Agile Robots has obtained early access to NVIDIA Cosmos 3, with early simulation tests showing strong capabilities. The company will integrate Cosmos 3 for customers, offering new options for simulating, testing, training, and deploying physical AI, and is exploring the Cosmos-based NVIDIA Video Augmentation Skill for automated data curation, generation, and evaluation.
Industry-first <1cm hand tracking 1️⃣ Hand tracking > pure first-person video More interpretable Closer to the motion itself 2️⃣ Better tracking → better policies Faster learning Better generalization 3️⃣ Powered by GenRobot First-person hardware Data foundation model Ground-truth validation More coming soon
ROBOTIS has integrated NVIDIA's Kimodo, a text-to-motion diffusion model, into the open humanoid robot AI Sapiens, allowing natural language prompts to directly generate full-body humanoid motions that are executed on real hardware. The motions are driven by DYNAMIXEL Q (QDD) actuators, with no motion capture suit and no frame-by-frame programming required. The full development source code will be released as open source, and the full video is available at https://youtu.be/2xAJzQ8V9p8 .
The Huiwen intelligent service robot has been deployed at the China Telecom Unmanned Technology Exhibition Hall as an intelligent guide, supporting proactive greeting, bilingual Chinese-English commentary, and real-time Q&A. Its 6-microphone circular array pickup system supports 5-meter far-field audio pickup and can link with exhibition hall equipment such as sound, lighting, and access control for full IOT integration. The robot also supports dual-unit collaboration for relayed guided tours across exhibition halls, is equipped with an 11-megapixel camera for group photos, and features automatic power on/off and automatic return to its charging dock.
Loona DeskMate is a desktop AI companion robot from Keji that uses a MagSafe-attached iPhone as its processor and screen, with a base that is a 165W GaN charging station and a 3-DOF motorized gimbal. It supports wake-word-free conversation, about 0.5-second response, and local multimodal processing, with data staying on the phone; it natively syncs with Slack, Gmail, Zoom, Notion, and others, can sense the screen and clipboard, integrates 50+ services, and offers an open API and MCP.
Genesis AI has released and open-sourced its simulation platform Genesis World 1.0, along with the GPU-accelerated computing project Quadrants and the path-tracing rendering engine Nyx, claiming that one hour of reality can become 100 days in simulation.
Why it matters: The original text explains how simulation turns the physical-time bottleneck into a compute problem, and provides links to three open-source repositories along with performance improvement figures.
Genesis AI has released and open-sourced Genesis World 1.0, the second product in its full-stack suite, alongside the Quadrants compute library and the Nyx rendering engine.
Why it matters: The article provides quantitative comparisons of startup and runtime performance, making it easier to judge how far it shifts real-world validation into a compute problem.
See you at ICRA 2026 🇦🇹 📍 Vienna Exhibition and Conference Center 🗓 June 1–4, 2026 🎯 Booth 133, Hall B We will showcase three open research platforms built for universities, robotics labs, and embodied AI developers: 🤖 Panther EDU, Wanda EDU, Uni-OpenArmX See you in Vienna.
Astribot T1 is officially launched. Starting price ¥89,900 (about $13,165), cable-driven design, no limits specified. 🧠 Customizable AI compute ✋ Human-like dexterous cable-driven manipulation 🌍 One platform, unlimited scenarios #AstribotT1 #AI_Robot #ServiceRobot #VLA #Humanoid_Robot #Manipulation
Hugging Face has released the LeRobot Humanoid full-stack project, with a pair of humanoid robot legs priced at $2,500, built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components. The release includes a bill of materials, 3D printing files, wiring documentation, assembly instructions, and software tools for calibrating and controlling the robot both on the physical body and in simulation.
Why it matters: The original text explains the hardware cost, the open materials, and the simulation-to-real design loop, which can be used to assess the impact of a low-cost humanoid platform on research workflows.
The CENTAURO project, in which PAL Robotics participates, redesigned the 7-DOF robotic arm for the TIAGo Pro mobile manipulator, optimizing the workspace to reach angles and positions that were previously unreachable. The arm integrates series elastic actuators (SEA) that can absorb impacts and measure contact force, and shifts to torque and admittance control, enabling the robot to sense applied pressure. The WebGUI v3 ecosystem adds a drag-and-drop visual programming interface, allowing non-experts to configure complex tasks in scenarios such as polishing and logistics.
LimX Dynamics has released LimX Luna, a full-size interactive humanoid robot for commercial services. It stands 160 cm tall and has 27 body degrees of freedom (excluding end effectors). Global preorders open today, with a domestic retail price of 298,000 yuan and a limited-time 40,000 yuan discount on the first 100 units.
Huiwen has officially launched the Huiyan AI large model platform, upgrading the semantic understanding and dialogue capabilities of commercial service robots. It supports customizing an exclusive persona with a single sentence, one-click ingestion of PPT/PDF/Word/Excel/images and other files to generate an enterprise knowledge base, and one-click binding and unbinding of robot devices.
