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Apr 23Thu
  1. YOUIBOT/优艾智合21

    Youibot to exhibit at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026 in Kuala Lumpur

    Youibot will participate in SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026, held May 5–7, 2026, at MITEC in Kuala Lumpur, at booth 2449. Live demonstrations will feature the new-generation wafer-handling robot OW12 (supporting multi-station material transfer for 12-inch wafers) and the ATS6 wafer transport robot for cross-cleanroom and cross-area transport. The company will also showcase end-to-end semiconductor automation solutions covering front-end wafer manufacturing, back-end packaging and testing, and cross-area in-factory logistics.

Apr 22Wed
  1. PsiBot/灵初智能75

    Lingchu Intelligence releases Psi-R2 and Psi-W0, open-sources 1,000-hour full-modality human hand manipulation dataset

    On April 10, Lingchu Intelligence released Psi-R2, pretrained on human data, and the Action-Conditioned World Model Psi-W0, and open-sourced the first 1,000 hours of a full-modality human hand manipulation dataset, with total data reserves reaching 100,000 hours.

    Why it matters: The original text provides the division of labor between the two new models and the open-source data entry point, so readers can assess the feasibility of using human data for robot training.

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.

  3. RobCo36

    RobCo launches Autonomous Alfie industrial robot, moving toward Level 4 autonomy

    RobCo announced an expansion of its industrial robot lineup with Autonomous Alfie, designed for varied real-world environments and targeting Level 4 autonomy. The system combines dual-arm manipulation with integrated sensing, actuation, software, and hardware, and can handle precision assembly, sensitive material handling, and logistics tasks such as picking, kitting, and palletizing. It is currently in final development, with first customer deployments planned for later this year, delivered through a RaaS model; RobCo will show an early preview at Hannover Messe (Hall 26, Booth E35).

Apr 16Thu
  1. HUMANOID62

    Siemens and Humanoid test HMND 01 humanoid robot for autonomous bin handling at German factory

    Siemens and Humanoid announced that Humanoid's HMND 01 wheeled Alpha humanoid robot has completed testing in logistics operations at Siemens' electronics factory in Erlangen, Germany, autonomously performing tasks to grasp, move, and place bins for operators.

    Why it matters: Specific capacity and success-rate metrics were disclosed, allowing readers to gauge the maturity of humanoid robots in real factory logistics operations.

  2. 德马科技23

    Damon showcases AI unmanned logistics agent solution at MODEX 2026, deepening its presence in the Americas

    At MODEX 2026, Damon Technology unveiled its AI-driven unmanned secondary sorting solution for North America for the first time. Embodied-intelligence humanoid robots work in coordination with the new-generation Flying Shuttle intelligent sorting robot to enable fully automated parcel feeding and secondary sorting; the Flash Shuttle series intelligent pallet four-way shuttle system, combined with AMRs, increases goods storage capacity by 3 times. Damon has delivered multiple turnkey projects in American markets including the United States and Brazil, serving brands such as Amazon, Shopee, and Shein, with a repurchase rate of over 80% among top key accounts.

  3. Physical Intelligence77

    Physical Intelligence releases steerable general-purpose robot model π0.7, demonstrating compositional generalization

    Physical Intelligence has released the general-purpose robot model π0.7, which it says can perform a variety of dexterous manipulations with speed and robustness comparable to fine-tuned specialized models, and shows preliminary signs of compositional generalization on tasks not seen in its training data.

    Why it matters: The article uses two specific experiments, an air fryer and folding clothes with a UR5e, to show the actual performance of compositional generalization and cross-embodiment transfer, making it easier to judge the gap between general-purpose and specialized models.

