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Jan 21Wed
  1. Diligent71

    Serve Robotics to acquire Diligent Robotics, expanding autonomous robotics platform to indoor hospital settings

    Serve Robotics announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Diligent Robotics, with consideration consisting of $29 million in the company's common stock paid to Diligent shareholders (subject to adjustments such as net debt), plus up to $5.3 million in milestone earnouts. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, and Diligent will continue to operate as a Serve subsidiary under the leadership of Andrea Thomaz.

    Why it matters: The materials lay out Moxi's deployment scale and the per-hospital annual sales range, making it easier to assess the acquisition's actual weight for Serve's revenue mix and platform expansion.

Jan 19Mon
  1. Sharpa49

    Sharpa showcases fine-manipulation autonomous live demos at CES 2026 with CraftNet VTLA model and North robot

    At CES 2026, Sharpa debuted North, a full-body robot driven by the CraftNet end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model, running live autonomous demos for eight hours a day over four consecutive days: taking photos, table tennis rallies, windmill assembly, and card dealing, all without scripts.

Jan 9Fri
  1. 达纳灵动 · X39

    Dyna's first customer case of an autonomous towel-folding robot in real-world operation

    Proud to share Dyna's first customer story. Monster Laundry in Sacramento is running Dyna's fully autonomous robot in actual production. In the 3 months since deployment, the DYNA robot has folded over 200,000 towels for 10 different customers, saving hundreds of hours of attendant time. Our customer calls it "Sophy Swiftfold." 👉See how we turn research into reality: https://www.dyna.co/blog/monster-laundry

Jan 7Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼32

    Realman Attends CES 2026 for the Third Time: Building Embodied Intelligence Infrastructure with Joint Modules, Humanoid Robotic Arms, and a Remote Operation Network

    Realman is exhibiting at CES 2026 for the third consecutive year, presenting three foundational capabilities: hardware, data, and a remote operation network. It also completed a transoceanic real-time teleoperation demonstration from Beijing to Las Vegas, remotely controlling a RealBOT wheeled folding robot to perform tasks such as delivering items and handing over fruit.

  2. Mentee Robotics · YouTube34

    MenteeBot Executes Tasks via Verbal Instructions (No Teleoperation)

    MenteeBot completed a can-retrieval task based on verbal instructions without teleoperation: it understood the request, identified the correct can, navigated to the counter, grasped it, and brought it back to the person. The demo integrates language understanding, scene perception, navigation, and manipulation into a single coherent behavior. Instructions can be given in any language, and the original text states this lowers the barrier to human-robot collaboration and humanoid robot deployment.

  3. Sharpa53

    Sharpa releases CraftNet, a hierarchical VTLA model for fine manipulation

    Sharpa has released CraftNet, an end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model aimed at last-millimeter contact control in fine manipulation. The model consists of three parts: System 2 (about 1 Hz, an open-source VLM responsible for reasoning and task decomposition), System 1 (about 10 Hz, responsible for motion planning and coarse actions), and System 0 (about 100 Hz, performing real-time fine-tuning of hand movements based on tactile feedback), with the three cooperating asynchronously.

Jan 6Tue
  1. Sharpa42

    Sharpa unveils North, its first full-body autonomous robot, at CES 2026

    At CES 2026, Sharpa unveiled North, its first full-body autonomous robot, and completed four fully autonomous live demonstrations. North has a 0.02-second reaction time in table tennis rallies, takes photos with about 2 mm precision, deals cards through multimodal reasoning, and completes a 30+ step paper pinwheel craft sequence, which the company calls one of the longest continuous autonomous operations publicly demonstrated to date.

