MonoRace, an autonomous racing drone system from TU Delft's MAVLab, flew at 100 km/h at the 2025 Abu Dhabi Autonomous Drone Racing competition, beating all other autonomous teams and three former human world champions; the drones and track were provided by the organizers.
Artificial intelligence steps into the physical world. This is what building the future looks like. Explore Digit: https://www.agilityrobotics.com/solutions/digit-5 #Agility #MadeForWork #Digit
⚽️ El Clásico is almost here! @RealMadrid takes the field on October 25! Gather your family, get the match-day snacks ready, and enjoy a great game while the Saros 20 cleans up the mess at home for you. 🍕🙌 #Roborock #RoborockxRealMadrid #Saros20
Xin Ye, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information, and Professor Lionel Robert published a study in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. In an experiment with 100 participants involving a parking lot security robot, they found that interactional fairness and distributive fairness significantly increased people's trust in the authority of security robots.
The dancxjo/conduit project on GitHub released Conduit commit version fd16cad1d455, with a GitHub-verified signature. This records the tested source (fd16cad), the accepted main branch commit (3e6c51c), and the corresponding integration run information; proof classes are recorded separately per target in manifest.json.
dancxjo's Conduit project released tag e50ff4d3df83. The commit is GitHub signature-verified; the tested source is e50ff4d, the accepted main commit is 987e8ab, and proof classes are recorded separately for each target in manifest.json.
A developer is working on a graduation project to build an open-source framework for full-stack development managing agent swarms, aiming to support robotics developers in building homogeneous and heterogeneous swarms, covering the robotics stack from simulation to telemetry. They are soliciting the community on Reddit r/robotics about the current state of development stacks and pain points, hoping the framework will not remain at the paper level but be put to practical use.
ROSCon China 2026 will be held from October 16 to 18 at the Midea Global Innovation Park, with only 2 days left until opening. The conference offers a free shuttle bus from the bus stop at Exit 2 of Panlong Road Metro Station to the venue, operating from 7:40 to 10:00, departing every 20 minutes on a loop. Every attendee on site will receive one copy of "From Specialized to General: 2026 Embodied Intelligence Technology Evolution and Industrial Implementation White Paper," and registering for any sub-forum also earns a custom Gu Yue Ju USB drive.
A developer asks for help importing the company's custom TOF sensor on the x5-rdk-gen platform for RDK X5 4GB: the sensor previously had a MIPI+I2C interface driver based on v4l2 on the RK platform, but Horizon's camera driver is a different system, and the SDK does not include the custom solution.
openhire has released version v0.8.9; the original text only gives the version number and provides no details on the specific updates.
gzchenhao/openhire has released version v0.8.10; the release notes list only "Full Changelog" and provide no specific changes.
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. Related past content covers topics including dexterous hands, new players in the humanoid supply chain, and dexterous-hand suppliers adopted by companies such as BMW and AgiBot.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has newly certified a new profession, with a related talent gap of 1 million; liberal arts graduates can also enter this field. Apart from this, the article does not provide details such as the specific name of the profession, the work it involves, or the path to entering it.
DeepSeek has made another move into the robotics field, and its entry point is not the robot body itself but efficiency. The original text provides only the title, with no specific transaction amount, partner, or product details.
openhire released version v0.8.8 on GitHub; the changelog only notes "Full Changelog" and does not list specific changes.
mcocdaa's AgentEverywhereFlow-WebUI project has released version v0.1.0. This update consists mainly of dependency upgrades made by the dependabot bot, including @types/node, typescript, pnpm/action-setup, actions/checkout, actions/setup-node, and lucide-react, with no functional changes noted.
A Reddit user posted asking for a 1:1 model of the SG90 servo to complete a 3 DOF (degrees of freedom) robotic arm build. They need to make an enclosure around the servo arm, but the existing models are too small. They also plan to shrink the base and mount the robotic arm on a self-built RC car to convert it into a rover, and are asking the community for advice.
The first cohort of special engineering doctoral students at the Beijing Institute of Technology's Excellence Engineer School has successfully graduated. The university cultivates excellent engineers through university-enterprise collaboration and a through-train bachelor's-to-doctoral work-study alternating model. It has assembled a team of nearly 1,000 university and enterprise mentors, cooperates with 25 enterprise groups and more than 280 training units, and its project pool covers more than 50 key projects.
The Mobile Robot Industry Alliance and the Humanoid Robot Scenario Application Alliance organized more than 20 participating units to hold the first online discussion meeting on the group standard "General Technical Specification for Wheeled Humanoid Robot Mobile Chassis," completing the first round of clause-by-clause interpretation of the draft standard and compiling a list of key points of contention. The draft covers four major sections: terms and definitions, technical requirements, test methods, and inspection rules, focusing on hard metrics such as dimensions, payload, speed, obstacle crossing, and endurance. After the meeting, revisions will be made based on feedback to form the "Standard Draft for Public Comment (Preliminary Draft)," with plans for an offline intensive session in Shanghai in November and official release at the alliance annual meeting in December 2026.
dancxjo's Conduit project published a new tag, cdf741b3da6e, on GitHub, and the commit has passed GitHub signature verification. The release page records the tested source commit, the accepted main branch commit 83c7014, an identical tree hash, and an integration run number; proof classes are recorded separately per target in manifest.json.
