Alpha Robotics conducted typhoon and heavy rain extreme weather tests on its Speedybot delivery robot. The original text did not provide specific pass rates or performance data under the test conditions, only stating that the delivery robot is suitable for factories, industrial parks, residential communities, campuses, and hospitals.
XPeng held a sharing and experience day themed "TIME," announcing the first major upgrade to its second-generation VLA large model. The new XOS 6.3.0 version will make its global debut on the XPeng G9L, with the core aim of moving AI from 3D spatial understanding to 4D spatiotemporal understanding.
Why it matters: The original breaks the upgrade into three specific changes: contextual memory, reasoning approach, and world model. Readers can use these to understand how the shift from spatial understanding to spatiotemporal understanding is realized.
Pudu Robotics has launched the PUDU GT Series of commercial robotic mowers, comprising three models: PUDU GT3, GT5 and GT7. The series targets professional lawn and grounds maintenance, addressing integrated grounds care for commercial properties, high-efficiency maintenance of large turf areas, and precision turf care for golf courses and professional sports fields, respectively. Each model combines dedicated mowing and collection systems with autonomous capabilities to suit different operating scenarios.
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, held August 19–23, KEENON Robotics showcased KOM 3.0, a VLA architecture for the service industry, which it says integrates a latent-space world model. On site, the XMAN-R1 autonomously completed the full process from picking up a cup to extracting coffee; two humanoid robots collaborated under unified scheduling to wash and fold clothes; and together with the T10 delivery robot and C40 cleaning robot, they demonstrated "general-purpose + specialized" collaborative service. In the demonstrations, the robots completed long-horizon tasks end-to-end autonomously, with no teleoperation.
Li Tianlong's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) developed an engineered microrobot system based on CD5+ dendritic cells that can achieve precise intravascular navigation through external magnetic field control and activate immune cells in situ; the results were published in Science Advances. Under a conical magnetic field, the system self-assembles into a ribbon-like swarm that migrates downstream; under a rotating magnetic field, it assembles into a chain-like swarm that moves upstream against blood flow; combined with tumor chemotaxis, it achieves targeted enrichment and deep infiltration. In an orthotopic mouse colorectal cancer model, a single injection combined with magnetic navigation reduced the tumor bioluminescence signal by more than 90%. HIT is the first affiliation of the paper.
Why it matters: The HIT team presents the construction strategy and magnetic navigation results of the CD5+ dendritic cell microrobot, giving readers a look at the specific approach of this therapeutic path of in situ immune activation.
Raspberry Pi Chief Commercial Officer Mike Buffham visited Hiwonder on August 28, 2026, toured its robotics products and R&D capabilities, and exchanged views on Raspberry Pi-based robotics, AI education, and embodied AI applications.
Yaskawa Electric will begin sales of the MOTOMAN-HC12 human-collaborative robot on August 31, 2026. As the successor model to the MOTOMAN-HC10DTP, it has a 12 kg payload and 1,410 mm maximum reach.
The Enabot EBO Max home robot offers family safety and companionship for fall and winter home scenarios with AI companionship, whole-home smart patrol, fall detection, and 4K recording. During patrol, it automatically checks doors, windows, and corners; when it detects an elderly person or child falling, it triggers a voice reminder and sends an emergency alert to the phone, and supports remote real-time viewing of the home. A low-angle 4K camera, together with AI tracking, portrait mode, and multiple filters, records family moments; 4K two-way audio and video enable remote chatting, and it can give weather and outfit suggestions based on real-time temperature.
UniX AI sent three robots to the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, and all three won medals, taking one gold, one silver, and one bronze. Panther won gold in the hotel service scenario and successfully defended its title, while the other two robots took silver and bronze in the emergency incident response and emergency fire rescue scenarios, respectively. The Games featured 666 teams and 2,056 robots competing across 21 real-world scenario events.
ROBROS delivers 9 IGRIS-C units simultaneously
Strutt has launched the Freewheel Kit and Air Travel Kit accessories for the ev¹ smart mobility scooter and opened pre-orders; the Freewheel Kit is priced at $299 for pre-order (excluding tax).
