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- CIMI: Transferring Dexterous Manipulation Skills Through Contact Unfolding
The authors propose the Contact Imitation Interface (CIMI) framework, which uses contact geometry and fingertip RGB views to build a robot-free human demonstration interface and transfers skills to a robot hand through contact-alignment-first retargeting.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- Confidence-Modulated Safety Filtering for End-to-End Policies
The authors propose a filter-agnostic pipeline that modulates the conservativeness of a safety filter at runtime using policy confidence: inside the filter's operational design domain (ODD), confidence is traded for performance; beyond the ODD, low confidence yields additional safety margin. Preliminary F1TENTH simulations show that the modulated filter combines the strengths of permissive and conservative filters.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- From Teleoperation to Long-Horizon Dexterity: Evaluating Visuomotor Skills and Offline Proxies for Dexterous Manipulation
The research team used a five-fingered robotic hand to grasp and insert RJ45 connectors, evaluating 281 imitation-learning policies spanning seven policy families in approximately 1,700 real-robot trials. Controlled ablations showed that observation and action representations had a greater impact than conventional optimizer and sampling choices. For point-cloud policies, region-of-interest cropping, representation in the robot-base frame, and normalization within the point encoder each improved success by 70 to 100 percentage points. For the vision-language-action policy, switching to absolute action prediction improved insertion success by up to 70 percentage points.
Approximately 1,700 real-robot trials compared 281 imitation-learning policies, indicating that observation and action representations determine real-world success more than optimizer and sampling choices.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- CaPtain: A pipeline for post-training small open VLMs into code-as-policy robot agents
CaPtain proposes an open post-training pipeline that trains small open vision-language models (VLMs) into code-as-policy (CaP) robot agents, without relying on VLAs, frontier models, or privileged state at test time. The pipeline first performs supervised fine-tuning on synthetic trajectories generated by GPT-6 Astra, then applies multi-turn reinforcement learning, introducing a physics critic that reads simulator privileged state to assign credit to each request.
arXiv cs.RO ·
- Jiajie Electric: No robot products; carrying out digital transformation using robotic arms to replace manual labor
Jiajie Electric stated on an interactive platform that the company currently has no robot products and is carrying out a digital transformation in which robotic arms replace manual labor. Robotic arm applications have been implemented in three areas: stator core stacking, stator core welding, and rotor painting. This transformation is mainly used in the company's own production and manufacturing processes. R&D plans must be comprehensively determined based on factors such as market policies, industry development, and the company's strategic layout.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Fixed 31 bugs in one week, only to find just 5 root cause categories
The 31 failures logged in the week before the competition, after deduplication, fall into 5 root cause categories: open-loop control, changes not taking effect, dead code, false feedback, and no attribution. Each root cause comes with real code and arithmetic reasoning, plus three actions you can follow directly.
Guyuehome ·
- Highlights from the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit
Highlights from the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit held in Shenzhen. Partners and technology leaders shared how AI is being integrated into daily work. #TencentGDES2026
腾讯 · X ·
- Taking Nine as a Sample: The Two-Wheeled EV Industry Has Reached the De-Storytelling Stage
Nine Company reported third-quarter revenue of 7.585 billion yuan, up 14.1% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 343 million yuan, but profit declined in the first three quarters and its valuation fell back to the industry midpoint. In the first half of the year, electric two-wheeler sales reached 2.844 million units, up 19% year on year, driven by entry-level lead-acid models trading price for volume, with gross profit per unit falling from about 676 yuan to 453 yuan; the lawn-mower robot business had revenue of 3.655 billion yuan, up 66% year on year, with a gross margin of 46.57%, but was weighed down by rising raw material prices and investment in overseas channels.
