Ati Robotics will appear at Automate 2026 from June 22–25 (Booth 450, South Hall, McCormick Place), running a continuous multi-robot collaborative material handling workflow featuring the Sherpa XT Lite tugger, the Sherpa Mecha humanoid robot, and the Sherpa Pallet Mover.
The Huiwen intelligent service robot has officially been deployed at the Heihe Public Legal (Foreign-Related) Service Center as an intelligent receptionist. When visitors approach, it wakes automatically and proactively greets and guides them. It features a 6-microphone circular array pickup system with 5-meter far-field accurate pickup, has built-in AI models and is connected to large language models such as DeepSeek, can connect to government-specific knowledge bases, provides dual-modal legal consultation through voice explanation plus large-screen graphic display, and supports multilingual interaction in Chinese, English, and Russian.
Sanctuary AI announced a task success rate of over 99.5% on a wire plugging production task at a global Tier 1 automotive supplier, with a cycle time of 2.54 seconds, validated against the customer's real-time production benchmarks. The company has shifted its strategy to deploying Physical AI on existing commercial robot hardware rather than waiting for humanoid hardware to reach mass production; the system handles flexible cables on a moving conveyor, with throughput matching the customer's production line level.
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.
Octopus Dynamics (SynapX) announced the completion of a new $50 million funding round led by Jinqiu Fund, Xinlian Capital, and Huangpu River Capital, with participation from existing shareholders including Linear Capital. The company has raised nearly 1 billion yuan over the past 3 months, and its next round of 500 million yuan is also nearing completion.
The Sanctuary AI Board of Directors has appointed Daniel Friedmann as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding James Wells. Friedmann previously served as the company's chairman, spent nearly two decades as CEO of MDA, and most recently served as CEO and chairman of Carbon Engineering. Sanctuary AI helps industrial customers automate complex tasks through the deployment of Physical AI and holds proprietary technologies such as hydraulic hands.
Genesis AI has unveiled Eno, its first agentic robot, which integrates an AI agent and a general-purpose robot into a single system that can reason, plan, and act in the real world. Eno was developed end to end in house at Genesis, spanning simulation, the GENE foundation model, the data engine, the dexterous hand, and the robot body, so that intelligence and hardware advance as one. The product is positioned as matching human capability without imitating human form, aiming to extend rather than replicate human abilities.
General-purpose embodied AI robotics company Simple AI announced it has completed a Pre-A funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Didi, with participation from Plum Ventures and Keli Sensing, and continued backing from existing shareholders Genesis Partners, Linear Capital, and Puhua Capital; the company has completed four consecutive funding rounds within one year.
Why it matters: It reports the composition of the investors and details of the hotel POC deployment, which can be used to observe how embodied AI companies leverage industrial capital to obtain real-world scenarios and supply-chain resources.
Hexagon Robotics' AEON humanoid robot has begun performing production tasks at BMW Group's Leipzig plant while also being trained on applications for future manufacturing. The next phase of the collaboration will focus on improving autonomy, robustness, and operational performance, with battery assembly activities expected to move from the Innovation Garage into the plant environment as a future pilot. AEON is set to enter production by the end of 2026 and is seen as an important step toward a new generation of manufacturing automation.
IPLUSMOBOT will exhibit three AMRs at Automate 2026 (June 22–25, McCormick Place, Chicago, Booth #26027): the QN1416 counterbalance high-precision heavy-load transport robot, the Omni2.5T omnidirectional mobile robot (millimeter-level positioning), and the EMMA 400L for light-load rapid deployment.
Deep Robotics' wheeled-legged robot Lynx M20, equipped with a smart utility tunnel solution, has been deployed for inspection in nearly 26 kilometers of underground utility tunnels at Chengdu Future Science and Technology City. The robot combines wheeled and legged locomotion, can pass through passages as narrow as 50 centimeters, and supports autonomous charging and automatic return for 7×24-hour inspection. It integrates infrared temperature measurement, gas detection, high-definition cameras, acoustic collection, and other sensor modules, and works with Junyi Digital to carry a digital twin operations and maintenance system, enabling three-tier red, orange, and yellow alerts and a closed digital inspection loop.
