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Oct 3Sat
  1. 高飞的电子替身 · 微信公众号22

    Anthropic RL lead predicts AI may win a Fields Medal in 2028 and a Nobel Prize before 2030

    Sholto Douglas and Nick Marwell, who lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning team, predicted on a podcast that it is quite likely AI will win a Fields Medal in 2028 and could win a Nobel Prize before 2030, but probably not a Pulitzer Prize yet. They said models can already independently complete one to two days of work, and that Frontier Math scores rose from 0% to over 50% within a year, while the cost of equivalent intelligence falls about 10x per year. They also judged that biology will be the most affected field in the next 6 to 24 months, and that the bottleneck will shift from model capability to the number and quality of US laboratories.

Oct 2Fri
  1. Robohub31

    Robot Talk Episode 164: Accelerating Robot Learning with Michelle Lu

    Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discusses using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills on the podcast. She previously served as Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she and her co-founder developed Isaac Gym, the first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning framework. In 2022, the two left NVIDIA to found Vsim, aiming to address limitations in efficiency, scalability, and the sim-to-real gap in simulation-based robot AI.

  2. New Scientist Robots36

    I am a top drone pilot in the Ukrainian Army — this is what it is really like

    A Ukrainian Army drone pilot recounts his frontline counter-drone experience: he serves in the Aquila Regiment of the 3rd Army Corps, specializing in intercepting enemy drones in the air, and has shot down 932 in total. In his most recent 20 days on the front line he hit 180 targets, flying up to 30 sorties in a single day. Both he and Russian forces use commercially available models, including the same Chinese-made model.

  3. 脑极体 · 微信公众号28

    Canghu Speaks: The Ten Months of 2026, People in AI Anxiety, and Me

    Canghu reviews industry observations from the first ten months of 2026: his April article "Distillation" reached nearly one million reads across the web, responding to the widespread anxiety at the time about Agents and skills; afterward, OpenClaw, Agents, and skills rapidly moved downmarket to zero-threshold use. The author's on-the-ground visits found that AI has also spread in remote mountainous areas, but the capability gap between beginners and veteran users may be widened, and he proposes that AI's core groups and commercialization are heading toward an "i-shaped divergence."

  4. Main Sequence36

    Main Sequence's view on Physical AI

    Main Sequence outlines its investment perspective on Physical AI, arguing that Physical AI is not limited to embodied intelligence but also includes digitization of the physical world, spatial simulation, physical product design, and enabling technologies.

Oct 1Thu
  1. Ken Goldberg24

    CoRL 2026 registration fees updated, early-bird pricing available before October 12

    Incredible value! Register for the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL - @corl_conf) by October 12 (see below). CoRL 2026 registration fees have been updated, with the standard rate now running October 13–31 (aligned with the final paper deadline). Register before October 12 for the best price. Full fee details below. 🗓️ November 9–12 | Austin, Texas, USA 🤠 👉 https://www.corl.org/attending/registration #CoRL2026 #RobotLearning Leading experts from around the world will present papers on recent exciting advances, including Agentic Robotics ;)

  2. Ken Goldberg45

    The generality-versus-specialization debate in IROS robotics

    At IROS 2026, Ken Goldberg and Andrea Bajcsy moderated a debate on whether robots should be general-purpose or specialized. Matt Mason opened with "Should animals become human?", and several researchers discussed topics including the gap between tool use and precise manipulation in general-purpose models (coarse placement 19/20 vs. precise insertion 2/20) and the idea that generalists write curricula while specialists execute them. Ken Goldberg called it a "great summary."

Sep 30Wed
  2. Robohub32

    What Is the Difference Between Robotics and Automation? An Informal Discussion by IEEE RAS Experts

    At an IEEE RAS Communications Committee meeting, several experts informally discussed the boundary between the concepts of "robotics" and "automation." Key points included: automation focuses on making processes repeatable, efficient, and scalable, while robots are its physical embodiment; however, not all robots are automated (e.g., fully teleoperated robots), and not all automation requires robots. Participants noted that vague definitions can affect national statistical standards for service robots, international comparisons, educational examples, and the evolution of terms such as "physical AI" along with research trends.