Dec 31Wed
Dec 23Tue
  1. Sunday Robotics · X18

    Memo acquires grasping intuition through datasets

    Traditional robots are like player pianos—they can only play the notes they are given. Memo is more like a top chef who has watched hundreds of chefs in various kitchens. Our diverse dataset gives Memo the "intuition" to grasp entirely new objects. This is a small step toward robots that can truly help in any home 🤖👨‍🍳

Dec 22Mon
  1. 线性资本58

    Tashi Intelligence Makes Full-Stack Tech Debut with Autonomous Embroidery Robot and Wiring Harness Manufacturing Solution

    On December 19, Tashi Intelligence, founded just 10 months ago, held a livestreamed full-stack technology debut. The world's first robot to achieve autonomous embroidery was officially unveiled, completing thread pulling, needle lowering, and piercing motions with sub-millimeter precision to embroider the brand logo, while also demonstrating the autonomous implementation of flexible fine manipulation in wiring harness assembly.

  2. Physical Intelligence64

    Physical Intelligence fine-tunes π 0.6 to take on five Robot Olympics tasks, winning three golds and two silvers

    By fine-tuning its latest π 0.6 model, Physical Intelligence achieved preliminary solutions for the gold-medal tasks in 3 of the five everyday manipulation challenges in the Robot Olympics proposed by Benjie Holson, and reached silver-medal level in the remaining 2, with an average success rate of 52% and task progress of 72%.

    Why it matters: Using the same set of externally proposed everyday manipulation tasks to compare performance with and without robot pretraining lets readers judge the practical value of foundation-model pretraining for manipulation skills.

Dec 19Fri
  1. Sharpa63

    Sharpa announces mass production of SharpaWave dexterous hand, to exhibit at CES 2026

    Sharpa announced that mass production of its flagship dexterous hand, SharpaWave, has begun, with early customers including global technology companies and research universities.

    Why it matters: The manufacturer announced that the dexterous hand has entered mass production and provided technical details such as degrees of freedom, tactile precision, and simulation platform compatibility, which readers can use to assess its research usability.

Dec 18Thu
  1. LimX Dynamics70

    LimX Dynamics launches multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, open for pre-order from 49,800 yuan

    LimX Dynamics has launched the multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, whose single body can quickly switch between three configurations: dual-arm, bipedal, and dual-wheel-legged. It is priced from 49,800 yuan and is open for pre-order starting today. The dual-arm configuration is a 7-DoF humanoid design with a 70 cm arm span and a 10 kg dual-arm payload, and the body has a maximum load capacity of 60 kg. In bipedal form it has a 4-hour battery life and a maximum payload of 30 kg, and it can perceive its surroundings and climb stairs.

    Why it matters: The original text provides the one-body, three-form configurations, the dual-arm specifications, and the pre-order price, which readers can use to assess its suitability for VLA and mobile manipulation development.

Dec 12Fri
Dec 11Thu
  1. 达纳灵动 · X12

    Dyna Robotics co-founder to speak at Humanoids Summit

    DYNA co-founder and chief scientist @JasonMa2020 will speak at @HumanoidsSummit on December 11 and 12! Jason will take a deep dive into how @DynaRobotics builds robust robot foundation models for real-world manipulation, and what it takes to achieve scale. 🦾 From research lab to production deployment—don't miss it! If you're nearby, come say hello! #HumanoidsSummit #Robot #AI

Dec 1Mon
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技46

    Proxima Technology's 1,000th robot of 2025 rolls off the line, humanoid robot X1 delivered to Tianjin University

    On December 1, Proxima Technology held a ceremony marking the rollout and delivery of its 1,000th robot of 2025. The delivered humanoid robot X1 is headed to Tianjin University for research and teaching in artificial intelligence and robotics. X1's core strengths are dual-arm coordination and hand-eye coordination; it uses self-developed seven-axis arms, a "one-controls-two" control system, and reinforcement learning to achieve dynamic task allocation and collision avoidance, and it incorporates large-model technology to understand complex instructions and autonomously reason through task steps.

Nov 25Tue
  3. Mentee Robotics · YouTube41

    Two V3 MenteeBots in a Warehouse Task (Unedited 18-Minute Version, No Teleoperation)

    Two V3 MenteeBots fully autonomously complete a warehouse logistics task in an unedited 18-minute video, with no teleoperation throughout. The robots pick boxes from stacks of different heights and place them onto multiple storage racks, and the video demonstrates their stable dexterous manipulation, precise movement, and reliable decision-making.

