Hyundai Motor and Kia will hold the seventh E-FOREST TECH DAY 2026 from October 19 to 21 at the Uiwang Research Institute, showcasing about 200 new technologies covering software-defined factories (SDF), automation, energy, and future mobility.
The REEMAN dual-laser Fly Boat factory delivery robot (Fly Boat AMR, ABOT11B) is deployed at an electronics factory in Zhuhai, transporting about 200 kg of PCB materials and bottled water per trip, with a rated payload of 300 kg, a loaded delivery route of about 600 m plus an empty return of about 100 m, and the customer reports about 70–90 trips per day.
Dexmate and CMU introduced the MeMoREval benchmark, which uses a two-stage protocol of experiencing first and asking questions later to evaluate what embodied agents should store as memory. It includes 53 tasks and 4 simulated indoor environments, and runs on the Vega 1 Pro dual-arm mobile manipulator. Results show that storing raw camera frames scored 70% and had lower write cost, surpassing text descriptions at 56 to 60%; adding scene graphs achieved the highest overall success rate among all tested models. The protocol also completed two memory retrieval demonstrations on a real Vega 1 Pro using a SLAM map and head camera.
Why it matters: The benchmark was proposed jointly by the platform developer and CMU; its frame-versus-scene-graph comparison can help with memory design choices, and the real-robot transfer offers a feasibility reference.
Atom Robots is presenting its MINI parallel robot at PM SHENZHEN 2026, the South China International Powder Metallurgy Exhibition (booth 16-A96), with a live demonstration of a flexible sorting solution for tiny precision parts. The compact model fits narrow workstations and features a native vision plus integrated drive-and-control system, enabling automatic recognition, orientation detection, and flexible sorting and tray placement of scattered tiny parts. Graphical, simple programming speeds up changeover and debugging, suiting high-mix, low-volume production. The exhibition runs until October 16.
NEURA Robotics has released Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model for Physical AI that combines 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state, and language with memory in a perception-language-action (PLA) architecture.
RealSense explains D585 Pro on-device human detection: the detection model runs on its Gen5 Vision SoC and outputs JSON metadata at 30 fps with class, confidence, pixel box, and millimeter-level distance, without needing a host GPU.
Why it matters: The article breaks down why on-device detection does not use neural-network ranging and provides a detection distance table for different postures, which can be used directly for safety zone design.
Skydio has launched ISR Command, which uses Skydio Autonomy to orchestrate multiple X10D aircraft for coordinated reconnaissance, allowing a single operator to control two aircraft at once. The X10D weighs 2.14 kg (4.72 lbs) and can navigate autonomously using onboard cameras without GNSS; the system is TAK-native and supports the STANAG 4609 and STANAG 0903 metadata standards.
AMR robots rely on four onboard technologies for trackless navigation: laser SLAM mapping, real-time LiDAR perception, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and real-time path replanning, with no need for floor tracks, magnetic strips, or QR codes. REEMAN delivery robots achieve laser navigation accuracy of ±5 cm, with an optional reflector code accuracy of ±3 cm; the Fly Boat model achieves QR code accuracy of ±2 cm, and a single map covers about 40,000 square meters. Its product line covers payloads from 100 kg to 1.5 tons, and since 2015 it has delivered to more than 55 countries and regions.
An 18-day joint Western Pacific hydrothermal expedition by Tsinghua University, the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other institutions conducted seven dives and identified a new large high-temperature active hydrothermal field, preliminarily confirming its potential for large-scale polymetallic sulfide resources, with associated gold content of up to 15.4 ppm and associated silver content of up to 1,271 ppm.
The CMU Robotics Institute's Howie Choset team provided analysis and modeling support for Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV). The new docking technology inserts a probe into the target satellite's liquid apogee engine nozzle to complete docking, and has been successfully executed multiple times in orbit. The MRV launched from Cape Canaveral in July this year and, in addition to refueling, can also support in-orbit repair, component replacement, and upgrades.
Inbolt announced it has raised $12.5 million, bringing its cumulative funding to $34 million. The round was led by new investor Shift4Good, with participation from Bridges Climate Transition Partners, BNP Paribas Développement, and Ora Global.
CMU researchers designed human-hand-inspired fingertips that can be mounted on the DeltaHands flexible robotic hand. They combine strain gauges to measure pinch pressure with a microphone that captures micro-vibrations through a plastic fingernail, enabling the hand to count paper cups, identify materials, and grasp fragile items such as tofu cubes and potato chips. Each fingertip costs less than 100 US dollars, compared with about 800 US dollars to build a similar setup from off-the-shelf products. The work was presented at the 2026 Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference in Pittsburgh.
Why it matters: The original text provides details on the multimodal tactile design of the human-inspired fingertips and their cost of less than 100 US dollars, helping readers understand how force and vibration sensing support manipulation control.
