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Dec 22Mon
  1. Physical Intelligence64

    Physical Intelligence fine-tunes π 0.6 to take on five Robot Olympics tasks, winning three golds and two silvers

    By fine-tuning its latest π 0.6 model, Physical Intelligence achieved preliminary solutions for the gold-medal tasks in 3 of the five everyday manipulation challenges in the Robot Olympics proposed by Benjie Holson, and reached silver-medal level in the remaining 2, with an average success rate of 52% and task progress of 72%.

    Why it matters: Using the same set of externally proposed everyday manipulation tasks to compare performance with and without robot pretraining lets readers judge the practical value of foundation-model pretraining for manipulation skills.

Dec 19Fri
  1. Maxtronics Robotics SAS20

    NAO at Creative December 2025 in Shenzhen: Maxtronics launches "AI·Now in Shenzhen" showcase at Art Design Center

    Maxtronics Robotics SAS showcased its NAO robot through live interactive performances at the Art Design Center during Shenzhen's annual Creative December 2025 festival, officially launching the "AI·Now in Shenzhen" showcase. The original text gives no technical specifications; the showcase is positioned as a live demonstration emphasizing an approachable, intuitive human-robot coexistence experience rather than a contest of technical capabilities. The company says its next focus is continuing its mission of providing support in education and healthcare settings.

  2. Hcfa/禾川科技27

    HCFA Technology's SV 730W Multi-Axis Integrated Servo Drive Wins CMCD 2025 Motion Control Innovation Product Award

    On December 18, HCFA Technology won the "CMCD 2025 Motion Control Innovation Product" award at the CIAA25 Motion Control/Direct Drive Technology Industry Development Summit Forum in Shenzhen for its SV 730W multi-axis integrated high-end AC servo drive. The product supports a minimum of 2 axes and a maximum of 4 axes, reduces volume by 60% compared with single-axis products, cuts power wiring and communication cables to one set, uses solder-free European-standard IO quick terminals for tool-free installation, and can control 4 axes simultaneously through one main control chip with one commissioning program, facilitating high-precision gantry synchronization.

  3. 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.

  4. Toyota Research Institute Robotics58

    Toyota Research Institute reviews eight years of polymer electrolyte research with MIT: closed-loop design of robotic experiments and machine learning accelerates materials discovery

    Toyota Research Institute (TRI) reviewed eight years of polymer electrolyte research conducted by its AMDD project at MIT, producing about 40 papers and 7 doctoral dissertations and building a robotic experimentation platform that shortened tests that originally took about a month to completion within a day. The team also developed a multitask graph neural network to accelerate MD simulations and released the largest polymer simulation dataset, but the authors believe that AI can currently accelerate optimization within a class of materials, and that breakthrough polymers relying on new physical mechanisms still require human creativity.

Dec 18Thu
  1. LimX Dynamics70

    LimX Dynamics launches multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, open for pre-order from 49,800 yuan

    LimX Dynamics has launched the multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, whose single body can quickly switch between three configurations: dual-arm, bipedal, and dual-wheel-legged. It is priced from 49,800 yuan and is open for pre-order starting today. The dual-arm configuration is a 7-DoF humanoid design with a 70 cm arm span and a 10 kg dual-arm payload, and the body has a maximum load capacity of 60 kg. In bipedal form it has a 4-hour battery life and a maximum payload of 30 kg, and it can perceive its surroundings and climb stairs.

    Why it matters: The original text provides the one-body, three-form configurations, the dual-arm specifications, and the pre-order price, which readers can use to assess its suitability for VLA and mobile manipulation development.

Dec 16Tue
  1. Physical Intelligence73

    Physical Intelligence: VLA models show human-to-robot transfer as robot data scale grows

    Physical Intelligence research found that in generalization scenarios where only human demonstrations appear, fine-tuning π0.5 with human first-person videos mixed into robot data alone improved policy performance by about 2x, without using any explicit transfer learning mechanism.

    Why it matters: Experiments show that merely mixing human videos into fine-tuning improves the policy by about 2x on scenarios with purely human demonstrations, and this capability emerges as pretraining robot data scale grows.