钛媒体 ·
- Trading money for time: embodied AI companies step into investing
Embodied AI companies are investing heavily in the robotics supply chain as industrial capital. Unitree Robotics and Sequoia China established the "Shanyu Innovation Program," and Zhiyuan Robotics appeared in 47 investment and financing events from August 2024 to October 2026, most of them directed upstream of its own complete machines. The article argues that three overlapping uncertainties—unconverged technology routes, an unformed supply chain, and unvalidated scenarios—are leading top companies to use capital to lock in supply chains, technology options, and industry positions in advance, as the industry moves from free competition toward an oligopoly rehearsal.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Meta partnering with a Chinese company to develop a humanoid robot? Fourier responds
Responding to reports that Meta has partnered with Fourier to build a humanoid robot prototype in about three months and is already developing a second version, Fourier founder and CEO Gu Jie said he is not yet able to comment. The rumored prototype, called Max internally at Meta, weighs about 48 kilograms and is intended for internal research and experimentation. Meta Vice President of Robotics Products Li-Chen Miller reportedly spent nearly two months at Fourier's Shanghai factory.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- How Alibaba Cloud E-HPC Supports Scientific Research Agents Through Supercomputing-Intelligence Integration: ToB Industry Observation
Alibaba Cloud is advancing supercomputing-intelligence integration through its E-HPC platform, using a unified computing network to simultaneously carry HPC, AI training and inference, and agent tasks, and has launched a four-layer E-HPC agent platform. Its RoboAgent connects the embodied intelligence chain from device-side collection, annotation, and training/inference to simulation deployment; HPDA Robotics includes the built-in APAK acceleration engine and claims that multimodal data processing cost-effectiveness can improve by 2.1 to 5 times. E-HPC has also formed three dedicated solutions for chip design, AI4S and life sciences, and embodied intelligence.
钛媒体 ·
- Rokae Robotics Wins 2026 Cailian Press ESG Zhiyuan Award Corporate Governance (G) Pioneer Enterprise Award
Rokae Robotics received the "Corporate Governance (G) Pioneer Enterprise Award" at the 2026 ESG Sustainable Development Value Ecosystem Forum hosted by Cailian Press on October 30, with the selection based on its governance structure, responsibility mechanisms, and decision-making system. In the first half of 2026, the company's revenue was 415 million yuan, up 136% year on year, and total robot sales exceeded 13,000 units; embodied intelligence robot revenue was 139 million yuan, accounting for 34% of total revenue. On September 29, the 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm rolled off the line and was delivered, and the company has partnered with more than 80 industry partners.
珞石机器人 ·
- Robotics Concept Stocks Swing Lower; Unitree Robotics Falls Over 10%
Robotics concept stocks swung lower, with Unitree Robotics falling over 10%, Daye Co., Ltd., Zhengyu Industrial, and Tianqi Co., Ltd. hitting the limit down, and Shandong Mining Machinery and ASD falling over 7%.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Fudan and Donghua team incubates Lingshu Zhifu, ionic-skin tactile sensors raise over 10 million yuan from Oriza and Huawei Hubble
Shanghai Lingshu Zhifu has completed consecutive seed and angel funding rounds, with participation from Oriza Holdings and Huawei Hubble, totaling over 10 million yuan across the two rounds; Linglu Capital served as exclusive financial advisor. Founded in April 2025, the company focuses on ionic-skin flexible tactile sensing materials and devices, with products including data-collection gloves and tactile sensors for dexterous hands. It has completed dual-85 testing and over 10 million repeated mechanical tests, is building a materials pilot line, and is sending samples to customers in multiple fields.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- 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.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Leaderdrive 2026 Q3 Report: Revenue Up 45.30% YoY, Humanoid Robot Business Becomes Growth Engine
Leaderdrive (688017.SH) reported revenue of 591 million yuan for the first three quarters of 2026, up 45.30% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 122 million yuan, up 30.33% year on year. Revenue from humanoid robot-related business reached 242 million yuan, up 56.10% year on year, becoming the main growth driver. Revenue from the company's mechatronics products was 51.9721 million yuan, up 29.12% year on year, and R&D investment was 37.47 million yuan, accounting for 38.7% of revenue.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Dyna robot handles towel delivery at hotel
Spotted on the job by a hotel guest 👀 Our robots take towel duty seriously. Tag us if you spot them too! 📹: travelreligiously on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DfMBo6yu-bV/
达纳灵动 · X ·
- UBTech releases Thinker-Sim embodied intelligence simulation platform
UBTech has officially released Thinker-Sim, an embodied intelligence simulation platform centered on Real2Sim2Real. The platform builds a one-stop technical system covering digitization of real-world scenarios, large-scale synthetic simulation data, and robot capability evaluation.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- 2026 "Light of the Internet" Expo Opens
The 2026 "Light of the Internet" Expo opened today. As a key event of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, 671 companies from 54 countries and regions are showcasing more than 1,000 new products and technologies.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Morning Brief | Apple may add vapor chamber to iPad Pro / ChatGPT and Codex to share quota / Chery responds to Luxeed independence: hopes team will be more like a new-force brand
Exin Therapeutics connected an AI agent to lab equipment, with Claude Sonnet 5 selecting a gene therapy and controlling a robotic arm to complete an intracerebral injection for a mouse model of epilepsy; a veterinarian first performed the craniotomy, and the entire experiment took slightly over an hour, compared with about 45 minutes for a conventional procedure of the same kind. The team required the injection plan to be approved by a human first, installed an emergency power-off button, and prohibited the agent from modifying the equipment's low-level code; during the process, a coordinate system fault was repaired by another Opus 5 agent. Westlake University concurrently established a World Model Research Center, planning to build a 100-billion-parameter model within three years.
