tatolab's streamlib releases v0.46.0, including one breaking change: frames held by one node in the engine will no longer cause frames from other nodes to be dropped, and the shared memory pools are now bounded by device memory (#2741). The change is also fixed as a Bug Fix, with a version date of 2026-10-13.
tatolab/streamlib released v0.46.2 (2026-10-13), including one engine feature update: a native node's one-off acquisitions are now counted per shape and refused by name at 16 (#2748). This is a minor version update with no other changes recorded.
At the 26th Shanghai Industrial Fair 2026, KUKA launched the "KAI" intelligent platform and introduced Visual Components CN, the KUKA LBR NEXUS collaborative robot, embodied intelligence products, and automated welding solutions.
Geek+'s RS Hyper RMS scheduling system brings floor travel, rack climbing, and workstation handoffs into unified scheduling, supporting coordinated operation of 5,000 robots, 50,000 square meters, and 3 million storage locations. The rack area locks only 2 columns and supports two vehicles climbing in the same column, while the bidirectional high-density road network increases travel efficiency by more than 30%; in testing, system throughput within 1,000 square meters reached 6,000 cases per hour, Max workstation processing efficiency exceeded 800 cases per hour, and the company says its AI ultra-large-scale scheduling capability leads the industry by 20%+.
At booth 8.1H F008 of the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Elite Robots uses its self-developed embodied AI model Yuanqi Primo as a unified foundation to coordinate mobile manipulators, wheeled humanoid robots, and collaborative robots working together in simulated production line and unmanned store scenarios.
Zhongke Fifth Era unveiled its new-generation embodied brain "Epoch Spirit Brain" and its pillar-type embodied intelligent robot "Jiling-S1" at the Industry Expo. Jiling-S1 has 19 degrees of freedom, covers a three-dimensional workspace through pillar lifting and 360° waist rotation, and supports force control and modular end-effector quick changes; Epoch Spirit Brain relies on the FAM series of embodied large models, uses Action Flow technology to achieve cross-embodiment generality, and combines few-shot learning to adapt to new tasks. On site, three Jiling-L1 wheeled dual-arm robots autonomously collaborated to complete the full process of depalletizing, pouring, receiving, and palletizing, without manual intervention.
Shenyi Robot appeared at the 2026 CIIF from October 12-16, unveiling its self-developed embodied foundation model SE-1 and the logistics handling robot Sculptor and industrial dual-arm robot Edge. Sculptor demonstrated mixed-category case palletizing, while Edge demonstrated 0.1mm-level precision insertion and interactive candy sorting. Through reinforcement learning and OMPO experience-matching technology, Sculptor showed clear improvement over the supervised fine-tuning stage in behaviors such as case selection, grasp pose, and multi-layer stacking.
ArduPilot released Rover-4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable/official version for rovers and boats. An official release announcement link is provided; specific changes are not listed.
ArduPilot released Sub-4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable/official version for submersibles (ArduSub); the official release announcement is available on the GitHub Releases page. The original text did not provide specific changes or new features for this version.
ArduPilot released Tracker 4.7.2 on October 11 as the stable official version of AntennaTracker. The official release announcement has been made public on GitHub.
ROS and Gazebo PMC members meet with community members every other Friday morning. This session is on October 23 at 9 AM Pacific Time. Participants can bring questions, bugs, or robotics projects, seek help, and show their work.
Pi API has officially entered public beta! 🤖 Many people have already started using it to fine-tune π models for their own robots—here are some examples. We hope to significantly expand the scale of testing. If you're interested, please let us know! Blog: https://pi.website/blog/api-beta Signup: https://pi.website/waitlist
Physical Intelligence announced that the Pi API has entered beta and is opening access to more teams. The company said it has worked with companies across multiple industries to adapt its models to their robots and applications, covering scenarios ranging from strawberry picking to server assembly.
Humaan Studio 0.0.1-alpha.1 extends the workflow from robot assembly and simulation to training, policy management, and physical telemetry. New features include running versioned MuJoCo training experiments locally or over SSH, configuring RunPod compute and monitoring jobs, mirroring robot joint positions in 3D through a read-only Live Link telemetry bridge, and policy registration with compatibility checks.
ANet Drone4D V0.2 builds on the V0.1 multi-agent 4D simulation platform with an interactive sandbox, quantified target perception, nest orchestration and 7×24 zero-gap relay surveillance; a public demo site is now live. The release offers six classes of quantified perception targets, seven task types, a REST API and a Python SDK; 44 of 55 items passed in the second round of acceptance testing. Known issues include a limit of 2 concurrent sandboxes on the public site, short surveillance gaps for daytime random-walk targets, and a median frame time of 50 ms without a hardware GPU.
BAGEL released its first release, v1.7.1, on GitHub, covering all content on the main branch. The web version at https://bagel-ros2.vercel.app can be used without installation.
RealSense explains D585 Pro on-device human detection: the detection model runs on its Gen5 Vision SoC and outputs JSON metadata at 30 fps with class, confidence, pixel box, and millimeter-level distance, without needing a host GPU.
Why it matters: The article breaks down why on-device detection does not use neural-network ranging and provides a detection distance table for different postures, which can be used directly for safety zone design.
AutoStore announced its Fall 2026 product release, covering the FlexBinsPort mixed bin workstation, AutoCase case picking, Pio Pal robotic picking for small merchants, the CubeExplore and CubeStudio design tools, and CubeFleet maintenance management.
NVIDIA announced the launch of cuPotential, a new CUDA-X library for developers to build AI agents that simulate atomic and molecular interactions. In early access testing, it delivered a further 2-3x speedup on already GPU-optimized workflows, and Synopsys is one of the early adopters.
