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- Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray Announcement
Reliance Foundation Founder and Chairperson Smt Nita M Ambani announces Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray
Reliance · X ·
- How 3M addresses modern robotics interconnect challenges with high-flex cables, IDC termination, and fine-pitch connectors
3M has introduced a series of high-flex cable assemblies, IDC-terminated connectors, and fine-pitch board connectors for robotics interconnects; the CoaXPress-compatible assemblies passed 45 million bend cycles, the USB3 Vision-compatible assemblies reached 100 million cycles, and the flat ribbon cables cover roughly 1 million to 100 million bend cycles.
The Robot Report ·
- Why physical AI is the next lucrative frontier
In 2025, robotics and physical AI startups completed 1,009 deals and raised $27.6 billion, more than double the previous year's total. Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105 million seed round and demonstrated Eno, a wheeled robot that can enter commercial environments. Physical AI relies on multimodal perception, edge computing, simulation environments, robot foundation models, and world models, and is in the first stage of founders rushing in.
The Robot Report ·
- Westlake University Establishes World Model Research Center; Incubated Company Awomo Has Raised Over 100 Million Yuan
On October 31, the Westlake World Model Research Center was established at Westlake University's Yungu Campus, with Yu Kaicheng as director and Jin Yaochu as chief scientist. The center builds on the Autonomous Intelligence Laboratory AutoLab, founded three years ago, and focuses on world models and physical intelligence; AutoLab shifted toward a "conceptual world model" approach at the end of 2024, building physical concept representations in latent space. Its incubated company Westlake Shuzhi Awomo was founded in early 2026 and has cumulatively raised over 100 million yuan in seed and angel rounds. Awomo ranked first in four international robotics benchmark suites.
量子位 ·
- Xiaomi unveils 21-DoF full-palm tactile bionic hand: 324-gram palm, 1,500 tactile points
Xiaomi has unveiled a bionic hand with 21 degrees of freedom and 1,500 tactile points across the full palm. The palm weighs 324 grams and is driven by 26 motors, with tendon-driven actuation as the main approach plus 5 direct-drive degrees of freedom. The team selected 1,827 of the 2,579 standard work procedures across 16 work sections at the pilot center of Xiaomi Auto's intelligent manufacturing department, collected multi-angle video and motion-capture data to work backward to the joint configuration, and says that in simulation the average stable-grasp success rate in the 17-to-21 degree-of-freedom range was 15% to 38% higher than in the 6-to-15 range, with gains slowing markedly after 21.
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- 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.
云深处科技 · 微信公众号 ·
- 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum Held in Guangzhou, with Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements and Embodied Intelligence Among Featured Sessions
The 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou from October 30 to 31. A special session on sci-tech achievement display and matchmaking took place in Nansha, where the National Technology Innovation Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area signed cooperation agreements with 11 entities including Topstar, Qianxun Intelligence, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Yuandian Intelligence. At the Embodied Intelligence Industry Ecosystem Innovation Forum, Huilun Technology, Zhongke Kaichuang, Lingxin Qiaoshou, and Qianxun Intelligence presented technological achievements including world models, intelligent inspection, dexterous manipulation, and general-purpose robot brains. The forum also released the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Precision Medicine Development Consensus (2026) and announced the first Top 10 Sci-Tech Achievements of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
雷科技 ·
- Universities use AI to teach PLC, HMI, SCADA, ROS2 and other courses; weak student foundations despite graduation raise concerns
A graduate reported that their alma mater is pushing the use of AI to complete the design, implementation, and debugging of courses including PLC, HMI, SCADA, embedded systems, IoT, and ROS2, and that students no longer read code. More than 60% of the students in that class do not understand arrays or Python, cannot write C++ at all, and cannot answer basic math questions such as integrating acceleration to obtain velocity, yet they will still graduate. The poster asked experienced practitioners how to guide these students in rebuilding their foundations.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Author gives Claude Code spatial memory, uses EvergreenSLAM to drive home robot
The author uses EvergreenSLAM, a self-developed 2D lidar SLAM project, as Claude Code's spatial memory. Through the egs command line, each location corresponds to a folder and notes.md on the lidar map, with the agent writing notes itself, and a two-day real-world demonstration was completed on an XLeRobot.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- In-Depth Analysis of Open-Source Quadruped Robot Projects: A Complete Technical Map from Beginner to Research Level
Based on a survey of more than 20 mainstream quadruped robot projects on GitHub, the article maps the open-source quadruped technology landscape across five schools: kinematic control, full-stack engineering, optimization algorithms, reinforcement learning, and hardware platforms.
