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- Student self-balancing robot project WOBBLE seeks feedback: stable on carpet, difficult on smooth floors
A beginner built a self-balancing robot named WOBBLE for a school project; it can balance fairly stably on carpet but performs poorly on smoother surfaces. The robot's only function is currently balancing, and the author is openly seeking improvement suggestions on appearance, wiring and component layout, expandable features, occasional motor stalling and resets, and soldering quality.
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- Existing humanoid robots are programmed to run forefoot-first without heel striking
An observer noted that existing humanoid robots are programmed to run like barefoot runners: they do not heel-strike, but instead contact the ground with the forefoot first. The relevant clip appears at 2:59 in the video. This method is considered the most efficient way to run, which also highlights the relatively low efficiency of the heel-striking style that most human runners are accustomed to.
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- RPV-SemNav proposes zero-shot indoor navigation method without prior maps
RPV-SemNav proposes a zero-shot indoor navigation method that requires no prior map. It maps target and observed objects into probability vectors over nine room categories (RPV) and uses spatial co-occurrence semantics to guide exploration. The system combines open-vocabulary detection, CLIP semantic alignment, and free-space propagation, enabling the robot to first understand the room and then decide where to look for the target.
Guyuehome ·
- SSTG-Nav proposes reusable object navigation framework
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.
Guyuehome ·
- DDC2026 D-Robotics Developer Conference registration opens
Registration is now open for the DDC2026 D-Robotics Developer Conference. The conference is themed "No Curiosity, No Truth"; more event details can be found via "Read Original Article" at the end of the post.
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- FAIR plus to hold exhibitions in Europe and Southeast Asia for the first time in 2027
FAIR plus will land in Europe and Southeast Asia for the first time in 2027: it will be held jointly with Humanoid Technology Expo in Stuttgart, Germany on October 5-6, 2027, and in Bangkok, Thailand on October 20-22. The Shenzhen exhibition will be held on April 21-23, 2027, with about 600 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors expected. In 2026, the exhibition already brought together 389 robotics companies and attracted 62,171 professional visits, including 3,326 from overseas.
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- Booth reservations open for 2027 Humanoid Robot Ecosystem Conference (HREC)
Booth reservations are now open for the 2027 Humanoid Robot Ecosystem Conference (HREC), which will be held April 15-18, 2027, at the Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center. The conference is hosted by China Robot Network, was founded in 2024, and has been held 3 times. Humanoid robots, dexterous hands, components, and industry chain brands will exhibit.
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- Saigan Technology completes tens of millions of yuan PreA++ funding round to advance mass production of iontronic tactile sensors
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.
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- Midea's self-developed RV reducer passes 8,000-hour validation and enters mass production
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%.
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- Kinetix AI Showcases Full-Stack Matrix Including SMASH Ping-Pong Robot and 117-DOF Humanoid KAIBot at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026
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.
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- IROS 2026 plenary: NASA, JAXA and academia discuss space robotics
An IROS 2026 plenary session focused on space robotics, with experts from NASA, JAXA and academia discussing the roles of robots in lunar exploration, human spaceflight and in-orbit operations. After pausing the Gateway program, NASA shifted to the MoonBase project, with an initial operating capability targeted for 2029; robots will be needed to build modules, transport supplies and enable in-situ resource utilization. JAXA's MMX mission sampling robot needs to collect more than 10 grams of regolith in under a minute.
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- Yuyao Robotics Research Center Public Notice of Proposed Hires for Non-establishment Staff Recruitment
The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has publicly announced Liu Qing as a proposed hire for the position of mechanical structure engineer, with a 3-day public notice period. Liu Qing, born in May 1998, holds a master's degree, scored 86 in the interview, and passed both the medical examination and the background review. Anyone with objections to the proposed hire may raise them during the public notice period via email at 442968292@qq.com.
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- Open-source firmware for Feetech STS32XX servos reduces SO-ARM positioning error to 0–2 mm
The author wrote open-source firmware for the Feetech STS32XX series servos, claiming it nearly eliminates positioning error in most cases. SO-ARM101 positioning error dropped from 35 mm to 10 mm, and SO-ARM102 from 25 mm to 0–2 mm. The firmware is open-sourced on GitHub.
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- Sunzhan Technology Releases Axon Platform Fully Customized AI Computing Power Platform
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.
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- From telecom to robotics: how can someone with a mechatronics background enter robotics/automation field service and contracting roles?
