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Nov 10Tue
  1. 锐曼REEMAN38

    What to verify when procuring autonomous elevator capabilities for AI service robots? How the REEMAN elevator control module works

    Before procuring service robots for multi-floor scenarios, four autonomous elevator capabilities need to be verified: calling the elevator on any floor, selecting a floor inside the car, detecting door opening and safely entering and exiting after the car levels, and re-localizing after exiting the elevator and seamlessly resuming the task. The REEMAN elevator control module connects to the elevator door open/close and floor signal lines through a UWB elevator gateway box, a main control box, and a button panel; the floor signals are non-polarized to simplify wiring. Single elevators use local LoRa point-to-point communication, while multiple elevators use centralized MQTT scheduling; its Fly Boat AMR once transported 200 kg through a 1.15 m elevator at an electronics factory.

  2. 锐曼REEMAN38

    How Ruiman Fly Boat logistics AMRs connect inbound receiving, put-away, and outbound shipping

    Ruiman Fly Boat logistics AMRs, with a 300 kg payload and optional 100 mm lifting, replace fixed conveyors and manual carts in receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, and shipping. They use laser SLAM navigation, so when SKUs or capacity change, only the map software needs updating. Tasks can be triggered by WMS/MES/ERP orders, one-touch call buttons, or PLC and conveyor signals, and with elevator and automatic door modules the AMRs operate across floors and in controlled areas. In one electronics factory deployment, the AMR carried 200 kg of cargo through a 1.15 m wide elevator car without manual assistance.

  3. Duatic · YouTube50

    Duatic DxTR general-purpose industrial mobile manipulator robot: dual arms and mobile base, moving thousands of bins per day

    Duatic has launched the DxTR general-purpose industrial robot, which uses a dual-arm plus mobile base structure and can grasp, carry, place, and drive, moving thousands of bins per day. The robot can lift 30 kg and carry 200 kg, and relies on sensing and backdrivability to collaborate safely with people. Both the software and the complete machine are developed and built in-house by Duatic in Switzerland.

Nov 9Mon
  1. 锐曼REEMAN42

    How did REEMAN deploy a 300kg AMR at a Dongguan garment factory in half a day?

    REEMAN completed on-site deployment of the Fly Boat factory delivery robot (AMR) at a large garment factory in Dongguan in about half a day, and configured multiple pickup and drop-off points. The robot has a rated payload of 300kg and actually carries about 200–250kg per trip (including a custom rack of about 80kg). It lifts the rack with a 10cm autonomous lift, navigates via laser SLAM, travels about 150m per loaded trip, and performs 70–90 tasks per day on average. Workers trigger deliveries via a physical one-button call button. Reference price is about USD 5,780, depending on configuration.

Nov 7Sat
  1. Robotphoenix/翼菲科技35

    Robot World 2026: Yifei Technology showcases Elephant collaborative palletizing all-in-one machine and Camel series AGV complete palletizing solution in Korea

    Yifei Technology, together with Korean distributor Jookang Robotech, showcased a complete palletizing solution comprising the Elephant collaborative palletizing all-in-one machine and Camel series AGVs at Robot World 2026, with a live demonstration of the full cycle of end-of-line carton palletizing and pallet and material transfer.

Nov 6Fri
  1. AgiBot72

    Six AGIBOT G2 robots complete 24-hour trial at Shanghai convenience store, performing 1,730 tasks

    Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots completed a 24-hour trial at an operating convenience store in Xuhui District, Shanghai, performing a total of 1,730 tasks, with four of them passing the final assessment.

    Why it matters: AGIBOT disclosed the task distribution and assessment results of six G2 robots over 24 hours in a real convenience store, offering a view of how embodied intelligence performs in continuous operation.

  2. 锐曼REEMAN47

    How does the REEMAN X-ant autonomous forklift complete 140 transport cycles per day at a Shanghai auto parts factory?

