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.
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.
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.
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.
Roberson Robotics is looking for a market entry point for its high-performance robotics platform; the founder said he considered DARPA contract-type projects but deemed them too aggressive. Its in-house autonomous navigation stack enables the platform to achieve voice control with environmental awareness via depth cameras and lidar, and is currently being developed by a one-person team. The founder has 22 years of robot combat experience and about 7 years of electric drag racing experience.
Watch the full conversation between Index partner Mark Xu and Flapping Airplanes' Ben Spector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08A3Rb3zztw
After @flappyairplanes completed a $1 billion Series A round, @marklxu1 spoke with CEO and co-founder @spectorb about his journey from running Prod to building a lab that boosts AI efficiency by several orders of magnitude, and about what sets founders apart from others.
Watch their full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08A3Rb3zztw
The founders of @_EchelonAI decided to start the company at a Burger King in the Las Vegas airport. A week earlier, their iPhone launch video went viral. They then held 19 consecutive meetings at ServiceNow's largest conference. @RahulKayala and @rak_garg explain how this grew into an AI workforce for enterprise IT.
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A remote part-time position for an ophthalmic surgery simulation engineer is open, with a budget of 60,000 yuan. Candidates should be familiar with C++, SOFA, Unity, and soft tissue simulation, and have experience developing surgical simulators. Send your resume and portfolio to p.chowdhury2@nhs.net.
Realbotix relaunches the Ask Aria digital AI avatar. The original text did not disclose details about the avatar's features, version number, or launch date.
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."
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
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.
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.
This practical guide to Zephyr display and graphics focuses on integrating the Display API with LVGL, for developers building display and graphical interfaces on Zephyr. The original text does not provide specific hardware models, version numbers, or measured metrics.
This content covers Zephyr's interrupts and real-time behavior, explaining IRQ registration, the interrupt nesting mechanism, and the usage constraints of k_work and ISRs. Aimed at robotics developers, it outlines the interrupt handling flow and key real-time considerations, and is a hands-on technical explanation.
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.
In our latest newsletter, see what Cherry did in Q3 > https://mailchi.mp/cherry/the-next-chapter-cherry-ventures-q3-update
Biomechanical analysis relies on precise three-dimensional measurement of human movement. With modern biomechanical motion capture technology and motion analysis software, research teams can conduct repeatable three-dimensional motion analysis in more locations. This approach yields clearer insights and accelerates iteration.
All three major A-share indices closed higher: the Shanghai Composite rose 0.91%, the Shenzhen Component rose 2.02%, and the ChiNext Index rose 3.4%, with over 4,100 stocks rising market-wide. Optical module and robotics sectors led the gains: Zhongji Innolight rose over 10%, Unitree Robotics and Eoptolink rose over 8%, and TFC Optical Communication rose nearly 7%. Baijiu and brokerage sectors lagged: Huaxin shares hit the limit down, and Jinhui Liquor fell over 6%.
After completing the Basque Lakes drilling campaign, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover returned to a spot a few meters from the 'Chiu Chiu' rock block to prepare for its next drilling campaign at the newly named 'Nazca' target. Before the pre-drill payload test, the team scheduled MAHLI quantitative relief model observations and a ChemCam LIBS 150-shot laser depth profile experiment to characterize the 'disc-and-needle' crystal morphology. The plan also includes nighttime imaging of Phobos to estimate the size of Martian cloud particles.
On October 27, 41-year-old DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng appeared for the first time on the 2026 Hurun Rich List, ranking seventh with 280 billion yuan in wealth; on the same day, it was reported that he has long rented housing in Beijing. DeepSeek launched its first funding round in April this year and completed settlement at the end of June, with a valuation exceeding 350 billion yuan; the second round's pre-money valuation was about 500 billion yuan, and a new round of about 100 billion yuan has been completed. The company also plans to submit an application for a STAR Market listing as early as the end of 2026, and Liang Wenfeng has recently held intensive contacts with embodied intelligence entrepreneurs, evaluating team formation or investment arrangements.