Dec 15Mon
  1. 普华资本58

    Inxee Completes Nearly 200 Million Yuan Series A Funding with Participation from Puhua Capital and Others

    Nanjing Inxee Intelligent Technology announced the completion of a nearly 200 million yuan Series A funding round, with investors including Puhua Capital, Huakong Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, Oasis Capital, and Jinqiu Capital. This is the company's third funding round this year. The funds will be used for capacity expansion, technology R&D, and product line expansion, accelerating the construction of a million-unit production line and iterating on core technologies such as joint modules. Inxee's joint module shipments have exceeded 100,000 units this year. Its product matrix covers integrated joints, dexterous hands, communication modules, and battery systems. Its dexterous hands use an original independent ultra-small joint module design and are about to enter mass production.

  2. 德马科技29

    Damon Technology Group Stacker Crane Automated Storage Project Tender Announcement

    Damon Technology Group is publicly tendering for the procurement of stacker crane automated storage equipment, system integration, installation and commissioning, and after-sales service for the Damon Phase V factory in Wuxing District, Huzhou. The scope includes stacker cranes, automated storage racks, conveyor systems, finished non-standard pallets, and WMS/WCS software (which must integrate with ERP/MES).

Dec 12Fri
Dec 11Thu
  1. WIRobotics30

    WIRobotics to showcase wearable walking-assist robot WIM S at CES 2026 Unveiled

    WIRobotics announced it will showcase its wearable walking-assist robot WIM S on January 4 at CES 2026 Unveiled in Las Vegas, and will offer attendees a hands-on walking experience wearing the device. WIM S debuted in South Korea in 2025 and supports four walking modes: Air, Hiking, Care, and Aqua. The WIM series has won CES Innovation Awards for three consecutive years and covers markets including South Korea, mainland China, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands.

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 4Thu
  2. Dobot/越疆机器人24

    Dobot Revives Sinosauropteryx with Embodied Intelligence

    Dobot has used robotics technology, bionic structures, and a multimodal embodied intelligence core to "revive" the primitive Sinosauropteryx, enabling it to perceive its environment through vision and touch and to control its body movements autonomously. The team used a hard-shell component skeleton, compliant joints, and bionic tendon-bone coordinated transmission, with the outer skin made of silicone flocked skin implanted by hand. This is the first deployment of its robotic entertainment solution, aimed at high-end cultural tourism, science education, and film special effects, with plans to build a business model of hardware sales plus rental operations, content subscriptions, and offline experiences.

  3. Dobot/越疆机器人68

    Dobot secures over 80.5 million yuan embodied intelligence robot order from Ruidefeng

    On October 29, 2025, Dobot Robotics (2432.HK) signed a procurement contract with Ruidefeng Precision Technology Co., Ltd. totaling over 80.5 million yuan, covering products and solutions for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence collaborative robots. The robots will handle tasks including high-precision assembly, complex material flow, and flexible production line collaboration in new energy precision manufacturing scenarios. The two parties will also build an intelligent manufacturing solution based on Dobot's multi-form robots, including humanoid, wheeled, and multi-legged plus robotic arm configurations.

    Why it matters: The original text provides the order amount, the buyer, and specific application stages, allowing readers to understand the implementation details of humanoid robots entering precision manufacturing production lines.

  4. Dobot/越疆机器人36

    Dobot appears at IROS 2025, launches embodied intelligence robot platform combining humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms

    At IROS 2025, Dobot exhibited the world's first embodied intelligence robot platform integrating humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms, using a brain-cerebellum dual-system architecture. Its humanoid robot passed high-temperature and heavy-load aging tests, with precision reaching ±0.05mm; the X-Trainer dual-arm teleoperation AI training platform shortens the training cycle for new tasks by 70%, to about 2 hours. Dobot also cooperated with Tencent's Tairos platform, and the multi-legged robot Hexplorer achieved fully autonomous operation with high-precision 3D mapping and dynamic obstacle-avoidance guided tours.

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.

  2. Dobot/越疆机器人50

    Dobot CRA-Ex Explosion-Proof Collaborative Robot Receives CNEX National Explosion-Proof Certification

    Dobot Robotics announced that the bodies and control cabinets of its CRA-Ex series explosion-proof collaborative robots have simultaneously obtained CNEX national explosion-proof certificates, meeting 7 national standards including GB/T3836.1-2021. The company claims it is the industry's first and only explosion-proof collaborative robot to achieve both IP67 full-body protection and T6/T80°C minimum surface temperature control, covering Zone 1 and Zone 2 flammable gas environments and Zone 21 and Zone 22 combustible dust environments, with repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.03mm, targeting high-risk scenarios such as petrochemical, military, painting, pharmaceutical, and grain processing.

