AheadForm has released ultra-realistic real-shot details of its Origin M1 humanoid robot, showcasing everything from delicate skin texture and lifelike facial structure to precise mechanical joints. The Origin series represents a new level of realism achieved by AheadForm in humanoid robots.
Strutt has announced that its flagship personal mobility vehicle, the ev¹, will embark on a multi-city U.S. Workshop tour covering the West Coast, Mountain region, Texas, Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast, with events at parks and community centers starting April 19. Participants can test drive the ev¹ in real-world settings such as grass, gravel, slopes, and uneven terrain, experiencing its intelligent driving features and all-terrain stability. A $99 on-site reservation secures a limited-time $800 discount, with limited spots available at each stop.
At MODEX 2026, Damon Technology unveiled its AI-driven unmanned secondary sorting solution for North America for the first time. Embodied-intelligence humanoid robots work in coordination with the new-generation Flying Shuttle intelligent sorting robot to enable fully automated parcel feeding and secondary sorting; the Flash Shuttle series intelligent pallet four-way shuttle system, combined with AMRs, increases goods storage capacity by 3 times. Damon has delivered multiple turnkey projects in American markets including the United States and Brazil, serving brands such as Amazon, Shopee, and Shein, with a repurchase rate of over 80% among top key accounts.
Meet the Livox Mid-360S. Proven across 20+ industries, the Mid-360 is now more accessible. The Mid-360S delivers the same performance at a more affordable price than its predecessor. Learn more 👉 https://brnw.ch/21x1zjZ Bulk inquiries 👉 https://brnw.ch/21x1zk0 #livox #lidar #robotics
Abi, the humanoid companion robot from Andromeda Robotics, interacts daily with residents at mecwacare's aged care and assisted living communities, and executives and residents shared their experiences with Abi. Abi can join group activities and start conversations in up to 90 languages, bringing more joy and connection to residents. The robot targets resident wellbeing, life enrichment, social connection, and staff capacity, showing the potential of technology in aged care settings.
Dexterity announced the launch of Instinct, a tactile intelligence system that reads force at 500–2000 Hz and responds in 0.5–2 ms to perform force-guided bin packing on production lines, with a median placement time of 4.55 seconds and an overall team success rate of 81% (95% CI 75%–86%, sampled from 854 placements). Placements that cannot be completed are quickly identified and handed back to the Foresight world model to retry with a different angle or position; the same skill delivers consistent performance across different robotic arm hardware and generalizes to objects of different materials.
Why it matters: The official release provides measured production-environment data and details of the force-guided manipulation architecture, which readers can use to understand how tactile skills coordinate with the Foresight world model for recovery.
Shipping has resumed for all MC-8 models! https://www.kopropo.co.jp/products/pcat2/60 - MC-8 2.4GHz MX-F transmitter/receiver set (with MR-8) - MC-8 2.4GHz MX-F MAKE Set A (with 2 MD-1NB units) - MC-8 2.4GHz MX-F MAKE-B (MD-2 dual-motor mixing ESC set) - MC-8 2.4GHz MX-F MAKE-C ESC special set
Companion robot company Ludens AI announced the completion of two funding rounds totaling tens of millions of yuan. The angel round was led by Linear Capital with participation from Clear Water Bay Fund, and the angel+ round was jointly invested in by Japan's PKSHA Algorithm Fund and Clear Water Bay Fund. The company's products include the small robot COCOMO and the desktop companion robot INU, both of which use on-device AI deployment, can complete the vast majority of emotional interactions without an internet connection, and run on the self-developed edge-native system Klara OS. The two products are planned to launch on crowdfunding platforms this year, formally entering overseas markets.
PNDbotics Adam robot: stair climbing
Abi, the humanoid companion robot from Andromeda Robotics, is now in use in aged care and assisted living communities, and customers and residents share their everyday experiences interacting with Abi in a video. Abi can take part in group activities and starts conversations in up to 90 languages, bringing social connection to residents' lives and serving as a way to explore how technology can support resident wellbeing and care staffing. Andromeda Robotics has opened a waitlist for Abi on its website.
Andromeda Robotics' humanoid companion robot Abi already provides companionship to residents in aged care homes and assisted living communities, playing music, dancing, hosting trivia, and leading group tai chi. Abi supports one-on-one conversations in up to 90 languages and is aimed at residents who are socially, physically, or linguistically isolated. The idea for the robot came from co-founder Grace Brown's experience of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andromeda Robotics introduces Abi, an emotional humanoid companion robot that provides companionship, comfort, and conversation for aged care and assisted living communities rather than performing operational tasks. Abi is centered on companionship, aiming to replace hours of loneliness with moments of real connection and to help care teams bring joy and conversation to residents. The video features the founder and engineers, footage of Abi interacting with residents, and links to the official website and the US waitlist.
