An analysis of the minimum-snap quadrotor trajectory pipeline: piecewise ninth-order polynomials (ten coefficients) are solved in closed form with snap as the cost and derivative-continuity constraints, while COBYLA trades off time against smoothness. The differential-flat mapping yields thrust and attitude, and geometric control is validated in closed loop in MuJoCo.
FishSim uses a single motor, two crossed elastic tendons, and a five-coefficient stateless fluid model to make biomimetic robotic fish propulsion an identifiable pipeline. The paper presents a comparison of simulated and real swimming speeds at eight frequencies; trajectory error fell from 592 mm to 91 mm after identification, and it discusses coefficient sensitivity and the limits of the turning experiments.
A team at Nanyang Technological University proposed UniIntervene, a human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning method for real robots, aiming to reduce reliance on manual takeover during robot training. The paper validated the method on grasping, insertion, wiping, and folding tasks with a UR7e robotic arm.
As an embodied policy candidate, GPT-6 Astra can already organize complex tasks across vision, language, state, and tool interfaces, but completing a single operation and forming new capabilities from continuous failure are problems at two different levels. The article confines self-supervised learning to this improvement stage and proposes an auditable self-supervised route for letting the model learn to improve from robotic arm failures.
When VLA fine-tuning fails to converge, 80% of the problems come from a mistake in the action normalization step. The article focuses on the role of action normalization in VLA fine-tuning and explains that an error in this step directly causes training to fail to converge.
Quasi Robotics has launched a wireless automatic docking and charging solution for its Model C2 series AMRs, using WiBotic wireless charging technology with up to 300 watts of power, supporting automatic replenishment based on battery level, preset times, or fleet management system commands. The solution is available for the C2 Large, C2 PartPorter, and C2 Heavy platforms; the C2 Mini and Standard are not currently supported. The system transfers energy through paired coils and tolerates a certain positional offset, reducing reliance on mechanical docking precision.
Dexory is bringing the NVIDIA Cosmos-Reason2-2B model into the Storage Health feature of its DexoryView platform to identify warehouse anomalies such as opened boxes, shifted cargo positions, and misaligned pallets. The company says that after evaluating 2B and 8B configurations, it chose the 2B version to balance deployment efficiency and detection accuracy.
Swiss industrial robotics company ANYbotics announced that ANYmal X, a quadruped autonomous inspection robot developed for explosive hazardous environments, has begun customer deliveries, with the first customers including Norwegian energy company Equinor and Swiss company DSM-Firmenich.
Hangcha Group released an infographic of its Q3 2026 report. The company is one of China's largest forklift R&D and manufacturing groups, with leading products covering a full range of material handling equipment including 1-32 ton internal combustion forklifts and 0.75-8.5 ton battery forklifts, and it develops AGV intelligent industrial vehicles with laser and magnetic tape guidance based on Guizi Robotics technology.
Pangqi Technology is using a RaaS (Robotics as a Service) leasing and operating model to bring embodied AI robots into factories. Customers pay based on actual work volume and avoid large one-time investments; projects already in operation can achieve a 30%–300% improvement in per-square-meter efficiency and rapid deployment in 1–3 months.
Zhuoyi will exhibit at CeMAT ASIA 2026, held November 3–6 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, showing its stand-on under-rider three-way AGV forklift, over-rider three-way forklift, omni-directional forklift, multi-directional forklift, double-deep scissor forklift, and articulated forklift at Booth B2-1 in Hall W5. Visitors can watch unmanned forklifts perform under simulated working conditions and try manually driving a forklift themselves. During the exhibition, Zhuoyi's official livestream will run daily from 15:30 to 16:30.
A leadership talent delegation led by the UAE Ministry of Investment recently visited Lanxin Robot, where they observed on-site demonstrations of 3D vision sensors, 3DGS technology, and the humanoid robot VB 2 performing supermarket picking tasks. VB 2 demonstrated exploration integrating spatial perception and manipulation, relying on 360° environmental perception and omnidirectional mobility capabilities. The M4-G 3D camera, designed specifically for close-range perception in embodied humanoid robots, has already been deployed at scale in scenarios at leading industrial humanoid robot companies. The visit provided a platform for exchange and created opportunities for Lanxin Robot to expand cooperation in the Middle East market.
Youibot signed an employment education award and teaching fund donation agreement with South China University of Technology. The university awarded it a "Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Practice Base" plaque, and the two parties will cooperate in student internships and practice, career experience, and employment guidance. A campus recruitment information session for the Class of 2027 was held at the same time. With mobile manipulator robots at its core, Youibot has built a "one brain, multiple forms" architecture and has completed more than 800 real industrial scenario projects in industries including semiconductors, energy and chemicals, and lithium batteries, serving more than 400 customers worldwide.
During AI WAVE, AgiBot released the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, which lets robots autonomously locate the causes of failures after deployment, adjust strategies, and accumulate experience. The framework proposes the Embodied Execution Protocol (EEP), unifying four types of interfaces: capability, guidance, feedback, and continuity. Through two routes, Harness RSI and Policy RSI, it retains experience in prompts and memory and solidifies it into action-policy parameters, respectively.
