Li Tong, founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics, said that advancing embodied intelligence requires striking a balance between technology and business. The article provides no further details.
The second podcast produced by Fondazione Dalmine in collaboration with IIT, "Le mani e la mente," has 12 episodes and is now available on RaiPlaySound, featuring Peppino Ortoleva in conversation with IIT researchers Monica Gori, Guglielmo Lanzani, Alberto Diaspro and Arianna Traviglia on the relationship between technology and culture.
The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute's Pathways Fellowship, in partnership with InnovatePGH, has launched its fourth cohort, welcoming a new class of seven engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs. The program aims to cultivate non-traditional entrepreneurial talent and drive innovation in robotics.
Foundation Robotics released episode 2 of its robot ranking video series, "Ranking Iconic Robots #2," on YouTube. The video's copy asks whether this version of the rankings is better or whether the model still needs another upgrade, and it does not give specific evaluation results or data. The background music in the video is "Russian Dance," recorded by PM Music.
Andromeda Robotics introduces its team member Marc Strauss, the company's Staff Hardware Engineer, in a video about why he loves his work.
Leila Mahmoodi, a Machine Learning Engineer at Andromeda Robotics, explains in a team video why she loves her work. The original text only states her role and company; it does not mention specific robot models, models, or experimental data.
"The Space Adventure of 'Yutu' and 'Zhurong' Planetary Rovers" won first prize for outstanding science popularization books at the 2026 Heilongjiang Outstanding Science Popularization Works Awards. The book was jointly produced by the Publicity Department of the HIT Party Committee, the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, and the State Key Laboratory of Aerospace Mechanisms, among other units, and uses personified language to introduce the structure, performance, and achievements of the "Yutu" lunar rover and the "Zhurong" Mars rover. The selection awarded first prize to 10 science popularization books, second prize to 20, and third prize to 30.
The Fudan University micro-nano manufacturing and micro-nano robotics research team, led by Professor Mei Yongfeng, received the 2026 "Zhong Yang-Style" Research Team award. The team focuses on four areas: flexible thin-film materials, three-dimensional micro-nano assembly, optoelectronic detection, and micro-nano robotics. It has published more than 300 SCI papers in total, including more than 120 papers in top journals such as Nature and Science Robotics over the past five years, and has been granted more than 30 national invention patents. The team also works with Zhongshan Hospital and Huashan Hospital to develop flexible electrodes and brain-computer interface systems, and has trained more than 70 master's and doctoral students.
JAKA Robotics has issued a statement on an overseas patent litigation matter. The statement's main text only lists the company's office addresses in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and the United States, and does not disclose specific details, progress, or the company's position on the litigation.
At WRC, Astribot analyzed the full-stack capabilities behind a single-sentence command: AI models, an embodied OS, and a cable-driven body work together to execute tasks. The article emphasizes end-to-end coordination from voice commands to a robot actually taking action.
Foundation Robotics released a YouTube video explaining why it uses Blobs to train its robot, opening with the idea that "robots might be living in a simulation." The video ends with a list of the 3D assets used and their CC BY 4.0 license information, such as "Modlinek Villa 01-bathroom-default" and "Garage - High Detail Test"; the video's main content contains only the opening and the asset credits, with no details on training methods or experimental metrics.
On August 3, Chongqing Jiaotong University Party Secretary Gong Hui and a delegation visited Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) for a research exchange, where they were received by Vice President Liu Ting. Both sides said they would deepen inter-university cooperation and draw on HIT's experience in cultivating top innovative talent, organized research, and interdisciplinary integration. Gong Hui and the delegation conducted on-site research at the HIT Museum and the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems.
The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has published a public notice of proposed hires for its contract staff recruitment. Following application, examination, medical check, and review procedures, Wang Yuchen is proposed for hire as an AI application R&D engineer, with an interview score of 82 and both medical check and review passed. The public notice period is 3 days, and objections may be submitted via the public notice email address.
Realbotix announced that its robot will appear on an Emmy-winning television show. The original announcement contained only this news along with the company's contact and subscription channels, and did not disclose details such as the show's name, air date, or the robot's specific model.