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- Weekly AI: OpenAI cuts funding valuation, Anthropic rated "junk"; Nvidia invests $20 billion in Meta; Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon; Unitree and Sequoia China to jointly invest in early-stage embodied intelligence projects
OpenAI lowered its latest funding round target from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation; after Anthropic filed for an IPO, Blackstone expects it to receive a speculative-grade rating in the BB range. Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which scored 59 on Intelligence Index v5.0 to take the top spot. Unitree will establish the "Shanyu · Venture Program" with Sequoia China to invest in early-stage startups in fields such as embodied intelligence.
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- ICLR 2026 paper SAGE-3D adds collision and semantics to 3DGS scenes to support vision-language navigation
The ICLR 2026 paper SAGE-3D proposes decoupling and assembling 3DGS rendering, source-mesh collision bodies, and manual semantic annotations into an executable navigation environment, modeled as a semantics- and physics-enhanced POMDP. Its object-level semantic anchoring provides category, instance ID, and bounding box, while physics-aware execution assembles collision bodies extracted from source meshes via CoACD convex decomposition and embeds them into the 3DGS scene.
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- KAIST proposes robot-centric pointmap; π0.5 improves 7.6 points on RoboCasa
KAIST AI and Holiday Robotics propose a robot-centric pointmap that transforms RGB-D observations into the robot coordinate frame while preserving the H×W grid, and adds it element-wise to RGB tokens to inject it into a pretrained VLA.
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- Kinetix AI and Hang Seng Bank showcase high-dynamic humanoid robot table tennis system SMASH at HK FinTech Week 2026
Kinetix AI is bringing SMASH, its high-dynamic humanoid robot table tennis system, to Hong Kong, where visitors can step up and play against it at the Hang Seng Bank booth at HK FinTech Week 2026. The booth is located at Booth TA09, Hall 5E, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Kinetix AI · YouTube ·
- Why do indoor scenes need furniture that LiDAR cannot scan? | Gazebo Mecanum-Wheel Robot Simulation (Part 5)
The fifth installment of the Gazebo Mecanum-Wheel Robot Simulation series discusses deliberately placing furniture in indoor scenes that LiDAR cannot scan, because mapping requirements conflict with exam requirements; the solution is to split this into two layers, a "permanent layer" and a "blind-spot layer."
Guyuehome ·
- 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.
量子位 ·
- Tender for Steel Structure Workshop Construction of Damon Technology's Logistics Embodied Intelligent Robot Components R&D and Production Project
On October 27, 2026, Damon Technology Group publicly tendered the steel structure workshop construction for its logistics embodied intelligent robot components R&D and production project. The site is in Shangqiang Industrial Park, Daixi Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou, with a building area of about 19,000 square meters, a construction period of 10 months, and a planned schedule from November 2026 to August 2027. Bidders must hold a Grade I or higher general construction contracting qualification. Registration closes at 12:00 on November 6, 2026. A bid bond of 50,000 yuan is required, and the performance bond after winning the bid is 500,000 yuan.
德马科技 ·
- [Digital Intelligence Weekly] Zhang Yiming tops China's rich list with 670 billion yuan; Alibaba partners with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence; Anthropic files IPO registration to list on Nasdaq under "ANT"
Alibaba has partnered with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users will be able to access its text and image understanding and content generation capabilities in Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. The features will open for testing with the iOS developer Beta starting November 4.
钛媒体 ·
- The First Public Ledger for Humanoid Robots: An In-Depth Analysis on the Eve of Agility Robotics' Listing
Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq on November 5 via SPAC under the ticker AGLT, with a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion and confirmed 2025 revenue of only $1.782 million, about 63.5% of which comes from related parties.
Using Agility's listing filing data as a sample, it breaks down humanoid robot unit economics and RaaS contract structures, and provides transferable metric definitions.
钛媒体 ·
- Juqiao Industries completes 100-million-yuan Series A funding, bringing fabric electronic skin into the robot tactile sensing sector
Shandong-based flexible fabric tactile sensing company Juqiao Industries announced on October 29 that it completed a 100-million-yuan Series A funding round, led by Ant Group, with Lingyi Venture Capital, Weihai Gangrong, and Qingdao Hexin participating. The article states that it weaves functional fibers into sensing networks, and that in September 2025 its 1,000th set of humanoid robot fabric electronic skin rolled off the production line, with customers including Unitree, Songyan Power, and Lingcifang; however, its single-point accuracy is inferior to vision-based tactile solutions, making it better suited to large-area coverage scenarios such as the torso and soles of the feet.