Nov 19Wed
  1. Tangible Robots · X42

    Tangible Robots unveils Eggie wheeled humanoid robot

    Yes. @tangiblerobots unveiled Eggie, a wheeled humanoid robot that isn't content with simple grippers. It is equipped with a full five-fingered bionic hand, designed for real, contact-intensive tasks. In a demo, Eggie wiped up a coffee stain in a real kitchen (not a staged lab setting), demonstrating the company's belief that real home robots need human-like dexterity, not shortcuts. CEO @bipashasen31 said: the world is built for humans, so robots need human hardware. The philosophy: no touch, no real AGI. Tangible is collecting tactile data in an extreme way—engineers wear sensor-packed exoskeletons to capture real tactile interactions, from gripping a glass to pressing a milk carton. The home is the long-term goal, but the company is starting from AI fundamentals and offering salaries of over $1 million to recruit top researchers. The wheeled humanoid robot race is already heating up, and now there is another contender betting that dexterity will win the home market!

Nov 4Tue
  1. Holiday Robotics50

    Holiday Robotics' industrial humanoid robot Friday uses self-made tactile sensors costing about 30,000 won, with mass production next year

    Holiday Robotics has unveiled Friday, an industrial humanoid robot whose hands use a 500-gram, 20-DOF hydraulic ultralight design, with about 80% of their surface covered by self-made tactile sensors that can sense a force of 0.01N (about 1g), as well as direction and torque.

Nov 1Sat
  1. 赛那德36

    2025 CeMAT ASIA Spotlight: iLoabot Linkage Upgrade, Flexible Autonomous Loading and Unloading Operations Empower New Quality Productive Forces in Logistics

    At CeMAT ASIA 2025, Sainade made its debut showcasing the upgraded linkage of iLoabot-M and iLoabot-X, with a live on-site demonstration of the full process of "loading and unloading—depalletizing and palletizing—transfer," in which the two machines worked in coordination to complete an unmanned closed-loop operation.

Oct 30Thu
Oct 29Wed
  1. Diligent49

    Diligent Robotics launches Moxi 2.0, advancing the largest deployed fleet of AI-powered mobile manipulation robots

    Diligent Robotics announced the launch of Moxi 2.0, which the company says delivers 10 times the compute of Moxi 1.0 and is built on the NVIDIA Thor platform. The platform was trained on three years of real-world hospital deployment data and more than 1.25 million deliveries; Moxi currently delivers medications and lab samples for nurses and pharmacy staff at more than 25 hospitals across the U.S.

Oct 10Fri
  1. 天链机器人47

    Tianlian Robotics uses video learning to teach robots advanced motion

    Tianlian Robotics has published a video imitation learning training pipeline: extract reference motions with GVHMR/TRAM (or use motion capture datasets such as AMASS), then after human-to-robot joint mapping and training a motion orientation model, use PPO reinforcement learning in simulation with curriculum learning to progress from static poses to long-sequence complex motions, then optimize through domain randomization before deploying to the real robot, with fine-tuning via residual reinforcement learning or adaptive gains. The company says it has achieved key breakthroughs in dynamic force-control precision and stability, and that motions can also be reproduced in real robotic arm operation.

Oct 9Thu
  1. Figure AI67

    Figure AI releases third-generation humanoid robot Figure 03

    Figure AI has released its third-generation humanoid robot, Figure 03, redesigned from the ground up for the Helix VLA model, the home, and large-scale mass production, covering both software and hardware.

    Why it matters: The official announcement fully explains the new-generation humanoid robot's perception, touch sensing, home-safety design, and mass-production plans, so readers can understand its hardware changes and production capacity targets.