  3. Leiphone Robotics64

    Yuansheng Intelligence's Yang Sicheng: Before Embodied Model Capabilities Break Through, Dexterous Hands Must First Compete on Performance

    In an interview, Yuansheng Intelligence founder Yang Sicheng proposed that when model capabilities are not strong enough, hardware capabilities must be very strong, and only after models break through can dexterous hands simplify. Its self-developed Apex Hand uses an in-palm hybrid tendon-driven scheme, has 21 degrees of freedom, a maximum single-hand active payload of 30 kg, and an open-close time of about 0.2 seconds, and was carried by the gold, silver, and bronze medal teams in the heavyweight categories of weightlifting and tug-of-war at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in August 2026. He emphasized prioritizing reliability and dexterity, using unidirectional tendon drive plus end encoders to compensate for creep, and believes the endgame for dexterous hands is a reliable general-purpose productivity tool.

  4. Noble Machines · X11

    Noble Machines CTO to speak at Runway AI Summit

    Tomorrow in San Francisco: join our CTO and co-founder Wen-Loong Ma at the @runwayml AI Summit, speaking on how world models are reshaping #robotics and #PhysicalAI. ➡️ Location: The Masonic, 9 AM to 6 PM. Lineup and final tickets: https://summit.runway.com #robotics #automation #manufacturing @NVIDIARobotics

Sep 28Mon
  1. Tsinghua Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Institute28

    Excerpt from Professor Zhang Tao's Lecture at the Tsinghua Humanities Forum: Embodied Intelligence Empowers Everything

    Professor Zhang Tao, Dean of Tsinghua University's Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics, delivered a lecture titled "Embodied Intelligence Empowers Everything" at the Tsinghua Humanities Forum. He described three major characteristics of embodied intelligence—generality, interactivity, and autonomy—and noted that key technologies still need to be breakthroughs, including multimodal embodied large models, environmental perception, dynamic planning and control, and dexterous bodies.

Sep 26Sat
  1. 智平方 · 微信公众号38

    AI² Robotics and Unitree appear at 2026 Yuelu Conference; Guo Yandong delivers "Physical AI" keynote

    Guo Yandong, founder and CEO of AI² Robotics, delivered a keynote titled "Physical AI: From Intelligent Leap to Scaled Productivity" at the 2026 Yuelu Conference, appearing alongside Unitree as representatives of the robotics industry. Guo proposed that embodied intelligence must pursue coordinated development across models, hardware, and scenarios as a "trinity," and said AI² Robotics is advancing brain-inspired architecture research, which he claims can make robot task execution many times faster than OpenAI's GPT-6 while reducing reliance on cloud models and token calls.

Sep 25Fri
  1. Robohub30

    Robot Talk Episode 163: Hello Robot's Aaron Edsinger on how Stretch robots help people with mobility issues live independently

    Hello Robot co-founder and CEO Aaron Edsinger introduces the company's Stretch robot, which is aimed at people with mobility issues and helps them live more independently. He also shares his earlier experience as a robotics director at Google and his journey through four startups, developing human-collaborative robots for the consumer, manufacturing, healthcare, and research markets.

Sep 24Thu
  1. 国科投资 · 微信公众号23

    CAS Investment holds 2025 annual fund meeting in Chengdu, proposes "Intelligence Without Limits, Investment With Boundaries" theme

    CAS Investment held its 2025 annual fund meeting in Chengdu from September 20 to 22. Chairman Sun Hua reported on the fund's operations under the theme "Intelligence Without Limits, Investment With Boundaries," proposing an all-in AI long-term strategy and a medium- and short-term approach of doing some things and not others.

  2. 智平方 · 微信公众号35

    Zhipingfang's Zhang Peng Attends Guizhou AI Entrepreneurs Symposium as Sole Robotics Company Representative

    Zhang Peng, co-founder of Zhipingfang, attended and spoke at an AI entrepreneurs symposium chaired by Guizhou Governor Li Bingjun as the sole representative of a robotics company. Also present were heads of organizations including Huawei Cloud, iFlytek, and Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group. Zhang Peng said embodied intelligence is moving from "technology demonstrations" into a "real work" phase, and the industry's focus has shifted from "whether it can do it" to whether it can do it with generalization and stability; Zhipingfang is using "brain-inspired" technology to improve learning speed and generalization capability.

