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Oct 10Sat
  1. New Strategy Robotics10

    CeMAT ASIA 2026: Tusk Robots invites you to the Shanghai logistics exhibition

    Guangdong Tusk Robots will exhibit at CeMAT ASIA 2026, booth B2-1 in Hall N1 of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, from November 3 to 6. The company focuses on pallet automation and handling, offering pallet handling and picking robot products, and has developed robot system solutions for large-scale fleet scheduling, with applications covering electronics, automotive, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, chemicals, commerce and other sectors. The booth will also showcase multiple products and a new product yet to be unveiled.

  4. 极客公园33

    Jev developer TypeSafe AI valued at $7.5 billion; Apple reaches acqui-hire deal with Huxe; OpenAI and Anthropic executives privately game out AI catastrophe scenarios

    TypeSafe AI's decision model Jev went viral within weeks of launch, and the company completed a funding round of about $870 million led by a16z at a $7.5 billion valuation with a team of only 20 people. Apple reached an acqui-hire agreement with Huxe, an AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM team members, bringing in employees and obtaining a technology license without purchasing the company's business; the amount was not disclosed.

  5. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号24

    Topstar Global Open Day 2026 to Kick Off, Focusing on Industrial Embodied Intelligence Deployment

    Topstar has announced that it will hold the TOPS DAY 2026 Global Open Day on November 7–8 in Dongguan, Guangdong, under the theme "Reaching What a Beautiful Topstar Can Touch," with a focus on deployment applications of industrial embodied intelligence. The Open Day will release AI+robotics industrial scenario solutions, humanoid robot five-axis machining solutions, and precision injection molding solutions, covering four main product lines: embodied intelligence, industrial robots, CNC machine tools, and injection molding machines. The second day of the event will feature "Robot Camp" and "Robot Carnival" experience sessions, and Chairman Wu Fengli will share the company's AI industry layout on site.

  6. Robotics & Automation News56

    Kingston University selected to lead the UK's first waste and recycling robotics adoption hub, NORAH

    Kingston University has been selected to lead the UK's first waste and recycling robotics adoption hub, NORAH, as part of the government's 40 million pound (approximately 53 million USD) robotics adoption program. The NORAH project is funded with 3.6 million pounds, of which Kingston University receives 1.5 million pounds, funded by Innovate UK.

  7. 力合科创10

    Lixing Technology and Yves Rocher exchange on cooperation outcomes in France and discuss future development

    Lixing Technology and Yves Rocher recently held a cooperation exchange in La Gacilly, France, reviewing six years of collaboration. The new packaging for a high-end lipstick product jointly developed by the two parties has officially launched. The packaging uses a thin-wall all-PET middle core, achieving a single-material design for the middle core, and has been implemented from design and R&D through prototyping to mass production. The two parties will continue to explore directions including single materials, packaging reduction, recycled materials, and refillable packaging.

Oct 9Fri
  2. New Strategy Robotics39

    One phone off the line every 18.5 seconds: What is hidden inside Honor's "Magic Cube" smart warehousing system

    At its global manufacturing center in Pingshan, Shenzhen, Honor partnered with Hikrobot to build a smart logistics system for its finished-phone warehouse, achieving one phone off the line every 18.5 seconds. The system deploys STU robots, AMR latent robots, conveyor lines, articulated robots, and industrial cameras. Its core "Honor Magic Cube" smart warehousing system supports high-frequency inbound and outbound handling of 750 boxes per hour, minute-level inventory sorting, and STU goods-to-person picking, and works in coordination with iWMS, RCS, and a panoramic logistics digital twin system. AMRs can connect with elevators to enable cross-floor transport.

  3. AgiBot44

    AGIBOT opens office in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

    AGIBOT opened a Hong Kong office at Times Square in Causeway Bay on October 9 to expand its local business and partnerships. The company plans a phased rollout, including establishing an international R&D headquarters, building joint laboratories with local universities, and investing tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to support research collaboration; starting that day, it will hold campus recruitment presentations at universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The office will also explore practical robotics applications in service scenarios such as retail and hospitality.