Sep 27Sat
  1. 赛那德40

    iLoabot full lineup debuts at 2025 CIIF! Autonomous loading and unloading robots tackle the "last 20 meters" logistics challenge in industrial settings

    Sainade showcased its full iLoabot lineup of three robots, iLoabot-M, iLoabot-P, and iLoabot-X, at the 2025 China International Industry Fair (CIIF), with live demonstrations of truck loading and unloading and slope climbing and obstacle crossing. iLoabot-X is its first heavy-duty dual-arm humanoid robot, built on Sainade's self-developed VLA, the logistics industry's first vertical large model, with an initial positioning time of 5 minutes and full-machine production in 30 minutes; the company says the iLoabot series has already been deployed at scale by leading enterprises in tobacco, beverages, and express delivery.

Sep 25Thu
  1. Estun Coolbot/埃斯顿酷卓35

    Estun Codroid 02 humanoid robot and new robotic arms debut at Shanghai CIIF

    Estun Codroid showcased its second-generation humanoid robot Codroid 02 embodied-intelligence industrial application solution and three new robotic arms with payloads of 7KG, 12KG, and 16KG at the 2025 Shanghai CIIF. Codroid 02 stands 170cm tall and weighs 70kg, has 31 degrees of freedom (excluding dexterous hands), and has a single-arm payload of up to 5 kilograms. On site it demonstrated a full-process industrial scenario from workpiece loading, code scanning, and assembly to intelligent handling. High-precision 3D scanning, automatic machine tool monitoring, and intelligent welding technology requiring no manual teaching were also shown.

Sep 19Fri
  1. LimX Dynamics66

    GVF-TAPE Algorithm from LimX Dynamics and Partners Accepted to CoRL 2025, Enabling Robots to Learn Manipulation from Video

    The paper "Generative Visual Foresight Meets Task-Agnostic Pose Estimation in Robotic Table-top Manipulation," a collaboration between SUSTech CLEAR Lab, LimX Dynamics, and the University of Hong Kong, has been accepted to CoRL 2025.

    Why it matters: This research presents a concrete technical approach and experimental figures for learning manipulation from human video, helping readers understand the feasibility of training robot manipulation with video data.

Sep 3Wed
  1. Figure AI52

    Figure AI's Helix VLA model learns to load a dishwasher

    Figure AI announced that its VLA (vision-language-action) model Helix learned to load a dishwasher using only new data, without changing the algorithm or adding special engineering. Helix can separate stacked plates and load them in order, pick up a glass with one hand, reorient it, and carefully place it with the other hand; it can also handle cluttered starting states and recover from grasp failures or collisions. The same model previously completed towel-folding and package-sorting tasks, and the company says this reflects the direction of a single general system learning new capabilities incrementally with data.

Aug 12Tue
  1. Estun Coolbot/埃斯顿酷卓45

    2025 World Robot Conference concludes; Estun Cuzhuo showcases CODROID02 and Co-Palletizer 20

    The 2025 World Robot Conference concluded on August 12. Estun Cuzhuo exhibited the CODROID02 humanoid robot and the Co-Palletizer 20 lifting palletizing system. CODROID02 stands 170 cm tall, weighs 70 kg, has a single-arm payload of 5 kg, and has 31 degrees of freedom across its body (excluding dexterous hands). Its joint modules are fully self-developed, and it uses a fast-slow system architecture combining a vision-language large model with a flow matching strategy. On site, it demonstrated part grasping and barcode scanning.

  2. Figure AI60

    Figure AI's Helix model achieves fully autonomous towel folding on a humanoid robot

    Figure AI's VLA model Helix fully autonomously folds towels, which the company says is the first time a multi-fingered humanoid robot has completed this task using an end-to-end neural network. With the architecture and training hyperparameters unchanged and only a new dataset added, it can pick items from a mixed towel pile, adjust its folding strategy based on the initial shape, correct multiple grasping errors, and untangle twisted towels using fine motions such as tracing edges with its thumb and pinching corners.