爱范儿 ·
- RoboColosseum: A distributed real-world robot policy evaluation framework across four embodiments
RoboColosseum is a distributed evaluation framework that evaluates general-purpose robot policies over a network of locally operated robots in multiple locations, using unified policy serving and standardized protocols.
This distributed evaluation framework used 5,699 paired trials to compare VLA policies with frontier agents, revealing inconsistent rankings across embodiments and a ranking reversal after fine-tuning.
HuggingFace Daily Papers ·
- 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.
荭杏科技 ·
- HoloBoxing proposes humanoid boxing policy training recipe, training from scratch in 7 minutes on a single consumer GPU
HoloBoxing proposes a humanoid boxing learning recipe that trains a policy on top of a pretrained whole-body controller, completing training from scratch in 7 minutes on a single consumer GPU, and has released the code and paper. The recipe separates reusable motor skills from task decision-making: a compact planner requests future body-point targets, while a frozen controller handles joint-level execution.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Embodied intelligence moving from demos to real-world deployment still faces several hurdles
Xinhua News Agency's China Economic Information Service and the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology jointly released the "2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Report," which proposes that in 2026 embodied intelligence will move from development demos to routine operation in real-world scenarios, entering a deployment growth phase. The report documents that 8 AgiBot Genie G2 units accumulated more than 64 hours of operation over 6 days of testing at Longcheer Technology's Nanchang factory, completing 64,828 tasks with a comprehensive task success rate of 99.99%, and notes that task intelligence remains slightly below L3, with bottlenecks including non-interoperable data standards, a lack of calibration for data credibility, and ownership allocation still to be improved.
机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号 ·
- Toyota advances humanoid robot strategy, plans to deploy 400,000 robots
Toyota is advancing its robotics strategy, planning to deploy 400,000 robots alongside an annual investment of $6.4 billion for factory automation, with a dedicated team coordinated by its chief production officer. Walden Robotics, spun off from Toyota's AI robotics business, has completed a $300 million funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion, and its general-purpose robots are already deployed at Toyota's North American factories. Foundation models developed by Toyota Research Institute can convert high-level instructions into real-time physical actions and motor control; they have been used on Boston Dynamics' Atlas and will also be deployed on Toyota's self-developed 50-kilogram-class humanoid robot Eley.
机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号 ·
- FFR completes merger with FFAI Robotics and lists on Nasdaq
FFR has completed its merger with FFAI Robotics, with the related business and assets folded into FFR, and has listed on Nasdaq. Jia Yueting serves as CEO and Jerry Wang as Executive Chairman.
机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号 ·
- Beijing E-Town Embodied Robot Industry Matchmaking Event: Over 60 Demand-Side Companies and 30+ Manufacturers Forge 30+ Cooperation Intentions On Site
At the "Yiqichuang Future" embodied robot industry face-to-face event in Beijing E-Town on October 28, more than 60 cross-industry demand-side companies connected with over 30 robot manufacturers, generating more than 30 preliminary cooperation intentions on site. The event matched customers by four tracks: security patrol, service reception, cultural tourism interaction, and educational companionship. Feishu Technology demonstrated a quadruped robot equipped with its self-developed patrol system. A value-added services zone offered consultations on financing and listing, legal advice, and robot overseas compliance.
机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号 ·
- 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.
机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号 ·
- 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.
电子工程专辑 · 微信公众号 ·
- 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.
智东西 ·
- Around the Wuzhen Internet Conference: Shangyuan Zhixing, Freetech, Xinshengji, Sainade and other AI robotics companies
On the eve of the Wuzhen Internet Conference, nearby industrial parks host AI companies that are not competing on large models: Shangyuan Zhixing's unmanned-vehicle intelligent skateboard chassis shipments have led the country for three consecutive years; Freetech's Wuzhen base posted revenue of more than 2 billion yuan last year, with its production line rolling off one product every 13 seconds on average. Xinshengji makes commercial-grade cleaning robots for airports and shopping malls, while Sainade uses a tracked chassis plus a robotic arm to solve the last-20-meter loading and unloading challenge in logistics.
