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Oct 25Sun
  1. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号40

    Unitree H2-X Humanoid Robot Malfunctions During Side Flip Demo, Mechanical Lower Leg Detaches

    During a live kung fu demonstration at the "2026 World Physical AI Conference and Unitree Partner Ecosystem Conference," the Unitree H2-X humanoid robot lost balance on landing from a side flip and fell sideways, with one mechanical lower leg detaching from its joint. The robot was just released on October 21, officially named "H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian," and is positioned for security and emergency rescue scenarios with a maximum battery life of about 8 hours. Promotional videos show it kicking in car doors, lifting a car bare-handed, and performing a flip after jumping from a platform about 4 meters high. As of now, Unitree has not commented on the incident.

  2. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号42

    Pudong embodied intelligence supply chain: over 150 firms cover the full robotics chain; Zhangjiang South platform enables one-week trial production

    Pudong is now home to more than 150 embodied intelligence companies, and the brain, chips, perception, control, body, and application scenarios needed for a robot can all be sourced locally. The Zhangjiang South embodied intelligence supply chain platform offers one-stop services: standard parts matched in one day, prototyping in three days, and trial production in one week. Yiyou Technology's automated joint production line has landed in Zhangjiang, with annual joint capacity of up to 100,000 units. AgiBot Lingxi X2 is already providing regular service in Chengdu's Kuanzhai Alley.

  3. Reddit r/robotics12

    How to design a compact, low-center-of-gravity body for a 3–5 kg metal robot soccer chassis? Seeking advice

    A developer is converting a cardboard/wood prototype into a metal chassis for a 3 kg–5 kg class competitive mobile robot, planning to first use a single base plate to mount 300 RPM Johnson motors and BTS7960 drivers. Their core questions are: how a small 300 mm×300 mm-class metal robot can achieve a compact body and low center of gravity to hold off heavier opponents, and whether a 100% invertible robot should use a base plate + standoffs + top plate sandwich structure or a bent sheet-metal shell. They also want prototyping methods for converting the cardboard model into aluminum plate cutting and drilling dimensions to avoid mistakes on the first machining attempt.

  5. AI前线 · 微信公众号58

    90% of embodied AI companies are in the eastern coastal region; Changsha enters embodied AI by leveraging its manufacturing capabilities

    AI Qianxian reviews how Changsha's Xiangjiang New Area is entering embodied AI through its "advantageous manufacturing capability transformation project": Zhongke Huisi released the F series of 37-DOF cable-driven biomimetic dexterous hands, Daile New Material turns ultra-fine tungsten wire into biomimetic tendon cables, Huashu High-Tech uses metal 3D printing to integrally form biomimetic finger joints, and the Lens Technology campus has an annual production capacity of 500,000 embodied AI robots. The article also notes that Changsha still faces three hurdles: the engineering gap from validation to mass production, the lack of ecosystem-leading chain-leader companies, and a tight time window, and it lists four categories of opportunities: key components, complete-machine scenarios, data simulation, and chips and algorithms.

  6. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号72

    Tesla starts Optimus mass production at Fremont factory; Musk says 20,000 units per week is about a year away

    Tesla's Q3 2026 financial report shows that production of the Optimus humanoid robot has begun on the high-volume production line at the Fremont factory, with the robots rolling off the line being the first Optimus units to meet mass-production standards. On the earnings call, Musk said reaching a capacity of 20,000 units per week will take at least another year or longer, with roughly 10,000 details still to be tuned; he also plans to complete AI5 chip integration by April next year and expects to resolve remaining design, reliability, and service-life issues before supplying the robot externally by the end of 2027.

  7. 斯帝尔科技 · 微信公众号42

    STIAL's AI flexible grinding robots and NextBrain™ full-stack product system empower high-end manufacturing

    STIAL has built four product series around complex grinding scenarios: AI flexible grinding robots, AI flexible grinding workstations, embodied core components, and the NextBrain™ AI brain, forming a physical AI technology loop of "perception—analysis—decision—execution."

Oct 24Sat
  1. Reddit r/robotics12

    How to Calculate Torque (kg.cm) for Each Joint of a Robotic Arm to Select Servos

    A poster asks how to calculate the torque (in kg.cm) for each joint of a robotic arm using J=mgr in order to choose the most suitable servos, and gives the conversion 1 N·m ≈ 10.1 kg·cm. The post only lists the theoretical formula, without giving a specific robotic arm model, number of joints, or measured data, and hopes someone can guide how to apply the formula to a project or recommend a YouTube video explaining the basic concepts.