Dongfang Precision released "One Chart to Understand: Dongfang Precision 2026 Semiannual Report" on 2026-07-30, presenting its half-year results in infographic form. The captured body text contains only site navigation and a cookie notice; the main businesses listed there are intelligent packaging equipment, embodied intelligent robot equipment, and intelligent marine equipment, and it does not include specific semiannual report data such as revenue or profit.
ROBROS released a full record of IGRIS-C's first outing: it took the elevator downstairs and walked the streets of Seongsu on its own two feet. Along the way it interacted with passersby and performed moves including backflips and windmills; previously, IGRIS-C had mostly appeared alongside hoisting and support equipment. The original text says the outing had no elaborate plan or choreography and was simply an honest record of stepping out of its familiar test environment.
Enabot has released a comparison guide for the EBO Max and EBO X: the EBO Max uses embodied AI multimodal intelligence, with environmental perception, long-term adaptive memory, and two-way video calling, but requires manual guidance for mapping; the EBO X is powered by ChatGPT-driven conversation, supports Alexa integration and V-SLAM automatic mapping, and offers fall detection, cry detection, and help-call alerts (effective detection range 10–15 feet). The two differ in privacy approach: one focuses on software management, the other on a hardware physical button.
Realbotix Corp. provided an update on its corporate structure and operations. The original page only offers a newsletter sign-up entry and the contact email contact@realbotix.com, and does not disclose specific operational details or financial data.
Using the AgileX UMR industry-grade universal modular mobile robot chassis and the AgileX NAVIS 3D 3D laser navigation platform as examples, AgileX Robotics argues that navigation is evolving from project-level algorithm development into reusable infrastructure. The article holds that navigation time is mostly spent on engineering integration such as sensor synchronization and coordinate frame management rather than on the SLAM algorithm itself; in dynamic, open, and three-dimensional spaces, 2D environmental information can no longer describe the real environment, so 3D laser navigation has therefore become a new foundational capability.
AgileX Robotics' self-developed NAVIS 3D laser navigation platform combines a 16-line LiDAR with visual sensors, can build maps at an operating speed of 1.5 m/s, achieves static repeat positioning accuracy of ±5 cm, and supports 3D map construction for scenarios at the 2 million square meter scale. The platform works in coordination with AgileX's UMR all-scenario universal four-wheel-drive four-wheel-steering mobile robot chassis, and an intelligent under-track inspection solution for rail transit with a dual-arm lifting mechanism has already been launched, integrating the PiPER dual robotic arm system and dual 32-line LiDARs to achieve a fully automated closed loop for the entire under-track inspection process.
AgileX Robotics released a tutorial explaining how to build a complete data collection solution for mobile manipulators based on LeRobot, noting that most public datasets in the LeRobot ecosystem come from fixed desktop robotic arms and lack data on mobile capabilities.
The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has announced Hua Zhehao as the proposed hire for its non-establishment recruitment, for the position of AI application R&D engineer, with an interview score of 88 and passing both the medical examination and the review. The public notice period is 3 days, and objections may be raised via the designated email address.
Commercial space in-orbit operation and management service company Aerospace Satellite recently announced the completion of its Series D, D+ and D++ financing rounds, with cumulative funding of nearly RMB 2 billion. Participants include Puhua Capital, Sequoia China, Qianhai Ark, Unicom Strategic Emerging, Zijin Mining, China Insurance Investment, SAIC Motor, and Wuliangye, among others. After completion of the D+ round, the company joined the ranks of unicorns valued at RMB 10 billion.
On June 10, Harbin Institute of Technology and the Fuzhou New Area Management Committee signed a special cooperation agreement on constellation construction, and Lan Wen's delegation visited the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems and other units. The two sides will jointly build a commercial space satellite constellation for marine applications and an innovation cooperation platform in the satellite field, promoting the commercialization of satellite-related scientific and technological achievements in Fuzhou New Area.
ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab congratulates Andreea Tulbure on completing her doctoral defense; her thesis focuses on how legged manipulation robots can perform object handovers with humans in an intuitive, task-oriented manner. The original text does not provide specific methods or experimental metrics.
