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Jul 16Thu
  1. 松灵机器人24

    Knowledge Essentials | Why Navigation Platforms Are Evolving from "Algorithms" into Robotics Industry "Infrastructure": Engineering Practice with AgileX UMR and AgileX NAVIS 3D

    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.

Jul 15Wed
  1. Yaskawa49

    Yaskawa Electric develops MOTOMAN NEXT "Agentic Robot System" integrated with Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6

    Yaskawa Electric has developed the "Agentic Robot System," which links the AI robot MOTOMAN NEXT with Google DeepMind's generative AI model Gemini Robotics ER 1.6. The robot can assess conditions on site on its own, assemble and execute work steps, and complete tasks autonomously from instructions such as "sort these parts," without prior teaching or detailed programming.

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. 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.

Jul 9Thu
  1. 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.

Jul 8Wed
  1. 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.

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
Jul 2Thu
  1. 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.

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.

Jun 25Thu
  1. Stial/斯帝尔科技23

    STIER's AI flexible grinding achieves efficient, scratch-free, high-consistency weld seam grinding for battery box enclosures

    STIER uses AI flexible grinding technology to address the pain points of easy scratching and insufficient consistency in weld seam grinding for battery box enclosures. Its solution uses PolishX flexible force control (accuracy ±0.1N) and millimeter-level visual positioning perception, combined with a process grinding knowledge base and the NextBrain™ AI cloud system to make grinding decisions, and has self-learning and adaptive capabilities. It also provides full-process support including customized laser scanning solutions, real-time data monitoring, and grinding head wear warnings.

Jun 24Wed
  1. Stial/斯帝尔科技26

    STIER AI flexible grinding robot workstation targets high-end precision manufacturing with a physical AI closed loop, deployed in wet grinding of silicon carbide composite materials

    STIER has launched an AI flexible grinding robot workstation that builds a "perception-analysis-decision-execution" physical AI closed loop, targeting the grinding of multi-curved-surface parts in high-end manufacturing such as aerospace and precision molds. The solution uses 3D vision inspection and positioning, a PolishX flexible force-control system belt grinder, and the self-developed NextBrain™ Mushroom Cloud system. In a wet grinding case involving silicon carbide composite workpieces, it achieved fully autonomous operation across the entire process, with contact force control accuracy of ±0.5% FS, per-piece processing time shortened by more than 22%, and product changeover completed within 10 minutes.

Jun 16Tue
  1. Deep Robotics/云深处科技57

    Deep Robotics Lynx M20 Wheeled-Legged Robot Deployed for Inspection in Chengdu Underground Utility Tunnel

    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.

Jun 15Mon
  1. 若创科技33

    Strutt ev¹ 1.2.3.11 release notes: new UI, enhanced evSense, and safety updates

    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.

Jun 12Fri
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube16

    Enchanted Tools Mirokaï demo: autonomous grasping, carrying, and delivery

    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.

Jun 6Sat
  1. 富唯智能31

    Fuwei Intelligence: AI large models plus digital twins empower industrial humanoid robot deployment

    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.

Jun 4Thu
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube22

    Mirokaï in action: map, ask, go (Enchanted Tools demos semantic mapping, voice commands, and autonomous navigation)

    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.

Jun 3Wed
  1. Stial/斯帝尔科技28

    STIER Uses Physical AI Closed-Loop Technology to Enable a New Model for Flexible Grinding and Efficient Polishing of Bent Pipes

    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.

May 26Tue
  1. PAL39

    CENTAURO project improves TIAGo Pro's precision and safety in industrial handling

    The CENTAURO project, in which PAL Robotics participates, redesigned the 7-DOF robotic arm for the TIAGo Pro mobile manipulator, optimizing the workspace to reach angles and positions that were previously unreachable. The arm integrates series elastic actuators (SEA) that can absorb impacts and measure contact force, and shifts to torque and admittance control, enabling the robot to sense applied pressure. The WebGUI v3 ecosystem adds a drag-and-drop visual programming interface, allowing non-experts to configure complex tasks in scenarios such as polishing and logistics.

May 18Mon
  1. PKU Intelligent Robotics Open Laboratory20

    Zhang Wanruo from Peking University's Intelligent Robotics Lab has paper MXPose accepted by Pattern Recognition

    Zhang Wanruo, a 2021 direct-entry PhD student at Peking University's Open Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics, has had the paper "MXPose: Multiplex interactive learning for multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation" officially accepted by Pattern Recognition (PR), a journal in the pattern recognition field. Her research direction is multi-view 3D human pose estimation.