  4. The Robot Report54

    Jabil discusses the pace and challenges of humanoid robots from prototype to mass production

    Thomas Brown of manufacturing services provider Jabil spoke with The Robot Report about the cost structure and manufacturability required for humanoid robots to reach the tens-of-thousands scale. He said edge compute and price remain pain points, that consumer-grade robots may arrive in about five years, and that humanoids will not replace traditional high-speed automation; safety certification and failure-mode research still require substantial work.

  5. Tsinghua Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Institute57

    Tsinghua-led expedition identifies new large high-temperature hydrothermal field in the Western Pacific

    An 18-day joint Western Pacific hydrothermal expedition by Tsinghua University, the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other institutions conducted seven dives and identified a new large high-temperature active hydrothermal field, preliminarily confirming its potential for large-scale polymetallic sulfide resources, with associated gold content of up to 15.4 ppm and associated silver content of up to 1,271 ppm.

Oct 8Thu
  3. ROBOTIS · X16

    ROBOTIS to exhibit at 2026 RobotWorld

    🤖ROBOTIS will attend 2026 RobotWorld At our booth, we will present a special AI Sapiens Show🪩✨ Only at ROBOTIS—don't miss it! [Join us] 📍 Location: KINTEX Exhibition Hall 1 (Halls 3–5), Goyang, South Korea 📍 Booth: C01 📅 Dates: November 4 (Wed) – November 7 (Sat), 2026 🕙 Hours · Wednesday to Friday 10:00 – 17:00 · Saturday 10:00 – 16:00 👉 Pre-register for ROBOTWORLD 2026 https://robotworld.or.kr/visitors/pre_registration.php #ROBOTIS #AISapiens #ROBOTWORLD2026 #Humanoid #DYNAMIXEL

  4. 脑极体 · 微信公众号58

    Caregivers Aren't Human: How Far Away Are Robots From Caring for Us in Old Age?

    Starting from the caregiving experience of a robotics company founder, the article breaks elder care down into three tasks of differing difficulty: physical labor, emotional labor, and cognitive labor. It points out that what robots currently do well—monitoring, reminders, and conversational companionship—belongs to the information world, whereas the physical labor people most hope to have replaced requires large amounts of real-world data on human bodies, force, and contact, which is the industry's biggest bottleneck.

  5. 机器人daily · 微信公众号61

    The 4D world model direction backed by Fei-Fei Li is now running successfully in factories through Yingshen Intelligence

    The article uses AMD's announcement of an all-stock acquisition of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion as an entry point to compare Yingshen Intelligence's approach of betting on native 4D world models since its founding. Yingshen Intelligence's self-developed "Yingshen 360" capture system uses 4 to 6 consumer-grade RGB cameras to achieve millimeter-level, 25 frames per second real-time 4D data generation, reducing overall hardware costs by more than 90%; in the 4D foundation world model "Pojie S1", the GAF Gaussian Action Field achieves an average success rate more than 10 percentage points higher than the previous best method on dynamic manipulation tasks.

  6. OFweek Robotics58

    Chaoyong AI Reviews Top 10 Underwater Robotics Companies, Analyzes Who Could Be the 'Unitree of Underwater'

    Chaoyong AI reviewed ten underwater robotics companies, covering three lines: work-class complete systems, consumer products, and core underwater equipment. Shihang Intelligence secured over 1 billion yuan in orders in the first half of 2026 and completed a Series A round of over 1 billion yuan; Shandong Future Robot reported 2024 revenue of 276 million yuan and net profit of 97.18 million yuan; and Shenzhilan's STAR Market IPO has entered the inquiry stage. The original article noted that three hurdles stand between orders and revenue: delivery acceptance, sea trials, and payment collection. The sector does not lack money; what it lacks is a track record of turning orders into revenue.

  8. ZhenFund · 微信公众号22

    A New Era Begins | Z News

    ZhenFund September recap: early-stage portfolio company Hesai Technology released the MT series, the world's smallest ultra-high spatial resolution LiDAR, integrating an ultra-small light spot, 3.5 mm ranging accuracy, and infinite encrypted scanning; on-site statistics at InterGEO 2026 put its surveying and mapping application market share at over 70%.