    The REEMAN X-ant autonomous forklift at a large auto parts factory in Shanghai achieves about 125–140 pallet transport cycles per day, carrying 800–1,000 kg per trip over a full cycle of about 100 meters. The narrowest point of the plant's transport route is only 1.55 meters, and the pickup and drop-off area offers about 2.8 meters of operating space. With a one-button call, the forklift automatically picks up goods, transports them under load, drops them off, and returns to its charging station to stand by. The X-ant JBOT20F is 695 mm wide, has a turning radius of 1,448 mm, and a rated load of 2,000 kg.

  3. 荭杏科技42

    When robots start handling e-commerce returns: what makes grasping irregular items difficult?

    German retail group Otto will deploy AI dual-arm robots in phases at a logistics center in Poland to inspect, identify, and sort e-commerce returns. The first phase plans to deploy 10 systems, and whether 15 more will be added later depends on initial operating results. Returned goods are often crumpled, repackaged, or presented in various orientations, so the robots need to combine visual information to decide how to grasp and adjust their actions based on feedback; simulation can model different orientations and packaging to assist training. Currently, the project still lacks enough public data to judge actual efficiency and return on investment.

  4. Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center70

    Beijing Humanoid releases Hi-WBC general whole-body control model on "Huisikaiwu" platform

    Beijing Humanoid released the Hi-WBC general whole-body control model on the "Huisikaiwu" platform on November 2. The model combines human motion references with real physical constraints, enabling robots to adjust how they execute tasks as payload, external forces, and terrain change. It uses a continual skill expansion framework based on MoE and policy distillation, Contact-aware Learning that incorporates contact force prediction, and Perceptive Control that introduces terrain awareness.

    Why it matters: The original text discloses Hi-WBC's technical approach to handling payload, external force, and terrain constraints beyond motion tracking, offering insight into how whole-body control is moving from demonstrations toward real work.

Nov 5Thu
  1. 锐曼REEMAN40

    How was REEMAN's Ironhide autonomous forklift deployed in one day at a Zhejiang lighting factory?

    REEMAN completed the on-site deployment of the Ironhide autonomous forklift in about one day at a lighting manufacturing factory in Zhejiang, for pallet transport between a covered outdoor storage area and an indoor warehouse. In actual operation, the forklift has a maximum payload of about 600 kg, a one-way route of about 100 meters, and performs about 140–180 transport tasks per day; the reference equipment price is about USD 9,900. During deployment, engineers also adjusted the transport route based on the actual situation of temporary inventory occupying the aisle.

Nov 4Wed
  1. 锐曼REEMAN38

    Planning a multi-floor autonomous forklift project? REEMAN Ironhide elevator integration checklist

    From a supplier perspective, REEMAN provides a five-item checklist of mechanical prerequisites, communication architecture, and responsibility division for autonomous forklift and elevator integration. For a single elevator, a local LoRa direct connection to the elevator control module is used; for multiple elevators, MQTT is used with the fleet system queuing and dispatching. The elevator control module only coordinates calls and status and does not replace the elevator's native safety controls. In the Maoming factory case, Ironhide transports about 1,000 kg of wire rod per trip over a one-way distance of about 100 m, completing 65–85 cross-floor elevator tasks per day.

  2. 仙工智能42

    Seer Robotics Showcases Robot Brain at CeMAT ASIA 2026: A Unified Platform for Multi-Form Robots

    At CeMAT ASIA 2026, Seer Robotics exhibited its Robot Brain product line and several robots equipped with the platform, including the X1 PRO humanoid robot autonomously completing a water-fetching task, the P300 and P1500 AI delivery robots collaboratively avoiding obstacles, and an omnidirectional stacker forklift autonomously identifying and picking up various pallets. Robot Brain consists of three parts: Model, Cerebellum, and Neural pathways. It has been adapted to more than 400 types of core components and supports more than 2000 robot SKUs.

Nov 3Tue
  1. 幻尔科技38

    SO-ARM101 vs. NexArm Open-Source 6-Axis LeRobot Arm Buying Guide: Which One to Choose

    Huan'er Technology compares two open-source 6-axis robotic arms that natively support the Hugging Face LeRobot ecosystem: the SO-ARM101 has a 200 g payload, a 400 mm reach, and a maximum servo torque of 30 kg·cm, making it suitable for beginners learning teleoperation and imitation learning; the NexArm has a 500 g payload, a 500 mm reach, and 65 kg·cm torque, features an aviation-grade metal body, and can be expanded with peripherals such as the K230 vision module and a Mecanum-wheel chassis.

