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Sep 15Tue
  1. OFweek Robotics45

    EBKernel releases brain-inspired cognitive world model Cog-WM 1.0, exploring a new "root technology" path for China's embodied intelligence

    EBKernel released its brain-inspired cognitive world model Cog-WM 1.0 on September 14 at the Brain-Inspired Embodied Intelligence sub-forum of the Shanghai Pujiang Innovation Forum. It includes a navigation branch, Cog-WM Nav 1.0, and a manipulation branch, Cog-WM Manip 1.0, and uses memory, prediction, and active exploration to help robots understand the physical world.

  2. New Strategy Robotics36

    Damon Technology Returns to Logis-Tech Tokyo 2026 with AI Unmanned Logistics Agent Solution, Accelerating Expansion in the Japanese Market

    At Logis-Tech Tokyo 2026, Damon Technology launched for the Japanese market its Flying Shuttle M-series ultra-multi-chute flexible sorting solution and an embodied-intelligence humanoid robot handling solution. The former offers over 1,000 chutes, a sorting efficiency of 14,400 items per hour, and 99.99% accuracy; the latter can be installed and deployed in just 2 weeks. The booth also showcased Damon's Flash Shuttle four-way shuttle plus AMR combined system and a narrow-belt sorter system. Damon has already delivered 30+ large-scale logistics automation systems in Japan, with customers including Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Uniqlo, and Sagawa Express.

  3. New Strategy Robotics61

    Stellantis Pro One and UQI Robotics Partner to Advance Box-on-Wheels Autonomous Logistics Concept

    On September 11, 2026, Stellantis' commercial vehicle division Stellantis Pro One announced a partnership with Wuxi UQI Intelligent (UQI Robotics) to advance an autonomous logistics concept called Box-on-Wheels, with validation planned first in Europe and its first public demonstration on September 14 at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover.

Sep 14Mon
Sep 7Mon
  1. RLCN强化学习研究 · 微信公众号44

    Roundtable Discussion | RLChina Paper Seminar Episode 168 Live Preview (2026.09.08)

    Episode 168 of the RLChina Paper Seminar will be livestreamed on Bilibili and Tencent Meeting on September 8, 2026, from 16:00 to 16:30, hosted by Hu Zican, a doctoral student at Nanjing University, with master's student Xie Xinyi presenting the paper "Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models."

Sep 3Thu
  1. 穿山甲机器人 · YouTube16

    Bad Weather? Speedybot Delivery Robot Keeps Deliveries on Track

    Pangolin Robot's Speedybot claims all-weather operating capability, equipped with an L4 autonomous navigation system that enables seamless indoor-outdoor transitions, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and dynamic rerouting without remote control. The robot supports 24-hour continuous operation and targets scenarios including factories, campuses, communities, hospitals, and food delivery, aiming to reduce outdoor human exposure and operational risk.

Sep 2Wed
Sep 1Tue
  1. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能46

    KEENON Robotics showcases KOM 3.0 at the 2026 World Robot Conference, letting robots "think before they act"

    At the 2026 World Robot Conference, held August 19–23, KEENON Robotics showcased KOM 3.0, a VLA architecture for the service industry, which it says integrates a latent-space world model. On site, the XMAN-R1 autonomously completed the full process from picking up a cup to extracting coffee; two humanoid robots collaborated under unified scheduling to wash and fold clothes; and together with the T10 delivery robot and C40 cleaning robot, they demonstrated "general-purpose + specialized" collaborative service. In the demonstrations, the robots completed long-horizon tasks end-to-end autonomously, with no teleoperation.

Aug 27Thu
  1. 银河通用机器人 · X42

    Galbot G1 wins gold in all three WHRG scenario competitions

    Galbot's G1 robot won gold in all three of WHRG's most challenging scenario competitions: household, food service, and retail. It operated autonomously throughout, with a 100% win rate. The household competition covered tidying, laundry, pick-and-place delivery, and long-horizon tasks that included unexpected interruptions; the food service competition involved understanding voice commands, food handling and heating, drink preparation, and delivery; and the retail competition included picking, restocking, store patrols, and returning misplaced products to their correct positions.

Aug 25Tue
  1. 千寻智能 · 微信公众号56

    Spirit v1.6-powered Moz1 from Qianxun Intelligence wins office scenario event at World Humanoid Robot Games

    Qianxun Intelligence announced that its robot Moz1 won the comprehensive service post in the office scenario event at the second World Humanoid Robot Games, becoming the only robot in the field to compete and win using 100% model autonomous reasoning. Moz1, equipped with Spirit v1.6, operated throughout with no teleoperation and zero human intervention, relying on the model to autonomously understand, plan, and execute tasks including venue setup, printing and document delivery, and paper shredding, completing a 20-minute continuous run with a high score.