钛媒体 ·
- Embodied AI Secondary Development Companies: Closest to Demand, Boundaries Are Shifting
Secondary development companies in the embodied AI supply chain are facing niche compression as robot body manufacturers expand into the application layer. Unitree opened its UniStore shared application platform in May, Leju unveiled its LeTools Skills development toolchain in October, and ANYbotics upgraded Data Navigator to Shift in October, connecting fleet tasks and inspection data to maintenance systems. Secondary development firms are diverging along software platforms, industry solutions, and terminal operations, and their long-term position depends on their own product and service capabilities.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Independent inventor releases on-demand network layer, seeks feedback for teleoperation and haptic feedback
An independent inventor in Ontario is seeking feedback from the robotics, teleoperation, and haptics fields on his network layer project, which is off by default and only enables bounded continuity handling when the connection is unstable to keep output smooth. In his self-testing under severe burst packet loss injected over Ethernet, the continuity score rose from 65 to 85 (out of 100); under WiFi gaming-like conditions, output smoothness fluctuation decreased by about 71%; average overhead on a clean network was +0.0009 ms; and all 36 discrete commands were delivered correctly with no phantom or duplicate events.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Wang Xingxing Enters Hurun Rich List with 69.5 Billion Yuan Fortune; Unitree's First Post-IPO Financial Report Shows Q3 Revenue Growth Without Profit Growth
Unitree Technology founder Wang Xingxing has appeared on the 2026 Hurun Rich List for the first time with a fortune of 69.5 billion yuan, ranking 78th. Unitree disclosed its first financial report after going public on the evening of October 28: revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year. In the third quarter, however, revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year; R&D investment was 127 million yuan, up 249.58% year on year.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Edge AI Daily Morning Brief (November 1): Meta free cash flow turns negative, OpenAI lowers funding target, Anthropic files for IPO
The November 1 Edge AI Daily morning brief roundup: Meta's third-quarter capital expenditure of $34.91 billion exceeded its $32.79 billion in operating cash flow, and free cash flow turned negative for the first time, to -$2.1 billion; S&P lowered its outlook on Meta's AA- long-term issuer rating to negative. OpenAI lowered its funding target twice within two weeks, from raising $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to raising about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation. Anthropic submitted IPO prospectus documents to the SEC, disclosing nearly $900 billion in off-balance-sheet future obligations.
钛媒体 ·
- The stronger Astra gets, the more one question matters: Is a Chinese robot's "body" an asset or a peripheral?
SenseTime's Astra reaches 100% on LIBERO-Long++ and 81.9% on RoboDojo; the stronger the general-purpose brain, the more easily a robot body that conforms to standard interfaces can be swapped out as a "peripheral." Using Unitree's real-machine data flywheel, Zhiyuan's 3/4 R&D investment in the large and small brains, and Galaxy General's AstraBrain-WBC 0.5 trained on 2 billion frames of motion-capture data (92.58% zero-shot motion-tracking success rate, 0.39 ms inference latency) as examples, the article proposes three criteria: depth of in-house development at the execution layer, data return rate, and scenario replacement cost.
OFweek Robotics ·
- DeepSeek unveils Super Agent architecture; Meta and Fourier build Muse humanoid robot prototype Max
The DeepSeek Harness team unveiled its Super-agent design, which uses a dual-layer architecture, event-driven operation, asynchronous multi-channel interaction, separation of storage and compute, and an external watchdog to let the agent maintain context across sessions and advance multiple tasks in parallel. Internal instances are already involved in reproducing and fixing issues and in code review.
极客公园 ·
- uni-robot-agent: A Unified Open-Source Framework for Robot-Use Agents
A research team proposes uni-robot-agent, a unified framework to support further training of open-weight robot-use agents. Without privileged inputs, the out-of-the-box Qwen3.8-Flash-Next achieves a RoboDojo score of 31.39, surpassing the published GPT-6 Astra-RoboProbe result of 28.97, and performs competitively on 19 real-world tasks.
HuggingFace Daily Papers ·
- Cubic Doggo test: Wouf's Halloween endurance test
The Cubic Doggo quadruped robot completed a Halloween-themed endurance test carrying a pumpkin payload of about 600 g, with roughly 110 minutes of battery life in walking mode. The tester said the ST3215's energy efficiency exceeded expectations; the test plan came from a suggestion by a Reddit user, and the project code is hosted on GitHub.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Software engineer asks: How big is AI's impact on robotics?
A software engineering professional posted on r/robotics asking whether AI's impact on robotics has grown large enough to replace practitioners, and hoping to learn which robotics subfields are hard to replace and which are easier to replace. The post gives no specific robot models, experimental data, or conclusions; it only solicits practitioners' views.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Meta and Fourier Intelligence Partner to Build Humanoid Robot Prototype Max in Three Months
According to The Information, Meta partnered with Chinese company Fourier Intelligence to build a humanoid robot prototype codenamed Max in about three months, and a second version is already in development. The prototype weighs about 48 kg and stands about 1.5 meters tall, runs on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, and features a display that can simulate facial expressions, speakers, and five-fingered hands; Meta says it has no sales plans and positions the robot as internal research.
