MuJoCo visualization tool mjswan has released v0.11.7. Main changes include: moving multithreaded MuJoCo out of a single-threaded SPA, adding CommandJointPositionActionCfg to drive joints via commands, and drawing a box's cube-texture faces the way MuJoCo does. The full changelog covers v0.11.6 through v0.11.7.
ttktjmt released mjswan v0.11.8. This update keeps mesh colliders in their compiled state when drawing meshes in the Y-up direction, and includes one major change (#166). The full update range is from v0.11.7 to v0.11.8, and it was automatically released by github-actions on October 14.
The developer has launched a free website, Teardex, that compiles information on the AI models, chips, camera sensors, training, and software used in robots. Each fact is labeled as confirmed, possible, or rumored, with source links and archives attached. It currently covers Unitree G1, Go2, Spot, 1X NEO, Figure 02, and about 30 component pages; robot pages will remain free. The author is seeking suggestions for paid features, such as multi-robot comparison, change alerts, data export to spreadsheets, or custom reports.
The linorobot2-cockpit project on GitHub released pre-release version rc-20261013.4 on October 13, published automatically by github-actions. Compared with the previous version rc-20261013.3, this version cumulatively includes 26 commits from the main branch, with 12 release assets in total.
The linorobot2-cockpit project released pre-release version rc-20261014.1 on GitHub, automatically published by github-actions. This version includes changes since rc-20261013.4, and the main branch gained 24 commits during this period.
The linorobot2-cockpit project on GitHub released pre-release version rc-20261014.2 on October 14, published by github-actions. This version includes 5 commits to the main branch since rc-20261014.1 and offers 12 attachment assets; users can view the full changelog comparison on GitHub.
The DARB-HACS project on GitHub released v0.11.1 on October 14. This update only involves code style adjustments, such as wrapping long lines, with no behavioral changes, because v0.11.0 failed the lint check. This version was automatically released by github-actions.
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.
ADI is building an Emerging Tech Hub for robotics within Analog Garage to help startups move from prototypes to mass-producible commercial products. The center offers ADI engineer support, lab and prototyping/testing resources, reference designs, procurement guidance, and industry connections, with technology spanning control, edge AI, power, and system integration, operating under a collaborative model in which startups retain intellectual property. Applications are expected to open before the end of 2026.
AutoStore released new products and upgrades in its Fall 2026 lineup, covering FlexBinsPort, AutoCase, Pio Pal, VersaAI, and software including CubeExplore and CubeFleet. FlexBinsPort is expected to raise warehouse utilization by 10-15%, CubeFleet aims to cut unplanned downtime by 35-45%, and Pio Pal, offered under a RaaS model for small businesses, provides packing capacity of up to 540 order lines per hour.
At China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2026, ABB Robotics launched the compact IRB 1700 and IRB 1700ID robots, covering five models with payloads from 6 to 12 kg. The company claims cycle times up to 20% shorter than comparable robots on the market, path repeatability as low as 0.03 mm, joint speeds up to 700 degrees per second, power consumption reduced by up to 15%, oil change intervals of up to 20,000 hours, and a footprint 50% smaller than the previous generation. The IRB 1700ID routes cables and hoses inside the arm body.
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.
The RoboSimStudio toolkit has been officially released, an open interactive toolkit for Agentic Robotics that helps agents create Real2Sim models with detailed dynamics. The cited content mentions that given a phone video of a robot wiping, Claude and GPT each built a full-dynamics digital twin within an hour, and the toolkit supports the Fable, Astra, and Argon agents in modeling sponges, cables, and cloth.
Atom Robots is presenting its MINI parallel robot at PM SHENZHEN 2026, the South China International Powder Metallurgy Exhibition (booth 16-A96), with a live demonstration of a flexible sorting solution for tiny precision parts. The compact model fits narrow workstations and features a native vision plus integrated drive-and-control system, enabling automatic recognition, orientation detection, and flexible sorting and tray placement of scattered tiny parts. Graphical, simple programming speeds up changeover and debugging, suiting high-mix, low-volume production. The exhibition runs until October 16.