Aug 21Fri
  1. Tokyo Robotics · YouTube38

    Torobo2 dual-arm robot demonstrates seamless task switching from laundry folding to table bussing

    Tokyo Robotics demonstrated its dual-arm robot Torobo2 seamlessly transitioning from "Laundry Folding" to "Table Bussing" in a continuous operation, completed autonomously in real time at 1x speed throughout. Trajectories are generated using a fine-tuned VLA policy, relying on visual information from head and wrist cameras to judge environmental changes. Each task has its own individual control policy (action model), and the policies are switched at appropriate timing to achieve uninterrupted continuous execution between tasks.

Aug 20Thu
  1. MassRobotics45

    ATDev updates progress on autonomous wheelchair development

    ATDev has updated progress on its autonomous wheelchair development, building a modern power wheelchair equipped with a collaborative robotic arm under the ARPA-H-funded RAMMP project. The wheelchair uses a shared autonomy model in which the user decides the path and the system handles fine adjustments, with plans to add teleoperation and federated learning features. ATDev is working with Meta to apply AI models to the wheelchair, with both parties betting on open source.

Aug 18Tue
  1. 正行创新 Striding AI · YouTube25

    StridingAI demo: How a robot autonomously clears a cluttered tabletop

    In a StridingAI demo, a robot autonomously cleared a cluttered tabletop: it understood the semantics of each object and distinguished trash from reusable tableware. The task was completed through coordinated bimanual manipulation and object handovers, and is a long-horizon, multi-step operation. This content is a demo clip released by StridingAI; the original text did not provide a specific robot model or success rate metrics.

Jul 31Fri
  1. RoboParty · 微信公众号67

    RoboParty Lab, Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua AIR release and open-source world model control method INTACT

    RoboParty Lab, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), and InSpatio jointly released and open-sourced the world model control method INTACT (INtent-To-ACTion).

    Why it matters: The original article provides latency and success-rate comparisons with traditional CEM search, which readers can use to judge the benefit boundaries of search-free world model control.

Jul 24Fri
  1. 具微科技52

    Juwei Technology releases industrial embodied brain MicVLC

    Juwei Technology has released MicVLC, an industrial embodied brain, and proposed for the first time the VLC (Vision-Language-Calling) architecture paradigm, which decouples the cognitive layer from the execution layer, in contrast to traditional VLA models that deeply couple Action with the low-level control of specific terminal actuators.

Jul 21Tue
  1. YOUIBOT/优艾智合40

    WAIC 2026: Youibot's Edge humanoid robot showcases multi-robot collaborative industrial embodied intelligence with FabriX

    At WAIC 2026, Youibot publicly unveiled its industrial humanoid robot Edge offline for the first time; five Edge robots and one mobile transport robot collaborated in a simulated line-side warehouse to complete material picking and delivery. The demonstration is based on its industrial embodied intelligence foundation model FabriX and a "one brain, multiple embodiments" architecture, in which a unified control framework dynamically decomposes workflows and assigns tasks. After leaving the factory, Edge requires only 50 training demonstrations to reach a success rate of up to 90% on applicable tasks, and it iterates training on a 24-hour cycle.

Jul 16Thu
  1. 松灵机器人24

    Knowledge Essentials | Why Navigation Platforms Are Evolving from "Algorithms" into Robotics Industry "Infrastructure": Engineering Practice with AgileX UMR and AgileX NAVIS 3D

    Using the AgileX UMR industry-grade universal modular mobile robot chassis and the AgileX NAVIS 3D 3D laser navigation platform as examples, AgileX Robotics argues that navigation is evolving from project-level algorithm development into reusable infrastructure. The article holds that navigation time is mostly spent on engineering integration such as sensor synchronization and coordinate frame management rather than on the SLAM algorithm itself; in dynamic, open, and three-dimensional spaces, 2D environmental information can no longer describe the real environment, so 3D laser navigation has therefore become a new foundational capability.

Jul 15Wed
  1. Yaskawa49

    Yaskawa Electric develops MOTOMAN NEXT "Agentic Robot System" integrated with Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6

    Yaskawa Electric has developed the "Agentic Robot System," which links the AI robot MOTOMAN NEXT with Google DeepMind's generative AI model Gemini Robotics ER 1.6. The robot can assess conditions on site on its own, assemble and execute work steps, and complete tasks autonomously from instructions such as "sort these parts," without prior teaching or detailed programming.