The Strutt ev¹ firmware 1.2.3.11 update brings a new customizable UI, enhanced evSense, and a safety confirmation mechanism. The new UI supports a dynamic home screen that changes color by driving mode, a pull-down dashboard, and 9 customizable shortcuts; uphill power on slopes increases by up to 25%, and evSense is ready within 5 seconds of waking. Enabling features such as Level S and Hands-Free Auto-Pilot requires completing safety protocol confirmation in the app; Level S is not supported in Singapore and Japan.
Kepler Robot has teased the upcoming launch of the Kepler Qilin, a dual-form heavy-duty quadruped robot, calling it the world's first dual-form heavy-duty quadruped robot. The teaser emphasizes its mobility and load-carrying capability for real-world environments, but no payload, degrees of freedom, or battery life specifications were disclosed, nor were any launch or delivery dates given.
Shanghe Momentum recently completed an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan in the marine embodied intelligence company Shihang Intelligence. This round is Shihang Intelligence's Series A financing, with an amount exceeding 1 billion yuan, making it the largest single-round financing in the global marine robotics sector to date. Shanghe Momentum also brought in the listed company Ocean Motor (002249.SZ) as a strategic investor, with Vertex Growth under Temasek and others participating, while existing shareholders such as GSR Ventures substantially oversubscribed their follow-on investments.
Enchanted Tools demonstrates the Mirokaï humanoid robot turning a spoken request into an autonomous process of grasping, carrying, and delivering an object to a designated area. The demo covers natural language understanding, autonomous grasp planning, drop-off area detection, and precision manipulation; the robot combines perception, planning, and manipulation to complete a real-world task. The source does not provide quantitative metrics such as success rate or payload. The post is dated June 16th, 2026.
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.
Filics has updated the safety FAQ page for its Streamliner tow tractor and published a safety whitepaper, "Sicherheit im geteilten Arbeitsraum."
Filics released its June update; its Streamliner dual-skid system demonstrated autonomous pallet transport without complex infrastructure modifications at the Logistics & Automation trade show in Hamburg.
KEENON Robotics has released a security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) covering its service robots and other connectable products, along with companion mobile apps, cloud services, and firmware, to comply with Australia's 2025 smart device security rules. The policy commits to acknowledging reports within 48 hours, updating progress at least every 14 days, using it_service@keenon.com as the reporting channel, and providing safe harbor protection for good-faith reporters.
Geekplus announced the deployment of moving-type AMRs at multiple Toyota Motor Corporation plants in Japan. A total of 436 units are currently operating in the factories, with a single system scaled up to approximately 200 units. These AMRs support fully unmanned inter-process transport from inbound receiving to picking.
Yaskawa Electric has begun sales of the MOTOMAN-GP215L, GP400L, and GP700 robots for handling large workpieces, with payload capacities of 215 kg, 400 kg, and 700 kg and maximum reaches of 3114 mm, 3718 mm, and 2845 mm, respectively. The three models increase wrist allowable values by up to 44%, 110%, and 60% compared with equivalent-class models, targeting the handling of workpieces such as automotive bodies, die-cast parts, and battery cells. The products go on sale at open prices from June 10, 2026, and their compact design aims to reduce interference radius and shorten production lines.
At Huawei Cloud's INSPIRE Creators Conference in Shanghai, Zero Power Robot officially joined the "Hundreds of Models, Thousands of Forms, Cloud for Shared Success" ecosystem partnership program, becoming a partner in Huawei Cloud's embodied intelligence track. The two parties will collaborate on three main pillars: joint research on embodied foundation models, co-building and sharing the ecosystem, and scaled replication of industry solutions, leveraging the Huawei Cloud CloudRobo platform and computing infrastructure, with a focus on scenarios such as large retail, smart manufacturing, and home services to drive commercial deployment.
