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Mar 23Mon
  1. 松灵机器人66

    NYU open-sources YOR, a low-cost dual-arm mobile robot, with bill of materials under $10,000

    A research team at New York University has open-sourced YOR (Your Own Robot), a mobile dual-arm manipulation robot, with a bill of materials cost below $10,000. The project homepage is www.yourownrobot.ai, and the paper is at arxiv.org/abs/2602.11150.

    Why it matters: An open-source dual-arm mobile platform under $10,000 offers a reproducible hardware path and measured data, making it suitable for evaluating the cost and capability trade-offs of building a mobile manipulation system in-house.

  2. 线性资本66

    Amazon acquires Swiss wheel-legged robotics company RIVR, with Linear Capital as lead investor in its first round

    Amazon has completed its acquisition of Swiss robotics startup RIVR, and the RIVR team will join Amazon. RIVR was founded in April 2023 and is headquartered in Zurich; formerly known as Swiss-Mile, it completed its first funding round in November 2023, led by Linear Capital with Agile Robots participating, and in August 2024 received joint investment from Amazon, Bezos Expeditions, Sequoia China, and others.

    Why it matters: It lays out RIVR's full path from fundraising to acquisition, helping readers understand the practical progress of wheel-legged last-mile delivery robots in Europe.

  3. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能19

    KEENON Robotics and DigiCorp to showcase service robots at Food & Hotel Vietnam 2026

    KEENON Robotics and its Vietnamese partner DigiCorp will take part in Food & Hotel Vietnam 2026 from March 24 to 26 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, at booth A13. On site, they will showcase intelligent service robots for the hospitality and commercial sectors, including delivery robots and cleaning robots.

  4. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能14

    Keenon Robotics to exhibit full robot lineup at CCE 2026 in Shanghai

    Keenon Robotics will exhibit at CCE 2026 in Shanghai, bringing its full robot lineup, covering professional cleaning scenarios and the C40 technology upgrade, and demonstrating its practical applications in retail, hotels, hospitals, and commercial hubs. The exhibition runs from March 31 to April 3 at Booth N3D30, Shanghai New International Expo Centre.

Mar 20Fri
  2. 线性资本58

    Octopus Dynamics completes nearly $50 million first funding round, jointly invested by Horizon Robotics, Hillhouse Venture Capital, Xiaomi Strategic Investment, and others

    Physical AI company Octopus Dynamics (SynapX) announced the completion of a nearly $50 million first funding round. The investors are Horizon Robotics, Hillhouse Venture Capital, Xiaomi Strategic Investment, Shunwei Capital, and Linear Capital. The company was founded in January 2026, and less than two months passed from its founding to the closing of this first round.

  3. HUMANOID25

    Humanoid demos KinetIQ-powered voice multi-robot collaboration at NVIDIA GTC

    UK robotics company Humanoid gave a live demo at NVIDIA GTC of voice-driven multi-robot collaboration powered by KinetIQ: two wheeled robots with grippers responded to visitor voice commands in a simulated shop, picking up and placing water bottles and popcorn and completing a physical handoff between robots. KinetIQ's Fleet Management system parses commands, dynamically assigns tasks, and displays real-time execution status. The demo is based on NVIDIA's open-source robotics platform, and KinetIQ is its recently released end-to-end fleet orchestration framework.

  5. Dexterity60

    Dexterity details evaluation methods and production metrics for the Foresight packing agent

    Dexterity published an article introducing system evaluation and production measurement for the Foresight packing agent. On the planning side, it was tested on four real warehouse box-type distributions, with density of 0.65–0.77 and stability of 99.7–100%, and distribution-free order statistics were used to give 95% confidence intervals; the article also found that randomly shuffling the box sequence causes local variance to collapse by about 1.4 times, making evaluation overly optimistic.

    Why it matters: The original article fully discloses the evaluation method for the packing agent, including distribution-free confidence intervals and the evaluation bias caused by random shuffling; the method can be transferred to similar systems.

Mar 19Thu
  1. Physical Intelligence60

    Physical Intelligence proposes RLT: efficient online reinforcement learning for fine manipulation

    Physical Intelligence proposes a new method called RL tokens (RLT), in which a vision-language-action model (VLA) outputs a special token to interface with a lightweight online reinforcement learning policy, improving the speed and success rate of fine manipulation phases with only a small amount of real data.

    Why it matters: The original clearly explains the interface design between the VLA and lightweight online reinforcement learning and provides speedup data on four tasks, so readers can assess whether this type of method applies to their own fine manipulation tasks.

  2. Skild AI75

    Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA to deploy Skild Brain

    Skild AI announced partnerships with ABB Robotics and Teradyne-owned Universal Robots and MiR to integrate its general-purpose model Skild Brain into industrial robots, eliminating task-by-task programming and using post-training fine-tuning with a small amount of task data.

