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- Simplexity Robotics Showcases i7 Pro, iX Robots and In-House Arm Joint Modules at IZB 2026 Sino-German Auto Show
Simplexity Robotics exhibited its i7 Pro and iX robots along with in-house arm and joint modules and other core hardware at the Sino-German Automotive Technology, Parts and Services zone of IZB 2026, held October 27-29 in Wolfsburg, Germany. The company presented embodied intelligence technology achievements centered on robot motion control, teleoperation and body development. Liu Minqiang, Director-General of the Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce, visited the booth for a tour and exchange.
至简动力 · 微信公众号 ·
- Daimon's "Robot Artist" Appears at the Shanhua Award Exhibition's "Embodied Artistry" Special Event
Daimon Robotics has partnered with the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen to present the "Embodied Artistry" special event, where a robot artist uses touch to iron-dye the colors of blossoms and uses intelligence to continue craftsmanship, appearing at the Shanhua Award exhibition. The event is open from October 30 to November 5, 2026, at the L2 Literature Space of the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen.
深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号 ·
- FAIR plus × Guoxian Demo Hub concludes its 11th session: six projects pitch, including Saisuode, Zhidongli, Juqiang, Chaowei, Fanbote, and Yuling
On October 29, the 11th "FAIR plus × Guoxian Demo Hub" industry-finance matchmaking event, co-hosted by the Shenzhen Robotics Association and the International Advanced Technology Application and Promotion Center (Shenzhen), concluded, with 6 emerging companies pitching and more than 20 investment institutions participating.
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- Xuanji Dynamics' Hypertron Series Quadruped Robots Win High-Rise Fire Rescue Track at Guangzhou Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition
Xuanji Dynamics' Hypertron series quadruped robots won the "High-Rise Fire Rescue Track" championship and first prize in the "Load-Bearing Climbing and Material Transport" category at the 2026 Guangzhou Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition. The Hypertron-SW01 is equipped with a self-developed high-torque joint motor module and a multimodal fusion perception system, features IP67 protection, and continued stable motion control, perception, and communication during a 3-minute continuous bake test at 120°C–130°C.
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- HKU open-sources GenSfM: jointly reconstructing 3D objects and camera poses from four uncalibrated images
A University of Hong Kong team has open-sourced GenSfM, which uses a native 3D diffusion model to jointly denoise object shape and per-view camera poses within a single multimodal sequence, requiring only 2 to 4 uncalibrated images and no camera intrinsics or extrinsics. Evaluated on Toys4k and GSO, it improves novel-view PSNR by 3.2–4.5 dB over the multi-view baseline TRELLIS-M, reduces median Chamfer distance by about 64%–74%, and achieves pose Acc@5° above 96%.
The work turns a native 3D diffusion model into the main inference mechanism for joint denoising of shape and camera poses, and releases code and models as a reference for sparse-view reconstruction.
3D视觉工坊 · 微信公众号 ·
- "3D Vision from Beginner to Mastery" Knowledge Planet: a 7,000-member community with nearly 20 video tutorial series covering industrial 3D vision, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, 3DGS, and embodied intelligence
The "3D Vision from Beginner to Mastery" Knowledge Planet has built up nearly 9 years of history and gathered 7,000+ members, offering nearly 20 video tutorial series covering industrial 3D vision, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, 3DGS, autonomous driving, drones, and other areas. The community also hosts livestreamed sharing sessions on frontier topics such as embodied intelligence and large models, and provides Q&A, source code, project matchmaking, and internal referral benefits. After joining, members can study via the Knowledge Planet app or the web version with WeChat login.
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- Richtech robot family goes Halloween trick-or-treating: new member RIVAX appears alongside ADAM, Scorpion, Dex, and Matradee Plus
In a Halloween video, Richtech Robotics had its new member RIVAX join ADAM, Scorpion, Dex, and Matradee Plus in a trick-or-treat appearance, saying it is making new friends. The video gives only the name RIVAX and is teaser in nature; it does not disclose its form, functions, or release timing, and the company says more information will be announced later.
Richtech · YouTube ·
- How REEMAN Ironhide Automates Pallet Wrapping
The REEMAN Ironhide robot is used to automate pallet wrapping operations. The original article did not disclose specific specifications such as payload, degrees of freedom, battery life, or success rate, nor did it state whether the operation was performed in simulation, via teleoperation, or autonomously on a physical robot.
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- 2026 Fall Campus Recruitment Tour | Atomrobot Awaits Fellow Travelers
Atomrobot is joining the 2026 Tianjin group talent recruitment "fall recruitment" campaign and visiting universities. In September and October it has already visited Tsinghua University, Zhengzhou University, Dalian University of Technology, Northeastern University, Chongqing University, Sichuan University, and Tiangong University, and will subsequently visit Nankai University and Tianjin University. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on parallel robots, high-speed SCARA robots, heavy-load collaborative robots, embodied intelligent robots, and core controllers, among other products. Its parallel robots have ranked first in domestic market share among Chinese independent brands for 6 consecutive years since 2020.
Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人 ·
- ALVE: A 3D-printed dual-arm humanoid robot (including arms, hands, and head)
ALVE is an upper-body humanoid robot project made from 3D-printed parts and an aluminum extrusion frame, comprising two multi-joint robotic arms, robotic hands, a movable head, and a supported torso, aimed at makers, robotics enthusiasts, and educators. The project is offered as a digital download; motors, electronics, aluminum extrusions, bearings, and fasteners must be purchased separately, and assembly and operation require mechanical assembly, wiring, and programming. The display images include a physical prototype and digital model views; the poses shown do not imply that autonomous task software is included.
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- Foundry Robotics completes $100 million Series A to build autonomous factories for assembly
Foundry Robotics announced the completion of an oversubscribed $100 million Series A funding round led by Marlinspike Partners, with participation from new and existing investors including Khosla Ventures and Red Glass Ventures.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Tokio Marine HCC International and Adrian Flux launch UK's first home robot insurance
Tokio Marine HCC International has partnered with Adrian Flux to launch the UK's first home robot household insurance policy, underwritten by TMHCCI and sold through Adrian Flux's home insurance channel. The policy covers damage to and theft of the robot itself, sudden damage the robot causes to the home or belongings, personal liability if the robot injures someone or damages property, and emergency recovery or safe shutdown after a sudden malfunction. In the US, a home robot is already available for pre-order at $20,000, and the UK expects them to enter homes in 2027.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- How Can Autonomous Forklifts Turn Existing Stretch Wrappers into Automated Packaging Workstations? — REEMAN Ironhide Wireless Docking and Jingmen Factory Deployment
REEMAN outlines an approach for retrofitting existing stretch wrappers using Ironhide autonomous forklifts: the forklift handles pallet pickup, placement, and warehouse transport, while the stretch wrapper continues to perform packaging, requiring a machine control interface, status feedback, and safety interlocks. In its wireless docking demonstration, pickup alignment deviation was within 2 cm and turntable placement deviation was within 5 cm, with the demonstration process taking about 6 minutes. There is also an Ironhide 3.0 deployment at a factory in Jingmen, Hubei; the two applications are independent of each other, and the data comes from REEMAN application materials and has not been independently verified.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit: WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition deployed in over 50 industries; the challenge for agents entering enterprises lies in cost and workflows
At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent disclosed that WorkBuddy has completed 9 billion task requests cumulatively since launching in March this year; its Enterprise Edition has been deployed in over 50 industries, covering 50% of China's Fortune 500 companies and 60% of China's Top 100 companies.
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- WorldOracle example: A seemingly successful robot rollout may predict the wrong grasp
WorldOracle presents a case where the real gripper failed to grasp the fruit, but the generated rollout showed the fruit being picked up, despite the model receiving the same initial observation and recorded actions. When evaluating predictions, check separately whether the robotic arm follows the trajectory and whether the object's final state is correct; for an empty grasp, predicting an empty grasp is the correct answer, while a seemingly successful grasp video may actually be wrong.
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- Zhiyuan's Peng Zhihui proposes Worken metric for robot workload
Peng Zhihui of Zhiyuan Robotics proposed using Worken (Work + Token) to measure a robot's actual workload, with the formula: number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency. It counts only time spent genuinely executing tasks and running autonomously, with output compared against a human baseline. The metric draws on cloud computing's usage-based metering approach and is intended to shift the industry's competition from shipment volumes, units off the line, and fleet size toward work actually completed.
The Humanoid Hub ·
- Zhuoyide and Tencent Cloud sign strategic agreement: Moya embodied intelligence edge inference first-token response 30% faster
Zhuoyide and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit. The collaboration centers on embodied intelligence edge inference, moving Moya's voice interaction tasks to nearby edge nodes via Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. On-site testing at the summit showed Moya's first-token response was 30% faster and interaction jitter was reduced by 4.6 times, with end-to-end latency dropping from roughly 1–2 seconds to under 1 second. As a result, the Moya body can carry less onboard compute, balancing battery life, safety, and interaction experience through device-edge collaboration.
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- How the REEMAN intelligent pallet wrapping and handling workstation connects autonomous forklifts with wrapping machines
The REEMAN intelligent pallet wrapping and handling workstation uses an external wireless communication module to link the 1.5-ton payload Ironhide autonomous forklift with a turntable wrapping machine into a continuous process. The module can use I/O, RS485, Ethernet, or CAN interfaces depending on the equipment controller, and the wireless link uses LoRa or Wi-Fi. In the demonstration, pickup alignment deviation was ≤2 cm and drop-off deviation was ≤5 cm; wrapping and film cutting are completed automatically, and the full handling and packaging process takes about 6 minutes.