Senyue Chengxing, founded by Liu Derui, an alumnus of Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, completed a ten-million-yuan Pre-A funding round on October 27, 2026, with Yunqi Partners as sole investor. Its angel round was previously funded by Vertex Ventures and K2VC. The company's first product, the Synrise S5 bionic intelligent hydraulic knee joint, is already in mass production and has completed validation in Europe, with orders exceeding ten million yuan in China and abroad and more than 40 million steps of gait data returned cumulatively. The knee joint is designed for a service life of at least five years and is priced under 100,000 yuan. The company plans to move over the next three to five years from prosthetics to active assistance, exoskeletons, and consumer-grade sports enhancement devices.
On October 28, Unitree rose more than 10% during intraday trading, with its stock price returning to 700 yuan. Its 2026 third-quarter report shows revenue of 1.817 billion yuan for the first three quarters, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year, but net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses was 349 million yuan, down 18.78% year on year.
Humanoid robot output is expected to grow from about 20,000 units in 2025 to over 100,000 units in 2026, but demand for lead screws has not yet scaled up, while the price anchor has already fallen to the 400-500 yuan range. Shuanglin Co. announced mass-production pricing of 499 yuan for its C3-precision planetary roller screw, and Wuzhou Xinchun's fundraising investment calculation uses 500 yuan per set with a unit cost of 318.77 yuan, corresponding to a gross margin of 36.25%, close to the levels of HIWIN Technologies and Nanjing Craft.
Unitree Robotics released its first post-IPO quarterly report on October 28. Q3 single-quarter revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year. The profit decline was mainly due to increased R&D spending: Q3 R&D investment was 127 million yuan, up 249.58% year on year, accounting for 19.10% of revenue. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year, and R&D investment was 263 million yuan, up 191.48% year on year; after IPO proceeds were received, monetary cash reached 7.354 billion yuan.
Lens Technology plans to acquire a 59.78% stake in PMG for USD 25 million, indirectly gaining control of Yuanshi Technology and expanding into server racks and liquid cooling; Luxshare Precision, Goertek and Foxconn Industrial Internet are also expanding AI-related businesses. In 2025, Foxconn Industrial Internet's cloud computing segment revenue reached RMB 602.679 billion, up 88.70% year on year, with AI server revenue from cloud service providers growing more than 3x year on year; Lens Technology delivered more than 3,000 humanoid robots and over 10,000 quadruped robots in 2025, and in 2026 entered volume ramp-up with leading customers.
At the 2026 AgiBot Innovation Day launch event, co-founder, president and CTO Zhihui Jun announced that AgiBot's revenue in the first half of 2026 was close to 2 billion yuan. Over the same period, cumulative output of AgiBot's general-purpose AI robots reached 20,000 units.
Unitree Technology reported Q3 2026 revenue of 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year-on-year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year-on-year and nearly 50% quarter-on-quarter. A company board secretary's office representative said the profit decline was mainly due to increased R&D investment in computing power and large models, adding that the impact is controllable over a longer period and that current investment follows the planned use of raised funds and will not be increased blindly.
On October 28, Unitree rose more than 10% during intraday trading, with its stock price returning to 700 yuan. Its third-quarter report shows that revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year; however, net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses was 349 million yuan, down 18.78% year on year.
Unitree Technology released its first quarterly report since going public. Q3 2026 revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year-on-year, while net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year-on-year. R&D investment this quarter was 127 million yuan, up 249.58% year-on-year, accounting for 19.1% of revenue, mainly for embodied intelligence large models, computing power procurement, and development of new humanoid robot products. Total revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year-on-year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year-on-year.
Schaeffler disclosed in Q3 that its humanoid robot backlog has grown to about €400 million, with 5 customers already in mass-production cooperation and sample orders reaching 83. The author therefore judges that the mass-production inflection point lies not in complete-machine shipments but in component suppliers' customer structure and expansion of procurement categories. The article also mentions that joint modules at Schaeffler's Taicang embodied-intelligence factory have entered the mass-production validation stage, and suggests watching the delivery timeline and revenue recognition schedule to be disclosed on November 3.
Unitree's 2026 Q3 report shows net profit attributable to shareholders of 387 million yuan for the first three quarters, up 270.54% year on year, while Q3 alone was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year. The author notes that the 270% growth mainly stems from a low base caused by about 349 million yuan in pre-IPO share-based payment expenses in the same period of 2025, and that non-GAAP net profit falling 18.78% year on year over the first three quarters is closer to the actual operating picture.
A robotics enthusiast posted on r/robotics to gather experience: robot design looks simple on paper, but building one in practice throws up a pile of unexpected problems. Getting a robot to move is one thing, but making it run stably, adapt to real environments, and repeat the same task without errors is a completely different challenge. The poster wants to know which part is the most troublesome: mechanical design, motor control, sensor accuracy, power management, software, or coordination among subsystems, especially problems that seemed minor at first but ultimately required major redesign.