Apr 14Tue
  1. Dexterity62

    Dexterity launches Instinct tactile intelligence system

    Dexterity announced the launch of Instinct, a tactile intelligence system that reads force at 500–2000 Hz and responds in 0.5–2 ms to perform force-guided bin packing on production lines, with a median placement time of 4.55 seconds and an overall team success rate of 81% (95% CI 75%–86%, sampled from 854 placements). Placements that cannot be completed are quickly identified and handed back to the Foresight world model to retry with a different angle or position; the same skill delivers consistent performance across different robotic arm hardware and generalizes to objects of different materials.

    Why it matters: The official release provides measured production-environment data and details of the force-guided manipulation architecture, which readers can use to understand how tactile skills coordinate with the Foresight world model for recovery.

Apr 13Mon
  1. 德马科技34

    Damon Technology and UBTech Sign Strategic Agreement to Jointly Map Out Embodied Logistics Commercial Blueprint

    Damon Technology and UBTech signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai to jointly develop humanoid robots for scenarios including warehouse sorting, material handling, and production line collaboration, and plan to establish a joint venture. UBTech's Walker S2 industrial humanoid robot began mass production in 2025 and completed its first batch of large-scale deliveries; its full-size embodied intelligent humanoid robot business recorded 820 million yuan in sales revenue and 1,079 units sold for the full year 2025. The cooperation also covers core component development and embodied data collection coordination.

Apr 10Fri
  1. PsiBot/灵初智能74

    Lingchu Intelligence Releases Psi-R2 and Psi-W0 Dual Models, Pretrained on 100,000 Hours of Human Data

    Lingchu Intelligence released two models, Psi-R2 and Psi-W0, which it calls the industry's first embodied intelligence models pretrained on human data at the 100,000-hour scale.

    Why it matters: The original article, written by the team itself, breaks down the dual-model architecture and data governance conclusions, offering a reusable path for human data utilization along with experimental evidence.

Apr 2Thu
  1. Sanctuary AI55

    Sanctuary AI demonstrates zero-shot in-hand manipulation with hydraulic dexterous hand

    Sanctuary AI demonstrated zero-shot in-hand manipulation in the real world with its proprietary hydraulic hand: a policy trained entirely in simulation continuously reoriented a lettered cube to a target pose ten times in a row without dropping it. The operation relied solely on the fingertips with no palm support, requiring simultaneous stable grasping and approach to the pose target. The original text states that the hand has a relatively high number of active degrees of freedom enabling finger abduction, and that hydraulic actuation and compact hydraulic valves offer a path toward industrial-grade humanoid dexterous manipulation.

Apr 1Wed
  1. Rainbow Robotics42

    Plyff and Rainbow Robotics advance joint development of V2 manufacturing-specific AI dual-arm robot

    Plyff and Rainbow Robotics announced they are jointly advancing development of the V2 manufacturing-specific AI dual-arm robot. V2 combines Rainbow Robotics' precision robot hardware with Plyff's AI specialized for assembly and fastening, and features improved robot arm and waist axis designs to adapt to changes in processes and environments. The two companies previously co-developed an automotive headlamp assembly automation solution and verified its feasibility for production line application. Based on this model, the two plan to expand applications to manufacturing sectors including automotive and electronics.

Mar 30Mon
Mar 27Fri
  1. 赛那德21

    Senad showcases iLoabot-M at LogiMAT logistics trade fair in Germany, empowering global market expansion with embodied intelligence

    Senad showcased its autonomous loading and unloading robot iLoabot-M at the LogiMAT international logistics trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany, from March 24 to 26, 2026, with live on-site demonstrations of fully unmanned autonomous loading and unloading capabilities. iLoabot-M features AI intelligent algorithms and autonomous motion path planning technology, targeting the needs of Europe's high logistics labor costs and labor shortages. Senad says its products have been exported to regions including Europe, the US, Japan, and South Korea, and that it achieves large-scale mass production through China's domestic intelligent manufacturing system.