Jul 14Tue
  1. Boston Dynamics48

    Boston Dynamics uses Spot quadruped robot to bridge the 'last meter' of porch delivery

    Boston Dynamics demonstrated a Spot quadruped robot jumping down from a delivery vehicle, carrying two 16x12x10-inch packages along a community walkway to two different customers' porches before returning. It is currently a demonstration; initially a driver will operate it, and after routes are saved it will deliver autonomously.

Jul 10Fri
  1. 慧闻科技33

    Huiwen launches industrial robot product matrix, connecting light-load, heavy-load, and rail transit flexible logistics

    Huiwen has launched an industrial robot product matrix covering three product lines: the iBen X series, the iBen P series AMR, and rail transit robots. The iBen X series supports loads from 100 kg to 1500 kg, and the iBen P series covers 1000 kg to 3000 kg; the iBen P1T model uses laser SLAM navigation to achieve ±5 mm positioning accuracy. The rail transit product line covers transport, inspection, and cleaning; the undercarriage train inspection robot weighs less than 30 kg, has an inspection speed of 10 m/s, and outputs detection results in 30 seconds.

Jul 2Thu
  1. 松灵机器人34

    Why Is 3D Navigation Becoming a Core Standard for Mobile Robots in Complex Scenarios?

    AgileX Robotics' self-developed NAVIS 3D laser navigation platform combines a 16-line LiDAR with visual sensors, can build maps at an operating speed of 1.5 m/s, achieves static repeat positioning accuracy of ±5 cm, and supports 3D map construction for scenarios at the 2 million square meter scale. The platform works in coordination with AgileX's UMR all-scenario universal four-wheel-drive four-wheel-steering mobile robot chassis, and an intelligent under-track inspection solution for rail transit with a dual-arm lifting mechanism has already been launched, integrating the PiPER dual robotic arm system and dual 32-line LiDARs to achieve a fully automated closed loop for the entire under-track inspection process.

Jul 1Wed
  1. 求之科技 · 微信公众号67

    GeoPredict makes VLA predict future trajectories and 3D geometry before generating actions

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other institutions propose GeoPredict, which explicitly predicts end-effector and joint-level future trajectories before the VLA generates actions, and uses 3D Gaussian modeling for the geometry of the future workspace.

    Why it matters: GeoPredict incorporates future trajectory and 3D geometry prediction into VLA training, giving readers a spatial reasoning approach that does not increase inference overhead.

  2. OFweek Robotics17

    Robocore to Showcase temi Robots at OFweek 2026 China Smart Manufacturing Industry Conference

    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.

Jun 24Wed
  1. 正行创新 Striding AI · YouTube14

    Striding AI demos Physical AI system performing autonomous shelf restocking in simulated retail environment

    Striding AI released a demo showing its Physical AI system performing autonomous shelf restocking in a simulated retail environment. The restocking was completed in a simulated retail setting; the original text did not provide metrics such as robot model, payload, or success rate, nor did it state whether this was a real-machine run.

  2. Robot.com Holdings Inc.68

    Robot.com releases R-KNav 10,000-hour sidewalk navigation dataset and launches FoMo Challenge

    Robot.com has released the R-KNav dataset and launched the FoMo Challenge, inviting the community to train visual navigation models on real data from its R-kiwi sidewalk delivery robot fleet and to evaluate them in controlled tests on physical robots.

    Why it matters: The data comes from a long-running commercial delivery fleet rather than simulation, and the KPI criteria for physical-robot evaluation have been published, making it possible to assess the reusability of real-street navigation data.

  3. Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics62

    HIT's Zhu Yanhe Team Publishes Paper on Cooperative Reconfiguration for Self-Repair in Modular Robots

    Professor Zhu Yanhe's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) published a paper in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IJEM), proposing an autonomous fault-tolerant repair strategy for modular robots based on cooperative reconfiguration, which restores joint fault damage by changing morphology without backup module replacement. The method combines topological description and kinematic self-modeling, particle swarm optimization to search for target configurations, and an improved RRT cooperative reconfiguration algorithm. In experiments, the fault-tolerance upper limit was 7 times higher than that of fixed-configuration redundancy methods. HIT is the sole completing institution, and doctoral student Qi Jian is the first author.

    Why it matters: The paper presents a cooperative reconfiguration fault-tolerance strategy that requires no backup modules and data showing a 7-fold increase in the fault-tolerance upper limit, allowing readers to understand a concrete implementation path for self-repair in robot swarms under extreme environments.