    Why it matters: Skild AI describes its own partnership deployment approach with ABB, UR, and NVIDIA and assembly task details, letting readers understand how its general-purpose model enters production lines.

  3. Wandercraft50

    Wandercraft warns of industrial data risks as foreign robots enter European factories, advocates European autonomous industry path via French-Japanese alliance

    Wandercraft published an article stating that when non-European-made humanoid robots are deployed in European factories and hospitals, they collect industrial and medical data that flows out via servers not controlled by Europe, while integrators cannot access the source code. The article cites data including China accounting for over 80% of the global humanoid robot market, Unitree announcing 5,500 units, and AgiBot having delivered 5,168 units, and draws analogies to the industry precedents of electric vehicles, photovoltaics, and batteries, arguing that Europe should pursue a path built on three pillars: software sovereignty, reciprocal industrial alliances, and a local market in strategic sectors.

Mar 18Wed
Mar 17Tue
  1. Noble Machines39

    Noble Machines and Schaeffler partner to improve the realism of general-purpose robot actuator simulation with Newton

    Noble Machines and Schaeffler have partnered to bring high-fidelity digital twins of high-performance actuators into the open-source physics engine Newton, for developing whole-body control policies before hardware deployment. The models can capture manufacturing variations and predict aging and energy consumption, with energy consumption predictions up to 10 times higher than idealized models, and feedforward compensation can reduce tracking error by up to 68%. Robots can also use control signals as identification signals to enable online self-diagnosis and compensate in real time for wear or environmental drift.

Mar 16Mon
  1. RoboForce72

    RoboForce closes $52 million funding round, bringing total funding to $67 million

    RoboForce announced an oversubscribed $52 million funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from Jerry Yang. The new capital will be used to accelerate next-generation robot foundation models, scale general-purpose Physical AI robots, and advance manufacturing readiness for commercial deployment.

    Why it matters: The funding announcement also explains the use of funds and the technology stack partnership with NVIDIA, which readers can use to understand the company's path to deployment in its next stage.

  2. 线性资本65

    D-Robotics completes $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital continuing to invest

    D-Robotics announced on March 16 that it recently completed a $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital, an initial-round investor, continuing to invest in subsequent rounds. Following its $100 million Series A round completed in 2025, the two rounds total $220 million. Investors include industrial capital such as Synstellation Capital, DiDi, and Meituan Longzhu, as well as strategic investment institutions such as Bairui Capital and JiuKun Venture Capital, while existing shareholders including Hillhouse Venture Capital, Vertex Growth, and Linear Capital oversubscribed in the follow-on investment.

    Why it matters: It lays out the investor composition and the total of the two funding rounds, which can be used to assess D-Robotics' funding sources and industrial resource landscape.

  3. 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.

Mar 12Thu
  1. 普罗宇宙19

    Pro-Robotics' Dabai Robot Demonstrates Intangible Cultural Heritage Sugar Painting at AWE 2026

    Pro-Robotics brought its embodied-intelligence Dabai robot to AWE 2026 for a live intangible cultural heritage sugar-painting show, exhibiting at Booth W1-1C31 of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre under the theme "Smart New Journey, Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing." Using AI algorithms, the Dabai robot went from outlining contours to pouring sugar into a finished painting, reproducing smooth, flowing sugar-painting brushstrokes and drawing crowds of onlookers as well as inquiries from several industry clients. The exhibition runs until March 15, and the booth offers an interactive experience.

  2. Sunday Robotics69

    Sunday Robotics closes $165 million Series B to advance real-world deployment of home robot Memo

    Sunday Robotics has closed an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a valuation of $1.15 billion, led by Coatue, with Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company will stop giving demos and focus on real-world deployment of its robot Memo, with a beta program opening to users this fall. Its engineering team has grown 3x, research 4x, and data operations 5x, and the company says it has a full stack from its Skill Capture Glove and in-house hardware to manufacturing, along with data advantages.

    Why it matters: The company announced the funding and disclosed the beta program timeline and the scale of team expansion, giving readers a basis for understanding the pace of its shift to real-world deployment.

Mar 11Wed
Mar 10Tue
  1. YOUIBOT/优艾智合30

    Youibot to launch OW12, OW8, and ATS6 semiconductor automation robots at SEMICON CHINA 2026

    Youibot will debut three wafer-handling robots, the OW12, OW8, and ATS6, at SEMICON CHINA 2026 in Shanghai, March 25–27, 2026, at Booth E7-7129. The OW12 supports compatibility with multiple FOUP carriers for 12-inch wafers, the OW8 uses a compact design to fit narrow spaces in the front-end process, and the ATS6 enables wafer transfer across cleanliness levels and zones. This is a launch preview; the performance claims are the manufacturer's promotional statements, and live demonstrations will be offered at the show.