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- How the REEMAN Titan Mini Handles Non-Standard Tank Trolleys with Custom Forks
REEMAN customized the forks on its Titan Mini autonomous forklift for a high-end electronic materials factory in Anhui, enabling it to directly handle the customer's existing wheeled mobile material tank trolleys without additional pallets. The trolley weighs about 275 kg when loaded, the Titan Mini has a rated payload of up to 2,000 kg, the one-way point-to-point transport distance is about 260 m, and it uses LiDAR SLAM navigation; under the current site configuration, a full work cycle takes about 4.5 minutes.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- How Do Autonomous Forklifts Integrate with Automatic Doors and Stretch Wrappers? The REEMAN Jingmen Factory Case
At an electronic materials factory in Jingmen, Hubei, REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 autonomous forklifts complete an integrated process: picking up goods in the production area, passing through two electric doors, handing off to a stretch wrapper, and delivering to the warehouse. The actual load is about 1,300 kg, with a rated load of 1,500 kg. The customer reports about 75 transport cycles per day, about 6.5 minutes per task, and a loaded route of about 270 meters, with support for automatic return to a mobile charging station. The forklift's reference price is about USD 9,900, and integration with doors and the stretch wrapper requires customization based on the site's controller interfaces.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- Using an old Redmi 9 as the "brain" of a Thymio II: an on-device vision, voice, and obstacle-avoidance learning loop
A weekend PoC mounts an old Redmi 9 on a Thymio II using Lego, with the phone running ML Kit face detection (including smile probability) and image annotation, rough lighting/motion estimation, animated expressions, and voice output, while the robot only executes wheel-speed targets and sends back sensor data. Behavior is a small state machine: cruise → back up → turn → observe → stop steadily; when a face is detected it enters a "meet" state and can answer "what do you see." Obstacle-avoidance learning is simple: after a collision it tries turning for 1.2s, 2.4s, or 3.8s, scored by the free-driving time before the next contact.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- How can the REEMAN Hot Wheels robot chassis be used to develop an AI library inventory robot?
REEMAN demonstrated a library inventory robot built on the Hot Wheels robot chassis, completing a mobility demo in indoor bookshelf aisles, but did not provide OCR recognition accuracy or inventory results. The chassis uses Laser SLAM and V-SLAM for mapping and localization, combined with lidar, 3D vision, and multi-sensor fusion for obstacle avoidance; published specifications include a 270° laser scanning angle and a maximum detection range of 25 meters.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- Recreating a real tea station in Isaac Sim and scripting a Unitree G1 to make tea
The team recreated a real self-service tea station as a physically interactive 3D environment in Isaac Sim, placed a Unitree G1 in it, and used a script to execute the five-step tea-making motion. The robot's motions were not extracted from human video; the entire run took place in simulation with physics enabled. The G1 still shows imperfect contact and slipping when interacting with objects, and there is currently no learned policy or automatic trajectory generation. The team is exploring whether such environments can serve as a source of synthetic robot demonstration data, including for robots with different embodiments.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Exin Therapeutics has AI agent perform brain surgery on mouse, refusing to proceed midway due to calibration anomaly
Exin Therapeutics used an Arduino-modified surgical platform to let an AI agent complete a brain injection in a mouse; the agent selected the gene therapy vector and injection coordinates itself, injecting 250 nanoliters of solution within five minutes. A connection interruption caused the Y-axis target position to deviate 34 millimeters from the bench, and the agent refused to retry twice citing calibration issues, so the team ultimately modified the code manually. The craniotomy was still performed by a human, a licensed veterinarian held a physical emergency stop switch on site, and the entity that ultimately performed the surgery was Sonnet 5.
爱范儿 ·
- Cuban control engineer seeks remote robotics project collaboration
A young Cuban control engineer posted on Reddit seeking opportunities to participate remotely in robotics projects, because sourcing electronic components locally takes about 3 months and is expensive. His experience includes STM32, Arduino, and Intel 8051 microcontrollers, as well as using MATLAB to simulate controllers such as PID and motors.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Lightberry's Lumi humanoid robot receives conditional approval from the U.S. government and an FCC exemption
Lightberry's Lumi has become the first humanoid robot to receive conditional approval from the U.S. government, and it has obtained an FCC exemption from the Covered List, which had originally prohibited the sale of new foreign-made robots in the United States.