Jun 18Thu
  1. Ars Technica65

    Nvidia GEAR develops ENPIRE framework, enabling AI coding agents to autonomously train robots to cut zip ties and install GPUs

    Researchers at Nvidia GEAR lab, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley developed an agent framework called ENPIRE that lets AI coding agents autonomously schedule and iterate robot training; the robots learned to cut zip ties and insert GPUs into narrow, thin slots on a motherboard.

Jun 16Tue
  1. Singularity Hub62

    JAXA's Transformable Spherical Lunar Rover LEV-2 Operates Autonomously on the Moon for Over 100 Minutes and Returns Images

    JAXA researchers reported in Science Robotics that the palm-sized spherical lunar rover LEV-2 (nicknamed SORA-Q) operated autonomously for more than 100 minutes after landing near Shioli Crater during the January 2024 SLIM mission, traveled an estimated 24 meters, and returned multiple images.

  2. IPLUS MOBOT/迦智科技24

    IPLUSMOBOT to showcase full AMR lineup at Automate 2026, focusing on industrial logistics efficiency

    IPLUSMOBOT will exhibit three AMRs at Automate 2026 (June 22–25, McCormick Place, Chicago, Booth #26027): the QN1416 counterbalance high-precision heavy-load transport robot, the Omni2.5T omnidirectional mobile robot (millimeter-level positioning), and the EMMA 400L for light-load rapid deployment.

Jun 15Mon
  1. 若创科技33

    Strutt ev¹ 1.2.3.11 release notes: new UI, enhanced evSense, and safety updates

    The Strutt ev¹ firmware 1.2.3.11 update brings a new customizable UI, enhanced evSense, and a safety confirmation mechanism. The new UI supports a dynamic home screen that changes color by driving mode, a pull-down dashboard, and 9 customizable shortcuts; uphill power on slopes increases by up to 25%, and evSense is ready within 5 seconds of waking. Enabling features such as Level S and Hands-Free Auto-Pilot requires completing safety protocol confirmation in the app; Level S is not supported in Singapore and Japan.

Jun 13Sat
  2. Chelsea Finn52

    CHORUS uses a single VLA policy to control multi-robot teams for decentralized collaboration

    Chelsea Finn's team fine-tuned a VLA so that a single policy can control any robot in a robot team, enabling multi-robot collaboration without explicit communication (the system described in the quoted tweet is named CHORUS). Results show that this method matches or outperforms training separate models for each robot or training a unified centralized model, and it scales easily to large teams. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12352

Jun 12Fri
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube16

    Enchanted Tools Mirokaï demo: autonomous grasping, carrying, and delivery

    Enchanted Tools demonstrates the Mirokaï humanoid robot turning a spoken request into an autonomous process of grasping, carrying, and delivering an object to a designated area. The demo covers natural language understanding, autonomous grasp planning, drop-off area detection, and precision manipulation; the robot combines perception, planning, and manipulation to complete a real-world task. The source does not provide quantitative metrics such as success rate or payload. The post is dated June 16th, 2026.

Jun 8Mon
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube18

    Mirokaï motion demo: one robot, any surface

    Enchanted Tools' humanoid robot Mirokaï demonstrates multi-terrain navigation in a video, seamlessly switching between surfaces such as carpet, wood flooring, tile and concrete while continuously adjusting its behavior to maintain stability and smooth movement. This is a demo; the company teases further news on June 16, 2026, and invites people to join its Discord community.

Jun 4Thu
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube22

    Mirokaï in action: map, ask, go (Enchanted Tools demos semantic mapping, voice commands, and autonomous navigation)

    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.

Jun 3Wed
Jun 1Mon
  1. Enchanted Tools · YouTube18

    Mirokaï in Motion: The Wonderful Waltz

    Enchanted Tools demonstrates in a video how the Mirokaï robot moves naturally in dynamic environments, relying on trajectory visualization, smooth navigation, and model predictive control (MPC) to continuously adjust its movements. The video targets hospitals, nursing homes, public spaces, and workplaces, emphasizing that movement is not just about avoiding obstacles but about making the people around it feel comfortable, able to predict its motion, and at ease intuitively. It ends with "WE'RE READY. ARE YOU?" and the date June 16, 2026.

May 29Fri
  1. 慧闻科技21

    Huiwen Intelligent Service Robot Debuts at China Telecom Unmanned Technology Exhibition Hall

    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.