The Humanoid Hub ·
- Kinetix AI and KaiRobotics humanoid robot ROOF: learning fall recovery in overhead-constrained spaces
Kinetix AI and KaiRobotics demonstrated a humanoid robot's ability to recover from falls in overhead-constrained spaces; the related research is titled "ROOF: Learning Humanoid Fall Recovery under Overhead Constraints." The content was presented as a Halloween-themed demo, emphasizing completing recovery motions in narrow spaces; specific robot model specifications, success rates, and experimental conditions were not disclosed.
Kinetix AI · YouTube ·
- Little ESP32 deskbot based on Waveshare ESP32-S3
A developer built a small desktop robot called Little ESP32 deskbot using a Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.46-inch OLED board paired with GH-S37 micro servos. They connected it to the free XiaoZhi AI service, flashed firmware using its sample code, and added their own scripts to implement facial expressions and servo movements.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- A Funny Robot Halloween Trick-or-Treat Story
The robots were told there would be candy. 🍬🎃 Happy Halloween!
NVIDIA · X ·
- Holocron Engine launches: generate a robot body, parts selection, wiring, and firmware from one sentence, then test it in MuJoCo
The author has released Holocron Engine (app.holocron-engine.com). After a user describes a robot, it designs the body, selects real motors and electronic components, plans the wiring, generates printable parts, and writes firmware, then tests it in MuJoCo. Wheeled robots, robotic arms, quadruped robots, and drones are supported; humanoid robots are only partially supported. The author says it can be tried for free and is openly soliciting feedback, asking where problems arise, what is missing, and what breaks first during an actual build.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Roborock's Rocky helps you clean up the terrifying stains in your home
You walk into your home and scream in terror. What could it be?! Not a ghost, and not a monster. It's a sticky mess in the kitchen! And oh no... there's also a dust demon hiding under the sofa. Sound familiar? Your home shouldn't be a haunted house. It's time to call Rocky!
Roborock · X ·
- Sentinel Dynamics team wins Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with SENTINEL-X teleoperated mobile robot platform
The Sentinel Dynamics team won the Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with its teleoperated mobile robot platform, SENTINEL-X. The prototype is designed to assist in inspecting suspicious objects from a distance, integrating ESP32 wireless control, ESP32-CAM real-time video, proximity and environmental monitoring sensors, as well as motor control and communication-loss handling. The team's next steps are to refine the system architecture and testing methods, evaluate performance, and explore publishing an engineering research paper.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Counterpoint: Nvidia leads humanoid robot AI accelerator market as Qualcomm, Intel, Tesla, and XPeng gradually rise
Counterpoint Research's Global Humanoid Robot Tracker report forecasts that cumulative global shipments of humanoid robot AI accelerators will exceed 1 million units by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 144% from 2026 to 2030.
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- Humanoid Robots Accelerate Into Factories Across China: What Else Must They Learn to Do the Work?
Shanghai has proposed deploying 8,000 humanoid robots into factories by 2028, while Jiangsu, Shenzhen and other regions are also advancing real-scenario training and production-line deployment; companies including SAIC and CATL have disclosed application progress. Most deployed cases are concentrated in decomposable processes such as cell grabbing and loading, test loading and unloading, and material handling and sorting. For example, AgiBot's "Nengzai No. 1" works at about one unit every 2 seconds on Buick's battery mass-production line, and Galbot S1 has entered CATL's production line to handle material handling and sorting. The article notes that entering factories still requires passing hurdles in stability, battery life and cost accounting, and cross-factory replication also requires reducing technology adaptation and system integration costs.
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- Estun Industrial Robots Rank First in China's Industrial Robot Market for Seven Consecutive Quarters
According to third-quarter sales data from third-party consulting firm MIR DATABANK, Nanjing Estun's industrial robots have ranked first in China's industrial robot market for seven consecutive quarters. Through the acquisition and integration of Kuzhuo, Estun has built a full-scenario product system spanning heavy-duty industrial robots, lightweight collaborative robots, and embodied intelligent robots, covering more than 30 segmented tracks including automotive, electronics, and new energy. A single production line of a leading customer deploys more than 200 robots and completed installation, commissioning, and production startup within 60 days.
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- First Intelligent Robot Application Skills Exhibition Nanjing Stop: 51 Companies and Over 100 Robots in Live Demonstrations
The Nanjing stop of the "Smart Competition for the Future — First Intelligent Robot Application Skills Exhibition" was held at the Southeast University Gymnasium. 51 Nanjing robotics companies brought over 100 robots, covering tracks including industrial manufacturing, power grid inspection, minimally invasive medical treatment, and special emergency response. Estun presented 18 iER-series industrial robots performing coordinated demonstrations with hand-held cutting, arc welding, grinding, and painting tools; Yijiahe showed the Z200 live-line working robot for 10kV distribution networks, and Tuodao Medical brought the Tuoling endoscopic surgical robot. The "Nanjing Top Ten Intelligent Robot Application Scenarios" were also released during the event.
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