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Nov 5Thu
  1. arXiv cs.RO58

    Study: Effects of haptic feedback on operator cognition and behavior in ROV teleoperation

    A study accepted to IEEE Telepresence 2026 had ROVs face controlled cross-currents in in-water experiments, conveying environmental information to operators through a soft vibrating haptic touchpad. Results showed that encountering an unforeseen cross-current significantly increased operators' physical and temporal demand, and haptic feedback mitigated these burdens and improved self-assessed performance, but also brought the highest mental demand and frustration; nevertheless, operators drove the ROV significantly faster under the haptic condition than under the current-information-only condition.

  2. arXiv cs.RO61

    PHIL: Proactive human-in-the-loop intervention via preference learning

    The paper proposes the PHIL framework, which lets operators preview a policy's predicted future actions through an XR interface, take over to correct before undesirable actions occur, and pair rejected predictions with corrective actions for preference post-training. On four real manipulation tasks, with five correction episodes per condition, mean success rates rose from 44.0% to 70.3% for the diffusion policy and from 57.8% to 76.9% for X-VLA, compared with the HG-DAgger baseline; policies trained with proactive corrections showed fewer unnecessary recovery behaviors in successful episodes.

  3. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号72

    Xiaomi humanoid robot completes 8-hour full-shift work at car factory and begins apartment pilot operation

    At the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, Xiaomi disclosed progress in the industrialization of its humanoid robot: it has been deployed at the center console side cover panel sequencing station in Xiaomi's automotive final assembly workshop, completed its first 8-hour uninterrupted full-shift operation, can independently grasp flexible workpieces, adjust posture, and place them neatly, and has autonomous anomaly correction capability.

Nov 4Wed
  1. 36氪 · 微信公众号27

    From Data Intelligence to Biological Intelligence: Nanjing University's Institute of Biological Intelligence and Its Human-Machine Collaboration Layout

    Nanjing University has established the Institute of Biological Intelligence, focusing on four directions: the foundations of biological intelligence and large models, bio-inspired perception and computing, biological computing and organoid intelligence, and biological agents and embodied systems. The team has already used a fully connected model of the fruit fly brain, with about 100,000 neuron connections, on a drone, achieving obstacle avoidance in the laboratory without traditional massive-data training. The soon-to-be-released "Guangyu Core 2.0" outputs tokens directly at the sensor end for connection to large language models, and is being adapted and incubated for small and micro special robots and commercial space.

  2. Robohub22

    AIhub coffee corner: Are humanoid robots the future of embodied intelligence?

    The AIhub coffee corner roundtable discussed whether humanoid robots represent the future of embodied intelligence. Participants noted that recent advances in hardware, algorithms, and training methods have driven leaps in capability, and that modern humanoid robots mostly use learning-based controllers and achieve walking through sim-to-real transfer.

  4. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号58

    AgiBot Genie G2: Six Robots Run 24-Hour Shift at Shanghai Convenience Store

    On November 2, six AgiBot Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24 consecutive hours at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai, covering roles including greeting customers, making coffee, stocking shelves, cashiering and cleaning, with the entire shift livestreamed. The six robots shared task scheduling through AgiBot's embodied Agent framework Genie Master and reported execution results back via the embodied execution protocol EEP, collecting failure cases into an error log and converting them into training data.

Nov 3Tue
  1. 36氪 · 微信公众号62

    Meta and Fourier build humanoid robot prototype Max in three months

    Meta partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier to complete a humanoid robot prototype named Max in just three months, and has already started development of a second-generation Max 2. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, is equipped with Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip, is customized based on Fourier's GR-series hardware, and needs to recognize voices from 5 meters away and gestures from 3 meters away. Meta says the collaboration is for internal research and experimentation only, with no sales plans, but it is recruiting for supplier development and product design roles in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

  3. 数字华夏22

    Huaxia Robotics' RoboCare Health Monitoring Solution Debuts in Macao as Jiangsu and Macao Jointly Explore New Blue Ocean of the Silver Economy