  2. PsiBot/灵初智能58

    Lingchu Intelligence's embodied robot enters Li-Ning East China smart logistics center for trial operation

    Lingchu Intelligence and Hengyan Technology are jointly delivering the Li-Ning East China Smart Logistics Center project. The embodied robot, equipped with Lingchu's self-developed model, has been deployed on site and entered trial operation, taking on routine work and fulfilling commercial orders. The solution targets the bin-picking scenario in footwear and apparel warehousing, where shoeboxes are mixed in storage and item poses are random. The model can autonomously break down multi-step goals and complete recognition, pose estimation, dexterous grasping, product sorting, and pushing full boxes, without requiring large-scale modification of existing infrastructure. During the trial operation, Lingchu will work with Li-Ning's warehouse operations team on stress testing and validation of abnormal conditions, optimizing bin-picking success rates and stability during long periods of continuous operation.

  3. PsiBot/灵初智能71

    Lingchu Intelligence and collaborators propose FAFM, a continuous action generation method for heterogeneous-frequency data, accepted to NeurIPS 2026

    Lingchu Intelligence, together with Beihang University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, proposed a frequency-aware flow matching method called FAFM; the paper was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 main conference. The method uses the discrete cosine transform (DCT-II) to represent actions as frequency-domain coefficients corresponding to real time, performs flow matching in coefficient space and constrains the first-order time derivative, requires no additional learnable parameters, and can be used independently or integrated into VLA models such as π₀ and π₀.₅.

    Why it matters: The paper presents a frequency-domain action representation that adds no learnable parameters and can be integrated into existing VLA models, offering a transferable approach for joint training on heterogeneous-frequency data.

  4. PsiBot/灵初智能71

    PKU-Spirit AI Joint Lab's RoboFFT Accepted to CoRL2026, Uses Reinforcement Learning Post-Training to Generate Robotic Policies

    RoboFFT, proposed by the PKU-Spirit AI Joint Lab, has been accepted to CoRL2026. It is a reinforcement learning post-training method for generative robotic policies that reuses the forward noising process from diffusion model and flow model pretraining to construct an approximate probability ratio for PPO-style clipped updates.

    Why it matters: The method reuses the forward noising loss of diffusion and flow models to construct policy update signals, offering a reusable approach for post-training generative policies.

  5. 锐曼REEMAN38

    REEMAN AMR Forklifts in Real Pallet-Handling Workflows: From Receiving and Production to Shipping

    REEMAN published three verified AMR forklift pallet-handling deployments: in Huzhou, Ironhide 3.0 moves 1.5-ton pallets along a route of about 47 meters, with daily throughput of 160–200 trips; in Jingmen, Ironhide passes through two electric doors and interfaces with a stretch-wrapping machine, at about 75 cycles per day; in Shanxi, a Rhinoceros 1.5-ton stacker handles high-level handoffs in the packaging area.

Nov 2Mon
  1. 锐曼REEMAN58

    REEMAN Ironhide autonomous forklift completes wrapper and elevator integration at Shanghai chemical shipping warehouse

    REEMAN has published a deployment case at a chemical shipping company in Shanghai, where the Ironhide autonomous forklift links pallet pickup, automatic stretch wrapping, elevator floor transfer, and indoor and outdoor delivery, covering about 600 kg per trip, about 650 meters round trip, about 12 minutes per cycle, and about 50 cycles per day. The forklift exchanges station-ready and wrapping-complete status with the wrapper through an industrial interface, and coordinates requests, entry, and exit with the building elevator control system. During commissioning, the team adjusted drive-wheel downforce to resolve ramp slipping, and worked with the wrapper manufacturer to correct the pallet handover process.

