Shooting car videos with Beni is a lot of fun
Experimenting with Beni as an automotive photographer together with @AndrewOptics was so much fun 🤖🏎️
Experimenting with Beni as an automotive photographer together with @AndrewOptics was so much fun 🤖🏎️
Monolith will hold a closed-door discussion for fewer than 20 people at 20:30 on September 2 in Zhongguancun, Beijing, on how robots can move from "can move" to "can work." The discussion will begin with an overview of Agent + Robotics and cover VLA, WAM, ICL, agent architectures, continual learning, and device-cloud collaboration, spanning body, brain, data, hardware, and business models. Registration is required via QR code.
Keeping pace is his specialty. #Beni
This summer was radiant thanks to the pink moments Eiliko shared with you. 🌸✨ Thank you for bringing Eiliko into your stories and adventures! Congratulations to the 20 friends we selected 🎀 The winners list is in the comments 👇 Stay tuned for our next E-vent and new ways to interact. 🌈✨
Champion, that's NIX! 🏆🔥 (Quoted tweet: At the World Humanoid Robot Games, a humanoid robot demonstrated impressive breakdancing moves.)
Real or AI? It's hard to tell—look closely...
At WRC, Astribot analyzed the full-stack capabilities behind a single-sentence command: AI models, an embodied OS, and a cable-driven body work together to execute tasks. The article emphasizes end-to-end coordination from voice commands to a robot actually taking action.
"work"
Foundation Robotics released a YouTube video explaining why it uses Blobs to train its robot, opening with the idea that "robots might be living in a simulation." The video ends with a list of the 3D assets used and their CC BY 4.0 license information, such as "Modlinek Villa 01-bathroom-default" and "Garage - High Detail Test"; the video's main content contains only the opening and the asset credits, with no details on training methods or experimental metrics.
#India once fought to shape its own destiny; today, we are building it through engineering. 🇮🇳🤖 At @kody_technolab, independence means building homegrown #robotics and #AI to help a self-reliant, technology-driven nation. Happy Independence Day, India! ✨ #IndependenceDay2026 #Roboticscompany #KodyTechnolab
CCTV's high-end brand talk show "Dialogue" has invited Dr. Chen Yilun, founder and CEO of TARS, to share his views on what value China's embodied intelligence should create in the global market. The program will air on August 15 (Saturday) at 21:30 on CCTV Finance CCTV-2 and the CCTV Finance app.
On August 3, Chongqing Jiaotong University Party Secretary Gong Hui and a delegation visited Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) for a research exchange, where they were received by Vice President Liu Ting. Both sides said they would deepen inter-university cooperation and draw on HIT's experience in cultivating top innovative talent, organized research, and interdisciplinary integration. Gong Hui and the delegation conducted on-site research at the HIT Museum and the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems.
IEEE RAS is seeking Science Communication Ambassadors for IROS 2026. Selected ambassadors can receive up to $1,000 in travel reimbursement (not applicable to conference registration fees). Applications close August 31, 2026.
A new breakthrough is coming soon. Stay tuned.
The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has published a public notice of proposed hires for its contract staff recruitment. Following application, examination, medical check, and review procedures, Wang Yuchen is proposed for hire as an AI application R&D engineer, with an interview score of 82 and both medical check and review passed. The public notice period is 3 days, and objections may be submitted via the public notice email address.
Can confirm, this is definitely how the robot works!
Realbotix announced that its robot will appear on an Emmy-winning television show. The original announcement contained only this news along with the company's contact and subscription channels, and did not disclose details such as the show's name, air date, or the robot's specific model.
🍧 Join our E-vent 9: Light up your pink summer with #Eiliko! Send in your sweet summer postcard! Record your summer moments with Eiliko and share #EilikoPinkSummer for a chance to win one of 20 limited-edition Pink Heart Baby Eilik units! 🌸 Deadline: August 25. Let's make August pink!
Chai's big week, the anti-Cybertruck, and more | Neo & Noteworthy See our July roundup, including highlights and announcements from Neo portfolio companies and community members 💙 https://open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/chais-big-week-the-anti-cybertruck
On July 30, Rongzhong Finance released its 2025-2026 China Industrial Investment List. CAS Investment was named Best Investment Institution in China's Artificial Intelligence sector and Best Investment Institution in China's Robotics sector, while Chairman Sun Hua was named Best Investment Figure in China's Artificial Intelligence sector. In artificial intelligence, CAS Investment has invested in companies including Aishi Technology, ModelBest, Jidian Qiyuan, Wenzhun Intelligence, Lingjing AI, and Zhongke Ruijian; in embodied intelligence, it has invested in companies including Galaxy General, Varbot, Songyan Dynamics, Liangyuan Xinchuang, and Stardust Intelligence.