    As a member of the Jiangsu delegation, Huaxia Robotics participated in the health and wellness session of the 16th Jiangsu–Macao·Portuguese-Speaking Countries Business Summit, where its RoboCare health monitoring solution became a focus of the presentation. It also showcased the new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03, Xingxingxia P2, and the deployment scenarios of its health and wellness robots in elderly care institutions. The event highlighted 48 quality health and wellness products from Jiangsu and reached 9 cooperation projects with a total value of nearly 300 million yuan, covering areas such as intelligent robot applications. Huaxia Robotics also visited institutions including the Macao Social Welfare Bureau, and will subsequently advance the implementation of practical cooperation with health and wellness institutions in Hong Kong and Macao.

  4. 数字华夏22

    Digital China's Bionic Robot Xialan R03 Appears at Humen Fashion Fair, Empowering New Expressions in the Apparel Industry

    Digital China's new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03 appeared at the 29th China (Humen) International Fashion Fair in Humen, Dongguan, wearing new Chinese-style clothing featuring intangible cultural heritage and interacting with buyers, introducing clothing design concepts and brand stories. The robot can take on tasks such as greeting and reception, product explanation, and introducing design highlights, and is seen as a reusable digital cultural guide. Digital China said it will continue to refine Xialan R03's interaction capabilities and create standardized AI display, reception, and explanation solutions for scenarios such as apparel brands, Chinese-style stores, fashion shows, and industry exhibitions.

  5. 极客公园58

    Xinyan Robotics launches Bubbo 1 embodied family agent, priced at 9,499 yuan

    Xinyan Robotics officially launched the embodied family agent Bubbo 1 on October 29. The plush-shaped robot runs on the self-developed Bubbo OS and focuses on companion-style interaction in which it actively approaches and responds to people. It is priced at 9,499 yuan, with an early-order price of 7,999 yuan for the first 1,000 buyers.

  6. OFweek Robotics62

    Meta partners with Fourier Intelligence to develop humanoid robot prototype Max in about three months

    According to foreign media reports on October 31, Meta partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max in only about three months, and a second-generation product is already in development. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 48 kilograms, is equipped with an NVIDIA Jetson Thor chip, has five-fingered dexterous hands and a display that can simulate human facial expressions, and needs to recognize voices and gestures and maintain eye contact with people.

  7. 高擎动力38

    Gaoqing Dynamics Debuts at China Education Equipment Exhibition with First Embodied Intelligence Education Solution

    At the 88th China Education Equipment Exhibition, Gaoqing Dynamics unveiled its first comprehensive embodied intelligence education solution and presented the Mini Pi plus humanoid robot. The solution uses the Mini Pi plus as its carrier and includes tiered lesson plans for all grade levels, project task packages, a teaching platform, and instructor training; it is already running as a regular course at schools including Beijing Renmin University Affiliated High School and Dongzhimen High School. A graphical programming area was set up at the exhibition, where students can drag and drop modules to send commands and observe the robot's responses in real time.

  8. OFweek Robotics62

    Meta and Fourier jointly develop humanoid robot Max, completing prototype in three months

    According to The Information, Meta has partnered with Chinese manufacturer Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max, and development of a second-generation Max 2 has already begun. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, is equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing platform, has a head that can simulate human facial expressions, and has five-fingered dexterous hands capable of grasping small objects such as bottles and toys.

  9. Robotics & Automation News22

    Opinion: What happens when the robot is wrong?

    Amid an accelerating automation trend with more than 5 million industrial robots in operation and the new ABB IRB 1700 model cutting cycle times by up to 20%, factories need to rehearse during commissioning how operators can safely question machine judgments. It is recommended to introduce three types of drills—false alarms, conflicting instructions, and shift handovers—and to record metrics such as challenge response time and decision arrival time. Safeguards, emergency stops, and risk assessments must still remain independent and take priority.

