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Sep 28Mon
  1. New Strategy Robotics15

    SIASUN appears at Shanghai CIIF: launches "On the Road to Smart Manufacturing, Seeking Fellow Travelers" themed event

    SIASUN will exhibit at the Shanghai CIIF from October 12-16, at Booth A239, Hall 7.1H, National Exhibition and Convention Center, and will launch the "On the Road to Smart Manufacturing, Seeking Fellow Travelers" interactive event on site, where participants can receive small gifts. Exhibits include the wheeled humanoid robot Songyi Agile/Power, the One Hub Yishu multi-robot collaboration system, a 9-axis collaborative welding system, the "Xingweilai" intelligent cleaning robot QD750F, and more than 10 other workstations.

  2. Robotphoenix/翼菲科技34

    Yifei Technology Showcases Hongjun Humanoid Robot and Lobster Wafer Robot at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo

    Yifei Technology exhibited its first humanoid robot, Hongjun, and the Lobster wafer robot at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou from September 23 to 27. Hongjun demonstrated electricity meter assembly on site, featuring a 7-DOF single arm, a 0.6-meter reach, a 5 kg peak payload, and repeat positioning accuracy of ≤±0.05 mm, and is equipped with the self-developed YiBrain multimodal industrial embodied large model; Lobster meets the ISO Class 1@0.1μm cleanliness standard and has entered SMIC production lines. The company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in May 2026, with overseas revenue up 318% year on year.

  3. 豪鹏科技33

    Solid-State Journey Begins: Highpower Technology's New-Generation Solid-State Battery Brings a Safe, High-Energy Core to AI Devices

    Highpower Technology has officially unveiled its new-generation solid-state battery technology, with volumetric energy density exceeding 1200Wh/L and gravimetric energy density of 400Wh/kg, roughly 30% higher than mainstream mass-production levels in the industry. It has passed the 160°C hot-box test and nail-penetration test, and mass production is expected in 2027. Its solid-liquid battery has already achieved volume delivery at 950Wh/L, the new-generation quasi-solid-state battery has completed small-scale trial validation, and multiple strategic customers are simultaneously advancing validation and adoption.

  4. Tsinghua Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Institute28

    Excerpt from Professor Zhang Tao's Lecture at the Tsinghua Humanities Forum: Embodied Intelligence Empowers Everything

    Professor Zhang Tao, Dean of Tsinghua University's Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics, delivered a lecture titled "Embodied Intelligence Empowers Everything" at the Tsinghua Humanities Forum. He described three major characteristics of embodied intelligence—generality, interactivity, and autonomy—and noted that key technologies still need to be breakthroughs, including multimodal embodied large models, environmental perception, dynamic planning and control, and dexterous bodies.

Sep 27Sun
  1. New Strategy Robotics24

    China AGV Network Weekly Highlights (September 20–26, 2026)

    AGV Network rounds up the top ten highlights in the AGV/AMR industry this week. Zhuoyi delivered 4 narrow-aisle forklifts to a European hardware customer, enabling parallel full-pallet and piece-picking zones; Heli Yufeng's three-way unmanned forklift AGV appeared at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention, with its dense storage solution able to increase storage capacity by 30%–50%. KION Group signed a strategic cooperation with Zhejiang Humanoid to advance humanoid robots from trade-show demonstrations to real-world industrial logistics scenarios.

  2. New Strategy Robotics24

    Mair Microvision to showcase 3D visual perception solutions at IROS 2026

    IROS 2026 will be held in Pittsburgh, USA, from September 27 to October 1. Mair Microvision will exhibit 3D visual perception solutions for mobile robots at Booth 436. The company's core technical team was formed in 2016 and focuses on vision sensors dedicated to mobile robots. It has delivered more than 10,000 3D vision sensors cumulatively, supporting autonomous navigation robots and embodied intelligence applications with its 3D+AI deep vision system.

  3. 鹿明机器人 · X45

    Lumos Robotics releases Lumos Ego Vue head-mounted data collection device

    Lumos Robotics has launched the Lumos Ego Vue, a head-mounted first-person multimodal data collection device designed to turn real-world operational experience into structured skill data usable for robot learning. The device supports binocular first-person capture, high-precision hand tracking, and multimodal time synchronization, and can collect real task workflows and operational data. When connected to Lumos NexCore, the data pipeline covers multi-source data input, quality control and preprocessing, scene semantic understanding, spatial intelligence modeling, and standardized skill data delivery.

