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Oct 16Fri
  2. 月泉仿生 · 微信公众号62

    Yingshou Y-Hand M2 dexterous hand's internal bionic structure revealed for the first time, with 38 degrees of freedom

    Yuequan Bionics has revealed the internal precision bionic structure of the Yingshou Y-Hand M2 bionic dexterous hand. The product is an industrialization outcome of the bionic tension-compression body robot theory of Professor Ren Lei of Jilin University, and with 38 degrees of freedom, it is currently the bionic dexterous hand with the highest number of degrees of freedom in the world.

  3. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号82

    Google-owned Intrinsic open-sources robot foundation software platform Intrinsic Core

    At ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Canada, Intrinsic announced that it is open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform under the Apache 2.0 license and launching Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible foundation software platform.

    Why it matters: The article clearly lists the control, perception, and planning components included in the platform and their open-source license, so readers can judge which repetitive foundation software work it can replace.

  4. 中科慧灵 · 微信公众号60

    CASBOT PA perception-to-action model deployed on production line at Putian shoe factory

    CASBOT PA (Perception-to-Action), a perception-to-action model developed in-house by CASBOT, has been deployed at real workstations in the Putian shoe factory of Fujian Xinbai Sports, currently using robotic arms as the execution platform, with a pipeline of visual perception, motion generation, kinematic processing, and real-machine execution.

  5. OFweek Robotics67

    Boston Dynamics' Atlas dexterous hand uses a four-finger, 13-DOF configuration and drops the pinky

    Boston Dynamics has unveiled its next-generation Atlas dexterous hand design, featuring a four-finger configuration, 13 degrees of freedom, direct joint drive, and a single actuator for the whole hand, with dense pressure tactile sensors covering the fingertips and palm. The team once had members work a full day with their pinky and ring fingers bound as an experiment, concluding that in most cases the pinky provides only redundancy, and removing it reduces actuators, cabling, and failure points. During the same period, Atlas was training on part sequencing and material handling at Hyundai's Georgia robot metaplant application center, and the article also compares this with Tesla Optimus Gen 3's five-finger, 22-DOF humanlike approach.

  6. 乐聚机器人 · 微信公众号62

    Leju and Zhaofeng Electromechanical Release Embodied Intelligence Loading Solution, with 15 "Kuafu" Robots in Regular Operation

    On October 15, Leju Robotics and Zhaofeng Electromechanical jointly released an "embodied intelligence + auto parts loading solution" in Zhejiang. Fifteen "Kuafu" robots have been put into regular operation on Zhaofeng Electromechanical's production line, completing the full process of "preparation - material retrieval - transfer - loading."

  7. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号46

    FAIRINO Robotics and Schmalz Form Global Ecosystem Strategic Partnership to Enable Scaled Physical Execution for Intelligent Agents

    FAIRINO Robotics and Schmalz signed a global ecosystem strategic partnership agreement at the Schmalz booth at the Shanghai Industrial Fair, covering product adaptation and global market collaboration for palletizing and CNC loading/unloading scenarios. Schmalz's robot gripper series products have completed adaptation with FAIRINO's collaborative robot series products, and a handling kit suitable for FAIRINO robots has been launched. FAIRINO Robotics states that its 2025 global sales rank first in the industry, that its 2026 overseas shipment volume is expected to approach 6,000 units, and that the two parties have already established a foundation for cooperation in Europe, North America, South Korea, and other regions.

Oct 15Thu
  2. OFweek Robotics59

    Humanoid robot daily rental prices fall to a few hundred yuan, as the rental market shifts from performances to real work

    Daily rental prices for humanoid robots have fallen from several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan down to a few hundred yuan. Around the 2026 National Day holiday, nearly 30 companies will deploy thousands of devices in cultural tourism, retail, and other scenarios. The article compares deployment scale, depth of functions, and pricing logic between 2025 and 2026, citing cases such as AgiBot Lingxi X2 generating about 2.23 million yuan in cumulative sales over 3 days across a hundred stores, and robots at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei averaging more than 400 pickups per day. It also notes that normalized operations and profitability after the Golden Week holiday remain unresolved challenges.

  3. 灵巧智能47

    Dexterous Intelligence and FA Robotics Reach Ecosystem Strategic Partnership, Showcasing Teleoperated Grasping Solution for Wheeled-Legged Robot at CIIF

    On October 14, at the FA Robotics booth at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Zhejiang Dexterous Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. and FA Robotics officially signed an ecosystem strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation on embodied intelligent robot products, technical collaboration, product ecosystem, and industrial scenario applications.

