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- INESA Intelligent Computing Cloud Token Factory launched: triple trust system and "Flywheel Turns, All Things Arise" digital-chain ecosystem
Shanghai INESA and Shanghai Innovation Institute jointly released the "Flywheel Turns, All Things Arise" INESA intelligent computing digital-chain ecosystem. The INESA Intelligent Computing Cloud Token Factory addresses enterprises' question of whether they dare to use token services through triple trust: service operations, an independent ecosystem, and security compliance. The factory provides production-grade inference capabilities through a high-performance inference engine and elastic scheduling, and offers full-stack domestic delivery with full-chain call traceability and evidence retention. The all-in-one machine released at the same time features the first batch of "Data Search" functions, enabling rapid data discovery and precise supply-demand matching after out-of-the-box access.
量子位 ·
- Heli Debuts FICS Digital Forklift Solution at Tencent Digital Ecosystem Summit, Partners with Tencent Cloud on New Fleet Management Paradigm
At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Heli showcased its FICS digital forklift solution and built the FICS industrial internet platform with Tencent Cloud to advance connected, cloud-based forklifts and real-time collection of operating data. More than 70,000 vehicles are currently connected to the platform, serving over 500 customers; the platform can coordinate fleet resources for intelligent dispatch, predict faults and safety risks, automatically remind about maintenance, and track energy consumption.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Weimaier CeMAT exhibition checklist: AMR material handling, humanoid robot teleoperation, and new V400 and H6 products
At its CeMAT booth, Weimaier lists four things to check out: teleoperating a humanoid robot via VR to interact with VB2, experiencing the new V400 (basic mapping and deployment completed in 30 minutes), watching the H6's omnidirectional movement and 360° environmental perception chassis, and seeing the 120mm ultra-thin underride robot and the cage-cart handling robot. The exhibition runs November 3–6, 2026, at Booth C3-3, Hall N1, Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Weimaier is also showcasing its self-developed general-purpose core controller for mobile robots, which integrates a core processor, IO control, bus communication, and power management.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Hikrobot upgrades STRP case storage and picking solution and launches HAPS intelligent picking system
Based on project experience over the past two years, Hikrobot has upgraded its STRP case storage and picking solution across three dimensions: division of labor, flexibility, and throughput, and introduced the HAPS intelligent picking system. The STRP dual-side solution places tracks on racks on both sides of the aisle, achieving both increased storage capacity and higher task completion rates with 30% fewer T50 units; the industry-first cross-aisle STU connects adjacent aisles with dedicated curved tracks.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- CeMAT Shanghai | November 3: Heli's full-range high-end components to debut
Anhui Heli will showcase its full-range high-end components at CeMAT Shanghai on November 3. Heli focuses on industrial vehicles, construction machinery, and key components; it produces more than 1,700 models and 512 categories of forklift products online, and has established 23 provincial-level marketing networks and more than 320 secondary dealer sales and service outlets in China.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Kete Robotics invites you to CeMAT ASIA 2026; free visitor ticket applications close today
Kete Robotics will exhibit at CeMAT ASIA 2026 (November 3 to 6, Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Booth W5-B2-2), showcasing unmanned forklifts and AGV automation solutions for diverse warehousing scenarios. Free visitor badge applications close today. The company, backed by Zhejiang University, also offers industrial robotic arms, intelligent warehousing and logistics systems, and automated assembly lines.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Landing Intelligent Signs Chuyang New Energy Wuhan Phase II Warehousing and Logistics Project Worth About 258 Million Yuan
Landing Intelligent (688557.SH) disclosed on October 30 that it signed a contract for the Wuhan Phase II warehousing and logistics equipment project of Wuhan Chuyang New Energy Co., Ltd., worth about 258 million yuan. The Wuhan Chuyang Phase II new energy battery production project served by this project has a planned annual capacity of 80GWh and total investment of about 22 billion yuan. Landing Intelligent said its solution covers the front, middle, and back stages of lithium battery manufacturing as well as the full PACK process, and that it has cooperated with customers including CATL, BYD, and NIO.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Kollmorgen CVC700 Compatibility with CVC600 Projects Implementation Guide: BC Firmware Enables Unified Scheduling of Old and New Controllers
To address the inability to mix CVC600 and CVC700 controllers in a scheduling system, Kollmorgen offers a software-level compatibility solution: update the CVC700 to firmware with the BC suffix (latest 2.8.12 BC) and add the corresponding license in the scheduling system, enabling unified scheduling of newly added CVC700 vehicles within existing CVC600 legacy projects.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- RoboCT's Weimaier VMR "Jixing" V400 Point-to-Point Transport Robot to Make Debut at CeMAT ASIA 2026
The VMR "Jixing" V400 point-to-point transport robot from Weimaier, a subsidiary of RoboCT, will make its debut at CeMAT ASIA 2026 at Booth C3-3, Hall N1, Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The product can complete basic mapping and deployment in as little as 30 minutes; users can set waypoints, adjust routes, and dispatch tasks via a visual app. It uses 3D SLAM to automatically build environment maps for autonomous navigation and creates safety zones through 3D spatial perception, choosing to pass, detour around, or wait for obstacles.
