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- NDRC: Future industries must be developed according to local conditions, not "across the board"
At a press conference in the "Striving for the 15th Five-Year Plan" series, the National Development and Reform Commission said future industries cannot be pursued "across the board" and require development tailored to local conditions and cultivated in tiers. Ren Zhongbao noted that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the focus will be on quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications, with support for localities to choose sub-sectors where they have foundations and comparative advantages.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- IEEE RAS WiE Luncheon at Humanoids 2026: The Importance of Men as Allies
IEEE RAS will hold a WiE Luncheon at Humanoids 2026 on the theme "The Importance of Men as Allies." The same Video Friday roundup also features a video of Spot demonstrating whole-body manipulation capabilities and a paper on Bayesian deep reinforcement learning information path planning for UAV crop monitoring.
IEEE RAS ·
- Bilibili Hosts 2026 Super Science Night, Showcasing Frontier Tech Including Brain-Computer Interfaces and Artificial Sun
The 2026 bilibili Super Science Night was held in Beijing on October 31, adding daytime sessions around topics such as flying cars, embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, quantum technology, and controlled nuclear fusion, alongside 15 guest talks and speeches. Mech-Mind's Shao Tianlan expects embodied intelligence to be deployed in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing within three to five years, while Songyan Power's Jiang Zheyuan discussed the role of world models in reducing the trial-and-error costs of embodied intelligence.
量子位 ·
- Jianzhi and GenRobot each raise $100M Series A+ on the same day; RoboScience secures Series A2 in the hundreds of millions of yuan
On November 2, Jianzhi Robotics and GenRobot AI each completed a $100 million Series A+ round on the same day, and RoboScience secured a Series A2 round in the hundreds of millions of yuan. All three investments went to embodied data companies that do not build their own robot bodies. Jianzhi says it has raised over $300 million cumulatively, with effective data deliveries rising from 100,000 hours per quarter to one million hours; RoboScience says it has cut the cost per training data item to 0.05 yuan. The author argues that body, large-model, and data companies are being priced in separate tiers, but the conversion rate of one million hours of effective data and continued customer purchasing remain unclear.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Unitree G1 overheats and withdraws from Mount Tai climb: why humanoid robots can't handle mountain climbing
On November 2, at the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, the Unitree G1 developer edition withdrew due to overheating and was carried down the mountain by staff on a stretcher. The author argues the problem is not just cooling components, but a zero-sum contest inside the chassis among compute, battery, and heat dissipation for limited space and power. The G1 has a 9000mAh battery and a runtime on the order of about two hours; during continuous ascent, joint motors sustain high-torque output, accelerating thermal degradation. The article also cites CAICT report data: in the first half of the year, global humanoid robot shipments exceeded 22,000 units, with more than 60% going to entertainment performances and science education/data collection, while intelligent manufacturing scenarios accounted for about 13%.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Tesla's latest job postings revealed: Optimus robot races toward mass production, introduces "piece-rate quality inspection"
Tesla's latest Optimus hiring list adds 7 positions: Data Collection Supervisor, Quality Control Technician (night shift), Lead Engineering Technician (afternoon shift), Senior Mechanical Engineer (actuator hardware validation), Metrology Specialist, Battery Interconnect Manufacturing Engineer, and Production Assistant, located across Palo Alto, Fremont, and Austin. The focus of the roles shifts from data collection to production, quality control, and hardware validation, and is seen as engineering preparation ahead of Optimus mass production. The article argues that the bottleneck for mass production lies in actuator hardware validation and battery interconnect manufacturing yield, rather than algorithm demonstrations.