  9. 数字华夏31

    Digital Huaxia and Global Digital Technology Form Strategic Partnership to Open a New Chapter in Humanoid Robot Smart Cultural Tourism

    Digital Huaxia and Global Digital Technology have formed a strategic partnership. Leveraging Global Digital Technology's existing cultural tourism client resources, the companies will jointly build benchmark humanoid robot cultural tourism projects and complete real commercial pilots. Digital Huaxia's new-generation bionic robot "Xialan R03" supports multilingual interaction and wake-word-free natural dialogue, and can fully autonomously handle services such as greeting and reception, guidance, and explanation; the IP-customized dual-form robot "Xingxingxia P2" supports interaction in more than 20 languages, including Cantonese, English, and French. Global Digital Technology is a leading smart cultural tourism enterprise, with business serving more than 50 regulatory authorities, over 100 scenic areas, and more than 10 million visitors.

  10. EngineAI48

    Zhongqing URKL City Tour Challenge Shanghai Stop Kicks Off with T800 Fully Autonomous Combat Matchup in Baoshan

    The Shanghai stop of the Zhongqing URKL City Tour Challenge was held on September 19 in Baoshan, Shanghai, with Team "White Eagle" sweeping victories in both the afternoon and evening sessions. The event showcased the T800's multi-robot collaborative perception and fully autonomous ring competition, achieving an end-to-end AI autonomous closed loop from perception and decision-making to motion execution, with new moves such as the "kip-up," "dragon-like footwork," and "jumping knee strike" making their debut. The event was hosted by the Baoshan District People's Government and organized by Shenqing Robotics, and was selected as a featured project of the 2026 Shanghai Tourism Festival's "Classic Activity Season."

  11. Ken Goldberg15

    AI agents design and fine-tune robot control

    Agentic Robotics — using AI coding agents to design and fine-tune robot control systems with harness frameworks like ENPIRE, ASPIRE, or GaP — is very exciting. If you know a small or medium-sized manufacturer applying Agentic Robotics in actual production to improve real manufacturing, please get in touch with me.

  12. TUM MIRMI55

    Munich robotics company RobCo reaches €1 billion valuation, becoming TUM's 24th unicorn

    Founded by three former Technical University of Munich (TUM) robotics students, the Munich-based company RobCo has reached a valuation of €1 billion, becoming TUM's 24th unicorn. The company develops modular, AI-assisted robotic systems based on research from TUM's Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, enabling small and medium-sized manufacturers to deploy flexible robotic automation more easily in a plug-and-play manner.

Oct 6Tue
  2. Automated Warehouse62

    Interact Analysis examines how hidden projects affect Chinese warehouse automation vendors' overseas share

    Interact Analysis analyst Will Pond writes that Chinese warehouse automation vendors such as Geek+, Hai Robotics, and Hikrobot are accelerating overseas expansion, with many projects completed through direct China-to-China procurement channels that do not enter public tenders, so market-share estimates based on public disclosures are conservative. The author argues that Western vendors face reduced visibility of opportunities and difficulty commanding premium pricing, and need to develop local partnerships and hybrid delivery models.

  3. Agility Robotics62

    Agility Robotics to Livestream Analyst and Investor Day on October 6, Introducing Digit 5 and Public Listing Progress

    Agility Robotics will hold an Analyst and Investor Day in New York on October 6, livestreamed from 12:30–3:00 p.m. ET via its investor relations website. The event will cover Digit 5 and commercial deployment experience, manufacturing and supply chain expansion, and the software and Physical AI roadmap, with guests including representatives from Schaeffler, Foxconn, and AUVSI.

    Why it matters: The official announcement provides the event agenda and guest lineup, allowing readers to understand what investors and ecosystem partners are focusing on regarding commercial deployment.

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.

Oct 2Fri
  1. Robohub31

    Robot Talk Episode 164: Accelerating Robot Learning with Michelle Lu

    Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discusses using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills on the podcast. She previously served as Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she and her co-founder developed Isaac Gym, the first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning framework. In 2022, the two left NVIDIA to found Vsim, aiming to address limitations in efficiency, scalability, and the sim-to-real gap in simulation-based robot AI.

