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Oct 5Mon
  1. OFweek Robotics69

    Amicro Technology passes HKEX listing hearing, plans to raise over $100 million, expected to list in mid-October

    Zhuhai Amicro Technology passed the Main Board listing hearing of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 30, plans to raise over $100 million, and is expected to list in mid-October, with China Securities International and Guotai Junan Financing as joint sponsors. The company's core asset is the Amicro intelligent mobile robot technology platform; it claims to have launched the world's first SLAM SoC dedicated to intelligent mobile robots, and its main control SoC AM970 integrates an NPU with 5 TOPS of computing power.

  2. RobCo61

    RobCo hits $1 billion valuation to become a unicorn, offers employee secondary liquidity

    RobCo's valuation has surpassed $1 billion, doubling within nine months, bringing in new investment through an employee secondary sale, with participation from existing investors including Sequoia and Lightspeed and new investors including Cherry Ventures. Its autonomous industrial robot Alfie will be officially commercially launched on March 4, 2027, at the RobCoN summit in Munich. The company is stepping up its push into the US market, with its CEO having relocated to the US, manufacturing and assembly operations in Austin, Texas, and a lab in San Francisco.

    Why it matters: The company officially announced a valuation above $1 billion and liquidity through an employee secondary sale, offering insight into its capital cadence and US expansion plans.

Oct 4Sun
Oct 3Sat
  1. Robotics 24/762

    Boston Dynamics unveils new-generation dexterous hands for the Atlas humanoid robot

    Boston Dynamics has released a new generation of dexterous hands for the Atlas humanoid robot, moving from 7 degrees of freedom in the previous generation to 13 degrees of freedom across four fingers, using a single actuator type for direct drive and full encapsulation. The new design is aimed at manipulation rather than simple grasping: a four-DOF opposable thumb supports fingertip sliding, pinching, three-finger grasping, and gripping tools such as drills and welding torches, while the strength still allows it to carry a mini-fridge payload of 100lb+, and it supports high-fidelity simulation for sim-to-real reinforcement learning.

Oct 2Fri
  1. 帕西尼 · 微信公众号41

    PaXini Showcases PIE Full-Stack Tactile Infrastructure at IROS 2026, with Three Talks Addressing Core Physical AI Questions

    As the highest-level sponsor and partner of IROS 2026, PaXini presented its full product lineup at the conference, including sensors, dexterous hands, PXCAP series data-collection gloves, and complete humanoid robots, demonstrating its "PIE" (Perception-Intelligence-Execution) full-stack closed-loop system.

  4. Tech Xplore Robotics49

    SUTD ALBATROSS: a bioinspired sensing platform that spins down like a maple seed and sails autonomously after splashdown

    A team at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed the ALBATROSS bioinspired platform, which, when released from 150 meters, descends stably by passive autorotation on a rigid wing-sail, splashes down with low impact and self-rights, then sails autonomously between set waypoints.

Oct 1Thu
  1. IEEE Spectrum Robotics66

    Boston Dynamics unveils newly designed hand for Atlas robot, increasing degrees of freedom from 7 to 13

    Boston Dynamics has released a redesigned hand for the Atlas robot, increasing degrees of freedom from 7 to 13 and adding finger splay, enabling it to grip tools such as trigger-operated drills and welding guns. The design abandons humanlike appearance (dropping the pinky finger) and uses direct-drive actuators embedded in the joints, with no tendon cables and actuator packs that can be replaced as a whole, balancing simulability, mass producibility, and low-cost repair. Alberto Rodriguez said the team is studying the design adjustments needed to produce 100,000 hands per year and plans to use reinforcement learning to explore beyond-human motions such as finger splay.

  2. Boston Dynamics67

    Boston Dynamics unveils dexterous hand for next-gen Atlas robot: 13-DOF four-finger design

    Boston Dynamics has unveiled a dexterous hand for its next-generation Atlas humanoid robot, increasing from GR2's 7 degrees of freedom to 13, using a four-finger design with a 4-DOF opposable thumb, direct drive, and only a single actuator type. The design drops the pinky finger to reduce cost and complexity, is equipped with fingertip and palm pressure tactile sensors, supports pinch grasping, three-finger grasping, and pressing tool triggers, and was optimized for high-fidelity simulation for sim-to-real transfer and reinforcement learning, with preliminary sim-to-real results on dynamic tasks already available.

    Why it matters: The original article details the degrees of freedom, actuation, and simulation design tradeoffs of the next-generation Atlas dexterous hand, letting readers understand how the hand design serves reinforcement learning and real-world work.