Shenyang Sanhua New Energy Vehicle Components Co., Ltd. has been named a 2026 Liaoning Province advanced-level smart factory, with the list publicly announced by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. The company focuses on the R&D and mass production of liquid cooling plates for new energy vehicle power batteries and core components for vehicle thermal management. By introducing intelligent visual inspection, automated performance testing, AGV smart transport, and an MES production management system, it has achieved full automation coverage of key production processes.
The Hongxing Technology eye-care lamp robot Lumi gives the lamp a "sense of life" through the coordination of four systems: a perception revolution, a memory revolution, an expression revolution, and a growth system. It is positioned as "not a lamp, but a family member." The product targets four household scenarios: single white-collar workers, children's studies, elderly people's rooms, and new mothers, offering features such as forgetfulness reminders, greeting you when you return home, posture guarding, abnormal-status reminders, and soft night light. It emphasizes a personalized upbringing experience, with each person's Lumi developing a different personality. The original text does not provide pricing or release information.
Noetix Robotics won first prize at the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition. The original text only announced this award and disclosed no further details.
Deep Robotics exhibited its quadruped robot P30 and a new lightweight model, P05, at the 2026 World Robot Conference, with P05 making its first public appearance. In addition to a full-machine display, the industrial-grade quadruped robot P30 was presented in a disassembled form showing its internal design, with peak joint torque reaching 450 N·m, targeting complex industrial environments. P05 focuses on lightweight design, high cost-effectiveness, and ease of operation, and will explore directions including research and education, consumer applications, and lightweight inspection in the future.
Shinhan Investment & Securities and UMI Ventures held the "Korea-Japan Deep Tech Conference" in Tokyo on August 19, with 31 organizations in attendance, including Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, DBJ, KDDI, TEL, SMBC, and Mizuho Bank. The CEO of DeepX presented the company's AI semiconductor strategy, and the CEO of Holiday Robotics presented its physical AI and humanoid robot industry and commercialization strategy. Shinhan plans to leverage UMI's Japanese industry network to support Korean deep tech companies entering Japan and to identify investment and partnership opportunities.
Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck at $399 (excluding taxes and shipping), with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026. The 25 cm-tall robot is built for reinforcement learning, with 15 degrees of freedom, a front camera, an 8x8 LiDAR, two IMUs and a full sensor suite, and supports designing behaviors in simulation and transferring them to the real robot.
Why it matters: It packs the full loop from simulation training to real-world deployment into a small, pre-orderable complete robot, letting readers gauge the barrier to building their own reinforcement learning workflow.
At the second World Humanoid Robot Games, EngineAI's mass-produced small humanoid robot Mini Pi plus competed in nearly ten events, including the 100-meter race, 100-meter obstacle course, high jump, long jump, cheerleading, tai chi, martial arts forms, and street dance, using the same model with no special modifications.
Mark DiLeo, lead technician on Boston Dynamics' Atlas service and repair team, shares how he repairs the bipedal humanoid robot. He reveals that the worst case was when the robot fell and its leg completely split from its torso; the research version R1 requires one to two days of downtime each time it falls, while the production version D1 was designed for manufacturing and on-site customer repair, making it easier to service, and the team can usually repair it within one to two hours, getting the robot back to performing backflips.
Pollen Robotics has launched Microduck, a small robot with a 25 cm body and 780 g weight, priced at $399 with pre-orders open; first deliveries are targeted for before Christmas 2026.
Why it matters: The full hardware specs, pre-order price, and open-source repository are all public, so readers can directly judge whether this small platform suits development and multi-robot experiments.
UniX AI's Panther humanoid robot was the first to complete three tasks in the hotel scenario competition at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games: luggage handling, room restocking, and room tidying, taking the gold medal. This is UniX AI's back-to-back win in the hotel scenario competition at the event.