Several leading institutions have tightened their investment in embodied AI, with one FA saying it no longer takes on embodied projects and that the number of embodied projects it receives has roughly halved. According to NE Times statistics, funding in the embodied AI sector fell 40% in September compared with August, and multiple industry figures say the turning point came in September this year. The article also mentions that Unitree's market value fell by half at one point after its listing, and that rumors of some embodied companies pausing IPOs are circulating privately.
Leadshine reported revenue of 1.909 billion yuan and net profit attributable to shareholders of 299 million yuan for the first three quarters of 2026, up 46.77% and 86.8% year on year, marking its seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth. It avoids Inovance's main PLC battleground and focuses on frameless torque motors, joint modules, and dexterous hands for humanoid robots. In 2025, it delivered more than 120,000 frameless torque motors, and by the end of the first half of 2026, its order backlog exceeded 1 million units. Its core robot components have entered the supply chains of 80% of mainstream domestic humanoid robot makers, but cooperation with Tesla and Huawei remains at the preliminary communication and prototype testing stage.
In October this year, Neolix and White Rhino secured large funding rounds in quick succession, and together with earlier funding for Jiushi Intelligent, capital interest in the unmanned delivery sector continues to rise. Multiple regions in China have opened road testing permissions and launched unmanned delivery pilots, and industry insiders say the sector's focus has shifted from selling hardware vehicles to operating capacity services, with commercialization validation, deep scenario development, and compliant deployment becoming the core criteria by which capital judges projects.
Unitree released its Q3 2026 report, its first earnings report since going public. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year-on-year. Single-quarter revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year-on-year, but net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year-on-year. R&D investment in the first three quarters was 263 million yuan, up 191.48% year-on-year; the company said this was mainly due to increased R&D and computing power investment in embodied intelligence and embodied large models.
Apple released 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pros, equipped with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, starting at 22,999 yuan in China, with the glowing Apple logo returning to the lid.
US President Trump said he will pause additional tariffs on imports of robots, industrial machinery and related components, and has asked officials to launch negotiations with trading partners on imports of these goods.
Unitree Technology's first earnings report since going public shows that in the first three quarters of 2026, operating revenue was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year. Third-quarter operating revenue was 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year on year, but net profit attributable to shareholders was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year. R&D expenses rose 191.48% year on year, mainly due to a sharp increase in model R&D and computing power investment.
CaPtain proposes an open post-training pipeline that trains small open vision-language models such as Qwen3.5-4B into code-as-policy (CaP) robot agents that do not rely on VLAs, frontier models, or privileged state at test time.
Why it matters: The work proposes using a physical critic to assign credit across multi-turn code policies and presents a complete training procedure for small models on LIBERO and real robots.
HiFOR proposes a hierarchical foresight framework with action-guided world retrieval for vision-language-action (VLA) models. Its hierarchical foresight jointly predicts short-term state evolution, semantic milestones, and the final goal state through a Hierarchical Dependency Mask (HDM), while structure-aware latent world modeling organizes future representations along the temporal, view, and spatial dimensions, and action-guided factorized world retrieval retrieves relevant future information by action representation during denoising. The authors report that the method's effectiveness was validated on two simulation benchmarks and six real-world robotic manipulation tasks.
AgiBot has released the embodied foundation model GO-3 Preview, built on its self-developed WRAM (World Reasoning Action Model) architecture that unifies task understanding, future state prediction, and action generation, and it ranks first on three embodied intelligence benchmarks: RoboDojo, RoboTwin, and RoboColiseum. It is planned to be fully open-sourced by the end of 2026.
Why it matters: The original article fully discloses GO-3 Preview's three-stage design of pretraining, post-training, and post-deployment learning, which can be used to understand the engineering path for scaling embodied models across their full lifecycle.
WorldFlow is a generative world model that uses a unified Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) backbone to simultaneously denoise video and query-based 3D trajectories under a rectified-flow objective, parameterizing 3D motion as continuous displacement tokens aligned with the video grid.
WorldBridge proposes a World Action Model (WAM) that connects separate video and action experts through structured attention and trains them with joint flow matching. On RoboTwin 2.0, using only in-distribution video-action supervision yields a 25.07% success rate on out-of-distribution tasks; adding task videos without action labels raises it to 55.90%, and adding one action-labeled demonstration per task further raises it to 70.70%.
Beijing issued the "Beijing 15th Five-Year Plan Period New Energy System Plan" on October 28, setting targets including raising external power transmission channel capacity to 44 million kilowatts and increasing the share of non-fossil energy consumption to 27.6%. On the same day, Unitree Technology announced third-quarter operating revenue of 665 million yuan, up 69.93% year on year, and net profit of 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year, and established the "Shanyu Innovation Program" with Sequoia China to invest in early-stage projects such as embodied intelligence.
Beijing issued the "Beijing 15th Five-Year Plan Period New Energy System Plan" on October 28, establishing a "1+3+6" target and task system and specifying that external power receiving capacity will rise to 44 million kilowatts, power supply reliability will rise to 99.998%, and the share of non-fossil energy consumption will rise to 27.6%. The plan proposes adding 2 million kilowatts of photovoltaic and wind power installed capacity, reaching 2.4 million new energy vehicles and 650,000 charging piles built cumulatively, and advancing integrated application of "AI + energy."