Mar 26Thu
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼33

    RealMan "Tea Art Robot" Appears at 2026 Zhongguancun Forum

    RealMan, together with Pinpinxiang, presented a "robot tea master" tea-brewing service at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum. An operator remotely teleoperated it from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center, and a RealBOT wheeled humanoid robot replicated in real time on site the Fuding white tea steps of warming the cup, adding tea leaves, pouring water, and decanting the brew. The service relies on RealMan's Global Labor Network (GLN) to turn human expert operating skills into services that can be scheduled across time and space; it is a remote teleoperation demonstration, not autonomous tea brewing by the robot.

Mar 24Tue
  1. Berkeley AUTOLAB68

    CaP-X: Benchmarking and Improvement Framework for Robot Manipulation Coding Agents Released

    Teams including Berkeley AUTOLAB propose CaP-X, an open framework for systematically studying Code-as-Policy agents in robot manipulation, centered on the interactive environment CaP-Gym and CaP-Bench, which evaluates 12 frontier models.

    Why it matters: The original text presents a systematic evaluation framework for Code-as-Policy agents and the finding that test-time scaling can mitigate abstraction dependence, offering reference value for research on coding-agent manipulation control.

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.

Mar 20Fri
  2. 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.

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.

Mar 9Mon
  1. 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 3Tue
  1. 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.

  2. 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 24Tue
  1. 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 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).

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 21Wed
  1. Diligent71

    Serve Robotics to acquire Diligent Robotics, expanding autonomous robotics platform to indoor hospital settings

    Serve Robotics announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Diligent Robotics, with consideration consisting of $29 million in the company's common stock paid to Diligent shareholders (subject to adjustments such as net debt), plus up to $5.3 million in milestone earnouts. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, and Diligent will continue to operate as a Serve subsidiary under the leadership of Andrea Thomaz.

    Why it matters: The materials lay out Moxi's deployment scale and the per-hospital annual sales range, making it easier to assess the acquisition's actual weight for Serve's revenue mix and platform expansion.

Jan 19Mon
  1. Sharpa49

    Sharpa showcases fine-manipulation autonomous live demos at CES 2026 with CraftNet VTLA model and North robot

    At CES 2026, Sharpa debuted North, a full-body robot driven by the CraftNet end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model, running live autonomous demos for eight hours a day over four consecutive days: taking photos, table tennis rallies, windmill assembly, and card dealing, all without scripts.

Jan 7Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼32

    Realman Attends CES 2026 for the Third Time: Building Embodied Intelligence Infrastructure with Joint Modules, Humanoid Robotic Arms, and a Remote Operation Network

    Realman is exhibiting at CES 2026 for the third consecutive year, presenting three foundational capabilities: hardware, data, and a remote operation network. It also completed a transoceanic real-time teleoperation demonstration from Beijing to Las Vegas, remotely controlling a RealBOT wheeled folding robot to perform tasks such as delivering items and handing over fruit.

  2. Mentee Robotics · YouTube34

    MenteeBot Executes Tasks via Verbal Instructions (No Teleoperation)

    MenteeBot completed a can-retrieval task based on verbal instructions without teleoperation: it understood the request, identified the correct can, navigated to the counter, grasped it, and brought it back to the person. The demo integrates language understanding, scene perception, navigation, and manipulation into a single coherent behavior. Instructions can be given in any language, and the original text states this lowers the barrier to human-robot collaboration and humanoid robot deployment.

  3. 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.

Dec 22Mon
  1. 线性资本58

    Tashi Intelligence Makes Full-Stack Tech Debut with Autonomous Embroidery Robot and Wiring Harness Manufacturing Solution

    On December 19, Tashi Intelligence, founded just 10 months ago, held a livestreamed full-stack technology debut. The world's first robot to achieve autonomous embroidery was officially unveiled, completing thread pulling, needle lowering, and piercing motions with sub-millimeter precision to embroider the brand logo, while also demonstrating the autonomous implementation of flexible fine manipulation in wiring harness assembly.

  2. 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. 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 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 12Fri