active-suspension-lidar-preview released v3.2.1, corresponding to 3.2.x of suspension_control_v3; the core change is switching feedforward sampling from a fixed-distance single point to speed-adaptive (distance = clamp(vehicle speed × lookahead_time_s.
The author integrated the open-source vision-language navigation model LightNav-0 into the Microduck simulation (MuJoCo). The robot receives instructions such as "walk to the wooden door frame and stop," predicts a path from first-person frames, and executes it via MPC and the official ONNX gait policy.
Founded in 2023, Yueqian Innovation has completed an angel funding round with participation from Mingshi Venture Capital, Nanshan Zhanxin Investment, and Chuxin Capital; it previously received seed funding from Li Zexiang. Its first product, the force-balanced camera robotic arm Cilin X, uses a "3+3" configuration and a mechanically pre-balanced design, reducing joints that originally required 100 N·m of drive to under 10 N·m, while retaining six-degree-of-freedom camera movement and achieving lightweight design, targeting independent creators and small shooting teams. The company plans to accumulate data from professional users to build a visual expression model, and is planning smaller products for general users.
Langyu Robotics is presenting multiple unmanned heavy-load transport vehicles and a full-scenario intelligent handling solution at the Industrial Fair at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), Booth C201 in Hall 8.1H, from October 12 to 16. Its exhibits include multi-vehicle coordinated heavy-load transport and all-weather indoor/outdoor heavy-load mobile robots. Backed by self-developed control systems, multi-sensor fusion navigation, and AI-based intelligent scheduling, the solution can handle heavy-load transport of up to 1,000-ton class, covering industry scenarios such as wind power, energy storage, and ports.
personalrobotics/sscbirrt released v3.8.0, which makes motion validation public as sscbirrt.Validator, able to validate states, motions, paths, and timed trajectories; the planner returns a path or trajectory only after the validator accepts it. Edge subdivision now includes a rounding tolerance, reducing search state checks on benchmark problems by 4-14% (about 1% for door), with all problems still succeeding 100%; seeded paths differ from 3.7, while reference artifact cases and states are unchanged.
sscbirrt v3.7.0 lets every SSIK family run natively; pose goals on the JACO2, Panda, and iiwa now plan in C++, 14–19x faster than the Python backend in an obstacle-free probe.
personalrobotics has released sscbirrt v3.7.1, which fixes the ImportError raised by sscbirrt.backends.ssik when ssik is missing. The issue arose starting in 3.7.0 because the dependency named an old version range >=7,=8.2,<9 and had no version range of its own (#226).
Galbot's PASSAGE system enables humanoid robots to adapt full-body motion to cluttered spaces by crouching, stepping, or turning sideways. On the Unitree G1, it completed 50 real-world tests across 45 obstacle layouts without falling or requiring safety intervention. However, in simulation, when zero contact was required, the success rate dropped from 98.67% to 70.3%.
Geek+'s RS Hyper RMS scheduling system brings floor travel, rack climbing, and workstation handoffs into unified scheduling, supporting coordinated operation of 5,000 robots, 50,000 square meters, and 3 million storage locations. The rack area locks only 2 columns and supports two vehicles climbing in the same column, while the bidirectional high-density road network increases travel efficiency by more than 30%; in testing, system throughput within 1,000 square meters reached 6,000 cases per hour, Max workstation processing efficiency exceeded 800 cases per hour, and the company says its AI ultra-large-scale scheduling capability leads the industry by 20%+.
Hello Robot co-founder and CEO Aaron Edsinger and A&K Robotics co-founder and CEO Matt Anderson will discuss the navigation challenges for indoor robots in crowded, dynamic environments in the "Shared Spaces: Navigating Challenges for Indoor Robots" session at RoboBusiness 2026.
On October 11, the Perseverance rover completed a drive that brought its cumulative distance traveled on Mars to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), breaking the 45.16-kilometer record held by Opportunity.
The University of Hong Kong's MMLAB jointly released PhysicalRSI 1.0, a self-evolving embodied intelligence system baseline, achieving a score of 36.27 and an average task success rate of 31.38% on RoboDojo, ranking first.
Why it matters: The material provides the specific mechanisms of the self-evolving baseline and comparison data with general large models, allowing readers to understand the causes of shortcomings in precision manipulation and paths for improvement.