差评X.PIN · 微信公众号 ·
- Peking University's Dong Hao team proposes One Scan is Enough: embodied navigation post-training with a single scan
Dong Hao's team at Peking University has published the paper "One Scan is Enough," which uses a LiDAR-equipped iPhone to scan a target environment once, automatically generates navigation tasks, and uses the reconstructed scene geometry for reinforcement post-training, without needing manual teleoperation demonstrations.
A single iPhone scan replaces manual demonstrations; 200 real-robot tests give a success-rate comparison from 25% to 85%, showing how post-training costs could fall.
甲子光年 · 微信公众号 ·
- DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent architecture; Agibot releases GO-3 Preview and Worken; Apple Intelligence integrates Alibaba Qwen | AI Weekly
The DeepSeek Harness team has open-sourced the Super-agent research prototype dsh-superagent-prototype, which uses a two-layer Router plus Worker architecture: the Router takes orders and assigns work, while Workers each maintain their own session and working directory to execute tasks. Currently, it operates on a single GitHub repository as its working target.
AI前线 · 微信公众号 ·
- 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.
高工咨询 · 微信公众号 ·
- Embodied AI brain chip company Huixi Intelligence launches A-share IPO coaching; Elite Robots bets on optical module track with another 200 million yuan in funding | Weekly capital events
Huixi Intelligence filed its listing coaching registration with the Beijing branch of the CSRC, starting its A-share IPO process with CITIC Securities as coaching institution; it has raised over 2.5 billion yuan cumulatively this year. Elite Robots completed a new round of 200 million yuan in funding led by CCB Equity, with proceeds to be used for expanding into AI infrastructure scenarios such as optical communications and AI servers and for building new factory production lines. Zhongke Huiling concurrently completed a several-hundred-million-yuan A++ round to accelerate mass production and delivery and iterate its embodied brain technology.
高工咨询 · 微信公众号 ·
- ZeroErr previews eRob110I joint module featuring Harmonic Drive reducers
At the Shanghai Industrial Expo, ZeroErr previewed an upcoming joint module equipped with Harmonic Drive (HDS) strain wave reducers. The example model eRob110I uses a compact integrated design and offers EtherCAT or CANopen configurations, both of which support Modbus-RTU communication over an RS485 interface. During the show, senior Harmonic Drive executives visited its booth for discussions, and ZeroErr also communicated with customers in humanoid robotics, embodied intelligence, and the global robotics supply chain about selection and configuration evaluation.
高工咨询 · 微信公众号 ·
- Foundry Robotics raises $100 million Series A to build autonomous assembly factory
California-based startup Foundry Robotics announced it has closed a $100 million oversubscribed Series A round led by Marlinspike Partners, with participation from new and existing investors including Khosla Ventures and Red Glass Ventures.
Robotics 24/7 ·
- Xingyan Intelligence Releases General Embodied Harness Framework Auriga, Leading RoboDojo Leaderboard in Zero-Shot Setting
Xingyan Intelligence has launched Auriga, a general embodied Harness framework. Under a zero-shot protocol that involves no task-specific pre-tuning, no reliance on expert demonstrations, single-attempt execution, and no environment resets, it achieved a 57.74% average task success rate and an average process score of 64.00 across 42 tasks and 6,300 test episodes on RoboDojo, using GPT-6 Astra as the base model. It leads the leaderboard on both metrics.
机器之心 · 微信公众号 ·
- Fysics AI and Fudan propose Fysiverse-UniWAM unified world-action model, ranks first in both navigation and mobile manipulation across 24 real-robot tests
Fysics AI, together with Fudan University's CITLab, proposed the unified world-action model Fysiverse-UniWAM, which uses a single model to handle autonomous navigation, mobile manipulation, and fixed-workstation dexterous manipulation.
Readers can see a unified world-action model approach that does not rely on large-scale robot pretraining, along with the specific design of a shared backbone for navigation and manipulation.
机器之心 · 微信公众号 ·
- Embodied AI Industry Weekly: Unitree's Net Profit Up 271% in First Three Quarters; AgiBot Releases Heavy-Load Robot Genie G2 Max
Unitree Technology's Q3 2026 report shows revenue of 1.817 billion yuan for the first three quarters, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year; it is the company's first financial report since going public. In the same period, AgiBot released the Genie G2 Max, a safety-certified heavy-load embodied industrial robot, with a 20 kg payload per arm, 40 kg with both arms, and a 50 kg peak, aimed at depalletizing and palletizing, material transfer, and production-line feeding. Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, and AgiBot jointly proposed a new paradigm called Collective Experience Learning (CEL) and completed large-scale validation on a cluster of 96 real robots.
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