On October 28, 2026, U.S. President Trump signed a proclamation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, directing the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to open negotiations with foreign trading partners on imports of robots, industrial machinery, and their components.
The author debugged and fine-tuned a motion controller based on the MPC/WBC framework for a self-developed quadruped robot, and used depth-camera images to build height maps. The robot can now climb stairs more reliably, step over obstacles up to 11 cm high (with 18 cm ground clearance), and handle soft ground with greater confidence. The controller is written in C++, is ROS2-compatible, and has been open-sourced in the voltdog/mors_quadruped repository on GitHub. Next, the author will focus on improving software reliability, including automated device connection tests and standing up from any posture.
Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI announced that the expected gross capital raise from the merger and related financing is approximately $465 million (before transaction expenses), of which approximately $164 million comes from the Churchill XI trust account, approximately $201 million from a PIPE at $10 per share (led by Foxconn), and $100 million in equity financing received after the merger was announced.
Why it matters: Readers can learn about the funding composition of Agility's listing through its merger with Churchill XI, as well as the order and delivery pace of Digit 5.
From its opening through October 30, JD 101HOME's first global store at Shanghai Jing'an Temple drew over 200,000 visitors. International furniture brands including Vitra, Fritz Hansen, and GUBI, along with domestic original design brands such as Grado and ANTIQUE HOUSE, each surpassed 1 million yuan in sales.
Xuanyuan has extended its explosion-proof inspection robots, already delivered at scale to chemical enterprises such as Wanhua Chemical, to urban gas pipeline networks; the solution has been put into operation at a gas station. The robot first scans and builds a model to calibrate instrument and valve points, then automatically inspects on a periodic basis via the backend, integrating image-based meter reading, infrared thermal imaging for temperature measurement, and gas-sensor leak detection; its four-wheel, eight-drive omnidirectional chassis can pass through narrow passages and recharge autonomously. On-site data is transmitted back to the central control in real time, anomalies are flagged by the system and reviewed by on-duty personnel, and manual steps remain in risk handling.
UBTech, the first humanoid robot company listed in Hong Kong, announced that its controlled subsidiary Fenglong has established a wholly owned subsidiary, New Fenglong, focused on key embodied intelligence hardware including joint modules, end effectors, and thermal management. New Fenglong plans three major product matrices covering bionic human facial servos, high-density servos, electronic skin, two-finger grippers, and dexterous hands. It has already achieved R&D and mass production of two-finger grippers and bionic human facial servos, and plans to mass-produce high-power-density servos, dexterous hands, and ultra-humanoid bionic dexterous arms in 2027.
Estun's revenue for the first three quarters was 3.699 billion yuan, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 171 million yuan, up 1984.24% year on year; its industrial robots ranked first in China market share for seven consecutive quarters. SIASUN Robotics' revenue was 2.437 billion yuan, up 9.87% year on year, but its net profit attributable to shareholders was a loss of 318 million yuan, with the loss widening 99.64% year on year; R&D expenses were 236 million yuan, up 58.15% year on year. Everwin Precision's embodied intelligence and emerging technology hardware business revenue was 419 million yuan, up 532.67% year on year; from January to August, deliveries of humanoid robot precision components exceeded 1.1 million units.
On October 26, 22-year-old Huang Yi released the fully open-source bipedal humanoid robot RP1, publishing hardware drawings, control code, training plans, and a supplier list. Among these post-00s founders, only 6 are actually building the robot body itself, while the other 10 focus on upstream areas such as world models, tactile sensors, and dexterous hands. Yang Fengyu's wheeled dual-arm robot is priced at 88,000 yuan and will first enter hotel cleaning and item delivery scenarios.
Following the thread of "how to solve problems in different environments," the article reviews five categories of path planning paradigms in embodied intelligence: graph search (Dijkstra, A*, Hybrid A*), sampling methods (RRT, PRM), artificial potential field (APF), optimal control (MPC), and reinforcement learning and data-driven methods.
ABB Robotics launches its first end-to-end visual physical AI solution, integrating AI Robot Trainer into the Fashion Inductor module for sorting in fashion and apparel logistics.
Episode 267 of The Robot Report podcast recapped RoboBusiness 2026, held October 20-21 in Santa Clara, California, which drew more than 2,000 attendees.
At the smart mobility session of its Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen, Tencent released an upgraded TAI agent solution consisting of the TAI cockpit assistant, mobility service agent, content and entertainment agent, and cross-device continuity service. It integrates Yuanbao full-duplex end-to-end voice, Yuanbao Search, and the Hunyuan large model, and uses Tencent Maps, the WeChat Mini Program ecosystem, and WeChat Pay to complete task execution and transaction loops.
A user posted seeking the complete list of accepted papers for the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) 2026, and asked whether there is an aggregating repository or link to check. If the official list has not yet been released, the poster also wants to know the usual release timing and channels.
A user asked whether humanoid robots could achieve reaction speeds like Ken Lee's and further asked how the joints should be designed. The reference cited in the discussion is a cable-driven parallel robot; the text does not provide a specific model, degrees of freedom, or measured performance data.
