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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- NASA announces key event schedule for MAX POWER aerospace expo
NASA has announced the key event schedule for the MAX POWER aerospace expo, held November 6 to 8 at and around Kennedy Space Center. The quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft will be on display, and partners will show a lunar rover and spacecraft. A press conference will be held at 17:00 on November 7 to announce the latest progress on a lunar base planned near the Moon's south pole. Public open days are November 7 and 8, with doors opening at 9:00.
NASA ·
- Lab Penguin's robot Cherry debuts a new look at KingKong Robotics' Robot Crab Challenge 2026
Lab Penguin has given its robot Cherry a cute new look for the Robot Crab Challenge 2026, hosted by KingKong Robotics, where community likes count toward the final score. The team needs to collect as many likes as possible on October 30 and is calling on robotics fans to show their support.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Walmart plans to invest about $6 billion to deploy Symbotic automation systems in 25 distribution centers
Walmart announced this week that it plans to add Symbotic automation systems to 25 regional distribution centers, with an initial commitment of about $6 billion across multiple locations over several years. The two parties have collaborated since a 2017 pilot in Brooksville, Florida; starting in 2021 they deployed automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) and palletizing robots, and in 2022 they increased the planned number of facilities to 42.
Automated Warehouse ·
- Tesla Optimus V3 to Open Preorders in December, Starting at $20,000
Modar Alaoui, organizer of the Humanoids Summit, said Tesla plans to open Optimus preorders during or after the summit on December 1-2, and will demonstrate Optimus V3 and autonomous vehicles at the event. He expects preorders to open to the public for the first time in early December, with the first deliveries being V3; most robots will go to businesses, with only a small number reserved for consumers, and an expected price of more than $20,000.
The Humanoid Hub ·
- AstraQua wins $1.27 million NASA Phase II contract to advance AstraSense physical AI
AstraQua has received a $1,274,990 NASA Phase II contract to advance its AstraSense technology for electric and hybrid-electric aircraft, including advanced air mobility. Built on its Agentic Physical AI and Adaptive Quorum Foundation Model, AstraSense provides predictive health and operational self-awareness for autonomous systems and has already run on robotic hardware.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Schaeffler and Wandelbots enter technology partnership to jointly develop NOVA robotics platform
Schaeffler has entered a technology partnership with German robotics and physical AI company Wandelbots, focusing on developing the Wandelbots NOVA open platform for applying artificial intelligence in industrial and humanoid robotics.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Jungheinrich and Automha Form Strategic Partnership, Launch UP-Carrier GTJ Two-Way Pallet Shuttle
Jungheinrich has formed a strategic partnership with Italian warehouse automation company Automha to jointly develop the UP-Carrier GTJ, a two-way pallet shuttle for high-density pallet storage. The solution can be integrated into existing warehouse environments, increasing storage density without major modifications; initially, pallet transport is still handled by industrial vehicles, with automation expandable step by step later. The shuttle took nine months from concept to market readiness and has been deployed in more than 200 projects in over 25 countries.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Percepto launches Axion physical AI platform to unify inspection data analysis
Percepto, an autonomous drone inspection company, launched Axion this week, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform that can analyze data from any third-party drone or sensor network, marking its shift to a software-first strategy. Axion is offered as SaaS, organizes inspection data by asset, has more than 160 built-in AI models, and supports querying inspection data in natural language. Percepto said it will continue to sell and support its existing drone and hangar product lines while moving manufacturing to the United States.