  4. 甲子光年 · 微信公众号70

    Shenyi Robotics launches Sculptor loading/unloading robot and SEEN·E SE-1 embodied foundation model

    Tsinghua-affiliated startup Shenyi Robotics unveiled its end-to-end model-driven single-arm loading/unloading robot Sculptor, its embodied foundation model SEEN·E SE-1, and its dual-arm fine-manipulation robot Edge at the 2026 Industry Expo. Sculptor has a working radius of 1.8 m, a maximum payload of 35 kg, handles cartons of 10–80 cm, runs continuously for 8 hours, and operates at 400–800 boxes per hour; the team completed a new mixed palletizing task demo after about three days of data collection and two days of reinforcement learning.

  5. Xbotics具身智能实验室 · 微信公众号76

    Shanghai AI Lab evaluates GPT-6-Astra's capability boundaries as a robot policy on EBench

    Shanghai AI Laboratory's embodied evaluation team used EBench to evaluate GPT-6-Astra as a robot policy directly, without task-specific post-training, across 26 tasks and 510 total executions. Its average task success rate of 46.7% ranked third, and its average task score of 0.654 ranked second; OpenWAM-α led with a 55.3% success rate.

    Why it matters: The benchmark quantifies the capability gap between general large models and post-trained policies, helping readers judge which task lengths and manipulation precisions each approach suits.

  6. Leiphone Robotics59

    Poxiao Intelligence and Tinno Mobile Launch Full-Body, Full-Modality Data Collection System SeePhys Hub

    On October 14, Poxiao Intelligence and Tinno Mobile launched SeePhys Hub, a full-body, full-modality data collection system. It consists of a four-camera head ring, two wristbands, three waist-and-leg motion trackers, and a tactile glove, and can synchronously collect first-person vision, hand pose and high-density tactile data, and full-body motion information.

  7. OFweek Robotics47

    Dexterous hands move past the DOF race: Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hand has four fingers and 13 degrees of freedom, with the VLA "brain" and cost emerging as bottlenecks

    Boston Dynamics has introduced a four-fingered dexterous hand for Atlas with 13 degrees of freedom in total, nearly double the previous generation's 7; Unitree's Dex5-S, released in September, also has only 22 degrees of freedom, as the industry shifts from a specs race toward pragmatism. Xinor Future says marginal returns diminish beyond 25 degrees of freedom, and existing VLA models can output only about 10 motion control vectors at the same timestamp, so many precise movements still require teleoperation. In the near term, low-DOF options such as three- and four-fingered hands remain mainstream, and products with 7-15 degrees of freedom are seen as the best market fit at this stage.

  8. 移动机器人产业联盟 · 微信公众号14

    Jisu Yueqian to Appear at Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Forum

    Jisu Yueqian CEO Huo Jianghao will deliver a keynote speech, "Breaking Through Warehousing: Cost-Reduction and Efficiency-Boosting Practices of Embodied Intelligence in Picking, Induct, and Sorting," on November 04 at the 2026 Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Industry Forum. The forum is hosted by the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance and the Humanoid Robot Scenario Application Alliance, features two tracks for picking and loading/unloading, and will hold the global premiere of the 2026 Embodied Loading/Unloading Robot Market Insight and Industry Trends Report.

  9. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号36

    FA Robotics validates embodied intelligence deployment capabilities with full-scale production line at the Industrial Fair

    At the 26th China International Industry Fair Robotics Show (RS2026), FA Robotics presented its embodied intelligence deployment results and reached strategic cooperation agreements with five partners: Boyin Hechuang, Aitu Technology, Yingshen Intelligence, Xingyuanzhi, and Lingqiao Intelligence. The industrial-grade embodied intelligence robot BW10-Lite, equipped with FA Robotics' ART series force-controlled humanoid robotic arms and Boyin Hechuang's "Bozhi-Bolt" industrial vertical large model, autonomously completes cycles of material grasping, transport, and placement; the AIRLab welding agent uses 3D vision to automatically generate welding trajectories without teaching.

  10. Robotics & Automation News53

    AutoStore launches Fall 2026 hardware and software lineup, advancing autonomous warehouse fulfillment

    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.

  11. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人36

    Flexible Sorting of Tiny Precision Parts | Atom Robots Showcases at 2026 Powder Metallurgy Exhibition

    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.

Oct 14Wed
  2. MassRobotics35

    ATDev launches RAMMP platform: wheelchair robotic arm lets people with disabilities complete daily tasks independently

    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.

  3. 它石智航 · 微信公众号55

    Tashi Intelligence's Chen Tongqing on the embodied intelligence path from foundation models to production line deployment

    At the 12th China Robot Summit Forum at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Chen Tongqing, co-founder and chief architect of Tashi Intelligence, explained the company's embodied intelligence industrialization path from foundation models to large-scale deployment.