A US telecom 1099 subcontractor (cable/network installation and troubleshooting) holds a bachelor's degree in mechatronics and robotics but has no industry experience. He asks whether 1099/contract field service opportunities exist in robotics or automation, or whether W-2 employment predominates. He also wants to know which roles suit his background, whether companies are willing to train people without direct robotics experience, pay for travel assignments, and paths from field technician to engineering or specialist roles.
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- Interview with Princeton's Liu Shilong: From Grounding DINO to self-evolving agents, humans are super routers
Liu Shilong, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton (joining Columbia University in fall 2027 as a tenure-track assistant professor), has shifted his research focus to self-evolving agents, with robotics and scientific discovery as application scenarios. He is a core author of the open-world detection model Grounding DINO, which has over 2 million monthly downloads on Hugging Face, and whose open-source project has accumulated over 30,000 GitHub stars.
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- A3 publishes ISO 21423:2026 standard for industrial mobile robot communication and interoperability
A3 has published ISO 21423:2026, which provides general requirements for communication and interoperability among industrial mobile robots (IMRs) from different vendors. Developed by ISO Technical Committee 299, the standard covers information exchange among AGVs, AMRs, and fleet managers, allowing robots to share position, speed, direction, status, tasks, and availability; it also covers communication with systems such as ERP, elevators, and automatic doors. The standard is priced at $373 in the A3 online store, with an A3 member price of $320.
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- Ingsmart Exhibits Messol Embodied-Intelligence Loading and Unloading Robot Solution at CeMAT
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.
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- Zhihui Robotics' Liu Junhui: Using AI Plus Spraying Robots and Processes to Enter Coating Scenarios
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.
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- Geek+ showcases Gravity embodied model and Gino 1 humanoid robot at CeMAT 2026
At CeMAT 2026, Geek+ demonstrated a robotic arm equipped with the Gravity embodied model and its general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, completing grasping of unfamiliar objects, picking, and bin handling. Gravity uses a hybrid Transformer (MoT) dual-brain collaborative architecture and a hierarchical memory mechanism, and through natural-language correction it raised the overall success rate of complex manipulation tasks from 17.5% to 87.5%, with a single picking action stable at about 2 seconds.
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- NTU MMLab and Shanghai AI Lab propose PhysLDM: high-fidelity physics simulation with latent diffusion
NTU MMLab and Shanghai AI Lab propose PhysLDM, which uses a spatiotemporal VAE to compress an entire deformable-object simulation trajectory into latent space and then generates it in one pass with a diffusion model, achieving an average reconstruction error of 2.48 millimeters.
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- AgiBot's 6 Genie G2 robots work 24 hours straight at convenience store; 4 pass probation review
Starting at 10:00 on November 2, six AgiBot Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24 consecutive hours at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai. They were assessed against store standards including on-duty time, task success rate, and response time. In the end, 4 passed probation, while Lengjie and Juanwang did not yet pass probation due to shortcomings in on-duty initiative and job stability.
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- China Post launches 2026 supplementary tender for drone equipment model resource pool
China Post Express Logistics recently issued a public tender for the "2026 China Post Drone Equipment Model Resource Pool (Supplementary) Procurement Project," divided into two packages: multirotor (Package 1) and fixed-wing (Package 2). It plans to sign two-year framework admission agreements to provide postal enterprises with equipment leasing and supporting flight guarantee services.
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- Tuohang Technology's Tuofeng 500H heavy-lift drone completes emergency scenario demonstration in Ili
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.
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- Unitree G1 Developer Edition robot withdraws from first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition due to overheating
The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition kicked off in Tai'an. A Unitree G1 Developer Edition robot, the same model featured in the Spring Festival Gala, withdrew due to an overheating failure during the climb and was carried down the mountain by staff on a stretcher. The course is 3.9 kilometers long with more than 3,100 steps, and other robots on site climbed unsteadily and needed towing assistance to finish the competition.
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- Meta and Fourier build humanoid robot prototype Max in three months
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.
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- IROS 2026 Best Paper LT-Mem explained: using hierarchical spatiotemporal memory to solve robotic temporal forgetting
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.
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- From Demo to Global Product: Google Cloud and PongBot on the Barriers to Going Global in the AI Era
Heather Zhang, head of startup ecosystem for Greater China at Google Cloud, Yuanke Ma, AI business development manager, and Feng Yunlong, head of AI algorithms at PongBot, discussed at an ACC event the barriers AI products face in moving from demo to the global market.