  3. Tech Xplore Robotics63

    NUS team achieves multi-segment bending in soft robotic arm using continuous artificial muscle

    A team from the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering published research in Science Advances using wire-bonded junctions (WBJ) inspired by octopus neuromuscular junctions, enabling a single shape-memory alloy spring artificial muscle to heat and contract in selected segments, achieving multi-segment controllable bending along a continuous arm without needing an independent actuator at each position.

  4. Wandercraft68

    Wandercraft Acquires Ekso Bionics to Form Medical Exoskeleton Company

    Wandercraft announced the acquisition of Ekso Bionics from a subsidiary of ChronoScale Holdings; the deal was signed and closed simultaneously, with financial terms undisclosed.

    Why it matters: The source is the acquiring party itself and provides details on the combined product line, clinical coverage, and reimbursement, allowing readers to assess changes in the medical exoskeleton market landscape.

Sep 30Wed
  1. 开普勒人形机器人 · 微信公众号42

    Kepler K2 Bumblebee, Qilin Series, and Smart Coffee Cabin Deployed Across Multiple Cities: Global Digital Trade Expo, Wuhan Guqin Cruise, and Shanghai University of Engineering Science

    The Kepler K2 Bumblebee, the Qilin series quadruped robots, and the smart coffee cabin have been deployed across multiple cities at the Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, the Guqin cruise ship in Wuhan, and Shanghai University of Engineering Science. The Qilin series is a hybrid-architecture heavy-duty quadruped robot with a payload in the hundreds of kilograms and 8 hours of endurance at full load; the K2 Bumblebee has a dual-arm payload of 30 kg and can run 8 hours on a 1-hour charge, and both share self-developed planetary roller screw actuators. The Kepler coffee house deployed at Shanghai University of Engineering Science delivers production-grade real robots for students' secondary development.

  2. Stial/斯帝尔科技49

    STIER AI Flexible Grinding Robot Wins Another Bid for Flexible Grinding Line Upgrade Project at Medical Device Manufacturer

    STIER's AI flexible grinding robot has won another bid for a flexible grinding line equipment upgrade project at a well-known domestic medical device manufacturer. The workstation has run continuously for tens of thousands of hours on a real high-load production line, achieving an oxide layer removal rate of over 99%, raising pre-coating pretreatment yield from 85% to 98%, shortening per-piece processing time by 42%, and achieving contact force control accuracy of ±0.5% FS. Through its modular product system, AI process knowledge base, and digital twin offline verification, the company enables replicable, scalable delivery from single machines to complete lines.

  3. Stial/斯帝尔科技45

    Stial AI flexible grinding robot wins bid for dynamic and static column grinding project for high-end medical imaging equipment

    Stial has won the bid for the dynamic and static column AI flexible grinding project of a domestic high-end medical imaging equipment manufacturer, for surface treatment of precision structural parts of dental medical imaging equipment. The solution uses the self-developed PolishX flexible force control system to compensate grinding contact force in real time, and NextBrain™ AI Mushroom Cloud to intelligently match process parameters, adapting to multi-process switching from 80-grit rough grinding to 400-grit fine polishing, and is paired with a dual-station 360° rotary positioner and an intelligent abrasive library to achieve full-coverage grinding in multiple orientations.

  4. Figure AI27

    Figure AI holds retirement smelting for F.02 robot fleet, with robots autonomously jumping into a Finnish steel plant furnace

    Figure AI retired its Figure 02 (F.02) fleet, with Arnold Schwarzenegger taking part, training the robots to autonomously jump into a 75-ton electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland, to be melted down in order to protect proprietary hardware. The robots completed the jump using AI policies trained in simulation; the team had only 24 hours and six smelting opportunities, with a 20-minute window for each smelt. The metal from the smelting will be processed into limited-edition commemorative items for sale.

  5. OFweek Robotics41

    World's First Embodied Intelligent Robot with Fully Domestic Electronic Architecture Officially Released

    On September 28, the world's first embodied intelligent robot equipped with a fully domestic electronic architecture was released in Yichang, Hubei. The architecture is based on Dongtu Technology's Intewell operating system, AUTBUS deterministic bus, MaVIEW industrial software, and domestic AI processor chips, achieving isolated integration of control and AI computing. Compared with foreign solutions such as Linux/ROS and CAN/EtherCAT, it offers millisecond-level vision-control coordination and microsecond-level motion control response.