Hugging Face has released LeRobot v0.5.1, which includes multiple fixes and feature updates. Key changes include a modular refactor that splits LeRobotDataset into DatasetReader and DatasetWriter.
KEYi Tech has officially launched Loona Deskmate, a desktop AI companion, on Kickstarter. Positioned as a desktop AI companion that can perceive the screen and interact naturally based on context, it provides support for everyday office scenarios. Loona Deskmate previously made its first public appearance at CES 2026; this crowdfunding campaign is open to early backers worldwide, inviting them to take part in the product's next stage of development.
Tokyo Robotics demonstrated human-like walking, whole-body teleoperation, and motion tracking on its custom-built Torobo humanoid. The control policies are trained through large-scale parallel reinforcement learning, and policies learned in physics simulation, once deployed to the real hardware, achieved dynamically stable whole-body motion. The company says it will continue improving motion stability in both software and hardware, and plans to introduce AI for autonomous task execution.
Torso 3 is in the studio, with newly added joint angle feedback in the hands and in-house valves.
Plyff and Rainbow Robotics announced they are jointly advancing development of the V2 manufacturing-specific AI dual-arm robot. V2 combines Rainbow Robotics' precision robot hardware with Plyff's AI specialized for assembly and fastening, and features improved robot arm and waist axis designs to adapt to changes in processes and environments. The two companies previously co-developed an automotive headlamp assembly automation solution and verified its feasibility for production line application. Based on this model, the two plan to expand applications to manufacturing sectors including automotive and electronics.
Damon Technology appeared at LogiMAT 2026 in Germany, presenting to the European market products including its new-generation Flying Shuttle intelligent sorting robot and the Damon Flash Shuttle intelligent case multi-level shuttle robot system. The Flying Shuttle robot uses two modular series, T and E; on-site delivery can go live in just 7 days, with an investment payback period of 18-24 months. The Flash Shuttle system made its European debut, leveraging AI algorithms to optimize goods inbound and outbound sequencing and conveying routes, enabling a 5-7x leap in overall warehouse throughput efficiency.
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Sharpa demonstrated its dexterous hand Wave in a real-world demo; its skills were trained on the NVIDIA Isaac Lab simulation platform and stably transferred to the real system, enabling fine manipulation such as in-hand operation.
UK robotics company Humanoid gave a live demo at NVIDIA GTC of voice-driven multi-robot collaboration powered by KinetIQ: two wheeled robots with grippers responded to visitor voice commands in a simulated shop, picking up and placing water bottles and popcorn and completing a physical handoff between robots. KinetIQ's Fleet Management system parses commands, dynamically assigns tasks, and displays real-time execution status. The demo is based on NVIDIA's open-source robotics platform, and KinetIQ is its recently released end-to-end fleet orchestration framework.
A spring sale for the tech-focused Loona Petbot starts at 12:00 on March 24: sign up to get a $50 coupon and a free collar worth $59, for a total promotional value of $109. Loona Petbot is a companion robot with touch response, facial recognition, and voice command understanding, focused on family interactive companionship.
A small quantity of the KRS-5000 series has arrived! Stock is limited, so buy soon! KRS-5054HV ICS H.C single unit/6-piece set KRS-5053HV ICS H.C single unit/6-piece set KRS-5034HV ICS single unit/6-piece set KRS-5033HV ICS single unit/6-piece set https://kondo-robot.com/product/03180
IntBot runs NVIDIA Cosmos Reason-2 directly on its own robots, without the cloud and with no round-trip latency. The author explains that when a stranger approaches, social signals won't wait, so only edge deployment lets the robot respond in time. Includes a Cosmos Cookbook recipe link: https://nvidia-cosmos.github.io/cosmos-cookbook/recipes/inference/reason2/intbot_edge_vlm/inference.html?h=edge .
Dexterity says that after NVIDIA acceleration, the visual perception pipeline of its world model Foresight cut per-cycle latency from 1508ms to 90ms, a 17x speedup.
Why it matters: The original breaks down latency data and optimization methods for each stage of the pipeline, giving robotics developers a GPU acceleration approach they can adapt to their own perception systems.
FieldAI presents its collaboration with the NVIDIA Omniverse ecosystem, using NuRec to reconstruct multimodal data collected during robot operations—including vision, depth, and LiDAR—into high-fidelity, interactive 3D scenes without a separate scanning step.