Sep 24Thu
  1. OFweek Robotics61

    Intel launches Agent Box and embodied intelligence development kit, using third-generation Core Ultra to push AI down to the edge and robotics

    At its Suzhou Technology Innovation and Industry Ecosystem Conference, Intel launched the Intel Agent Box and an embodied intelligence development kit, and introduced a brain-cerebellum fusion solution based on third-generation Core Ultra.

  2. 尚颀资本 · 微信公众号28

    Shangqi Weekly | Ecosystem Together · News at a Glance

    Shangqi Capital released its weekly newsletter summarizing recent developments at ecosystem companies: Yixing Intelligence completed a new funding round of nearly 2 billion yuan, with a post-investment valuation of nearly 15 billion yuan, and its first-generation Epoch compute chip has entered mass production and delivery; Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, open-sourced APXInf, an on-device inference engine for embodied intelligence, supporting platforms such as RTX 4090, Jetson Orin, and Jetson Thor; the first embodied tennis robot jointly developed by LimX Dynamics and Yinghansi Dynamics made its debut at the "Billie Jean King" Cup finals on September 22.

  3. OFweek Robotics75

    D-Robotics completes $400 million Series C, focusing on chips and development platforms rather than building robots

    D-Robotics announced on September 17 that it completed a $400 million Series C funding round led by Mirae Asset, with participation from Meituan's strategic investment arm and several state-owned and financial institutions, bringing its cumulative funding over two years to about $770 million. The article describes its positioning of not building robots; its chip-level Sunrise series covers 5 to 560 TOPS, and its flagship Sunrise S600 uses a single-chip compute-and-control integrated approach to compete with Nvidia's Jetson, with cumulative shipments exceeding 8 million units and adoption by more than 20 embodied intelligence customers. It also analyzes capital rotating from complete machines to upstream segments such as chips, as well as the ecosystem gap between D-Robotics and Nvidia.

  4. Skydio69

    Skydio launches its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, along with MegaDock hangar and two command software platforms

    At Ascend 2026, Skydio launched its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, the accompanying MegaDock hangar, the Controller 2 remote controller, and two software platforms, Asset Command and Security Command.

    Why it matters: The same autonomy engine is being extended to a fixed-wing form factor for the first time, together with a hangar and command software, which lets readers assess its path toward fleet-scale operations and workflow integration.

  5. 机器人daily · 微信公众号66

    Qiyuan Robotics launches Q1/T1 personal robots, starting at 19,999 yuan, shipping October 1

    Qiyuan Robotics held a launch event titled "Me and My Personal Robot," unveiling four models: the Q1, Q1 Explorer Edition, T1, and T1 Pro, priced at 19,999 yuan, 26,999 yuan, 19,999 yuan, and 29,999 yuan respectively. Pre-orders opened on August 23, with shipping starting October 1 in order sequence. The first batch of experience stores covers seven cities: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Wuhan, and Xi'an.

  6. 机器人daily · 微信公众号55

    Mifeng Technology launches Mifeng Pai, a crowdsourced physical AI data service platform

    On September 23, Mifeng Technology launched Mifeng Pai in Shanghai, a full-category, high-quality crowdsourced physical AI data service platform. It is positioned as an underlying hub connecting people, tasks, devices, and a closed loop of robot training data, linking 22 major categories of real-world work scenarios such as hotels, catering, and factories.

  7. OFweek Robotics25

    [Insight] Magnetic levitation robots have broad application prospects, and industry growth is expected to accelerate

    In 2025, the global market for magnetic levitation planar robots reached nearly 1 billion USD. These robots use electromagnetic field forces to achieve contactless precise displacement and multi-degree-of-freedom control, offering advantages such as high positioning accuracy and fast response. Their applications cover cell sorting and vaccine filling in biomedicine, wafer handling and CMP in semiconductor manufacturing, as well as consumer electronics and food processing. Chinese companies have already developed independent R&D capabilities for core components, with Panshi Technology and Zengguang Intelligence among the main players. With policy support, industry growth is expected to accelerate.

  8. Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center40

    Zhang Guowei visits Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, receives high-jump champion robot Tiangong Ultra

    High-jump star Zhang Guowei visited the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, where he interacted with Tiangong Omni, Tiangong Ultra, and Tiangong 3.0 in running, high-jumping, and tug-of-war experiences; Beijing Humanoid gifted Tiangong Ultra to Zhang Guowei. Tiangong Omni can run at speeds exceeding 10 m/s, while Tiangong Ultra has broken world records 34 times and set a 3.4-meter high-jump record, supported by the Huisi Kaiwu embodied intelligence platform. Its data base covers nearly 6,000 square meters, is equipped with more than 150 robots, has an annual data capacity of up to 180,000 hours, and has delivered nearly 30,000 hours of real-machine data.

