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Aug 27Thu
  1. 北京智在无界科技有限公司33

    BeingBeyond Wins First Prize at HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition

    At the opening ceremony of the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit on August 26, BeingBeyond stood out from 10,209 participating projects to win the competition's first prize, with founder Lu Zongqing accepting the award on stage. Founded in May 2025, the company focuses on training embodied general foundation models using large-scale human video data. In July 2026, it released the Being-H0.8 general dexterous manipulation model, which unifies vision, touch, action, and future state changes into a single latent space.

Aug 25Tue
  1. Figure AI62

    Figure AI launches Index app to build large-scale, diverse robot training dataset

    Figure AI announced it is exiting stealth mode and launching the Index app on Google Play and the App Store to collect real-world physical data from Creators worldwide to train its Helix AI system.

    Why it matters: The original article provides scale figures for the Index data pipeline and a five-stage processing workflow, which readers can use to assess the actual progress of its human data collection approach.

Aug 24Mon
  1. TetraBOT/天创机器人28

    Tianchuang Robotics Showcases T4-A Humanoid Robot and T-WAVES Model at WRC 2026 World Robot Conference

    From August 19 to 23, Tianchuang Robotics appeared at the WRC 2026 World Robot Conference at the China Telecom and CVTE booths, exhibiting the T4-A integrated inspection-and-operation humanoid robot and its self-developed general industrial embodied intelligence fusion model T-WAVES. The T4-A uses China Telecom's RaaS platform to achieve integrated monitoring, recognition, and operation, and can replace personnel in entering 4D scenarios to perform operations and maintenance. At the event, the T4-A equipped with T-WAVES completed multiple live demonstrations of equipment cabinet operations in power scenarios.

Aug 22Sat
  1. Elite Robots/艾利特机器人28

    Elite Robots at WRC 2026: One Show, Three AI+Robotics Deployments

    At the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026) in Beijing, held August 19–23, Elite Robots presented three AI+robotics application scenarios: Lingju model random bin picking (CS66 collaborative robot + Lingju Zhizao end-to-end VLA model + SMC electric gripper), a dual-arm coffee robot co-exhibited with Heshisiwei (supporting 50+ flavors), and a fully automated ice cream robot co-exhibited with Beijing Rural Commercial Bank.

Aug 21Fri
  1. Tokyo Robotics · YouTube31

    Dual-arm robot Torobo2 autonomously clears a table in demonstration

    Tokyo Robotics demonstrated its dual-arm robot Torobo2 autonomously clearing a table (bussing): it collects dishes and a cloth from the tabletop into a tray, completing the task autonomously in real time (1x speed) throughout. Trajectories are generated by a fine-tuned VLA policy, with visual information from head and wrist cameras. The demonstration verified stable execution under drastic changes in ambient light, as well as the adaptability to re-recognize and continue completing the task after a human intervenes and moves target objects or the tray.

  2. Tokyo Robotics · YouTube38

    Torobo2 dual-arm robot demonstrates seamless task switching from laundry folding to table bussing

    Tokyo Robotics demonstrated its dual-arm robot Torobo2 seamlessly transitioning from "Laundry Folding" to "Table Bussing" in a continuous operation, completed autonomously in real time at 1x speed throughout. Trajectories are generated using a fine-tuned VLA policy, relying on visual information from head and wrist cameras to judge environmental changes. Each task has its own individual control policy (action model), and the policies are switched at appropriate timing to achieve uninterrupted continuous execution between tasks.

  3. Tokyo Robotics · YouTube40

    Torobo2 Autonomous Clothes-Folding Demo

    The dual-arm robot Torobo2 demonstrates autonomous clothes folding, using visual information from head and wrist cameras to generate trajectories in real time via a fine-tuned VLA policy, executing the entire process autonomously. The first half of the video completes the folding task at 1x speed, while the second half (played at 1.5x speed) shows its flexible adaptation and correct folding of clothing with different shapes and properties, such as shorts, a towel, and a T-shirt.

  4. EngineAI51

    EngineAI Unveils Embodied Intelligence Engine EngineAI Awaken at WRC, T800 Demonstrates Versatile Task Capabilities on Site

    EngineAI Robotics unveiled EngineAI Awaken, an embodied intelligence engine built on a five-layer human-brain-inspired architecture, at the World Robot Conference (WRC) opening on August 19, 2026, covering a capability chain from the S1 instinctive reflex layer to the S4+S5 self-growth layer.