  6. Leiphone Robotics64

    Yuansheng Intelligence's Yang Sicheng: Before Embodied Model Capabilities Break Through, Dexterous Hands Must First Compete on Performance

    In an interview, Yuansheng Intelligence founder Yang Sicheng proposed that when model capabilities are not strong enough, hardware capabilities must be very strong, and only after models break through can dexterous hands simplify. Its self-developed Apex Hand uses an in-palm hybrid tendon-driven scheme, has 21 degrees of freedom, a maximum single-hand active payload of 30 kg, and an open-close time of about 0.2 seconds, and was carried by the gold, silver, and bronze medal teams in the heavyweight categories of weightlifting and tug-of-war at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in August 2026. He emphasized prioritizing reliability and dexterity, using unidirectional tendon drive plus end encoders to compensate for creep, and believes the endgame for dexterous hands is a reliable general-purpose productivity tool.

  7. Leiphone Robotics59

    X Square Robot releases TwinDEX embodiment-free data collection system, with hundreds of data samples supporting a 24-step chemistry experiment demonstration

    X Square Robot has released the TwinDEX system, consisting of a wearable embodiment-free data collection kit, a matching robot end effector, and data processing and policy training pipelines. Using hundreds of purely embodiment-free data samples (none from a real robot), the robot completed a chemistry experiment in a single continuous take, performing 24 sub-actions including opening a bottle and sampling, dropper operation, guiding liquid with a glass rod, and shaking to mix.

  8. Leiphone Robotics71

    Leiphone reviews vision-based tactile sensor controversy and vendor progress: cost, thickness consistency, and data remain hurdles

    Leiphone visited vision-based tactile vendors including Daimon, Yimu, Weitai, Qianjue, and Moliang, reviewing the principles, product specifications, and deployment scenarios of this technology route and responding to doubts such as "a camera plus silicone is easy to replicate." The article notes that domestic vendors have reached frame rates in the hundreds of Hz, thicknesses in the 3 mm range, and that multiple products offer IP65 or higher protection; Daimon proposed the VTLA architecture and open-sourced 10,000 hours of tactile data, but cost, consistency and durability, and how to integrate tactile data into model training remain hurdles the industry has yet to clear.

  9. New Strategy Robotics22

    SIASUN's fully automated server solutions: single-station, full-line, and smart factory delivery

    SIASUN has launched an automated server assembly solution covering assembly, transfer, inspection, and rack loading and unloading, with flagship projects already deployed, including an AI server automated assembly line, a fully automated OAM compute module assembly line, single-station equipment, and supernode rack loading and unloading equipment. The solution uses vision-based positioning, force-controlled assembly, and in-line error-proofing inspection, supports flexible mixed-model production, and connects to MES data interfaces for full-process traceability. SIASUN can deliver at three levels—smart factory, full line, and single-station upgrade—to suit both new builds and retrofits of existing production lines.

  10. New Strategy Robotics22

    Hefei Banyitong (MiMA) MC12 Stand-On Three-Way Stacking Forklift Helps Hotel Supplies Warehouse Expand Capacity and Improve Efficiency

    A hotel supplies company in Jiangsu used the Hefei Banyitong (MiMA) MC12 stand-on three-way stacking forklift to convert an ultra-narrow-aisle high-bay dense storage facility. The forklift has a rated load of 1.2 tons and maintains full load capacity through a 5.5-meter lift; its three-stage full-free mast offers a standard lift height of up to 9 meters. Fork side-shift plus 180° rotation linkage reduces the required net aisle width to just 1.65 meters, and a crosshair light and fork camera system reduce blind spots. A magnetic-navigation automated driving mode is optional.

  11. Singularity Hub76

    KAIST quadruped robot RAIBO2 completes marathon without battery swap, ~40 miles per charge

    KAIST's quadruped robot RAIBO2 finished the Persimmon Marathon in Sangju, South Korea, in 4 hours 19 minutes 52 seconds, slightly faster than the human average, without swapping or recharging its battery, and still had 34% charge at the finish; the team described the work in a Nature paper last week.

    Why it matters: The research moves energy saving for legged robots from optimizing single components to holistic design across joints and circuits, offering concrete methods transferable to long-duration outdoor robots.

  12. Fudan Multimodal Embodied Intelligence29

    Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Lecture Series · Session 13 | Professor Gu Guoying: Research Progress in Soft Robots

    At Session 13 of the Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Lecture Series, Professor Gu Guoying of Shanghai Jiao Tong University gave a report titled "Research Progress in Soft Robots," sharing results in three areas: high-performance artificial muscles, rigid-soft coupled dexterous robotic hands, and flexible tactile sensing and wearable systems.

