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- Tutor Intelligence closes $75 million Series B to scale robot workforce
Tutor Intelligence announced the completion of a $75 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the company's total funding to $117 million.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Xiaomi Group wins World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award; general-purpose robot manipulation foundation model wins Leading Technology Award
On November 3, Xiaomi disclosed that Xiaomi Group received the 2026 World Internet Conference "Outstanding Contribution Award" in the Innovation Breakthrough category, and that its robotics business's "key technologies for a general-purpose robot manipulation foundation model aimed at large-scale deployment" received the conference's "Leading Technology Award." During the summit, Xiaomi also disclosed that its humanoid robot has preliminarily completed validation of production-line-level operational capability.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Lens Technology's Kunshan humanoid robot line reaches 100 units per day, plans to extend into ODM
Lens Technology's investor relations record disclosed on November 1 shows that its Kunshan base humanoid robot production line has achieved a daily output of 100 units, with plans to reserve capacity of more than 10,000 units per month each for its customer's Q series and T series. The company said its cooperation model will extend from OEM whole-machine manufacturing to ODM collaborative design and manufacturing, and that it has participated in the development and testing of joint modules, DCU controllers, and OmniPicker grippers for AgiBot's Lingxi X1. In the first three quarters of 2026, Lens Technology's revenue fell 10.74% and net profit fell 50.06%, with new businesses such as robotics accounting for less than 10%.
OFweek Robotics ·
- From storytelling to crunching the numbers: will the robot company IPO feast end?
Unitree Technology listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on August 19 at 150.8 yuan per share, with its market value briefly exceeding 440 billion yuan before falling below 170 billion yuan, then recovering to 267.824 billion yuan at the November 2 close. The article argues that this fluctuation marks an industry turning point, with companies such as AgiBot and Weiyi Intelligent Manufacturing successively delaying their listings; primary-market financing continues, but valuation approaches are shifting toward performance and orders. The author notes that robot IPOs have not cooled off; rather, the industry has become more rational, and only companies that can achieve sustainable gross margins in a single scenario are qualified to enter the next round.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Henggong Precision establishes Henggong Qiyuan Intelligent Technology in Shanghai with registered capital of 5 million
Henggong Qiyuan Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., wholly owned by Henggong Weichuang Embodied Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Henggong Precision, was recently established in Shanghai with registered capital of 5 million RMB and Wei Jianqiu as legal representative. Its business scope includes technology import and export, goods import and export, and software development.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Huaxia Robotics' RoboCare Health Monitoring Solution Debuts in Macao as Jiangsu and Macao Jointly Explore New Blue Ocean of the Silver Economy
As a member of the Jiangsu delegation, Huaxia Robotics participated in the health and wellness session of the 16th Jiangsu–Macao·Portuguese-Speaking Countries Business Summit, where its RoboCare health monitoring solution became a focus of the presentation. It also showcased the new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03, Xingxingxia P2, and the deployment scenarios of its health and wellness robots in elderly care institutions. The event highlighted 48 quality health and wellness products from Jiangsu and reached 9 cooperation projects with a total value of nearly 300 million yuan, covering areas such as intelligent robot applications. Huaxia Robotics also visited institutions including the Macao Social Welfare Bureau, and will subsequently advance the implementation of practical cooperation with health and wellness institutions in Hong Kong and Macao.
数字华夏 ·
- Digital China's Bionic Robot Xialan R03 Appears at Humen Fashion Fair, Empowering New Expressions in the Apparel Industry
Digital China's new-generation bionic robot Xialan R03 appeared at the 29th China (Humen) International Fashion Fair in Humen, Dongguan, wearing new Chinese-style clothing featuring intangible cultural heritage and interacting with buyers, introducing clothing design concepts and brand stories. The robot can take on tasks such as greeting and reception, product explanation, and introducing design highlights, and is seen as a reusable digital cultural guide. Digital China said it will continue to refine Xialan R03's interaction capabilities and create standardized AI display, reception, and explanation solutions for scenarios such as apparel brands, Chinese-style stores, fashion shows, and industry exhibitions.