  2. 钛媒体47

    Chinese Embodied AI Goes Global with a "Weight-Loss Plan": Shifting from Complete-System Delivery to Quick-Release Modules and RaaS

    In the first half of 2026, China's robot exports reached 24.85 billion yuan, up 359.0% year on year, but entertainment performances and education/ research procurement together accounted for over 60% of the export mix, while only 13% truly entered intelligent manufacturing. Wujie Dynamics' K15, entering a French battery factory, required on-site re-collection of force and tactile data and model fine-tuning, turning delivery into a project-based, non-standardized process. Realman demonstrated cross-ocean cloud teleoperation, Nanjing Yinxesi launched a second-generation humanoid robot joint module supporting quick release, and AgiBot launched an overseas standalone site promoting RaaS with a starting rental price of 899 euros per day, covering 17 countries and regions.

  3. 电子工程专辑 · 微信公众号62

    Musk discloses Optimus production progress: Fremont planned for annual capacity of 1 million units, external deliveries by end of 2027

    Tesla confirmed on its Q3 2026 earnings call that Optimus has begun production on a high-volume line at its Fremont, California factory; the dedicated line is planned for annual capacity of 1 million units, and a second line at the Texas Gigafactory has a long-term design annual capacity of 10 million units.

Oct 23Fri
  2. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号20

    Columbus Intelligent to debut two new pallet-handling robot lines, horizontal Yingbao and vertical Weibao, at CeMAT ASIA 2026

    Columbus Intelligent will debut two new series of intelligent pallet-handling robots at CeMAT ASIA 2026. The horizontal Yingbao series (models such as PTR-HT, PTR-HS, and PTR-HW) targets smart warehouses and covers pallet handling of 4000 kg and below; the vertical Weibao series (PTR-VM, PTR-VS, PR-VL) enables horizontal transport as well as layer-changing and inbound/outbound operations.

  3. 珞石机器人70

    ROKAE Zhuxing H wheeled humanoid robots enter Schaeffler Taicang embodied intelligence digital factory production line

    On October 20, Schaeffler's Taicang embodied intelligence robot digital factory opened, with 5 ROKAE Zhuxing H series wheeled humanoid robots participating in the intelligent assembly line for tasks including bin handling, parts sorting, press-fitting and screw assembly, functional testing, marking and packaging, producing joint module components including actuators for next-generation humanoid robots.

    Why it matters: The original text provides the specific processes and technical configuration of complete machines entering a mass-production line, helping readers judge the current usable boundaries of wheeled humanoid robots in real manufacturing scenarios.

  4. 电子工程专辑 · 微信公众号60

    Axera launches AX8860 series edge AI chips, targeting GB10 and positioning for physical AI

    Axera has launched the AX8860 series of high-compute edge AI chips, including the AX8860, AX8860P, and the Yuanxi module A256S. The chips use a 6nm process, feature 16 Cortex-A55 cores, and deliver NPU peak compute of 256 TOPS. They support up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with 273GB/s bandwidth, and can scale via AXLink dual-chip and four-chip cascading to 512GB of memory and 1024 TOPS of compute.

  5. 极客公园71

    Nvidia Unveils DSX POD, OpenShell Enterprise Solution, and Multiple Physical AI Partnerships at GTC Berlin

    At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang announced that the Vera Rubin platform has entered full-scale production and introduced DSX POD, a modular AI factory reference design. It consists of 7 liquid-cooled computer racks interconnected by about 17 kilometers of cabling and uses 800V DC power; assuming power and site readiness, deployment time can be shortened from about 6 months to as fast as 14 days, with deliveries expected to begin in early 2027.

  6. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号58

    Schaeffler Embodied AI Robot Taicang Digital Intelligent Factory Officially Opens

    The Schaeffler Embodied AI Robot Taicang Digital Intelligent Factory officially opened on October 20. It covers a total area of approximately 7,500 square meters and integrates an intelligent assembly production line, a scenario-based training and data collection center, a digital twin platform, and a computing power center. The factory produces joint module components, including actuators, for next-generation humanoid robots, and offers an open cooperation model for customers and partners to train and test physical AI systems in industrial scenarios. Schaeffler Embodied Intelligence (Taicang) Co., Ltd. was established in early 2026, and the factory is positioned as an embodied intelligence ecosystem cooperation platform.

  7. Tech Xplore Robotics65

    ETH Zurich uses mouse muscle tissue to enable tiny biohybrid robots to jump, swim, walk and grasp

    A research team at ETH Zurich published a study in Nature Communications in which they used computer simulation to co-design mouse skeletal muscle tissue and a soft hydrogel scaffold as an integrated whole, producing a biological actuator about 1.5 centimeters long with a range of motion up to 11 times that of existing systems with the same amount of muscle.

