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Jul 12Sun
  1. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube67

    LingBot-VA 2.0 released: a world-action model for physical-world robot control

    Ant Group's Lingbo Technology has released LingBot-VA 2.0, which it describes as a world-action model pretrained from scratch for physical-world robot control, running real-time inference at 150 Hz on a single GPU and able to play air hockey, tidy desks, and pick chips from a conveyor belt.

    Why it matters: It provides a same-benchmark success-rate comparison with π0.5 and single-GPU real-time inference metrics, helping to gauge where this kind of world-action model stands in terms of performance.

Jul 10Fri
  1. Lavender Hill Capital Partners63

    Tashan Technology Completes Series B Round Worth Hundreds of Millions of Yuan, Building an End-to-End Tactile Sensing Industry Layout

    Tashan Technology recently announced the completion of a Series B financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with investors including Lavender Hill Capital Partners (LHCP).

    Why it matters: Operating data of tens of thousands of units shipped per month and a share exceeding 80% lets readers gauge the actual progress of tactile sensing toward scaled deployment.

  2. 云启资本24

    "SJTU-Yunqi AI Angel Fund" Special BBQ: Exchange on Frontier Technologies Including Quantum, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Nuclear Fusion

    On July 7, the "SJTU-Yunqi AI Angel Fund" held a special exchange event at Yunqi Courtyard in Shanghai, inviting startups, investors, university professors, and industry partners in fields such as world models, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, and nuclear fusion to share their insights. The fund focuses on the angel to Pre-A stage and has invested in more than ten projects, covering frontier AI technologies and hard tech. Several partners from Yunqi Partners shared their investment views on AI, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, and other fields, and founders of more than ten portfolio companies also shared their technical perspectives from their respective industries.

  3. 柯力股份38

    Keli Sensing Strategically Invests in Yunmu Intelligent Manufacturing, Continually Improving Its Full Embodied Intelligence Industry Chain Layout

    Keli Sensing recently completed a strategic investment of tens of millions of yuan in Jiangsu Yunmu Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd., strengthening its position in the embodied intelligence body segment. Yunmu Intelligent Manufacturing established operations in Taicang, Suzhou in 2021 and focuses on the R&D and industrialization of L4-level embodied intelligent humanoid robots. It has launched more than ten core products covering more than ten application scenarios including industry, culture and tourism, and education, and has introduced the YMBot D4 heavy-duty industrial handling humanoid robot. The funding from this round will be used for core technology iteration, mass production capacity improvement, and market expansion.

  4. 慧闻科技33

    Huiwen launches industrial robot product matrix, connecting light-load, heavy-load, and rail transit flexible logistics

    Huiwen has launched an industrial robot product matrix covering three product lines: the iBen X series, the iBen P series AMR, and rail transit robots. The iBen X series supports loads from 100 kg to 1500 kg, and the iBen P series covers 1000 kg to 3000 kg; the iBen P1T model uses laser SLAM navigation to achieve ±5 mm positioning accuracy. The rail transit product line covers transport, inspection, and cleaning; the undercarriage train inspection robot weighs less than 30 kg, has an inspection speed of 10 m/s, and outputs detection results in 30 seconds.

  5. Zhejiang University Robotics10

    Public Notice of Proposed Hires for Contract Staff at Yuyao Robotics Research Center

    The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has published the list of proposed hires, with Yu Dingding proposed for the position of AI Application R&D Engineer. His interview score was 82; his medical examination and background review results were both qualified. The public notice period is 3 days, and objections may be submitted via the designated email address.

Jul 9Thu
  1. Maxtronics Robotics SAS21

    NAO appears at UNESCO "Tech for Diplomacy" Global Forum opening

    Humanoid robot NAO shared the stage with dancer Céline Shen at the opening of the UNESCO Tech for Diplomacy Global Forum, performing a piece combining robotic movement, dance, and opera singing. Maxtronics said it supports artists and their projects with NAO, and that this performance is part of Céline Shen's MORPHOS project. The original text did not provide technical specifications or project details for the performance.

  2. 1X Technologies65

    1X releases 25-DOF tendon-driven dexterous hand for NEO humanoid robot

    1X Technologies announced a 25-DOF tendon-driven dexterous hand for the NEO humanoid robot platform, which will ship with every NEO unit.

