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WISE2026 'Embodied AI & Culture, Commerce and Tourism' Breakout Session: How Robots Can Be Deployed in Malls, Communities and Parks

The 36Kr WISE2026 'Embodied AI & Culture, Commerce and Tourism' breakout session will be held on November 26 at the Conference Center of the National Information Technology Application Innovation Park in Yizhuang, Beijing, under the theme 'The "Cyber Scene" of Culture, Commerce and Tourism: Embodied AI Activates New Consumer Tracks.' Demand-side participants including Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management Group, Joy City Holdings (Joy Life) and Longfor Group have confirmed attendance to discuss scenario fit, costs and the thresholds for moving from pilots to regular operations. A dedicated matchmaking session will also be held on site for demand-side and technology companies to communicate face to face on tasks, budgets and pilot conditions.

2026 Suke Song Hackathon Recap: 200 Creators Produce 64 Projects in 48 Hours

From October 30 to November 1, 200 creators from 50 cities and more than 60 schools took part in the 2026 Suke Song in Suzhou, completing team formation, development, and presentations within 48 hours, with 64 projects created on site. The event featured a main track, a PandaAI track, and a carnival, among other awards, and the main track's grand prize went to MR COACH. The organizers said this was the first Suke Song and that they will continue to improve on-site execution, process coordination, and the judging mechanism.

Beni attends a Halloween dog meetup

Beni went to a Halloween dog meetup, and let's just say... he got mixed reviews 🎃🐕🤖 Do you think your dog would bark at Beni, or try to make friends with him?

Google Releases Genie 4 as World Models Race Toward Real-Time Interaction

Google has released Genie 4, raising the question of whether a world model is truly effective only if it supports real-time interaction. The material provides only a summary and does not give Genie 4's specific capabilities, version details, or experimental results.

VLA tactile fusion in practice: integrating force control, slip detection, and visual policies into action models

A practical approach to VLA tactile fusion that integrates force control, slip detection, and visual policies into action models. The content focuses on how these three types of signals work together with visual policies within action models; it is a methodological and practical overview, and the original text does not provide specific robot models, experimental metrics, or open-source links.

VLA Long-Horizon Decision-Making and Safety: Task Decomposition, World Models, and Human-in-the-Loop

VLA long-horizon decision-making and safety involves three approaches: task decomposition, world models, and human-in-the-loop. Task decomposition breaks long-horizon tasks into executable subtasks, world models are used to predict the consequences of actions, and human-in-the-loop introduces human intervention during execution to improve safety.

VLA Post-Training and Sim2Real: Full DAgger, Residual Reinforcement Learning, and Safe Cross-Embodiment Deployment

The content focuses on VLA post-training and Sim2Real, covering three technical approaches: full DAgger, residual reinforcement learning, and safe cross-embodiment deployment. The original text does not provide specific robot models, experimental figures, or open-source links; it discusses only at the methodological level how to transfer VLA policies to real robots and ensure safety in cross-embodiment deployment.

Spatial Perception in VLA: Multi-View RGB-D, Camera Calibration, and 3D Action Execution

Centered on the spatial perception of VLA (vision-language-action models), this discusses three stages: multi-view RGB-D input, camera calibration, and 3D action execution. The content focuses on how VLA can complete action execution in real three-dimensional space, involving multi-camera depth perception and calibration alignment.

VLA Evaluation Systems: From Task Success Rate to Long-Horizon Stability and Failure Attribution

VLA evaluation systems need to expand beyond a single task success rate to two additional dimensions: long-horizon stability and failure attribution. The original text discusses this evaluation framework but does not provide specific models, versions, or experimental data.

Why My Humanoid Controller Keeps Trembling: Troubleshooting ZMP Constraints and Contact Force Distribution

Addressing the issue of persistent trembling in a humanoid robot controller, this article investigates it from two directions: ZMP constraints and contact force distribution. It analyzes the causes of the trembling around these two types of constraint conditions, serving as an organized troubleshooting approach for humanoid robot control debugging.

INT8 but no speedup: the time eaten by the memory wall on RK3588

On RK3588, converting a model to INT8 does not speed up inference; the bottleneck comes from the memory wall rather than compute. The article analyzes the portion of time consumed by memory access in this phenomenon, explaining that quantization gains are limited by bandwidth rather than computational precision.

Two weeks with GR00T N1: taking apart the DiT action head, and what cross-embodiment transfer actually transfers

After two weeks of hands-on work with GR00T N1, the author dissects its DiT action head and discusses what cross-embodiment transfer actually transfers.

CeMAT Shanghai | November 3: Heli's full-range high-end components to debut

Anhui Heli will showcase its full-range high-end components at CeMAT Shanghai on November 3. Heli focuses on industrial vehicles, construction machinery, and key components; it produces more than 1,700 models and 512 categories of forklift products online, and has established 23 provincial-level marketing networks and more than 320 secondary dealer sales and service outlets in China.