AUBO collaborative robots cover six major industrial scenarios—palletizing, assembly, grinding, spraying, inspection, and sorting—through force control, vision, and flexible deployment. The palletizing workstation supports one-click pallet pattern generation, 2-hour deployment, a maximum pallet height of 2.5 m, and a cycle rate of 9 boxes/min; the assembly station has a cycle time of 15 seconds and a fastening success rate of 99.8%; the newly released G40 adaptive collaborative robot has been used for grinding automotive metal structural parts and features IP67 protection and an explosion-proof design.
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Mino's companion behavior application is implemented on the Jetson Orin Nano based on ROS 2, with three states: finding a person, following, and accompanying; the video is its first outdoor test. The application uses open-source modules such as depth estimation, YOLO-World person detection and tracking, pose feedback, odometry, and motion control, and a coding agent assembled the behavior logic within a weekend. The robot perceives the person by 3D position and velocity, smooths the trajectory with a Kalman filter, and continuously sends head pose and chassis velocity commands to custom hardware.
Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and AgiBot, proposed the collective experience learning (CEL) paradigm and completed prototype validation on 96 robots. In a phone packaging task, a policy trained with CEL completed 120 tests on two robots of the same model that did not participate in training, with success rate rising from 79.2% to 98.3%; when the number of robots participating in learning increased from 16 to 96, the test success rate rose from 86.7% to 98.3%.
Why it matters: Readers can learn about a training paradigm that lets robots share successes and failures and reduces reliance on human demonstration, as well as its validation results on 96 real robots.
PokeBot has officially launched RoboAPI, a publicly accessible embodied API that receives robot observations and state and predicts and outputs actions in near real time according to user instructions. It is free during the technical preview, and developers can apply via platform.pokebot.com.
STIER uses the PolishX axial flexible force control device together with a flexible grinding robot to grind weld scars on battery boxes. The minimum actual output force can be controlled down to 1 N, with force control accuracy of ±0.8 N and response under 10 ms. A positioner enables autonomous grinding across multiple areas and autonomous tool changing. In testing, weld scars were removed cleanly and R corners and edges transitioned smoothly, with a cycle time of no more than 100 s per piece and a first-pass yield of no less than 90%. The solution targets welded box-type workpieces in the automotive and new energy industries and supports process validation with customer-supplied parts.
The team led by Cheng Long at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a tactile-enhanced full-pipeline learning framework for grasping and insertion, achieving a 67% success rate at 0.05 mm clearance and a 60% reduction in peak contact force; the paper was accepted to IROS 2026. The research uses the PaXini PX6AX GEN3 multi-dimensional tactile sensor as its core sensing hardware, integrated into a seven-axis robotic arm, covering five geometric shapes and three clearance levels of 1, 0.25, and 0.05 mm. Under the same conditions, the tactile-free IL+RL approach achieved a 52% success rate, while the pure imitation learning approach achieved 0.
In the second half of 2026, financing in the embodied AI sector cooled markedly: 19 deals worth 4.934 billion yuan in the first half of October, far below the peak monthly figure of 33.98 billion yuan. Citing Unitree Robotics' share price falling more than 63% from its post-IPO peak and Yinghe Robotics' valuation of over $500 million against revenue of 4.33 million yuan, the article points to a mismatch between revenue and valuation, and examines valuation corrections and stricter IPO reviews triggered by models such as circular transactions at data-collection centers and shareholders who are also customers.
At the dexterous manipulation sub-forum of AgiBot Innovation Day, Critical Point released the OmniGlove Pro data-collection glove and began mass-production delivery. It focuses on "real-robot-ready" data that aligns human hands with real robots using high-precision EMF positioning and full-hand tactile collection.
The REEMAN YIMA YBOT20P outdoor delivery robot can automatically call an elevator, enter it, and deliver across floors through a compatible elevator control interface, without anyone needing to press the elevator buttons. The platform is designed for indoor and outdoor transport, has a payload of 100 kg, uses dual-lidar SLAM navigation, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and automatic charging, and can connect the delivery process from a community parcel station to a designated apartment entrance. Elevator integration requires confirming compatibility with the manufacturer's API, control module, or building system interface, and the elevator's existing safety controls must not be bypassed.
This article provides a systematic walkthrough of cross-embodiment transfer practice with Open X-Embodiment and RT-X, covering RLDS data-format unification, the RT-X model architecture, pretraining, fine-tuning, and deployment on new robots. It presents RLDS conversion scripts, a PyTorch implementation of an RT-1-based model, and training techniques such as temperature sampling and embodiment-weighted loss, and it documents six categories of pitfalls, including slow data loading, poor cross-embodiment performance, and action-space mismatch, along with corresponding solutions.