    Why it matters: The original article provides key specifications and production progress for the 25-DOF tendon-driven hand, which readers can use to assess its actual impact on humanoid manipulation capabilities.

  3. 云启资本43

    The non-sci-fi story of brain-computer interfaces: A conversation with Wang Ximing of Kongshanci | Yunqi Podcast Attent!on

    Yunqi Podcast Attent!on speaks with Wang Ximing, co-founder of the brain-computer interface project Kongshanci, about its approach of using brain-computer interfaces and neuromodulation to address psychiatric and cognitive disorders: the company was founded in October 2024 and has completed angel, Pre-A, and A rounds of financing (with Yunqi continuing to invest); it currently has three products, one of which has entered clinical use at hospitals, one is a home-oriented sleep product combining EEG with electrical stimulation (internal testing completed), and another ultrasound brain-computer interface technology is in development.

  4. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube70

    Ant Lingbo Open-Sources Embodied Video Foundation Model LingBot-Video, Scoring 0.620 on RBench

    Ant Lingbo has open-sourced LingBot-Video, a MoE video foundation model for embodied intelligence. It uses a DiT plus sparse MoE architecture with 30B parameters and 3B activated at inference, and is claimed to be about 3 times more efficient than dense models.

    Why it matters: The material provides comparison scores on RBench and the scope of the open-source release, helping readers judge the starting point and usability of this embodied video model.

Jul 8Wed
  1. Union Square Ventures45

    Union Square Ventures view: Data moves to the edge, and a data flywheel for the physical world begins to take shape

    Union Square Ventures believes that as the cost of models handling messy unstructured input falls and sensors and hardware become widespread, data loops are expanding beyond software into areas that were previously out of reach. Ambient speech, once transcribed and structured, becomes a usable dataset, giving rise to vertical applications and horizontal tools such as Abridge and Granola; in the physical world, robots are becoming more capable and cheaper, and related scenarios are moving from experiments toward commercialization.

  2. PKU EPIC Lab68

    WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models at Test Time by Watching Human Videos

    PKU EPIC Lab proposes WAM-TTT, a test-time training framework that steers world-action models from raw human videos without robot actions, human-side annotations, or task-specific fine-tuning. The method absorbs human videos into a lightweight adaptive memory inside a frozen WAM through self-supervised video prediction, and uses a meta-training stage with paired human-robot data and a key-value memory reconstruction objective to align human demonstrations with robot behaviors. Experiments show it consistently outperforms in-context human-video conditioning baselines across diverse manipulation tasks and generalization settings.

    Why it matters: The original work proposes a method for adapting a frozen world-action model at test time using only unlabeled human videos, without robot demonstrations or fine-tuning, offering methodological reference value for researchers who want to reuse it.

  3. 普华资本49

    Reconova Technologies Successfully Lists on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

    Xiamen Reconova Technologies (07656.HK), a portfolio company of Puhua Capital, has successfully listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the first listed "visual embodied intelligence" company in China. Its Hong Kong public offering was 3,646.06 times oversubscribed, and its international offering was 3.08 times oversubscribed. The "Xiaoyi" baggage transfer robot has been piloted at multiple airports and is planned for commercial deployment in 2026, with a wheeled dual-arm embodied intelligence robot planned for launch in 2027. The company's visual embodied intelligence products have been deployed at two-thirds of the country's airports with tens of millions of passengers.

  4. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube69

    LingBot-VLA 2.0 open-sourced: supports 20 robot configurations and full-body control

    LingBot-VLA 2.0 has been open-sourced. It is a next-generation embodied foundation model pretrained on 60,000 hours of real-world physical data, built on a redesigned data processing pipeline curated from 90,000 hours of robotic data and 20,000 hours of egocentric human videos.

    Why it matters: The public weights and GM-100 results let readers directly compare its gap with π0.5 and GR00T N1.7 on long-horizon mobile manipulation.

  5. JAKA Robotics/节卡机器人44

    JAKA Robotics Wins Second Prize of National Technological Invention Award

    A robotics technology and equipment project for high-end manufacturing, led by Professor Zhu Xiangyang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and with JAKA Robotics Chairman Li Mingyang as the second contributor, won the second prize of the 2025 National Technological Invention Award. JAKA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University maintain deep university-industry collaboration, jointly building key laboratories and joint research centers, and advancing research projects and practice bases in embodied intelligence and general-purpose intelligent robotics. The company says it has expanded from collaborative robots to a full-category general-purpose intelligent robotics portfolio.