Tsinghua and Zhiyuan's 96 robots begin teaching each other

Tsinghua and Zhiyuan's 96 robots have begun teaching each other. The original text did not disclose the robot model, training tasks, experimental conditions, or specific results; it only stated that 96 robots participated.

YC application open signal

Treat this as a signal. https://ycombinator.com/apply

Highlights from the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit

Highlights from the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit held in Shenzhen. Partners and technology leaders shared how AI is being integrated into daily work. #TencentGDES2026

Taking Nine as a Sample: The Two-Wheeled EV Industry Has Reached the De-Storytelling Stage

Nine Company reported third-quarter revenue of 7.585 billion yuan, up 14.1% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 343 million yuan, but profit declined in the first three quarters and its valuation fell back to the industry midpoint. In the first half of the year, electric two-wheeler sales reached 2.844 million units, up 19% year on year, driven by entry-level lead-acid models trading price for volume, with gross profit per unit falling from about 676 yuan to 453 yuan; the lawn-mower robot business had revenue of 3.655 billion yuan, up 66% year on year, with a gross margin of 46.57%, but was weighed down by rising raw material prices and investment in overseas channels.

Leaderdrive 2026 Q3 Report: Revenue Up 45.30% YoY, Humanoid Robot Business Becomes Growth Engine

Leaderdrive (688017.SH) reported revenue of 591 million yuan for the first three quarters of 2026, up 45.30% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 122 million yuan, up 30.33% year on year. Revenue from humanoid robot-related business reached 242 million yuan, up 56.10% year on year, becoming the main growth driver. Revenue from the company's mechatronics products was 51.9721 million yuan, up 29.12% year on year, and R&D investment was 37.47 million yuan, accounting for 38.7% of revenue.

2026 "Light of the Internet" Expo Opens

The 2026 "Light of the Internet" Expo opened today. As a key event of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, 671 companies from 54 countries and regions are showcasing more than 1,000 new products and technologies.

Morning Brief | Apple may add vapor chamber to iPad Pro / ChatGPT and Codex to share quota / Chery responds to Luxeed independence: hopes team will be more like a new-force brand

Exin Therapeutics connected an AI agent to lab equipment, with Claude Sonnet 5 selecting a gene therapy and controlling a robotic arm to complete an intracerebral injection for a mouse model of epilepsy; a veterinarian first performed the craniotomy, and the entire experiment took slightly over an hour, compared with about 45 minutes for a conventional procedure of the same kind. The team required the injection plan to be approved by a human first, installed an emergency power-off button, and prohibited the agent from modifying the equipment's low-level code; during the process, a coordinate system fault was repaired by another Opus 5 agent. Westlake University concurrently established a World Model Research Center, planning to build a 100-billion-parameter model within three years.

DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent architecture; Agibot releases GO-3 Preview and Worken; Apple Intelligence integrates Alibaba Qwen | AI Weekly

The DeepSeek Harness team has open-sourced the Super-agent research prototype dsh-superagent-prototype, which uses a two-layer Router plus Worker architecture: the Router takes orders and assigns work, while Workers each maintain their own session and working directory to execute tasks. Currently, it operates on a single GitHub repository as its working target.

Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray Announcement

Reliance Foundation Founder and Chairperson Smt Nita M Ambani announces Nita Mukesh Ambani Anant Ashray

Weekly AI: OpenAI cuts funding valuation, Anthropic rated "junk"; Nvidia invests $20 billion in Meta; Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon; Unitree and Sequoia China to jointly invest in early-stage embodied intelligence projects

OpenAI lowered its latest funding round target from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation; after Anthropic filed for an IPO, Blackstone expects it to receive a speculative-grade rating in the BB range. Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which scored 59 on Intelligence Index v5.0 to take the top spot. Unitree will establish the "Shanyu · Venture Program" with Sequoia China to invest in early-stage startups in fields such as embodied intelligence.

[Digital Intelligence Weekly] Zhang Yiming tops China's rich list with 670 billion yuan; Alibaba partners with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence; Anthropic files IPO registration to list on Nasdaq under "ANT"

Alibaba has partnered with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users will be able to access its text and image understanding and content generation capabilities in Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. The features will open for testing with the iOS developer Beta starting November 4.

Edge AI Daily Morning Brief (November 1): Meta free cash flow turns negative, OpenAI lowers funding target, Anthropic files for IPO

The November 1 Edge AI Daily morning brief roundup: Meta's third-quarter capital expenditure of $34.91 billion exceeded its $32.79 billion in operating cash flow, and free cash flow turned negative for the first time, to -$2.1 billion; S&P lowered its outlook on Meta's AA- long-term issuer rating to negative. OpenAI lowered its funding target twice within two weeks, from raising $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to raising about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation. Anthropic submitted IPO prospectus documents to the SEC, disclosing nearly $900 billion in off-balance-sheet future obligations.