OFweek Robotics ·
- October humanoid robot funding halves: launch-event frenzy on one side, old shares sold at steep discounts on the other
Embodied intelligence funding in October totaled only 33 deals, nearly halving from September, but total amount did not drop significantly, with capital shifting to leading complete-machine makers and mid-to-late-stage projects. Old shares were offloaded at 65% to 80% of face value, while capital flowed to core components such as tactile sensing, power modules, and data engines, as well as infrastructure like robot assembly plants. On the industry side, full-year humanoid robot output is expected to reach 100,000 units, with first-half sales up 22% year on year.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Sage Intelligent completes hundreds-of-millions-yuan Pre-B round to advance six-arm robots and industrial world model
Shanghai Sage Intelligent Technology has completed a Pre-B funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with investors including Jiantou Investment, Nantong Investment Management, and Yunqi Capital. The funds will be used for large-model R&D, iteration of multi-arm robot bodies, production line expansion, and overseas market development. The company has built a body matrix spanning single-arm to six-arm robots; its six-arm robot "Xuanjia" uses a spatially heterogeneous design, and the company has released an industrial world model, Xuanshu·SageNexus (WASM). Its customers cover four major industries—3C and semiconductors, automotive, energy, and food and pharmaceuticals—with more than 50 Global Fortune 500 or listed-company customers and overseas intended orders exceeding 500 million yuan.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Meta and Fourier jointly develop humanoid robot Max, completing prototype in three months
According to The Information, Meta has partnered with Chinese manufacturer Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot prototype named Max, and development of a second-generation Max 2 has already begun. Max is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, is equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing platform, has a head that can simulate human facial expressions, and has five-fingered dexterous hands capable of grasping small objects such as bottles and toys.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Keda Intelligent files for Hong Kong listing: controlling shareholder cashed out 250 million before IPO, board secretary resigned, internationalization story yet to be tested
Keda Intelligent submitted a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 22, making another push for an "A+H" listing, with proceeds intended to consolidate its technological advantages in digital energy and robotics, expand its global footprint, and supplement working capital. The prospectus states that its cumulative revenue from industrial robotic arms ranked first in China from 2020 to 2025, and its cumulative revenue from SRM stacker cranes in the lithium battery industry ranked first in China's lithium battery industry, but robotics revenue accounts for only about 24%, and overseas revenue in the first half of 2026 was less than 20 million yuan.
OFweek Robotics ·
- Saigan Technology completes tens of millions of yuan Pre-A++ round, iontronic flexible tactile sensors to enter automotive manufacturing
Flexible tactile sensor company Saigan Technology has completed a Pre-A++ funding round of tens of millions of yuan, exclusively invested by Guangzhou Industrial Holdings Donggao Fund, with proceeds going toward iontronic flexible technology R&D and next-generation product iteration. The company has secured its first batch of orders, to be deployed in automotive manufacturing; its iontronic flexible tactile sensors have a detection limit of about 1 milligram and a response frequency of up to 1KHz, and are delivered as fingertip modules with factory calibration completed.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- IEEE RAS WiE Luncheon at Humanoids 2026: The Importance of Men as Allies
IEEE RAS will hold a WiE Luncheon at Humanoids 2026 on the theme "The Importance of Men as Allies." The same Video Friday roundup also features a video of Spot demonstrating whole-body manipulation capabilities and a paper on Bayesian deep reinforcement learning information path planning for UAV crop monitoring.
IEEE RAS ·
- How does the REEMAN Fly Boat AMR handle material transport across multiple floors?
The REEMAN Fly Boat AMR achieves cross-floor material transport through an elevator integration module: the robot can autonomously call, enter, ride, and exit elevators without human assistance. The model has a rated payload of 300 kg and autonomous jacking of 10 cm, uses LiDAR SLAM navigation, has positioning accuracy of ±5 cm (±3 cm with reflectors, ±2 cm with QR codes), and a travel speed of 0.3–1 m/s.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- Forklift Automation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Integrating REEMAN AMRs into Existing Warehouse Management Systems
REEMAN autonomous forklifts use laser SLAM navigation and can connect to existing WMS, MES, and ERP systems without magnetic strips or QR codes; the integration focus is on location mapping and open API connectivity rather than rebuilding navigation infrastructure. The guide covers site surveys, map creation, task triggering, and multi-vehicle fleet scaling. Each model is rated for 6 hours of continuous operation (fully loaded)/8 hours (empty), supports automatic return to charging, and some models allow manual battery swapping.
锐曼REEMAN ·
- Yicheng Innovation closes RMB 200 million Series C, plans to raise unmanned transfer vehicle capacity to 10,000 units
36Kr has learned that Shenzhen Yicheng Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. (Yicheng Innovation) recently closed a RMB 200 million Series C round. Investors include Yueke Group, Shanda Investment, Anhui Guotou, and Foshan Venture Capital. The funds will be used for factory capacity upgrades, core technology iteration, and commercialization deployment.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5 billion Agility Robotics SPAC merger
Shareholders of Churchill Capital Corp XI approved the SPAC merger with Agility Robotics with more than 84% of votes in favor. The deal is expected to close on November 4, and the combined company will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT starting November 5.
The Robot Report ·
- Musk responds to Grok Bot quota draining too fast: service costs too high to sustain; Altman says personal memory waste draws widespread criticism; Phantom Blade Zero sales exceed 4 million copies
Musk responded to Grok Bot users' weekly quotas draining too quickly, saying the AI agent service's costs are too high relative to revenue to sustain. The product ranges from a free tier to a $200-per-month tier, all with weekly reset limits, and paid weekly active users have reached 800,000.