  13. NEURA Robotics53

    NEURA Robotics Establishes NEURA HealthTech, Enters Healthcare Sector and Launches Empty-Bed Transport Robot

    NEURA Robotics has established a dedicated business unit, NEURA HealthTech, to bring Physical AI into healthcare and life sciences. Its first application is an autonomous mobile robot that transports empty beds between wards and floors on a per-request basis; at roughly 20 trips per day, it can free up more than 1,300 hours per year for nursing teams.

  15. vizumtech/伟景智能42

    Jinrong Robotics launches "Zhihanxing" welding robot with Weijing Intelligent Starlight Eye 3D camera for "weld-on-sight" capability

    Jinrong Robotics launched its new vision-based welding product "Zhihanxing" on September 29, using the welding-specific 3D camera from Weijing Intelligent's Starlight Eye series. The camera offers high-precision, high-frame-rate 3D imaging, resists interference from strong light, reflections, light-absorbing surfaces, and arc light, supports combined dynamic and static modes, and reduces hand-eye calibration through zero-error positioning at the coordinate origin. The system can preset photo positions, then use vision to locate the workpiece and weld seam before welding, reducing reliance on fixed positions and preset trajectories.

Sep 29Tue
  1. Tech Xplore Robotics60

    MIT team builds paper-thin, two-finned robot powered by muscle cells that can swim through underwater mazes

    An MIT team published in Advanced Functional Materials a paper-thin, two-finned swimming robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells that can follow light to swim through a simple underwater maze. The robot's skeleton is a GelMA gel film about the size of a stick of gum and roughly half a millimeter thick, stamped with square recessed grooves on its underside; muscle cells on its surface are genetically engineered to twitch in response to light, and researchers steer direction and speed by alternately illuminating the two fins, with the robot able to swim about 4 times its body length in one minute at its fastest.

  3. 松山湖国际机器人研究院 · 微信公众号65

    Benmo Technology Lists on HKEX, Becoming XbotPark's Third Listed Company in Ten Months

    On September 29, XbotPark-incubated company Benmo Technology (stock code 06731.HK) began trading on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Described as the first direct-drive stock in Hong Kong, it is the third listed company from the XbotPark system, after CiDi and Woan Robotics.

    Why it matters: The article traces how direct-drive technology moved from a laboratory prototype to annual shipments of 8.5 million units, covering the engineering and scenario-selection process, and serves as a reference case for deep-tech startup paths.

  4. OFweek Robotics58

    Zero Power Robot completes Series A funding, securing six rounds of investment in 19 months

    Hefei Zero Power Robot has completed a new Series A funding round, with investors including Wuxi Guolian Xizhou Fund, Qingke Industrial Investment, Cowin Capital, and Hefei Venture Capital, among others. The company has completed six funding rounds in the 19 months since its founding in January 2025. The team is built on the Tsinghua AI&Robot Laboratory, and its self-developed ZERITH Z1 bipedal humanoid robot has 27 degrees of freedom and joint motors with a peak of 150Nm. The wheel-arm model H1 has a maximum single-arm reach of nearly 80 centimeters. The products have been deployed in more than 20 landmark scenarios and have monthly production capacity at the hundred-unit level.

  5. Agile Robots/思灵机器人58

    Agile Robots and Hitachi partner to bring Physical AI into manufacturing

    Agile Robots and Hitachi have formed a co-creation partnership to bring Physical AI into real factories and commercialize it. Hitachi provides Physical AI technology, system integration capabilities, and over 110 years of manufacturing and operational technology experience, while Agile Robots provides robotic arms, mobile robots, the Agile ONE humanoid robot, and the AgileCore software platform.

  6. Yaskawa49

    Yaskawa Electric adds CPU-14U to MPX1000 series: fastest processing performance in the series, servo control unit for up to 256 axes now on sale

    Yaskawa Electric began sales on September 29, 2026, of the CPU-14U CPU unit for the MPX1010 and the CM-EC02 and CM-EC02M EtherCAT communication units/modules, all new additions to the MPX1000 series. The CPU-14U's processing performance is 1.5 times that of the CPU-12U within the series and 12 times that of the MP3300's CPU-301; the CPU alone can synchronously control up to 256 servo motors, and with the addition of the SVF-12 motion unit this reaches 640 axes. Pricing is open.