The future is here! After a long wait, we are finally ready to reveal the complete space humanoid robot HELIOS. After two semesters of intensive work, research, and iteration, this is what we present. 4 arms. 4 hands. 1 vision. 1 dream.
Elephant Robotics has launched myAGV Plus, a major upgrade to its myAGV 2023 mobile robot platform, aimed at teaching labs, scientific research, algorithm development, intelligent inspection, and robotics competitions. The intelligent AGV platform improves computing performance, perception, and motion control precision, and supports students in exploring autonomous navigation, machine vision, sensor fusion, and robot operation through experiments and project-based learning.
At AI DAY 2026, Matrix Robotics unveiled MATRIX-3, its first mass-production humanoid robot. The robot is 170 cm tall, weighs 65 kg, features 27-DOF dexterous hands, has a 4-hour battery life and a 30 kg payload, and maintains a standard walking speed of 3.9 km/h.
Why it matters: It disclosed the full specifications, key components, and starting price of the mass-production model, giving readers a basis to judge the current hardware specifications and commercial positioning of humanoid robots.
At CeMAT SEA 2026, Huiwen debuted its iBenX series AMR intelligent handling robots in the Southeast Asian market. The booth drew high traffic over the three-day show, attracting buyers from multiple countries. The series uses laser plus vision dual-SLAM navigation, can go from unboxing to production in as fast as 30 minutes, covers payloads from 100 kg to 1500 kg, and supports multiple forms including flatbed, lifting, underride, and forklift. In no-WiFi and weak-network environments, it can achieve multi-robot coordination through ad-hoc network distributed scheduling. It has already been deployed in packaging, new energy, textiles, electronics manufacturing, and other industries.
The Astribot T1 is coming soon✨ Limitless creation, the top choice for multiple scenarios. Beyond humanoid, truly all-capable. 🖖 Stay tuned! #AstribotT1 #AIrobots #ServiceRobots #VLA #HumanoidRobots #Astribot #Manipulation
Topstar has launched the T1 Cartesian robot, aimed at precision injection molding part removal scenarios. The T1 reaches a maximum instantaneous speed of 3 m/s, cuts in-mold time from 1.4 s to 0.99 s, and reduces the full cycle from 6 s to 5 s, a 20% efficiency gain; it achieves repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.02 mm, is equipped with a 23-bit absolute encoder, and has a maximum payload of 7 kg. A high-rigidity aluminum alloy body paired with a self-lubricating system lets the slider assembly go up to 65 days without lubrication maintenance, and the absolute encoder supports position memory after power loss.
Strutt ev¹ has released version 1.1.9.11, adding a controlled emergency stop triggered by pressing the power button while driving, low-battery alerts at 20% and 5%, sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity, sleep shutdown after 120 minutes, and OTA updates requiring at least 50% battery.
Pro Universe Robot released its high-precision fusion data collection solution AcCI and the Dabai robot intelligent loading and unloading module at its Global Partner Conference on May 12, 2026, and introduced an all-domain symbiosis ecosystem strategy. AcCI offers sub-millimeter precision, all-modality collection, and an end-to-end closed loop, and supports both master-slave and UMI dual collection modes; the Dabai robot has completed POC validation across multiple industries and has operated stably for over a year on production lines including the Dreame smart factory.
Yaskawa Electric announced it has begun sales of the MOTOMAN-HC35 collaborative robot (35 kg payload, 2,030 mm maximum reach), replacing the previous MOTOMAN-HC20DTP (20 kg payload, 1,900 mm reach).
Elephant Robotics has launched a series of robotics education solutions for the education and research market in the Americas. These solutions aim to simplify deployment, lower technical barriers, and reduce compatibility issues that schools, universities, and research laboratories face when integrating robotic arms, mobile platforms, sensors, and open-source software from multiple vendors themselves, thereby accelerating hands-on learning in robotics and artificial intelligence. The original article did not provide specific models, specifications, or pricing information.
Elephant Robotics has launched a comprehensive robotics education solution for the Americas market, emphasizing out-of-the-box readiness and aiming to shorten the cycle from procurement to the start of classes for U.S. university robotics labs. The solution is delivered as a vertically integrated product portfolio rather than as scattered sales of individual components, covering common lab elements such as robotic arms and vision systems. The company's background includes the HAX accelerator.
The Kepler K2 humanoid robot is being marketed in a "fitness beast" mode for extreme endurance, strength, and precision control, with claims that it can easily handle a 30KG payload, deliver continuous output on a single charge, and show no performance degradation. The source does not provide specific figures such as battery life, degrees of freedom, test conditions, or success rates; the performance claims are the company's marketing statements and are not labeled as verified results.
