Geek+ launched the RoboPallet pallet large-and-small vehicle solution during CeMAT ASIA 2026. Aimed at medium-throughput pallet operations, it uses the RP11 high-bay forklift for vertical storage and retrieval within racks, and the RP2 low-level forklift or P-series robots for horizontal transport, with all equipment dispatched centrally by the RMS robot management system.
On October 30, Shunheng Intelligence announced that its self-developed dual-arm wheeled humanoid robot, SynDexy C1, has completed its first small-batch delivery. The customers are in the consumer electronics and electronic components sectors, and the robot is used for precision assembly processes on production lines. The robot has 22 degrees of freedom across its body, with motion control latency reduced to the 1-millisecond level. It is equipped with self-developed visuotactile sensors and the SynDexy M1 visuo-tactile-force tri-state fusion manipulation model. The company disclosed that the success rate for key tasks exceeds 98%. The project was initiated in April this year, the first-generation prototype was completed in July, and delivery took place in October. The company was registered in June 2025, and its chief scientist is Fang Bin of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Yuequan Bionics exhibited its YingShou Y-Hand M2 bionic dexterous hand at Hong Kong Fintech Week, stating that it has 38 degrees of freedom, a whole-hand grip strength of 330N, a five-finger closing time of 0.2s, and a single-fingertip repeat positioning accuracy of 0.04mm. The hand can perform all 33 categories of human-like dexterous manipulation with a 96% success rate, and when mounted on a humanoid robot platform it can adaptively grasp square, spherical, irregularly shaped, and thin, brittle, or soft objects. The company also introduced its integrated software-hardware in-house development system, which is built on core components such as motors and artificial muscle modules and extends to dexterous hand manipulation units and bionic full-robot platforms.
Saigan Technology announced the completion of a PreA++ funding round of tens of millions of yuan, exclusively invested by Guangzhou Industrial Control Donggao Fund. The funds will be used for R&D iteration of core technology, production line capacity expansion, and market channel development. The investor has finalized the first batch of orders, which will be deployed in automotive manufacturing inspection processes. The company says its iontronic tactile sensor can sense contact forces at the 0.01 N level, with full-scale linearity R²>0.997, a measurement range covering 1 Pa to 2 MPa, and a response speed of 0.62 ms.
The SoftSync FlexHand bionic tendon-driven hand was featured on CCTV-4's national science entrepreneurship program Youth Innovation+. The hand is designed with a 1:1 human hand appearance and offers softness, safety, waterproofing, and shock absorption; under the same pose and motor settings, it relies on compliance to adapt to objects of different sizes, enabling pinching and three-finger grasping.
The self-developed RV reducer from Midea's Blue Orange Laboratory has passed an 8,000-hour life validation under constant-load conditions and a 3,000-cycle reciprocating impact validation, with machining accuracy deviation on complex curved surfaces controlled below 2-3 microns. It has been trialed on KUKA robots and has entered mass production. The component went through dozens of iterations over five years, and the team added an allowable bending moment force on top of rated-condition testing, making it stricter than the national testing standard. Xu Yi, director of Midea's AI Research Institute, also described the sequence for deploying embodied intelligence, with industrial scenarios first; success rates for line screw-fastening and parts sorting have reached over 99%.
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.
From October 22 to November 3, Xiangyang Bearing's share price rose about 85% over 9 trading days, hitting the daily limit up 6 times; over the same period, Unitree Technology rose about 21%. Its precision bearings usable in harmonic reducers and RV reducers generated cumulative operating revenue of only 161,100 yuan and have not yet turned a profit, accounting for about 0.023% of total revenue in the first half of the year. The company's net profit attributable to shareholders for the first three quarters remained a loss of 26.17 million yuan.
Kinetix AI's ultra-high-DOF dexterous hand KAI-Hand made its debut at HKFW 2026 and was tested live on site. The hand is designed at 1:1 human-hand scale, has fingertip force exceeding 30N, can grip stably for long periods, and its thermal-balance design keeps it room-temperature to the touch.
ROBROS has launched its next-generation humanoid robot IGRIS-MAX, increasing payload capacity to up to 30 kg through enhanced shoulder joint torque. The robot targets heavier tasks in industrial environments, and the company says it can expand the application possibilities of humanoid robots across various industrial sites.
Yiyou Technology and Korea's Daedong Group signed a cooperation MOU in Shanghai on October 27 to carry out joint development and validation of agricultural robot joint modules and to advance production applications. Yiyou will handle joint design, integration, testing, and process implementation, while working with Daedong Group's autonomous agricultural robots and AI field mobile robots for validation under field conditions. The two parties are preparing to establish a joint venture and build a joint pilot production line, aiming to move the products into commercial production and sales.
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.
Genrobot.AI has released DAS Ego 2.0 and DAS Dex 2.0, two new products for Physical AI training data collection.
In The Robot Report podcast, WiBotic CEO Ben Waters said that as mobile robot fleets scale up, opportunity charging is becoming a key strategy. It allows robots to recharge nearby between tasks and avoid downtime from traveling long distances back to a charging station when battery level drops to 20%.