Mar 9Mon
  2. Figure AI57

    Figure AI demonstrates Helix 02 tidying a living room end-to-end with full-body control

    Figure AI released a new Helix 02 demo in which a single neural network system completes an end-to-end living room tidying task with full-body control, continuously manipulating objects, tools, and containers while walking. In the demo, Helix 02 uses no new algorithms or special engineering; with only added data, it learned to wipe and clean with a spray bottle and towel, collect blocks into a box carried with both hands, toss a pillow back onto the sofa, turn around while holding a remote and then press a button to turn off the TV, and sidestep through the narrow gap between the coffee table and the sofa.

Mar 6Fri
  1. Toyota Research Institute Robotics77

    Toyota Research Institute explains statistical thinking for robot policy evaluation: from rigorous A/B testing to effective visualization

    The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) published a tutorial article introducing a statistical A/B testing method based on success/failure labels for robot policy evaluation.

    Why it matters: The TRI authors systematically explain statistical pitfalls and reusable tools in robot policy A/B testing, with runnable Python examples.

  2. 富唯智能14

    Huangpu District CPPCC Leaders Visit Fuwei Intelligent to Support Embodied Intelligence Industry Development

    On March 4, Huangpu District CPPCC Chairman Wen Zhiwen led a delegation to visit Guangzhou Fuwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. for research, accompanied by Ren Yutong, Executive President of the Guangdong Robotics Association. Fuwei Intelligent General Manager Wang Wei received the delegation and delivered a special report. The research team learned on site about Fuwei Intelligent's technology layout, core product R&D and iteration, and scenario application implementation in embodied intelligence industrial robots. Wen Zhiwen affirmed the company's phased achievements in robot technology R&D, product innovation, and industrial application, and guided the enterprise to build on Huangpu's industrial foundation to enhance its capabilities in achievement transformation and scenario implementation.

Mar 5Thu
  1. 上河动量49

    Shanghe Momentum Makes Two Consecutive Strategic Investments in Realman Intelligent, Deepening Focus on Core Embodied Intelligence Track

    Recently, Shanghe Momentum completed two consecutive rounds of strategic investment in Realman Intelligent and helped it bring in two strategic investors, Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor (002249.SZ) and Tianjin Jinrong Tianyu Precision Machinery (300988.SZ). Realman Intelligent's self-developed robotic arms have achieved 50,000 hours of fault-free operation, annual production capacity of its integrated joint modules has exceeded 100,000 units, and its GLN remote operation network enables transoceanic human-machine collaborative operations. Its Beijing humanoid robot data training center has accumulated tens of millions of real-machine data entries and open-sourced a top-tier industry dataset, serving more than 8,000 enterprise users worldwide.

Mar 4Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼61

    Realman Intelligent announces nearly 500 million yuan in funding to build AUTRON production line super factory

    Realman Intelligent announced it has completed nearly 500 million yuan in funding, jointly and strategically invested by industrial parties from multiple listed companies. The funds will go toward product R&D, construction of the AUTRON production line super factory, and global ecosystem development. The article states that its integrated joint modules exceeded an annual production capacity of 100,000 units in 2025, that its robotic arms passed CR L3 certification and achieved a mean time between failures of 50,000 hours, and that the GLN remote operation network and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center have accumulated tens of millions of real-machine trajectory segments. The company serves more than 8,000 enterprise users worldwide.

    Why it matters: The company describes its own progress on funding, production capacity, certification, and its remote operation network, giving readers a basis to understand how its hardware-plus-data strategy is actually advancing.

Mar 3Tue
  1. 线性资本62

    Dajie Robotics completes hundreds of millions of yuan in Series D funding to step up industrial embodied intelligence

    Dajie Robotics announced the completion of a Series D funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, led jointly by the Liangxi Digital Industry Fund managed by Bohua Capital and a fund under CICC Capital, with follow-on investment from the Beijing Shunyi Science and Technology Innovation Group Fund and the Houshayu Zhonghe Runda Industrial Investment Fund; Linear Capital was the Series A investor and increased its investment in subsequent rounds.

    Why it matters: The original text explains the use of funds and the technology roadmap, which lets readers assess the implementation path of industrial embodied intelligence vendors and the direction of their humanoid robot efforts.

  2. Dexterity53

    Dexterity releases world model Foresight, unveils packing intelligence layer for production environments

    Dexterity has unveiled its world model Foresight, an intelligence layer that enables robots to reason about the physical world, predict changes, and execute operations; it was trained on real experience from more than 100 million autonomous actions in enterprise logistics production environments.