  8. Robotics & Automation News53

    Swedish robotics startup 120ft raises €576,000 angel round to build humanoid robot microfactories

    Swedish robotics startup 120ft announced it has emerged from stealth and completed a €576,000 angel funding round to develop autonomous microfactories driven by humanoid robots, serving localized small-batch manufacturing. The factory design uses three 40-foot containers, respectively handling component preparation, assembly, inspection and packing; the system combines humanoid robots, AI, virtual production line simulation and self-developed orchestration software.

  9. The Humanoid Hub55

    MaxInsights raises $30 million seed round, launches MaxGlove tactile and force data collection product

    MaxInsights announced a $30 million seed round led by PeakXVPartners and released two new products: MaxLoop, which can generate quality scores for each video clip the same day, and MaxGlove, used to collect tactile and force data that cameras struggle to capture. The company says it has collected real work data at natural speed in real homes, restaurants, and hotels, totaling more than 2 million hours.

  10. The Humanoid Hub55

    Figure 04 enters full design lock and begins shipping components

    Brett Adcock shared updates on Figure 04 at an all-hands meeting: the model is now in full design lock, and the team has begun shipping components. He called it the iPhone 1 of humanoid robots. The actuators are being developed in-house, with the goal of completing full characterization and operation of each unique actuator by the end of this week. The new dexterous hand was described as an engineering masterpiece, with the team spending months refining fingertip and contact-surface tracking accuracy to the millimeter level. Brett stressed that large-scale pre-training is the key to winning in robotics, and Figure plans to combine the world's largest data and compute to build the smartest AI for humanoid robots.

Oct 22Thu
  1. 北京理工大学 · 微信公众号74

    BIT team publishes meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing results in Nature

    A team led by Professor Liu Changmeng at Beijing Institute of Technology has pioneered a single-crystal additive manufacturing method based on unsteady pulsed growth in a micro-melt pool, achieving meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing for the first time. The results were published in Nature on October 21 in a paper titled "Additive manufacturing ultralong and architected single crystals," with corresponding authors Liu Changmeng, Cui Yinan of Tsinghua University, and Yinmin Morris Wang of the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Why it matters: The paper presents the mechanism and cross-material validation of seed-crystal-free single-crystal additive manufacturing, which readers can use to assess its impact on the barriers to manufacturing single-crystal components.

  2. The Verge – Robot70

    Tesla Optimus enters early production, but software and dexterous hands are not yet ready

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on the earnings call that the Optimus humanoid robot has begun early production on the high-volume line in Fremont, California, calling the robots that came off the line the first production-quality robots and saying the manufacturing process applies to commercial products; however, he also listed several unfinished items, including the hand design, safety, reliability, durability, and the AI needed for the robot to actually be used for open-ended tasks.

  3. 3D视觉工坊 · 微信公众号29

    Suzhou sandisiwei High-Precision 3D Structured Light Cameras: Support Robotic Arm Grasping, Vision Measurement, Welding, and Outdoor Scenarios

    Suzhou sandisiwei has launched the KW series and SD-M series of 3D structured light cameras, targeting robotic arm grasping, vision measurement, welding, and outdoor scenarios. The KW series is suited to workpiece loading and unloading, depalletizing and palletizing, robot vision guidance, and industrial measurement; the SD-M series supports three modes—area scan, oscillating line scan, and fixed line scan—and focuses on high-precision measurement, welding, and spraying. It includes models such as the SD-M2600, SD-M51000C, and SD-M52000C, and offers an SDK and usage tutorials.

  6. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号55

    Leaderdrive exhibits IP67 joint modules at CIIF, outer diameters from 40 to 190 mm

    At the 26th China International Industry Fair, Leaderdrive is showcasing joint modules at Booth B010 in Hall 8.1. Two IP67 modules are submerged in water and kept rotating, demonstrating the reliability of dynamic sealing under rotation and temperature rise. The modules cover outer diameters from 40 to 190 mm, use in-house-developed harmonic reducers with ratios from 30:1 to 160:1, and offer repeat positioning accuracy of 20 arcseconds, an operating life of 15,000 hours, and support for microsecond-level (500 µs) real-time communication control.

  7. 古月居 · 微信公众号49

    CAN Bus and CANopen Protocol in Practice

    The article explains the CAN bus and CANopen protocol commonly used in industrial settings, covering frame formats, arbitration mechanisms, the object dictionary, SDO/PDO transmission, and heartbeat network management. It includes transmit and receive code for STM32F407 with a TJA1050 transceiver, a Linux SocketCAN integration example, and engineering experience and troubleshooting methods such as 500 kbps baud rate configuration, 120-ohm termination resistors, and CAN FD at up to 8 Mbps.

