Agile Robots and Hitachi have formed a co-creation partnership to bring Physical AI into real factories and commercialize it. Hitachi provides Physical AI technology, system integration capabilities, and over 110 years of manufacturing and operational technology experience, while Agile Robots provides robotic arms, mobile robots, the Agile ONE humanoid robot, and the AgileCore software platform.
Landing Intelligent and Runlian Intelligent, under China Resources Digital Technology, built an automated storage and retrieval warehouse for the 2# finished goods logistics center of Shanxi Xinghuacun Fenjiu Distillery. The system is equipped with 12 double-station stacker cranes 24 meters tall, handling 70 pallets per aisle per hour, with peak system throughput of nearly 700 pallets per hour for inbound and outbound, and zero personnel movement inside the warehouse. The project uses a double-deep, double-load-platform stacker crane configuration and a three-chain conveyor system, eliminates the wrapping process, and is equipped with the self-developed integrated logistics system IMHS V2.0, which intelligently allocates storage locations by alcohol degree, vintage, and batch, and has completed integration with the Fenjiu Group ERP. No civil construction or fire compartment changes were made during implementation.
Simplexity Robotics has launched and open-sourced the world-action model SimpleWAM; the 6B-parameter version reduces inference latency on NVIDIA ThorX (T5000) from 181.23ms to 42.31ms, enabling high-frequency closed-loop operation on-device at nearly 24Hz.
Why it matters: The original article presents the on-device optimization path from 181ms to 42ms and four architectural designs, which can be transferred to understand how world-action models can meet high-frequency closed-loop control requirements.
On September 28, the 2026 Domestic Electronic Architecture Embodied Intelligent Robot Launch Event was held in Yichang, Hubei. LimX Dynamics and Kyland Technology officially released China's first humanoid robot equipped with a domestic electronic architecture, achieving end-to-end integration of domestic industrial-grade real-time communication capabilities within the complex system of a humanoid robot. LimX Dynamics provided the body hardware, the brain-cerebellum integration technology, and the humanoid brain system COSA as the full-robot validation platform, while Kyland Technology provided the fully domestic underlying electronic architecture. Through full-robot collaboration, the two parties are driving the domestic electronic architecture toward real-world deployment.
AGIROS has released its fifth version, AGIROS 26.06 DEV, which includes two distributions, loong and pixiu, with installation packages named agiros-loong- and agiros-pixiu- respectively.
On September 24, AgiBot's 20,000th embodied intelligent robot, the Expedition A3 Ultra, rolled off the production line and was delivered to Chimelong Group. In the first phase, over 300 AgiBot robots will be introduced at Hengqin Chimelong Spaceship Park, deployed across more than 100 interactive experience points and covering seven major scenarios including entertainment performances, guided tours, retail, and hotels. The collaboration also includes the implementation of a 5G-A embodied intelligence innovation application, a one-stop operations and maintenance management platform, and a security solution covering six major dimensions. The Expedition series offers up to 10 hours of battery life, and the robots support 360-degree omnidirectional perception and compliant control. The overall deployment scale is expected to reach several thousand units.
Why it matters: The report documents the specific operational support for the large-scale, routine deployment of robots at the park, helping readers understand the real-world requirements of deployment.
A team at ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico, developed the portable educational platform RoboMeshA through the EPICS in IEEE program, bringing robotics and AI learning experiences to high school classrooms that lack robotics laboratories.
Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, launched APXInf, an open-source embodied edge inference engine that has been adapted to 2 embodied models and 3 chips.
Why it matters: The team tested the migration and optimization of π0.5 and Qwen3-VL following the repository's built-in workflow; readers can refer to this division-of-labor approach for Agent-assisted adaptation.
At its Suzhou Technology Innovation and Industry Ecosystem Conference, Intel launched the Intel Agent Box and an embodied intelligence development kit, and introduced a brain-cerebellum fusion solution based on third-generation Core Ultra.
Shangqi Capital released its weekly newsletter summarizing recent developments at ecosystem companies: Yixing Intelligence completed a new funding round of nearly 2 billion yuan, with a post-investment valuation of nearly 15 billion yuan, and its first-generation Epoch compute chip has entered mass production and delivery; Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, open-sourced APXInf, an on-device inference engine for embodied intelligence, supporting platforms such as RTX 4090, Jetson Orin, and Jetson Thor; the first embodied tennis robot jointly developed by LimX Dynamics and Yinghansi Dynamics made its debut at the "Billie Jean King" Cup finals on September 22.
D-Robotics announced on September 17 that it completed a $400 million Series C funding round led by Mirae Asset, with participation from Meituan's strategic investment arm and several state-owned and financial institutions, bringing its cumulative funding over two years to about $770 million. The article describes its positioning of not building robots; its chip-level Sunrise series covers 5 to 560 TOPS, and its flagship Sunrise S600 uses a single-chip compute-and-control integrated approach to compete with Nvidia's Jetson, with cumulative shipments exceeding 8 million units and adoption by more than 20 embodied intelligence customers. It also analyzes capital rotating from complete machines to upstream segments such as chips, as well as the ecosystem gap between D-Robotics and Nvidia.