  3. Chelsea Finn50

    Thoughts on robot post-training and reliability

    A new blog post co-written with @perryadong discussing what robots need to be broadly useful in the real world. https://pd-perry.github.io/posts/post-training.html Reliability is one of the biggest unsolved challenges in AI today. Current models do okay when a human reviews their output (such as drafting code), but this will become a bigger bottleneck when we want systems to operate with greater autonomy and greater trust.

  4. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人24

    Atom Robots Appears at Private Economy Investment and Financing Fair: Industrial Technology Goes Down, Embodied Intelligence Comes Up

    At the 2026 China Private Enterprise Investment and Financing Fair held in Tianjin on September 22-23, Atom Robots presented its judgment that "industrial technology goes down, embodied intelligence comes up" at two forums. The company has focused on high-speed industrial robots for 13 years, with cumulative shipments exceeding 10,000 units and service to more than 1,000 customers, and its parallel robots rank first in market share among all brands; its Tianjin Haihe Dairy packaging project won the 2025 Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it will focus on advancing three major directions: intelligent cleaning robots, space robots, and full force-controlled humanoid arms.

Sep 23Wed
  1. Dexmal 原力灵机 · 微信公众号44

    Force Machine's Tang Wenbin Attends 2026 World Manufacturing Convention, Shares DM0.5 Progress and Views on Embodied AI Deployment

    Tang Wenbin, founder and CEO of Force Machine, shared progress on embodied AI deployment at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention (Hefei), presenting three proven scenario samples built on "specialization, composition, and scheduling," and argued that all robots should share a single "brain" rather than insisting on a single "body."

Sep 21Mon
  1. 智平方 · 微信公众号30

    AI² Robotics' Guo Yandong invited to speak at MIIT's 16th SME Roundtable, the only robotics company among 8 firms

    Guo Yandong, founder and CEO of AI² Robotics, was invited to attend and speak at the 16th SME Roundtable of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He was the only robotics company among the 8 firms, which came from fields including artificial intelligence, commercial space, and quantum technology, and the only invited company from Guangdong Province.

Sep 20Sun
  1. Robotphoenix/翼菲科技18

    RoboCT Robot Wins 2026 China Embodied Intelligence "Yingxing Benchmark Enterprise Award"

    On September 18, at the EBC 2026 Embodied Intelligence and Humanoid Robot Brain Technology Conference in Shanghai, RoboCT Robot received the 2026 China Embodied Intelligence "Yingxing Benchmark Enterprise Award." At the conference, software algorithm engineer Liu Xiaopeng delivered a keynote speech titled "Engineering Practice of VLA Models in Complex Assembly for Humanoid Robots." Its second-generation Hongjun wheeled dual-arm robot has entered small-batch pilot procurement and completed deployments across multiple industries, and the YiBrain large model has been validated on real production lines.

Sep 19Sat
  2. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能22

    KEENON Robotics COO Wan Bin Discusses Embodied Intelligence Deployment at Inaugural Fortune Leaders Forum

    On September 8, KEENON Robotics COO Wan Bin joined UBTECH's Pang Jianxin and AgiBot's Yao Maoqing on stage at the inaugural Fortune Leaders Forum, held at the Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau, to discuss the commercialization and data challenges of embodied intelligence. Citing the deployment at Shangri-La Traders Hotel as an example, Wan Bin introduced the "general-purpose + specialized" service model, in which the XMAN-R1 humanoid service robot works alongside specialized robots such as the T10, T3, W3, C40, and S100.

Sep 18Fri
  1. 数字华夏26

    Digital Huaxia Appears at Embodied Intelligence and Humanoid Robot Brain Technology Conference, Wins "Yingxing Benchmark Enterprise Award"

    Digital Huaxia won the "2026 China Embodied Intelligence Yingxing Award — Yingxing Benchmark Enterprise Award" at the 2026 Embodied Intelligence and Humanoid Robot Brain Technology Conference. Deputy General Manager Shi Biao delivered a speech titled "Exploration of Embodied Robot Applications in Interactive Scenarios," proposing a four-layer capability model for "warm interaction" covering perception, memory, understanding, and expression. Founded in March 2024, the company has delivered products to ICBC, China Mobile, and State Grid, with applications in finance, elderly care, and cultural tourism scenarios.