  10. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号42

    WeChat Pay Smart Operations Robot Debuts in Store: Built on Tencent Hunyuan, Supports Greeting, Shopping Guidance, and Ordering

    The WeChat Pay Smart Operations Robot made its in-store debut at Guangdong 7-ELEVEN's 2,000th store (at Tencent's Shenzhen headquarters campus), handling greeting, shopping guidance, and ordering, with customers scanning to pay themselves after choosing. Built on Tencent Hunyuan, the robot uses its multi-turn dialogue and Agent capabilities to assist with daily store sales, payment collection, and operations, and features the Tencent Tianlai inside audio solution to hear users clearly in noisy stores.

  11. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号50

    Humanoid patrol robots deployed in Jiangsu residential communities: about 200 kWh of electricity per month, covering the basic patrol workload of 5 security guards

    Humanoid patrol robots are already on duty in property-managed compounds in multiple parts of Jiangsu. They use a humanoid upper body on a wheeled chassis and carry AI vision, environmental perception, and voice interaction systems. They can patrol autonomously along preset routes and perform verification of outside visitors, abnormal-behavior recognition, fire-hazard monitoring, and remote voice warnings.

  12. 未来机器人网 · 微信公众号62

    Meta teams up with Fourier to develop humanoid robot prototype Max as physical carrier for Muse agent

    Meta has partnered with Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max, internally defined as the physical embodiment of its personal AI agent Muse. The prototype was completed in three months, and second-generation development has already begun. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 48 kilograms, and carries an NVIDIA Jetson Thor chip to support on-device running of vision-language-action models. It builds on Fourier's GR-series chassis and motion control capabilities, with newly customized head, screen, camera, and hand and foot modules.

Nov 2Mon
  1. CVer · 微信公众号58

    Soochow University undergraduate publishes TACHIP tactile chip results in Nature Communications as co-first author

    Wang Rui, a 2022 undergraduate student in the School of Future Science and Engineering at Soochow University, published research on the TACHIP tactile chip in Nature Communications as a co-first author under the guidance of Professor Chen Tao's team. The plug-and-play soft tactile chip uses a five-pixel pneumatic array to reconstruct tactile patterns such as shape, hardness, roughness, and temperature, achieving a 95% first-round recognition rate and raising the success rate of six types of teleoperation tasks from 65% to 85% through reverse tactile feedback. The team completed validation demonstrations on the EFORT industrial robot platform.

  2. 雷科技62

    Meta and Fourier collaborate on humanoid robot Max, completing prototype in three months

    According to The Information, Meta has partnered with Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max, completing development in three months, and has already started work on a second-generation Max 2. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, is equipped with Nvidia's Jetson Thor computing platform, and has five-fingered dexterous hands that can grasp small objects such as bottles and toys; Meta requires it to recognize human voices from 5 meters away, detect waving gestures from 3 meters away, and maintain eye contact.

  3. 雷科技58

    Six AgiBot Genie G2 Robots Enter Shanghai Convenience Store for 24-Hour Continuous Operation Challenge

    On November 2, six AgiBot Genie G2 humanoid robots entered an operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai, working 24 consecutive hours in roles including greeter, barista, stocker, and cleaner, under online supervision from viewers across the internet. The robots relied on real-time visual inventory checks to return items to their places on disorganized shelves, stopping before people and then going around them, and routing around boxes. Through Genie Master and the embodied execution protocol EEP, they stored successful and failed task trajectories in long-term memory to feed back into motion strategy optimization.

  4. 开普勒人形机器人 · 微信公众号23

    Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Kepler's Bumblebee Robot Win Third Place in Express Sorting at IEIC International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition

    A team from Shanghai University of Engineering Science, using the Kepler Bumblebee robot, won third place in the express sorting category at the 2026 Global Developer Pioneer Conference and IEIC International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition, with preparation guided by Kepler's education team. The robot is a full-size humanoid with 52 degrees of freedom, a 30 kg dual-arm payload, 8 hours of continuous operation on a 1-hour charge, and 100 TOPS of onboard computing power. The robot coffee house scene previously built jointly by the university and Kepler has completed acceptance and also serves as a platform for undergraduate lab courses and scene operations training.