Skydio has launched ISR Command, which uses Skydio Autonomy to orchestrate multiple X10D aircraft for coordinated reconnaissance, allowing a single operator to control two aircraft at once. The X10D weighs 2.14 kg (4.72 lbs) and can navigate autonomously using onboard cameras without GNSS; the system is TAK-native and supports the STANAG 4609 and STANAG 0903 metadata standards.
Relying on its self-developed 3D SLAM laser navigation, multi-sensor fusion positioning, and RMS fleet scheduling system, Xunji Zhixing has built a product matrix of outdoor handling robots spanning counterbalance forklifts, tow tractors, and custom AMRs.
A developer who has just spent four weeks getting started in robotics completed a differential-drive robot simulation in Gazebo and ROS 2 Jazzy, using SLAM for mapping and localization and Nav2 to autonomously navigate to target points in a maze map.
A hands-on tutorial on ROS2 MoveIt Task Constructor that explains how to use it to orchestrate a complete task flow from grasping to placement, suitable for developers who want to master multi-stage task planning for robotic arms.
This is a hands-on ROS2 tutorial explaining how to use BehaviorTree.CPP behavior trees together with Nav2 to organize robot navigation decision logic. The body covers only the topic indicated by the title and provides no further details.
Centered on the autonomous tidying task of a mobile manipulator, this tutorial presents a complete derivation chain covering occupancy grid log-odds mapping, A* global path planning, model predictive trajectory tracking, and grasp-and-place control. The author reproduces the full workflow of mapping, navigation, grasping, and transport in a MuJoCo four-room scenario.
KINN-CH/agv-dreamer-warehouse released the interim-presentation final model Dreamer v5c on 2026-10-12, including the wm_22000.pt weights (14,504,324 parameters, 58MB), config., and training logs, along with 10 sample training data segments, split between collision and non-collision segments (5 each).
personalrobotics/sscbirrt released v3.6.0, with paths now ending at the nearest winding of the start or goal member they reached (#212).
Khang Nguyen and co-author Minh Nhat Vu received the CASE 2026 Best Conference Paper Award for XFlowMP, a framework that uses Schrödinger bridges to transform random noise into trajectory distributions, generating feasible motions with velocity and acceleration based on start and end configurations.
The 26th China International Industry Fair Robot Show (RS 2026) will be held from October 12 to 16 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), under the theme "Embodied Industry, Leading the Future," gathering more than 400 exhibitors including ABB, FANUC, and KUKA.
Vecna Robotics has launched CaseFlow, an end-to-end automation platform that uses wearable devices and Pivotal orchestration software to coordinate AMRs, workers, and orders, reducing walking time. In a GEODIS deployment, picking throughput doubled, worker walking was reduced by up to 90%, and forklift-powered equipment incidents fell from 7 in 2022 to 2 over the same period.
Westwood Robotics presented a live, on-hardware autonomous demonstration of its humanoid robot THEMIS at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, achieving a success rate of 90%+ in a completely unseen environment. Setup took only 10 minutes from assembly to showtime, with perception, thinking, and decision-making all performed onboard in real time as the robot autonomously completed grasping, carrying, and placing. THEMIS is powered by AOS (AI-augmented Humanoid OS) and BEAR Series actuators.
AMR robots rely on four onboard technologies for trackless navigation: laser SLAM mapping, real-time LiDAR perception, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and real-time path replanning, with no need for floor tracks, magnetic strips, or QR codes. REEMAN delivery robots achieve laser navigation accuracy of ±5 cm, with an optional reflector code accuracy of ±3 cm; the Fly Boat model achieves QR code accuracy of ±2 cm, and a single map covers about 40,000 square meters. Its product line covers payloads from 100 kg to 1.5 tons, and since 2015 it has delivered to more than 55 countries and regions.
MIT researchers proposed SANDO, a safe trajectory planning system for drones that generates flight paths in unknown environments with moving obstacles that are mathematically proven to avoid collisions. The results were published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
At Samsung AI Forum 2026, held at its Seoul headquarters, Samsung Electronics unveiled a robot commercialization roadmap led by its newly established RX (Robot eXperience) Business Promotion Office, combining robot foundation model (RFM) and world model technology to first advance automation at its own more than 100 factories and more than 100 production lines, before entering the home assistant robot market.
Why it matters: The article presents the per-unit cost breakdown of humanoid robots and the success-rate threshold for factory scenarios, which can be used to compare and understand differences in manufacturers' commercialization paths.