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- Who Are Chinese VCs' Own People: Embodied AI's Share of Top VCs' Early AI Investments Rises to 39%
Dongcha Beating collected 17,079 seed-to-Series-A records from 46 institutions and identified 1,195 Chinese AI companies backed by 29 top VCs, of which 410 founding teams have verifiable backgrounds; only 4 had a No. 1 executive with an investment-firm background. In the first half of 2026, there were 1,203 AI funding rounds totaling 307.7 billion yuan; AI accounted for 55% of top VCs' early-stage investments, embodied AI accounted for 39% of early-stage AI deals, and autonomous driving had almost exited. Among founders from AI unicorns, 50% raised over 100 million yuan in their first round, versus 25% for other companies.
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- Six AgiBot Genie G2 units work 24-hour shifts at convenience store; four pass probation assessment
Starting November 2, six Genie G2 robots equipped with AgiBot's Genie Master embodied Agent framework worked continuous 24-hour shifts in a real convenience store. In the end, four passed the probation assessment, completing a cumulative 1,730 tasks, including greeting customers 683 times, fetching and delivering 369 items, and making coffee 147 times.
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- How Tencent Cloud AI Infra Supports Embodied Intelligence: Manifold Space, Machine Science, and Zeroth's Compute, Storage, and Network Practices
At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud showcased AI Infra deployments in embodied intelligence. Manifold Space used a cluster of 512 domestic chips to train stably, improving training performance nearly 3x in about two weeks. Machine Science built a unified data lake in Nanjing with COS, enabling cross-region direct reads of the same data between Beijing and Nanjing and saving tens of millions of yuan that would have gone to building high-performance storage in both locations. Zeroth used COS to handle PB-scale data across multiple campuses in Shanghai, North America, and Europe, with MetaInsight helping engineers quickly extract high-value segments.
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- Roborock F25 Steam 3-in-1 Cleaning
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- ETH Zurich develops FlexiQuad flexible quadrotor that resists collisions and reaches a top speed of 80 km/h
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.
Tech Xplore Robotics ·
- XSTO Showcases Innovative Handling Product Line at CeMAT Asia 2026
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.
XSTO 小神童创新 ·
- Wangyuan Technology's overseas listing filing approved, plans main board listing on HKEX
Tianjin Wangyuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.'s overseas listing filing has been approved. The company plans to issue no more than 12.6886 million overseas-listed ordinary shares and list on the HKEX Main Board, while 16 shareholders plan to convert a total of 14.7139 million domestic unlisted shares into overseas-listed shares. The prospectus shows that proceeds will mainly be used to expand production capacity, expand global sales channels, and enhance R&D capabilities. According to a CIC report, Wangyuan Technology ranked among the global top three in pool cleaning robot shipments and GMV in 2024, with a market share of about 9.2%; its cordless product shipments ranked first globally, with a market share of 19.7%.
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- Sage Intelligent completes pre-Series B funding of hundreds of millions of yuan to advance multi-arm robots and large-model R&D
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.
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- Zhicheng AI completes funding of hundreds of millions of yuan, with state-owned capital jointly betting on JEPA physical world model
Zhicheng AI announced the completion of a funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan, jointly invested by Hangzhou Capital, Fuzhe Technology, Caitong Capital, and Linglan Capital; the funds will be used for embodied intelligence and world model R&D and commercialization. The company was founded in March 2024 by Hu Luhui, former chief engineering lead at Meta. Its Chengling physical world model adopts the JEPA architecture, and version 0.1 was open-sourced under the MIT license in May 2026. The XR1 composite wheeled industrial robot has entered real production line operations at NIO's factory, while cooperation with Volkswagen remains in the scenario testing stage at the final assembly section.
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- Leaderdrive's first three quarters revenue up 45%, humanoid reducer orders reach 400,000 units
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.
Across orders, capacity, gross margin, and domestic competition, readers can see the real operating constraints during the ramp-up phase for humanoid reducers.
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Zou Danping team proposes DiffDreamer, combining world models and differentiable simulation for agile quadrotor control
Zou Danping's team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University proposes DiffDreamer, which couples a learned world model with differentiable simulation for agile quadrotor control; the paper has been accepted to RAL 2026. The method uses the world model to predict external dynamics and differentiable simulation to propagate the robot's physical state. In aggressive tracking tasks, distance error drops to 0.381 m, versus 0.793 m for the strongest baseline; in dynamic gate crossing at gate speeds of 1.0/1.5/2.0 m/s, the number of gates passed is 16/12/8, versus 12/4/1 for MPC.
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- Cutter & Buck opens new distribution center in Texas with Kardex-integrated AutoStore system
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.
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