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  1. 雷科技20

    Drone Lifts Coffin Up Mountain Sparks Debate: How Drones and AI Are Changing the Funeral Industry

    In a mountain village in Zunyi, Guizhou, a modified six-rotor industrial drone was used to lift a 467 kg coffin up the mountain; with continuous rain and slippery mountain roads, the video sparked discussion across the internet. Drone transport teams in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan already take on coffin transport and Qingming offering lifting, and a team in Laibin, Guangxi charges auspicious amounts of 88, 168, and 188 yuan. Funeral settings have also seen drones scatter ashes, cloud-based tomb sweeping, and the use of AI to make photos of the deceased move and speak, so-called "digital resurrection."

  2. 甲子光年 · 微信公众号45

    2026 Jiangsu AI+Science and Engineering Hackathon concludes: Agnes Harness supports 20 teams' AI4S prototypes

    The finals of the 2026 Jiangsu Province AI+Science and Engineering Innovation Practice Hackathon (University Group) have concluded. 536 teams registered and 20 advanced to the finals, with all projects built on Agnes Harness, the open-source agent development and execution infrastructure from Agnes.

  3. AI前线 · 微信公众号78

    Google DeepMind Releases World Model Genie 4, Supporting 24 FPS Real-Time Interaction and Native Audio

    Google DeepMind launched its next-generation world model Genie 4 on October 27 local time, calling it its most realistic and interactive world model to date, with a single generated interactive experience lasting up to 2 minutes, compared with 1 minute for the previous generation, Genie 3.

    Why it matters: Google is connecting language models' planning capabilities to real-time world generation, which lets readers understand a new approach to synthetic training grounds for embodied intelligence.

  4. 低空产业纵横 · 微信公众号40

    Damoda Intelligent Control completes shareholding reform and launches IPO tutoring, plans to file in 2027 as the "first drone swarm stock"

    Shenzhen Damoda Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd. completed its shareholding reform before National Day, with IPO intermediary institutions beginning tutoring; it plans to file for an IPO in 2027 and, if approved, would become the first A-share listed company with drone swarms as its core asset. The company says it will complete multiple financing rounds in 2026, with valuation up nearly 10 times from the Series A round; equipment sales account for about 70% of revenue, and its V4 automated drone swarm system released in 2025 achieves dock-based automatic fast charging and fully automated performances, with flight reliability approaching 99.999%.

  5. Y Combinator · X10

    YC Paper Club Cambridge event focuses on robot learning

    YC Paper Club is coming to Cambridge, Massachusetts! YCPC brings together people from academia and industry to discuss the latest research. Our first event in Cambridge on November 18 will explore frontier advances in robot learning and control. If you are a student or faculty member at a local university, or an industry researcher who wants to keep up with the latest literature, apply for a spot: https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-paper-club-cambridge

  7. 36氪 · 微信公众号84

    Google DeepMind releases world model Genie 4, supporting real-time interaction and native audio

    Google DeepMind released its next-generation general world model Genie 4 on the evening of the 28th. It can generate and modify interactive scenes in real time based on prompts, sustaining a single coherent world for about 2 minutes at roughly 24 frames per second.

    Why it matters: Genie 4 combines real-time world simulation, native audio, and multi-step reasoning, which lets readers judge that robot training environments are shifting from manual modeling to generative simulation.

  8. 36氪 · 微信公众号48

    Dami and Xiaomi Team Up with AWS to Customize AI System; Autism Rehab Institution Dismisses Part-Time Supervisor Six Months After Adoption

    Dami and Xiaomi have partnered with Amazon Web Services to customize an AI rehabilitation system, which has been used in nearly 100 directly operated stores and more than 300 partner institutions, and can take on part of supervisors' work such as writing assessment reports, scheduling classes, and generating lesson plans. After an institution in Pingdingshan, Henan, adopted the system in January this year, its head said it had dismissed an externally hired part-time supervisor whose annual fee was in the hundreds of thousands of yuan, and added AI courses priced at 80 yuan per session, with about 30% of parents signing up. Content generated by the system still requires manual review, and AI is positioned as an auxiliary role to improve the efficiency of rehabilitation therapists and supervisors.

  9. 36氪 · 微信公众号55

    Jia Yueting's FF robotics business is folded into FFR and listed on Nasdaq

    Jia Yueting's Faraday Future robotics business has been acquired by FFR, which is now trading on Nasdaq under the ticker FFR, with Jia Yueting serving as CEO. FFAI's robotics business recognized revenue of $1.141 million in the first half of 2026; as of the end of September, cumulative sales and shipments reached 817 units, with cumulative revenue exceeding $1.52 million. FFR set targets of approximately $1.98 billion in cumulative revenue and approximately 133,000 robotics units sold over five years, stating that these targets depend on securing necessary financing.

  10. 36氪 · 微信公众号11

    AGIBOT GO-3 Nano Preview Tops RoboDojo Benchmark Leaderboard

    AGIBOT's GO-3 Nano Preview has topped the latest RoboDojo embodied intelligence benchmark leaderboard with an average score of 61.90 and an average success rate of 56.42%, surpassing GPT-6 Astra. The model ranked first in all three sub-dimensions: fine manipulation (78.65), long-horizon execution (68.21), and open-ended semantic understanding (61.71).

  11. 硅星人Pro · 微信公众号78

    Google DeepMind releases world model Genie 4, integrated with Gemini for real-time generation and task reasoning

    Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation world model that supports real-time generation of explorable virtual worlds and simultaneously generates physics effects, character movements, and native audio. Genie 4 is integrated with Gemini 3.8 Flash as a real-time guiding Agent, responsible for understanding goals, observing the environment, and planning next steps; in the demo, it simulated robotic arm operation in a virtual laboratory.

    Why it matters: Google released the Genie 4 world model, demonstrating its collaboration with Gemini to plan and simulate robot task execution in virtual environments, offering a look at a new way world models can be used for robot training.

  13. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号28

    Huaray Technology Showcases New Machine Vision and AMR Products at Shenzhen Electronics and Semiconductor Exhibition and Machine Vision Exhibition

    Huaray Technology exhibited new machine vision and AMR products and solutions at the Shenzhen Electronics and Semiconductor Exhibition and Machine Vision Exhibition held October 27-29. On the vision side, the exhibits included a 65MP CXP large-area-array camera, a 5MP short-wave infrared camera, a 16K 256-level TDI line-scan camera, and the R5000Pro series AI smart code readers, covering processes such as wafer AOI inspection, scribe-line positioning, and micro-crack detection.

  14. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号5

    2026 Gaogong Industrial Embodied Intelligent Robot Annual Conference opens registration

    Registration is ongoing for the 2026 Gaogong Industrial Embodied Intelligent Robot Annual Conference, themed "Toward Practicality, Toward Innovation, Toward the Future." The conference is aimed at companies across the robotics and intelligent manufacturing industry chain; specific agenda and attendance details are available through the registration channel.

  15. 高工咨询 · 微信公众号42

    No longer competing on specs, but on delivery: the competitive logic for robot core components has changed

    At this year's CIIF, the competitive focus of robot core component companies shifted from single-point specifications to stable delivery: Kunwei Technology, Xinjingcheng Sensors, Junduo and others expanded from force-tactile sensing to full-spectrum coverage; dexterous hand makers such as Zhongke Guiji, Dahuan and Yinshi emphasized industrial-grade lifespan and continuous operation capability; Huiling Technology's eHand-6 is priced at 2,999 yuan and the eHand-20 at 9,999 yuan. GGII forecasts that domestic dexterous hand sales will reach 70,200 units in 2026, up 265.63% year on year, but most customers are still in the proof-of-concept stage.

  16. 机器之心 · 微信公众号58

    Chaoyan Intelligence releases 35B model Apex-35B-V1.0, leading Recursive Flint on 18 of 21 benchmarks

    Chaoyan Intelligence, founded by Chen Yongchao, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's School of Artificial Intelligence, has released its first 35B model, Apex-35B-V1.0. It was trained and post-trained on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, balancing general capabilities such as coding and agents with AI research, computational science, and robot simulation tasks.