  10. Tech Xplore Robotics45

    DirectHop micro jumping robot can precisely control jump height

    DirectHop is a roughly 1-gram micro jumping robot developed at the University of Washington that uses a tiny motor to drive takeoff directly rather than a spring, achieving jump-height precision of 1 centimeter; it can jump repeatedly and clear a standard step height. Its self-righting success rate after landing is 90%. The current prototype requires external power and is controlled by a laptop, and the team is developing onboard power and a camera to enable autonomous navigation. The paper will be published at IROS 2026, and the researchers estimate a production cost of about 10 dollars per unit.

  11. Zerith Robotics/零次方36

    Zerith Robotics appears at 2026 World Manufacturing Convention: from Physical Action to industrial capability applications

    Zerith Robotics appeared at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, showcasing embodied intelligence data, the Zerith V series action models, robot bodies, and unmanned retail applications. Its "grab anything" demonstration achieves autonomous judgment and grasping for small, flexible, transparent, and reflective objects, and its robot shops have been deployed at 20+ locations, with plans to expand to 300–500 within the year. In the 2026 first-half rankings released by MIR DATABANK in the third quarter of this year, Zerith ranked 13th in humanoid robot production and 14th in shipments.

  12. Zhejiang University Robotics18

    Yuyao Robotics Research Center Recruiting Mechanical Structure Engineer

    The Yuyao Robotics Research Center is publicly recruiting 1 mechanical structure engineer, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Requirements include a bachelor's degree or above in mechanical engineering or a related field and more than 2 years of structural design experience. The role involves the overall structural design of desktop-level intelligent robots, engineering implementation of open-source solutions, and micro precision transmission design. Applicants should email the registration form to the designated email address; hiring follows assessment, medical examination, review, and public announcement.

Sep 23Wed
  1. Boston Dynamics41

    Inside Boston Dynamics' Stretch Durability Testing: An Interview with Mechanical Engineer Diane Heinle

    Boston Dynamics mechanical engineer Diane Heinle discusses durability testing for the Stretch robot: she is responsible for the dynamic cable design on the Stretch arm, cycling cables millions of times in the lab at speeds and forces far beyond real-world conditions, simulating years of warehouse wear in a matter of weeks. The durability lab is known as the "Tick-Tock Room" because the cable testers swing back and forth like metronomes, and the test data is also used to refine the design and maintenance schedules, avoiding downtime at customer sites.

  2. 优宝特 · 微信公众号28

    Yobotics brings humanoid robot "Xingzhe Taishan" and quadruped robot to 48th WorldSkills Competition

    The 48th WorldSkills Competition opened in Shanghai on September 22. Yobotics brought its humanoid robot "Xingzhe Taishan" and a multifunctional quadruped robot to the Shandong exhibition area of the WorldSkills Expo, conducting full-operating-condition dynamic demonstrations to showcase motion control, operating performance, and intelligent interaction capabilities. Yobotics is an emerging company in Shandong's intelligent equipment sector, with a research and development team mainly composed of young technical professionals; it has built a full-chain independent R&D system covering core algorithms, hardware, intelligent control systems, and complete-machine integration.

  4. 逐际动力 · 微信公众号57

    Embodied tennis robot TENNIIX ULTRA MAX, jointly developed by LimX Dynamics and Inhans, debuts at the Billie Jean King Cup

    On September 22, the embodied tennis robot TENNIIX ULTRA MAX, jointly developed by LimX Dynamics and Inhans Power, appeared at the Billie Jean King Cup Shenzhen Finals, where it engaged in live, real-time rallies with tennis star Wang Qiang and completed multiple rounds of human-versus-machine play.

  5. LimX Dynamics41

    LimX Dynamics and Inxee jointly develop embodied tennis robot TENNIIX ULTRA MAX, debuting at Billie Jean King Cup

    The embodied tennis robot TENNIIX ULTRA MAX, jointly developed by LimX Dynamics and Inxee Power, debuted at the Billie Jean King Cup Shenzhen Finals, where it rallied live with tennis star Wang Qiang, completing serves, returns, and shot variations including topspin and moonballs. The robot uses the TENNIIX PRO AI tennis training system plus the TRON 2 wheeled-legged chassis, and can move at high speed and stop abruptly while carrying a load of 8 to 15 kg, varying its ball-launch height from 1.2 to 1.6 meters through squatting and rising. Both parties say this moves China's embodied intelligence from technology demonstrations toward mass sports consumer scenarios.