  2. Fudan Multimodal Embodied Intelligence30

    Fudan team wins multiple awards at 2026 International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition

    A joint team from Fudan University's Institute of Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence and Shanghai Xinzhi Embodied Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. won first place in the quality inspection category at the 2026 International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition. The student team, working with the National and Local Center, used the Linglong H wheeled-arm robot and the Linglong L bipedal robot to win two first places, one third place, and one fourth place across three categories: loading and unloading transport, firefighting, and precision assembly. In the firefighting category, the Linglong L bipedal robot completed fire detection, fire suppression, and evacuation without human intervention.

Oct 31Sat
  1. 锐曼REEMAN42

    How Can Autonomous Forklifts Turn Existing Stretch Wrappers into Automated Packaging Workstations? — REEMAN Ironhide Wireless Docking and Jingmen Factory Deployment

    REEMAN outlines an approach for retrofitting existing stretch wrappers using Ironhide autonomous forklifts: the forklift handles pallet pickup, placement, and warehouse transport, while the stretch wrapper continues to perform packaging, requiring a machine control interface, status feedback, and safety interlocks. In its wireless docking demonstration, pickup alignment deviation was within 2 cm and turntable placement deviation was within 5 cm, with the demonstration process taking about 6 minutes. There is also an Ironhide 3.0 deployment at a factory in Jingmen, Hubei; the two applications are independent of each other, and the data comes from REEMAN application materials and has not been independently verified.

  2. 锐曼REEMAN44

    How the REEMAN intelligent pallet wrapping and handling workstation connects autonomous forklifts with wrapping machines

    The REEMAN intelligent pallet wrapping and handling workstation uses an external wireless communication module to link the 1.5-ton payload Ironhide autonomous forklift with a turntable wrapping machine into a continuous process. The module can use I/O, RS485, Ethernet, or CAN interfaces depending on the equipment controller, and the wireless link uses LoRa or Wi-Fi. In the demonstration, pickup alignment deviation was ≤2 cm and drop-off deviation was ≤5 cm; wrapping and film cutting are completed automatically, and the full handling and packaging process takes about 6 minutes.

  3. 锐曼REEMAN42

    How the REEMAN Titan Mini Handles Non-Standard Tank Trolleys with Custom Forks

    REEMAN customized the forks on its Titan Mini autonomous forklift for a high-end electronic materials factory in Anhui, enabling it to directly handle the customer's existing wheeled mobile material tank trolleys without additional pallets. The trolley weighs about 275 kg when loaded, the Titan Mini has a rated payload of up to 2,000 kg, the one-way point-to-point transport distance is about 260 m, and it uses LiDAR SLAM navigation; under the current site configuration, a full work cycle takes about 4.5 minutes.

  4. 锐曼REEMAN47

    How Do Autonomous Forklifts Integrate with Automatic Doors and Stretch Wrappers? The REEMAN Jingmen Factory Case

    At an electronic materials factory in Jingmen, Hubei, REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 autonomous forklifts complete an integrated process: picking up goods in the production area, passing through two electric doors, handing off to a stretch wrapper, and delivering to the warehouse. The actual load is about 1,300 kg, with a rated load of 1,500 kg. The customer reports about 75 transport cycles per day, about 6.5 minutes per task, and a loaded route of about 270 meters, with support for automatic return to a mobile charging station. The forklift's reference price is about USD 9,900, and integration with doors and the stretch wrapper requires customization based on the site's controller interfaces.

Oct 30Fri
  1. 江苏箸境智能科技有限公司18

    Zhujing Debuts H1 Humanoid Robot "Xiao Zhu" at China-Europe Cross-Border Exchange Conference, Pursuing Global Embodied Intelligence

    At the 6th Innovation Fair China-Europe Cross-Border Exchange Conference 2026, Zhujing exhibited its H1 humanoid robot "Xiao Zhu" and multi-scenario deployment solutions, with a live demonstration of writing the Chinese character "Fu," showcasing arm motion control and fine force-controlled manipulation. The company hopes to connect with European robot manufacturers, automation integrators, and research institutions to explore cooperation in industrial production, commercial services, and co-building high-quality datasets, and plans to work with ecosystem partners to build an overseas embodied intelligence ecosystem and drive the coordinated overseas expansion of its products and solutions.