I'm Nylo! After doing such a stellar job at GTC last year, I've been invited back—better than ever—for GTC 2026. This year I'm even more capable, with better perception, stronger VLM reasoning, enhanced embodied behaviors, and sharper wit to make interacting with you more enjoyable. Come find me, ask for help, and watch me shine.
Hugging Face has released LeRobot v0.5.0, with a release blog post at https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v050.
Youibot will debut three wafer-handling robots, the OW12, OW8, and ATS6, at SEMICON CHINA 2026 in Shanghai, March 25–27, 2026, at Booth E7-7129. The OW12 supports compatibility with multiple FOUP carriers for 12-inch wafers, the OW8 uses a compact design to fit narrow spaces in the front-end process, and the ATS6 enables wafer transfer across cleanliness levels and zones. This is a launch preview; the performance claims are the manufacturer's promotional statements, and live demonstrations will be offered at the show.
Hugging Face LeRobot releases v0.4.4, adding support for OpenArm, OpenArm Mini, and G1 teleoperation, as well as damiao and RobStride CAN motor drivers, and expanding the camera API with CLI support for configuring camera backends.
Vita Power announced that the Vbot Super Robot Dog has integrated with the AI Agent OpenClaw, with OTA rollout beginning today; all beta users can select "Lab" on the main screen of the "Vbot" App to converse with the robot assistant.
At the Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala, RealMan's RealBOT wheeled folding robot used remote teleoperation to open a refrigerator, take out soy sauce, pour soy sauce, and stir dumpling filling; it was the only company among the participating recording enterprises to complete on-site work via remote teleoperation. Its integrated joint module has an MTBF of 50,000 hours, opening the refrigerator door requires an instantaneous torque of about 14 kilograms, pouring soy sauce relies on visual guidance and high-frequency posture correction to achieve zero spills, and mixing the filling is controlled by a remote "isomorphic arm" that records data to feed back into training models for the remote operation network (GLN).
IPLUSMOBOT will participate in Automation Expo South, held March 12-14, 2026, at the Chennai Trade Centre in Chennai, India, at booth B24, showcasing the FOLA DN1416 AGV and EMMA 400K AMR.
IPLUSMOBOT will take part in Automation Thailand 2026 from March 11-13 at BITEC in Bangkok, booth D121. On site it will showcase the EMMA 400L lightweight AMR (rapid deployment within 1 hour) and the EMMA 400K standard AMR (400 kg payload, fast charging, all-day endurance), and will offer localized solutions for Southeast Asian factory layouts and tropical climates, targeting the electronics, automotive, food processing, and logistics industries.
Mentee Robotics has released a teaser for the Mentee Bot V3.1 humanoid robot, disclosing full specifications: 175 cm tall, 70 kg in weight, 1.5 m/s speed, up to 25 kg payload, and 40 degrees of freedom.
Singapore robotics company Strutt officially launched the Strutt ev¹ smart everyday vehicle at CES 2026; the product previously won a CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award. The ev¹ features the evSense sensing system, which combines LiDAR, cameras, time-of-flight and ultrasonic sensors for 360-degree environmental perception, and supports Co-Pilot/Co-Pilot+ assist modes, Pathfinder autonomous navigation, and Waypoints natural-language command navigation based on a large language model.
Singapore robotics company Strutt announced that Super Early Bird pre-orders for its smart everyday vehicle ev¹ opened on December 5, and the company will officially launch the product on January 5 at CES 2026.
Strutt held the Strutt Day technology showcase, giving media and partners their first hands-on experience with the STRUTT ev¹ and building momentum for its official debut at CES 2026.
ROBOTIS has newly released the DYNAMIXEL XM335, a dedicated actuator for the fingers of Physical AI robot dexterous hands, focused on fine, complex fingertip-level manipulation. The XM335 emphasizes an ultralight, compact design and flexible control, positioned as an integrated component for robot hands. The original text does not provide specific parameters such as degrees of freedom, torque, or weight; the link points to its product page.
Fauna Robotics has released Sprout, its first humanoid robot platform, shipping the same day in a Creator Edition aimed at developers, researchers, and creators building embodied intelligence applications.
Why it matters: The company has released an official lightweight humanoid platform for developers, detailing its safety design approach, configuration list, and SDK capabilities, which can help readers assess its usability in shared-space scenarios.
On January 27, 2026, Fauna Robotics launched Sprout, a humanoid robot platform positioned for human living spaces such as homes, schools, and offices, rather than factory environments. Sprout is 3.5 feet tall, lightweight, soft to the touch, and moves quietly, with no pinch points or sharp edges. It has an expressive face that can convey intent, with a focus on physical safety and social approachability.