  6. New Strategy Robotics31

    Youibot Showcases "One Brain, Multiple Forms" Robot Cluster at 2026 World Manufacturing Convention, Demonstrating Industrial Embodied Intelligence Collaboration

    On September 20, Youibot presented multi-form robots under its "One Brain, Multiple Forms" architecture and industrial embodied intelligence solutions at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei. On site, 4 Xifeng humanoid robots and 1 mobile transport robot, powered by the FabriX industrial embodied intelligence large model, collaboratively completed a full real-world demonstration of material flow at an industrial line-side warehouse.

  7. 仙工智能22

    The only embodied intelligence product to win an award: SEER Robotics' Embodied Intelligence Open Platform receives the Goldreed Industrial Design Award for Excellent Product Design

    On September 21, SEER Robotics' Embodied Intelligence Open Platform received the Goldreed Industrial Design Award for Excellent Product Design, making it the only embodied intelligence product to win an award. The platform describes itself as the first end-to-end open ecosystem connecting robot development, integration, and application, supporting modular configuration and no-code 3D interactive operations and maintenance for more than 2,000 robot models; its Robot Brain uses a three-layer architecture of Model, Cerebellum, and Nerve.

Sep 22Tue
  1. New Strategy Robotics26

    Bangqi Technology 3C semiconductor smart logistics solution: industrial AI agents and AMR robots enable full-chain unmanned operations

    Bangqi Technology has launched a smart logistics solution for the 3C electronics and semiconductor industries, centered on industrial AI agents and AMR robots and covering five major scenarios: dock loading and unloading, production line delivery, process flow, intelligent picking, and automated storage. The solution includes the LDS production collaboration unmanned pull system and the ADS hybrid scheduling system, which is compatible with multi-brand AGV/AMR units. Dock loading and unloading time is reduced from 45 minutes to 15 minutes, and full-truck unloading takes only 3.5 minutes. In a deployed project at an LED company, storage area was reduced by 50% and overall efficiency increased 2x. A RaaS monthly-payment light-asset model is also offered.

  2. 五八智能25

    WUBA Participates in Huawei Cloud Spark Innovator Competition with Tianlang Q10W

    WUBA participated in the Huawei Cloud Spark Innovator Competition with the Tianlang Q10W and received the "Intelligent Motion Control Technology Innovation Award." The Tianlang Q10W is the industry's first modular four-wheeled legged robot, featuring an open software and hardware architecture, and completed obstacle-crossing training demonstrations at the competition venue; the Huawei Cloud CloudRobo platform and VLN model were deployed and run on real machines in an end-cloud collaborative mode, supporting real-machine validation. WUBA and Guodi Robotics also jointly exhibited an intelligent inspection quadruped robot solution for power, energy, and utility tunnel scenarios, capable of carrying payloads such as infrared temperature measurement, environmental monitoring, and high-definition cameras.

Sep 21Mon
  2. 月泉仿生 · 微信公众号44

    Yuequan Bionic Showcases YingShou Y-Hand Series Dexterous Hands and Bowen W-Bot 2.0 at 2026 International Industry-University-Research-Application Cooperation Conference

    At the 2026 International Industry-University-Research-Application Cooperation Conference (Northeast Three Provinces and One Region) and the Fourth International Conference on AI-Empowered Innovative Development of an Aging Society, held at Changchun University, Yuequan Bionic exhibited its YingShou Y-Hand series bionic dexterous hands and the Bowen W-Bot 2.0 wheeled humanoid robot.

  3. Droidup/卓益得20

    Zhuoyide Wins Two Awards at EBC Conference! Moya and Li Qingdu Share the Stage, Showcasing the Path to Fully Bionic Deployment

    On September 18, the EBC 2026 Embodied Intelligence and Humanoid Robot Brain Technology Conference was held in Shanghai. Zhuoyide received the "Yingxing Benchmark Enterprise Award" and the "Most Bionic Form" Humanoid Robot Award. The humanoid robot Moya opened the event as announcer and interacted with guests. Founder Professor Li Qingdu gave a speech introducing the tendon-rope-driven bionic body and the DroidSoul robot intelligence system, and proposed the BEISE five entry thresholds for robots entering people's daily lives: Balance, Efficiency, Intelligence, Safety, and Economy.