Pollen Robotics has launched Microduck, a 25 cm tall, 780 g, 15-degree-of-freedom tiny robot, priced at $399 for pre-order (excluding taxes and shipping), with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026. It comes in four colorways: Cream, Graphite, Lavender, and Sky.
Why it matters: The original article provides hardware specs, pricing, and an open-source simulation training entry point, which together indicate the learning value of this small robot for developers.
Lingchu Intelligence announced the completion of a new funding round of over $100 million. Investors include Tuopu Group, Ruicheng Fund under Chery Holding, Lens Technology, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Wuhu Municipal Investment Holding Group, and Fosun Chuangfu, while existing shareholder Zhuhai Technology Industry Group made an excess additional investment. The proceeds will focus on embodied world model R&D and commercial deployment in logistics and advanced manufacturing scenarios. The company's self-developed dual-system architecture comprises the Psi-R2 manipulation policy model and the Psi-W0 action-conditioned world model, and it plans to expand the scale of human data collection and accelerate the layout of data collection facilities.
Why it matters: Lingchu Intelligence officially announced the completion of the funding and stated that the funds will go toward world model R&D and commercialization in logistics and manufacturing scenarios, giving readers insight into its industry-finance resource layout.
At the "AI Expo," Donut Robotics's CEO gave a keynote speech, and the company was interviewed by NHK.
On August 15, 2026, Keli Group's 2026 second-half planning conference was held in Beilun, Ningbo. Heads of controlled and affiliated companies reported on first-half operating results and connected on-site for cooperation opportunities. Chairman and President Ke Jiandong deployed six core development goals, including upholding the sensor industry forest strategy and laying out the robotics sensor market in advance (by integrating robotics business resources, deepening robotics investment, and building an industry building and robotics platform to accelerate the second growth curve), and driving the business footprint to expand from the sensor industry forest to the sensor industry forest plus robotics industry ecosystem, achieving steady profit growth in the second half of the year.
On August 21, Tianchuang Robotics, Qingwei Intelligence, and Lingshu AI signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build a full-chain ecosystem spanning hardware terminals, domestic computing power, and scenario services, and signed on site the first batch of 200 special robot RaaS service orders. Lingshu AI will deliver integrated security, firefighting, and emergency-response inspection services for high-risk scenarios such as chemical plants, power plants, and oil and gas parks, while Qingwei Intelligence provides cloud-edge-device collaborative computing support.
On August 26, Nanjing Tianchuang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and CIIC Jiangsu Economic and Technical Cooperation Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly build a robot labor dispatch RaaS (Robotics as a Service) model, delivering robots as dispatchable work units that provide usage rights, operational capabilities, and operations management services, focusing on public safety, emergency safety, fire safety, and industrial energy scenarios. The two parties will use Jiangsu as a pilot to complete product refinement, project validation, and process system development.
Keli Group appeared at the 2026 World Robot Conference together with its equity-invested ecosystem partners, including Beiwei Sensing and Yuansheng Technology, showcasing a robot perception matrix covering force sensing, tactile sensing, inertial sensing, vision, and MEMS.
Keli Sensing (603662) has completed a strategic investment of tens of millions of yuan in UniX AI, and plans to integrate force-control sensing capabilities such as six-axis force/torque sensors into UniX AI's robotic systems. The base version of UniX AI's Wanda 2.0 wheeled dual-arm robot is priced at 88,000 yuan and has entered volume delivery; the company has an annual capacity of 1,000 units and delivers more than 100 units per month. Keli Sensing's six-axis force/torque sensors have linear accuracy better than 0.3%FS and have been delivered in volume to multiple well-known robot customers in China and abroad.
Agility Robotics announced it will attend multiple investor conferences before the end of the third quarter, including the Citi Global TMT Conference on September 8-10, the Jefferies Global Industrials Conference on September 9-10, and the Evercore ADAS on September 29.