Jul 7Tue
  1. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube61

    LingBot-Depth 2.0 spatial perception model for robots released, can see through glass and mirrors

    LingBot-Depth 2.0 has been released, a next-generation spatial perception model for robots that focuses on perception of glass, mirrors, and transparent objects. It was trained on 150M-scale data (50 times that of v1.0) and took first place in 12 of 16 depth completion benchmarks; on the hardest indoor scenes, depth error RMSE dropped from 0.132 to 0.062.

    Why it matters: The original text provides benchmark rankings, the change in depth error on the hardest indoor scenes, and an open-weights link, helping readers judge the improvement over the previous generation and how reusable it is.

Jul 6Mon
  1. Zeroth/元点智能67

    Zeroth completes nearly 500 million yuan Pre-A round, total funding reaches 1 billion yuan

    Zeroth (Yuandian Intelligence) announced the completion of nearly 500 million yuan in Pre-A financing, bringing its cumulative funding to 1 billion yuan. The round was led by Ant Group, with Gili Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment, and China Growth Capital participating, while existing shareholder Monolith increased its stake. Founded a year and a half ago, the company has received orders for more than 30,000 robots, and its revenue in the first half of 2026 grew 600% year on year. It also launched the full-size humanoid robot Jupiter and the collaborative robot N1, while the M1 small humanoid robot and the W1 tracked robot have entered scenarios such as early childhood education and smart homes.

    Why it matters: The original article provides verifiable facts such as the financing amount, investor composition, and order scale, allowing readers to understand the commercialization progress of this home embodied intelligence company.

  2. Union Square Ventures35

    Union Square Ventures invests in alqem: using AI to find strong magnetic materials without rare earths

    alqem uses AI to design strong magnetic materials that do not rely on rare earths, and Union Square Ventures has announced an investment to support it. The spread of electric transportation and the growth of robotics have driven up demand for motors and actuators, and making powerful magnets from cheap and abundant elements is seen as a key breakthrough. Before starting this mission, the team built the largest open materials dataset, and it accumulates proprietary data through a closed loop in which the model proposes candidate materials, the team synthesizes them, and measured results flow back to make the next round of predictions more accurate, forming a compounding advantage as the model improves. alqem is hiring.

  3. Lavender Hill Capital Partners67

    Westwell delivers third batch of autonomous trucks to Port of Felixstowe, fleet grows to 100 units

    Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has confirmed a third batch order for autonomous trucks from Shanghai's Westwell Technology, increasing its fleet to 100 units and continuing the earlier deployment of autonomous trucks in mixed-traffic container terminal operations (which the port says is the first of its kind in Europe).

    Why it matters: This order moves autonomous trucks from pilot projects to normalized mixed-traffic operations at the hundred-unit level, and the accompanying battery-swapping and private-network solutions offer useful reference value for port deployments.

  4. 线性资本39

    Yiru Technology completes over 100 million yuan Series A financing | Linear Voice

    Yiru Technology announced the completion of over 100 million yuan in Series A financing, jointly led by Ordos Group and Heda Financial Services, with participation from Chaosing Capital; Linear Capital, the lead investor in the angel round, continues to follow on. The company uses microbial fermentation to produce bio-based resin and turns it into roll-form leather. The annual production capacity of its production line, a joint venture with a listed company, has exceeded 16 million square meters, with carbon emissions more than 80% lower than conventional routes. Its materials have entered scenarios including Anta stores and the soft furnishings of Atour and Kempinski hotels, and the company has set up a wholly owned subsidiary, SYNMETABIO, in France, accumulating nearly 100 million yuan in orders from the European market.

  5. X Square Robot/自变量机器人67

    X Square Robot completes four financing rounds, valuation exceeds 20 billion yuan

    Shenzhen embodied intelligence company X Square Robot has completed four consecutive financing rounds from Series B through Series C, all fully closed, with a valuation exceeding 20 billion yuan, making it the first embodied intelligence company in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to surpass a 20 billion yuan valuation with the rounds closed. There are more than 30 investors, including the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Sequoia China, and Xiaomi Strategic Investment. The company released its embodied large model WALL-B in April 2026, partnered with 58 Daojia to provide robot home housekeeping services to nearly 1,000 households in Shenzhen, and partnered with SF Express on flexible intelligent sorting and parcel feeding.

