SSTG-Nav proposes a reusable object navigation framework for long-term deployment scenarios, focused on addressing the mismatch between observation poses and docking poses. The framework uses a single task-agnostic RGB-D mapping pass, employing a vision-language model (VLM) for detection and depth back-projection to generate reachable targets. The material provides only an abstract and does not give full experiments or results.
Super Odometry 2.0 introduces a four-layer adaptive mechanism for motion estimation when cameras and LiDAR degrade in scenarios such as darkness, repetitive corridors, and dense smoke. The system filters reliable observations at the feature layer, identifies weakly constrained directions at the direction layer, and dynamically adjusts the factor graph fusion strategy at the engine layer.
The Lion Rock AI Lab under the China Merchants Group Advanced Technology Research Institute has released an embodied reasoning vision-language model, Lion-ER-35B-A3B. It uses a MoE architecture with about 35B total parameters and about 3B activated per token. On ten public embodied-related benchmarks, all metrics improved over the base model, with an equal-weight composite average score of 65.29.
Kinetix AI presented its full-stack embodied intelligence matrix at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026, including the high-dynamic humanoid ping-pong system SMASH, the 117-DOF humanoid robot body KAIBot, the 37-DOF dexterous hand KAI Hand, and the first-person data collection headband KAI Halo.
Huaner Technology offers four 18-DOF hexapod robots—miniHexa, SpiderPi, JetHexa, and ROSpider—for different learning needs, all supporting 360° omnidirectional movement and inverse kinematics algorithm learning.
Huaner Technology compares three entry-level robot cars: miniAuto Pro, TurboPi, and ClawPi. The miniAuto Pro is based on ESP32 and supports Scratch and Arduino.
REEMAN automated forklifts integrate with WMS, MES, ERP, and WCS through open APIs and SDKs. Business systems issue transport requests, the fleet scheduler assigns tasks, and the robots execute them using laser SLAM navigation and report completion status back.
The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition concluded on the course from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen in Tai'an, Shandong. The Unitree A2 robot dog won the legged robot sprint with a time of 43 minutes 41 seconds (actual 41 minutes 41 seconds plus a 2-minute penalty), using fully autonomous mode throughout to perceive and make decisions in real time on irregular stone steps.
Xinyan Robotics launched the Bubbo 1 emotional companion robot for the home on October 29, 2026. It is 65 cm tall, carries 26 sensors across 13 categories, is priced at 9,499 yuan on JD.com, and is available to the first 1,000 users at a discounted price of 7,999 yuan.
At CeMAT Asia, which opened on November 3, Ingsmart exhibited the Messol embodied-intelligence loading and unloading robot solution, designed for native mixed-box conditions inside truck trailers; it supports grasping of mixed boxes in multiple box types and orientations, and the operation process requires no manual entry into the trailer for sorting.
The paper LT-Mem from the APRL lab at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea won the IROS 2026 Best Paper award. The work proposes a volatile-perception spatiotemporal memory framework that uses three memory layers—Live, Delta, and Meta—and three volatility-based update strategies—coverage, retention, and multi-hypothesis—to solve the temporal forgetting problem in which new observations overwrite old memories when a robot revisits the same space multiple times.
PHYMI released its first Physical Agent action partner, Sagi, on October 28. It uses a four-wheeled legged configuration with a humanoid upper body and a companion cargo box, and is positioned to complete long-range mobility and object manipulation in open, dynamic real-world scenarios.
GelSight released the GelSight Mobile 4.5 inspection platform software update, which improves overall measurement performance through system-level optimizations and adds the Profile Analysis contour analysis tool and the Arc shape for the Offset tool, used to measure angles, radii, line-to-line and point-to-point distances, and height differences of circular features. The new version also offers a refreshed interface and enhanced PDF reports, which can include images and signature lines to facilitate sharing and sign-off of inspection results within organizations. The version is now available.
Yobotics' "Xingzhe Taishan" humanoid robot fully autonomously traversed more than 3,100 stone steps on Mount Tai at the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, relying on its own perception and decision-making systems. The robot is equipped with multimodal perception, autonomously identifies step edges and obstacles, builds a map of the mountain path and plans its route, and then dynamically adjusts stride length, step height and landing posture through its self-developed joint modules and motion-control cerebellum. The team said the competition was a real-world validation of its full-stack self-development approach, and that it will next advance deployment in scenarios such as mountain inspection and emergency rescue.
XPENG ROBOTICS proposes the embodied vision-language model Capek 0.5, training separate experts for four execution capability categories—spatial reasoning, temporal understanding, action guidance, and state verification—then integrating them into a single model via TIES merging and routed MOPD distillation.
Hiwonder's three native ROS 2 mobile manipulation platforms, LanderPi, JetRover, and ROSOrin Pro, all include SLAM navigation, 3D vision, and multimodal AI examples; they differ mainly in compute power, perception hardware, chassis, and robotic arm torque.