May 15Fri
May 12Tue
Apr 27Mon
  1. PAL30

    StockBot Success Story: Redefining Inventory Accuracy in E-commerce Warehouses

    Fashion retailer Tendam, in partnership with PAL Robotics and ID Logistics, has deployed the StockBot autonomous RFID inventory robot at its logistics center in Illescas, Spain, and the solution is now fully operational. StockBot autonomously patrols daily, scans inventory with RFID, continuously supplements WMS data, and can identify items that are physically in stock but not registered in the system. After three years of gradual refinement from proof of concept, the partners say errors and incidents have decreased, order preparation is faster, and employees can shift to higher-value tasks.

Apr 20Mon
  1. PsiBot/灵初智能46

    Lingchu Intelligence releases self-developed complete robot ψ-SynRobot and starts mass production

    Lingchu Intelligence has officially released its self-developed complete robot ψ-SynRobot and simultaneously started large-scale mass production. The model targets logistics, retail, and industrial scenarios and uses an integrated "operation execution + data collection" architecture; each completed task simultaneously accumulates visual, tactile, and motion-trajectory data. It can run continuously 24/7 and suits scenarios such as warehouse sorting, retail guidance, and industrial assembly. The release gives Lingchu Intelligence a complete product matrix from an "embodied intelligence brain" to a complete-machine execution platform, covering forms such as wheeled robots and exoskeleton gloves.

  2. 普罗宇宙23

    Technology Empowers Intangible Cultural Heritage, Craftsmanship Passes Down Classics — ProUniverse Dabai Robot Appears at JD MALL

    The ProUniverse Dabai robot performed a dual-arm collaborative lacquer fan craft demonstration at the opening event of JD MALL (Wuhan Wangjiawan store), producing a customized lacquer fan within 1 minute. Its AI multimodal 3D vision and 2D industrial-grade positioning support sub-millimeter precision operation, and distributed learning enables rapid transfer of new scene skills. The event also introduced the "Craftsmanship Universe" plan, which, relying on the self-developed SDPAA parallelized data collection architecture and the InduThread-VLA large model, transforms traditional artisan skills into storable and replicable digital assets, with future expansion from crafts such as lacquer and sugar painting to precision assembly and high-end manufacturing fields.

Mar 16Mon
  1. Dexterity66

    Dexterity speeds up Foresight visual perception 17x with NVIDIA, from 1508ms to 90ms

    Dexterity says that after NVIDIA acceleration, the visual perception pipeline of its world model Foresight cut per-cycle latency from 1508ms to 90ms, a 17x speedup.

    Why it matters: The original breaks down latency data and optimization methods for each stage of the pipeline, giving robotics developers a GPU acceleration approach they can adapt to their own perception systems.

Feb 27Fri
Feb 17Tue
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼25

    Tech analysis: How many steps does RealMan's RealBOT wheeled folding robot take to "make dumpling filling" at the Spring Festival Gala?

    At the Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala, RealMan's RealBOT wheeled folding robot used remote teleoperation to open a refrigerator, take out soy sauce, pour soy sauce, and stir dumpling filling; it was the only company among the participating recording enterprises to complete on-site work via remote teleoperation. Its integrated joint module has an MTBF of 50,000 hours, opening the refrigerator door requires an instantaneous torque of about 14 kilograms, pouring soy sauce relies on visual guidance and high-frequency posture correction to achieve zero spills, and mixing the filling is controlled by a remote "isomorphic arm" that records data to feed back into training models for the remote operation network (GLN).

Feb 6Fri
  1. FieldAI51

    FieldAI and Boston Dynamics deploy autonomous robot inspections on construction sites

    FieldAI describes the autonomous deployment of its Field Foundation Models (FFMs) with Boston Dynamics' quadruped robot Spot on construction sites, requiring no GPS, cloud connection, prior maps, or pre-planned routes, and able to carry out inspection, mapping, and monitoring tasks around the clock. The article states that over the past two years this has covered construction sites in Asia, Europe, and North America, cutting customers' inspection and documentation time by more than 90%, with data able to flow into BIM and digital twin systems, and several pilots having expanded into fleet-level deployments.

Feb 3Tue
  1. 若创科技51

    Strutt launches Strutt ev¹ smart everyday vehicle at CES 2026

    Singapore robotics company Strutt officially launched the Strutt ev¹ smart everyday vehicle at CES 2026; the product previously won a CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award. The ev¹ features the evSense sensing system, which combines LiDAR, cameras, time-of-flight and ultrasonic sensors for 360-degree environmental perception, and supports Co-Pilot/Co-Pilot+ assist modes, Pathfinder autonomous navigation, and Waypoints natural-language command navigation based on a large language model.