At Ascend 2026, Skydio launched its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, the accompanying MegaDock hangar, the Controller 2 remote controller, and two software platforms, Asset Command and Security Command.
Why it matters: The same autonomy engine is being extended to a fixed-wing form factor for the first time, together with a hangar and command software, which lets readers assess its path toward fleet-scale operations and workflow integration.
Lumos Robotics has officially released Lumos Station Lite, a NexCore-driven real-machine development and validation platform. The platform targets skill development, model deployment, dual-arm execution, and task evaluation, covering the flow of "data → skills → deployment → validation → evolution," helping developers validate embodied AI capabilities in real-world scenarios. The publisher positions it as a tool to accelerate the building of the industrial embodied AI development ecosystem; the original text did not provide specific performance parameters.
LimX Dynamics has officially opened the SDK for LimX Luna, connecting the full development pipeline from data to real hardware. The company says going from data to real hardware takes only half a day.
On September 20, Youibot presented multi-form robots under its "One Brain, Multiple Forms" architecture and industrial embodied intelligence solutions at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei. On site, 4 Xifeng humanoid robots and 1 mobile transport robot, powered by the FabriX industrial embodied intelligence large model, collaboratively completed a full real-world demonstration of material flow at an industrial line-side warehouse.
On September 21, SEER Robotics' Embodied Intelligence Open Platform received the Goldreed Industrial Design Award for Excellent Product Design, making it the only embodied intelligence product to win an award. The platform describes itself as the first end-to-end open ecosystem connecting robot development, integration, and application, supporting modular configuration and no-code 3D interactive operations and maintenance for more than 2,000 robot models; its Robot Brain uses a three-layer architecture of Model, Cerebellum, and Nerve.
Jiuwei Technology officially released its full-stack autonomous navigation system Jiuwei Zhihang MIC Navi on September 22. The navigation code runs directly on the robot dog's mainboard, requiring no additional add-on computing kit, and upgrades are completed via OTA through the MICBOT MOVE app.
NVIDIA released the open-source Isaac ROS 5.0 at ROSCon in Toronto, adding agentic workflows, Isaac Skills, ROS 2 Lyrical support, and GPU-accelerated libraries, with Jetson support spanning Orin Nano through Thor.
Why it matters: This version update lists GPU-accelerated libraries and inference tools that can be adopted directly on Jetson edge platforms, giving readers a basis for weighing in-house development against adoption.
Bangqi Technology has launched a smart logistics solution for the 3C electronics and semiconductor industries, centered on industrial AI agents and AMR robots and covering five major scenarios: dock loading and unloading, production line delivery, process flow, intelligent picking, and automated storage. The solution includes the LDS production collaboration unmanned pull system and the ADS hybrid scheduling system, which is compatible with multi-brand AGV/AMR units. Dock loading and unloading time is reduced from 45 minutes to 15 minutes, and full-truck unloading takes only 3.5 minutes. In a deployed project at an LED company, storage area was reduced by 50% and overall efficiency increased 2x. A RaaS monthly-payment light-asset model is also offered.
Intrinsic has released the open-source Intrinsic Core platform, which includes hardware-agnostic real-time control, 6-DoF pose estimation based on NVIDIA FoundationPose, motion and grasp planning, Gazebo simulation, camera calibration, and Intrinsic-ROS drivers.
Why it matters: The official announcement describes the open-source platform's core capabilities in control, perception, and planning, as well as its reference solution, which readers can use to assess its reusability in manipulation-oriented industrial automation.
The AI for Industry Challenge, organized by Intrinsic with Open Robotics, Foxconn, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Universal Robots, has ended. 5,000 developers from 115 countries participated, with a prize pool of $180,000.
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Strutt ev¹ 1.3.3.5 update adds an AI assistant tab and remote trip start for Waypoints in the Strutt App, along with support for the Smart Push Handle accessory.
On September 17, D-Robotics announced the completion of a $400 million Series C funding round, led by Mirae Asset, less than six months after its $270 million Series B round. In the first half of 2026, its revenue grew severalfold year over year, and cumulative shipments of its Sunrise series chips exceeded 8 million units, mostly from volume deliveries of mass-production projects with leading customers, with customer coverage exceeding 50%.
Recording of the "Basics" chapter videos for the D-Robotics RDK Mini Class is essentially complete, and they have been published on Bilibili's "D-Robotics Lab" and YouTube's "RDKLabDev" for developers getting started with the RDK X5 / S100 development boards.