  2. 脑极体 · 微信公众号28

    Canghu Speaks: The Ten Months of 2026, People in AI Anxiety, and Me

    Canghu reviews industry observations from the first ten months of 2026: his April article "Distillation" reached nearly one million reads across the web, responding to the widespread anxiety at the time about Agents and skills; afterward, OpenClaw, Agents, and skills rapidly moved downmarket to zero-threshold use. The author's on-the-ground visits found that AI has also spread in remote mountainous areas, but the capability gap between beginners and veteran users may be widened, and he proposes that AI's core groups and commercialization are heading toward an "i-shaped divergence."

Oct 1Thu
  1. euRobotics25

    euRobotics on the road — euROBIN makes a splash

    The euROBIN network held its Final Event at the European Parliament in Brussels under the theme "AI-based Robotics in Europe: Live technology demonstration and high-level round table," showcasing robots, roboticists, and robotics through live technology demonstrations and a high-level round table.

  3. 机器人daily · 微信公众号54

    IROS 2026 observations: Touch is entering robot learning and real-world applications

    IROS 2026 was held in Pittsburgh, USA, from September 27 to October 1, with papers, workshops, and exhibition discussions focusing on how touch is entering robot learning, fine manipulation, and real-world applications. A paper from a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences team achieved a 67% success rate in a 0.05 mm clearance insertion task, reducing peak interaction force by 60% and torque by 44%; the experiments used PaXini PX6AX GEN3 sensors.

Sep 30Wed
  1. Robotics 24/751

    Innodata and Vicon Open Motion Capture AI Lab to Provide Training Data and Independent Performance Validation for Humanoid Robots

    Data engineering company Innodata announced the opening of a research and development lab in New Jersey, designed in collaboration with motion capture technology company Vicon, which will provide ongoing technical consulting. The lab is equipped with high-precision, low-latency infrared optical tracking cameras that can measure 3D motion data at sub-millimeter accuracy and millisecond latency, used to generate physical AI training data for humanoid and industrial robots, and to support cross-platform motion retargeting. Customers can purchase ready-made motion capture data packages or custom projects, and can also send robots to the lab for evaluation, where external calibrated cameras verify internal telemetry data, providing an independent third-party benchmark.

  3. 加速进化 · 微信公众号34

    Accelerated Evolution's Booster K1 humanoid robot soccer tournaments expand to five cities in six months, promoting events to schools and cities

    Accelerated Evolution's Booster K1 autonomous humanoid robot soccer tournaments have held five stops in six months, including Beijing, Jinan, Weifang, and Nanning, with the "Luohu Cup" in Shenzhen's Luohu district now in preparation. The 95-centimeter-tall Booster K1 targets education, and its companion development tool Booster Studio supports embodied programming in natural language, shortening the preparation cycle from years to a few weeks of club classes.

  4. Robohub32

    What Is the Difference Between Robotics and Automation? An Informal Discussion by IEEE RAS Experts

    At an IEEE RAS Communications Committee meeting, several experts informally discussed the boundary between the concepts of "robotics" and "automation." Key points included: automation focuses on making processes repeatable, efficient, and scalable, while robots are its physical embodiment; however, not all robots are automated (e.g., fully teleoperated robots), and not all automation requires robots. Participants noted that vague definitions can affect national statistical standards for service robots, international comparisons, educational examples, and the evolution of terms such as "physical AI" along with research trends.

  5. 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.

  6. OFweek Robotics71

    ByteDance- and Meituan-backed Yinghe Robotics enters bankruptcy proceedings, having raised over 600 million yuan cumulatively

    The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court issued a notice in late August that Yinghe Robotics has formally entered bankruptcy proceedings. The company had raised over 600 million yuan cumulatively and was once valued at $500 million, with shareholders including Meituan, ByteDance, GSR Ventures, Panda Capital, and Infore Group. Reports say its full-year 2025 revenue was only 4.33 million yuan with a net loss of 67 million yuan, and that its legal representative Shen Gang has been subject to restrictions on high-value consumption; within the past three months, other once-high-profile robotics companies such as Zhicheng Dynamics, DeepBlue Robotics, and CloudMinds Robotics have also successively entered bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings.