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Oct 26Mon
  1. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号58

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology closes tens-of-millions-yuan seed round four months after founding, building bionic faces for humanoid robots

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. The seed round was backed by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, while the seed+ round included Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. Founded four months ago, the company's flagship product, FaceSoul Agent, uses a cable-driven design to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed on-device expression-generation model. It has launched four product series: Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng. The funds will go toward product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion.

  2. Agility Robotics68

    GXO and Agility Robotics expand partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at North Carolina and Tennessee sites

    GXO and Agility Robotics are expanding their partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, handling repetitive material-handling tasks in e-commerce fulfillment. Deployment of Digit 4 is expected to begin in early 2027, with a migration once Digit 5 is commercially available.

    Why it matters: After Digit cumulatively moved more than 100,000 totes in GXO warehouses, the partnership has expanded from a single-site pilot to multiple sites, offering a way to observe the pace of commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

  3. 荭杏科技33

    Hongxing Technology's Xiaomei M9 Deployed at Holiday Inn Express Yantai Laishan, Serving On-Site as "AI Concierge Service Specialist"

    At the opening ceremony of Holiday Inn Express Yantai Laishan, Hongxing Technology's Xiaomei M9 was deployed on-site as an "AI Concierge Service Specialist" for greeting and guiding, covering public areas including the main entrance, lobby, front desk, elevator hall, and restrooms, and handling welcome reception, hotel introductions, facility promotion, wayfinding, and guest inquiries. On-site setup and debugging were completed within 1 day, with about 1 hour of centralized employee training; deployment did not require venue modification. After deployment, Xiaomei M9 provides service autonomously through voice interaction without manual intervention.

  4. 数字华夏25

    Huaxia Robotics' Xialan R03, Xingxingxia P2, and Xiaqi D02 Appear at the 2026 Physical AI and World Models Conference

    Huaxia Robotics brought its bionic robot Xialan R03, the IP series Xingxingxia P2, the general-purpose robot Xiaqi D02, and the "RoboEase™" scenario platform to the 2026 Physical AI and World Models Conference. Xiaqi D02 completed recognition, picking, delivery, and placement at designated points after self-service ordering at an intelligent beverage shelf, with no manual intervention throughout; Xialan R03 handled multilingual welcome reception and guided explanations at the outdoor venue. The RoboEase™ cockpit interface supports monitoring of robot positions and status across the venue as well as multi-robot task scheduling.

  5. 数字华夏18

    Digital China's humanoid robot "Xiaqi" appears at 2026 Chishui River Forum as official guide

    Digital China's general-purpose humanoid robot "Xiaqi" served as the official guide at the 2026 Chishui River Forum, providing exhibition-area tours and explanations for attending guests and interacting with them through its humanlike appearance, fluid movements, and intelligent interaction. The forum was jointly hosted by Xinhua News Agency's Brand Work Office, China Economic Information Service, and China Moutai, and was held in Moutai on October 17. Digital China said this appearance is an active exploration of its push to bring humanoid robots into cultural display, brand communication, and public service scenarios.

  6. 荭杏科技29

    BioniX Technology's Embodied AI Lamp Robot Lumi Opens Global Pre-Orders

    BioniX Technology has opened global pre-orders for Lumi, a global-edition embodied AI lamp robot positioned as a "life-like" companion smart partner. The product is equipped with millimeter-wave radar and multimodal AI, supporting proximity sensing, prolonged-sitting reminders, and absence detection, and can express multiple postures through light, movement, and voice. Beyond lighting, Lumi can remember users' preferred music and phrases and adapt to habits to form differentiated personalities, creating a unique lamp for each individual.

  7. arXiv cs.RO60

    CARE: Consistent Action-Response Execution for Human-Guided Robot Transport

    The authors propose Consistent Action-Response Execution (CARE), which grounds local control in executable-action-indexed joint human-robot transitions, so that the same executable action simultaneously determines operator response prediction, joint human-robot rollout, and candidate selection. On training and held-out maps, CARE maintains near-saturated performance when the indicated route remains locally passable, and achieves the highest success rate and service availability when the operator can continue but the robot must detour.

  8. arXiv cs.RO58

    FH-HBTS: A Haptic Bilateral Teleoperation System for Free-Hand Dental Procedures

    The authors propose FH-HBTS, a haptic bilateral teleoperation system for free-hand dental procedures, featuring a mechanical end-effector compatible with standard clinical tools and equipped with an endoscopic camera. The system improves the operator's sensory awareness and motor accuracy through motion and force correspondence between the operator and the robot, and limits interaction forces by scaling the motion references provided to the admittance controller based solely on measured contact forces, thereby achieving force limitation without prior knowledge of the environment. Technical evaluations and in vitro preclinical studies on dental models showed that the system improves the naturalness, safety, and precision of teleoperation.

  9. arXiv cs.RO47

    CEMIR vs. FISER: A Comparative Study of Reasoning-Based and Enrichment-Based Approaches to Pragmatic Intent Recognition

    The study compares FISER, which is based on structured social and embodied reasoning, with CEMIR, which performs multimodal enrichment by synthesizing narratives and photorealistic images from text prompts, on the HandMeThat v2 benchmark, covering four large language models from Qwen2.5-Omni-3B to GPT-5.

  10. arXiv cs.RO58

    Study Reveals Flaws in Humanoid Robot Safety Filters; SIREN Can Automatically Generate Collision Attacks

    The paper points out that the mathematical guarantees of humanoid robot safety filters hold only when parameters are configured correctly, while the parameters depend on the specific task and environment and may fail after deployment. The authors propose goal insertion attacks and develop an automated tool, SIREN, which identified attacks in all vulnerable scenarios in the SPARK dataset, three times the number found by baseline methods, and triggered collisions on a real humanoid robot.

  11. 荭杏科技22

    Hongxing Technology launches embodied AI eye-care lamp robot Lumi

    Hongxing Technology has globally launched Lumi, an embodied AI eye-care lamp robot. Lighting is only its basic function; the product is equipped with a millimeter-wave radar sensing system, a multimodal AI perception module, and nine types of memory systems, along with a 7-stage growth system and a thousand dynamic postures. Lumi is now open for global pre-order, and the company positions it as a new desk lamp category shifting from a "lighting tool" to an "emotional companion."

  12. New Strategy Robotics18

    Bluecore Robotics' Five CeMAT Highlights: VR-Teleoperated Humanoid Robot VB2, Chassis H6, and Transport Robot V400

    Bluecore Robotics will showcase five highlights at Booth C3-3, Hall N1, Shanghai New International Expo Centre, from November 3 to 6, 2026, including the VR-headset-teleoperated humanoid robot VB2, the humanoid robot chassis H6, the point-to-point transport robot V400, ultra-thin latent and cage-cart transport robots, and Mayer Vision 3D vision sensors. The V400 targets lightweight short-distance transport, requires no deployment of a scheduling system, and supports rapid deployment in 30 minutes; the ultra-thin latent robot has a body thickness of 120 mm. Visitors can experience the VB2's multimodal perception, task understanding, and precise force control capabilities on site.

  13. 荭杏科技15

    Hongxing Technology's desktop robot Lumi appears at Shanghai Yipai Kindergarten's eighth anniversary celebration

    Hongxing Technology's desktop robot Lumi interacted closely with children at Shanghai Yipai Kindergarten's eighth anniversary celebration, making the intelligent robot a touchable, experienceable interactive companion. The event was a practice run for Hongxing Technology in exploring scenario-based robot applications; the company says it will continue to advance exploration of intelligent robot applications in schools, commercial services, and other fields.

Oct 25Sun
  1. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence58

    Lingyan Technology Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Seed and Seed+ Funding to Build Biomimetic Dexterous Faces for Humanoid Robots

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology recently completed a seed round and a seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. Seed-round investors include Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center; the seed+ round includes Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion. Founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University, the company launched the FaceSoul Agent full-stack biomimetic dexterous face solution, which uses a tendon-driven approach to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed lightweight on-device expression generation model.

  2. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号40

    AgiBot's 110 Expedition A3 humanoid robots dance together in Jinan, setting a Guinness World Record

    AgiBot organized 110 full-size Expedition A3 humanoid robots to dance together at the Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center in Jinan, Shandong, setting a Guinness World Record for "most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously." The adjudicator on site confirmed that the successful count was 110 robots.

  4. Tech Xplore Robotics62

    Shanghai AI Lab and others propose wearable system EgoExplorer, collecting 100 hours of human activity data for robot training

    Researchers from Shanghai AI Lab, Zhejiang University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University propose EgoExplorer, a wearable capture system that uses a head-mounted GoPro HERO13, 5 VIVE Ultimate Trackers, and MANUS Metagloves or Wuji gloves to record 100 hours of human activity data, aligning first-person video, full-body motion reconstruction, finger movements, and tactile observations.

Oct 24Sat
  1. 钛媒体47

    Chinese Embodied AI Goes Global with a "Weight-Loss Plan": Shifting from Complete-System Delivery to Quick-Release Modules and RaaS

    In the first half of 2026, China's robot exports reached 24.85 billion yuan, up 359.0% year on year, but entertainment performances and education/ research procurement together accounted for over 60% of the export mix, while only 13% truly entered intelligent manufacturing. Wujie Dynamics' K15, entering a French battery factory, required on-site re-collection of force and tactile data and model fine-tuning, turning delivery into a project-based, non-standardized process. Realman demonstrated cross-ocean cloud teleoperation, Nanjing Yinxesi launched a second-generation humanoid robot joint module supporting quick release, and AgiBot launched an overseas standalone site promoting RaaS with a starting rental price of 899 euros per day, covering 17 countries and regions.

  3. Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center39

    Beijing Humanoid's Tiangong Robot Appears at iRTE2026, Partners with Agora to Implement Remote Control Solution

    Tiangong, the robot from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, integrated Agora's real-time interaction capabilities at the iRTE2026 Real-Time Intelligence Conference to advance the implementation of a remote control solution. Agora RTM provides control signaling latency as low as 100ms and still offers nearly 100% delivery assurance under weak networks with 70% packet loss; RTC end-to-end latency stays consistently below 200ms.

Oct 23Fri
  1. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence22

    UAE National AI Expert Delegation Exchanges with Aihuanshen Technology

    A delegation from the UAE National Experts Program - Artificial Intelligence (NEP-AI) recently visited Shanghai for an exchange with Aihuanshen Technology, focusing on enterprise sovereign intelligence and intelligent city operations. Aihuanshen Technology introduced its enterprise-grade AI operating system Agentrix, demonstrated applications in intelligent office work, business decision analysis, and intelligent urban governance, and shared research progress on world behavior models. The two sides jointly explored pathways for supporting industrial development and organizational operations with secure and controllable intelligence capabilities.

  2. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号62

    XPeng IRON humanoid robot upgraded: re-reasons every 0.2 seconds, can predict motion changes within 6 seconds

    XPeng announced that its second-generation VLA large model, after an upgrade, has been deployed on-device to the IRON humanoid robot, giving it temporal understanding and future behavior prediction capabilities. IRON re-reasons every 0.2 seconds based on the scene before it and predicts motion changes within 6 seconds, allowing it to respond to last-minute changes during handshakes, fist bumps, and high-fives. XPeng plans to achieve mass production of humanoid robots by the end of 2026, begin deliveries in the first half of 2027, and first deploy them in commercial scenarios such as stores and shopping malls.

