Focusing on real inference latency in VLA models, the article breaks down the question of how to choose the number of frames in action chunking. It analyzes the relationship between action chunk length and inference latency, helping readers understand how different frame-splitting strategies affect actual VLA deployment.
Using Pinocchio and OSQP, the author got a whole-body controller for the H1 humanoid robot running, and tuned the QP's three matrices one by one. The content covers the tuning process around this QP solving structure and is a record of controller implementation under real-robot or simulation conditions.
The Nurbly platform has launched a free, 6-month drone CAD design competition. Participants design one subsystem each month, in order: airframe, electronics layout, power, control and sensing, and integration, with a final release. Each stage is submitted as STEP files to a public repository. In the final month, participants may fork another team's design and modify one subsystem, with scoring based on the changes. The competition supports any CAD tool that can export STEP, requires no Git knowledge or physical build, and offers $250 per stage and a $1,500 final prize.
An open robotics project called Bucket is being built on an old electric wheelchair chassis to help parents pick up pinecones and move cart-like items in the yard. The project plans to run local AI and connect to a larger locally deployed AI; other features are not yet determined.
The 2026 (9th) Mobile Robot Industry Development Annual Conference brings together more than 500 full-spectrum mobile robot companies. The event is hosted by the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance, and concurrent content covers topics including AGV/AMR tender projects, new products, and a half-year industry briefing.
Musk said on X that Cybertruck orders are growing far faster than production capacity, but the dedicated production line will stop in about 8 months, deposits will be refunded for orders that cannot be delivered, and he clarified that the main reason for the halt is not unprofitability but opportunity cost. The line at the Texas Gigafactory is planned to be dismantled around mid-2027, with capacity shifting to Cybercab; the 48V low-voltage architecture, steer-by-wire, and Etherloop wiring validated by Cybertruck have already been migrated to Cybercab.
The WISE2026 Business King conference will be held in Beijing Yizhuang on November 26-28. The first batch of speakers includes robotics entrepreneurs such as Unitree founder Wang Xingxing, Future Not Far Robotics founder Zhang Yi, and Ola Omni founder Zhou Shunbo. The conference has run for 14 years, and this year focuses on how AI and robotics can truly enter business. Early-bird tickets have only five days left.
A mechatronics student has completed hobby projects such as a line-following car, a maze robot, a balancing robot, and a sumo robot, and wants to advance to studying robotics, kinematics, dynamics, and MATLAB, asking for recommended resources. He found the book Robotics Modelling, Planning and Control on his own and is seeking advice.
A developer uses the control board inside WatcheRobot as an example to ask whether AI can go beyond generating schematics and complete component placement and routing, and make the assembled board actually work. He would rather hear from people who have used AI to design a PCB and then actually had it fabricated and tested, including what AI got right and what still needed manual correction, rather than see another good-looking generated layout.
The livestream can also be watched on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/live/c2u9l0FbyUw
At its 11th 11·11 event, EP EQUIPMENT proposed using bins to carry the digital and intelligent transformation of the picking process, describing picking as the "last meter" among humanity's four major handling scenarios. EP EQUIPMENT currently produces more than 100,000 electric handling equipment units and forklifts annually, has led China's electric warehousing equipment and forklift production and sales rankings for 7 consecutive years since 2013, and is advancing from diesel forklifts to lithium-battery forklifts and then to robotic handling.
NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled its 49th drill hole, 'Nazca,' during Sols 5050-5055 after passing wheel stability and preload tests. The target was disc-shaped inclusions in the rock suspected to be crystals.
NASA's Curiosity has scheduled three "recharge" days on Sols 5060-5062 to build up power for the next steps of the Nazca drilling campaign. During this period, ChemCam and the Remote Micro-Imager will make remote-sensing observations of targets including Titicaca, Pampas, and Salta, and Mastcam will photograph calibration targets and the drilling target.
Musk confirmed on X on November 6 that Tesla will shut down the Cybertruck production line at Gigafactory Texas in mid-2027, with all of the line's space going to the robotaxi Cybercab.
On November 9, Nvidia closed down 4.27%. On the same day, Google launched its eighth-generation TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, aimed respectively at confidential inference and ultra-large context windows. Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation into allegations that Jensen Huang became a target of foreign intelligence, and said it has not suspended his duties. Anthropic plans to complete its Nasdaq IPO before Thanksgiving, with its valuation range lowered to $1.2 trillion to $1.3 trillion.
Foreign media report that Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang admitted an extramarital affair and apologized in a letter to employees, and that the board has launched an investigation led by independent directors and outside counsel. The company has not announced a succession plan. Dan Ives, a partner at investment firm Yorkville Ives, said Huang may be removed from the CEO role.
NASA's Perseverance rover completed coring on October 24, 2026 (Sol 2018), obtaining its first rock core sample in over a year, "Singita," drilling about 3.1 centimeters into the rock. The sample came from a light-colored rock whose composition is similar to "Badger Peak," which could not be cored because it was too hard; the team switched to a plan with a flatter surface and less drill bit wear to improve the success rate. The rock's texture suggests it may have formed deep in the crust and was altered and excavated by at least one large impact event, and it may be one of the oldest rocks in Perseverance's sample collection.