At the 140th Canton Fair, Orbbec launched the 24-line 3D LiDAR Pulsar MH24, aimed at mobile platforms such as robotic mowers, AMRs, and delivery robots. The unit measures 66.6×62.1×66 mm, with a 21 mm high light emission window, and provides 360° (HFOV) 3D perception; in typical outdoor scenarios, a single unit can cover an operating range of about 15,000 m², and it supports operation under ≥100,000 Lux strong light, IP6K6 protection, and an operating temperature of -20°C to 60°C.
Physical Intelligence announced the opening of the Pi API beta, allowing developers to upload data, fine-tune the latest robot foundation model on its managed compute, and run inference through a managed gateway. The company has partnered with companies across several industries to adapt the model to their own robots and applications, with use cases ranging from strawberry picking to server assembly; it is now opening access to more teams, and CloudChef demonstrated workflow results.
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).
Dobot has launched the CRH high-performance collaborative robot, highlighting its industry-first internal cable routing design. The original article only presents this design highlight and does not disclose specific specifications such as payload, degrees of freedom, battery life, or precision, nor pricing for the CRH.
An internet user has launched a trial of a remotely controlled ground robot, allowing people to drive the robot over the internet for 5 minutes per day, with real-time video and thermal sensors. The trial sessions were initially 17:15-18:15 CET, with an additional session on October 15 from 17:00-19:00 CET.
Startup ATDev has developed the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation (RAMMP) platform, which pairs a powered wheelchair with a collaborative robotic arm running on an open software platform. The platform aims to help wheelchair users with limited mobility independently complete everyday tasks such as retrieving, grasping, and carrying objects without a caregiver.
Timken Precision Drives integrates its Cone Drive, SPINEA, CGI Motion, and Timken Encoders businesses to provide humanoid robot developers with a motion control technology portfolio.
physiclaw/PhysiClaw has released hardware v0.44 build files for assembling a PhysiClaw rig. It includes a complete assembly manual in English and Chinese (HTML+PDF with exploded-view/step SVGs), a sourcing guide with technical drawings for 7 extrusions, and STEP files for 9 custom 3D-printed parts, recommended to be printed in black PA12 via SLS/MJF, along with a bilingual print guide.
The author built the TAKTO ONE tendon-driven hand exoskeleton for a master's thesis, with one magnetic encoder for each of 12 finger joints and two IMUs driving a digital twin in a headset, without relying on camera tracking, so occluded fingers can still be measured. The CAD, PCB, firmware, and build guide are all open source, and a browser demo that requires no hardware is available at https://takto.one and https://github.com/molanocortes/takto-one.
Hui Ling Technology officially released the eHand-20 dexterous hand at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, priced at 9,999 yuan. The product is a direct-drive design with 20 fully active degrees of freedom and 4 joints per finger across five fingers. The entire hand weighs 650 grams and measures 196×87×40 mm. Compared with the previous-generation 6-DOF eHand-6, degrees of freedom are increased 3.3 times, while the unit price remains unchanged at about 500 yuan per degree of freedom.
Why it matters: The original article uses a unit-price comparison to show that degrees of freedom increased while the price per degree remained unchanged, allowing readers to understand the change in the cost logic of high-DOF dexterous hands.
lidarslam_ros2 has released v0.10.0, the first release since v0.9.0 of the rosbag2-to-Autoware-compatible map workflow that supports Humble and Jazzy. It adds camera coloring, a MID-360 handheld preset, and a degenerate-scenario LiDAR-inertial odometry (tunnel) research branch, and fixes the default workflow after the sota-v6 merge; release-gate benchmarks show most profiles passing, with v1.0 readiness at 8/10.
The dancxjo/Conduit project on GitHub has released a new version, f9419414896b, with a commit bearing a GitHub-verified signature. This version records the tested source code, the accepted main-branch commit e31d387, and integration run information, and records proof classes separately for each target in manifest.json, with 19 release assets in total.
The Galaxea LEMO dual-arm development platform is officially on sale, with a launch price of 49,999 yuan. The platform integrates dual A1Z seven-degree-of-freedom robotic arms, G1Z grippers, a multi-view synchronized vision system, and a CCU controller. It supports 14-DOF dual-arm coordination, a 3 kg rated payload (5 kg peak, excluding end effectors), and ±0.1 mm repeat positioning accuracy, and can connect to external compute such as Orin, PC, and Mac.