OSARO's AI perception software SightWorks uses a deep-learning-first approach, enabling robotic arms to recognize objects, determine grasp points, and complete complex pick-and-place tasks without per-SKU entry or manual programming.
qi-neo released active-suspension-lidar-preview v2.0.0, adding the suspension_preview_v2 package, which refactors the LiDAR road preview into interfaces and coexists with v1.
qi-neo/active-suspension-lidar-preview released v3.0.1; the code of the suspension_control_v3 package is unchanged, and its version remains 3.0.0.
AutoStore released its fall 2026 software and hardware updates, covering FlexBinsPort mixed-tote picking, AutoCase case picking, Pio Pal robotic picking via RaaS, CubeExplore ROI modeling, and the CubeFleet maintenance tool.
visose/Robots has released version 2.4.4, which fixes an issue with loading continuously rotating external axes with unbounded joint limits. This version can only be installed through the package manager in Rhino 8 using the _PackageManager command; see the readme for more details.
Jiexiang Lingyue will hold an online launch event at 14:00 on October 15, unveiling its all-new forklift robot family under the theme "Natively Defining the Future," streamed simultaneously on the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance livestream. The original text is a launch preview stating that the new family will form a matrix to cover complex industrial scenarios, but specific models, payloads, and performance parameters have not yet been disclosed.
PhysiClaw has released hardware v0.42 build artifacts for assembling the PhysiClaw rig, in English and Chinese versions. Contents include a complete assembly manual (HTML + PDF with exploded/step-by-step SVG figures), a sourcing guide and 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) along with a bilingual print guide.
Rerun has released version 0.39.0, a database and visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data. Key updates include support for text in any language and color emoji, the Rerun Viewer in marimo notebooks, Raw Bayer images, PLY mesh and 2D point support, as well as an experimental audio view (AssetAudio archetype and AudioView) and ray-stepped 3D volume rendering.
The nano-ros project releases nros 0.5.0-nros2; the nros CLI uses codegen version 14.
Jiangsu ZhuJing Intelligent Technology has announced that it will officially launch its lightweight embodied humanoid robot H1 Mini (Xiao Xiao Zhu) in November 2026, positioned as a small humanoid robot. Its full body uses a 21-degree-of-freedom humanoid motion system that can perform human-like movements, and it carries an autonomous large-model intelligence engine for quickly learning new postures. For interaction, it features an agile interactive face that supports facial perception and voice dialogue, as well as a dynamic programmable lighting interaction system; the original article did not disclose payload, battery life, or price.
Jiangsu ZhuJing Intelligent Technology has announced that it will officially launch its lightweight embodied humanoid robot H1 Mini (Xiao Xiao Zhu) in November 2026, positioned as a small humanoid robot. Its full body uses a 21-degree-of-freedom humanoid motion system that can perform human-like movements, and it carries an autonomous large-model intelligence engine for quickly learning new postures. For interaction, it features an agile interactive face that supports facial perception and voice dialogue, as well as a dynamic programmable lighting interaction system; the original article did not disclose payload, battery life, or price.
DART has released version 6.20.0; a 3,000-shape scene runs 18.9x faster than 6.19.4 under the ODE detector, resting bodies can sleep and no longer sink. This version is not ABI compatible with 6.19, FCL now defaults to exact primitive-shape collision, builds require a new toolchain such as GCC 11.2 and Clang 13, and optional multithreaded solving and heap-allocation-free stepping are added.
LiteArm Studio has released version v0.23.3, which ships as a single self-contained program with no need for Python, Node.js, or a repository checkout. It supports Ubuntu/Debian (requires 22.04/12 or later, glibc 2.35), other Linux distributions, and Windows, and comes with a .deb, an executable, and a .sha256 checksum. This release fixes the issue in solo mode of distinguishing a silent Cartesian probe from an unsupported probe (#163).
LiteArm Studio v0.23.4 is released, provided as a single self-contained program that requires no Python, Node.js, or repository checkout.
The nexform-tech litegrip-cpp project has released version v0.7.1, published via GitHub by GitHub Actions on October 13, with commit hash ddc5431. The release is verified with a GitHub-signed GPG key (B5690EEEBB952194), and the main branch has 2 new commits since the previous version.
nexform-tech's litegrip-cpp has released v1.0.0, a breaking change (BREAKING CHANGES): MotionEngine::set_force and LiteGrip::set_force are removed from the public API.
litegrip-cpp v1.0.1 was released on 2026-10-13, fixing a bug: factory calibration is now included at the default stiffness.
LiteArm Studio v0.23.5 was released on October 13. The program is a single self-contained executable that requires no Python, Node.js, or code repository, and it is offered as a .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian, binaries for other Linux systems, and a Windows installer.
Skydio has launched ISR Command, which uses Skydio Autonomy to orchestrate multiple X10D aircraft for coordinated reconnaissance, allowing a single operator to control two aircraft at once. The X10D weighs 2.14 kg (4.72 lbs) and can navigate autonomously using onboard cameras without GNSS; the system is TAK-native and supports the STANAG 4609 and STANAG 0903 metadata standards.
Cadence 0.82.0 reworks how a composed brain carries context across moments: it adds a working_memory_scale construction parameter (initial value 1.2, previously fixed at 12) and changes the working_memory_decay default to 0, so the influence of history rises gradually with learning.
The openharness project by autonomous-ai has released Harness Web version 1.3.47, the browser build of the shared desktop Flutter app. This version is served by harness.autonomous.ai from the image autonomous-code-website:v1.3.47_web.