数字华夏 ·
- Xinyan Robotics launches Bubbo 1 embodied family agent, priced at 9,499 yuan
Xinyan Robotics officially launched the embodied family agent Bubbo 1 on October 29. The plush-shaped robot runs on the self-developed Bubbo OS and focuses on companion-style interaction in which it actively approaches and responds to people. It is priced at 9,499 yuan, with an early-order price of 7,999 yuan for the first 1,000 buyers.
极客公园 ·
- Schaeffler posts solid first three quarters: revenue of 17.5 billion euros, new customers added in humanoid robotics business
Schaeffler Group reported revenue of 17.481 billion euros for the first nine months of 2026, nearly level with the prior year on a currency-adjusted basis, with EBIT before special items rising to 794 million euros and a margin of 4.5%. The humanoid robotics business added new customers and expanded its order backlog during the reporting period, and the company accordingly confirmed its full-year 2026 guidance and 2028 mid-term targets. Due to weakness in European automakers' business in China, the e-mobility division recorded a one-off impairment and provision of approximately 240 million euros.
Schaeffler ·
- Schaeffler reports €17.5 billion revenue in first nine months of 2026, humanoid robotics business gains new customers
Schaeffler reported revenue of €17.481 billion in the first nine months of 2026, close to the prior-year level at constant currency, with the EBIT margin before special items rising to 4.5%. The group said its humanoid robotics business won new customers and expanded its order backlog during the reporting period, while confirming its full-year 2026 guidance and mid-term targets for 2028.
Schaeffler ·
- Schaeffler announces new performance improvement program: 3,460 job cuts in Europe, closure of four German plants
Schaeffler announced a new performance improvement program that will cut a net 3,460 positions in Europe, including about 2,660 in Germany, and close five sites including Dortmund, Morbach, Berlin and Schwalbach (four in Germany).
Schaeffler ·
- Schaeffler announces new performance improvement program: 3,460 job cuts in Europe, closure of four German plants
Schaeffler announced a new performance improvement program that will cut a net 3,460 positions in Europe, including about 2,660 in Germany, and plans to close four German plants. About 50% of the job cuts involve production, 30% research and development, and 20% other functions, spanning 16 sites in Europe.
Schaeffler ·
- Guangdong issues plan to expand consumption: accelerate development of 'AI plus consumption,' promote high-end development of intelligent robots and other products
The Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued the Guangdong Province Implementation Plan for Expanding Consumption, proposing to accelerate the development of 'AI plus consumption,' promote the high-end development of intelligent robots, smart wearables, desktop 3D printing equipment and other products, and speed up R&D and interconnection of intelligent security and video care systems. The plan also supports the development of intelligent connected vehicles, encourages vehicle manufacturers to seek admission and road pilot access for L3 autonomous driving models in accordance with regulations, and to carry out intelligent driving testing and commercial operations in the Greater Bay Area in an orderly manner. The plan also proposes cultivating leading enterprises and platform carriers in the first-launch economy and supporting localities in establishing 'green channels' for first stores.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- From youth employment to consumer scenario innovation: What does "AI+" bring to the coffee industry ecosystem?
At the "AiPartner Bringing AI to the Frontline — Ningbo Coffee Life Week Scenario Innovation Exchange," hosted by the Yinzhou District Development and Reform Bureau of Ningbo and 36Kr, Meike's AI flexible multi-category unmanned beverage robot entered the coffee retail scenario with a 1.4-square-meter device, 24/7 unattended operation, and 60-second production.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Lingchu Intelligence's embodied robot enters Li-Ning East China smart logistics center for trial operation
Lingchu Intelligence and Hengyan Technology are jointly delivering the Li-Ning East China Smart Logistics Center project. The embodied robot, equipped with Lingchu's self-developed model, has been deployed on site and entered trial operation, taking on routine work and fulfilling commercial orders. The solution targets the bin-picking scenario in footwear and apparel warehousing, where shoeboxes are mixed in storage and item poses are random. The model can autonomously break down multi-step goals and complete recognition, pose estimation, dexterous grasping, product sorting, and pushing full boxes, without requiring large-scale modification of existing infrastructure. During the trial operation, Lingchu will work with Li-Ning's warehouse operations team on stress testing and validation of abnormal conditions, optimizing bin-picking success rates and stability during long periods of continuous operation.
