PAL Robotics announced the ARAL project, funded by the EU's EIC, to develop a humanoid robot capable of working in existing warehouses based on the bipedal humanoid research platform KANGAROO, with the first phase aiming to advance from TRL 4 to TRL 5.
Toyota Motor Corporation announced organizational changes effective January 1, 2027, including the establishment of Toyota Robotics, a company-wide organization directly under the company, headed concurrently by Executive Officer and Chief Production Officer Takefumi Shiga. The new organization will bring together robotics knowledge, talent, and functions dispersed across the company to advance on-site deployment, practical application, and commercialization of robotics.
Realbotix has renamed its humanoid robot line to Realbotix Series 1. The original text did not disclose the specific models, specifications, or launch timing of the series.
From a supplier perspective, REEMAN provides a five-item checklist of mechanical prerequisites, communication architecture, and responsibility division for autonomous forklift and elevator integration. For a single elevator, a local LoRa direct connection to the elevator control module is used; for multiple elevators, MQTT is used with the fleet system queuing and dispatching. The elevator control module only coordinates calls and status and does not replace the elevator's native safety controls. In the Maoming factory case, Ironhide transports about 1,000 kg of wire rod per trip over a one-way distance of about 100 m, completing 65–85 cross-floor elevator tasks per day.
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.
The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has publicly announced Liu Qing as a proposed hire for the position of mechanical structure engineer, with a 3-day public notice period. Liu Qing, born in May 1998, holds a master's degree, scored 86 in the interview, and passed both the medical examination and the background review. Anyone with objections to the proposed hire may raise them during the public notice period via email at 442968292@qq.com.
REEMAN autonomous forklifts perform a task-level handshake with turntable stretch wrappers via an external wireless module: the forklift places the pallet and, after retreating from the rotating area, sends a start signal; the wrapper completes rotary film wrapping and automatic film cutting, then returns a completion signal, after which the forklift re-identifies and aligns to pick up the load.
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.
REEMAN automated forklifts integrate with WMS, MES, ERP, and WCS through open APIs and SDKs. Business systems issue transport requests, the fleet scheduler assigns tasks, and the robots execute them using laser SLAM navigation and report completion status back.
At CeMAT Asia 2026 in Shanghai, XSTO exhibited its innovative handling product line, including AI+ handling robots, the Magic Block King Kong series, a motion-sensing logistics vehicle, and the Qiaokeli electric portable stair-climbing cart. The Magic Block King Kong series features a modular configuration that integrates flat-ground assistance, electric stair climbing, and lifting/loading capabilities; the AI+ handling robots are designed for autonomous decision-making in heavy-load working conditions. The booth is N2-E4-3, and multiple cooperation intentions are being discussed on site.
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.
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.
Huan'er Technology compares two open-source 6-axis robotic arms that natively support the Hugging Face LeRobot ecosystem: the SO-ARM101 has a 200 g payload, a 400 mm reach, and a maximum servo torque of 30 kg·cm, making it suitable for beginners learning teleoperation and imitation learning; the NexArm has a 500 g payload, a 500 mm reach, and 65 kg·cm torque, features an aviation-grade metal body, and can be expanded with peripherals such as the K230 vision module and a Mecanum-wheel chassis.
Hiwonder's three native ROS 2 mobile manipulation platforms, LanderPi, JetRover, and ROSOrin Pro, all include SLAM navigation, 3D vision, and multimodal AI examples; they differ mainly in compute power, perception hardware, chassis, and robotic arm torque.
Pudu Robotics has officially launched the PUDU TOMO S Series robotic mowers, built around the SharpLoop™ self-sharpening system that combines automated blade care with precise trimming, aimed at reducing routine maintenance for home users. The series focuses on automated blade care, precise edge cutting and intelligent navigation to help users achieve consistently clean, tidy cuts.
Pangolin Robot's PANDA delivery robot has launched in Argentina through partner ROBOTEK, and can handle food delivery and greeting interactions in hotels, restaurants, or offices. The robot is positioned as a small assistant whose main tasks are delivering dishes and entertaining diners; specific payload, battery life, and other specifications were not disclosed.
