Humanoid robot NAO shared the stage with dancer Céline Shen at the opening of the UNESCO Tech for Diplomacy Global Forum, performing a piece combining robotic movement, dance, and opera singing. Maxtronics said it supports artists and their projects with NAO, and that this performance is part of Céline Shen's MORPHOS project. The original text did not provide technical specifications or project details for the performance.
The fluffy little hands can't wait to say hello to you.☺️ Smaller, fluffier, and cuter, the OlloNi-SS1 is coming soon. See you in 1 day.
Social robots start with people. Join our CEO Jérôme Monceaux at @MACHINASUMMIT (Station F, Paris) for 🧠 Creating social robots (and getting people to accept them) 📅 July 7 🕝 2:55–3:25 PM #robotics #HRI #AI
Reachy Mini, a collaboration between Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, features the Conversation App, enabling fluent conversation, to-do list management, task reminders, and discussions about music. The robot has long-term memory across sessions and vision capabilities, allowing it to recognize what users show it. It is aimed at home AI companionship, and purchases can be made at reachy-mini.ai.
Robocore will exhibit temi-brand service robots and other products at the "OFweek 2026 China Smart Manufacturing Industry Conference" held in Shenzhen on July 10. Exhibits include the Temi V3 (supporting autonomous navigation over more than 10,000 square meters and able to avoid objects 2 cm off the ground or 2 cm in diameter), a mobile advertising robot integrating a 38.6-inch four-sided screen and able to move within a 15,000-square-meter area, and the Temi Platform general-purpose chassis with an open SDK.
UniXAI was featured in CGTN's "Governance of China" report on innovation cases at Suzhou Industrial Park. The Wanda robot demonstrated an autonomous tea service scenario. Sincere thanks to @CGTNOfficial and the @SIPnewscenter government for their recognition and support.
The CO-HAND project led by PAL Robotics completed final-stage deployment validation at CETRIKO's textile plant in Barcelona, reaching technology readiness level TRL 7.
Enchanted Tools presents the application positioning of its humanoid robot Mirokaï for real commercial environments, with target scenarios covering healthcare, senior living, retail, museums, hospitality, and public spaces. Mirokaï is designed to take on repetitive reception tasks such as greeting visitors, answering questions, and guiding people through buildings, so that staff can devote their time to interactions that require a human presence. This is promotional product content; the original text discloses no technical specifications or verified deployment results.
How can robots help people at the checkout? 🛒 This is another demo from Striding AI, as we move toward a future of seamless collaboration between humans and robots. #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI
The article discusses how teleoperation technology could move work once considered necessarily local, such as excavator and loader operation, into the global labor market.
Odigo and Popper appear at WOO 2026 in London. Mobile out-of-home advertising, measurable engagement, and dynamic brand displays are presented on site.
In a video released by ROBROS, IGRIS-C moves the two boxes in front of it onto a conveyor belt one at a time, and when a person brings the boxes back, it repeats the same motion. ROBROS says its goal is not to replace people but to let people do better work alongside robots, and the video is the first stepping stone in this collaboration direction. The project is still at the PoC stage, and what is being shown is the process of building the solution, not a finished product.
Kody Technolab, together with global partners, has secured the exclusive worldwide manufacturing rights for the Medigo AI healthcare screening robot. Read more: https://kodytechnolab.com/press-release/global-manufacturing-mandate-medigo-healthcare-robots/
Cheer alongside Dad. Root for your favorite team. And companionship that makes every moment meaningful. #ollobot #cyberpet #footballsunday #happyfathersday
The Huiwen intelligent service robot has officially been deployed at the Heihe Public Legal (Foreign-Related) Service Center as an intelligent receptionist. When visitors approach, it wakes automatically and proactively greets and guides them. It features a 6-microphone circular array pickup system with 5-meter far-field accurate pickup, has built-in AI models and is connected to large language models such as DeepSeek, can connect to government-specific knowledge bases, provides dual-modal legal consultation through voice explanation plus large-screen graphic display, and supports multilingual interaction in Chinese, English, and Russian.