  2. 江苏箸境智能科技有限公司18

    Zhujing Debuts H1 Humanoid Robot "Xiao Zhu" at China-Europe Cross-Border Exchange Conference, Pursuing Global Embodied Intelligence

    At the 6th Innovation Fair China-Europe Cross-Border Exchange Conference 2026, Zhujing exhibited its H1 humanoid robot "Xiao Zhu" and multi-scenario deployment solutions, with a live demonstration of writing the Chinese character "Fu," showcasing arm motion control and fine force-controlled manipulation. The company hopes to connect with European robot manufacturers, automation integrators, and research institutions to explore cooperation in industrial production, commercial services, and co-building high-quality datasets, and plans to work with ecosystem partners to build an overseas embodied intelligence ecosystem and drive the coordinated overseas expansion of its products and solutions.

  3. 机器科学55

    RoboScience's Shao Lin Presents Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation Path from D(R,O) Grasp to FingerEye at Unitree Ecosystem Conference

    Shao Lin, founder of RoboScience, spoke at the 2026 World Physical AI Conference and Unitree Partner Ecosystem Conference, presenting a cross-embodiment dexterous manipulation technology path from the ICRA 2025 Best Paper D(R,O) Grasp to the T(R,O) Grasp series and then to the FingerEye visuotactile framework.

  4. CMU Robotics Institute62

    CMU proposes Wiggle and Go: estimating physical properties of ropes by wiggling to plan manipulation

    A team at CMU's Robotics Institute has proposed the Wiggle and Go system, in which a robot first briefly wiggles a rope or cable while an overhead camera records how the waves propagate; a computer vision algorithm then tracks the motion and estimates the object's physical properties, which are used to plan subsequent actions without repeated trial and error. The model is trained entirely in simulation, and properties are then estimated from the motion of real ropes being wiggled to improve prediction accuracy on real hardware. The research has been accepted to the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) and will be presented next month in Austin; it is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

    Why it matters: The method estimates a rope's physical properties from a single wiggle and then plans actions accordingly, offering a transferable approach to deformable object manipulation.

Oct 29Thu
  1. 戴盟机器人72

    Daimon Robotics completes hundreds of millions in strategic financing, led by Ant Group

    Daimon Robotics announced the completion of a strategic funding round of hundreds of millions, led by Ant Group with existing shareholders oversubscribing, just two months after its hundred-million-yuan Series A. The company also launched its tactile-anchored world model Daimon-TWM, with parameter scale at the 10B level, capable of real-time inference on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 platform, and claims that its average success rate on contact-intensive manipulation tasks is twice that of π0.5. Daimon has also built the tactile full-modality dataset Daimon-Infinity; after the first 10,000 hours of data were open-sourced, it received nearly 5 million downloads on the ModelScope community.

    Why it matters: Beyond the funding news, the original article also details the architecture and data-collection layout of the tactile world model Daimon-TWM, which helps in understanding the technical proposition of the tactile approach.

  2. 戴盟机器人55

    Daimon Robotics presents Daimon-TWM tactile-anchored world model and full-chain physical intelligence system at IROS 2026

    At IROS 2026, held September 27 to October 1 in Pittsburgh, USA, Daimon Robotics presented its full-chain physical intelligence system spanning perception, data, and models under the theme From Touch to Intelligence, centered on the Daimon-TWM tactile-anchored world model.

  3. 拓斯达58

    Topstar's humanoid dual-arm robot enters 3C irregular-part sorting, cutting changeover time to minutes

    Topstar has launched a humanoid dual-arm robot solution for sorting irregular parts. Operators issue commands in natural language, and TOP Agent parses the tasks and coordinates visual perception, motion control, and force-controlled gripping, cutting changeover time from hours to minutes. On the hardware side, the humanoid dual arms have a rated payload of 8 kg and repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.05 mm, are equipped with a binocular vision system and a force-controlled adaptive gripping module, and support 24/7 continuous operation. The solution has completed deployment validation in the supply chain of a leading 3C brand and can optionally be equipped with edge computing and industrial large models to extend to processes such as appearance inspection.