Aug 19Wed
  1. X Square Robot/自变量机器人45

    X Square Robot debuts at WRC: dual-scenario demos in home services and logistics sorting, with hands-on QUANXTA Zero bodyless data collection

    At the Beijing World Robot Conference (WRC), held August 19–23, X Square Robot showcased three exhibition areas: home services, logistics sorting, and bodyless data collection. Its fully self-developed end-to-end unified world model WALL-B drives robots to complete dozens of household chores. Logistics sorting reaches an efficiency of 1,816 items per hour with 98% accuracy, at a cost 70% lower than the "humanoid robot + five-fingered dexterous hand" approach, and has already entered routine operation on real production lines. The QUANXTA Zero data collection solution achieves a data-ingestion validity rate above 85% and can reduce training-data costs by 90%.

Aug 18Tue
  1. 荭杏科技28

    Hongxing Technology Dazhuang Z6 Industrial Humanoid Robot | Flexible Industrial Productivity That Can Think

    Hongxing Technology has launched the Dazhuang Z6 industrial humanoid robot, which uses a native integrated VLA architecture to connect perception, cognition, and decision execution, targeting smart factories, unmanned warehousing, precision assembly, and dynamic flexible production line scenarios. The Dazhuang Z6 adopts a dual-layer architecture of an intelligent brain plus a motion cerebellum, with large-model decisions directly driving millisecond-level motion control; it can read natural-language task instructions and acquire new skills by observing demonstrations, without complex programming or deployment. The company says that based on reinforcement learning plus imitation learning, it learns while working and supports minute-level line-change debugging on dynamic production lines.

  2. Skild AI76

    Skild AI releases robot foundation model S1, achieving in-context learning through video demonstrations

    Skild AI released the robot foundation model S1, which uses video demonstrations as task prompts and can execute manipulation tasks not seen during training without fine-tuning, with long-horizon tasks lasting up to about 10 minutes. At a pretraining data scale of 100,000 hours, the ICL model achieved a 66% success rate on unseen tasks, compared with 9% for the language-prompted VLA; a single demonstration was equivalent to about 380 post-training demonstrations, and the planting task took 11 minutes from recording the demonstration to autonomous execution. S1 was trained on NVIDIA AI infrastructure and has already been put into use with commercial partners.

    Why it matters: The original article provides comparison figures for ICL and VLA at the same data scale and a deployment timeline, allowing readers to assess the feasibility of the in-context learning approach for manipulation tasks.

Aug 17Mon
Aug 15Sat
  1. 灵巧智能23

    100% Pass Rate! 2026 Embodied Intelligence Summer Training Camp Concludes Successfully

    In August 2026, the 2026 Embodied Intelligence Summer Special Training and Study Camp, hosted by Zhejiang Lingqiao Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and co-hosted by Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and Zongshen Chuangke (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., concluded. Over the 5-day, 40-class-hour program, all trainees from more than ten institutions and dozens of enterprises and public institutions passed the assessment, with an overall satisfaction score of 96.8 points.

Aug 14Fri
  1. Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics65

    HIT's Wu Zhiguang team develops adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot swarm platform, achieving navigation in the spinal canal of mice and non-human primates

    Professor Wu Zhiguang's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), together with collaborators, developed an adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot platform that can form swarm motion patterns such as vortex, chain, and ribbon under external magnetic field drive, and achieved targeted navigation within the spinal canal in mice and non-human primates. The results were published in Science Advances.

    Why it matters: The research team released experimental results on navigation of magnetically controlled nanorobot swarms in non-human primates. Readers interested in the medical translation of micro- and nanorobots can learn about its technical approach.