极客公园 ·
- Unitree A2 wins first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Race speed championship fully autonomously
The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Race was held on November 2 in Tai'an, Shandong. Beijing Lingyi Team's Unitree A2 robot dog completed the roughly 3.9-kilometer, more than 3,100-step section from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen in fully autonomous mode over the entire course, with an actual time of 41 minutes 41 seconds; after a 2-minute penalty, it won the legged robot speed championship with 43 minutes 41 seconds.
爱范儿 ·
- China's first smart welding equipment set for ultra-deep vertical shafts enters service at Songyang Pumped Storage Power Station, boosting efficiency by over 65%
China's first intelligent welding equipment set dedicated to pressure steel pipes in ultra-deep vertical shafts has officially entered service at the Songyang Pumped Storage Power Station in Zhejiang, according to China Three Gorges Corporation. The equipment is equipped with an outer circumferential seam welding robot and an inner circumferential seam automatic horizontal welding machine, and features 5G control, laser weld seam tracking, and a welding expert database, enabling it to automatically identify weld seam positions and match welding parameters. Welding speed reaches 30 to 50 centimeters per minute, efficiency is more than 65% higher than traditional manual welding, and the one-time pass rate for weld seams is 99%.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Edge AI Daily Morning Brief (November 3): Tesla Optimus Equipped with End-to-End Model Sharing FSD Lineage; Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO
Tesla's production version of Optimus is for the first time fully equipped with an end-to-end vision large model sharing the same lineage as FSD, with a neural network directly generating full-body joint control commands from visual input; as of mid-2026, about 1,000 to 1,200 units have been deployed at the Fremont and Texas factories, learning on real production lines.
钛媒体 ·
- Unitree G1 Developer Edition robot withdraws from first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition due to overheating
In the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition, which began on November 2, a Unitree G1 Developer Edition robot of the same model seen on the Spring Festival Gala withdrew due to an overheating fault and was carried down the mountain by staff on a stretcher. The course is 3.9 kilometers long with more than 3,100 steps, and other robots on site climbed unsteadily and needed towing assistance to complete the race.
36Kr Embodied Intelligence ·
- Roborock F25 series helps you save cleaning time
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Roborock · X ·
- H2RB co-trains with human demos and robot data to adapt VLA policies
The study proposes H2RB, a human-robot co-training framework that adapts pretrained VLA policies on unpaired human and robot demonstrations through geometry-anchored alignment and a decoupled-decoder tokenizer. In real-world tasks, object transfer performance improved from 8.0 to 51.8, and the skill transfer score reached 62.7, while the co-training baseline completely failed to transfer human demonstration skills. Out-of-distribution transfer under object placement changes also improved from 6.0 to 45.3.
HuggingFace Daily Papers ·
- November 3, 2026 TMT Morning · Audio Broadcast
The TMT Morning audio broadcast for November 3, 2026, from TMTPost rounds up several news items: the central bank and other departments held a symposium, with the securities, fund, and insurance company swap facility balance at 105 billion yuan, stock buyback and increased-holding loan agreements at about 440 billion yuan and cumulative disbursements exceeding 280 billion yuan, and announced a cut in the relending rate from 1.25% to 1%. Fourier responded to rumors of co-developing a humanoid robot prototype with Meta by saying it was not convenient to reply for now. Du Xiaoman, together with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and others, released the Xuanyuan 4.5 financial-enhanced large model.
钛媒体 ·
- Churchill Capital Corp XI Shareholders Approve Merger with Agility Robotics
Churchill Capital Corp XI shareholders approved the business combination with Agility Robotics with more than 84% of votes in favor; the transaction is expected to close on November 4.
The deal discloses the composition of Agility's pre-listing fundraising and the closing timetable, which can be used to observe the capital path of humanoid robotics companies.
Agility Robotics ·
- LLMs use RSS to tune robot simulation parameters
Large language models (LLMs) can use RSS to tune the parameters of complex robot manipulation simulations to match a given video, covering geometry, dynamics, deformation, materials, lighting, textures, and camera extrinsics, which I find impressive.
Ken Goldberg ·
- Automated Warehouse: Top 10 warehouse automation stories of October 2026
Automated Warehouse rounds up the ten most-read warehouse automation stories of October 2026, covering acquisitions, deployments, and market research. Symbotic acquired cellumation, gaining the celluveyor software-driven sortation technology; Agility Robotics expanded its partnership with GXO Logistics to deploy Digit humanoid robots at sites in North and South Carolina and Tennessee.