At the 2026 Intelligent Robot Expo, which opened in Shenzhen, Yobotics exhibited its two product lines, humanoid and quadruped robots, along with six scenario solutions, and its Shenzhen subsidiary conducted live robot demonstrations on site. The humanoid robots target cultural tourism performances, smart guided tours, education and research, and commercial services, while the quadruped robots focus on inspection in high-risk environments such as chemicals, power, and mining, as well as emergency rescue, industrial inspection, and power operation and maintenance. At the expo, the company demonstrated stable walking on complex terrain, environmental perception, and autonomous inspection capabilities.
Yobotics Robot will appear at the 2026 Mobile Network Conference, held November 5-7 at the Poly World Trade Center Expo in Guangzhou, at booth 5C02 in Hall 5. With the theme "Co-creating a New Form of the Intelligent Economy," Yobotics Robot cordially invites guests from all sectors to visit its booth and exchange ideas.
D-Robotics and Unitree Technology exhibited together for the first time at the Changsha Education Equipment Exhibition and announced a strategic partnership, launching an embodied intelligence education solution with the Sunrise S100 computing box as the core computing foundation, combined with Unitree's Go2 quadruped robot and R1 humanoid robot. The solution includes 15 themed courses totaling 180 lessons, covering elementary through high school, and offers a two-level progression path (desktop level and real-robot level) plus 6 courses integrating competition and coursework. The Sunrise S100 integrates a CPU, BPU, and MCU within a single SoC, placing perception and decision-making and real-time motion control on the same chip for coordinated operation.
Yuequan Bionic will showcase its core product, the YingShou Y-Hand M2 bionic dexterous hand, at Hong Kong FinTech Week on November 2-3, at booth 5BC-CA18 of the Zhongguancun International Delegation at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event is part of Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026, and the company says the dexterous hand is the "last centimeter" for robots to complete the closed loop of interaction with the physical world.
Yuequan Bionic's Bowen W-Bot 2.0 wheeled humanoid robot has been deployed in live-line distribution network operations and maintenance at State Grid in Hefei, independently completing the full live-line cable stripping process; the case was reported by People's Daily New Media's "Unimaginable Chinese Economy" program. The solution uses vehicle-mounted deployment on an insulated bucket truck, is equipped with the X-Hand M1 dexterous hand and 7-DOF humanoid arms, has a dual-arm payload of 20 kg and a whole-hand lifting payload of 50 kg, covers working heights of 0–2.2 meters, and has a chassis footprint of 0.238 m².
D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics exhibited together for the first time at the Changsha Education Equipment Exhibition and announced a deep collaboration, launching an embodied intelligence education solution built on the Sunrise S100 compute box as the core compute foundation, combined with Unitree's Go2 quadruped robot and R1 humanoid robot. The solution covers hardware devices, a curriculum system, course-competition integrated practice projects, and teaching environment construction, targeting primary and secondary schools for embodied intelligence education. The two parties are taking education as their first implementation scenario, with plans to build a replicable regional robotics education demonstration model and expand into industrial and other scenarios.
Hunan Jinxiang Xinyu Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Yin Huaxuan as legal representative and registered capital of 5 million yuan. It is jointly held by Hunan Xiangyou Logistics Co., Ltd. and Neolix Huiyan (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. Its business scope includes road freight transport, urban distribution transport services, and AI application software development.
A team led by Cheng Long at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published research at IROS 2026 using tactile-enhanced reinforcement learning to improve the success rate and stability of sub-millimeter precision insertion. The approach first uses Diffusion Policy imitation learning to reach the hole opening, then SAC reinforcement learning to complete the insertion, and handles real-world tactile noise through tactile baseline compensation and balanced sampling grouped by torque.
CASBOT announced the completion of a several-hundred-million-yuan Series A++ funding round, jointly invested by institutions including Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, and Luning Investment. The funds will be used for mass production and delivery of products, R&D and iteration of embodied brain technology for key scenarios, and market expansion.
AgiBot has proposed a robot workload measurement framework called Worken, which multiplies three factors—the number of active robots, autonomous working hours, and output efficiency ratio—to estimate the effective intelligent work hours completed by robots in real deployments. The framework was proposed by co-founder, president, and CTO Peng Zhihui, and emphasizes distinguishing powered-on time from autonomous operating time, and measuring qualified output against task benchmarks.
The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization released the "Shanghai Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of New-Generation Smart Manufacturing," which aims to achieve full coverage of smart factories among the city's key manufacturing enterprises by 2028, reach an industrial robot density of 600 units per 10,000 workers, and bring 8,000 humanoid robots into factories. The plan also calls for cultivating 500 advanced-level smart factories, surpassing 2,000 AI application scenarios in manufacturing, developing 10 domain-specific large models, launching more than 300 high-level intelligent agents, and forming a "54321" goal system.
The Baiyun District government of Guangzhou has released the investigation report on the "6·14" mechanical injury accident in Baiyun Renhe. On June 14, 2026, a 55-year-old general worker at Wanbao Special Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd. was crushed by the robotic arm of a blank-stacking robot and died after emergency rescue efforts failed. Direct economic losses totaled 1,801,264 yuan.