GG Humanoid Robot has opened applications for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, inviting companies across the humanoid robot industry chain to register; applicants can submit their entries via the original article link.
The article draws an analogy between the Starlink satellite network and the neural network formed by the human brain's roughly 86 billion neurons and hundreds of trillions of synapses, outlining the speed of neuronal signal transmission (myelinated fibers can exceed 100 m/s) and the mechanisms by which this network "goes offline" in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. It reviews cross-scale imaging methods including MRI, fMRI, fMOST, VISoR, and synchrotron X-ray imaging, and introduces the Neuralink demo of a monkey playing a game by thought as well as the first domestic clinical trial of an invasive brain-computer interface, completed in 2024 by Tsinghua University and Xuanwu Hospital.
The corbensorenson/cartpole 2D Cartpole four-link benchmark passed 32/32 spatial swing-up and hold trials from fresh noisy 3D starting states, with each episode lasting 30 seconds and at least 7.22 seconds upright.
Meccano M.A.X. has made progress on a new tool combining Mr. Dreambot's MeccaChannel, ESP32, Arduino IDE, and ChatGPT, with a library usable with only minor modifications delivering operating results for the gripper and multiple servos.
Day 1 wrapped up successfully with plenty of takeaways. There were insightful talks, lively conversations at the booths, and energy throughout the venue. Thanks to everyone who attended. Day 2 will be just as exciting, with @radbackwards sharing excellent design insights.
Comparison results for Conduit 2ee5d45dc075 show tested source 2ee5d45, accepted main f565cf8, identical tree 998ed2ccd32d71264f404e5a2ca627c0428e48ce, and integration run 38884585627.
In this week's roundup of robotics videos from IEEE Spectrum, Google DeepMind researchers had Gemini 4 Argon watch a video of a human playing cornhole, built a simulation in MuJoCo, and computed whole-body control, enabling Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robot to hit seven consecutive shots on the real robot.
A two-stage joint optimization calibration method for LiDAR-camera extrinsics assisted by monocular depth is proposed, replacing traditional grayscale-intensity mutual information with depth constraints to improve calibration accuracy and robustness under complex lighting and material conditions. In the coarse calibration stage, a composite calibration board combining ArUco markers and a circular-hole array is used, and an SVD-optimized ICP algorithm solves for initial extrinsic values analytically without requiring preset initial values; in the fine calibration stage, the DepthPro monocular depth estimation network is introduced to construct a joint optimization objective function combining geometric constraints and normalized mutual information distance (NID).
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Professor Wang Jingyuan's team at Beihang University, together with the School of Management at Shanghai University, published the paper MoE-Pointer at KDD 2026, defining the Dynamic Multi-Stage Pickup and Delivery Problem (DM-PDP) and using a sequence-to-sequence generation framework to achieve end-to-end reinforcement learning joint optimization of a three-stage rider-drone delivery chain.
Applications for the GG Humanoid Robot Golden Globe Awards are now open. Click "Read the original article" to register and enter.
The Chicago-area robotics enthusiasts group ChiBots will hold a free online meetup on October 18 from 13:00-15:00 on Zoom, featuring brief club business, a project show-and-tell, and open discussion; no prepared talk is required. Participants can register and obtain the Zoom meeting link by emailing chibotspresident@gmail.com.
MemWhale has released version 2.0.0, with the update consisting of fixes to the logging functionality.
The student community WazBotz is recruiting members interested in AI and robotics. The community focuses on exploring AI and robotics research papers and new technological developments and on exchanging ideas and discussion. No professional experience is required; curious students and technology enthusiasts are welcome, and those interested can contact the community by direct message to join.
WorldOracle officially opened submissions to developers on October 16. It is an evaluation platform that uses real execution records as a reference to test the prediction capabilities of action-driven world models. The paper is titled "WorldOracle."
The 2026 Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Industry Forum will be held in Shanghai in November. This preview was posted on the WeChat public account of the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance; the page only provides entry points to past events, industry research materials, and the full-year 2026 event plan, and does not disclose the forum's specific dates, agenda, or speaker information.
Roundtable discussion: What makes robotics companies defensible? Robotics startups are costly, and without capital trust, it is hard to sustain. Emily Yu (@emily_yu) hosts a roundtable discussion with top investors who have made robotics an active investment theme. Tomorrow at 2:35 PM
Huarui Technology will participate in the dual exhibition event of the Shenzhen Electronic Semiconductor Exhibition and the Machine Vision Exhibition. The company focuses on machine vision and mobile robots. Its machine vision products include industrial cameras, line-scan cameras, smart cameras, 3D industrial cameras, and lenses, used for code reading and recognition, defect detection, measurement, and positioning; its mobile robots include latent, towing, forklift, and sorting types, aimed at logistics warehouse and material handling scenarios. Its product solutions have been applied in logistics, automotive, 3C, lithium battery, photovoltaic, and pharmaceutical industries. R&D personnel account for more than 60% of the company, and it has nearly 300 patent applications.