  4. OFweek Robotics56

    Swancor's Qiyuan Robotics launches Q1/T1, RMB 210 million in advance payments received

    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.

  5. Tsinghua Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Institute51

    Tsinghua University's deep-sea controllable visual sampler (DCVS) completes East China Sea hydrothermal and cold seep voyage operations

    The East China Sea voyage organized by Tsinghua University in collaboration with the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology has returned successfully. Using the independently developed deep-sea controllable visual sampler (DCVS), the team completed dive operations at 7 stations in areas including the Xianchi cold seep area and the Qiaoyue hydrothermal field, with a maximum dive depth of 1260 meters. DCVS operated stably under extreme conditions such as high temperature and high pressure, collecting multiple physical samples and acquiring large amounts of high-definition seabed imagery. The equipment was developed under the leadership of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, with participation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Xiamen University.

Sep 20Sun
  1. 斯坦德机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Standard Robots' DARWIN-Lift Debuts at Huawei Connect and Wins High-Reliability Sorting and Handling Award

    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.

  2. YOUIBOT/优艾智合30

    YOUIBOT to Showcase Semiconductor AMR Solutions at Kyushu Semiconductor Industry Exhibition 2026

    YOUIBOT Robotics will present its AMR material handling solutions for semiconductor manufacturing at the 3rd Kyushu Semiconductor Industry Exhibition, held September 30 to October 1 at Marine Messe Fukuoka (Booth A3-60, Hall A), and will show the collaborative integration of the OW and ATS series in Japan for the first time.

Sep 19Sat
  1. 月泉仿生 · 微信公众号40

    Yuequan Bionic showcases BOWEN W-Bot, X-Hand M1 and other products at ASEAN Expo

    At the 23rd China-ASEAN Expo, Yuequan Bionic demonstrated its wheeled humanoid robot BOWEN W-Bot writing Chinese calligraphy with a brush and its Y-Hand M2 playing rock-paper-scissors with humans, among other demos; the results were reported on CCTV News. BOWEN W-Bot is equipped with the bionic dexterous hand X-Hand M1, which has 472 tactile sensing units and, combined with full-body hierarchical neural network motion balance control, enables brushstroke force perception. Y-Hand M2 has 38 degrees of freedom and interprets gestures in real time with millisecond-level response; related products also appeared in the "With Hui Tongxing" livestream, attracting more than 200,000 online viewers.

  2. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人28

    Atom Robots appears at 2026 Tianjin International Machine Tool Exhibition, showcasing three high-speed industrial robots

    Atom Robots is participating in the 2026 Tianjin International Machine Tool Exhibition, held September 16-19 at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Tianjin) Phase II, showcasing heavy-load collaborative robots, high-speed SCARA robots, and MINI delta robots, aimed respectively at heavy-load operations, continuous mass production, and sorting of small components. Building on its accumulated delta robot technology, the company provides self-developed controllers and vision process software, and is developing embodied intelligence software solutions that integrate large models, machine vision, and force-sensing perception, serving machine tool supporting applications as well as the new energy, 3C electronics, pharmaceutical, and food industries.

  3. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人30

    Atom Robots Showcases MINI Parallel Robot at 2026 Green Building Integration Twin Exhibitions

    Atom Robots exhibited its MINI parallel robot at the 2026 Green Low-Carbon Expo and International Engineering Construction Expo held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Tianjin). The system integrates a Delta parallel robot, in-house industrial vision, and a software control system; it can identify tiny parts, arrange materials at high speed, and handle mixed batches of parts in forward and reverse orientations, making it suitable for food, pharmaceuticals, 3C, and photovoltaics applications. The company says it has ranked first in domestic market share among independent parallel robot brands for five consecutive years since 2020, with cumulative product shipments exceeding 10,000 units to more than 30 countries and regions worldwide.

Sep 18Fri
  1. 机器人daily · 微信公众号70

    D-Robotics completes $400 million Series C funding, Sunrise series chips cumulative shipments exceed 8 million units

    On September 17, D-Robotics announced the completion of a $400 million Series C funding round, led by Mirae Asset, less than six months after its $270 million Series B round. In the first half of 2026, its revenue grew severalfold year over year, and cumulative shipments of its Sunrise series chips exceeded 8 million units, mostly from volume deliveries of mass-production projects with leading customers, with customer coverage exceeding 50%.