  4. 甲子光年 · 微信公众号66

    Astribot completes 4th funding round in half a year, valuation reaches 15 billion yuan

    According to Jiazi Guangnian, Astribot has completed a new funding round, its 4th in the past half year. Since March this year, Astribot has successively completed a Series A+, Series A++, Series B, and this round; the Series B funding completed in June totaled over 1 billion yuan, with its valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan for the first time, and three months later the valuation reached 15 billion yuan.

  5. Elite Robots/艾利特机器人30

    Elite Robots Showcases at 2026 China International Industry Fair, Yuanqi Primo Embodied Large Model Coordinates Multi-Form Robot Collaborative Operations

    At booth F008 in Hall 8.1H at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Elite Robots is demonstrating its self-developed embodied large model Yuanqi Primo coordinating composite robots, wheeled humanoid robots, and collaborative robots in collaborative operations. The on-site scenarios include optical module insertion and removal, teaching-free welding, automatic drone battery swapping, and coffee kitchen applications, among which the phone gluing and tightening solution gives metrics such as gluing accuracy <±0.1 mm, repeat positioning ±0.02 mm, and a single-station cycle time <10 s.

  6. Reddit r/robotics43

    Building a remote control interface for the YAM robotic arm with Astra (GPT6) and opening real-hardware trials

    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.

  7. Reddit r/robotics36

    New UI for remote YAM arm experiments: zero-shot play with manipulation models on real hardware via Astra

    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.

  8. 艾利特机器人 · 微信公众号35

    Elite Robots Showcases Yuanqi Primo Embodied AI Model at 2026 China International Industry Fair

    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.

  9. OFweek Robotics42

    Zhongke Fifth Era Releases Embodied Brain "Epoch Spirit Brain" and Pillar Robot "Jiling-S1", with Live Demo of Three-Machine Collaborative Continuous Operation

    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.

  11. Reddit r/robotics39

    Team builds instant-retail automated packing robot with open-source LeRobot SO-101 arm, wins first place at hackathon

    A team built a proof-of-concept prototype for automated packing in a dark store using the open-source LeRobot SO-101 (SO-ARM101) 3D-printed robotic arm, winning first place at a hackathon. Targeting the high labor costs and slow picking of instant retail, the project used the Hugging Face-supported LeRobot ecosystem to complete teleoperation, data collection, and imitation learning within the hackathon timeframe, enabling the arm to reliably perform pick-and-place tasks, and released a 1-minute demo video.

Oct 13Tue
  1. Tech Xplore Robotics43

    Beetle-inspired soft robot BeetleBot walks, grasps, and relays sensory feedback via finger commands

    KAIST, together with Caltech and Nanyang Technological University, developed BeetleBot, a beetle-inspired soft robot that users can remotely control to walk, turn, and grasp by bending and extending a finger. The robot is driven by 3D-printed liquid crystal elastomer artificial muscles, and an onboard camera and capacitive pressure sensors relay visual and tactile information, enabling bidirectional feedback. The research was published in Science Advances; the artificial muscles' speed, energy efficiency, and power supply still need improvement, and performance still needs to be tested in real work environments.

  6. ZhenFund · 微信公众号63

    Natural Will releases first physical general foundation model Natura-1, 50-billion-parameter MoE drives 20-DoF dexterous hand

    Natural Will has released Natura-1, its first general foundation model for the physical world. It is a 50-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model pretrained on 1 million hours of first-person human experience data. Taking language and vision as input, it can drive a 20-DoF dexterous hand within a 100-millisecond control loop and follow complex natural-language instructions zero-shot.

  7. 国科投资 · 微信公众号56

    Astribot completes RMB 1 billion new funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation, four rounds in six months

    Astribot has completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion at a valuation of RMB 15 billion, led by Shenzhen Investment Holdings' Donghai Investment. The funds are planned for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity buildout. The company claims to be the world's first to achieve mass production of rope-driven AI robots, with capacity raised to the 10,000-unit level; its next-generation humanoid robot T1 began shipping in June 2026, bringing high-precision manipulation robots into the RMB 90,000 price range, and its foundation model Lumo-2, released in July, ranked first among participating models in the combined performance across three dimensions in more than 22 real-robot evaluations.

  8. Dexmal 原力灵机 · 微信公众号56

    Force Machine DM0.5 showcases three task types at the CIIF: connector insertion quality inspection, industrial insertion, and flexible cutting

    Force Machine presented its self-developed DM0.5 general-purpose embodied brain at the AXERA booth at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, completing three task types: connector insertion quality inspection, Insert Anything general-purpose industrial insertion, and dexterous-hand flexible cutting, with model inference performed on the AXERA high-compute platform.