  8. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号62

    Chery's Mocha Robotics unveils Mobot, a 90 cm family companion humanoid robot, in global debut with 99 yuan deposit pre-orders

    Chery's Mocha Robotics held the global debut of Mobot, a consumer-grade family companion humanoid robot, during the 2026 Chery Global User Ecosystem Conference and opened global pre-orders. A 99 yuan deposit can be expanded to offset 2,999 yuan and comes with benefits including a 6-month extended warranty. The full price will be announced separately. Official sales are planned for January next year, with mass production by the end of 2026.

  9. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号51

    Longqi Robotics debuts wheeled humanoid robot HR-05W and showcases product matrix at CIIF

    At the October Shanghai CIIF, Longqi Robotics showcased its self-developed wheeled humanoid robot HR-05W for the first time, along with a product matrix including SCARA robots, high-speed high-precision six-axis industrial robots, the CubeBraid intelligent loading and unloading embodied robot system, and dual-arm robots.

  11. ROBOTIS · X43

    Overview of the ROBOTIS HX Friends Series Robotic Hand Lineup

    ROBOTIS has released the HX Friends series robotic hand lineup, built on DYNAMIXEL and covering a variety of structures ranging from five-finger hands to grippers and even single-finger designs. The models include the HX5-D20 (5 fingers, 20 joints), HX4-D12 (4 fingers, 12 joints), HX3-D11 (3 fingers, 11 joints), HX2-D01 (a gripper driven by a single DYNAMIXEL), and HX1-D03 (starting from a single finger and expandable into a full hand).

  14. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号78

    Tesla Optimus begins mass production at Fremont line; Musk sets ramp-up target of 20,000 units per week

    Tesla confirmed on its Q3 2026 earnings call that Optimus has rolled off the mass-production line in Fremont; these are the first standard mass-production models, and production started one quarter earlier than planned at the beginning of the year. Musk said the capacity ramp-up will take at least a year, with a final target of 20,000 units per week, corresponding to a production-line hardware design ceiling of one million units per year. The AI capabilities needed for autonomous operation are expected to mature by the end of next year; robots rolling off the line before then will be used internally at Tesla first, with external supply coming later.

    Why it matters: The original ties production start, ramp-up period, and external delivery conditions into a single timeline, helping readers understand the gap between prototypes and stable deliveries.

  15. arXiv cs.RO51

    Make it Walk: Computational Design Methods for LEGO Walkers

    The paper proposes the first computational approach for designing LEGO walkers that support multiple gaits beyond stable walking. The method has two parts: first, a specially designed gear-linkage mechanism controls the foot trajectory of each leg, incorporating a pair of 3D-printed non-circular gears working with a LEGO Technic mechanism; second, each leg is driven by an independent motor, with a simple yet flexible control algorithm synchronizing the timing of multiple leg motions.

  16. arXiv cs.RO56

    PHD-Hand: A 3D-Printable Humanoid Dexterous Hand with Linkage-Driven 3-DOA Fingers

    PHD-Hand is a linkage-driven humanoid dexterous hand with three drive degrees of actuation (DOA) per finger. It uses a unique flexure hinge and elastic drive rods made of spring steel to simplify the transmission, avoiding the need for many miniature moving parts, and can be manufactured with budget-level 3D printers, lowering the barrier to use and development of dexterous hands and bringing its size closer to that of a human hand. A prototype has been used for grasping and object manipulation evaluation, and the paper also presents the latest research results on the hand's kinematics and control. It has been accepted by IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2026.

  17. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号62

    Fulin Precision to invest 500 million yuan in robot intelligent electric joint project, phase-one annual capacity expected at 2 million units

    Fulin Precision announced that it signed an investment agreement with the Fucheng District government of Mianyang City, together with its subsidiary Banqiao Intelligence, to build a robot intelligent electric joint project. The total investment is 500 million yuan, implemented in two phases, with phase-one capacity expected at 2 million units per year. The company's robot products have already been delivered in small batches; it previously partnered with AgiBot, and nearly 100 Expedition A2-W robots are deployed in operation at its factory.

  18. OFweek Robotics56

    Fulin Precision plans to invest 500 million yuan in a robot intelligent electric joint project in Mianyang, Sichuan

    Fulin Precision, an automotive precision parts company, disclosed that it and its wholly owned subsidiary Banqiao Intelligent plan to build a robot intelligent electric joint project in Mianyang, Sichuan, with a total investment of 500 million yuan. Once the first phase is completed, it will form an annual production capacity of 2 million sets of electric joints and core components.