  6. New Strategy Robotics15

    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.

  7. OFweek Robotics60

    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).

  8. Reddit r/robotics22

    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.

  9. Reddit r/robotics35

    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.

  10. arXiv cs.RO34

    Robot Navigation and Canine Welfare: A Pilot Study Surfacing Challenges for Cross-Species Legibility and Proxy Validity

    A pilot study in a real home environment evaluated a "curve-out" navigation maneuver for canine welfare: a lateral arcing pass-by trajectory triggered at the dog's alert distance. Contrary to the hypothesis, the maneuver elicited a stronger stress response than a straight-line baseline. The authors argue that the maneuver's discontinuous execution, with the robot stopping and reorienting multiple times to approximate the arc, undermined behavioral legibility, which itself became a stressor. The study thus raises the legibility of robot behavior to non-humans and proxy stimulus validity as structural challenges for animal-machine interaction (AMI).

  11. arXiv cs.RO45

    Hybrid Path Planning Framework for Assistive Wheelchair Navigation in Dynamic Pedestrian Environments

    A study proposes a hybrid path planning framework for multi-goal navigation of assistive wheelchairs, using the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) for global task ordering combined with the Potential Field (PF) method and heuristic local planners such as RRT and A* to achieve collision-free navigation, and develops two algorithms, TSP-PF-RRT and TSP-PF-A*. In Monte Carlo simulations of crowded and super-crowded scenarios, the framework achieves efficient multi-goal navigation in dynamic human environments containing heterogeneous static and dynamic obstacles, with TSP-PF-RRT producing fewer or zero collisions and shorter travel distances.

  12. arXiv cs.RO36

    When Architectural Spaces Begin to Act: How Architectural Robots Reshape Living and Spatial Control

    Architectural robots, such as robotic partitions, ceilings, furniture, and facades, can move autonomously and reconfigure space. The author reflects on this: their impact goes beyond the moment of motion to include the spatial configurations that persist after motion stops. Such actions may benefit some occupants while disadvantaging others, and multiple robots together can make an entire architectural space appear to act. The author argues that understanding robotic architecture requires looking beyond short-term human-robot interaction to how people inhabit, negotiate, and retain control over autonomously reconfigurable spaces.

  13. arXiv cs.RO58

    Study: Biomechanical metrics cannot predict perceptual and cognitive consequences of force augmentation

    An arXiv study used an elbow-assist exosuit to examine the physiological, perceptual, and cognitive consequences of force augmentation during lifting, finding that although assistance reduced muscle activity, behavioral outcomes did not simply correspond to this biomechanical change. Assistance reduced perceived weight, but this effect was strongly shaped by participants' initial experience; assistance also selectively reduced adaptation to changes in environmental conditions, and differences in effort-based decisions were likewise shaped by initial experience rather than simply following the decline in muscle activity or perceived fatigue. The authors therefore argue that the perceptual and cognitive consequences of force augmentation cannot be inferred from biomechanical benefits alone and must be assessed alongside physical performance.

  14. OFweek Robotics35

    Desktop robots are booming: embodied AI makers bet on a new track, is the endgame a physical Agent?

    Desktop robots are becoming a new offshoot for embodied AI makers, focused on two functions: emotional companionship and productivity tools. The Letianpai desktop robot entered the market at a price of 1,799 yuan, the Lingtong Nian NIA-F01 offers companion interaction in a figurine form, and Elephant Robotics' myCobot series of small robotic arms requires secondary development. The article argues that consumer products still center on emotional companionship and have not yet truly delivered on boosting productivity, and that the future requires moving toward modularity and upgrading the ability to operate in the physical world.