Xinyan Robotics officially launched the embodied family agent Bubbo 1 on October 29. The plush-shaped robot runs on the self-developed Bubbo OS and focuses on companion-style interaction in which it actively approaches and responds to people. It is priced at 9,499 yuan, with an early-order price of 7,999 yuan for the first 1,000 buyers.
Wangyuan Technology received a CSRC overseas listing filing notice on October 30 and plans to issue no more than 12.6886 million shares in a bid for a Main Board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its prospectus shows revenue rose from 378 million yuan in 2023 to 812 million yuan in 2025, while net margin fell from 16.1% to 12.4% and sales and marketing expenses reached 303 million yuan in 2025.
For quadrotor obstacle avoidance, AirGym incorporates depth perception, low-level control, and sensor noise into a single training pipeline, and outlines five control hierarchies, depth observation designs, and reward structures. The article also records the engineering finding that Blackwell GPUs cannot run Isaac Gym.
The article analyzes GTSAM factor graph state estimation, introduces how pose graph and IMU preintegration factors are constructed, and conducts a comparison experiment between batch LM and iSAM2 incremental solving. It also analyzes the process by which loop closure detection triggers global correction, as well as numerical validation of incremental inference on the Bayes tree.
G1 Brunson uses event-based rewards and asymmetric actor-critic training, bringing the depth camera directly into the observation loop during training to form a G1 whole-body dribbling policy. Reproducing the official weights locally in MuJoCo gave an average of 43.5 crossovers over 12 episodes with zero falls, matching the official results.
Rockchip and SigmaStar reported a combined net profit of 1.174 billion yuan in Q3 2026, with Rockchip at 473 million yuan for the quarter, up 90.49% year on year, and SigmaStar at 701 million yuan, up 752.76% year on year. Rockchip's RK3588, RK3576 and other chips handle robot visual recognition, 3D mapping and path planning, and the company has launched a multi-sensor data acquisition solution; SigmaStar shipped more than 10 million robot vision chips in 2025 for a 23% global share, and its SSU9366 targets outdoor and companion robots.
REEMAN published three verified AMR forklift pallet-handling deployments: in Huzhou, Ironhide 3.0 moves 1.5-ton pallets along a route of about 47 meters, with daily throughput of 160–200 trips; in Jingmen, Ironhide passes through two electric doors and interfaces with a stretch-wrapping machine, at about 75 cycles per day; in Shanxi, a Rhinoceros 1.5-ton stacker handles high-level handoffs in the packaging area.
Two NIOSH projects use computer vision to detect potential collisions while a masonry robot assists workers in placing concrete blocks, and to identify workers, equipment, and openings that may create fall risks from aerial video. Both scenarios are affected by dust obscuring sensors, lighting changes within a shift, and equipment and building materials blocking camera views; mobile robots also face uneven ground and changing temporary pathways. The NIOSH bulletin recommends tracking sensor failures, localization failures, and manual takeover frequency during deployment, and distinguishing between using cameras to flag hazards for review and relying on them for shutdown protection.
A developer combined a $250 SO-101 robot arm with Meta's Muse Spark and SAM 3.1 to find, grasp, and hand over a screwdriver on voice command, with no training required. The project was built for a Meta AI hackathon, and the demo video was posted on X.
On October 26, the qualifier of the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition started on the trail from Tai Shan's Red Gate to the Mid-Heaven Gate, with multiple domestic teams fielding legged and wheel-legged hybrid robots. The course runs about 3.8 km and includes more than 3,100 steps. Rain fell during the competition, and the slippery stone steps tested the robots' balance control, perception and decision-making, and endurance. The event also features a legged-robot load-carrying race and an all-terrain mobility pathfinding challenge. Zhishen Technology's "Tongchui M1" has a maximum payload of 30 kg and can clear obstacles 80 cm high; Dongtai Technology's robot finished the speed race in about 58 minutes with roughly 80% battery remaining.
Wang Rui, a 2022 undergraduate student in the School of Future Science and Engineering at Soochow University, published research on the TACHIP tactile chip in Nature Communications as a co-first author under the guidance of Professor Chen Tao's team. The plug-and-play soft tactile chip uses a five-pixel pneumatic array to reconstruct tactile patterns such as shape, hardness, roughness, and temperature, achieving a 95% first-round recognition rate and raising the success rate of six types of teleoperation tasks from 65% to 85% through reverse tactile feedback. The team completed validation demonstrations on the EFORT industrial robot platform.
Lanjian Intelligent announced that it signed a contract with Wuhan Chuyang for the Wuhan Phase II warehouse logistics equipment project, valued at RMB 258 million, which is expected to have a positive impact on its 2027 performance. As of June 30, 2026, Lanjian Intelligent's order backlog stood at RMB 2.53 billion; in the first three quarters of this year, revenue was RMB 1.215 billion, up 7.40% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders was RMB 67.813 million, down 27.67% year on year.