Strutt has launched the Resource Hub, offering tutorial videos, setup and travel PDF guides for the ev¹c personal smart mobility device, along with full product specifications (including dimensions, motor performance, and range data) and open-source 3D file downloads for space planning and accessory customization.
Team Equilibrio, this year's Focus project at ETH Zurich's Robotics Systems Lab, has built Wheeliam, a single-wheel robot with highly dynamic legs and a single-wheel design that can perform agile movement and jumps.
The new Filics Streamliner made its first appearance before an industry audience at the LogiMAT trade show in Stuttgart, where the booth drew a strong response and a large number of specific inquiries.
Genesis AI demonstrated a robot powered by GENE-26.5 autonomously solving a Rubik's Cube at 1x speed. GENE-26.5 is its robotic foundation model for human-level physical manipulation; the robot uses continuous in-air manipulation to achieve high-speed reasoning and precise wrist control.
The world's first humanoid robot for micro-fulfillment and last-mile delivery, end-to-end fully autonomous, from order intake to rider handoff — powered by Panther #panther #unixai #retail #retailinnovation #humanoidrobot #homerobot #embodiedintelligence #microfulfillment #lastmiledelivery
SoftBank Robotics announced that its autonomous cooking robots STEAMA and FLAMA will make their US debut at the National Restaurant Association Show 2026 in Chicago (May 16 to 19).
LimX Dynamics has officially open-sourced FluxVLA Engine, a standardized VLA engineering foundation for embodied intelligence that covers the full pipeline from data and training to simulation evaluation and real-robot deployment.
Why it matters: LimX Dynamics has officially open-sourced its VLA engineering foundation, which lets readers understand how unified configuration and real-robot deployment workflows lower the barrier to research and development.
The PND-0 VLA model empowers high-end manufacturing and enables flexible production. At CCMT 2026, PNDbotics' humanoid robot demonstrated the future of 3C and intelligent manufacturing through real industrial scenarios.
Dema Technology, together with Maiqing Intelligence, released OmniEgo, a first-person full pipeline for embodied intelligence data collection. The companies claim that a single person can stably collect data for more than 8 hours per day on average, that a team of 1,000 people can produce more than 200,000 hours of valid data per month, that collection efficiency is improved by more than 10 times, and that overall costs are reduced by 80%. The pipeline covers collection, cleaning, self-labeling, and quality inspection. It relies on the self-developed OmniEngine to achieve millimeter-level hand pose perception, with self-labeling coverage exceeding 85% and overall processing efficiency improved by 90%. Dema Technology is also opening this collection capability globally and announced a three-year goal of producing 10 million hours of high-quality embodied data per year.
Strutt has released a Co-design Kit for the ev¹, offering downloadable files for accessory interfaces, a parts repository, and sticker templates so users can design their own modification accessories. The files include DXF, PDF, STEP, IGES, STL, GLB, and USDZ formats, covering interfaces such as the backrest, rear rack, armrests, seat, and footrests, as well as 3D models of parts including armrest panels, brake release handles, joystick extensions, screen modules, wheel covers, and hubcaps.
ROBOTIS announced the completion of its next-generation humanoid robot actuator, DYNAMIXEL Q (QDD), and achieved the first full-body application on AI Sapiens. The company says the ROBOTIS ecosystem connects simulation and reality by integrating sensing, actuation, and hardware to support Physical AI; the entire process from assembly to walking was completed within 24 hours, and the whole process will be released as open source.
Shouxing Technology publicly unveiled its bionic humanoid robot Origin F1 via YouTube. Unlike traditional robots that focus mainly on functionality, it emphasizes intuitive interaction, emotional engagement, and a humanlike experience, aiming to explore new dimensions of embodied intelligence. The original article did not disclose its payload, degrees of freedom, battery life, or delivery information.
A first look at HELIOS. A humanoid system for zero-gravity operations. Full release coming soon.
Lingchu Intelligence has officially released its self-developed complete robot ψ-SynRobot and simultaneously started large-scale mass production. The model targets logistics, retail, and industrial scenarios and uses an integrated "operation execution + data collection" architecture; each completed task simultaneously accumulates visual, tactile, and motion-trajectory data. It can run continuously 24/7 and suits scenarios such as warehouse sorting, retail guidance, and industrial assembly. The release gives Lingchu Intelligence a complete product matrix from an "embodied intelligence brain" to a complete-machine execution platform, covering forms such as wheeled robots and exoskeleton gloves.
RobCo announced an expansion of its industrial robot lineup with Autonomous Alfie, designed for varied real-world environments and targeting Level 4 autonomy. The system combines dual-arm manipulation with integrated sensing, actuation, software, and hardware, and can handle precision assembly, sensitive material handling, and logistics tasks such as picking, kitting, and palletizing. It is currently in final development, with first customer deployments planned for later this year, delivered through a RaaS model; RobCo will show an early preview at Hannover Messe (Hall 26, Booth E35).