New Strategy Robotics ·
- Kyland Technology Showcases Physical AI and Fully Domestic Robot Electronics Architecture at 2026 China Automation Congress
At the 2026 China Automation Congress, Kyland Technology exhibited its Physical AI solutions and a fully domestically produced embodied intelligent robot electronics architecture. The architecture integrates the Hongdao Intewell industrial operating system, the AUTBUS deterministic industrial bus, MaVIEW agent tool software, and domestic AI processor chips. In on-site technical tests organized by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, robots equipped with this architecture passed tests related to fault isolation, cybersecurity, and real-time control under scenarios including joint power loss, simulated network flooding attacks, and simulated Trojan virus infections.
雷科技 ·
- REEMAN Ironhide autonomous forklift completes wrapper and elevator integration at Shanghai chemical shipping warehouse
REEMAN has published a deployment case at a chemical shipping company in Shanghai, where the Ironhide autonomous forklift links pallet pickup, automatic stretch wrapping, elevator floor transfer, and indoor and outdoor delivery, covering about 600 kg per trip, about 650 meters round trip, about 12 minutes per cycle, and about 50 cycles per day. The forklift exchanges station-ready and wrapping-complete status with the wrapper through an industrial interface, and coordinates requests, entry, and exit with the building elevator control system. During commissioning, the team adjusted drive-wheel downforce to resolve ramp slipping, and worked with the wrapper manufacturer to correct the pallet handover process.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- CAS Institute of Automation and PaXini collaborative research: tactile reinforcement learning achieves sub-millimeter precision assembly
A team led by Cheng Long at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published research at IROS 2026 using tactile-enhanced reinforcement learning to complete sub-millimeter precision insertion, raising the success rate from 52% for a tactile-free approach to 67% under a 0.05 mm clearance.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Physical AI Evolution: Large Models Begin Competing on "Feel," Electronic Skin Completes the Robot's "Last Centimeter"
The 2026 Physical AI and World Models Conference was held in Nanjing, where Andrew Yao noted that reliability is the threshold physical AI must cross to move from demonstrations to real-world deployment. In September, Kuangda Technology released its first-generation flexible fabric skin system solution for embodied intelligent robots, which has already been delivered in small batches to some leading companies; the second generation is advancing multimodal sensor integration and operating-condition validation. GGII (Gaogong Industry Research Institute) forecasts that by 2030, global demand for flexible tactile sensors for humanoid robots will reach 1.525 million square meters, with a market size of about 27.4 billion yuan.
OFweek Robotics ·
- AgiBot Innovation Day releases AHA3, GO-3 and Lingqu OS, proposes Worken work-hour unit
At the 2026 AgiBot Innovation Day on October 29 at the Shanghai World Expo Center, Peng Zhihui released the third-generation hardware architecture AHA3, the foundation model GO-3 Preview, the multimodal interaction model WITA-OMNI and Lingqu OS 1.0, and proposed Worken, a new unit for measuring robot value (number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours multiplied by the output efficiency ratio).