For vision-based grasping with humanoid robots such as the G1, the sources of failure in practice are listed one by one: camera depth or pose errors, hand-eye calibration drift or incorrect camera-to-hand transforms, latency from perception to control, and gripper issues (opening versus object size, friction, compliance, backlash). The poster is asking robotics grasping practitioners for feedback from real experience.
NASA held its first MAX POWER Aerospace Expo at Kennedy Space Center, unveiling the new X-70 Fractal experimental aircraft, astronaut recruitment, a $1 million student lunar base challenge, and awarding lunar base-related contracts to 12 companies.
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Animotion Robotics' robot Éloi currently has only a bald head, exposed mechanical structure, and two eyes, with no formal face or complete body yet. The team designed a comfortable seated posture for its lower body, found a stroller, and pushed it for a walk around the office. The company says it is still solving the problem of "having a body," and treats this pushing around as a development approach different from obstacle testing.
The 2026 Guangzhou Auto Show will open on November 27. BYD's new-generation Han, HIMA's new AITO M8 and Luxeed V8, and other major models will be showcased together, while ultra-luxury brands and Tesla are expected to remain absent again. This edition is seen as the auto show on the eve of the transition from L2 to L3. XPeng may disclose progress on mass production of its humanoid robot IRON and its Robotaxi "XPeng Youyou," while most new automakers will focus on year-end reviews and sales pushes, with no new cars for now.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang apologized for a personal matter, admitting infidelity to his wife, and disclosed that the board will launch an independent investigation into national security concerns mentioned in related reports; he said he will fully cooperate. Multiple ChatGPT user accounts were suddenly deactivated, including users on the $200-per-month Pro subscription; some received no notice, and OpenAI said the matter must be handled through its appeal channel.
We have just wrapped up our annual Neo Hackathon! 🎉 Thank you to all participants: Neo Scholars, finalists, students, and friends, for building with us this weekend and bringing incredible energy! 💙
Apple's research team disclosed HALO, an autonomous control system for humanoid robots, in the arXiv paper "Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation," and released code for data generation, model training, and deployment.
Apple's research team disclosed the HALO humanoid robot autonomous control system in the arXiv paper "Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation," and released the code for data generation, model training, and deployment.
Heading to Austin for my first CoRL (9th to 11th). Any recommendations on what to attend or check out? Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
A fourth-year PhD student in robotics and automation is publicly seeking collaborative projects. Their research experience focuses on guidance and control of autonomous aerial vehicles, and during their master's thesis they also researched autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The student says they are willing to co-author and assist with paper writing, and, being based in Madrid, hopes to meet local peers in person.
Rococo is ready for cozy season... and maybe a little fun with the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro! How could they resist? The Qrevo Edge 3 Pro's obstacle-climbing ability is truly breathtaking. Ready to welcome the ultimate autumn refresh with Rococo?
NASA announced on the 7th that it has selected 8 companies, including Blue Origin, to participate in a new 10-year round of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, competing for lunar surface cargo delivery missions responsible for transporting scientific payloads, technical equipment, and infrastructure to the lunar surface. At the same time, the agency is advancing the development of a nuclear-powered lunar rover to support lunar base construction.
This hands-on account of local inference with the open-source π0 model focuses on the pitfalls encountered when converting JAX weights to PyTorch. It covers practical issues in weight conversion and local inference deployment, for developers who need to run π0 in a PyTorch environment.
Dishwashers were once a luxury; now they are standard. Robot vacuums? The same story, a new chapter. The shift is happening. Once you experience clean floors without lifting a finger, you can never go back. Welcome to the new normal!
The Yangwang U9 Xtreme reached 503.17 km/h on a closed test section of the E11 road in Abu Dhabi on November 1, surpassing its earlier 496.22 km/h at Papenburg in Germany. Yangwang says the result has been certified by the FIA and Guinness World Records.
@thirdmomentres exits stealth at a $250M valuation, dedicated to building best-in-class reinforcement learning environments to push the frontier of model capabilities.
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Thank you for these results! See you at CoRL! "RoboSimStudio's replay gains show why task-specific guidance matters. Better models and better testing frameworks should advance together; when evaluating, check whether each improvement makes the final simulation more useful." @keplerccccc
The 2026 (9th) Mobile Robot Industry Development Annual Conference will be held in Hangzhou in December, and registration is currently open.
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EP Equipment is advancing a green transition from diesel forklifts to lithium-battery forklifts and moving toward robotic material handling. In 2012 the company launched the small electric material-handling device "EP Little Hercules," which won the German Red Dot Award and the iF Design Award. Since 2013 it has led China's electric warehouse equipment and forklift production and sales rankings for 7 consecutive years. Its plant covers 300,000 square meters, it has nearly 2,000 employees, and its annual output exceeds 100,000 electric material-handling devices and forklifts.
GeekPark Innovation Conference 2027 has announced its first batch of speakers and five "Small-Group Deep Talks" topics, covering Personal AI, AI creation, embodied intelligence, AI-native hardware, and AI implementation. The embodied intelligence session focuses on the sources of resistance to robots moving from demos to real-world deployment, and where robots will first enter reality as models, hardware, and data evolve together. Each session runs about 80 minutes with an audience of just over 100; speakers and discussion hosts will be announced over the next month.