The Humanoid Hub ·
- Lightberry Becomes the Only Humanoid Robot Company in the US Able to Ship
Lightberry (F25) is the first and currently only humanoid robot company in the US able to ship robots, and it does so using the existing supply chain. https://lightberry.com/press/dow-approval
Y Combinator · X ·
- Qiyuan Robotics launches PrimeSim world model, tops WorldSimProbe LIBERO leaderboard
On October 30, Qiyuan Robotics launched PrimeSim, a world-model simulator for robot training, and topped the WorldSimProbe LIBERO leaderboard. The simulator builds an interactive, trial-and-error, continuously learning virtual world for robots, supporting policy validation and reinforcement learning. In testing, reinforcement learning with it raised policy success rate from 61.7% to 73.2%.
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- Why automated cells are moving inspection equipment onto the shop floor
As automated cells take on more machining tasks, more manufacturers are moving coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) next to production lines so parts are inspected within minutes of machining. International Federation of Robotics data show that global industrial robot installations reached 542,000 units in 2024, more than double the level a decade earlier, with about 4.66 million units in operation worldwide.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Tsinghua-led team lets 96 robots share experience, raising phone-packaging success rate to 98.3%
A Tsinghua-led team let 96 robots share experience, raising the phone-packaging success rate to 98.3%. AgiBot released GO-3 Preview, connecting reasoning, prediction, and action in a unified framework.
爱范儿 ·
- Musk denies that Optimus will open for pre-orders in December
Musk denied a report that Optimus orders will open in December this year. The report originated from remarks by Modar Alaoui, organizer of the Humanoid Robot Summit, to the San Francisco Standard.
The Humanoid Hub ·
- Beyond Tiangong | 'Kaiwu' Monthly Talk · October Issue
The October issue of the 'Kaiwu' Monthly Talk from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center mentions that the Huisi Kaiwu app store focuses on download-and-use-immediately and is compared to an 'Apple store' for embodied intelligence. The same issue also says downloads of Beijing Humanoid's RoboMIND have surpassed 50 million, and it is billed with four 'world firsts.'
Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center ·
- Inaugural Global Ocean Robotics Day focuses on advances in autonomous underwater robots
The inaugural Global Ocean Robotics Day was held on October 21, with Constructor University as one of 10 in-person hubs worldwide. The event focused on how artificial intelligence and autonomous robots are transforming ocean research and exploration. Topics covered marine AI, autonomous underwater vehicles, and ocean observation robotic systems, including mapping ocean currents using marine vehicle trajectories, simulating autonomous docking with digital twins, and underwater robot swarms. The university's Ocean Systems and Robotics research group also demonstrated several autonomous marine robots developed by the team on site.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Bleu Robotics raises €5 million pre-seed to advance humanoid robot deployment in factories
Paris-based Bleu Robotics has closed a €5 million pre-seed funding round co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with participation from Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and Charlie Songhurst. The funds will be used to grow its team and promote its software solution.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Adding skull eyes to the Quaddle mini robot dog's ESP32-S3 firmware with six Claude Code prompts
On the Quaddle mini robot dog's ESP32-S3 firmware, six Claude Code prompts were used to complete a skull eyes effect, from sketch and choosing a design to preview and on-device display. The firmware will be open-sourced in early December, and the team is also collecting sketches or images for the next Halloween expression.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Maximo Robotics completes 300,000 tasks in utility-scale solar projects
Maximo Robotics announced that its US-made robotic systems have completed more than 300,000 construction tasks under task-based robotics-as-a-service contracts, and that workers collaborating with the Max 4.0 system achieved installation efficiency 2.5 times that of manual labor per person per shift hour.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Walmart expands warehousing automation partnership with Symbotic, commits about $6 billion
Walmart and warehousing robotics company Symbotic announced an expanded commercial agreement to deploy additional automation capabilities at 25 US regional distribution centers, with an initial investment of about $6 billion, covering multiple locations over several years. Symbotic's solutions include BreakPack each-piece picking and the SymMicro micro-fulfillment solution for e-commerce, both scheduled by its AI software to move millions of cases of goods daily. Walmart said the move aims to improve upstream inventory management for e-commerce, increase storage capacity, and improve supply chain replenishment efficiency.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Opentrons raises $40 million Series E to expand AI lab automation
Laboratory automation company Opentrons Labworks announced the completion of a $40 million Series E funding round led by Avego, with participation from BroadOak Capital Partners. The funds will be used to expand its robotics, software, and data infrastructure, advance AI-driven experiment execution, and expand into new markets and regions. The company says it has deployed more than 11,000 robots in over 80 countries, covering 90% of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Details of the Y Combinator Early Access Program
More information about Early Access: https://www.ycombinator.com/early-access
Y Combinator · X ·
- SIGRobotics robotic arm balances ball with RL for 7 minutes
Humans should be more coordinated than robots. But that's not the case at SIGRobotics. @_robert_molina trained one of our robotic arms with reinforcement learning to bounce a ping-pong ball on a paddle continuously for up to 7 minutes. Watch this time-lapse video: it just keeps bouncing.
SIGRobotics · X ·