🤖 Taking the stage at @VivaTech! We presented Mirokaï in the Discovery Stage session, covering topics including: 🧠 AI and robotics 🧘 Healthcare and assistive robotics Thank you to everyone who took part in the discussion about a human-centered future for #robotics #vivatech
Where technology meets art. From yangqin performances to live stage shows, UniXAI humanoid robots are bringing embodied AI into real entertainment settings. #UniXAI #Wanda #Panther #EmbodiedAI #RobotBand #Robots #LivePerformance
Astribot "VLA + Seamless Human-Takeover" Demonstration and hands-on experience at ICRA 2026 ✨ Seamless switching: autonomous ↔ teleoperation 🧠 Edge
What does the future of humanoid robotics research look like? At ICRA 2026, researchers experienced Panther EDU, Wanda EDU, and Uni-OpenArmX through live demonstrations and VR teleoperation. Thank you all for the great discussions on embodied AI. #UniXAI #Wanda #Panther #ICRA2026 #EmbodiedAI
The Maxtronics team showcased the humanoid robot NAO at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, Austria, and announced NAO7 at the event, drawing attention from research institutions, educational institutions, and industry partners. NAO has entered more than 70 countries with tens of thousands of units deployed, and has long served as a research platform for artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and cognitive science. The team discussed cooperation with multiple international partners, and several laboratories expressed interest in resuming joint research and participating in collaborative projects and technical exchanges.
Enchanted Tools' service robot Mirokaï demonstrated semantic location mapping, natural voice commands, and autonomous navigation: after associating places with meaningful names, the robot can understand requests such as "go to the café" or "go to reception" and autonomously navigate to the destination without coordinates or programming, described as a human-robot interface achieved through conversational interaction. The video ends with a teaser for a milestone on June 16, 2026, and the message "WE'RE READY," while inviting viewers to join its private Discord community for behind-the-scenes content and early access.
Rainbow Robotics will showcase its RB series collaborative robots and RBY series dual-arm mobile manipulators at Booth 1078 at Automate 2026 in Chicago, USA, from June 22–25.
Instant intervention · Boundless · Redefining collaboration Experience the future of human-robot collaboration at ICRA 2026 📅 June 1-5 | Vienna, Austria 📍 ICRA 2026 Booth 049, looking forward to meeting you #ICRA2026 #Astribot #AI_Robot #Service_Robot #VLA #Humanoid_Robot #Manipulation
The Huiwen intelligent service robot has been deployed at the China Telecom Unmanned Technology Exhibition Hall as an intelligent guide, supporting proactive greeting, bilingual Chinese-English commentary, and real-time Q&A. Its 6-microphone circular array pickup system supports 5-meter far-field audio pickup and can link with exhibition hall equipment such as sound, lighting, and access control for full IOT integration. The robot also supports dual-unit collaboration for relayed guided tours across exhibition halls, is equipped with an 11-megapixel camera for group photos, and features automatic power on/off and automatic return to its charging dock.
Loona DeskMate is a desktop AI companion robot from Keji that uses a MagSafe-attached iPhone as its processor and screen, with a base that is a 165W GaN charging station and a 3-DOF motorized gimbal. It supports wake-word-free conversation, about 0.5-second response, and local multimodal processing, with data staying on the phone; it natively syncs with Slack, Gmail, Zoom, Notion, and others, can sense the screen and clipboard, integrates 50+ services, and offers an open API and MCP.
#Odigo is now deployed at the @bnwdevelopments headquarters in Dubai. 🤖 Intelligent customer engagement is now part of the experience. #Bnwdevelopments #Dubai #Robot #RobotatRealEstate #UAE #RealEstateRobot #KodyTechnolab #AdvertisementRobot #AdvertisingRobot #OdigoRobot
LimX Dynamics has released LimX Luna, a full-size interactive humanoid robot for commercial services. It stands 160 cm tall and has 27 body degrees of freedom (excluding end effectors). Global preorders open today, with a domestic retail price of 298,000 yuan and a limited-time 40,000 yuan discount on the first 100 units.
Hefei Zero Power Robotics Co., Ltd. appeared as a representative enterprise of Baohe District at the Anhui Pavilion of the 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair with its "robot convenience store," marking the first time embodied intelligence has appeared at the fair in the form of a convenience retail store. After on-site visitors tap the screen to place an order, the robot autonomously goes to the retail shelf to select the product, completing order fulfillment in 15 seconds, with a fulfillment success rate of over 99% and more than 150 orders per day, exploring the integration of technology and culture in cultural tourism scenarios.