OFweek Robotics ·
- Yingzhi XBOT completes two consecutive funding rounds, A and B, totaling about 600 million yuan; coffee robot stores deployed in over 1,600 locations
Yingzhi XBOT announced the consecutive completion of a Series A round of over 200 million yuan and a Series B round of nearly 400 million yuan. Its coffee robot stores have been deployed in over 1,600 locations worldwide, making over 5 million cups of coffee cumulatively. The device occupies less than 2 square meters, houses a coffee machine, ice maker, milk frother, and a six-axis robotic arm, produces a cup of coffee in 46 seconds, and its price has dropped from 700,000 to 800,000 yuan four years ago to over 100,000 yuan. Founder Tang Mu said orders on hand for 2026 are counted at 300 million yuan, with recent monthly deliveries exceeding 100 units and monthly revenue exceeding 20 million yuan.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Physical Intelligence in talks for $1 billion new funding at a target valuation of about $20 billion
Foreign media report that Physical Intelligence is in talks for a new funding round, planning to raise at least $1 billion at a target valuation of about $20 billion, more than 8 times its $2.4 billion valuation in November 2024. The company was founded in 2024, develops the π series of robot models, and opened a beta version of the Pi API on October 13. The article also compares Skild AI: 10 months of formal commercial deployment, more than 60 paying customers, ARR exceeding $100 million, and cumulative recognized revenue of $50 million.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Investors hold off on embodied AI: valuation correction amid halved financing, discounted secondary shares, and Hong Kong IPO breakouts
Primary-market investors are collectively pausing embodied AI projects. IT Juzi data shows 33 financing deals worth 10.105 billion yuan in October 2026, down more than two-thirds from the June peak of 55 deals and 30.892 billion yuan. Secondary-share transfer quotes generally range from 65% to 80% of the previous round's valuation, and 8 of the 13 robotics-related companies that listed in Hong Kong in 2026 broke issue price. The article argues that capital is not exiting the direction of physical-world intelligence, but rather the valuations and delivery pace that demo capabilities cannot support.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Éloi lip-sync control progress: how close can a robot's mouth movements get to human speech?
Animotion Robotics has announced progress on Éloi's lip-sync control; in English, Korean, and Japanese tests, its lip and jaw movements can now reproduce natural human pronunciation relatively accurately. The system is still being improved for movement precision and naturalness, and the next step is planned to use exaggerated mouth movements to demonstrate the expressiveness and flexibility of the 17 degrees of freedom shared by the lips and jaw.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Tsinghua and Zhiyuan's 96 robots begin teaching each other
Tsinghua and Zhiyuan's 96 robots have begun teaching each other. The original text did not disclose the robot model, training tasks, experimental conditions, or specific results; it only stated that 96 robots participated.
Guyuehome ·
- Why embodied AI funding suddenly got harder: after 322 deals worth nearly 93.5 billion yuan in H1, September funding fell 40% month-on-month
After embodied AI funding reached 322 deals worth nearly 93.5 billion yuan in the first half of 2025, September funding fell 40% from August, and the first half of October totaled only 4.9 billion yuan. The article analyzes the cooling from three angles: technology, orders, and valuation. In the first half, 218 publicly disclosed winning bids totaled about 1.7 billion yuan, of which industrial orders accounted for only 20% and were mostly prototype testing. After Unitree's listing, its share price fell from 1,100 yuan to 404 yuan, and more than 20 robotics companies collapsed within 19 months. The author argues that capital has not left but has shifted toward early-stage rounds and up and down the industry chain, with more emphasis on real delivery and orders.
OFweek Robotics ·
- October Robotics Industry Monthly Report: Stardust Intelligence Discloses 1 Billion Yuan Financing; Qiyuan's 5,000th Personal Robot Rolls Off the Line
Stardust Intelligence disclosed a new round of financing of 1 billion yuan at a valuation of 15 billion yuan; Qiyuan Robotics' 5,000th personal robot rolled off the line, with a production line takt time of one unit every 2.5 minutes and daily capacity raised to more than 200 units. Unitree Technology released the H2-X humanoid robot, officially rated for a maximum battery life of about 8 hours; 110 AgiBot Expedition A3 units danced together on the same stage, setting a Guinness World Record. Schaeffler's Taicang plant deployed 5 Luoshi Zhuxing H wheeled humanoid robots to participate in the production of joint module components.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Critical Point rolls out its 15,000th dexterous hand, launches OmniGlove Pro data-collection glove
At its AI DAY on October 29, Critical Point announced that cumulative production of its dexterous hands has surpassed 15,000 units, and launched its self-developed data-collection glove, OmniGlove Pro. The glove uses a fusion of EMF magnetic field positioning and IMU, achieves fingertip positioning accuracy of 0.1 mm, is equipped with 746 tactile sensing points, and has a tactile spatial resolution of 3 mm. The company also introduced the "real-machine Ready" concept, spanning from data collection to real-machine replay.