Pets have always been more than their appearance. They listen, keep you company, and are part of life. #Cyberpet brings the same experience in a new form. #OlloBot combines technology and companionship to create meaningful moments at home. Happy International Friendship Day. 🤖🐾
Dongfang Precision released "One Chart to Understand: Dongfang Precision 2026 Semiannual Report" on 2026-07-30, presenting its half-year results in infographic form. The captured body text contains only site navigation and a cookie notice; the main businesses listed there are intelligent packaging equipment, embodied intelligent robot equipment, and intelligent marine equipment, and it does not include specific semiannual report data such as revenue or profit.
ROBROS released a full record of IGRIS-C's first outing: it took the elevator downstairs and walked the streets of Seongsu on its own two feet. Along the way it interacted with passersby and performed moves including backflips and windmills; previously, IGRIS-C had mostly appeared alongside hoisting and support equipment. The original text says the outing had no elaborate plan or choreography and was simply an honest record of stepping out of its familiar test environment.
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Warm congratulations to @leo_lin6 and Jay Moon on winning the Best Paper Award at the RSS26 Dexterous Manipulation Workshop! 🎉 CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Rigid-Compliant Characteristics Our own team, continuously pushing the boundaries of robotic hands! 🦾
BAAI has extended its "Zhixing" science and technology talent recruitment invitation to fresh graduates from universities worldwide, officially launching its 2027 campus recruitment.
KNOWIN-X1 made its first appearance at WAIC 2026 and became a focal point of the exhibition, demonstrating a five-layer collaborative system for folding clothes, storage, and laundry. The original article presented these demonstrations only in image-and-text form and did not disclose the system's specific technical specifications, task success rate, or commercialization progress.
Every intelligent robot begins a long journey before deployment. Explore the engineering ecosystem driving innovation at Kody's R&D campus. Visit our website to learn more: https://kodytechnolab.com/ #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #RoboticsTechnology #DeepTech #MadeInIndia
Head. Hands. Whole body. And a whole lot of human data. 🙌 At WAIC 2026, @GenRobotAI showed how to capture real human experience and turn it into high-quality, scalable Physical AI data. Let's look back at the highlights! 🎬 #WAIC2026 #GenrobotAI #HumanData
Enabot has released a comparison guide for the EBO Max and EBO X: the EBO Max uses embodied AI multimodal intelligence, with environmental perception, long-term adaptive memory, and two-way video calling, but requires manual guidance for mapping; the EBO X is powered by ChatGPT-driven conversation, supports Alexa integration and V-SLAM automatic mapping, and offers fall detection, cry detection, and help-call alerts (effective detection range 10–15 feet). The two differ in privacy approach: one focuses on software management, the other on a hardware physical button.
Monolith Capital will hold a closed-door salon, "Ready Player One, Please Enter," for fewer than 20 people at SPARK LAB in Shanghai at 20:30 on July 30, discussing topics such as AI NPCs and games invading the real world. Scan the QR code on the poster to register.
Realbotix Corp. provided an update on its corporate structure and operations. The original page only offers a newsletter sign-up entry and the contact email contact@realbotix.com, and does not disclose specific operational details or financial data.
The third stop of the "Energy Relay" at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games. A complete record of the wilderness challenge featuring PNDbotics Adam, a general-purpose full-size humanoid robot!
The ATEC Technology Community has announced the final list of finalists for each stop of the ATEC2026 offline preliminary round. The first round of offline validation will begin soon, and the teams will compete on technical strength in real-world scenarios.
Shiqi Future has posted two job openings: Senior Multimodal Algorithm Expert (40k–70k/month × 15 months' salary) and World Model VLA Research Intern (300–500 yuan/day). The work location is Futian District, Shenzhen.
Quoted tweet: @lqiao shared an X article containing only a link with no text. 🎆🎆🎆
Using the AgileX UMR industry-grade universal modular mobile robot chassis and the AgileX NAVIS 3D 3D laser navigation platform as examples, AgileX Robotics argues that navigation is evolving from project-level algorithm development into reusable infrastructure. The article holds that navigation time is mostly spent on engineering integration such as sensor synchronization and coordinate frame management rather than on the SLAM algorithm itself; in dynamic, open, and three-dimensional spaces, 2D environmental information can no longer describe the real environment, so 3D laser navigation has therefore become a new foundational capability.
The feeling of summer 2026.
This morning at ICML 2026, Sergey Levine will speak at the "Offline Datasets for Decision-Making" workshop on the foundations of data-driven decision-making, covering topics from model-based optimization design to offline reinforcement learning. The talk begins at 8:15 KST in ASEM Ballroom 203. After a brief audio-visual setup issue, the talk is about to begin.