From October 19 to 23, the Mirokaï Experience will present a Halloween special edition 🎃 Behind-the-scenes design, technology demonstrations, and a surprise from the new character Nyxie. Location: Paris (11th arrondissement). Reservations: https://feverup.com/m/569370?srsltid=AfmBOopXuydL_H1fiyvDPCcPKdmuiAfyftDLMaVUX2L4bpRmdDJX2qvJ #robotique #Halloween
ADI has developed an Emerging Tech Hub within Analog Garage to provide robotics startups with engineering support from prototype to mass production, with applications expected to open in late 2026. The program offers technical expertise, labs and prototyping tools, testing and validation, and supply chain procurement guidance, covering areas including robotics, control, edge AI, power, and system integration. ADI emphasizes that the collaboration uses a co-creation model, with startups retaining their intellectual property.
Yuehongyuan A announced that it plans to acquire 100% equity of Shenzhen Jinwangda Electromechanical Co., Ltd. in cash, with a transaction price of no more than 550 million yuan. The target company's production base is located in Dongguan, and it focuses on the manufacturing of precision transmission functional components. Its core products include precision linear guides, precision ball screws, precision planetary roller screws, precision reducers, and KKR steel-based modules, GTHA embedded aluminum-based modules, aluminum-based screw modules, etc., which are widely used in high-end automation fields such as new energy, 3C electronics, LCD/LED panels, automotive manufacturing equipment, and medical care.
Trick or treat! 🎃 What is your #Eiliko planning this Halloween? 👻 Welcome to the 10th E-vent: Eiliko's Halloween carnival season! Share your photos/videos with #HalloweenWithEiliko for a chance to win one of 20 limited-edition Dracula-color Eilikos! 🧛✨ 🗓️ Time: October 15, 8:00 AM – November 15, 11:59 PM (Eastern Time)
Agility Robotics announced that it has selected Nyobolt as its ultra-fast charging battery technology partner for the Digit 5 humanoid robot. The new battery system for Digit 5 supports 90 minutes of runtime and 9 minutes of charging, raising the run-to-charge ratio from 2:1 on Digit 4 to 10:1, with the goal of more than 20 hours of work within 24 hours.
Agility Robotics announced a partnership with Nyobolt to equip the Digit 5 humanoid robot with a fast-charging battery system, enabling it to work more than 20 hours within 24 hours. The battery provides 90 minutes of runtime per charge and can fully charge in 9 minutes, achieving a runtime-to-charge ratio of 10:1, a marked improvement over Digit 4's 2:1.
Applications for the 2026 GG Humanoid Robot Golden Globe Awards are now open. Click "Read Original Article" to register and participate.
Lumos NIX joined the Dongcang Drum Music Society in a performance at The Grand Tang Mall in Xi'an, combining robotic movement with Xi'an drum music, a traditional Chinese musical form that has continued for centuries. Xi'an drum music was inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009.
The Verge reporter Sean Hollister and security researcher Sammy Azdoufal found that Energize Lab's Eiliko robot toy cloud service had no protection at all, exposing conversation records from about 68,000 online devices worldwide, including more than 31,000 children's profiles in the United States.
IDC's "Worldwide Quadruped Robot Market Shares, 1H26" shows that in the first half of 2026, the global quadruped robot market exceeded $400 million, up 95.4% year over year, with shipments exceeding 49,000 units. Education and research and home consumer use contributed about 60% of shipments but accounted for less than one-third of revenue.
Daily rental prices for humanoid robots have fallen from several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan down to a few hundred yuan. Around the 2026 National Day holiday, nearly 30 companies will deploy thousands of devices in cultural tourism, retail, and other scenarios. The article compares deployment scale, depth of functions, and pricing logic between 2025 and 2026, citing cases such as AgiBot Lingxi X2 generating about 2.23 million yuan in cumulative sales over 3 days across a hundred stores, and robots at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei averaging more than 400 pickups per day. It also notes that normalized operations and profitability after the Golden Week holiday remain unresolved challenges.
Recently, Horn Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Horn Auto Electronics, received a product designation letter from a leading customer in the robotics industry, securing exclusive supplier designation for two projects: a 3M fisheye camera perception system and an ultrasonic radar perception system, with estimated revenue exceeding 30 million yuan.