    Why it matters: The report details how all four financing rounds were fully closed and the deployment scenarios, giving readers a sense of how substantive the company's financing progress really is.

  6. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube16

    Ant Lingbo Technology LingBot 2.0 First Preview

    Ant Lingbo Technology presents LingBot 2.0 for the first time, saying the robots shown are driven by its latest models, operating fully autonomously in real environments, interacting with people and handling complex tasks, with zero human intervention throughout. The company teases that starting tomorrow it will reveal one by one the models powering these robots, and calls for subscriptions.

  8. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube32

    Ant Lingbo Technology LingBot-VA: The First Causal Video-Action World Model for Generalist Robot Control

    Ant Lingbo Technology has launched LingBot-VA, an autoregressive framework that unifies video world modeling with policy learning, jointly learning future frame prediction and action execution. Evaluation results show that the framework demonstrates clear potential in long-horizon manipulation, data-efficient post-training, and generalization to new scene configurations.

  9. Deep Robotics/云深处科技39

    DEEP Robotics Holds Global Partner Conference to Build a Collaborative and Win-Win New Ecosystem for Embodied Intelligence

    DEEP Robotics held its Global Partner Conference in Hangzhou on June 27, bringing together more than 500 partners and unveiling its "1+X+N" development strategy: one embodied brain, X product series covering quadruped, wheeled-legged, and humanoid robots, and N industry application scenarios.

  10. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能23

    KEENON Robotics to Showcase Sustainable Intelligence at Interclean Amsterdam 2026

    KEENON Robotics announced it will attend Interclean Amsterdam 2026, presenting cleaning service robot solutions related to sustainable intelligence. The body text on which the summary is based is actually an industry analysis: China is already the world's largest and fastest-growing robotics market, with the service robot market exceeding 28 billion RMB and growing nearly 40% year on year; funding jumped 344% year on year in 2020, and in the first half of 2021 most leading manufacturers were at B/C rounds, with funding mostly between 300 million and 1 billion RMB.

Jul 5Sun
Jul 2Thu
  1. Pollen Robotics · YouTube37

    Reachy Mini can now talk and collaborate with you

    Reachy Mini, a collaboration between Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, features the Conversation App, enabling fluent conversation, to-do list management, task reminders, and discussions about music. The robot has long-term memory across sessions and vision capabilities, allowing it to recognize what users show it. It is aimed at home AI companionship, and purchases can be made at reachy-mini.ai.

  2. 1X Technologies37

    1X Technologies Appoints Bill Nash as CFO

    1X Technologies announced that Bill Nash has become its new Chief Financial Officer. He previously served as CFO of Ursa Major, and during his tenure as CFO of autonomous driving company Cruise, he took part in large-scale financing, strategic partnerships, and large-scale operational expansion, with financial leadership experience in the autonomous driving, aerospace, and life sciences industries. CEO Bernt Bornich said that Bill's experience will support the production ramp-up and global delivery of the NEO humanoid robot.

  3. 松灵机器人34

    Why Is 3D Navigation Becoming a Core Standard for Mobile Robots in Complex Scenarios?

    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.

  4. Stial/斯帝尔科技44

    STIER wins bid for AI intelligent flexible production line project from leading listed lighting company, achieving one-stop implementation of the full welding and grinding process

    STIER has won the bid for an intelligent manufacturing production line project from a globally renowned lighting company and will build an intelligent flexible production line covering upstream welding and downstream AI flexible grinding. The downstream grinding uses its AI flexible grinding robot, equipped with the self-developed PolishX flexible force control system and the AI brain NextBrain™ Mogu Cloud system. Through hybrid force/position control and real-time gravity compensation, it handles burrs, curved-surface polishing, and edge and corner grinding, while the entire line achieves coordinated linkage of welding, grinding, conveying, dust removal, and inspection.

  5. X Square Robot/自变量机器人67

    X Square Robot releases cross-modal embodied action tokenizer X-Tokenizer, with 13.5% gain in multimodal alignment and 8.25% gain in long-horizon tasks

    X Square Robot has released X-Tokenizer, a cross-modal embodied action tokenizer built on a semantic residual quantization (SRQ) architecture and pretrained on 17 robotic arm series and 2.4 million trajectories (including 2 billion action frames). Compared with FAST, it improves multimodal alignment by 13.5% and long-horizon task performance by 8.25%, and scores 82.8 on RoboTwin 2.0; in real-robot tests it outperforms comparison methods such as FAST and 4-level RVQ.