  15. 荭杏科技12

    Hongxing Technology Brings Desktop Robot Lumi to Xinjiangwan City Subdistrict Event to Explore New Smart Technology Application Scenarios

    Hongxing Technology brought its desktop robot Lumi to the "Huayang Xincheng, Gathering Strength to Set Sail" water-based business networking boat race held on October 30 at the Xinjiangwan City Cultural and Sports Park in Shanghai, and introduced Lumi into regional public activities through a charitable donation. Lumi integrates technologies such as voice large models, AI Agents, multi-sensor fusion, and personalized memory; it can recognize users' voices, record personal preferences and lifestyle habits, and combine intelligent interaction with desktop lighting. Hongxing Technology said it will continue to advance robot product innovation and exploration of scenario applications in the directions of industrial operations, commercial services, and daily interaction in the future.

  16. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号58

    Wujie Dynamics and JD.com reach strategic partnership, robot K15 goes on duty at 7FRESH Coffee

    Wujie Dynamics has signed a strategic partnership agreement with JD.com. Its robot K15 is now officially on duty at the 7FRESH Coffee Xichenli store and Changying Tianjie store, working with an automated production line to complete fully unmanned operation of the entire process from order trigger to task completion. The two parties plan to advance large-scale replication across 1000+ 7FRESH stores and achieve a product cooperation scale of 1 billion yuan, while deepening cooperation in areas such as JD MALL and JD RoboBase and expanding into overseas markets.

  17. 电子工程专辑 · 微信公众号42

    Humanoid robot Apollo has entered factory testing, and the "brain" is not what determines success

    Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot has been combined with Google DeepMind's Gemini multimodal reasoning capabilities and is being tested on production lines at Mercedes-Benz, Jabil, and others for tasks such as moving packages, picking parts, and quality inspection. Apollo is about 1.73 meters tall with a 25 kg payload, equipped with 30 actuators and fused perception from stereo depth cameras and LiDAR, and uses swappable batteries for about four hours of runtime with a two-minute battery swap. Conroy emphasized that data collection and scaling compute are driving physical AI to cope with environmental changes, but general autonomy remains a longer-term goal.

  18. 智东西60

    Meta and Fourier Partner to Build Humanoid Robot Max Prototype, Second-Generation Development Underway

    According to The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, Meta has partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier to build a humanoid robot prototype named Max, weighing about 48 kg and standing about 1.5 meters tall. The two sides completed it in just 3 months and began developing Max 2 in September.

Nov 1Sun
  1. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号42

    Autel Robotics launches AAGI air-ground intelligence solutions brand with AIP foundation and three industry platforms

    At the 2026 Autel Air-Ground Intelligence Alliance Conference, Autel Robotics launched the AAGI (Autel Air-Ground Intelligence) solutions brand and, together with Daohe Tongtai and Saifang Technology, introduced the AIP foundation along with three industry application platforms: EIS 2.0, Avant Hub 2.0, and Skyshield 2.0.

  2. 云深处科技 · 微信公众号58

    DEEP Robotics' "Hangxing No. 2" humanoid robot joins traffic control duty at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon

    On November 1, the bipedal robot "Hangxing No. 2," developed by DEEP Robotics in collaboration with Hangzhou public security traffic control authorities, made its debut at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon, stationed at 4 key points around the Huanglong Sports Center to handle tasks such as intersection monitoring, autonomous patrols, dissuading traffic violations, and answering public inquiries.

  3. 量子位62

    Hongqi Chain ends robot unmanned retail system R&D; convenience-store robots still can't sell independently

    After 16 months of R&D, Hongqi Chain has terminated development of its robot unmanned retail system. The company's announcement said the system has not yet met the standard for large-scale commercial deployment, and it is shifting to a 24-hour cloud-staffed operation business. An industry insider close to Hongqi said that in summer, condensation on glass-bottle cold drinks made the robot unable to grip them steadily, and it kept dropping and shattering them; it also could not reliably pick up goods in complex packaging, and operation was even harder when aisles were narrow and customers were nearby. In a robot retail warehouse visited by QbitAI, the robot only handled mobile picking, with each pick taking about 20-plus seconds, and human staff were still needed for restocking and charging. Several practitioners believe robot retail is still in the PoC stage.