As a member of the Jiangsu delegation, Huaxia Robotics participated in the health and wellness session of the 16th Jiangsu–Macao·Portuguese-Speaking Countries Business Summit, where its RoboCare health monitoring solution became a focus of the presentation. It also showcased the new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03, Xingxingxia P2, and the deployment scenarios of its health and wellness robots in elderly care institutions. The event highlighted 48 quality health and wellness products from Jiangsu and reached 9 cooperation projects with a total value of nearly 300 million yuan, covering areas such as intelligent robot applications. Huaxia Robotics also visited institutions including the Macao Social Welfare Bureau, and will subsequently advance the implementation of practical cooperation with health and wellness institutions in Hong Kong and Macao.
Digital China's new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03 appeared at the 29th China (Humen) International Fashion Fair in Humen, Dongguan, wearing new Chinese-style clothing featuring intangible cultural heritage and interacting with buyers, introducing clothing design concepts and brand stories. The robot can take on tasks such as greeting and reception, product explanation, and introducing design highlights, and is seen as a reusable digital cultural guide. Digital China said it will continue to refine Xialan R03's interaction capabilities and create standardized AI display, reception, and explanation solutions for scenarios such as apparel brands, Chinese-style stores, fashion shows, and industry exhibitions.
Schaeffler Group reported revenue of 17.481 billion euros for the first nine months of 2026, nearly level with the prior year on a currency-adjusted basis, with EBIT before special items rising to 794 million euros and a margin of 4.5%. The humanoid robotics business added new customers and expanded its order backlog during the reporting period, and the company accordingly confirmed its full-year 2026 guidance and 2028 mid-term targets. Due to weakness in European automakers' business in China, the e-mobility division recorded a one-off impairment and provision of approximately 240 million euros.
Schaeffler reported revenue of €17.481 billion in the first nine months of 2026, close to the prior-year level at constant currency, with the EBIT margin before special items rising to 4.5%. The group said its humanoid robotics business won new customers and expanded its order backlog during the reporting period, while confirming its full-year 2026 guidance and mid-term targets for 2028.
Schaeffler announced a new performance improvement program that will cut a net 3,460 positions in Europe, including about 2,660 in Germany, and close five sites including Dortmund, Morbach, Berlin and Schwalbach (four in Germany).
Schaeffler announced a new performance improvement program that will cut a net 3,460 positions in Europe, including about 2,660 in Germany, and plans to close four German plants. About 50% of the job cuts involve production, 30% research and development, and 20% other functions, spanning 16 sites in Europe.
Lingchu Intelligence and Hengyan Technology are jointly delivering the Li-Ning East China Smart Logistics Center project. The embodied robot, equipped with Lingchu's self-developed model, has been deployed on site and entered trial operation, taking on routine work and fulfilling commercial orders. The solution targets the bin-picking scenario in footwear and apparel warehousing, where shoeboxes are mixed in storage and item poses are random. The model can autonomously break down multi-step goals and complete recognition, pose estimation, dexterous grasping, product sorting, and pushing full boxes, without requiring large-scale modification of existing infrastructure. During the trial operation, Lingchu will work with Li-Ning's warehouse operations team on stress testing and validation of abnormal conditions, optimizing bin-picking success rates and stability during long periods of continuous operation.
Lingchu Intelligence, together with Beihang University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, proposed a frequency-aware flow matching method called FAFM; the paper was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 main conference. The method uses the discrete cosine transform (DCT-II) to represent actions as frequency-domain coefficients corresponding to real time, performs flow matching in coefficient space and constrains the first-order time derivative, requires no additional learnable parameters, and can be used independently or integrated into VLA models such as π₀ and π₀.₅.
Why it matters: The paper presents a frequency-domain action representation that adds no learnable parameters and can be integrated into existing VLA models, offering a transferable approach for joint training on heterogeneous-frequency data.
RoboFFT, proposed by the PKU-Spirit AI Joint Lab, has been accepted to CoRL2026. It is a reinforcement learning post-training method for generative robotic policies that reuses the forward noising process from diffusion model and flow model pretraining to construct an approximate probability ratio for PPO-style clipped updates.