Aug 13Thu
  1. Elite Robots/艾利特机器人64

    Elite Embodied Dual-Arm Robots Enter Apple Supply Chain Drilling Workshop for Mass-Production Loading and Unloading

    The embodied dual-arm loading and unloading robot jointly developed by Elite and Maixing Robotics has achieved 24/7 unmanned mass production in the drilling workshop of a leading Apple supply chain factory, with a single-cycle takt time of 52 seconds, a loading and unloading yield of 99.9%, and 5 units stably online. The solution uses hybrid force-position control and dynamic trajectory planning to achieve dual-arm coordination, is equipped with the self-developed Yuanqi Primo embodied large model, achieves loading accuracy within ±0.2 mm, and uses a wireless IO four-step handshake scheme to eliminate the need for modifications by the original machine tool manufacturer, shortening the deployment period from 10 days for the first unit to 7 days for the fifth unit.

    Why it matters: The original text provides actual performance figures such as line takt time, yield, and deployment period, allowing readers to understand the implementation path of the embodied dual-arm solution in a mass-production workshop.

Aug 11Tue
  1. 正行创新 Striding AI · YouTube29

    How STEAM Enables High-Precision Autonomous Robot Unboxing | StridingAI Demo

    In a StridingAI demo, the STEAM model from Professor Chao Yu's team at Tsinghua University drives a robot to autonomously complete a multi-stage unboxing task, achieving millimeter-level bimanual coordination through tool use. STEAM models task progress and action quality frame by frame, extracting learning signals from mixed-quality data including expert demonstrations, model rollouts, and human takeovers to improve task success rates and execution speed.

Aug 7Fri
  1. UniX AI/优理奇 · YouTube17

    UniX AI's Panther humanoid robot autonomously prepares a family breakfast

    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.

Jul 28Tue
  1. 北京智在无界科技有限公司64

    BeingBeyond releases Being-H0.8, the first implicit world action model to introduce touch in pretraining

    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.

Jul 27Mon
  1. 线性资本43

    Zhengqi Future Completes Several Hundred Million Yuan Angel Series Financing, Linear Capital Invests in Two Consecutive Rounds

    Physical AI company Zhengqi Future completed several hundred million yuan in angel series financing within 8 months, with Linear Capital investing in two consecutive rounds; core investors also include CDH VGC Investment, SAIC Group Hengxu Capital, and Chow Tai Fook Investment. Its self-developed QUORRA DoorMind world model and QUORRA FLAT motion execution platform have entered testing in multiple scenarios, and its first short-distance mobility robot, QUORRA X5, has secured commercial orders in more than ten overseas countries and regions. The funds will be used for model and platform R&D, QUORRA mass-production manufacturing, and global online and offline channel deployment.

Jul 24Fri
  1. 云启资本42

    Yunqi Quarterly Q2 | Midsummer, the future takes on more concrete forms

    Yunqi Capital released its Q2 quarterly report, disclosing progress by its portfolio companies in three areas: financing, products, and deployment: the post-investment valuations of X Square Robot and Zhineng Pingfang Technology both exceed 20 billion yuan, Stardust Intelligence completed a Series B round of over 1 billion yuan, and Nova Fusion has raised a cumulative 1.2 billion yuan.

  2. 具微科技52

    Juwei Technology releases industrial embodied brain MicVLC

    Juwei Technology has released MicVLC, an industrial embodied brain, and proposed for the first time the VLC (Vision-Language-Calling) architecture paradigm, which decouples the cognitive layer from the execution layer, in contrast to traditional VLA models that deeply couple Action with the low-level control of specific terminal actuators.

  3. Fudan Multimodal Embodied Intelligence30

    Fudan Institute of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation showcases multiple achievements at 2026 World AI Conference

    During the 2026 World AI Conference, Fudan University's Institute of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation presented achievements in embodied intelligence, physical intelligence, and related areas. Professor Su Hao delivered a keynote speech on physical intelligence at the main forum; Sudo Technology made its first public appearance in China and demonstrated a four-robot collaborative battery module assembly production line; and Zhang Lihua's team's intelligent inspection robot dog appeared on a CCTV program.

Jul 22Wed
  1. 云启资本58

    Yunqi Attention WAIC World Model Special Recap: Three Talks and a Roundtable Discussion

    Yunqi Capital, together with NICE Academic, held a World Model BBQ event during WAIC, receiving over 500 registrations and drawing more than 100 attendees. Chen Siheng of Shanghai Jiao Tong University introduced the paths of EmboMatrix, an embodied decision-making training ground, and EmboCoach, a tool for batch training of VLAs.

