Westwood Robotics demonstrated real-time motion capture teleoperation of its THEMIS humanoid robot, with an operator wearing an Xsens motion capture suit driving THEMIS's synchronized movements. The company has an online store available for visits.
Qiyuan Robotics, a subsidiary of Swancor, held a launch event at Dream Center in Shanghai's West Bund, officially unveiling the Q1 (88 cm, 15 kg, focused on tech trend toys and family companionship) and the T1 (100 cm, 16 kg, claimed to be the world's first transformable personal robot, automatically switching between wheeled-legged humanoid and quadruped forms). Both products received official innovation awards at IFA 2026 in Berlin.
Fourier's independently developed MetaMotus™ Galileo system has been upgraded with four new combined motor and cognitive training scenarios: bus travel, subway travel, supermarket shopping, and park visits.
Standard Robots' industrial embodied intelligent robot DARWIN-Lift participated in the Huawei Cloud Stellar Innovators Competition - Robot Labor Contest during Huawei Connect 2026, and was awarded the High-Reliability Sorting and Handling Award. The model uses an industrial-grade omnidirectional mobile chassis, dual-arm compliant control, and VLA on-device compute inference to achieve a closed loop of mobility, perception, and manipulation, with a vertical torso lift stroke of 900 mm, dual-arm 10 kg-class payload, and a working range diameter greater than 1880 mm.
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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.
STIAL has launched an AI flexible grinding solution for grinding weld scars, weld seams, and burrs on welded enclosures, covering sheet metal scenarios such as energy storage enclosures, computing power cabinets, and electrical enclosures.
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Booster Robotics' growing humanoid robot Booster K1 Explorer Edition is officially on sale and has launched on the JD.com Booster Robotics official flagship store. The product is aimed at family companion scenarios and offers full-stage English practice and progressive STEM enlightenment features. For product inquiries, contact 400-865-2028 or sales@booster.tech.
Alpha Robotics demonstrates the delivery process of its Speedybot delivery robot: orders are packed and loaded at the community supermarket within seconds, the robot passes through the access gate without a card swipe, and it autonomously calls and rides the elevator, selecting the correct floor, then delivers the package to the user's doorstep and pushes a notification. These capabilities all come from a process demonstration video; Alpha Robotics has not disclosed specific metrics such as payload, degrees of freedom, battery life, or success rate.
Tutor has unveiled its next-generation robots Cassie and Sonny, general-purpose robot workers designed for scenarios such as supply chains and warehousing; both models are already in use at production facilities in multiple locations across the United States.
Wandercraft announced the official US commercial launch of its personal exoskeleton Eve, calling it the first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton that does not restrict the neurological level of spinal cord injury, allowing users to stand and perform daily activities hands-free without crutches. The access process includes clinical evaluation, a physician's prescription, individualized customization, and training; Medicare covers it under HCPCS code K1007, NSM supports delivery through more than 180 locations, and it is backed by a 16-participant training study published in JoVE.
Why it matters: The original text is an official announcement of Eve's US commercial launch, explaining its crutch-free self-balancing capability and the access, reimbursement, and training process, so readers can understand the product's positioning and path to real-world adoption.
ROBROS unveiled Real-Time FBT, a real-time full-body teleoperation technology for its IGRIS-C humanoid robot that maps the operator's movements onto the robot's full-body motion in real time. The demo includes basic full-body movements such as squatting, kicking, turning, and bowing, as well as box handling, sandbag punching, and ball kicking. The technology extends teleoperation from the previous upper-limb-focused control to the whole body, allowing the operator to coordinate locomotion, posture changes, and manipulation in real time as one continuous behavior.
Agility Robotics has launched Digit 5, its first humanoid robot able to work safely alongside human coworkers. Customers can get early access in the first half of 2027, with full commercial availability by the end of that year.
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.
RealSense has introduced Min-Z, an improved close-range depth feature in Perception Studio that extends usable stereo depth to about 2 cm on D401/D405 and about 12 cm on D43x/D45x without changing cameras.
Why it matters: The original explains how Min-Z extends the near-field usable range of stereo depth and the trade-offs between two deployment paths, which can be used to evaluate grasping and close-range perception solutions.
LimX Dynamics and Enhanced Robotics signed an agreement in Shenzhen on September 15 to form a strategic ecosystem partnership. Leveraging the algorithm capabilities of the multi-form embodied robot TRON 2's wheeled-legged form and Enhanced Robotics' Tenniix AI tennis robot, the two parties will jointly develop an intelligent ball-sports robot that integrates mobility with AI-driven capabilities. The first embodied tennis robot developed by the two parties will debut on September 22 at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.
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SwarmAero unveiled Gamera, a Group 5 strike and sensing unmanned aircraft system (UAS), at the Air Force and Space Conference. The aircraft is mass-producible and significantly cheaper than traditional platforms, and is the first drone purpose-built to deploy LRASM/JASSM-ER-class strike munitions, with a range exceeding 9,000 nautical miles without aerial refueling and a cost per effect one-tenth that of traditional strike solutions. The aircraft has been designed since 2022 for the U.S. Air Force's "large-scale modular aircraft" program. Khosla Ventures commented that this marks an important step toward "a future where air power is built at scale."