Remarks by Shri Akash Ambani, Managing Director of Jio Platforms Limited, at the JPL IPO listing ceremony
The 2026 Hurun Rich List, released on October 27, shows that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming's wealth rose by 200 billion yuan to 670 billion yuan, making him China's richest person for the second time; DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng debuted on the list at 280 billion yuan, entering at seventh place. Entrepreneurs focused primarily on AI now account for 10.4% of those listed, nearly 80 robotics entrepreneurs made the list, and Unitree Robotics' Wang Xingxing debuted with 69.5 billion yuan.
Speech by Shri Anant Ambani, Director of Jio Platforms, at the JPL IPO listing ceremony
Ant Light 2.0, with its capabilities in memory, monitoring, and execution, holds a leading position in China ahead of the global surge in personal AI agents. The original article did not disclose its specific technical specifications, deployment stage, or validation results.
Xiaomi showcased a dexterous hand weighing 324 grams, with its design computed and validated across 1,827 workstations. The original article did not disclose degrees of freedom, payload, or mass-production delivery information.
The three major A-share indices rose collectively at the midday break. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.72%, the Shenzhen Component Index rose 1.99%, and the ChiNext Index rose 3%. The humanoid robotics, communications equipment, and semiconductor sectors strengthened: JPT rose more than 15%, Unitree Robotics rose more than 12%, and 3PEAK rose more than 14%. The liquor, shipping, and telecom sectors led the declines: Nanjing Tanker and Wuliangye fell more than 5%, and China Telecom fell more than 2%.
On October 26, Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT"; the prospectus discloses second-quarter 2026 revenue of 11.6 billion USD and operating profit of 974 million USD. On October 27, OpenAI released Terra, a mid-tier model in the GPT-6.1 family, focused on visual reasoning and desktop software operation, with standard API input priced at 1 USD per million tokens.
The TMTPost October 28 audio morning briefing rounds up several industry developments: China is advancing the development of international standards for EV charging adapters and smart headlights under the ISO and IEC frameworks; IEC has published IEC TS 62196-7:2026, and ISO has published ISO 10604:2026, which was revised under China's leadership. Shanghai proposes that by 2028 the industrial robot density reach 600 units per 10,000 people, promote 8,000 humanoid robots entering factories, and grow the intelligent manufacturing system integration industry to 100 billion yuan.
A user's 4-foot-tall Meccanoid robot can no longer be operated because the manufacturer has completely shut down its software servers and discontinued the companion app; the user is seeking software solutions that can still program it or control its movement.
A robotics software engineer is seeking real-world cases from deployers of commercial mobile robots in cleaning, delivery, security, and hospital logistics, to understand how tasks are handled when they require human intervention or are not completed as expected. The questions cover how problems are detected, whether on-site staff, the engineering team, or the vendor handles them, the human time and rework involved, how often this happens, and how final task completion is confirmed. Experiences from initial deployment commissioning are also welcome, as are reasons why some deployments run well with little intervention. Application scenarios, roles, and approximate fleet sizes can be shared anonymously.
The goal is not more simulation, but resolving unknown issues earlier. Learn how software-in-the-loop (SiL) testing helps teams uncover integration challenges earlier and build confidence along the way: https://bit.ly/4exHawe #MagnaTechTalk
Looking forward to sharing writing in progress on art and robots today at noon at @UCBerkeley and getting input from the audience: https://writing.berkeley.edu/events/berkeley-writers-work
Taku's name comes from Takumi, meaning master craftsman. Behind it is a team brought together by a love for what they do and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Meet the people and craftsmanship behind these durable robots. Build with us: https://dyna.co/careers
The bottlenecks in AI are moving beyond the models themselves. We are excited about startups building hardware, infrastructure, financial systems, and specialized software that bring AI into the physical economy—from factories and data centers to government and space. https://ycombinator.com/rfs
Humanity's desire to measure the world with ever-greater precision has lasted for thousands of years. Each new method has opened up new possibilities. Join us as we travel through time and explore milestones in precision measurement. https://spkl.io/Schaeffler/60137kQx5 #tomorrowSchaeffler
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