Suzhou Zhuoyu Electrical Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhuoyu Technology) announced that it has won a bulk purchase order for 100,000 planetary joint modules from a national-level customer, with a contract value exceeding 100 million yuan, and plans to reach an annual joint module production capacity of 2 million units by 2027. The company develops its full stack in-house, including frameless torque motors, joint modules, linear actuators, and drivers. Its explosion-proof joint obtained three-joint Ex db IIb T4 Gb explosion-proof certification in September this year, with a maximum single-joint peak torque of 500 N·m, and has achieved large-scale mass production.
On October 14, at the FA Robotics booth at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Zhejiang Dexterous Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. and FA Robotics officially signed an ecosystem strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation on embodied intelligent robot products, technical collaboration, product ecosystem, and industrial scenario applications.
At its 2026 11.11 launch event, JD.com disclosed that its AI capabilities now cover more than 3,000 scenarios across retail, logistics, health, industrial, food delivery, and housekeeping. JD APP 16.0 upgrades the AI shopping assistant "Dongdong," and the JoyAI App introduces the first AI digital human capable of real-time video shopping.
On October 14, Jia Yueting posted a video announcing plans to create the first humanoid robot stock on the U.S. market. FFR (formerly AIxC, with Faraday Future as controlling shareholder) signed a definitive agreement with FFAI to merge FFAI's robotics assets in an all-stock deal at $2.246 per share, a 55% premium to the prior day, valuing the assets at about $200 million. After the deal closes, FFAI will hold about 65.7% of FFR, and the only cash coming in is a $10 million PIPE.
OFweek analyzes why Youibot, with 2025 revenue of 340 million yuan and a 6.1% global share, still posted an adjusted net loss of 106 million yuan, noting that the fragmented industrial mobile manipulation robot market and long project-based delivery cycles make standardized replication difficult. The company uses the MAIC model to unify the decision layer and a CBB architecture to modularize the robot body and reduce duplicate development; its humanoid robot Xifeng can reach a 90% task success rate with training on as few as 50 data points, but whether it can clear the threshold for industrial deployment is still being verified.
Stardust Intelligence announced on October 13 that it has completed a new funding round of about 1 billion yuan, led by Toukong Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with a post-money valuation of 15 billion yuan, about three months after its June Series B financing. The funds will be used for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity building. The company uses a rope-driven technology approach instead of mainstream harmonic reducers, and its customers span retail, culture and tourism, and industrial sectors, but the article notes that whether rope drive can support large-scale delivery and whether orders can translate into sustained revenue remain to be verified.
At its Humanoid Gym in Erlangen, Germany, Schaeffler is working with Hexagon Robotics to train and validate new capabilities using the humanoid robot AEON in representative production scenarios, preparing it for entry onto factory production lines.
The School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Shenzhen Polytechnic University will hold its 2027 graduate job fair on November 4, 2026, from 14:00 to 17:00 at Dayun Square on the Xili Lake campus. More than 700 graduates are expected, and employers are invited to attend. The school offers programs including Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Technology (undergraduate), Electrical Automation Technology, Mechatronics Technology, and Industrial Robot Technology, and has an on-campus training base of more than 7,600 square meters with equipment valued at about 136 million yuan. Participating employers must bring a copy of their business license and a printed copy of the invitation letter when registering.
On October 14, the Shenzhen Robotics Association and the Shenzhen Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Industry Alliance hosted the Embodied Intelligence Application Technology Innovation Forum in Shenzhen, with China Electronics Port XinChacha as co-organizer. UBTech shared the industrial practices of Walker S2 and its "brain-cerebellum" layered architecture; Huayan Robotics presented a high-precision XYZ linear motor platform with ±0.05μm repeat positioning accuracy; and AMD, Huacheng Industrial Control, Molex, and Sanwei Xin'an discussed computing power, motion control, connectors, and security chips.
Wanhua Chemical President Kou Guangwu and a delegation visited Boshi Co. for an exchange. Wanhua Chemical presented Boshi Co. with an "Excellent Supplier" award. As a core equipment supplier for Wanhua Chemical's complete packaging and automated loading equipment, Boshi's related equipment has been put into production and application at multiple Wanhua domestic bases, supporting the automation and intelligent upgrading of the solid material post-processing stage. The two sides will carry out joint research, relying on the collaboration between Boshi Co. and Bolong Technology to advance the intelligent optimization and upgrading of equipment.