  3. 机器人全球资讯 · 微信公众号58

    Sichuan Embodied Technology (EIR) closes over 100 million yuan Pre-A funding round to advance humanoid robot Aiqiu iteration and 10,000-unit production base

    Sichuan Embodied Humanoid Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (EIR) has completed a Pre-A funding round of over 100 million yuan. The funds will be used for iterative R&D of the humanoid robot Aiqiu, construction of a 10,000-unit production base, and building out a sales system. Aiqiu starts at 98,000 yuan and uses a 3D ultra-short-throw projection facial solution; the company proposes an Emotion Native design approach with emotional companionship as its native goal.

  4. Robotics 24/758

    Agility Robotics signs agreement with AGCO to pilot Digit humanoid robots at US factory in 2027

    Agility Robotics has signed a commercial agreement with agricultural machinery company AGCO, planning to launch a pilot in the US in 2027. The first batch of Digit humanoid robots will be deployed at AGCO's production site in Hesston, Kansas, to handle assembly and production tasks such as parts sorting and stacking, and smart placement of bins.

  5. Robotics & Automation News42

    Cerence AI and Geely expand partnership from smart cockpits to service robots

    Cerence AI announced that its partnership with Geely is expanding from smart cockpits to the service robot sector, with the two companies jointly advancing multilingual human-machine interaction for robotics applications. Cerence AI's multilingual speech recognition supports simultaneous recognition of French, English, and Mandarin, and the partnership made its first public appearance at the Paris Motor Show.

Oct 22Thu
  1. 脑极体 · 微信公众号50

    The Makeshift Robot Troupes Flooding Primary and Secondary Schools

    During the spring 2026 school term, humanoid robots and robot dogs entered primary and secondary schools across various regions in droves as greeters and performers, but most were rented equipment costing several thousand yuan per day; they were loaded onto trucks and hauled away as soon as the ceremonies ended, lacked supporting curricula and teachers, and some became hallway decorations or even malfunctioned, falling over and kicking students. In May 2026, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area delivered 20 humanoid robots retired from robot soccer competitions to five secondary schools in the district for school-based curricula and club activities, encouraging students to further develop them, and this has been seen as a reference case distinct from performance-style displays.

  3. TUM MIRMI62

    TUM RoboGym robotics training center, a collaboration between TU Munich and NEURA, opens

    TUM RoboGym opened in October at the TUM Convergence Center at LabCampus at Munich Airport. It has 48 training units and about 100 robots, and is open to TUM researchers as well as external institutions, universities, and companies.

    Why it matters: The original explains how a large-scale real training facility organizes data collection and sharing against the backdrop of scarce real physical interaction data, and can serve as a reference case for embodied intelligence data infrastructure.

  4. 高飞的电子替身 · 微信公众号72

    Jensen Huang GTC Berlin keynote: Vera Rubin mass production moved up, OpenShell security platform adopted by over 100 organizations

    On October 21, 2026, NVIDIA held its first Europe-hosted GTC conference in Berlin, where Jensen Huang delivered a keynote. Ahead of the keynote, NVIDIA announced that all seven chips in the Vera Rubin GPU family had completed tape-out, with mass production moved up to the third quarter of 2026; OpenShell, the open-source agent security platform released at the end of September, has already been announced as adopted by over 100 organizations; and the RTX Spark series of PCs was confirmed to launch this fall.

  6. 新智元 · 微信公众号58

    iFlytek releases Spark X2.6 and three first-to-market enterprise products: Agent OS, APA, and Xingchen TaaS

    At the iFlytek 1024 Global Developer Festival on October 22, iFlytek Chairman Liu Qingfeng released Spark X2.6, upgraded on fully domestic computing power, and introduced for the first time a device-cloud integrated collaborative architecture, with an average device-side response time of 0.85 seconds.