The robotics project Conduit has released version c8156ed1bcb3. The commit is GitHub-verified and corresponds to accepted main branch f09ee2a. The release provides 19 assets and records a separate proof class for each target in manifest.json.
"All wheels welcome" includes the cameraman 🤖🌴
When meeting peers who also work in robotics, it feels like meeting a kindred spirit.
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A third-semester robotics and intelligent systems student has posted asking for help: needing project experience for internships, they and a classmate have bought basic to intermediate electronic components and want to build some less common hardware-plus-software-plus-code projects suitable for beginners and publish them on LinkedIn. They also ask how to present the work, and currently lack guidance.
Vishnu, a software engineer at Zoho, is applying to BITS Pilani's work-integrated M.Tech program in Robotics and Autonomous Systems and is publicly looking for an industry mentor. He hopes the mentor will help him connect coursework in control, perception, planning, and autonomous systems to industry practice, guide his project, tools, and skill direction, and hold brief exchanges several times a week; the program application requires the mentor to send a consent email from a work email address.
What makes Hyundai's booth at the 2026 Paris Motor Show special? From a new SUV debut to electric mobility and robotics, a look at what Hyundai is showcasing.
Three days before ROSCon China 2026 opens, the organizers announced attendee activities: collect 15 stamps on the ticket stamp card to exchange for an exclusive tote bag, and collect 30 stamps to exchange for a mystery prize (limited to 20 per day). On each day from October 16 to 18, a raffle will be held in the final segment of the main forum, giving away 20 Pop Mart blind boxes, 8 Logitech keyboard and mouse sets, and 1 Insta360 Luna. An AI photo check-in area will also be set up on site, where attendees can generate ROSCon China 2026 exclusive photos.
ROSCon China 2026 will be held in Shenzhen on October 16–18. The Shenzhen Robotics Association has released the full agenda and opened registration. The conference includes 50+ talks, 3 days of lunch, exchanges with 35 exhibitors, and opportunities to connect with 500+ embodied intelligence companies.
Reddit user /u/zalzalahbuttsaab in r/humaniforobotics shared an analysis of using AI for posture analysis. A cloud file link is attached at the bottom of the main ('jerry') analysis page, and the ChatGPT session used for this analysis is labeled "(bonus)".
D-Robotics has launched the Robotics Dream Keeper Challenge — 2026 Winter. Participants use the RDK X5 platform to turn robot ideas into runnable demo projects across three stages, with bootcamp courses, Q&A, and technical support provided along the way. Registration runs from September 30 to October 31.
Dobot is showcasing multiple forms of embodied intelligence at this session of the Canton Fair. The original text mentions Dobot, the Canton Fair, and embodied intelligence only in the form of hashtags, and gives no specific robot models, specifications, prices, or experimental data.
"Super Human Humanoids" This is Jan Liphardt's keynote at the Humanoid Hub conference. Robotics' long-term goal is machines that comprehensively surpass humans in speed, safety, reliability, diversity, and efficiency. This means changing how we design, train, and build robots. @JanLiphardt will present new trends and technical capabilities pointing toward this future. Founder and CEO, @openmind_agi October 15-16, San Francisco
The robotics project dancxjo/Conduit released a new version, de35687a1615, on GitHub, with the commit verified by GitHub's signature. This version includes 19 assets; the dev branch has 4 new commits after this version, and manifest.json records proof classes separately for each target.
Wang Yingfei, General Manager of Kaige New Energy's product line, will share "Empowering Super Intelligence 5.0, Providing Powerful Energy for the Internet of Everything — Kaige and Wanxiang Jointly Creating a New Generation of Wide-Temperature-Range Ultra-Fast Charging Cells" at the 2026 Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Forum on November 04 at the CeMAT exhibition in Shanghai. The forum is hosted by the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance and the Humanoid Robot Scenario Application Alliance, and will concurrently hold the global premiere of the 2026 Embodied Loading/Unloading Robotics Market Insights and Industry Trends Report.
Galaxis Technology focuses on intelligent logistics robots. In 2014, it took the lead in launching the MSR series, and over the following decade it successively introduced AMR robots, the VFR series, and CSR conveyor and sorting systems. Its core strength is R&D in AI and control systems dedicated to logistics, achieving seamless integration of perception, decision-making, execution, and feedback through a closed-loop technical architecture, and providing modular, scalable integrated intelligent logistics solutions for the manufacturing and distribution industries.
The robotics-related project Conduit released version c7ccebf4e727 on GitHub. The commit has a GitHub-verified signature, and the dev branch has 5 commits since the last release. This version records proof class separately for each target in manifest.json, with 19 release assets in total.
The dancxjo/Conduit project on GitHub released version 28175302b9d5. The dev branch has since gained 3 commits, and the release is verified by GitHub signature. The tested source is 2817530, the accepted main is d5f24cf, proof classes for each target platform are recorded separately in manifest.json, and there are 19 assets in total.
The gzchenhao/openhire project on GitHub has released version v0.8.6. The page only provides a Full Changelog entry and does not list specific changes.