The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center appeared at ROSCon China 2026 as a gold sponsor, showcasing both the Tiangong 3.0 and Tianyi 2.0 robots together at Booth B08. Tiangong 3.0 is a full-size general-purpose robot equipped with the self-developed "Huisikaiwu" general embodied intelligence platform and 43 high-precision controllable joints, and it performed a highly dynamic choreographed dance on site; Tianyi 2.0 demonstrated fully autonomous tabletop fruit sorting on site, with no manual intervention throughout. Visitors who scan the code to join the Tiangong Zaowu open-source community can receive 4090 computing power resources for free.
Shenzhen Ruoyu Technology announced on October 15 that it has completed a hundred-million-yuan Pre-A funding round, led by Sunway Communication, with participation from Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital, and Zhongchuang Capital. The funds will focus on iterating the Ruoyu Jiutian robot brain and expanding ecosystem partnerships.
Reports say DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng is in contact with several embodied AI startups and participated in Unitree Technology's IPO strategic placement (contributing about 141 million yuan), and plans to lead a funding round for Winverse AI. The article analyzes a new approach in which general-purpose large models drive agents to call robot tools: in RoboCurve tests, GPT-6 Astra succeeded 19 out of 20 times in a block-into-bowl task, but this approach still faces real-time issues such as API call costs and several-second response latency.
A commentary article says Unitree's share price has fallen from 1,100 yuan at the open on its first trading day to 405 yuan, shrinking its market value to 163.8 billion yuan, a loss of 281.1 billion yuan over two months. First-half 2026 revenue was 1.152 billion yuan, up 48.54% year on year, while non-recurring net profit fell 19.34% year on year; IDC data show global humanoid robot shipments of nearly 25,000 units in the first half, with China accounting for about 77.9%, Unitree shipping more than 5,000 units to rank second and Agibot ranking first.
Odigo is drawing attention at Pacific Mall in Jaipur! 15 AI-driven #Odigo advertising robots have been deployed, allowing brands to attract more shoppers through dynamic advertising, interactive engagement, and smart wayfinding.
Musk spoke remotely to more than 2,000 owners and investors at the third X Takeover event at Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas; the remarks summary focused on Optimus mass production and supply chain difficulties. He said Optimus hand engineering accounts for about half the difficulty of the whole machine, and that the robot's core components lack a ready-made supply chain; last year China's restrictions on electric motor magnet exports stalled the Optimus project for two to three months, so core parts must be ensured to be manufacturable domestically in the US. The remarks also touched on chip manufacturing, the Cybercab fleet, AI, and Starship.
Hesai held its Kosmo global launch event in Shanghai on October 14, unveiling Kosmo, a new three-dimensional world data engine, and disclosing that its robot motion modules have begun commercial delivery, with cumulative deliveries exceeding 10,000 units. The next-generation motion module offers roughly 3x the torque density and power density of benchmark products, is 37% smaller in volume, and achieves transmission efficiency above 95%; the company expects motion module shipments to reach the hundred-thousand level by 2027, with a revenue guidance of 200 million to 300 million yuan for its strategic growth business in 2026.
Wenzhou Huanbao Technology Co., Ltd., wholly owned by Meituan subsidiary Xigua Limited, was recently established with a registered capital of USD 2 million and Ling Hongjia as its legal representative. The company's business scope includes basic artificial intelligence software development, Internet of Things technology R&D, and intelligent robot R&D.
Holiday Robotics has set up its own production line in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, and begun producing its self-developed wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot "Friday," with an annual capacity of about 100 units. About 10 units have been completed or are in assembly so far, and the company aims to produce 2 units per week. Friday is positioned as a robot for carrying and handling tasks at logistics centers and manufacturing sites. The company is running PoCs with companies in logistics, semiconductors, and auto parts, and plans to deploy the robot in actual industrial sites next year.