OFweek Robotics ·
- FFR humanoid robots reach 1,168 cumulative deliveries, 351 units sold in October alone
Since FFR, under Jia Yueting, began deliveries in late February this year, cumulative sales plus shipments of its humanoid robots have reached 1,168 units, with deliveries maintained at positive gross margin; October sales alone were 351 units. Education is currently its fastest-advancing sector, having expanded from a Los Angeles pilot to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Of the two new products released in October, the FF Nova is priced at $2,490 and the Nova Mini body at $299. If monthly shipments in both November and December exceed 400 units, full-year 2026 sales are projected at around 2,000 units.
雷科技 ·
- What Is an AMR Forklift? How Does REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 Automate Heavy-Duty Pallet Handling?
The REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 is a 1.5-ton laser SLAM AMR forklift that can autonomously identify pallets, position its forks, lift and transport loads, and place goods without reflectors or floor tape. In a case at a new energy factory in Huzhou, it completes about 160–200 pallet transports per day along a 47-meter route, runs continuously for 6 hours fully loaded and 8 hours empty, and supports 1-hour fast charging and automatic return to charge.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- AMR Forklift Comparison: How REEMAN Ironhide 3.0, HAMMER 2.0, and Rhinoceros Meet Different Payload Needs
REEMAN compares the official rated specifications of three laser SLAM navigation AMR forklifts: Ironhide 3.0, HAMMER 2.0, and Rhinoceros. Ironhide 3.0 is a 1.5-ton flatbed transport vehicle; HAMMER 2.0 is a 1.2-ton stacker that supports battery swapping and Tianzi pallets; Rhinoceros is a 1.5-ton narrow-body stacker with a 2.5-meter lift.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- XPeng Group appears at 2026 Wuhan International Auto Show, with new-generation humanoid robot IRON and MONA L05 exhibited together
XPeng Group is exhibiting at the 2026 Wuhan International Auto Show under the theme "AI changes the world," showcasing the new-generation humanoid robot IRON, the XPeng AeroHT "Land Aircraft Carrier" modular flying car, and multiple models including the MONA L05. The MONA L05 launched on October 29, starting at 139,800 yuan, and is equipped with XPeng's second-generation Turing VLA model; the super extended-range version has a combined range of 1,310 kilometers, with deliveries beginning on November 1.
小鹏机器人 ·
- XPeng Group appears at 2026 Wuhan International Auto Show, with new-generation humanoid robot IRON and MONA L05 exhibited together
XPeng Group is exhibiting at the 2026 Wuhan International Auto Show under the theme "AI changes the world," showcasing the new-generation humanoid robot IRON, the XPeng AeroHT "Land Aircraft Carrier" modular flying car, and multiple models including the MONA L05. The MONA L05 launched on October 29, starting at 139,800 yuan, and is equipped with XPeng's second-generation Turing VLA model; the super extended-range version has a combined range of 1,310 kilometers, with deliveries beginning on November 1.
小鹏机器人 ·
- XPeng Group sets record with 50,237 vehicles delivered in October; MONA L05 launches and begins nationwide deliveries
XPeng Group delivered 50,237 new vehicles in October 2026, up 22% month-on-month and 20% year-on-year, a record high for monthly deliveries, including 13,326 overseas deliveries, up 166% year-on-year. The MONA L05 launched at a limited-time promotional price starting at 139,800 yuan, with 5,000 near-ready vehicles sold out in 3 minutes, and nationwide deliveries began on November 1. In the same month, XPeng was approved for Guangzhou's intelligent connected vehicle application demonstration operating qualification, allowing it to conduct L4 Robotaxi demonstration operations across Guangzhou.
小鹏机器人 ·
- Trump delays tariffs on imported robots for 180 days, launches national security review talks
Trump signed a proclamation on October 28 determining that imported robots and industrial machinery threaten US national security, but did not impose tariffs for now; instead he directed the Commerce Department and the US Trade Representative to negotiate with trading partners within 180 days, and to consider measures such as tariffs and quotas if talks fail.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Agility Robotics plans Nasdaq listing via SPAC at $2.5 billion valuation
Agility Robotics announced on October 30 that it expects to raise about $465 million through a SPAC merger and to list on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT on November 5 at a valuation of $2.5 billion. Its core customer GXO Logistics pays under a RaaS model; Digit 5 holds more than $300 million in multi-year orders and has accumulated over 65,000 operating hours and handled more than 100,000 logistics boxes.