  7. 奇点折射 · 微信公众号24

    World Models Begin to Take Over Actions: Physical AI Is Ushering In a True Scaling Moment

    The 2026 Singularity Intelligence Technology Conference will be held on November 20–21 at the Wanda Vista Beijing, featuring a special track on "From Embodied Intelligence to Physical AI." It will bring together teams including JD Exploration Research Institute, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Noitom Robotics, Shiqi Future, Kunlun Xing Robotics, Guanxing Digital Intelligence, and AIRS to discuss world models, physical causality, robot agents, and multi-robot collaboration.

  8. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号35

    Tan Weijia, Full-time Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, Invited to the ROSCon China 2026 Summit Roundtable Forum

    Tan Weijia, Full-time Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, was invited to the ROSCon China 2026 Summit Roundtable Forum, "The Next Stage of Embodied Intelligence: Paradigms, Order, and Boundaries," where she spoke with guests including Benmo Robotics scientist Liu Senyi and Yunmu Zhizao COO Yang Jianqiang.

  9. 加速进化 · 微信公众号56

    Tsinghua University Department of Automation and Booster Robotics Humanoid Robot Joint Research Center Unveiled

    On October 20, 2026, the Tsinghua University (Department of Automation)–Booster Robotics Humanoid Robot Joint Research Center was unveiled at Tsinghua University's Central Main Building. Zhang Tao, Chair of the Department of Automation, and Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Booster Robotics, unveiled the center together. Booster Robotics delivered 16 K1 and 6 T2 humanoid robots to the Department of Automation for experimental teaching, research projects, and student innovation.

  10. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号62

    Chery's Mocha Robotics unveils Mobot, a 90 cm family companion humanoid robot, in global debut with 99 yuan deposit pre-orders

    Chery's Mocha Robotics held the global debut of Mobot, a consumer-grade family companion humanoid robot, during the 2026 Chery Global User Ecosystem Conference and opened global pre-orders. A 99 yuan deposit can be expanded to offset 2,999 yuan and comes with benefits including a 6-month extended warranty. The full price will be announced separately. Official sales are planned for January next year, with mass production by the end of 2026.

  11. Tsinghua Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Institute58

    Tsinghua University Department of Automation and Booster Robotics Open Joint Humanoid Robot Research Center

    On October 20, 2026, the unveiling ceremony for the Tsinghua University (Department of Automation)–Booster Robotics Joint Humanoid Robot Research Center was held in the Central Main Building at Tsinghua University. Representatives from the university and the company attended, including Zhang Tao, Chair of the Department of Automation, and Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Booster Robotics.

  12. OFweek Robotics56

    The Visible and Hidden Lines of Physical AI in Industrial Applications: New Stories and Old Thresholds

    The article analyzes the visible and hidden lines behind the convergence of physical AI and industrial scenarios. Han Chen, president of ABB China, believes that working conditions with small batches, multiple varieties, and high-frequency changeovers are best suited to physical AI, but the existing thresholds of safety, efficiency, and cost in industry leave no room for trial and error. Han Chen says that AI hallucinations have very serious consequences in factory operations.

  13. arXiv cs.RO56

    HuMiT: Low-Latency Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation via Compact Reference Tracking

    HuMiT is a whole-body humanoid teleoperation system whose unified tracking policy requires only a compact reference target—root height, root velocity, and the SE(3) poses of four sparse keypoints at the current frame—yet achieves tracking accuracy comparable to methods that rely on full joint positions, dense body-part transformations, and even future frames.

  14. arXiv cs.RO25

    From Acceptance and Avoidance to Affective Viscosity: Designing Social Agents That Intervene in Human Relationships

    The paper connects research on an agent's acceptance of and avoidance of gaze with the affective viscosity model, which describes how negative emotions accumulate, persist, are suppressed, and are expressed over time. It argues that avoidance should not be seen merely as an interaction failure, but as a relational signal marking the boundary between humans and agents. On this basis, the paper proposes a design perspective in which agents maintain, suppress, or express negative states depending on social relationships and interaction histories. It discusses design cases including triadic jealousy, discomfort suppression, patience timing, and spatiotemporal stickiness, and then raises questions about whether interventions can be traceable, limited, contestable, and repairable.