Jan 27Tue
  1. Figure AI82

    Figure AI Releases Helix 02: A Full-Body Autonomous Control Model for Humanoid Robots

    Figure AI has released Helix 02, extending control from the upper body to the entire humanoid robot and enabling continuous, integrated autonomous tasks combining locomotion and manipulation. It adds a new System 0 whole-body controller, trained on over 1,000 hours of human motion data and simulation-based reinforcement learning, which outputs joint commands at 1 kHz via a 10M-parameter network, replacing roughly 109,504 lines of hand-written C++ code; System 1 connects head-mounted vision, palm cameras, fingertip touch sensing, and proprioception, outputting whole-body joint targets at 200 Hz.

    Why it matters: The original text provides details on Helix 02's architectural layers, training data, and demonstration tasks, allowing readers to understand the specific implementation approach for full-body autonomous control.

Jan 7Wed
  1. Sharpa53

    Sharpa releases CraftNet, a hierarchical VTLA model for fine manipulation

    Sharpa has released CraftNet, an end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model aimed at last-millimeter contact control in fine manipulation. The model consists of three parts: System 2 (about 1 Hz, an open-source VLM responsible for reasoning and task decomposition), System 1 (about 10 Hz, responsible for motion planning and coarse actions), and System 0 (about 100 Hz, performing real-time fine-tuning of hand movements based on tactile feedback), with the three cooperating asynchronously.

Jan 6Tue
  1. Sharpa42

    Sharpa unveils North, its first full-body autonomous robot, at CES 2026

    At CES 2026, Sharpa unveiled North, its first full-body autonomous robot, and completed four fully autonomous live demonstrations. North has a 0.02-second reaction time in table tennis rallies, takes photos with about 2 mm precision, deals cards through multimodal reasoning, and completes a 30+ step paper pinwheel craft sequence, which the company calls one of the longest continuous autonomous operations publicly demonstrated to date.

  2. 可以科技31

    Meet LOONA DeskMate: The Desktop AI Companion for Work

    KEYi Technology introduced LOONA DeskMate at CES 2026 (January 6–9, Las Vegas), positioning it as a desktop embodied AI companion. It uses three signals—Intent, State, and Emotion—to achieve wake-word-free audiovisual multimodal perception, claims to eliminate 300–500 ms of silent latency, and connects to workflows such as Gmail, Slack, and Calendly through real-time clipboard and screen awareness.

Dec 19Fri
  1. Sharpa63

    Sharpa announces mass production of SharpaWave dexterous hand, to exhibit at CES 2026

    Sharpa announced that mass production of its flagship dexterous hand, SharpaWave, has begun, with early customers including global technology companies and research universities.

    Why it matters: The manufacturer announced that the dexterous hand has entered mass production and provided technical details such as degrees of freedom, tactile precision, and simulation platform compatibility, which readers can use to assess its research usability.

Dec 5Fri
  1. PKU Intelligent Robotics Open Laboratory41

    Professor Liu Hong's team wins Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award First Prize for "Multi-Visual Feature Interactive Learning Mechanism"

    Professor Liu Hong's team's research achievement "Multi-Visual Feature Interactive Learning Mechanism" won the First Prize of the 2024 Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award. The achievement reveals the mechanism by which prior knowledge guides the timing of robot multi-visual feature interaction, and has been applied to the industrial robot vision systems of ZTE Corporation and Skyworth Group production lines. Six representative works have been cited more than 5,000 times by over 630 research institutions.

Dec 3Wed
  1. Dobot/越疆机器人32

    Dobot Robotics appears at Geely Auto technology exhibition, embodied intelligent robots empower efficient flexible intelligent manufacturing in automotive

    Dobot Robotics recently exhibited at the forward-looking lean manufacturing technology exhibition hosted by Geely Automobile Research Institute, demonstrating on site the application in automotive manufacturing of a six-axis collaborative robot (equipped with the self-developed VX500 vision camera), the ATOM humanoid robot (the world's first full-size embodied intelligent robot with "dexterous manipulation + straight-knee walking"), and the Hexplorer six-legged robot dog.

Nov 26Wed
  1. Mentee Robotics · YouTube41

    Behind the Scenes: How MenteeBot Perceives and Plans Autonomous Logistics Tasks

    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.

Nov 11Tue
  1. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能47

    Keenon Robotics launches C55 cleaning robot for medium and large spaces

    Keenon Robotics unveiled the C55, a combined sweeping and washing robot for medium and large spaces, at the ISSA North America show, marking the product's first in-person debut in North America. The C55 targets indoor environments of over 3000㎡, offers a cleaning capacity of 2376㎡/hour, and features a 110L water tank, 21,000Pa suction, and fused perception combining 360° lidar and stereo vision. It supports automatic return-to-dock charging, wastewater discharge, and water refill, and its dual-battery system supports 24/7 continuous operation. The company also showed products including the C40, C30, W3, T10, and S300 at the same event.