The author completed Fetch, a robotics STEM project for beginner and intermediate learners costing about 300 USD. It uses a binary-classification object detection model trained with Edge Impulse and is the author's first autonomous robot.
Zhongke Semiconductor has mass-produced the CT1906H motion control chip, using a monolithic integrated GaN HEMT process to pack 6 GaN half-bridge power transistors and 3-channel gate drivers into a 5×5mm LGA package, targeting micro servo joints with outer diameters of 14–45mm.
ALVE is an upper-body humanoid robot project made from 3D-printed parts and an aluminum extrusion frame, comprising two multi-joint robotic arms, robotic hands, a movable head, and a supported torso, aimed at makers, robotics enthusiasts, and educators. The project is offered as a digital download; motors, electronics, aluminum extrusions, bearings, and fasteners must be purchased separately, and assembly and operation require mechanical assembly, wiring, and programming. The display images include a physical prototype and digital model views; the poses shown do not imply that autonomous task software is included.
The REEMAN intelligent pallet wrapping and handling workstation uses an external wireless communication module to link the 1.5-ton payload Ironhide autonomous forklift with a turntable wrapping machine into a continuous process. The module can use I/O, RS485, Ethernet, or CAN interfaces depending on the equipment controller, and the wireless link uses LoRa or Wi-Fi. In the demonstration, pickup alignment deviation was ≤2 cm and drop-off deviation was ≤5 cm; wrapping and film cutting are completed automatically, and the full handling and packaging process takes about 6 minutes.
REEMAN customized the forks on its Titan Mini autonomous forklift for a high-end electronic materials factory in Anhui, enabling it to directly handle the customer's existing wheeled mobile material tank trolleys without additional pallets. The trolley weighs about 275 kg when loaded, the Titan Mini has a rated payload of up to 2,000 kg, the one-way point-to-point transport distance is about 260 m, and it uses LiDAR SLAM navigation; under the current site configuration, a full work cycle takes about 4.5 minutes.
At an electronic materials factory in Jingmen, Hubei, REEMAN Ironhide 3.0 autonomous forklifts complete an integrated process: picking up goods in the production area, passing through two electric doors, handing off to a stretch wrapper, and delivering to the warehouse. The actual load is about 1,300 kg, with a rated load of 1,500 kg. The customer reports about 75 transport cycles per day, about 6.5 minutes per task, and a loaded route of about 270 meters, with support for automatic return to a mobile charging station. The forklift's reference price is about USD 9,900, and integration with doors and the stretch wrapper requires customization based on the site's controller interfaces.
On the Quaddle mini robot dog's ESP32-S3 firmware, six Claude Code prompts were used to complete a skull eyes effect, from sketch and choosing a design to preview and on-device display. The firmware will be open-sourced in early December, and the team is also collecting sketches or images for the next Halloween expression.
Percepto, an autonomous drone inspection company, launched Axion this week, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform that can analyze data from any third-party drone or sensor network, marking its shift to a software-first strategy. Axion is offered as SaaS, organizes inspection data by asset, has more than 160 built-in AI models, and supports querying inspection data in natural language. Percepto said it will continue to sell and support its existing drone and hangar product lines while moving manufacturing to the United States.
Someone used Claude Code to vibecode directly in the OpenCat ESP32-S3 firmware of the Quaddle mini robot dog, creating a Halloween skull-eyes expression in about 12 minutes through six prompts. The robot dog's open-source ESP32-S3 firmware will be released in early December, at which point others will be able to reproduce the same process.
GenRobot.AI will debut two next-generation products on November 9–11, 2026, at CoRL 2026 (Booth #200): DAS Ego 2.0, a first-person multimodal data collection system with hand-tracking accuracy within 4 mm, and DAS Dex 2.0, a high-fidelity human dexterous data glove with electronic-skin tactile sensing. The two products cover data collection from full-body motion to tactile sensing, and the company says the two are fully synchronized.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HandBot-S2 is a 3D spatial scanner with open hardware and data. It integrates 3D LiDAR, front, left, and right trinocular cameras, an IMU, and RTK, achieves millisecond-level synchronization through hardware triggering, and provides calibrated intrinsic and extrinsic parameters.