At the Samsung AI Forum 2026, Samsung announced its robot commercialization roadmap. Centered on its newly established RX (Robot eXperience) business promotion office, the plan is to first advance automation at its more than 100 factories and more than 100 production lines, then enter the home assistant robot market.
Why it matters: The article lays out the cost math for a humanoid robot at about $100,000 per unit and a three-layer behavior stack, helping readers understand why Samsung puts factory automation ahead of home robots.
A team at Toyohashi University of Technology conducted five experiments using real autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and VR; 92% of participants perceived a robot approaching from behind as faster than one approaching from the front at speeds of 0.5–1.0 m/s. A simulation incorporating this perceptual bias into a navigation model showed that, when overtaking pedestrians from behind, the robot began avoiding 0.57 s earlier than with a conventional model and increased passing distance by up to 0.40 m. The results were published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
A research team from the Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) published a paper in INFORMS Journal on Data Science proposing a new framework called Mutual Information Surprise, which helps AI agents, robots, and autonomous systems identify "meaningful surprises" and judge whether they need to stop and reassess.
SoftBank Robotics UK announced it will showcase four foodservice automation solutions—STEAMA, FLAMA, BOTINKIT Omni, and Servi Q—at EquipHotel 2026 in Paris (November 2-5), expanding its business in the EMEA region.
SoftBank Robotics has launched Servi Q, a next-generation delivery robot jointly developed with Bear Robotics, in Japan, and will gradually roll it out to international markets as the exclusive distributor for markets outside the US and South Korea.
The 2026 Third Smart Driving "Fengshen Bang" Challenge was held in Changsha. JD Logistics' "Lone Wolf" 6th-Generation Smart Delivery Vehicle Plus Edition won the "Best All-Around Performance Award" with the highest overall score, achieving the best performance in the field across multiple scenarios in its first appearance and passing all difficult scenarios with full marks.
A team at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has developed the LAMP (Long-Horizon Adaptive Manipulation Planning) system, which helps multiple robots collaborate to move objects in severely cluttered spaces by jointly planning object and robot motion rather than handling them separately.
The article analyzes the trend of warehouse inventory drones moving from PoC to multi-warehouse replication, noting that their core value lies in increasing the frequency of inventory data generation rather than simply replacing manual labor. It lists different technology routes including Corvus One, Switzerland's Verity, Gather AI, France's EYESEE, Germany's doks. innovation, Singapore's Infinium Robotics, and the US's B GARAGE, as well as Corvus's application data in cold chain, lights-out inventory counting, and audit compliance scenarios.
Jiuwei Technology officially released its full-stack autonomous navigation system Jiuwei Zhihang MIC Navi on September 22. The navigation code runs directly on the robot dog's mainboard, requiring no additional add-on computing kit, and upgrades are completed via OTA through the MICBOT MOVE app.
Bangqi Technology has launched a smart logistics solution for the 3C electronics and semiconductor industries, centered on industrial AI agents and AMR robots and covering five major scenarios: dock loading and unloading, production line delivery, process flow, intelligent picking, and automated storage. The solution includes the LDS production collaboration unmanned pull system and the ADS hybrid scheduling system, which is compatible with multi-brand AGV/AMR units. Dock loading and unloading time is reduced from 45 minutes to 15 minutes, and full-truck unloading takes only 3.5 minutes. In a deployed project at an LED company, storage area was reduced by 50% and overall efficiency increased 2x. A RaaS monthly-payment light-asset model is also offered.
More than 10,000 material-handling operations every day. At its largest manufacturing plant in Yokohama, Ati Robotics is coordinating material flow across 2,500 SKUs and a production of 4,000 tires per day. See how it works.↓ https://youtu.be/ghVWIZ6_BLg
Strutt ev¹ 1.3.3.5 update adds an AI assistant tab and remote trip start for Waypoints in the Strutt App, along with support for the Smart Push Handle accessory.
Alpha Robotics demonstrates the delivery process of its Speedybot delivery robot: orders are packed and loaded at the community supermarket within seconds, the robot passes through the access gate without a card swipe, and it autonomously calls and rides the elevator, selecting the correct floor, then delivers the package to the user's doorstep and pushes a notification. These capabilities all come from a process demonstration video; Alpha Robotics has not disclosed specific metrics such as payload, degrees of freedom, battery life, or success rate.