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT held a launch briefing for the Physical AI Leading Technology R&D Project in Seoul on June 9, planning to invest 34 billion won over two years to jointly develop a Korean-style world model and domestic simulator with 10 industry-academia-research institutions including LG Electronics, aiming to raise robots' final action success rate by more than 20 percentage points compared with not using a world model, and planning to achieve an MVP within one year and eight months and conduct validation at manufacturing and logistics sites.
Why it matters: The South Korean government has launched a project to localize core physical AI technologies; readers can learn about its investment scale, target metrics, and industry-academia-research division of labor.
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.
In a payload demo, Duatic Alpha lifted 22.4 kg at full 1-meter extension, held it steady for 2 seconds, then safely set it back down, repeating this 10 times consecutively. The test was used to verify the platform's lifting capability, stability, and operational reliability, showcasing its mechanical design and motor control precision; the source did not provide information on speed, battery life, or mass-production delivery.
RobCo and Koenig & Bauer announced a strategic partnership centered on RobCo's no-code robotics platform, aiming to move industrial robotics from isolated automation projects to platform-based deployment. The partnership initially focuses on applications in finishing processes and production systems, with the first customer installation planned for the first quarter of 2027; the two companies aim to cumulatively deploy a three-digit number of solutions over time. RobCo uses a robotics-as-a-service subscription model and operates in Europe and the United States.
DEEP Robotics' small wheeled-legged robot, the Lynx S10 prototype, completed a 76-day, 11,852-nautical-mile Arctic Ocean research test aboard Sun Yat-sen University's Polar Research Vessel Zhongshan, marking the first time a quadruped robot has set foot on Arctic Ocean ice. The unit, weighing under 20 kg including its battery, was fitted with anti-slip bionic feet mimicking polar bear paws in collaboration with Sun Yat-sen University, Westlake University, and Hangzhou Dianzi University, and completed crawling and motion-control tests with crampons; the body uses an IP67 integrated sealed design, and after increasing the surface area of its limbs for paddling, it completed swimming tests in ice water.
Why it matters: The original article provides the specific test conditions and hardware modifications for the Lynx S10's walking on Arctic Ocean ice and operation in ice water, helping readers understand how quadruped robots are adapted for polar scenarios.
At the Huawei Cloud INSPIRE Conference, Huawei Cloud released CloudRobo, an end-to-end embodied intelligence development platform, and Youibot became one of the first embodied intelligence companies to join the ecosystem. Youibot will integrate its proprietary "one brain, multiple forms" embodied AI system with the CloudRobo platform, using the platform's data assets, model development capabilities, and cloud-native infrastructure to shorten the development cycle of embodied intelligent robots and accelerate deployment in complex industrial environments such as semiconductors, energy, chemicals, and lithium batteries.
PKU EPIC Lab proposes KPGrasp, a dexterous grasp generation method that combines an all-Euclidean 3D hand-keypoint parameterization with a Transformer flow-matching model to learn grasp priors from large-scale data, without contact losses or contact-based test-time optimization.
Why it matters: The paper presents a new contact-loss-free grasp generation method and specific results on two benchmarks, letting readers compare it with existing methods and assess its approach.
Enchanted Tools' humanoid robot Mirokaï demonstrates multi-terrain navigation in a video, seamlessly switching between surfaces such as carpet, wood flooring, tile and concrete while continuously adjusting its behavior to maintain stability and smooth movement. This is a demo; the company teases further news on June 16, 2026, and invites people to join its Discord community.
On June 4, Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Wang Hao conducted a research visit in Hangzhou, observing demonstrations of embodied AI application scenarios at the National AI Application Pilot Base (Embodied Intelligence) and hearing an on-site special report from Dr. Zhou Chen, General Manager of Lingqiao Intelligent, a representative of the base's core co-building enterprises. Lingqiao Intelligent is a joint initiator, founding shareholder, and core co-builder of the base; Chairman Xu Chunshan has been appointed co-CTO of the base and chair of its technical committee. Wang Hao emphasized the need to strengthen coordination and integration among government, research, and academia as well as between universities, enterprises, and local governments, and to advance pairing cooperation under the "universities + platforms + enterprises + industrial chains" model.