PsiBot/灵初智能 ·
- Lingchu Intelligence and collaborators propose FAFM, a continuous action generation method for heterogeneous-frequency data, accepted to NeurIPS 2026
Lingchu Intelligence, together with Beihang University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, proposed a frequency-aware flow matching method called FAFM; the paper was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 main conference. The method uses the discrete cosine transform (DCT-II) to represent actions as frequency-domain coefficients corresponding to real time, performs flow matching in coefficient space and constrains the first-order time derivative, requires no additional learnable parameters, and can be used independently or integrated into VLA models such as π₀ and π₀.₅.
The paper presents a frequency-domain action representation that adds no learnable parameters and can be integrated into existing VLA models, offering a transferable approach for joint training on heterogeneous-frequency data.
PsiBot/灵初智能 ·
- PKU-Spirit AI Joint Lab's RoboFFT Accepted to CoRL2026, Uses Reinforcement Learning Post-Training to Generate Robotic Policies
RoboFFT, proposed by the PKU-Spirit AI Joint Lab, has been accepted to CoRL2026. It is a reinforcement learning post-training method for generative robotic policies that reuses the forward noising process from diffusion model and flow model pretraining to construct an approximate probability ratio for PPO-style clipped updates.
The method reuses the forward noising loss of diffusion and flow models to construct policy update signals, offering a reusable approach for post-training generative policies.
PsiBot/灵初智能 ·
- Xiaomi wins two Wuzhen Summit awards; humanoid robot completes 8-hour validation at car factory workstation
Xiaomi Group received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2026 World Internet Conference, and its "key technologies for a general-purpose robot manipulation foundation model for large-scale deployment" received the Leading Science and Technology Award. Xiaomi also disclosed that its humanoid robot took on an 8-hour shift for the first time at a center-console side-cover sequencing workstation in a car factory and achieved autonomous anomaly correction; an embodied foundation model based on Xiaomi-Robotics-1 began trial operation at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing long-horizon task validation of over 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and 50+ tasks.
雷科技 ·
- Embodied AI Brains in Fierce Competition: 9 Leading Companies Pursue 4 Technical Routes, Brain-Inspired Architecture Emerges
Zhizhi Pingfang released NeuroVLA, a brain-inspired embodied intelligence system designed with a three-layer structure of cortex, cerebellum, and spinal cord; the spinal cord layer is driven by a spiking neural network, consumes 0.4 watts, and completes a reflex within 20 milliseconds after a collision. Qianxun Intelligence's Spirit v1.6 ranked first overall in the RoboArena evaluation, surpassing NVIDIA Cosmos3 and Physical Intelligence's π0.5. Leading companies have formed four routes—world-model-native, VLA and world model fusion, brain-inspired architecture, and unified model—but there is still no unified classification standard.