REEMAN has released the YIMA YBOT20P outdoor delivery robot, which carries parcels from courier stations to apartment doorsteps along mapped community routes, with a rated payload of 100 kg. The robot uses dual-laser SLAM navigation, with a 360° top laser and a 230° front laser, an adjustable speed of 0.3–1 m/s, maximum obstacle clearance of 3 cm, maximum climbing grade of 10%, a nominal battery life of 10–15 hours, and support for automatic return to charge on low battery. It enables cross-floor delivery through integration with compatible elevator and automatic door controllers, and outdoor operation is limited to dry paved roads under no-rain conditions.
Xingyuan Intelligence has released Chorus, a cross-embodiment data engine for robot pretraining that can convert human manipulation data collected by devices such as smart glasses, chest-mounted cameras, wrist cameras, and UMI into training data adapted to different robot embodiments.
Poke Robotics has released RoboAPI, an embodied API for the real physical world. After connecting and adapting a robotic arm, developers can issue commands with a single prompt without collecting data or training models. Its self-developed world-action model Poke-Aurora, in the company's own large-scale evaluation, achieved success rates of 86.0%, 54.1%, and 87.7% on three task categories—object transfer and organization, pose and shape alignment, and environment interaction and tool use—all higher than GPT6 Astra and two open-source embodied models included in the comparison.
At the Dexterous Manipulation sub-forum of AgiBot Innovation Day, Critical Point connected live to the Wolong Hill factory to present industrial POC results for a robotic arm plus dexterous hand. The system continuously completed a 72-step process including loading and unloading, barcode scanning, grasping a screw gun, tightening and removing screws, and pressing buttons. Phase-one task success rate reached 98%, with 8.5 minutes per operation, close to the roughly 8 minutes for a human, and it can run continuously for 8 to 12 hours.
Hesai Technology launched Kosmo One, a handheld 3D spatial data capture device integrating lidar, an 8K imaging system, and a high-precision IMU, on October 14, alongside the Kosmo 3D world data engine and the Kosmo World cloud platform. Kosmo World reconstructs raw data into three spatially aligned formats: 3DGS, Mesh, and Depth. A typical indoor scene of about 100 square meters can be scanned in roughly 15 minutes. Hesai said it aims to move from hardware revenue toward data and model services, building a spatial model digital asset platform that customers can pay to use.
PokeBot has released RoboAPI, an out-of-the-box embodied API that runs its Poke-Aurora world-action model on compatible hardware via natural-language instructions, with no task-specific training required. The API supports zero-shot generalization at roughly 1x human speed and lets users validate it on their own environments and tasks. RoboAPI is a non-commercial product under PokeBot, with documentation at developers.pokebot.com/docs/roboapi.
At IROS 2026, Sharpa released three fully self-developed new products: the D01 humanoid robot with full-body electronic skin, the W02 dexterous hand with full-palm tactile sensing and 21 active degrees of freedom, and the AE01 exoskeleton data glove, which captures hand movements with 22 encoders and returns tactile feedback.
Xinyan Robotics has released the embodied family agent Bubbo 1, which builds a "Family Agent" on its self-developed Bubbo OS and can recognize each family member and pay attention to relationships among members. Bubbo carries 13 types and 26 sensors; its output side includes 6 degrees of freedom and two expression screens, and it has built-in camera-based heart rate detection and a partnership with the Cece smart ring for data sharing between devices.
On October 22, 2026, Signode announced the expansion of its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) portfolio, adding autonomous lift robots, pallet trucks, counterbalance forklifts, reach trucks, and stacker forklifts, covering everything from end-of-line packaging to warehouse transport.
The author has released the open-source quadruped robot Cubic Doggo 07B Wouf, which uses 12 ST3215 smart servos, off-the-shelf parts, and 3D-printed components, is controlled by a Raspberry Pi running ROS2 Jazzy, can walk without a cable, and supports gamepad control. The robot can walk under a 1 kg payload, and its standing-posture battery life has reached 4 hours; all FreeCAD models are open for editing. The author says the turning gait has not yet been optimized, and plans to address read latency, add an IMU, and optimize the gait later.
A developer modified a desktop robot called Yeti using a 3D-printed shell and open-source code, adding 100+ emotions and behaviors, along with a gyroscope, microphone, light-dependent resistor (LDR), and touch sensor. Yeti works as a small robot and clock, and supports flashing new firmware directly via phone Bluetooth, with no Arduino IDE, computer, or cable needed. A companion app can connect automatically when nearby, and can also let two Yetis paired with different phones send each other messages, doodles, and sounds over the internet.