Rokae Robotics has launched a full-stack embodied intelligence development platform for developers and industry partners. The hardware includes the Xuanji HSA series integrated force-controlled joints, the Taibai AR series humanoid force-controlled arms, and the Xuanhe iNex embodied intelligence control system. The AR series offers 7 degrees of freedom, a 3 kg–20 kg payload, and a whole-machine force-control bandwidth of >30 Hz.
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XPeng XOS 6.3.0 deploys a second-generation VLA upgrade via OTA, restructuring the model architecture around the time dimension: InfiniVLA lets historical visual information continuously participate in current judgments, with the vehicle side selecting 30 seconds of historical context alongside streaming autoregressive inference.
Why it matters: The article explains concretely the trade-offs in co-designing model architecture and deployment under onboard compute constraints, making it a useful engineering reference for deploying large models on limited hardware.
Agility Robotics has released Digit 5, a next-generation general-purpose humanoid robot built around a safety architecture that allows it to work in close proximity to people without traditional physical safety fencing. It uses an independent safety controller, AI-based human detection, and audiovisual cues, and is the first launch partner for the NVIDIA Halos for Robotics platform, built on NVIDIA IGX Thor.
Why it matters: The official announcement details Digit 5's safety architecture, payload, battery life, and other specific upgrades, along with order background, giving readers insight into the product approach for humanoid robots working near people.
Hikrobot appeared at the 2026 Tokyo International Logistics Exhibition (LTT), showcasing three major product lines: machine vision, mobile robots, and articulated robots. Exhibits include the STRP case storage solution, which supports double-deep storage up to 12 meters and handles 200 cases per aisle per hour; the F1-300 forklift robot with a rated payload of 300 kg; and the PlantMirror 3D logistics simulation software.
At the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum, Shanghai AI Lab upgraded and released the Intern·DuanYan scientific discovery platform and fully opened its full-stack services, adding three core capabilities: model-Science Harness collaboration, a trusted scientific evidence chain, and a closed loop of real experimental verification. The platform will integrate the Intern Science multimodal large model S2 and the Intern Physical World Model W0, work with institutions such as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility to extend the autonomous research loop, and launch a local client and the Token Plan, under which each user can receive free tokens per month during the testing period.
Edge AI computing infrastructure company Yeats.AI announced the completion of its Pre-A funding round, co-led by Shenzhen Capital Group, Holly Capital, TCL Ventures, and CAS Star, with participation from Awinic, CDB Venture, Zhaohui Capital, and others. In its first year since founding, the company has completed three funding rounds, with cumulative financing nearing 1 billion yuan, and a Pre-A+ round is already underway.
Boston Dynamics has released Spot 5.2, positioned as a middle layer connecting the various AI systems in a factory. The Orbit software has been restructured to organize data around assets, can import asset hierarchies and link them to inspections, supports connecting external data sources such as PLC sensors and security cameras, and adds an MCP layer for AI agents to autonomously schedule Spot deployments.
Why it matters: The original article details the specific changes in Spot 5.2 regarding data connectivity, inspection modalities, and predictive maintenance, allowing readers to assess whether to update their own deployments.
Li Xiangming, general manager of RoboTechnik's Embodied Intelligence Business Unit, gave a keynote titled "How Industrial Robots Can Break Through in the AI Era" at the 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference held in Liaoning, proposing four breakthrough paths: reliability, ease of use, full-category plus embodied intelligence, and going global.
NEURA Robotics and SECO S.p.A. announced a strategic partnership on September 7, 2026, under which SECO will design, engineer, and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA's cognitive robots, including the 4NE1 humanoid robot; the modules integrate Qualcomm Dragonwing processors.
NexArm ROS is an educational robotic arm designed for schools. It uses a dual-control architecture with an NVIDIA Jetson or Raspberry Pi host paired with an ESP32 controller, comes preinstalled with the OpenClaw agent, and supports voice and vision operations driven by large models such as Qwen and DeepSeek.
Anthropic has launched the Model Hardware Standard, which lets AI agents control lab equipment and autonomously run experiments. It is currently available as a research preview to a first group of labs and manufacturers.
The D-Robotics community released a full-pipeline PyTorch vision model image for RDK X5 and RDK S100/S100P/S600, covering training, validation, Model Zoo ONNX export, BPU quantization, and online inference. On 2026-09-30, the S series will be upgraded to v1.1, adding YOLO26 detection and YOLOv8/YOLO11/YOLO26 instance segmentation and pose estimation.
The dataflow robotics framework dora-rs/dora has released version v1.0.1. This maintenance release mainly fixes bugs such as packaging the cmake templates into dora-operator-api-c and improving the release verification process, and adds a CI gate check on every PR for the interfaces frozen in dora 1.x. It also updates the documentation to list the 1.0.0 breaking changes, cleans up unused dependencies, and updates Cargo.lock.
Skydio DFR Command has received and processed more than 25 million calls for service (CFS), more than double the 10 million reported in February 2026.