The 2026 graduating class of Peking University's Intelligent Robotics Open Laboratory completed their thesis defenses on May 17. Three doctoral students, Zhang Wanruo, Liu Jinfu, and Wang Wenshuai, were recommended for conferral of Doctor of Science degrees, and five master's students, Jiang Peifeng, Chen Siyu, Tang Tao, Xu Jing, and Xu Xinhua, were recommended for conferral of Master of Science degrees. Zhang Wanruo's doctoral thesis was recommended as an outstanding doctoral thesis, and Tang Tao's master's thesis was recommended as an outstanding master's thesis; their advisor is Professor Liu Hong.
Genesis AI's robot performs lab pipetting, liquid transfer, and mid-air manipulation of delicate instruments in autonomous mode at 1x speed, using its robotic foundation model GENE-26.5. The demo targets fine motor control, a highly demanding test scenario, and showcases the model's manipulation capabilities in high-precision laboratory work.
Dongfang Precision and Leju Robotics have joined forces to build China's first 10,000-unit-class humanoid robot production line; details of the line were disclosed in the news section of Dongfang Precision's official website. Dongfang Precision lists embodied intelligent robot equipment as one of its main businesses, alongside its intelligent packaging equipment and intelligent marine equipment.
Dong Mengmeng, founder and CEO of Hangzhou Dewang Nano Technology, won first prize in the finals of the 5th "Hai Ju Ying Cai" Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition with the "PSE.IonTech Platform—a platform-level industrial mother machine for high-performance surface engineering technology equipment built on modular design."
Physical Intelligence proposed a method called Multi-scale Embodied Memory (MEM) that provides vision-language-action models (VLAs) with both short-term and long-term memory, enabling the model to complete tasks lasting up to 15 minutes, such as cleaning an entire kitchen or making a grilled cheese sandwich from scratch.
Why it matters: The article identifies memory mechanisms as the bottleneck for long-horizon tasks and presents a dual-scale design that stores video for the short term and language for the long term, an approach that can be transferred to other work.
At year-end, Linear Capital and its founder and CEO Wang Huai received industry awards from several institutions. Wang Huai was named to Global Entrepreneurship Week's "2025 Angel Investors TOP30," CVSource's "2025 Best Early-Stage Investors TOP50," and Jiazi Guangnian's "Early-Stage Tech Catchers TOP30."
Physical Intelligence research found that in generalization scenarios where only human demonstrations appear, fine-tuning π0.5 with human first-person videos mixed into robot data alone improved policy performance by about 2x, without using any explicit transfer learning mechanism.
Why it matters: Experiments show that merely mixing human videos into fine-tuning improves the policy by about 2x on scenarios with purely human demonstrations, and this capability emerges as pretraining robot data scale grows.
Mentee Robotics released a behind-the-scenes video showing how two MenteeBots combine perception, planning, and control in real time during a pick-and-place box logistics workflow; the left side of the frame shows the head-camera view, alongside the robot's "thoughts" and decision outputs. The clip comes from a complete 18-minute unedited autonomous run by two MenteeBots in the same setup.
The summary meeting for the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creativity Competition and the preparatory seminar for the 9th competition were held on October 31, 2025, in Changsha, Hunan. The event was hosted by the competition organizing committee and undertaken by Hunan Qiangzhi Technology, with nearly 60 representatives from various competition regions and tracks attending. Professor Gu Daqiang of Zhejiang University chaired the meeting. At the meeting, the "Excellent Secretariats" of 4 competition regions—Jilin, Zhejiang, Hubei, and Jiangsu—were commended, and matters such as the event setup and schedule for the 9th competition and a proposed additional industry-education integration track were discussed.
Linear Capital reviewed its portfolio companies' progress over the past quarter in funding, product launches, major partnerships, and industry recognition. On funding: White Rhino completed a B round with cumulative funding of nearly 500 million, Douxiang Technology completed a new round of 200 million yuan, and Chuangcai Shenzao completed an A round of tens of millions of yuan.
The 2022 edition of the National Teaching Development Index for Regular Higher Education Institutions, released on December 23, includes the "Yuyao Cup" Chinese University Robotics Experimental Teaching Innovation Competition, making it one of 56 teaching competitions for faculty. The competition was established in Yuyao in 2022 by the research institute to promote innovation in robotics experimental teaching through a faculty competition format, and features four themes: robotics experiment design, virtual simulation experiment design, remote real experiment design, and domestic industrial robots (higher vocational group).