  4. 锐曼REEMAN22

    REEMAN to Launch Commercial Autonomous Tennis Ball-Collecting Robot for Professional Tennis Facilities

    REEMAN Robotics is developing a commercial autonomous tennis ball-collecting robot for professional tennis academies, multi-court clubs, and commercial tennis facilities, with the goal of reducing repetitive ball-collecting work and allowing coaching teams to focus on training. The product is in the development and technical evaluation stage. Development priorities include a ball-storage target of about 200–300 balls, autonomous navigation, tennis ball detection and collection, automatic charging, and court surface compatibility; these are engineering goals rather than verified mass-production specifications. REEMAN has not yet announced a confirmed launch date, final price, mass-production specifications, or sales channels.

  5. 锐曼REEMAN30

    How Does REEMAN Use the Big Dog Chassis Mobile Platform to Automate Warehouse Shelf Picking?

    REEMAN ROBOT partnered with a German industrial technology customer to develop a mobile manipulator robot for warehouse shelf picking and material handling. The solution uses the Big Dog Chassis AMR platform with a rated payload of 100 kg, paired with a 7-DOF robotic arm with a rated payload of 5 kg and a working reach of 610 mm, as well as a vertical lifting mechanism with a stroke of 1,200 mm.

  6. 锐曼REEMAN25

    Why Are Wheeled Robot Bases Better Suited for Mobile Manipulators? — The REEMAN Big Dog Base as an Example

    The REEMAN Big Dog wheeled AMR base is designed for mobile manipulator integration, with a rated payload of 100 kg, laser SLAM navigation, LiDAR and dual 3D cameras, and HTTP API, Android SDK, RS232, and local MQTT interfaces. Two cases show a customer integrating dual arms on the Big Dog base for a tote-handling demo, and a German industrial customer combining the base with a 7-DOF robotic arm and a 1,200 mm vertical lift mechanism for warehouse shelf picking.

  7. 锐曼REEMAN29

    How Does a Wheeled Robot Chassis Support Dual-Arm Mobile Manipulation? REEMAN Big Dog Customer Integration Case

    A customer integrated a dual-arm mobile manipulator on the REEMAN Big Dog wheeled AMR chassis; in an 82-second demo, it completed dual-arm grasping of a blue material box, transport between workstations, and placement. The chassis has a rated payload of 100 kg, uses laser SLAM navigation, is equipped with LiDAR and dual 3D cameras for obstacle avoidance, and offers development interfaces including an HTTP API, Android SDK, RS232, and local MQTT. The video is a customer integration demo, not evidence of a production deployment or verified throughput performance.

  8. 锐曼REEMAN42

    How REEMAN Rhino autonomous stacker forklifts automate pallet transport at a Shanxi packaging plant

    REEMAN Rhino autonomous stacker forklifts are deployed at a food-service packaging plant in Shanxi, automatically completing pallet transport from the pickup area to the warehouse over a one-way distance of about 280 meters and a round trip of 560 meters, with a payload of about 800 kilograms per trip and roughly 64 tons of cargo moved per day based on an estimated 80 trips per day. The vehicle has a rated load of 1.5 tons and a lift height of 2.5 meters, uses laser SLAM navigation, is priced at about 11,000 USD for reference, supports automatic docking and charging at low battery, and its charging station can be relocated. On-site deployment took about 1 day, and the LiDAR mounting position was raised by 1 meter for future rack-storage planning.

Oct 28Wed
  2. Yaskawa70

    Yaskawa Electric and GAZOO Racing to Bring AI Autonomous Welding Robot Technology to GR KART Manufacturing Site

    Yaskawa Electric and Toyota GAZOO Racing have jointly developed AI-driven autonomous robot production technology, with deployment beginning in September 2026 at the Gamagori GR KART workshop. The technology builds on the SFA method (Sequence Freezing Arc Welding) jointly developed by the two parties in 2024, and uses MOTOMAN NEXT robots equipped with GPUs and AI to autonomously recognize the state of pipe frames, complete welding, confirm and correct quality, and analyze appearance images, welding sounds, and various data in an integrated manner.

    Why it matters: Yaskawa and GAZOO Racing are extending their SFA welding experience into an AI autonomous welding line, and it has already gone into actual production at the GR KART workshop, offering a view of how welding automation moves from validation to the mass-production floor.