    Why it matters: The original text presents X-Tokenizer's method design and comparative experimental data, letting readers understand the action tokenizer's multimodal alignment approach and its reusable effects.

  6. Robot.com Holdings Inc.30

    Robot.com becomes official robotics partner of LEAP East, with R-ads entering Asia for the first time

    Robot.com has become the official robotics partner of the LEAP East conference in Hong Kong, where it will deploy R-kiwis on site and bring its R-ads advertising platform to Asia for the first time. R-ads has completed more than 100 brand campaigns in 20 countries, executed by 500 robots deployed in the US, Canada, Dubai, and MENA, completing a cumulative 2.5 million tasks. Co-founder and President Judah Longgrear will speak on site with a talk titled "When AI Leaves the Screen."

Jul 1Wed
  1. Boston Dynamics48

    Boston Dynamics Spot robots take part in 2026 World Cup security patrols

    Boston Dynamics' Spot robots are deployed at the Dallas International Broadcast Center and New York/New Jersey stadiums, carrying out perimeter patrols to support asset protection and risk detection for the FIFA 2026 World Cup. Spot 5.1, released this year, supports security missions: when it detects a person, it pauses, activates its AV lights, captures PTZ, panoramic, and thermal images, and triggers an alarm. The robot is positioned as an assistant to security personnel, with patrol findings ultimately reviewed by staff.

  2. Yaskawa61

    Yaskawa Electric builds new European Robotics Distribution Center (ERDC) in Slovenia and relocates and expands YASKAWA Ristro

    Yaskawa Electric announced that YASKAWA Europe Robotics d.o.o. will build a new logistics facility, the ERDC (European Robotics Distribution Center), in the city of Kocevje, Slovenia, and will relocate and expand YASKAWA Ristro d.o.o., currently located in the city of Ribnica, to the same site, consolidating development, production, and systems operations.

    Why it matters: The original article provides hard figures such as investment amount, floor area, and monthly production capacity, which can be used to gauge the scale of change in Yaskawa's European logistics and production capacity layout.

  3. 普华资本60

    Puhua Capital Joins Over $100 Million Angel Round in Qiuzhi Technology, Setting Single-Deal Record in Consumer-Grade Embodied Robotics

    Qiuzhi Technology (DISCOVER Robotics) announced the completion of an angel round exceeding $100 million, setting the record for the largest single angel round in the consumer-grade embodied robotics sector. Puhua Capital participated in the investment, alongside other investors including Legend Capital, Xinchang Investment, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Yunbo Capital, Lingang Science and Technology Innovation Investment, Amber Capital, and Gengxin Capital. The funds will mainly be used to accelerate the launch and mass production of consumer-grade embodied robotics products.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the financing size, the record-setting positioning, and the use of funds, allowing readers to judge the current capital enthusiasm and mass-production pace in the consumer-grade embodied robotics sector.

  4. Diffusion PR24

    Automate 2026: Robots serve us coffee!

    The Diffusion PR team spent four days at the Automate 2026 trade show in Chicago, where they saw robot baristas making coffee on site. Physical AI was the buzzword of this year's show, and Alexandre Boffi of Kawasaki Robotics explained it as the mechanical embodiment of artificial intelligence in the physical world.

  5. YOUIBOT/优艾智合53

    Youibot Releases FabriX Industrial Embodied Intelligence Foundation Model and Edge Industrial Humanoid Robot

    On June 29, Youibot released the industrial embodied intelligence foundation model FabriX and the industrial humanoid robot Edge. FabriX uses an edge-cloud hybrid architecture, combining a multimodal MoE foundation model with deterministic control, and proposes an ecosystem partner plan to empower 10,000 industrial sites over three years.

Jun 30Tue
  1. Maxtronics Robotics SAS23

    NAO Challenge in Italy

    The 2026 season of Italy's NAO Challenge attracted more than 35 secondary school teams from across the country, each made up of 7 to 10 students and a supervising teacher. The competition has two parts, a technical challenge and a performance challenge, in which participants program the humanoid robot NAO and stage live performances. The event was first launched in 2015 by Scuola di Robotica and CampuStore, with Maxtronics as sponsor.