Automated Warehouse ·
- Weekly Robotics #383: LoongForge-VLDA model, Robotheca open-source robot library, and Bedrock Robotics funding
Weekly Robotics issue #383 introduces LoongForge-VLDA, a vision-language-delta-action model built on LoongForge that extends π₀.₅, uses V-JEPA 2 visual representation learning to learn latent changes, and jointly trains action policies.
Weekly Robotics ·
- Seoul National University proposes RISE framework to complete multi-stage humanoid tasks using separately collected locomotion and manipulation data
A research team at Seoul National University has proposed RISE (Responsibility-Induced Specialized Experts), a VLA framework that can collect demonstration data for locomotion and object manipulation separately and then learn jointly from them, enabling a robot to execute multi-stage tasks consecutively without full multi-stage demonstrations.
Tech Xplore Robotics ·
- Opinion: What happens when the robot is wrong?
Amid an accelerating automation trend with more than 5 million industrial robots in operation and the new ABB IRB 1700 model cutting cycle times by up to 20%, factories need to rehearse during commissioning how operators can safely question machine judgments. It is recommended to introduce three types of drills—false alarms, conflicting instructions, and shift handovers—and to record metrics such as challenge response time and decision arrival time. Safeguards, emergency stops, and risk assessments must still remain independent and take priority.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Tutor Intelligence closes $75 million Series B to scale model training and robot deployments
Tutor Intelligence announced the completion of a $75 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $117 million. The funds will be used for frontier robotics foundation model training and the manufacturing and deployment of Sonny and Cassie.
The Robot Report ·
- NIOSH construction-site robot perception and navigation projects: masonry robot collision avoidance and aerial fall-risk identification
Two NIOSH projects use computer vision to detect potential collisions while a masonry robot assists workers in placing concrete blocks, and to identify workers, equipment, and openings that may create fall risks from aerial video. Both scenarios are affected by dust obscuring sensors, lighting changes within a shift, and equipment and building materials blocking camera views; mobile robots also face uneven ground and changing temporary pathways. The NIOSH bulletin recommends tracking sensor failures, localization failures, and manual takeover frequency during deployment, and distinguishing between using cameras to flag hazards for review and relying on them for shutdown protection.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- ISO 21423:2026 Published, Sets Communication and Interoperability Standard for Industrial Mobile Robots from Different Vendors
A3 announced the official publication of ISO 21423:2026, an international standard for communication and interoperability for industrial mobile robots (IMRs), regardless of vendor or model. The standard was developed by ISO Technical Committee 299 and specifies how IMRs, fleet managers, and other devices exchange information and request actions; robots can share position, speed, direction, status, tasks, and availability with each other.
Robotics & Automation News ·
- Apple's J595 Home Robot May Be Named HomeView Ultra, Planned for Launch in 2027 at Over $1,000
Apple's home robot, codenamed J595, may be named HomeView Ultra. It is positioned as able to move autonomously, support FaceTime calls, and turn on lights when someone enters a room. The target is a launch in 2027 at a price above $1,000, with development delays possibly pushing it to 2028.
Ars Technica ·
- The Robot Report's top 10 robotics developments of October 2026
The Robot Report rounds up its 10 most popular robotics stories of October 2026: Gecko Robotics received a $300 million addition to its U.S. Navy and General Services Administration contract, quadrupling the contract ceiling.
The Robot Report ·
- Apple's autonomous mobile home robot, codenamed J595, may be named HomeView Ultra and is planned for launch in 2027 at over $1,000
Apple is advancing an autonomous mobile home robot codenamed J595, possibly to be named HomeView Ultra as part of the HomeView smart display product line, with support for FaceTime calls and automatic light switching when someone enters a room. The product targets a 2027 launch at a possible price above $1,000, with development delays potentially pushing it to 2028. Its earliest prototype dates back to 2018 and was approved for continuation by then-CEO Tim Cook; its publicly known features are still considered limited.
Ars Technica ·
- SO-101 robot arm connects to Meta API: voice commands deliver tools
A developer combined a $250 SO-101 robot arm with Meta's Muse Spark and SAM 3.1 to find, grasp, and hand over a screwdriver on voice command, with no training required. The project was built for a Meta AI hackathon, and the demo video was posted on X.
Reddit r/robotics ·
- NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-25 Space Station Resupply Launch
NASA has opened media accreditation for the Northrop Grumman CRS-25 space station resupply mission; the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch no earlier than November 29 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.
NASA ·
- Inside CMU's Robotics Innovation Center
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has opened a new Robotics Innovation Center in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood on the banks of the Monongahela River, with a floor area of 150,000 square feet. The center is positioned as a facility carrying CMU's robotics legacy and investment in innovation.
CMU Robotics Institute ·
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Bain Capital Ventures · X ·