    Why it matters: The same model completes the towel-folding task with no architecture changes, relying only on added data, demonstrating a generalization path from logistics to deformable object manipulation.

  3. 赛那德39

    Sainade iLoabot-X Debuts at WRC 2025: VLA Intelligent Brain Empowers, Accelerating Commercialization of Embodied Robots

    Sainade's heavy-duty dual-arm autonomous working robot iLoabot-X made its debut at the World Robot Conference (WRC), demonstrating on-site dual-arm collaborative handling of a cumulative 40 kg of cargo to complete transfer, as well as autonomous recognition of cage cart positions and path planning to push them. Its autonomous working capability comes from Sainade's self-developed multimodal VLA vertical large model, the first in the logistics industry, which parses operational environment details through multimodal perception. The same series, iLoabot-M, has already been running stably in the tobacco, alcoholic beverage, and express logistics sectors, with the company claiming a 300% efficiency improvement over traditional solutions.

Jun 16Mon
  1. 线性资本59

    Disi Medical Completes Nearly 100 Million Yuan Series A Financing to Accelerate Commercialization of Microsurgical Robots

    Hangzhou Disi Medical Biotechnology Co., Ltd. recently completed a Series A financing round of nearly 100 million yuan, led by Panlin Capital, with Shangcheng Capital, Jinhe Capital, and Hangzhou Science and Technology Innovation Group (Disruptive Technology Achievement Transformation Fund) participating as co-investors. Linear Capital was the lead investor in the Pre-A round and increased its investment in subsequent rounds.

Jun 7Sat
  1. Figure AI75

    Figure AI reports three-month Helix logistics deployment progress: 4.05 seconds per item, about 95% barcode success rate

    Figure AI released progress on Helix's capabilities after three months of deployment in a logistics environment: per-item processing time fell from about 5.0 seconds to 4.05 seconds, barcode scanning success rate rose from about 70% to about 95%, and the system gained the ability to handle flexible packages such as poly bags and flat envelopes.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the data scale and ablation experiment details for each architecture module, allowing readers to understand the specific sources of the logistics performance improvement.

Apr 18Fri
Mar 1Sat
  1. 赛那德21

    2025 (10th) Logistics Technology Conference: Sainade iLoabot Series Robots Win Logistics Technology Innovation Case Award

    The Sainade iLoabot series robots won the Logistics Technology Innovation Case Award at the 2025 (10th) Logistics Technology Conference, held February 26-28, 2025, at the Longemont Diamond Center in Huzhou. Sainade CTO Wang Yishan delivered a speech titled "Embodied Intelligence Empowers the Digital and Intelligent Transformation and Upgrading of Loading and Unloading" at the Logistics Robot Frontier Forum, introducing that the iLoabot-M features autonomous loading and unloading, autonomous planning and control, an autonomous delivery platform, and independent intellectual property rights, and provides early warning and response for high-risk loading and unloading scenarios.

Mar 4Sat
  1. 机器人库 · 微信公众号55

    Flexible robot F3DB enables in vivo 3D bioprinting

    A team from the Medical Robotics Laboratory at the University of New South Wales has developed F3DB, a miniature flexible 3D bioprinter that can be inserted into the human body like an endoscope to deliver multiple layers of biological materials directly to internal organs and tissue surfaces; the research was published in the journal Advanced Materials. The device features a flexible rotating head and a snake-like robotic arm, has been tested in an artificial colon and printed materials in different shapes onto the surface of pig kidneys, and its smallest prototype has a diameter of about 11-13 micrometers; the system has been patented, and the next stage will be testing in live animals.

Dec 16Fri
  1. OFweek Robotics45

    Viewtrix and CRRC Digital deliver industry's first large-part automated warehouse gantry handling and sorting project, reaching full production

    Viewtrix Robotics delivered the industry's first large-part automated warehouse gantry handling and sorting project at the smart factory of a major construction machinery company. After half a year, the project passed acceptance at full production, raising the handling and sorting efficiency of multi-ton large parts to 120 seconds per piece.