MuJoCo 3.16.0 was released on October 14, 2026. Frames gain scale, scaling, and massscale attributes that can scale their contents at compile time without modifying mjSpec. New savecompiled and savecanonical compile attributes preserve the original modeling style, and the core library, simulate, plugins, and examples can now be built with Bazel.
Why it matters: This release makes compile-time scaling and save round-trip consistency explicit capabilities, so you don't have to worry about losing original editing information when changing model specifications.
armature-ai-labs' indieduck project has released R25 simulation study v1, including a project hub and interactive assembly guide, showing the R25 CAD and re-authoring assembly steps for the R25 head base, jaw, and exterior.
In 2026, humanoid robots entered the sales stage aimed at individual consumers. In the first half of 2026, global shipments were about 19,100 units, nearly 3 times the year-on-year figure, with Chinese manufacturers accounting for more than 97% of the share. Unitree's R1 starts at 29,900 yuan, and Songyan Power's Xiaobumi is priced at 9,998 yuan, but low-priced models generally cut dexterous hands, force-control modules, and perception hardware, with a single-arm payload of only 1.5 to 2.5 kg. Buyers mostly use them for entertainment, programming and debugging, and shooting videos, while manufacturers use low prices to capture users and data ecosystem positions.
PhysiClaw released hardware v0.43 build files for assembling the PhysiClaw device, with English and Chinese materials. Contents include a full assembly manual (HTML + PDF with exploded-view SVGs), a sourcing guide with extrusion technical drawings, technical drawings for the 7 frame extrusions, and STEP files for the 9 custom 3D-printed parts (recommended to print in black PA12 via SLS/MJF) plus a bilingual print guide.
cycloidgen v7.10.0 has been released, adding assembly and fastener modeling to the cycloidal reducer design tool. Bearing seats are now bored to the bearing's actual outer diameter and given a lip; new additions include sleeves, washers, ISO 4762 screw and ISO 4032 nut tables, a 0.5 mm default edge_chamfer, and a 0.3 mm first-layer relief for FDM-printed parts.
BAAI, together with Inverse Matrix, Peking University, and vLLM, released PhysisServe, described as the first physical AI inference system that balances intelligence and high-frequency throughput, enabling world models with tens of billions of parameters to output in real time at kilohertz frequencies, one to two orders of magnitude faster than existing frontier solutions.
On October 14, Poxiao Intelligence and Tinno Mobile jointly launched the full-body multimodal data collection system SeePhys Hub, consisting of a four-eye headband, two wrist bands, three waist and leg motion trackers, and optional tactile gloves, capable of synchronously recording first-person vision, hand poses, contact pressure, and full-body posture and force estimation.
Newton has released v1.7.0rc2, the second release candidate for Newton 1.7, expanding solver diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. The MPM material scaling fix changes existing tuning; parameters such as mpm.young_modulus must be halved and retested. URDF damping and USD unit compatibility modes must be adjusted according to the migration notes. The simulation stack is upgraded to MuJoCo 3.15, and CUDA 12 GPU support is deprecated in this version.
The author connected their own YAM robotic arm to the Astra (GPT6) model, letting people try a robot manipulation model on real hardware, and launched a remotely controllable playground website and API. Astra uses camera images as input to control the gripper based on prompts, performing well zero-shot across a variety of manipulation tasks. The website targets curious users who want to give it a try, while the API targets advanced users who want to run their own experiments.
A developer built a remote access interface for their YAM robotic arm, connecting it to the Astra (GPT6) model so others can try manipulation models on real hardware without buying their own equipment. Astra takes camera images as input and controls the gripper based on prompts, performing well in zero-shot execution across a variety of manipulation tasks. The website is aimed at visitors who want to give it a try, while the API is for users who want to conduct in-depth experiments.
Under the theme "AI, Embodied," KUKA appeared at the 26th Shanghai Industrial Fair in 2026, launching the "KAI" intelligent platform and introducing Visual Components CN, the KUKA LBR NEXUS collaborative robot, embodied products, and new automated welding solutions.
LunCoSim has released a nightly test build dated 2026-10-14, with installers for Windows x86_64, macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, and Linux x86_64. A built-in auto-updater can check for and download the latest nightly build, and users can have an AI agent read the bundled documentation, skills, and examples to build and validate missions. The official notes state that these unsigned nightly builds are intended for testing only.