GelSight will attend IMTS 2028. The original article did not disclose specific information such as products on display, booth, or demonstration content.
A robotics beginner is seeking feedback on Reddit r/robotics for a school project: their self-balancing robot WOBBLE uses an ESP32-S3-Wroom-1, the prototype is not yet running, and the enclosure is 3D printed. They ask whether the ESP32 is suitable, about validating the prototype on a breadboard, how to implement Bluetooth gamepad control (forward, backward, left, right), and for 3D printing and coding advice.
Javierw60 released version 2.0.0 of awesome-text-to-motion on GitHub (65e6364). This update simplified the changelog and fixed documentation and example issues. There are 2 release assets.
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A developer without a mechanical background is seeking mechanical design advice on Reddit r/robotics for an integrated wheel-propeller assembly in a transforming drone project: the outer wheel is driven by a timing belt and pulley, the central BLDC flight motor remains stationary, and the motor's three thick phase wires must route from the center of the wheel assembly back to the chassis without tangling during ground travel. The attached image shows a structure from the ATMO research paper, and the post asks how to implement this "fixed inner core, rotating outer ring" mechanical stack in CAD.
The dancxjo/conduit project on GitHub has released tag ce03de610633. The commit has passed GitHub signature verification, and the corresponding accepted main commit is 880cb92. The release notes also record proof class information for each target in manifest.json, along with 19 assets.
The dancxjo/conduit project under the GitHub robotics topic released tag e79867321ae1. The commit is verified by GitHub signature, the tested source is e798673, and the accepted main is ede29cb. The release record shows that proof classes are recorded separately for each target in manifest.json, and it includes 19 Assets.
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The GG Humanoid Robot WeChat account has opened registration for the 2026 GG Humanoid Robot Annual Conference; click "Read Original" at the end of the article to attend. It also looks back at past content on dexterous hands and new players in the humanoid supply chain.
Applications for the 2026 GG Humanoid Robot Golden Globe Awards are now open. Click "Read Original Article" to register and participate.
Conduit published tag dd3d6fc on GitHub, corresponding to a signature-verified commit, with accepted main branch version 645609e. manifest.json records proof classes separately for each target, and the release contains 19 asset files.
The dancxjo/conduit project on GitHub has published a new release. The tested source is b7033a4, the accepted main commit is 458da8a, and the release commit carries a GitHub-verified signature. The release includes 19 asset attachments, manifest.json records proof classes separately for each target, and 9 commits are pending merge into the dev branch.
JAKA Robotics' WeChat official account previewed that the human-machine fable stage play "Uninstall Love" is set to premiere, with the title leading in with "When a robot says 'embrace me.'" The original text provides only the title and a list of past articles from the official account (collaborative welding, the JAKA AL agile series of visual collaborative robots, etc.); it does not give the premiere time, venue, ticketing, or plot details.
JAKA Robotics released a weekly video roundup featuring the πzai runway show at the 2026 China International Industry Fair (CIIF), the release of a general intelligent robot industry white paper, and a CIIF shopkeeper-host event. The roundup also includes a previously released statement on an overseas patent lawsuit and videos such as "Of the 2,056 robots, 6 are mine." The original text did not provide specific white paper data, πzai model specifications, or event details.
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Shares of new stock N Lianya extended gains to 401%, triggering a temporary trading halt, with turnover exceeding 300 million yuan.
The paper proposes a unified causal training framework, OneWM, in which actions serve simultaneously as conditions for world prediction and targets for policy learning within a shared video-action architecture. The authors evaluate policy learning and world modeling on LIBERO, LIBERO-Plus, and RoboCasa365, supplemented by real-world policy experiments: learning the visual consequences of specified actions improves policy performance and cross-scene generalization, while action learning under the same architecture improves the fidelity of multi-view world prediction. Positive results were obtained for mutual gains in both directions.
When the quadruped robot Quaddle walks on gravel, its IMU (gyroscope plus accelerometer) attempts real-time correction of deviations caused by uneven ground, but the robot dog still begins to sway; loose gravel poses a major challenge to quadruped balance. The author also asks readers what other terrains Quaddle should try.
Xidian University and Sun Yat-sen University propose AdaAnchor4D, an adaptive anchor deformation framework for 4D reconstruction of dynamic scenes from monocular UAV footage. It reaches SOTA on PSNR, SSIM, and other metrics across the UAV-Arc4D, VisDrone, and UAVDT datasets while maintaining real-time rendering. Built on 3D Gaussian Splatting, the framework uses three modules—ACFA anchor-conditioned feature aggregation, DLGD decoupled local geometric deformation, and DACW density-adaptive coordinate warping—to eliminate ghosting artifacts and preserve dynamic details.
Koldiya released the stair-climbing robot project stair-climbing-robot v1.0 on the 14th, with commit hash 971a456. This version provides a Windows build; unzip the Zip and run the exe. The release assets contain 3 files.