Huiwen has officially launched the Huiyan AI large model platform, upgrading the semantic understanding and dialogue capabilities of commercial service robots. It supports customizing an exclusive persona with a single sentence, one-click ingestion of PPT/PDF/Word/Excel/images and other files to generate an enterprise knowledge base, and one-click binding and unbinding of robot devices.
On May 21, 2026, Hefei Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee Member and Deputy Mayor Yuan Fei led a delegation to visit Hefei Zero-Space Robot; founder and CEO Min Yuheng reported on core technologies, product iteration, and market expansion. Zero-Space trains robots with real-scenario data, enabling them to automatically determine grasping methods for new objects and achieve "human-like" operation, supporting deployment in scenarios such as household item organization and unmanned retail, and proposed building in Hefei a full-chain smart livelihood service system of "warehousing, distribution, and end-point pickup."
On April 23, Beyond Imagination brought SMASH, billed as the world's first outdoor autonomous humanoid ping pong robot system, to the Shandong City Table Tennis Super League (Zibo stop). World champion Chen Meng, CCTV host Ju Ping, commentator Gao Han, actor Zhang Xiaolong and other guests took the stage to play against the robot live, producing real rallies. This was a live demonstration and interactive challenge; the original article did not provide metrics such as the autonomous execution success rate.
At Singapore's inaugural AI Robotics Summit, Sharpa announced strategic partnerships with A*STAR, JTC, and Grab. Singapore Minister of State Alvin Tan attended, and Sharpa's robot North took part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Your #robot is in the news! Odigo is now in service at the @Etihad_Rail Fujairah station and has been featured by @khaleejtimes, redefining the smart passenger experience. #EtihadRail #UAE #robot #smartmobility #automation #futureoftransport #UAEtech
Apptronik has added veterans from Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon to its executive team, preparing for the next phase of growth for its Apollo humanoid robot. Its goal is to bring humanoid robots such as Apollo into everyday use; more details are available in a Forbes report.
The Zhidong Weilai S2 humanoid robot "Xiaozhi" began work on April 22, 2026, at the Ruibao Market Supervision Office of the Haizhu District Market Supervision Administration in Guangzhou, taking on welcome guidance, policy consultation, and interactive dialogue duties for government reception. Relying on a dedicated knowledge base for the market supervision field that integrates policies and regulations, administrative procedures, and supervisory responsibilities, "Xiaozhi" can answer inquiries such as annual reports for individual businesses and applications for food business licenses. The Ruibao Market Supervision Office said it will continue to optimize "Xiaozhi's" functions and services in the next step.
On April 15, SoftBank Robotics America announced the signing of a strategic partnership with autonomous drone delivery company Matternet to accelerate the deployment of last-mile aerial delivery in the United States and other key markets.
Smart Dynamics' humanoid robot Xiaozhi S2 was stationed on-site throughout the 139th Canton Fair, covering logistics delivery, service interaction, and cultural explanation scenarios. Inside the exhibition halls, Xiaozhi S2 can autonomously plan guided tour routes and provide multilingual explanations, and was stationed at the CF Award winners' exhibition hall and the Supreme Gold Award display area to explain exhibits to visitors. At the D Zone convenience store, it implemented a fully unmanned retail process of "order on screen—robot picks up goods—delivery," and connected with the aerial delivery system to bridge the "last 100 meters" of exhibition logistics.
Abi, the humanoid companion robot from Andromeda Robotics, interacts daily with residents at mecwacare's aged care and assisted living communities, and executives and residents shared their experiences with Abi. Abi can join group activities and start conversations in up to 90 languages, bringing more joy and connection to residents. The robot targets resident wellbeing, life enrichment, social connection, and staff capacity, showing the potential of technology in aged care settings.
Abi, the humanoid companion robot from Andromeda Robotics, is now in use in aged care and assisted living communities, and customers and residents share their everyday experiences interacting with Abi in a video. Abi can take part in group activities and starts conversations in up to 90 languages, bringing social connection to residents' lives and serving as a way to explore how technology can support resident wellbeing and care staffing. Andromeda Robotics has opened a waitlist for Abi on its website.
Andromeda Robotics' humanoid companion robot Abi already provides companionship to residents in aged care homes and assisted living communities, playing music, dancing, hosting trivia, and leading group tai chi. Abi supports one-on-one conversations in up to 90 languages and is aimed at residents who are socially, physically, or linguistically isolated. The idea for the robot came from co-founder Grace Brown's experience of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.