Sunzhan Technology released the fully customized AI computing power platform Axon Platform in Shenzhen on October 20. Built on a RISC-V plus DSA foundation, the hardware integrates scalar cores, vector units, a dual-source tensor NPU array, and a NoC, with computing power ranging from 0.1T to 128T.
KUKA Mobile Robotics unveiled three core offerings at CeMAT ASIA 2026: the KMP L series underride lifting mobile robots, a one-stop pallet handling solution, and the KUKA.AMR software 3.0 platform, as the implementation of the "KAI" intelligent platform in warehousing and logistics scenarios.
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.
Liu Junhui, founder of Zhihui Robotics, said the company's technology route is AI plus spraying robots plus spraying processes. It develops its own explosion-proof spraying robot bodies, sources 3D vision cameras externally, and focuses investment on path and trajectory planning. The company launched 5 explosion-proof spraying robot models in 2023 and put them into mass production; shipments exceeded 100 units in 2025 and are expected to reach 300 units in 2026. It completed an A round of funding in the tens of millions of yuan in April this year and plans to release a seven-degree-of-freedom explosion-proof spraying robot in November.
Tuohang Technology's Tuofeng 500H heavy-lift drone completed verification of five capabilities in Ili, Xinjiang: material sling transport, fire-extinguishing bomb drops, visible-light reconnaissance, infrared detection, and satellite communications. The aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 680 kg and a payload of 300 kg; in the demonstration it slung 280 kg of cargo across a ravine for precision delivery and autonomously dropped fire-extinguishing bombs along a preset route. Tuohang Technology said it will work with Ili Prefecture State-Owned Investment Company and Ili Silk Road Zhigu Company to explore low-altitude emergency operation plans suited to the Ili River Valley.
Meta partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier to complete a humanoid robot prototype named Max in just three months, and has already started development of a second-generation Max 2. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, is equipped with Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip, is customized based on Fourier's GR-series hardware, and needs to recognize voices from 5 meters away and gestures from 3 meters away. Meta says the collaboration is for internal research and experimentation only, with no sales plans, but it is recruiting for supplier development and product design roles in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
An ETH Zurich team has developed FlexiQuad, a ring-shaped flexible-frame quadrotor with no central body; on impact the frame deforms to absorb energy and the drone can keep flying. It reaches a top flight speed of 80 km/h, with collision tests at about 25 km/h; the frame material costs less than 15 Swiss francs, and it has been used to grasp and carry soft first-aid kits and payloads heavier than its own weight. The team also used reinforcement learning to let it stabilize its attitude after a collision before resuming autonomous flight, but reliable perception and autonomous navigation remain prerequisites for leaving the lab.
At CeMAT Asia 2026 in Shanghai, XSTO exhibited its innovative handling product line, including AI+ handling robots, the Magic Block King Kong series, a motion-sensing logistics vehicle, and the Qiaokeli electric portable stair-climbing cart. The Magic Block King Kong series features a modular configuration that integrates flat-ground assistance, electric stair climbing, and lifting/loading capabilities; the AI+ handling robots are designed for autonomous decision-making in heavy-load working conditions. The booth is N2-E4-3, and multiple cooperation intentions are being discussed on site.
Shanghai Sage Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has completed a pre-Series B funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan. Investors include Jiantou Investment, Nantong Investment Management, and Yunqi Capital. The funds will be used for large-model R&D, iteration of the multi-arm robot body, production line expansion, and global market expansion.
Leaderdrive's revenue for the first three quarters of 2026 was 591 million yuan, up 45.30% year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 122 million yuan, up 30.33% year on year; humanoid-related reducer orders rose from about 100,000 units the previous year to 400,000 units. The company's annual harmonic reducer capacity has reached 1 million units, with a year-end target of 1.5 million units, but its gross margin in the first half was 32.26%, down 2.51 percentage points year on year, as new production line debugging and small-batch production of multiple models are weighing on profitability. The article also compares the catch-up pace of domestic manufacturers such as Zhongda Leader, HuanDong Technology, and Laifu Harmonic.
Why it matters: Across orders, capacity, gross margin, and domestic competition, readers can see the real operating constraints during the ramp-up phase for humanoid reducers.
Cutter & Buck has opened a new distribution center in Grand Prairie, Texas, featuring its second AutoStore goods-to-person system, designed and integrated by Kardex, with 50,502 storage bins, 32 AutoStore R5 Pro robots, and 13 ports.
Intel will hold an Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Solutions Exchange in Shanghai on November 10, showcasing a multi-channel GMSL real-time perception solution and a 358H embodied intelligence complete system based on the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H (Panther Lake) platform.
At the 2026 China (Taishan) Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Cooperation Conference, Yobotics exhibited the "Xingzhe Taishan" humanoid robot, the Y30 industrial flagship quadruped robot, the Y20-W industry-grade wheeled-legged robot, and the E15 lightweight quadruped robot, and presented standardized industry solutions covering emergency firefighting, public safety, energy and power, and other areas. At the same time, Shandong Yobotics Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Tai'an Taishan Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. to launch the Taishan Urban Investment robot flagship store and a project for co-cultivating and co-building intelligent industry scenarios.