  7. Sharpa59

    Sharpa launches D01 tactile robot, W02 dexterous hand, and AE01 data glove at IROS 2026

    Sharpa launched three products at IROS 2026: the D01 manipulation robot with integrated tactile sensing, featuring an end-effector speed over 10.5 m/s, repeatability of 0.2 mm, and electronic-skin tactile sampling at 100 Hz; the W02 fully tactile compact dexterous hand, with 21 active degrees of freedom, about 30% smaller than the W01, and fingertip force sensing from 5 mN to 30 N; and the AE01 high-fidelity tactile exoskeleton data glove, which uses 22 encoders for teleoperation and data collection and supports 256-level continuous tactile feedback per fingertip.

  8. 珞石机器人60

    ROKAE's 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm rolls off the line and is delivered

    ROKAE's 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm officially rolled off the line and was delivered on September 29 at its smart manufacturing future factory. The company says it has partnered with more than 80 leading industry partners, and that its force-controlled arms continue to enter real application scenarios. Its humanoid force-controlled product line includes the Xuanji HSA series force-controlled joints with built-in high-precision torque sensors; the Taibai AR series humanoid force-controlled arms, which cover a payload range of 3-20 kg and adopt a humanoid seven-degree-of-freedom and cross-wrist configuration; and the Xuanhe iNex control system, which integrates force control with WBC whole-body motion control.

    Why it matters: The piece explains in fairly specific terms the path of transferring a decade of industrial force-control expertise to humanoid actuation units, as well as the product line composition that supports the 10,000-unit delivery.

Sep 28Mon
  1. Robohub60

    EPFL and NYU release scalable biomimetic robotic fish ScaFi, whose swimming gait remains consistent across a nearly fivefold change in body length

    An EPFL and NYU team published ScaFi in npj Robotics, a biomimetic robotic fish based on the tail-swinging motion of cod and mackerel, scaled up by simply thickening a fiberglass tail rod proportionally. The team built three sizes—0.6, 1.1, and 2.9 meters—and tested them in a creek and Lake Geneva; after normalization by body length, the swimming gait was largely consistent. The largest model has lower energy efficiency and needs a stronger motor, while under disturbance the smaller models are more agile but recover more slowly.

  2. Leiphone Robotics59

    Shutu Technology completes nearly 100 million yuan Pre-A funding round, securing three rounds of investment within one month

    Shutu Technology has completed a nearly 100 million yuan Pre-A funding round, co-led by CDH Baifu and Kunpeng Fund, with joint investment from Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital, and an oversubscribed follow-on investment from existing shareholder Qushi Investment; this is the company's third funding round within one month. The funds will be used for R&D on tactile data representation training, to drive iteration of the SynaTac tactile product line, and to expand business for robot contact strategy training and on-device deployment; the company also publicly unveiled for the first time its embodied data and skill evaluation system covering three stages: data metric evaluation, trainability evaluation, and task and real-environment validation.

  3. 逐际动力 · 微信公众号57

    LimX Dynamics and Kyland Technology Release China's First Humanoid Robot with a Domestic Electronic Architecture

    On September 28, the 2026 Domestic Electronic Architecture Embodied Intelligent Robot Launch Event was held in Yichang, Hubei. LimX Dynamics and Kyland Technology officially released China's first humanoid robot equipped with a domestic electronic architecture, achieving end-to-end integration of domestic industrial-grade real-time communication capabilities within the complex system of a humanoid robot. LimX Dynamics provided the body hardware, the brain-cerebellum integration technology, and the humanoid brain system COSA as the full-robot validation platform, while Kyland Technology provided the fully domestic underlying electronic architecture. Through full-robot collaboration, the two parties are driving the domestic electronic architecture toward real-world deployment.

  4. Leiphone Robotics58

    Sharpa unveils D01 humanoid robot, W02 dexterous hand, and AE01 data glove at IROS

    Sharpa unveiled three fully self-developed new products on-site at IROS in Pittsburgh: the tactile-sensing dexterous manipulation robot D01, the dexterous hand W02, and the exoskeleton tactile data glove AE01. D01 has a maximum end-effector speed exceeding 10.5 m/s, repeat positioning accuracy of 0.2 mm, and is equipped with a full-body electronic skin; W02 integrates 21 active degrees of freedom and is about 30% smaller than W01; AE01 includes 22 encoders and 256-level tactile feedback per fingertip, for teleoperation and data collection. The IROS exhibition runs until October 1 Beijing time, at booth 514.