Why it matters: The method reuses the forward noising loss of diffusion and flow models to construct policy update signals, offering a reusable approach for post-training generative policies.
At the 88th China Education Equipment Exhibition, Gaoqing Dynamics unveiled its first comprehensive embodied intelligence education solution and presented the Mini Pi plus humanoid robot. The solution uses the Mini Pi plus as its carrier and includes tiered lesson plans for all grade levels, project task packages, a teaching platform, and instructor training; it is already running as a regular course at schools including Beijing Renmin University Affiliated High School and Dongzhimen High School. A graphical programming area was set up at the exhibition, where students can drag and drop modules to send commands and observe the robot's responses in real time.
REEMAN published three verified AMR forklift pallet-handling deployments: in Huzhou, Ironhide 3.0 moves 1.5-ton pallets along a route of about 47 meters, with daily throughput of 160–200 trips; in Jingmen, Ironhide passes through two electric doors and interfaces with a stretch-wrapping machine, at about 75 cycles per day; in Shanxi, a Rhinoceros 1.5-ton stacker handles high-level handoffs in the packaging area.
The REEMAN Fly Boat AMR achieves cross-floor material transport through an elevator integration module: the robot can autonomously call, enter, ride, and exit elevators without human assistance. The model has a rated payload of 300 kg and autonomous jacking of 10 cm, uses LiDAR SLAM navigation, has positioning accuracy of ±5 cm (±3 cm with reflectors, ±2 cm with QR codes), and a travel speed of 0.3–1 m/s.
REEMAN autonomous forklifts use laser SLAM navigation and can connect to existing WMS, MES, and ERP systems without magnetic strips or QR codes; the integration focus is on location mapping and open API connectivity rather than rebuilding navigation infrastructure. The guide covers site surveys, map creation, task triggering, and multi-vehicle fleet scaling. Each model is rated for 6 hours of continuous operation (fully loaded)/8 hours (empty), supports automatic return to charging, and some models allow manual battery swapping.
Churchill Capital Corp XI shareholders approved the business combination with Agility Robotics with more than 84% of votes in favor; the transaction is expected to close on November 4.
Why it matters: The deal discloses the composition of Agility's pre-listing fundraising and the closing timetable, which can be used to observe the capital path of humanoid robotics companies.
NASA has opened media accreditation for the Northrop Grumman CRS-25 space station resupply mission; the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch no earlier than November 29 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has opened a new Robotics Innovation Center in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood on the banks of the Monongahela River, with a floor area of 150,000 square feet. The center is positioned as a facility carrying CMU's robotics legacy and investment in innovation.
Community developer @baogerbao created the open-source project bruhOS, which lets the Hiwonder TonyPi humanoid robot understand natural language commands and break them down into verified skill sequences such as detect, walk, grab, and release.
REEMAN built a custom food delivery robot based on the Hot Wheels robot chassis (model WBOT11B), featuring a two-layer transparent enclosed compartment and supporting single-point and multi-point autonomous delivery as well as automatic charging at low battery.
REEMAN has published a deployment case at a chemical shipping company in Shanghai, where the Ironhide autonomous forklift links pallet pickup, automatic stretch wrapping, elevator floor transfer, and indoor and outdoor delivery, covering about 600 kg per trip, about 650 meters round trip, about 12 minutes per cycle, and about 50 cycles per day. The forklift exchanges station-ready and wrapping-complete status with the wrapper through an industrial interface, and coordinates requests, entry, and exit with the building elevator control system. During commissioning, the team adjusted drive-wheel downforce to resolve ramp slipping, and worked with the wrapper manufacturer to correct the pallet handover process.
The REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 is a 1.5-ton laser SLAM AMR forklift that can autonomously identify pallets, position its forks, lift and transport loads, and place goods without reflectors or floor tape. In a case at a new energy factory in Huzhou, it completes about 160–200 pallet transports per day along a 47-meter route, runs continuously for 6 hours fully loaded and 8 hours empty, and supports 1-hour fast charging and automatic return to charge.