Ruoyu Technology exhibited independently for the first time at ROBOTECH2026, held October 27–29 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. Together with Geely Auto and Zhengxing Technology, it recreated a smart refueling worksite at 1:1 scale, where the Ruoyu Lanyue robot autonomously completed the entire process—taking up the nozzle, opening the fuel tank cap, inserting the nozzle to refuel, and returning the nozzle to its place—without any manual intervention.
Saigan Technology announced the completion of a Pre-A++ funding round of tens of millions of yuan, exclusively invested by Guangzhou Industrial Holdings Donggao Fund, with proceeds to be used for R&D iteration of core technology, production line capacity expansion, and market channel development. The company is based on the nano-interface iontronic capacitive sensing system of the Southern University of Science and Technology's Ultra-Flexible Electronics Laboratory, and says its sensors can detect contact forces at the 0.01N level, cover a range of 1Pa to 2MPa, respond in 0.62ms, and achieve full-scale linearity R²>0.997.
REEMAN developed an enclosed food delivery robot based on the Hussar Pro chassis (HBOT20P), combining a fully enclosed delivery compartment with indoor autonomous mobility. The chassis has a rated payload of 100 kg, uses laser SLAM navigation, avoids obstacles with laser, 3D camera, and ultrasonic sensors, and offers open SDK/API interfaces supporting HTTP API, Android SDK, RS232, and local MQTT integration.
With annual shipments of thousands of mobile robots and chassis units, industrial-grade engineering standards, cross-application customization experience, and a self-developed technology chain spanning navigation algorithms to cloud management, REEMAN provides OEM and custom robot development services. Its public projects include a warehouse picking robot using the Big Dog chassis, a 7-DOF robotic arm, and a 1,200 mm lifting mechanism; an AI library inventory robot based on the Hot Wheels chassis; and an enclosed food delivery robot based on the Hussar Pro HBOT20P chassis.
Huan'er Technology compares two open-source 6-axis robotic arms that natively support the Hugging Face LeRobot ecosystem: the SO-ARM101 has a 200 g payload, a 400 mm reach, and a maximum servo torque of 30 kg·cm, making it suitable for beginners learning teleoperation and imitation learning; the NexArm has a 500 g payload, a 500 mm reach, and 65 kg·cm torque, features an aviation-grade metal body, and can be expanded with peripherals such as the K230 vision module and a Mecanum-wheel chassis.
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.
Pudu Robotics has officially launched the PUDU TOMO S Series robotic mowers, built around the SharpLoop™ self-sharpening system that combines automated blade care with precise trimming, aimed at reducing routine maintenance for home users. The series focuses on automated blade care, precise edge cutting and intelligent navigation to help users achieve consistently clean, tidy cuts.
Lens Technology's investor relations record disclosed on November 1 shows that its Kunshan base humanoid robot production line has achieved a daily output of 100 units, with plans to reserve capacity of more than 10,000 units per month each for its customer's Q series and T series. The company said its cooperation model will extend from OEM whole-machine manufacturing to ODM collaborative design and manufacturing, and that it has participated in the development and testing of joint modules, DCU controllers, and OmniPicker grippers for AgiBot's Lingxi X1. In the first three quarters of 2026, Lens Technology's revenue fell 10.74% and net profit fell 50.06%, with new businesses such as robotics accounting for less than 10%.
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.
Lens Technology disclosed institutional research information on November 1: its Kunshan robotics base has achieved a daily output of 100 units and plans to provide production capacity guarantees of more than 10,000 units per month for the customer's Q-series and T-series products respectively next month. The company's net profit attributable to shareholders for the first three quarters of 2026 was 1.420 billion yuan, down 50.06% year-on-year, including exchange losses of 654 million yuan. Lens Technology is collaborating with Shangwei Qiyuan to transition from OEM to ODM and vertical supply chain integration, and has cooperated with AgiBot in developing core components such as dexterous hand modules and key joint modules.
Gu Yue Ju (Ancient Moon Residence) publishes the seventh installment of the Dexterous Hand in Practice series, themed on connecting the CAN bus to a single finger and covering three parts: protocol, wiring, and transceiving. The material provides only the title and summary, without specific protocol details, wiring schemes, or transceiving implementation.
Part 06 of the Dexterous Hand in Practice series discusses how STM32, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi divide responsibilities in dexterous hand control. The content centers on the roles each of these three types of control boards plays, and it is a tutorial-style article in this hands-on series.
According to foreign media reports on October 31, Meta partnered with Chinese robotics company Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max in only about three months, and a second-generation product is already in development. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 48 kilograms, is equipped with an NVIDIA Jetson Thor chip, has five-fingered dexterous hands and a display that can simulate human facial expressions, and needs to recognize voices and gestures and maintain eye contact with people.