  2. Holiday Robotics62

    Holiday Robotics's FlashSAC Paper Wins RSS 2026 Best Paper Award, a First for a Korean Team

    A paper by Holiday Robotics researchers won the Best Paper Award at RSS 2026, a first for a Korean team. Its FlashSAC is a reinforcement learning algorithm that shortens humanoid robot walking training from several hours to a few minutes, overcoming the trade-off between learning speed and stability.

    Why it matters: The original text provides verifiable details such as FlashSAC's training speed and validation scope, letting readers understand how reinforcement learning algorithms can shorten the humanoid robot policy development cycle.

Jul 19Sun
  1. 极智嘉47

    Geek+ unveils Gravity embodied AI framework and "One Core, Dual Engine" strategy at WAIC 2026

    Geek+ unveiled Gravity, its unified embodied AI framework, and Gravity 4D, its first core foundation model, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), targeting long-horizon, complex physical tasks. Gravity 4D represents a fundamental leap from predicting what the world looks like to understanding how the physical world behaves, and the company also proposed its "One Core, Dual Engine" strategy.

Jul 17Fri
  1. Sunday Robotics78

    Sunday Robotics previews ACT-2 model with 99.1% zero-shot success rate in clothes folding

    Sunday Robotics previewed its robot model ACT-2, which achieved a 99.1% (±0.3%) zero-shot success rate in clothes folding across diverse unseen home environments with zero per-home adaptation, covering 9 clothing categories across 785 autonomous attempts, with an average folding quality of 4.72/5.

    Why it matters: The official disclosure provides detailed quantitative data on pretraining scale and generalization gaps, allowing readers to understand how a small amount of demonstration data transfers to unseen environments.

Jul 15Wed
  1. X Square Robot/自变量机器人70

    X Square Robot releases DMuon optimizer, improving embodied model distributed training efficiency by about 30%

    X Square Robot has released the DMuon optimizer, a distributed adaptation of the Muon optimizer that improves embodied model distributed training efficiency by about 30%, reducing per-step training time from 2.2 times that of AdamW to 1.02 times. The improvements include Owner-centric execution and communication optimization, automatic selection of compute kernels based on matrix shape, and balanced workload distribution across Owners. DMuon is fully open source and compatible with Muon usage, requiring only 3 lines of code to introduce into training.

    Why it matters: The original article explains the sources of Muon's overhead in distributed training and three improvement approaches, which embodied model teams can use to assess the feasibility of improving training efficiency.

  2. 正行创新 Striding AI59

    Tsinghua and Striding AI propose self-supervised frame-level advantage modeling algorithm STEAM, achieving a 92.3% success rate on the towel-folding task

    Associate Professor Yu Chao's team at Tsinghua University, together with Striding AI, jointly proposed the self-supervised frame-level advantage modeling algorithm STEAM, which learns frame-level progress signals from the temporal order of expert demonstrations and scores expert data, robot rollouts, and human correction data frame by frame.

  3. LimX Dynamics61

    LimX Dynamics releases humanoid VLA model V³-0 alongside COSA 0.5

    LimX Dynamics released V³-0 alongside COSA 0.5, a humanoid VLA technology stack in its VLA-tools layer that supports mobile whole-body manipulation, running on the 43-DOF LimX humanoid robot Oli.

    Why it matters: The original text explains the architectural composition of V³-0 and its human-in-the-loop real-robot reinforcement learning loop, which lets readers understand where the mobile whole-body manipulation capability comes from.

Jul 14Tue
  1. PsiBot/灵初智能81

    Lingchu Intelligence and PKU-Lingchu Joint Lab Release and Open-Source Dual Dexterous Hand General Manipulation Model and Full-Stack System EgoSteer

    Lingchu Intelligence and the PKU-Lingchu Joint Lab released and open-sourced the dual dexterous hand general manipulation model and full-stack system EgoSteer, comprising the data processing pipeline EgoSmith, the robotics technology stack Robot-Stack, and a world-model-enhanced VLA model.

    Why it matters: The original text presents a complete chain from human-hand data processing and real-robot correction to model architecture and experimental figures, allowing readers to assess its reproducibility value.

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 9Thu
  1. 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. 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.

  2. 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.

Jul 6Mon
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Jul 2Thu
  1. 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.

Jul 1Wed
  1. 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.