The Robot Report ·
- Vibecoding skull eyes for the Quaddle mini robot dog with Claude Code in 12 minutes (Halloween edition)
Someone used Claude Code to vibecode directly in the OpenCat ESP32-S3 firmware of the Quaddle mini robot dog, creating a Halloween skull-eyes expression in about 12 minutes through six prompts. The robot dog's open-source ESP32-S3 firmware will be released in early December, at which point others will be able to reproduce the same process.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Misumi Americas establishes $2 million Misumi Imprint Foundation to support engineering education and robotics programs
Misumi Americas has established the Misumi Imprint Foundation with $2 million in seed funding to support engineering education, robotics programs, and manufacturing skills development in the United States. It is the first corporate giving organization in Misumi Group's 63-year history.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Humanoid expands collaboration with Nvidia to build computing foundation for next-generation humanoid robots
UK AI and robotics company Humanoid is expanding its collaboration with Nvidia to jointly develop a high-performance robotic edge runtime for its next-generation humanoid robots. Humanoid is integrating Nvidia Jetson Thor, Isaac OS, Holoscan Sensor Bridge, and the Holoscan SDK to run AI models on the robot body and coordinate perception, reasoning, and control in real time.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Computer Graphics and Simulation Powered by NVIDIA CUDA-X
Sit back and enjoy the show. You are watching computer graphics and simulation powered by NVIDIA CUDA-X, software that helps scientists and engineers test their ideas. From #NVIDIAGTC Berlin:
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- Concept idea: Replace brain implants with an external head-mounted micro-drone companion controlled by remote or neural signals
A user proposed an external head-mounted micro-drone companion concept, worn via a headband, hat, or frame, to avoid the surgical risks and approvals of brain-computer interface implants. The design uses ducted fans with safety mesh guards to protect hair, ears, and skin, and relies on proximity sensors and gyroscopes combined with AI to achieve stable hovering that moves with the head; control is via a small remote-control pad or surface neural/gesture signals. The poster asked the community about engineering and safety challenges such as battery weight, noise near the ears, and wind-disturbance stability.
Reddit r/humanoidrobotics ·
- University Robotics Lab's New Robot Cherry Competes in Robot Crab Challenge 2026
A university robotics lab produced an appearance skin video for its new robot Cherry to compete in China's Robot Crab Challenge 2026. The team posted the full video on YouTube to solicit votes, saying it needs to accumulate likes by October 30.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- Video Friday: Spot Demonstrates Whole-Body Manipulation
This week's IEEE Spectrum Video Friday features a whole-body manipulation demo from RAI, though it is hard to tell from the video whether the torso is directly involved. ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab presents a contact-centric learning framework that combines motion imitation and reinforcement learning to let a humanoid adapt autonomously on complex, unstructured terrain.
IEEE Spectrum Robotics ·
- What did Ashok see?
What did Ashok see?
The Humanoid Hub ·
- GenRobot.AI to launch DAS Ego 2.0 and DAS Dex 2.0 at CoRL 2026
GenRobot.AI will debut two next-generation products on November 9–11, 2026, at CoRL 2026 (Booth #200): DAS Ego 2.0, a first-person multimodal data collection system with hand-tracking accuracy within 4 mm, and DAS Dex 2.0, a high-fidelity human dexterous data glove with electronic-skin tactile sensing. The two products cover data collection from full-body motion to tactile sensing, and the company says the two are fully synchronized.
简智机器人 · X ·
- Agility Robotics expects to raise about $465 million in SPAC merger
Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI expect to raise about $465 million in their SPAC merger, below the $620 million estimated when the deal was first announced in June.
The Robot Report ·
- Moth-inspired robot grows UV sensor in body via artificial circulatory system
A team from the University of Tartu in Estonia and the Italian Institute of Technology had a moth-inspired robot use an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical raw materials such as pyrrole, synthesizing a polypyrrole UV sensor in situ where UV light struck, giving the robot a sensing capability it did not originally have.
Tech Xplore Robotics ·
- RIL Results Leadership Quotes (Hindi)
#RILResults Leadership Quotes (Hindi)
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- https://x.com/RIL_Updates/status/2116215355228205149
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- https://x.com/RIL_Updates/status/2116215358038401112
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- https://x.com/RIL_Updates/status/2116215360873722176
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- https://x.com/RIL_Updates/status/2116215363788763482
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- Remarks by Reliance Industries Chairman Ambani at Earnings Call
Quotes from Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited #RILResults
Reliance · X ·
- https://x.com/RIL_Updates/status/2116217361305042956
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- Jio Platforms Managing Director Akash Ambani's statement
Quote from Shri Akash M Ambani, Managing Director of Jio Platforms Limited #RILResults
Reliance · X ·
- Reliance Retail Executive Ambani Statement
Quote from Ms. Isha M. Ambani, Executive Director, Reliance Retail Ventures Limited #RILResults
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- Remarks by Reliance Executive Director Anant Ambani
Quote from Shri Anant M. Ambani, Executive Director, Reliance Industries Limited #RILResults
Reliance · X ·
- REA: A Routed Embodied Agent Runtime for Asynchronous Brain-Cerebellum Control
The study proposes REA (Routed Embodied Agent), a unified runtime that lets a reasoning-focused System 2, an embodied routing System 1, and reactive System 0 policies collaborate within the same framework, with the core rule that a running policy does not wait on the brain.
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- Jio Platforms joins Reliance earnings release
#RILResults Jio Platforms Limited
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