雷科技 ·
- Wangyuan Technology receives overseas listing filing approval, vies to become first Hong Kong-listed pool robot stock
Wangyuan Technology received a CSRC overseas listing filing notice on October 30 and plans to issue no more than 12.6886 million shares in a bid for a Main Board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its prospectus shows revenue rose from 378 million yuan in 2023 to 812 million yuan in 2025, while net margin fell from 16.1% to 12.4% and sales and marketing expenses reached 303 million yuan in 2025.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Lens Technology's Kunshan robotics base reaches 100 units per day, plans 10,000 units per month, while Q3 net profit falls 50%
Lens Technology disclosed institutional research information on November 1: its Kunshan robotics base has achieved a daily output of 100 units and plans to provide production capacity guarantees of more than 10,000 units per month for the customer's Q-series and T-series products respectively next month. The company's net profit attributable to shareholders for the first three quarters of 2026 was 1.420 billion yuan, down 50.06% year-on-year, including exchange losses of 654 million yuan. Lens Technology is collaborating with Shangwei Qiyuan to transition from OEM to ODM and vertical supply chain integration, and has cooperated with AgiBot in developing core components such as dexterous hand modules and key joint modules.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Sage Intelligence completes Pre-B round funding of hundreds of millions of yuan
Sage Intelligence recently completed a Pre-B round funding of hundreds of millions of yuan, with investors including Jiantou Investment Co., Ltd., Nantong Investment Management, and Yunqi Capital. The funds from this round will mainly be used for large model R&D, iteration of the multi-arm robot body, production line expansion, and deep expansion into global markets.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- China to implement major projects during 15th Five-Year Plan period, including Phase III of Jiaolong Sea Exploration and Phase III of Xuelong Polar Exploration
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will implement major projects including Phase III of Jiaolong Sea Exploration and Phase III of Xuelong Polar Exploration. Ma Weichen, deputy director of the Regional Coordinated Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said China will advance the layout of marine industries toward the deep and distant seas, develop deep-sea aquaculture and modernized ocean fishing, and develop deep-sea wind power in a regulated and orderly manner, with cumulative grid-connected offshore wind capacity expected to reach more than 100 million kilowatts by 2030. At the same time, China will orderly advance key tasks such as deep-sea mineral development, natural gas hydrate extraction, and ultra-deepwater oil and gas development, using major tasks and project needs to drive technological breakthroughs, equipment upgrades, and the commercialization of results.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Xiaomi wins two Wuzhen Summit awards; humanoid robot completes 8-hour validation at automotive plant
Xiaomi Group received the 2026 World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award, and its "key technologies for a general-purpose robot manipulation foundation model for scaled deployment" received the Leading Technology Award. Xiaomi's humanoid robot took on an 8-hour shift for the first time at the center console side cover sequencing station in an automotive plant, achieving autonomous anomaly correction and system-level coordination with the production line; an Agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model is in trial operation at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing long-horizon task validation of over 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and 50+ tasks.
量子位 ·
- How RL Assists Robot Data Collection
Whether you're doing BC or RL, RL can help collect high-quality data. It can also stack two cubes on top of another cube. A fun paper with @qiyang_li @zhiyuan_zhou_ @CharlesXu0124 on how RL assists robot data collection!
Sergey Levine ·
- KEC combines Fable and Astra for parameter tuning to achieve real2sim
KEC combines Fable with Astra to rapidly tune complex simulation parameters via RSS, including geometry, dynamics, deformation, materials, lighting, textures, and camera extrinsics, so that the simulation matches a given input video. This work targets the capability gap in agentic robotics for extending to new environments, new objects, and new tasks.
Ken Goldberg ·
- Retrospective on Brownfield Line Retrofits: Analyzing Integration Challenges of AMRs Interfacing with Industrial Doors and Stretch Wrappers
The Ruiman Ironhide3.0 autonomous forklift has validated the feasibility of interworking with heterogeneous equipment such as industrial doors and stretch wrappers in brownfield production line retrofits. The article reviews the challenges encountered during integration and commissioning, focusing on coordination issues between autonomous forklifts and existing production line equipment.
Guyuehome ·
- Deep Vision Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight: AirGym Control Hierarchies and Depth Observation Design Overview
For quadrotor obstacle avoidance, AirGym incorporates depth perception, low-level control, and sensor noise into a single training pipeline, and outlines five control hierarchies, depth observation designs, and reward structures. The article also records the engineering finding that Blackwell GPUs cannot run Isaac Gym.
Guyuehome ·
- [Flexible Simulation] Dynamic unfolding control based on MuJoCo cloth dynamics
Based on MuJoCo cloth dynamics, twelve controlled experiments were completed using realistic shell-element simulation to study differences in cloth unfolding under the same gripping trajectory. Flicking unfolds the cloth through inertia; the slow setting spreads it most fully, while too fast a motion flings it off the table edge. Unfolding performance is insensitive to stiffness, and overdamping instead produces creep.
Guyuehome ·
- python-control: State-Space Design and the Physical Closed Loop of an Inverted Pendulum
Using python-control as the vehicle, the article breaks down state-space control design, covering controllability and observability criteria, pole placement, the algebraic Riccati solution for LQR, the dual observer, and frequency-domain margins. It also deploys discrete LQR and an energy-based swing-up strategy into a MuJoCo cart-inverted-pendulum closed loop.