  3. Dobot/越疆机器人47

    Cao Cao Mobility and Dobot Forge Strategic Partnership, Humanoid Robot Atom Debuts at Industry's First "Green Smart Transit Island"

    Cao Cao Mobility and Dobot Technology signed a strategic cooperation agreement on December 1 to explore robotic operations and maintenance applications such as vehicle cleaning, maintenance, and charging in Robotaxi operating scenarios. On December 3, Dobot's humanoid robot Atom entered the "Green Smart Transit Island" that opened in Hangzhou as one of the first batch of "smart employees," taking on tasks including guided interaction, vehicle exterior inspection, and cleaning and upkeep, and completing multi-scenario application validation. The two parties will also jointly build a pilot intelligent Robotaxi operations depot and collaboratively collect multimodal data to iterate operations and maintenance algorithms.

  4. Dobot/越疆机器人48

    7,499 yuan! Dobot launches Rover X1, the world's first home embodied-intelligence robot, bringing embodied AI into everyday family life

    Dobot has officially launched the Rover X1 home embodied-intelligence robot, priced at 7,499 yuan, calling it the world's first home embodied-intelligence robot. The device features a dual-vision tracking system, an all-terrain wheel-leg structure, and intelligent load-carrying capability. Through its self-developed open platform, it can switch between scenarios such as outdoor adventure, home security, coding education, and emotional companionship, and supports both graphical and code-based programming modes.

Dec 1Mon
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技46

    Proxima Technology's 1,000th robot of 2025 rolls off the line, humanoid robot X1 delivered to Tianjin University

    On December 1, Proxima Technology held a ceremony marking the rollout and delivery of its 1,000th robot of 2025. The delivered humanoid robot X1 is headed to Tianjin University for research and teaching in artificial intelligence and robotics. X1's core strengths are dual-arm coordination and hand-eye coordination; it uses self-developed seven-axis arms, a "one-controls-two" control system, and reinforcement learning to achieve dynamic task allocation and collision avoidance, and it incorporates large-model technology to understand complex instructions and autonomously reason through task steps.

Nov 27Thu
  1. 线性资本65

    Founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robot dog company RIVR discusses last-mile delivery commercialization

    Entrepreneurship Weekly interviewed Marko Bjelonic, founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robotics company RIVR, and Gus Leung, head of supply chain for China, about the progress of its robot dogs in last-mile delivery. In August this year, RIVR signed Just Eat Takeaway, Europe's largest food delivery platform; in the same period, it added Swiss Post and online supermarket Migros as customers, extending its business into fresh grocery delivery. It currently operates in Zurich, Leeds, Austin, and Boston, partnering with Evri, Veho, and others for door-to-door delivery.

    Why it matters: Through a founder interview, it presents the commercialization path and key operational data of wheeled-legged robot dogs in last-mile delivery, offering a reference for assessing the pace of deployment.

  2. 绿的谐波27

    Leaderdrive to showcase humanoid and automotive motion control solutions at iREX 2025 in Tokyo

    Leaderdrive will exhibit at iREX 2025 in Tokyo from December 3–6 (booth E4-18), showcasing motion control products for humanoid robots and smart vehicles. Planetary roller screws and linear actuators developed by its subsidiary Spin Drive achieve P0-grade precision, maintain stable performance after 10 million cycles, and exceed 87% transmission efficiency, targeting humanoid robot limb actuation.

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 25Tue
  1. Zeroth/元点智能17

    Zeroth Announces Two Key Events in January 2026: Global Brand Launch and CES 2026 Debut

    Zeroth will hold a global brand launch event in Las Vegas on January 5, 2026, streamed worldwide, unveiling for the first time its core brand positioning, technology philosophy, and strategic roadmap. From January 6 to 9, Zeroth will host a booth at CES 2026 to showcase its core products and technological achievements and to exchange with industry partners.