Orbbec's 2026 Q3 report shows robot vision solution revenue reached more than double the year-earlier level, cumulative robot customers exceeded 1,000, and the delivery cycle was compressed from about 40 days to 20 days. First-three-quarter revenue was 711 million yuan, down 0.43% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was 73.8615 million yuan, down 31.62% year on year; gross margin rose from 42.8% to 49.09%; and R&D investment was 175 million yuan, up 19.20% year on year.
Through a roller shutter door. Down a narrow aisle. Across a rain-soaked yard. Different Sherpa tugs, the same task: hook up a cart and keep going. Rain is just part of the route. #AMR #Robotics
The BMW Group and Embotech say they have used Automated Driving In-Plant technology to move a cumulative 1 million vehicles at four production sites in the UK and Germany, with roughly 3,500 vehicle movements per day and availability above 99.5%.
VanJee LiDAR has launched the TunJing Max WLR-751, a stereo 3D camera for embodied intelligence and industrial automation, featuring a 108°×80° field of view, a recommended working distance of 0.2–6 m, and onboard AI object detection. Both the depth and RGB images support output at up to 1280×800 resolution at 30fps. The company claims depth error within ±0.8% at a distance of 2 m, and the camera supports 60fps customization and multi-camera synchronization better than 100μs.
South Dakota State University and other institutions propose Any3R, which uses a dense ray field to describe arbitrary central cameras, reconstructing a 3D point cloud and estimating pose from mixed-camera images in a single forward pass. The method replaces the row and column indices of rotary position encoding with angular coordinates and weights the pixel loss by solid angle, so one set of weights covers pinhole, fisheye beyond 180°, and 360° panoramic cameras. On benchmarks spanning 13 central camera types and 3 datasets, it leads in both reconstruction accuracy and pose accuracy; the inference code, 13 camera models, and weights are open-sourced.
Why it matters: The article presents a feed-forward 3D reconstruction method that replaces the pinhole assumption with a dense ray field, offering insight into handling mixed inputs from multiple camera types.
REEMAN built a custom food delivery robot based on the Hot Wheels robot chassis (model WBOT11B), featuring a two-layer transparent enclosed compartment and supporting single-point and multi-point autonomous delivery as well as automatic charging at low battery.
Based on project experience over the past two years, Hikrobot has upgraded its STRP case storage and picking solution across three dimensions: division of labor, flexibility, and throughput, and introduced the HAPS intelligent picking system. The STRP dual-side solution places tracks on racks on both sides of the aisle, achieving both increased storage capacity and higher task completion rates with 30% fewer T50 units; the industry-first cross-aisle STU connects adjacent aisles with dedicated curved tracks.
The VMR "Jixing" V400 point-to-point transport robot from Weimaier, a subsidiary of RoboCT, will make its debut at CeMAT ASIA 2026 at Booth C3-3, Hall N1, Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The product can complete basic mapping and deployment in as little as 30 minutes; users can set waypoints, adjust routes, and dispatch tasks via a visual app. It uses 3D SLAM to automatically build environment maps for autonomous navigation and creates safety zones through 3D spatial perception, choosing to pass, detour around, or wait for obstacles.
REEMAN has published a deployment case at a chemical shipping company in Shanghai, where the Ironhide autonomous forklift links pallet pickup, automatic stretch wrapping, elevator floor transfer, and indoor and outdoor delivery, covering about 600 kg per trip, about 650 meters round trip, about 12 minutes per cycle, and about 50 cycles per day. The forklift exchanges station-ready and wrapping-complete status with the wrapper through an industrial interface, and coordinates requests, entry, and exit with the building elevator control system. During commissioning, the team adjusted drive-wheel downforce to resolve ramp slipping, and worked with the wrapper manufacturer to correct the pallet handover process.
The REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 is a 1.5-ton laser SLAM AMR forklift that can autonomously identify pallets, position its forks, lift and transport loads, and place goods without reflectors or floor tape. In a case at a new energy factory in Huzhou, it completes about 160–200 pallet transports per day along a 47-meter route, runs continuously for 6 hours fully loaded and 8 hours empty, and supports 1-hour fast charging and automatic return to charge.
REEMAN compares the official rated specifications of three laser SLAM navigation AMR forklifts: Ironhide 3.0, HAMMER 2.0, and Rhinoceros. Ironhide 3.0 is a 1.5-ton flatbed transport vehicle; HAMMER 2.0 is a 1.2-ton stacker that supports battery swapping and Tianzi pallets; Rhinoceros is a 1.5-ton narrow-body stacker with a 2.5-meter lift.
OpenFlyV2 is a unified onboard vision-language-action architecture that uses a shared vision-language representation to support semantic understanding, language-grounded perception, spatial reasoning, and continuous flight control within a single model. The authors built a simulation dataset of approximately 70,000 navigation trajectories and 60,000 vision-language instruction-response pairs. On an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX, the model runs fully onboard and generates action chunks of 12 waypoints each at 10 Hz.