Software engineer asks: How big is AI's impact on robotics?

A software engineering professional posted on r/robotics asking whether AI's impact on robotics has grown large enough to replace practitioners, and hoping to learn which robotics subfields are hard to replace and which are easier to replace. The post gives no specific robot models, experimental data, or conclusions; it only solicits practitioners' views.

A Funny Robot Halloween Trick-or-Treat Story

The robots were told there would be candy. 🍬🎃 Happy Halloween!

Roborock's Rocky helps you clean up the terrifying stains in your home

You walk into your home and scream in terror. What could it be?! Not a ghost, and not a monster. It's a sticky mess in the kitchen! And oh no... there's also a dust demon hiding under the sofa. Sound familiar? Your home shouldn't be a haunted house. It's time to call Rocky!

Sentinel Dynamics team wins Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with SENTINEL-X teleoperated mobile robot platform

The Sentinel Dynamics team won the Best Implementation Award at TECHNATHON 2026 with its teleoperated mobile robot platform, SENTINEL-X. The prototype is designed to assist in inspecting suspicious objects from a distance, integrating ESP32 wireless control, ESP32-CAM real-time video, proximity and environmental monitoring sensors, as well as motor control and communication-loss handling. The team's next steps are to refine the system architecture and testing methods, evaluate performance, and explore publishing an engineering research paper.

Tsinghua-led team lets 96 robots share experience, raising phone packaging success rate to 98.3%; AgiBot releases GO-3 Preview

A Tsinghua-led team enabled 96 robots to share manipulation experience, raising the success rate on a phone packaging task to 98.3%. AgiBot released GO-3 Preview, a unified framework connecting reasoning, prediction, and action.

Seeking the "Leaders" of the Industrial Embodied Intelligence Sector | 2026 GGII Golden Globe Award Applications Open

Applications for the 2026 GGII Golden Globe Award are ongoing, seeking "leaders" in the industrial embodied intelligent robotics industry. Registration is also open for the 2026 GGII Industrial Embodied Intelligent Robotics Annual Conference.

CVer launches Embodied AI WeChat technical group, surpassing 1,600 members with a new job-seeking section

CVer has launched an Embodied AI WeChat technical group that has surpassed 1,600 members and added a job-seeking/campus recruitment/internship section, while also opening VLA and WAM WeChat groups. The group pushes cutting-edge embodied AI technology daily, and an accompanying Knowledge Planet provides learning roadmaps, lists of hundreds of companies and university labs/teachers, recruitment information, and industry reports.

Alpha Robotics Halloween Greeting: Delivery and Service Robots Send Wishes

Alpha Robotics released a Halloween greeting, wishing that the night be full of candy, surprises, and a little robotic magic. The content did not disclose specific robot models, features, or deployment information.

Energize Lab Halloween post

After dark, something spooky is brewing…🌙🎃 A knock at the door, a handful of candy, and a few familiar faces hidden behind scary costumes. Definitely no plans to call it a night just yet! Happy Halloween, little troublemakers! Go ahead and scare away tonight!👻 #EnergizeLab #Eilik #Eiliko

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Reddit r/robotics user asks for karma and inquires about the state of the industry

Reddit r/robotics user mavelricks posted a greeting asking for karma and hoping to learn the latest about the subreddit and the robotics industry. The post also complains that the pre-post word-count requirement is inconvenient, saying they only wanted to say the first sentence but were forced to pad the word count.

Where to find documentation and motor information for the 2015 UW chess-playing robotic arm

A student working on a graduation project wants to recreate the 2015 UW chess-playing robotic arm but cannot find any documentation on the UW website, so they posted asking what actuators the arm uses and what software achieves its smooth, fast movements. The poster believes the arm has a limited range of motion but is still impressive to this day, and hopes to get relevant leads.

"3D Vision from Beginner to Mastery" Knowledge Planet: a 7,000-member community with nearly 20 video tutorial series covering industrial 3D vision, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, 3DGS, and embodied intelligence

The "3D Vision from Beginner to Mastery" Knowledge Planet has built up nearly 9 years of history and gathered 7,000+ members, offering nearly 20 video tutorial series covering industrial 3D vision, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, 3DGS, autonomous driving, drones, and other areas. The community also hosts livestreamed sharing sessions on frontier topics such as embodied intelligence and large models, and provides Q&A, source code, project matchmaking, and internal referral benefits. After joining, members can study via the Knowledge Planet app or the web version with WeChat login.

Richtech robot family goes Halloween trick-or-treating: new member RIVAX appears alongside ADAM, Scorpion, Dex, and Matradee Plus

In a Halloween video, Richtech Robotics had its new member RIVAX join ADAM, Scorpion, Dex, and Matradee Plus in a trick-or-treat appearance, saying it is making new friends. The video gives only the name RIVAX and is teaser in nature; it does not disclose its form, functions, or release timing, and the company says more information will be announced later.