  3. Physical Intelligence78

    Physical Intelligence proposes MEM, enabling π0.6's VLA to remember long-horizon tasks of up to 15 minutes

    Physical Intelligence proposed a method called Multi-scale Embodied Memory (MEM) that provides vision-language-action models (VLAs) with both short-term and long-term memory, enabling the model to complete tasks lasting up to 15 minutes, such as cleaning an entire kitchen or making a grilled cheese sandwich from scratch.

    Why it matters: The article identifies memory mechanisms as the bottleneck for long-horizon tasks and presents a dual-scale design that stores video for the short term and language for the long term, an approach that can be transferred to other work.

Feb 27Fri
Feb 25Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼62

    Realman provides real-world data for Ant Lingbo's open-source embodied model LingBot-VLA

    Ant Lingbo has released and open-sourced LingBot-VLA, an embodied intelligence foundation model. Its pretraining used about 20,000 hours of real-world data covering 9 dual-arm robot configurations, and it outperformed Pi0.5 overall in real-robot evaluations across more than 100 tasks. Realman's wholly owned subsidiary Ruiyuan Robotics provides high-precision multimodal real-world data for the RS-01 and RS-02 robots. The technical report shows that model success rates continued to improve without saturating as pretraining data expanded from 3,000 hours to 20,000 hours.

    Why it matters: From a partner's perspective, it explains how real-world data was specifically supplied for LingBot-VLA training and the capability for large-scale data collection, helping readers understand how the data infrastructure actually operates.

  2. 若创科技28

    Strutt ev¹ early-bird pre-orders exceed expectations, first deliveries set for Q2 2026

    Singapore robotics company Strutt announced that early-bird pre-orders for its flagship personal mobility vehicle ev¹ exceeded the company's initial expectations within one month, with a test-drive conversion rate of about 75%. The first customers will receive the Co-Designer Edition and a certificate, with OTA updates supported. The company is accelerating production capacity and supply chain expansion, expects first deliveries to begin in Q2 2026, and has added more allocation and reopened pre-orders until the end of February.

  3. 普华资本62

    Boundless Dynamics completes over 200 million yuan Angel+ round, third round nearing completion

    General-purpose embodied intelligence robotics company Boundless Dynamics announced the completion of an over 200 million yuan Angel+ funding round, jointly invested by Puhua Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Innovation Works, Junshan Capital, and Yari Capital, with existing shareholders Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital increasing their investments. The third round of financing is nearing completion, and cumulative funding will reach 800 million yuan.

    Why it matters: The original article disclosed the funding scale, technology roadmap, and deployment stage, allowing readers to judge this embodied intelligence company's commercialization progress and R&D direction.

  4. 深创投28

    Shenzhen Capital Group Chairman Zuo Ding: Target Key Sectors, Do Not Fear Innovation Risks, Invest Real Money

    Speaking at Guangdong Province's high-quality development conference on February 24, Shenzhen Capital Group Chairman Zuo Ding said the firm will target key sectors in advanced manufacturing and modern services, investing real money to cultivate Guangdong's leading technology enterprises. As of the end of January 2026, Shenzhen Capital Group had managed total funds of more than 500 billion yuan across all categories and had directly invested in more than 1,800 companies, over 90% of them hard-tech firms. In December 2025, Shenzhen Capital Group helped bring a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area fund with total scale of 50.45 billion yuan to Shenzhen; it is the first national-level fund of funds undertaken by Guangdong Province.

  5. Intrinsic58

    Intrinsic joins Google to accelerate physical AI development

    Intrinsic announced it is joining Google, saying it will bring breakthrough AI to more companies in industries such as manufacturing and logistics. Intrinsic offers an Android-like cross-robot development platform; its web-based development environment Flowstate includes built-in reusable skill modules, and its customers include Foxconn and others.

Feb 24Tue
  2. Physical Intelligence74

    Physical Intelligence proposes a physical intelligence layer and publishes π 0.6 deployment data from Weave and Ultra

    In a blog post, Physical Intelligence argues that robots need a reusable physical intelligence layer, and it published real-world deployment data from partners Weave and Ultra using π 0.6.

    Why it matters: The two deployers provided comparative data on autonomy rates, missed grasps, and throughput, making it easier to judge the practical gains that foundation model iterations bring in real-world settings.

Feb 23Mon
  1. Wandercraft35

    US Air Force veteran regains upright movement 12 years after paralysis through Wandercraft Atalante X exoskeleton training and spinal cord stimulation

    Ignacio Montoya, a US Air Force veteran and biomedical engineering doctoral student, reported years of self-study at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting: transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) combined with adaptive task-specific training may reactivate dormant neural pathways 12 years after a clinically complete spinal cord injury. The training used Wandercraft's fully self-balancing, hands-free Atalante X exoskeleton, with robotic assistance gradually reduced; his gait consistency and muscle activation improved, and endurance, posture, and bladder and bowel sensory function also improved.