Guyuehome ·
- Analysis of GTSAM Factor Graph Smoothing and Incremental Pose Estimation
The article analyzes GTSAM factor graph state estimation, introduces how pose graph and IMU preintegration factors are constructed, and conducts a comparison experiment between batch LM and iSAM2 incremental solving. It also analyzes the process by which loop closure detection triggers global correction, as well as numerical validation of incremental inference on the Bayes tree.
Guyuehome ·
- G1 Brunson: Humanoid Robot Between-the-Legs Dribbling Control Based on Deep Visual Reinforcement Learning
G1 Brunson uses event-based rewards and asymmetric actor-critic training, bringing the depth camera directly into the observation loop during training to form a G1 whole-body dribbling policy. Reproducing the official weights locally in MuJoCo gave an average of 43.5 crossovers over 12 episodes with zero falls, matching the official results.
Guyuehome ·
- Dexterous Hand in Practice 07: Connecting CAN Bus to a Single Finger, Explaining Protocol, Wiring, and Transceiving
Gu Yue Ju (Ancient Moon Residence) publishes the seventh installment of the Dexterous Hand in Practice series, themed on connecting the CAN bus to a single finger and covering three parts: protocol, wiring, and transceiving. The material provides only the title and summary, without specific protocol details, wiring schemes, or transceiving implementation.
Guyuehome ·
- Dexterous Hand in Practice 09: Troubleshooting Finger Jitter and PID Issues Through Sampling, Friction, and Clamping
Dexterous Hand in Practice 09 focuses on finger jitter, troubleshooting PID control from three directions: sampling, friction, and clamping. The content is a practical troubleshooting approach and does not provide a specific robot model, experimental data, or validation results.
Guyuehome ·
- Dexterous Hand in Practice 10: Coordinate Transforms and Collisions—First Put Every Finger on the Same Map
The 10th installment of the Dexterous Hand in Practice series focuses on coordinate transforms and collision detection, with the goal of unifying each finger onto the same map. The content covers a unified representation of multi-finger coordinate frames and collision handling, and is one part of this hands-on tutorial series.
Guyuehome ·
- Dexterous Hand in Practice 08: Making a Single Joint Obedient — How to Implement Position PID Closed-Loop Control
Dexterous Hand in Practice 08 focuses on single-joint control, explaining how to implement position PID closed-loop control so that a single joint moves stably according to commands. It is part of a hands-on tutorial series aimed at the implementation process of joint-level control for dexterous hands.
Guyuehome ·
- Dexterous Hand in Practice 06: STM32, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi — How the Control Boards Divide the Work
Part 06 of the Dexterous Hand in Practice series discusses how STM32, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi divide responsibilities in dexterous hand control. The content centers on the roles each of these three types of control boards plays, and it is a tutorial-style article in this hands-on series.
Guyuehome ·
- HAMPER: Staged skill learning and whole-body coordinated control for Unitree G1 basket carrying
HAMPER reproduces Unitree G1 basket carrying in Isaac Lab, using a PPO whole-body policy and a five-stage state machine to chain together approach, squatting, threading the handle, and lifting and carrying, with pretrained weights provided for real replay on a local machine.
Guyuehome ·
- WAM: Training a world model with quadruped robot locomotion data for navigation planning
WAM trains a forward-dynamics world model on quadruped robot locomotion data collected under convex model predictive control, replaces hand-crafted steering laws with receding-horizon sampling planning, and combines A* global paths with dynamic obstacle extrapolation to achieve navigation and obstacle avoidance. The material states that all numerical values come from local reproduction experiments.
Guyuehome ·
- dex-retargeting: Vector retargeting optimization from human hands to dexterous hands
dex-retargeting analyzes motion retargeting from human hands to robotic dexterous hands, using a Huber loss on wrist-to-fingertip bone vectors as the objective for per-frame numerical optimization. DexPilot builds on this method by adding grasp detection, projected targets, and temporal low-pass filtering, with the Allegro and Shadow hands converging per frame at millisecond-level speed.
Guyuehome ·