  17. 机器之心 · 微信公众号73

    Google DeepMind releases world model Genie 4, supporting real-time control and native audio

    Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, its fourth-generation world model, which can generate dynamic environments in real time; users can control characters or the camera with the keyboard and use natural language to change the weather and add objects and characters. Genie 4 is Google's first world model to natively generate real-time audio, and it also improves physics simulation such as aerodynamics and collisions as well as the naturalness of character movements.

  18. 雷科技56

    Google releases Genie 4 world model: supports real-time interaction, can generate robot training scenarios

    Google has released a research preview of its world model Genie 4, which natively supports multimodality, can change the environment and introduce new objects and characters through instructions during generation, and lets existing characters react. The model is integrated with Gemini, with Gemini Omni anchoring the simulated visual behavior logic to the real world. It is currently open only to invited testers and will later open first to Ultra subscribers.

  19. 新智元 · 微信公众号80

    Google releases world model Genie 4, with three Gemini models jointly driving robot actions

    Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation general-purpose world model that natively generates sound and improvised dialogue for the first time, sustaining a single coherent world for about 2 minutes at roughly 24 frames per second of real-machine footage. The model uses a hybrid world-model architecture: Gemini 3.8 Flash handles real-time control, while Gemini 4 Argon breaks tasks into 22-step action instructions, driving an Apollo robot to play checkers and, in simulation, controlling a UR5 robotic arm to perform pipetting operations.

    Why it matters: Google has released the Genie 4 world model, with three Gemini models jointly driving robot action decomposition; readers can learn how world models are used for robot training.

  20. CVer · 微信公众号78

    Google releases world model Genie 4, supporting real-time generation and collaborative reasoning with Gemini

    Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation world model that supports real-time generation of explorable virtual worlds, simulates physics and character movements, and natively generates ambient sound effects and dialogue. Genie 4 connects to Gemini 3.8 Flash as a real-time guidance agent, with Gemini planning tasks, observing feedback, and adjusting strategies. In the demo, it simulated robotic arm experimental operations and the Apptronik humanoid robot Apollo playing checkers in the generated environment.

    Why it matters: Google released the Genie 4 world model, demonstrating its ability to collaborate with Gemini to plan and simulate robots executing tasks in virtual environments.

  21. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Estun spends about 211 million yuan to win 19.4574% stake in Estun Jiangsu Intelligent

    Estun won a 19.4574% stake in its controlling subsidiary Estun Jiangsu Intelligent through a public listing transfer, at a transfer price of about 211 million yuan, raising its shareholding to 69.608%. Under the plan, it will subsequently also acquire a 3.7834% stake from the state-owned enterprise mixed-ownership reform fund and a 21.6193% stake from the General Technology High-End Equipment Fund, bringing its shareholding to 95.0107% once all is completed. This is Estun's second subsidiary equity consolidation this year; in August, its subsidiary had just acquired collaborative robot maker Estun Cobot's 100% stake in an all-cash deal for 487 million yuan.

  22. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Topstar signs orders for about 10,000 industrial robots in first three quarters, robotics business revenue up 88.83%

    Guangdong robotics industry chain lead company Topstar disclosed its performance for the first three quarters of 2026: industrial robot orders totaled about 10,000 units and shipments about 8,600 units, while revenue from its industrial robot and automated application systems business reached 1.028 billion yuan, up 88.83% year on year. Overall revenue was 1.969 billion yuan, up 16.68% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 146 million yuan, up 196.38% year on year. The company has submitted an application for a Hong Kong listing and disclosed embodied intelligence products including Xiaotuo and Xingzai, as well as the GMU-400E humanoid robot component machining solution.

  23. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Underwater robot company QYSEA completes nearly 100 million yuan Series C+ financing

    Shenzhen QYSEA Technology Co., Ltd. recently completed nearly 100 million yuan in Series C+ financing, with investors including Shenzhen Guangju Investment Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Yunchuang Qizhen, among other institutions. The funds will be used for R&D of core technologies for underwater embodied intelligence, iteration of key products, global market expansion, and development of a professional application system. The company focuses on lightweight portable underwater robots. In September this year, it was selected for the 2026 Guangdong Province Manufacturing Single Champion Enterprise list with its portable underwater robot. Its products cover more than 130 countries and regions worldwide, and overseas business has long accounted for more than 85%.