Flagship Aviation Services and SoftBank Robotics America announced the expansion of their autonomous ground-cleaning program at U.S. airports to 25 airports and more than 200 robots. Since the partnership began in 2024, the program has doubled in scale in under two years, operating hours have grown 9-fold, cumulative operating hours have exceeded 100,000, daily cleaning area averages nearly 1 million square feet, and cumulative cleaning volume is approaching 500 million square feet.
At the opening ceremony of the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit on August 26, BeingBeyond stood out from 10,209 participating projects to win the competition's first prize, with founder Lu Zongqing accepting the award on stage. Founded in May 2025, the company focuses on training embodied general foundation models using large-scale human video data. In July 2026, it released the Being-H0.8 general dexterous manipulation model, which unifies vision, touch, action, and future state changes into a single latent space.
A delegation from Shandong Heavy Industry Group visited Rokae Robotics for a tour and research discussion. The two sides exchanged views on typical heavy-industry scenarios such as intelligent welding, force-controlled assembly, flexible grinding, precision adhesive dispensing, and smart charging, and explored paths for integrating "robotics + AI" with real production scenarios. Rokae Robotics presented its full-stack in-house technology spanning core hardware, underlying control, and algorithms, with products already applied to intelligent welding, grinding, and assembly in the automotive, 3C, new energy, and general manufacturing sectors. Rokae had previously reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Shantui Construction Machinery, a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry Group.
Tongji Technology and Fudan University's Academy for Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation held a joint study session of their Party committee theoretical study central groups. Attendees from both sides toured the academy's research achievements, including an adaptive visuotactile AI perception system. Tongji Technology said it will leverage its advantages in application scenario provision, business ecosystem collaboration, and capital operations to work with the academy to identify suitable technologies and high-quality projects. Jiang Yugang proposed that the two sides strengthen technical alignment and help move research outcomes from the laboratory to the industrial front line, and that a regular alignment and collaboration mechanism will be established going forward.
On August 26, Guangzhou LiGong and general-purpose embodied foundation model company BeingBeyond announced a strategic cooperation to jointly build an iterative loop from model training and real-machine deployment to scenario feedback, advancing embodied intelligence toward large-scale application.
In the 2026 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) centralized application cycle, the School of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation at Fudan University had 21 projects approved for funding, with direct funding of 21.29 million yuan. The number of approved projects rose 40% year on year, and funding increased 11.29% year on year. The approved projects include 1 Innovative Research Group project, 1 Key Program project, 1 Young Scientists Fund project (Category B), 7 General Program projects, and 11 Young Scientists Fund projects (Category C).
On August 26, Jiuwei Technology established two laboratories, MicVLC and POWER, and appointed four scholars from Zhejiang University to lead the areas of embodied models and spatial intelligence, agent architecture and underlying systems, mechanical structure and the robot body, and complete-machine R&D and industrialization, respectively.
The intelligent loading system developed by Boshi has been officially completed and commissioned at PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Yulin Branch, marking another implementation of the company in the petrochemical intelligent logistics field. The system integrates 3D vision, LiDAR, and deep learning technologies and can accommodate mainstream transport vehicle models on the market. A complete loading operation for a single vehicle takes about 36 minutes. As of August 23, after two weeks of operation, it had completed a cumulative 5,181 tons of high-density polyethylene product loading and outbound shipment, with all indicators meeting design requirements.
Geekplus supported DHL Supply Chain New Zealand in opening a Life Sciences and Healthcare (LSHC) logistics facility on Te Kapua Drive in Auckland, described as the most advanced facility of its kind in New Zealand, with an opening ceremony held. Geekplus (HKEX: 2590) focuses on robotics and intelligent warehousing solutions.
At the 10th anniversary of KDB NextRound's Physical AI event, Holiday Robotics CEO Song Ki-young gave a keynote and live demo of the humanoid robot FRIDAY, showcasing finger joint movement and industrial actions such as operating a power drill. She emphasized that South Korea has 1,220 industrial robots per 10,000 workers, the world's leading robot density, allowing it to commercialize first and then expand to global markets. Four startups—Rideflux, Deaden Robotics, Mubin, and MediInTech—also gave IR pitches at the event.