Juchao WAVE analyzes the valuation split in the robotics sector: commercially mature commercial robot companies such as UDI, Geek+, and Pudu remain valued in the billions to tens of billions of yuan range, while embodied AI startups founded two to three years ago, such as Qianxun Intelligence, Galaxy General, and Galaxea, have already reached valuations of around 20 billion yuan. The article cites 93 billion yuan in primary-market financing for embodied AI in the first half of the year, a fivefold year-on-year surge, with 322 financing deals completed, while most embodied AI companies remain loss-making. Regulators have proposed raising the IPO approval threshold for humanoid robots, and commercial robot companies are rushing to attach embodied AI labels in pursuit of higher valuations.
Most robotics talks are about capability; this one is about character. Lightberry Design Director Do Park (@alrightdo) opened the Humanoid Hub conference with a talk titled "From Pixar to the Physical World: Designing the World's Most Interactive Humanoid Robot." Tomorrow
Robotic brain company Ruoyu Technology has completed a RMB 100 million Pre-A funding round led by Sunway Communication, with Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital, and Zhongchuang Capital participating. Since its founding in 2023, the company has raised several hundred million yuan in cumulative funding. The proceeds will go toward full-stack R&D of its robotic brain, real-world data closed loops, and industrialization. Its first deployment scenario is intelligent refueling (refueling robots), with its core product being the self-developed Ruoyu Jiutian robotic brain, which uses a cloud-edge-device layered architecture and has been in trial operation at a Foshan pilot site since April this year.
What is stopping teams from getting value from the data they already have? Aurora Feng (founder of Neural Motion) and Joe Harris (founder and CEO of Alloy Robotics). Tomorrow @aurorafeng_01 @_joe_harris_
Ahead of GTC Berlin, NVIDIA showcased the Nordic technology ecosystem: ABB Robotics helps engineers train and test robots in simulation, while Spotify improves podcast recommendation efficiency. Several startups adapt open-source models for tasks such as Swedish transcription and patent research, underpinned by computing investment and a community of researchers, entrepreneurs, and enterprises.
Benmo Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Main Board on September 29, rising 7.41% to HK$23.2 that day and closing at HK$32.5 on October 14, up more than 50% from its HK$21.6 IPO price. The article reviews the technical advantages of its two direct-drive motor series, M6 and M15, and prospectus data: 2025 revenue of 282 million yuan, 97.4% from power modules. It also notes four pressures, including widening losses and the average selling price of direct-drive power modules falling from 77 yuan to 32 yuan, and argues that the second half, in which the company must prove it can turn a profit, has only just begun.
Founded in 2023, Yueqian Innovation has completed an angel funding round with participation from Mingshi Venture Capital, Nanshan Zhanxin Investment, and Chuxin Capital; it previously received seed funding from Li Zexiang. Its first product, the force-balanced camera robotic arm Cilin X, uses a "3+3" configuration and a mechanically pre-balanced design, reducing joints that originally required 100 N·m of drive to under 10 N·m, while retaining six-degree-of-freedom camera movement and achieving lightweight design, targeting independent creators and small shooting teams. The company plans to accumulate data from professional users to build a visual expression model, and is planning smaller products for general users.
Tmall Double 11 presales will begin at 8 PM on October 15, with official sales starting at 8 PM on October 20. The number of products is the highest in the event's history, and brand discounts combined with platform coupons bring prices as low as 28% off. 88VIP coupons support self-selected denominations, and AI services are included in Double 11 for the first time. Apple's foldable iPhone Duo will make its Tmall debut at 8 PM on the 16th, and the iPhone 18 Pro will be available from 9,199 yuan during Double 11. Embodied AI robots, smart door locks, digital cameras, and other products are included in subsidies for the first time.
Auto Pixel analyzes XPeng IRON's commercialization path: IRON plans to reach mass production by the end of 2026 and begin deliveries in the first half of 2027, entering the European market in the second half of 2027; the Pengxing robotics business has raised over $900 million, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. The article notes that guided tours are the main initial scenario, and external customers need reasons to pay for redundant configurations such as dexterous hands and 2,250 TOPS of computing power, while store deployment is only the starting point of a data loop; the claim that about 70% of automotive technology reserves can be reused is hard-pressed to cover core barriers such as the brain and dexterous hands.