  25. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号62

    Three cross-embodiment papers examined: body, motion, and environment data still need manual translation

    The article examines three cross-embodiment research papers published between October 24 and 26, arguing that cross-embodiment is more like translation than a spontaneous model capability. MimicAll uses a structured body-condition table covering 16 series and 4,096 body variants.

  26. Reddit r/robotics40

    Rodney Brooks: Robots should convey intent to people by 'where they look'

    iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks noted that Rethink's robots look toward a target object before reaching to grasp it, which led workers to quickly understand its intent; he questioned why more humanoid robots do not use this way of expressing attention. The conversation also mentioned that Agility's Digit has directional eyes, and that Agility chose task-specific grippers rather than five-fingered hands.

  30. Guyuehome30

    Zephyr Low Power and Power Management: From Sleep Modes and Device PM to Wakeup Sources and Power Measurement in Practice

    This practical guide to Zephyr low power and power management covers four areas: sleep modes, device PM, wakeup sources, and power measurement. It proceeds from system sleep states to peripheral power management and explains how to configure and identify wakeup sources. Finally, it presents hands-on power measurement methods so developers can verify the effectiveness of their low-power designs.

  32. Guyuehome18

    Zephyr Device Tree and Device Driver Model: A Practical Guide from DT Binding and Driver Registration to Device Retrieval

    A practical guide to Zephyr's device tree and device driver model, following the complete path from DT binding and driver registration to device retrieval. It covers the key steps from device tree description to driver registration and runtime device retrieval, aimed at developers who need to understand how Zephyr's driver model is implemented in practice.

  37. Guyuehome40

    Dexterous Hands in Practice 01: Why One Hand Is Expensive — Breaking Down Mechanical, Drive, and Sensor Configurations

    The reasons for the high cost of dexterous hands can be broken down into three aspects: mechanical structure, drive scheme, and sensor configuration. From a practical perspective, the article analyzes how these three types of configuration affect the design and price of dexterous hands, helping readers understand their cost composition.

  38. Guyuehome58

    Jumper: Dynamic Jumping Control for a Crab Robot Based on Reference Motion and Residual Reinforcement Learning

    Jumper uses a reference-guided residual reinforcement learning method to control dynamic jumping in a crab robot. The reference motion records only the nominal trajectory, and the policy learns only the corrections to the reference commands. In this method, the takeoff impulse determines the launch velocity, the ballistic trajectory determines the airborne phase, and the official policy is used to complete jumping and boundary tests.

  39. Tech Xplore Robotics60

    UCLA and UC Davis develop 185-milligram insect-inspired flying robot that can resume flight after collisions

    A UCLA and UC Davis team published in Science Robotics a fully polymer micro flying robot weighing 185 milligrams that uses electrostrictive polymer films to directly drive flexible conical wings, with no mechanical transmission. In tests it can generate lift about three times its own weight, take off autonomously at an average speed of 40 centimeters per second, and still resume flight after being hit by a fly swatter or pressed under a load about 11,000 times its own weight. The current prototype is powered through external wires; the team's next steps are to improve steering and landing control, increase payload, and advance onboard power, control electronics, and sensing toward autonomy.

  40. 节卡机器人 · 微信公众号12

    JAKA Robotics weekly video roundup: robot participates in dental surgery, Pi Boy shop opens, and 'Unload Love' human-robot coexistence stage play premieres

    JAKA Robotics released a weekly video roundup covering a robot participating in dental surgery, the opening of the Pi Boy shop, a clip from the premiere of the human-robot coexistence stage play 'Unload Love' featuring Pi Boy, and a Pi Boy runway show. The same content also includes JAKA Robotics inviting audiences to explore the 2026 CIIF (China International Industry Fair) site and a statement regarding an overseas patent litigation matter.