Sep 17Thu
  3. Union Square Ventures · X34

    Tutor releases humanoid mobile robot Sonny

    Tutor has released its next-generation robot, Sonny, a humanoid mobile robot equipped with the Ti series VLA built specifically for real-world scenarios, aiming to push the boundaries of robot capabilities in real customer deployments. Union Square Ventures commented that Tutor's R&D team is extremely fast, and even more impressive is the speed at which it deploys robots in the field—no demos, just real work in the real world.

  4. 豪鹏科技32

    Highpower Technology CTO details the "technology compound effect" from AI edge devices to AIDC

    Highpower Technology CTO Liao Xingqun detailed the technical logic behind the three growth curves of AI edge devices, AIDC, and robotics under the "AI edge battery + solid-state" strategy. The next-generation solid-state battery will be released in May 2026, with a volumetric energy density of 1200Wh/L and a gravimetric energy density of 400Wh/kg, about 30% higher than mainstream mass-production levels in the industry; it has so far only completed small-scale trial validation, while 950Wh/L solid-liquid batteries are already in mass supply. Robot batteries have been stably mass-produced and delivered to AgiBot, Zhishen, and UBTech, with related revenue expected to approach 100 million yuan in 2026.

  5. 中控技术39

    SUPCON Deeply Participates in the 2026 Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference on Accelerating the Building of World-Class Enterprises

    The 2026 Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference on Accelerating the Building of World-Class Enterprises, supported and co-organized by SUPCON, was held in Luoyang, Henan, from September 10 to 11. Its Autonomous Operation Plant (AOP) system, formed by integrating the Time-series Pre-trained Transformer (TPT) and the Universal Control System (UCS), became a focus of discussion.

Sep 16Wed
  1. 云启资本57

    Yunqi Partner Q&A Excerpt: Four Guests Discuss Divergences on Data, Intelligence, and Scenarios in Embodied AI

    This article is excerpted from the roundtable "Physical Intelligence: Divergences and Choices" at the 2026 Inclusion·Bund Conference, moderated by Koji of Crossroads, with Han Zheng of Sudo Technology, Shen Yujun of Ant Lingbo, Wang Qian of X Square Robot, and Xu Huazhe of PoKe Robot participating. The discussion centered on three sets of divergences: data sources (simulation versus real machines), whether Astra will deliver a crushing blow to embodied AI, and what metrics can prove that embodied AI has moved past the bubble.

Sep 15Tue
  1. Leiphone Robotics53

    Xspark AI's Ding Wenbo on tactile intelligence: Robots need their own "spinal cord"

    In an interview, Xspark AI co-founder and chief scientist Ding Wenbo proposed that vision has already solved about 99% of robot perception problems, and that touch should form a low-latency, body-adjacent "spinal cord"-level model rather than being directly integrated into vision large models. He proposed a three-layer architecture of "slow brain VLM—fast brain VTLA+TWAM—spinal cord VTA," arguing that touch mainly serves collision-avoidance safety and post-training for dexterous manipulation, and noted that current bottlenecks lie in sensor consistency, tactile data representation, and unification across sensors, modalities, and embodiments.

Sep 14Mon
Sep 12Sat
  1. 华控基金29

    Huako Fund's Zhang Yang: Improve Cognition to Achieve Sustained, Stable High Returns

    Speaking at the 2026 Annual Fund of Funds Forum and the 7th Lujiang Venture Capital Forum, Huako Fund founder Zhang Yang said super returns come from investing in "cognitive value" before technological value reaches consensus. He breaks returns into roughly 10x in the 0-to-1 stage, 5x to 10x in the 1-to-100 stage, and 2x to 3x after the 100 stage; multiplied together, these yield 100x. Huako invested in Zhipu in 2021 and added to its position across five consecutive rounds; Zhipu's valuation rose from several billion yuan to more than 20 billion yuan within a year. In the next stage, Huako will focus on quantum computing, controllable nuclear fusion, and robotics.