On September 30, the first "zone-port linkage" drone sealing project in Hunan Province, jointly developed by Sinotrans and China Merchants Communications Technology, went live and completed live-container verification at the customs supervision operation site of the Changsha Zhongnan Consolidation Center. A drone carrying an electronic customs lock reader flew to the designated container slot; its onboard camera automatically identified and verified the container number and slot via a visual large model before completing sealing. The system then automatically submitted the arrival declaration to Xingsha Customs and received the receipt back through the Changsha Single Window, with the entire process digitalized.
Stial has launched an AI flexible grinding solution for grinding weld seams on welded boxes, achieving uniform removal of weld seams, smooth transitions between welds and base material, and no damage to thin-walled base material. The solution uses the self-developed SeeV vision system to locate weld seams, and NextBrain™ AI Mushroom Cloud computing to calculate grinding allowance and generate grinding paths. After digital twin simulation verification, a six-axis robot works with the PolishX flexible force control system to execute the grinding, with force control accuracy of ±0.5%FS and output force as low as 4N, suitable for energy storage, electrical, new energy battery housings, and other multi-category box scenarios.
STIAL Robotics recently won an AI flexible grinding project from a leading company in China's rail transit sound barrier industry. The grinding targets sound barrier columns up to 9 meters long. In the solution, the SeeV vision system uses 3D line laser scanning to extract weld seams, and NextBrain™ AI automatically matches grinding trajectories and force control parameters. The end effector is equipped with the PolishX flexible force control system, achieving contact force control accuracy of ±0.5% FS, capable of removing 2mm weld spatter residue and adapting to changeover between multiple column specifications.
Jinrong Robotics launched its new vision-based welding product "Zhihanxing" on September 29, using the welding-specific 3D camera from Weijing Intelligent's Starlight Eye series. The camera offers high-precision, high-frame-rate 3D imaging, resists interference from strong light, reflections, light-absorbing surfaces, and arc light, supports combined dynamic and static modes, and reduces hand-eye calibration through zero-error positioning at the coordinate origin. The system can preset photo positions, then use vision to locate the workpiece and weld seam before welding, reducing reliance on fixed positions and preset trajectories.
The EBO SE 2 FamilyBot is a small indoor robot from Enabot that moves freely around the home, records video, and lets users interact with their pets remotely through an app; it is recommended as a Halloween gift. It features a 2K (2304×1296) camera with a 137° field of view, supports 24/7 recording and motion alerts, runs for 4–7 hours before automatically recharging via route memory and infrared docking, can climb over 6mm obstacles, and can slip under low furniture as low as 9cm.
Hanwei Technology Group has launched a full-scenario gas safety solution for the semiconductor industry, covering specialty gas monitoring, cleanroom AMC micro-contaminant monitoring, system integration, dynamic inspection, and platform operations and maintenance. The GD-HS10 gas detector offers detection precision down to the ppb level, with an optional GD-PU10 pyrolysis unit enabling detection of hundreds of electronic specialty gases; the trace water cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyzer can achieve quantitative measurement at the ppt level. The solution also includes the GMS programmable control system, the FGS fire and gas alarm control system, and an intelligent inspection robot equipped with a Fourier-transform infrared scanning imaging system, with data transmitted back to the semiconductor facility intelligent operations and maintenance system.
Jiuwei Technology officially released its full-stack autonomous navigation system Jiuwei Zhihang MIC Navi on September 22. The navigation code runs directly on the robot dog's mainboard, requiring no additional add-on computing kit, and upgrades are completed via OTA through the MICBOT MOVE app.
The East China Sea voyage organized by Tsinghua University in collaboration with the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology has returned successfully. Using the independently developed deep-sea controllable visual sampler (DCVS), the team completed dive operations at 7 stations in areas including the Xianchi cold seep area and the Qiaoyue hydrothermal field, with a maximum dive depth of 1260 meters. DCVS operated stably under extreme conditions such as high temperature and high pressure, collecting multiple physical samples and acquiring large amounts of high-definition seabed imagery. The equipment was developed under the leadership of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, with participation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Xiamen University.
Under the guidance of teachers Zhang Wenqiang and Zhao Qing, a Fudan University student team of Wang Jianan, Li Jinghui, and Jiang Kaixun won a team first prize in the business plan special track at the national finals of the 21st China Graduate Electronics Design Contest (held in Wuzhen, Tongxiang, Zhejiang) for their project "Fangwei Dudian: the world's first industrial-grade embodied intelligent advanced power operation and maintenance equipment."
RealSense has introduced Min-Z, an improved close-range depth feature in Perception Studio that extends usable stereo depth to about 2 cm on D401/D405 and about 12 cm on D43x/D45x without changing cameras.
Why it matters: The original explains how Min-Z extends the near-field usable range of stereo depth and the trade-offs between two deployment paths, which can be used to evaluate grasping and close-range perception solutions.