The Fuwei Intelligence Fuzhi 1 and Fuzhi 2 are mass-produced industrial humanoid robots, each with a dual-arm rated payload of 8 kg. Fuzhi 1 is equipped with FW75 precision robotic arms and dual RGB-D depth cameras, with accuracy of ±0.02 mm, and focuses on fine assembly; Fuzhi 2 has FW65 heavy-duty robotic arms, three industrial cameras, and a 2.2-meter lifting column, and focuses on heavy-load transfer. Both robots share Fuwei's self-developed AI large model and digital twin simulation platform, and are suited to industrial scenarios including automotive, electronics, logistics, healthcare, new energy, and CNC machining.
The Maxtronics team showcased the humanoid robot NAO at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, Austria, and announced NAO7 at the event, drawing attention from research institutions, educational institutions, and industry partners. NAO has entered more than 70 countries with tens of thousands of units deployed, and has long served as a research platform for artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and cognitive science. The team discussed cooperation with multiple international partners, and several laboratories expressed interest in resuming joint research and participating in collaborative projects and technical exchanges.
PKU EPIC Lab released LIMMT (Less Is More for Motion Tracking), which it describes as the first data-centric study for physics-based simulated humanoid motion tracking. The method defines motion data quality along three dimensions: physics feasibility, diversity, and complexity. Training on less than 3% of AMASS achieves better tracking performance than training on the full dataset, and the team also cleaned web-sourced mocap data. The paper has been accepted to ICML 2026; see arXiv:2606.06953.
Why it matters: The paper presents a three-dimensional data quality framework and results from training on a small amount of data, offering a methodological reference for researchers working on humanoid motion tracking.
1X announced the formal establishment of the 1X World Model Lab, focused on large-scale pretraining of embodied world models, with the goal of accelerating the realization of fully autonomous humanoid robots. Sam Sinha, formerly a founding research scientist at Luma AI, has joined as Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models.
Why it matters: 1X officially outlined the World Model Lab's data approach and its full-stack in-house development stance, giving readers insight into its technical path toward autonomous humanoids.
Boston Dynamics has partnered with Hyundai to train the Atlas® humanoid robot, using human demonstration references and reinforcement learning, to perform a Ghost Rabona kick it had never done before, including a feint step and a cross-legged shot.
Chen Yu, managing partner of Yunqi Partners, explains his views on judging long-term opportunities amid technological paradigm shifts in a video interview with PEdaily, with Yunqi Insights excerpting the core points. Yunqi began focusing on robotics and autonomous driving as early as 2016 and invested in MiniMax's angel round in 2021, favoring the approach of a foundation model solving multiple types of tasks. He believes large models enable a team of about 10 people to build products that previously required 100 people, and that the moat for AI applications lies in scenario understanding, data barriers, and multi-model collaboration.
Enchanted Tools' service robot Mirokaï demonstrated semantic location mapping, natural voice commands, and autonomous navigation: after associating places with meaningful names, the robot can understand requests such as "go to the café" or "go to reception" and autonomously navigate to the destination without coordinates or programming, described as a human-robot interface achieved through conversational interaction. The video ends with a teaser for a milestone on June 16, 2026, and the message "WE'RE READY," while inviting viewers to join its private Discord community for behind-the-scenes content and early access.
Rainbow Robotics will showcase its RB series collaborative robots and RBY series dual-arm mobile manipulators at Booth 1078 at Automate 2026 in Chicago, USA, from June 22–25.
STIER has built an integrated AI flexible grinding solution covering perception, analysis, decision-making, and execution, targeting the difficult grinding and polishing of special-shaped bent pipes such as liquid-cooling bent pipes and exhaust bent pipes. Its self-developed SeeV perception system combines 3D imaging to identify contours and deviations; the NextBrain™ AI Mushroom Cloud system plans trajectories and enables one-click changeover; and the six-axis AI flexible grinding robot is equipped with the PolishX flexible force control system, achieving contact force control accuracy of ±0.5% FS and supporting small-batch, multi-model customized production.