark, and DGX Station.
NVIDIA announced an upgrade to its Isaac general-purpose robotics development platform, launching a new humanoid robot reference framework, simulation workflows, and data tools aimed at accelerating general-purpose robot development. The updates cover robot training, simulation validation, and deployment processes, helping developers train robots using synthetic data and simulation environments and validate robot behavior before actual deployment.
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that the OpenShell reference architecture is now available for building, isolating, observing, and governing secure AI agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
Why it matters: The original text explains the reference architecture's layered design and millisecond-level isolation mechanism, which helps readers understand how it brings agent security down to the hardware layer.
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced an expansion of the Isaac open-source robotics development platform, adding the Isaac OS runtime, the officially released Isaac Lab 3.0 learning framework, and an open-source reference workflow based on DGX Station.
Why it matters: The original text lists the runtime, learning framework, and open-source workflow newly added to the Isaac platform, allowing readers to judge the specific changes in the data-to-deployment pipeline.
Unitree Technology released the humanoid robot H2-X on its official Weibo account, with a caption stating a maximum battery life of about 8 hours. The video shows it kicking in a car door, landing a flip from a 4-meter-high platform, and lifting a car with its bare hands, with scenarios covering security and emergency rescue.
Voxel51 has released version 3.0 of its data platform, offering robotics and physical AI developers tools to search, organize, annotate, and evaluate robotics data.
Three days after Geek+ invested 50 million yuan in Shenyi Robot for a 20% stake, Shenyi Robot, which was founded just nine months ago, unveiled its self-developed embodied foundation model SE-1 at the 2026 CIIF, along with Sculptor, a multi-task embodied operation robot focused on heavy-load logistics, and Edge, a dual-arm robot focused on fine industrial operations.
Xinming gave a keynote at ROSCon China 2026, where Vice President Dr. Zhou Fan presented its spatial intelligence chip and 3D vision AI module. The self-developed chip integrates real-time 3D stereo vision perception, on-device AI, and SLAM on a single chip, delivering about 3.5 TOPS of on-device compute at under 1 W power consumption, with roughly 1 ms motion-to-display latency, and supports 6 cameras and multi-sensor fusion.
Unitree Technology has released its new humanoid robot H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, and an official video claims a maximum battery life of about 8 hours. In the video demonstrations, the robot can lift the front of a car with its bare hands, jump down from a 4-meter-high platform and roll to a standing position, perform consecutive airborne flying kicks and land steadily, and dent a car door with a single kick. The original article holds that these demonstrations test balance control, leg torque, and mid-air posture correction capabilities, and infers that the robot may target fields such as emergency rescue and security protection.
At its product launch event, Baidu Dazi announced full compatibility with domestic IT innovation, listing on the Lenovo Kaitian Tianxi Store, Kylin Software Store, and UnionTech Software App Store, and partnering with Lenovo Kaitian to launch the first fully domestic full-stack general-purpose AI agent workstation. The workstation integrates Lenovo Kaitian hardware, the Tianxi AI Pro base, and Baidu Dazi, supports Kylin and UnionTech operating systems, is compatible with domestic GPUs such as Hygon BW100 and Iluvatar CoreX Zhikai 100, and comes with preinstalled models and runtime environment for out-of-the-box use.
Unitree Robotics announced the release of the humanoid robot "H2-X Kung Fu Legend," with a maximum battery life of about 8 hours.
On October 14, RoboParty released the developer-oriented humanoid robot RP1 on X. As of October 20, the release post had about 49,000 views and 52 replies, and the official video had over 1.6 million plays. RP1 fully open-sources materials including mechanical CAD, BOM, the self-developed ROMOMO joints, firmware, motion control, simulation models, and SDK. It stands 1.35 meters tall, with 24 active degrees of freedom in the standard version and 30 in the Pro version; some joints have a peak torque of 160 N·m, and its top running speed is 4 m/s.
Geek+ RoboShuttle Hyper tote-to-person solution uses conveyor-line workstations to enable robots to "drop and go": a dual-line conveyor structure buffers totes instead of making robots queue, and after handoff a robot can pick up a tote from the other conveyor line and leave the station to continue its tasks.
A Grip Sensor board gives basic PWM servos a sense of touch by measuring servo current to estimate grip force. A status LED indicates whether an object has been grasped, a Teach button lets users teach the grip strength, and an open-drain status output can communicate with existing MCUs. In the video demo, the servo grips a box; when the box drops, the board detects it and notifies the MCU, while also preventing the servo from gripping too tightly and overheating. The author has made 5 boards for testing, available by direct message.
The Honghu eVTOL pre-production prototype made its public debut at the 2026 Inclusion·Bund Conference, with a cruise speed of up to 320 km/h, a maximum takeoff weight of 2,500 kg, a 5-seat layout, 60 minutes of endurance, and tuning in accordance with civil aviation airworthiness standards.
Yufeng Flight Technology's self-developed all-weather aerostat "Yunshao M1000-CNS" recently completed a series of first flight tests in Rong County, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, conducted in stages, successively completing the rigid-flexible coupled structure system final assembly, transfer out of the warehouse, buoyancy transfer, mooring and tethering, and low-altitude hovering. The aerostat has a diameter of 21 meters and a length of 24 meters, adopts a second-generation rigid-flexible coupling technical architecture, can carry a 300-kilogram mission payload, and achieves energy self-sufficiency through wind power, photovoltaic and energy storage systems.