AgiBot has released AGILE 2.0, a second-generation perception-driven locomotion and whole-body control framework that brings visual perception into the motion control loop and introduces a unified whole-body motion representation, supporting manipulation while moving, real-time replanning, and cross-robot coordination. In the demo video Acrobat BOT, the AGIBOT X2 completes tasks such as ball balancing, three-robot jump rope, and collaborative carrying; the framework also supports risk perception and autonomous recovery from disturbances in human-robot shared environments.
PKU EPIC Lab proposes UniPart, a feed-forward cross-modal 3D Transformer conditioned on CLIP text embeddings that uses free-text phrases to select functional parts on point clouds, achieving zero-shot language-driven 3D part segmentation.
Why it matters: The paper presents a text-driven 3D part segmentation method and a self-built dataset, and validates transfer to real-world language-conditioned grasping.
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.
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.
Huan'er Technology details the complete ROS 2 agent pipeline of the ROSOrin Pro robot: voice commands are recognized by WonderEcho Pro, then passed to the OpenClaw gateway for understanding and broken down into subtasks such as navigation, detection, and grasping.
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.
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.
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.
NEURA Robotics announced that its NEURA Mobile Robots GmbH has acquired 100% of the shares of ADLATUS Robotics GmbH, an autonomous cleaning robotics company based in Ulm, Germany.
Why it matters: The original article provides details on the acquired company's existing equipment, navigation software, and plans to integrate with Neuraverse, which helps explain NEURA's cleaning business strategy.
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Wiz Robotics showcased two product lines: humanoid robots and intelligent industrial 3D cameras. The humanoid robot "Xiaowei" can respond to voice commands to grasp and deliver drinks, while the inspection robot is equipped with an AGV chassis and supports 360-degree rotation; the intelligent dexterous hand has 16 degrees of freedom, fingertip pressure of 12N, and a maximum lifting load of 15kg. The industrial 3D camera matrix covers interpupillary distances from 90mm to 620mm, including the "Starlight Eye" welding series and the "Smart Light Eye" grasping series, and on-site demonstrations included teaching-free corrugated board welding and 3D point cloud dynamic imaging.
Weijing Intelligent presented the Starlight Eye ProV2 weld-seam dual-measurement camera at the 2026 Fifth GG Intelligent Welding Robot Summit held in Shanghai on August 12. The product integrates six functions in one: static area scanning, dynamic line scanning, precision RGB imaging, weld-seam tracking, molten-pool monitoring, and dynamic weld-seam imaging. Without relying on 3D drawings, it can autonomously acquire 3D weld-seam data before welding, perform real-time tracking and molten-pool monitoring during welding, and help build a PQC quality closed loop. It also builds a welding ecosystem through an open SDK and algorithm interfaces. Weijing Intelligent also received the "2026 China Intelligent Welding Industry Outstanding Product Award" at the summit.
In its home breakfast service scenario, UniX AI's Panther humanoid robot autonomously plans and completes the full workflow, from preparing ingredients and heating food to making drinks and serving the meal at the table. UniCortex handles long-horizon task planning, UniFlex supports rapid learning of new household skills from a few demonstrations, and UniTouch combines visual and tactile perception to improve manipulation reliability for food, kitchen tools, and everyday objects. More information at www.unix-group.ai.
The Hongxing Technology Xiaomei M9 humanoid service robot focuses on continuous service off-grid and targets elderly care, medical, government, and commercial service scenarios. Its perception, modeling, navigation, and decision-making are 100% completed on local edge computing, enabling it to keep working for more than 6 hours under disconnected or weak network conditions, with zero data leakage. Its millimeter-wave radar fall prediction has an accuracy rate of 99% and a false alarm rate below 1%, and its robotic arm completes the entire process from perception to intervention in just 10 seconds.
Through the Draper software update, Skydio is delivering free camera performance improvements to in-service X10 drones via OTA, with no hardware replacement required. The update includes low-light tuning and autofocus improvements for the telephoto camera, tap-to-focus in Remote Flight Deck (hold the F key and click a target on screen to adjust focus and exposure), a dedicated low-light camera mode, and, during Shadow tracking, target-anchored linked focus, exposure, and stabilization.
In an interview, Boston Dynamics mechanical engineer Taylor Frey-Baker discusses the design of the electric Atlas's head and how she entered the field. She is responsible for the compute core inside the head, which houses four perception modules with stereo vision; the head's modular design allows the entire unit to be swapped out and the compute core upgraded like a game cartridge. The hydraulic Atlas did not need a head because it performed movement demonstrations, whereas the electric Atlas relies on head cameras for a wider field of view and uses lights and sound to signal its status to people nearby.
BeingBeyond has released Being-H0.8, which it calls the world's first implicit tactile world action model, unifying vision, touch, action, and future state changes into a single latent space, with pretraining on more than 500,000 hours of first-person human video.
Why it matters: The model brings touch into large-scale pretraining along with a self-developed pseudo-labeling system, letting readers understand the path by which tactile data goes from a lab signal to a scalable pretraining resource.
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.