OFweek Robotics ·
- I Built an Internet-Controlled Pneumatic Turret for a Zombie Defense Game
A developer independently built a prototype remote pneumatic turret connected to a zombie defense game, where players receive real-time camera feeds through a browser and remotely control a physical turret located in Phuket, Thailand. The system consists of 3D-printed mechanical parts, a servo gimbal, a pneumatic firing mechanism, electronic control, and networked command transmission; the game visuals are made in Unity and projected onto a physical screen. The author frames it as a "remote physical control" experiment and is seeking input on communication reliability and latency, as well as on architectures for safe remote operation.
Reddit r/robotics ·
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Y Combinator · X ·
- US Capital Values Zero-Revenue PI at $20 Billion, Chinese Capital Pushes Robot Shipments: Two Sets of Embodied Intelligence Pricing Logic
Physical Intelligence, a robotics AI company founded just over two years ago with no publicly disclosed revenue, is in talks to raise at least $1 billion at a target valuation of about $20 billion, with existing investors Avenir and Lux Capital likely to lead the round.
钛媒体 ·
- GenSight: A Unified Embodied World Model for Video Generation and 4D Perception
GenSight is a unified embodied world model that integrates future video generation and dense perception into a single pretrained video diffusion Transformer. It uses a unified spatiotemporal representation covering video, depth, embodiment segmentation, and 2D optical flow relative to the first frame; built on a shared DiT backbone, it predicts each modality within the same architecture via lightweight task modulation, and jointly optimizes them in a unified velocity prediction space. At inference, it supports multi-step future video generation with aligned dense prediction, as well as single-step dense perception from an observed video. Training data covers a variety of robot embodiments and human hand interaction.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
The paper proposes a Transformer-based architecture with shared modular recurrence for universal morphology robot control and evaluates its generalization performance on a set of MuJoCo robots. The authors note that contextual features are often only partially available but can be recovered through modular interactions, improving multi-robot control and generalization to contexts unseen during training. Results show substantial improvement in zero-shot generalization performance on robots with unseen dynamics, kinematics, and topologies across four environments.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- MUSBRIC: LEGO-Compatible Pneumatic Muscle Modules for Reconfigurable Musculoskeletal Robots
The authors present MUSBRIC, a modular hardware platform and accompanying MuJoCo simulator for reconfigurable musculoskeletal robots, which uses LEGO-compatible endcaps to turn fiber-reinforced extensile pneumatic artificial muscles into reusable, plug-and-play muscle modules. An elbow-joint prototype validated load-dependent flexion and extension, with pulley-guided routing enabling reversible motion and a mechanical stop stabilizing the straight posture; a robotic hand demonstrated compliant grasping and multi-joint construction, 15 leg configurations completed matched sweeps in hardware and simulation, and a quadruped assembled from four legs achieved walking. The hardware design and simulation code will be open-sourced.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- LOGIV: A Task-Graph Framework for Verified Execution and Causal Local Repair in Long-Horizon Robot Tasks
LOGIV is a task-graph framework for long-horizon robot tasks that connects symbolic planning, observation-based verification, and embodied execution. During execution it checks the physical validity of condition-support and resource-ordering edges, and after a failure it uses dependency tracing to determine which parts must be restored.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- OpenFlyV2: An onboard vision-language-action model for aerial perception and navigation
OpenFlyV2 is a unified onboard vision-language-action architecture that uses a shared vision-language representation to support semantic understanding, language-grounded perception, spatial reasoning, and continuous flight control within a single model. The authors built a simulation dataset of approximately 70,000 navigation trajectories and 60,000 vision-language instruction-response pairs. On an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX, the model runs fully onboard and generates action chunks of 12 waypoints each at 10 Hz.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- Actuator-Aware Observer Inputs for Cascaded ADRC of Quadrotors
The paper proposes actuator-aware (AA) observer inputs: the altitude and attitude observers use limited virtual inputs filtered by an assumed rotor model and aligned with the measurement delay, while the horizontal observers use acceleration reconstructed from measured attitude.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- SimRetract: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Retractor Take-Over in Open Surgery
SimRetract proposes a policy trained only on simulated demonstrations that lets a robotic arm take a retractor from a surgeon's hand and maintain retraction at handoff, achieving zero-shot sim-to-real transfer for surgeon-robot collaboration in open surgery.
arXiv cs.RO ·