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.
Unitree Robotics announced that the G1+ has completed 6 major upgrades across three dimensions: motion performance, perception and interaction, and intelligent experience. The upgrades cover these three areas; the original text did not provide specific parameters or real-machine verification results.
Europe, meet the next generation of service robots. At IFA 2026, UniX AI demonstrated two real service scenarios: 🛒 Retail — Can a humanoid robot autonomously restock a micro-fulfillment center? 🏨 Hotel — Can it help prepare and tidy a room for the next guest?
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.
AgiBot has released AGILE 2.0, a second-generation perception-driven locomotion and whole-body control framework that brings visual perception into the motion control loop and introduces a unified whole-body motion representation, supporting manipulation while moving, real-time replanning, and cross-robot coordination. In the demo video Acrobat BOT, the AGIBOT X2 completes tasks such as ball balancing, three-robot jump rope, and collaborative carrying; the framework also supports risk perception and autonomous recovery from disturbances in human-robot shared environments.
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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.
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Elf-Xuan 2.0, a bionic humanoid robot designed and developed by AheadForm, was exhibited at Inclusion 2026 in Shanghai, showing natural expressions and movements such as looking back. The original post says it combines lifelike design, natural expression, and embodied AI, aiming at the future form of bionic humanoid robots; this was an on-site demonstration.
On September 11, the Qianxing Future P30 series industry-grade quadruped robots were demonstrated in live operation at the 16th Smart City and Smart Economy Expo (Smart City Expo) at the Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. The P30 offers both quadruped and wheeled-leg configurations, reserves mounting, power, and communication interfaces, and supports scenario adaptation and secondary development. Qianxing Future is exploring possible applications of the P30 in target scenarios such as power grid inspection, campus security, and petrochemicals, and is using the expo to establish connections with industry partners in Hangzhou and Ningbo.
At CIOE2026 (China International Optoelectronic Exposition), LightEra Photonics showcased its CHIP TEST laser chip mass-production test system for the first time. The system provides one-stop testing of optoelectronic performance, spectra, and divergence angle, and is compatible with DFB and EML chips. The company also exhibited a dual-FA automatic coupling system for mass production of 800G/1.6T optical devices and a fully automatic coupling system for pump lasers. Topstar, as a shareholder of LightEra Photonics, provides scaled manufacturing and supply chain support, and plans to launch an integrated optical communications full-line solution.
Tennant's X4 ROVR and X6 ROVR autonomous floor-cleaning robots use RealSense depth cameras as their core perception component, achieving millimeter-level depth accuracy and real-time 3D perception for obstacle detection, recognition of people and moving objects, environment mapping, and safe navigation.
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.
Westwood Robotics has launched the new Gummy BEAR — GB01 and GB01X, with 3.8 Nm rated torque, 14 Nm / 1.5 s stall torque, and weights of 235 g / 248 g.
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How to scale whole-body data? Start from the ego perspective—vision only, full-body mesh, whole-body error of about 3 cm, 100,000 hours per month. Generate whole-body manipulation data directly usable for policy training from real human behavior, at scale. See the blog for details👉: https://www.genrobot.ai/blog/whole-body
At WRC 2026, Youren Intelligence made the global debut of a robotic dexterous hand that can perform pulse diagnosis: three fingers rest on the wrist, and on-device processing analyzes 28 pulse types and draws on traditional Chinese medicine knowledge to offer suggestions. The angel-round company, founded less than a year ago with a team of about 20 people, believes the tactile bottleneck lies in data trustworthiness rather than volume. Its CrediTac framework uses heterogeneous fusion sensors based on multiple mechanisms—capacitive, piezoresistive, and piezoelectric—and aims to deliver tactile data with 99.9% trustworthiness.
Wanxun Technology has released NOVA2.0, its second-generation flexible embodied brain, built on a touch-native multimodal hierarchical architecture based on the concept of "body intelligence." It supports native one-brain-multiple-forms, 1B+ dynamic parameter combinations, and 20ms ultra-fast trajectory generation. The architecture has completed over 10 million extreme-condition operations across 40+ real industry scenarios, including real estate and construction, power and energy, and transportation. It can adapt to flexible single-arm, dual-arm, dexterous hand/bionic human and other body configurations, and can generalize to new scenarios with as little as 1% of the startup data volume required by conventional approaches.
GenRobot.AI introduces its Whole-Body Manipulation Data production system, which uses DFM to reconstruct coherent whole-body motion from first-person video, unifying the body, both hands, objects, contact, vision, and task semantics.
In the Kepler Bumblebee smart coffee cabin, the Bumblebee humanoid robot handles the entire coffee-making process. Powered by a self-developed VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) omni-modal large model that coordinates and controls a professional coffee machine, it produces a cup in about 45 seconds, runs continuously for 8 hours on a 1-hour charge, and supports 24/7 unattended operation.
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