  3. Mentee Robotics · YouTube41

    Two V3 MenteeBots in a Warehouse Task (Unedited 18-Minute Version, No Teleoperation)

    Two V3 MenteeBots fully autonomously complete a warehouse logistics task in an unedited 18-minute video, with no teleoperation throughout. The robots pick boxes from stacks of different heights and place them onto multiple storage racks, and the video demonstrates their stable dexterous manipulation, precise movement, and reliable decision-making.

Nov 22Sat
  1. 线性资本60

    Agile Robots releases full-size industrial-grade humanoid robot Agile ONE

    Agile Robots has officially launched Agile ONE, a full-size industrial-grade humanoid robot built around Physical AI and aimed at human-machine and automation system collaboration in industrial environments.

    Why it matters: The original text explains how the humanoid robot fits into the existing full-stack product line, which lets readers judge how its positioning differs from standalone humanoid products.

Nov 20Thu
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技18

    Proxima Technology's humanoid robot X1 and other innovations debut at the 2025 World Computing Conference, praised by Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent

    On November 20, Proxima Technology exhibited its humanoid robot X1, a six-axis collaborative robot, and an AI comprehensive experiment kit (Huawei Ascend version) at the innovation achievement exhibition of the 2025 World Computing Conference in Changsha. Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent observed the experiment kit and exchanged with the team on domestic computing power and scenario-based applications, affirming its technical path and innovative practices. The site also drew many government leaders, academicians, and corporate executives.

  2. Intrinsic61

    Foxconn and Intrinsic Form Joint Venture to Build Smart Factories for Electronics Assembly

    Foxconn and Intrinsic announced at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 the formation of a US-headquartered joint venture aimed at moving electronics assembly from product-specific automation to more general-purpose intelligent robotics, with the goal of gradually achieving full-factory automation.

    Why it matters: The source is an official release from both partners, explaining the joint venture's goals, deployment scenarios, and the platform used, so readers can understand the specific path by which AI robotics is entering electronics assembly.

Nov 19Wed
  1. Figure AI78

    Figure 02 completes 11-month run at BMW Spartanburg plant, contributing to over 30,000 X3 vehicles, officially begins retirement

    Figure AI released results from Figure 02's 11-month deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg: it ran 10-hour shifts each workday, loaded over 90,000 sheet metal parts, accumulated over 1,250 operating hours, contributed to the production of over 30,000 X3 vehicles, and the robot walked about 1.2 million steps, totaling over 200 miles.

    Why it matters: The manufacturer disclosed specific KPIs and hardware failure improvements from the 11-month production line deployment, allowing readers to understand the actual operating conditions of humanoid robots on automotive production lines.

  2. Dexterity46

    Dexterity and Beckhoff USA Reach Key Supplier Agreement for Mech Superhumanoid Robot

    Dexterity has signed a key supplier agreement with Beckhoff USA to provide automation, kinematics, and safety-related technologies for the Mech superhumanoid robot. Beckhoff's control hardware is compact and suited to constrained installation spaces such as mobile robots, and its U.S. special projects team worked with Dexterity engineers to implement control systems including kinematics, PLC, and machine safety. Dexterity is valued at $1.65 billion and has previously worked with FedEx and Sagawa Express to deploy truck loading and unloading robots.

Nov 17Mon
  1. 线性资本50

    Ling Universe Secures Another RMB 200 Million in Pre-A Series Funding; Xiaofangji Double 11 Sales Up Over 230% Year-on-Year

    AI consumer robotics company Ling Universe announced the completion of RMB 200 million in Pre-A series funding, with participation from Guofang Innovation, Guotai Haitong, GF Xinde, Didi Chuxing, Koala Fund, and Runjian Co., Ltd., among others, along with oversubscribed follow-on investment from existing shareholders. The funds will be used for product and technology R&D, domestic and overseas market expansion, and the development of its developer platform and content ecosystem.

  2. Physical Intelligence74

    Physical Intelligence releases π*0.6, a VLA model that learns from experience

    Physical Intelligence released the VLA model π*0.6. After training with its Recap (RL with Experience & Corrections via Advantage-conditioned Policies) method, throughput on some of the hardest tasks more than doubled, and the failure rate can be reduced to half of the original or lower.

    Why it matters: The original article explains how compounding errors arise in VLA under imitation learning and presents a training approach that uses expert corrections and autonomous experience for reinforcement learning.

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