The Mino robot completed its first outdoor autonomous stroll test. Its ROS 2-based following app runs on a Jetson Orin Nano and has three states: finding people, following people, and companionship. The app uses YOLO-World to detect pedestrians and stereo vision depth estimation to generate 3D bounding boxes, combined with Kalman filter tracking, and continuously recomputes trajectories to control the base and head. The app was completed over a weekend using open-source software modules and a coding agent, and will be released as open source with the robot if the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign succeeds.
PNP Robotics demonstrated a dexterous hand with more than 20 active degrees of freedom that can perform rich-contact manipulation tasks such as valve rotation. Its ample actuated joints allow all five fingers to fully conform to a curved valve wheel, dynamically adjusting its grasp posture during rotation to accommodate valves of different sizes, and integrated tactile sensing enables precise contact-force adjustment to avoid slipping or jamming. The company offers a complete research kit for high-DOF dexterous hands, supporting validation of continuous-contact manipulation algorithms.
Pollen Robotics' Reachy Mini put on an NFC wizard hat and transformed into "Reachy Mini the Sorcerer," singing a Halloween song made with Suno. The video is live-action, not AI-generated, and the table can be seen shaking in the frame. The wizard hat accessory is not yet available in the store.
Tsing Standard released the automotive-grade first-person data collection solution Tsing-Ego PRO during SAECCE 2026. It uses 8-camera vision capture across the head and both wrists, supports 1080P global exposure and hardware synchronization, and achieves end-to-end synchronization accuracy of ≤1ms.
After its first field test, the DIY unmanned surface vehicle BN-USV has entered the V2 design phase, with the focus shifting to a replaceable segmented hull, a CAN distributed control architecture with a main module plus two propulsion modules, and priority on reliable manual control rather than autonomous navigation. In V2, a Raspberry Pi 5 handles high-level processing, while ESP32 controllers handle low-level control and safety, requiring propulsion modules to respond safely and independently when communication fails. V2 is still in development; the above are design goals rather than verified improvements, and the long-term goal is to become a modular platform for marine robotics experimentation and teaching.
Bokente has released two new products, the "hybrid dual-arm collaborative robot HS-PRO" and the "five-axis stereo machining workstation," marking its transition from high-speed parallel sorting to industrial embodied applications. HS-PRO uses dual-arm biomimicry plus AI vision coordination to cover the full process of material handling, assembly, fastening, and feeding, with a cycle rate of 130 times per minute; the five-axis workstation supports adaptive alignment for irregular holes and constant-force fastening, adapting to non-planar machining such as inclined surfaces and counterbores. The company says more than 95% of core components are produced in-house, and it has entered automotive brake pad line changeover, new energy battery sorting, and production line assembly processes.
Reachy Mini released its "Level UP" update, adding a hoverboard to improve mobility and providing iOS and Android mobile apps so users can interact with the robot without a computer. The update also adds NFC tags, enabling personalization such as hats corresponding to different personalities. In the demo, the hoverboard touched the ground due to an IMU setup error, which the publisher said was an operational issue.
Berkshire Grey releases BG Pilot software with enhanced AI capabilities, built on a decade of real-world warehouse operations data and billions of robotic picks, to address the diversity of packaging and mixed SKUs.
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Reachy Mini is about to launch a clip-on NFC accessory that switches between characters by detecting NFC tags. Users can also create their own personalities for the robot or develop other uses based on tag detection. The accessory is currently in the testing recruitment phase, and sign-ups are available through the official list.
Pollen Robotics set up a small track in its office for a 3-lap showdown between the Reachy Mini Hoverboard and Microduck on roller skates. Microduck was piloted by Coco with a game controller, and Reachy Mini by Rémi via the Reachy Mini mobile app on iOS and Android. The race video shows which of the two robots crosses the finish line first.
Pollen Robotics has introduced three new features for Reachy Mini: a wheeled Hoverboard chassis that lets the robot move around and explore, Android and iOS mobile apps for setup and control directly from a phone, and NFC hats for switching personalities and unlocking new interactions and apps. The company says these updates offer more freedom and creative space for exploring physical AI.
Pollen Robotics (part of Hugging Face) has launched a Hoverboard two-wheel accessory for Reachy Mini, enabling Reachy Mini Wireless to move around and explore, and allowing users to drive it remotely with virtual joysticks via an iOS/Android mobile app, control its head movements, and view live video.