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Robot hardware and key components
Robot morphology, mechanisms, leg and dexterous hand hardware, soft and biomimetic structures, electromechanical design, motors, gearboxes, actuators, joint modules, drives, and sensor hardware. A product announcement or funding round without technical detail does not qualify. Robot chips and computing platforms belong under Software and compute systems.
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人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号 ·
Leaderdrive's first three quarters revenue up 45%, humanoid reducer orders reach 400,000 units
Leaderdrive's revenue for the first three quarters of 2026 was 591 million yuan, up 45.30% year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 122 million yuan, up 30.33% year on year; humanoid-related reducer orders rose from about 100,000 units the previous year to 400,000 units. The company's annual harmonic reducer capacity has reached 1 million units, with a year-end target of 1.5 million units, but its gross margin in the first half was 32.26%, down 2.51 percentage points year on year, as new production line debugging and small-batch production of multiple models are weighing on profitability. The article also compares the catch-up pace of domestic manufacturers such as Zhongda Leader, HuanDong Technology, and Laifu Harmonic.
雷科技 ·
AgiBot Innovation Day releases Worken work-hour metric and Lingqu OS 1.0
At AgiBot Innovation Day on October 29, AgiBot proposed Worken (effective intelligent work hours), a measurement standard whose formula is number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency ratio, and released Lingqu OS 1.0, a native operating system for embodied intelligence.
云启资本 ·
PHYMI Tech releases first robot Sagi, featuring four-wheeled-legged humanoid configuration and PHYMI BRAIN 1.0
PHYMI officially released its first robot, Sagi, on October 28. It adopts a "four-wheeled-legged humanoid configuration" combining four wheeled legs with a humanoid upper body, dual arms, and a rear box, targeting scenarios such as office delivery, community errands, and outdoor camping transport.
AgiBot ·
AGIBOT Unveils Worken Metrics Framework, AHA3 Hardware Platform, and G2 Max Industrial Robot at 2026 Innovation Day
At its 2026 Innovation Day, AGIBOT proposed the Worken (effective intelligent working hours) framework, which measures robots' effective output in real environments using three metrics: number of active robots, autonomous working hours, and output efficiency ratio.
云启资本 ·
Synrise completes Pre-A round exclusively invested by Yunqi, first smart knee S5 in mass production
Synrise announced the completion of a Pre-A funding round exclusively invested by Yunqi Capital, with proceeds going toward the SynchroMind algorithm foundation, R&D for next-generation products, and global market expansion. Within one year of founding, the company's first product, the Synrise S5 bionic intelligent hydraulic knee, has entered mass production, completed validation deployments in Europe, and received orders exceeding ten million yuan from domestic and overseas markets. A next-generation AI active-power knee is now in R&D, aiming to move from compliant motion to active power output.
珞石机器人 ·
ROKAE Zhuxing H wheeled humanoid robots enter Schaeffler Taicang embodied intelligence digital factory production line
On October 20, Schaeffler's Taicang embodied intelligence robot digital factory opened, with 5 ROKAE Zhuxing H series wheeled humanoid robots participating in the intelligent assembly line for tasks including bin handling, parts sorting, press-fitting and screw assembly, functional testing, marking and packaging, producing joint module components including actuators for next-generation humanoid robots.
北京理工大学 · 微信公众号 ·
BIT team publishes meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing results in Nature
A team led by Professor Liu Changmeng at Beijing Institute of Technology has pioneered a single-crystal additive manufacturing method based on unsteady pulsed growth in a micro-melt pool, achieving meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing for the first time. The results were published in Nature on October 21 in a paper titled "Additive manufacturing ultralong and architected single crystals," with corresponding authors Liu Changmeng, Cui Yinan of Tsinghua University, and Yinmin Morris Wang of the University of California, Los Angeles.
人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号 ·
Tesla Optimus begins mass production at Fremont line; Musk sets ramp-up target of 20,000 units per week
Tesla confirmed on its Q3 2026 earnings call that Optimus has rolled off the mass-production line in Fremont; these are the first standard mass-production models, and production started one quarter earlier than planned at the beginning of the year. Musk said the capacity ramp-up will take at least a year, with a final target of 20,000 units per week, corresponding to a production-line hardware design ceiling of one million units per year. The AI capabilities needed for autonomous operation are expected to mature by the end of next year; robots rolling off the line before then will be used internally at Tesla first, with external supply coming later.
Agile Robots/思灵机器人 ·
Agile Robots and NVIDIA unveil compact humanoid reference platform Agile ONE SN at GTC
At NVIDIA GTC, Agile Robots and NVIDIA unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid reference platform for R&D, built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform and integrating a complete workflow spanning demonstration capture, simulation, training, evaluation, deployment, and real-world testing.
深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号 ·
Hui Ling Technology releases 20-DOF dexterous hand eHand-20, priced at 9,999 yuan
Hui Ling Technology officially released the eHand-20 dexterous hand at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, priced at 9,999 yuan. The product is a direct-drive design with 20 fully active degrees of freedom and 4 joints per finger across five fingers. The entire hand weighs 650 grams and measures 196×87×40 mm. Compared with the previous-generation 6-DOF eHand-6, degrees of freedom are increased 3.3 times, while the unit price remains unchanged at about 500 yuan per degree of freedom.
云启资本 ·
Stardust Intelligence completes new RMB 1 billion funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation
Stardust Intelligence recently completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion, reaching a valuation of RMB 15 billion. The round was led by Toushe Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with participation from Hongtai Fund, Ninghai Xingtaaihe Fund, and Shanheng Capital, among others, and existing shareholder Xianmu increased its investment. This is its fourth funding round in the past six months; its Series B valuation first exceeded RMB 10 billion in June 2026 and rose to RMB 15 billion three months later.
CMU Robotics Institute ·
CMU research team develops human-inspired multisensory fingertips for DeltaHands robotic hand
CMU researchers designed human-hand-inspired fingertips that can be mounted on the DeltaHands flexible robotic hand. They combine strain gauges to measure pinch pressure with a microphone that captures micro-vibrations through a plastic fingernail, enabling the hand to count paper cups, identify materials, and grasp fragile items such as tofu cubes and potato chips. Each fingertip costs less than 100 US dollars, compared with about 800 US dollars to build a similar setup from off-the-shelf products. The work was presented at the 2026 Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference in Pittsburgh.
RobCo ·
RobCo hits $1 billion valuation to become a unicorn, offers employee secondary liquidity
RobCo's valuation has surpassed $1 billion, doubling within nine months, bringing in new investment through an employee secondary sale, with participation from existing investors including Sequoia and Lightspeed and new investors including Cherry Ventures. Its autonomous industrial robot Alfie will be officially commercially launched on March 4, 2027, at the RobCoN summit in Munich. The company is stepping up its push into the US market, with its CEO having relocated to the US, manufacturing and assembly operations in Austin, Texas, and a lab in San Francisco.
Boston Dynamics ·
Boston Dynamics unveils dexterous hand for next-gen Atlas robot: 13-DOF four-finger design
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a dexterous hand for its next-generation Atlas humanoid robot, increasing from GR2's 7 degrees of freedom to 13, using a four-finger design with a 4-DOF opposable thumb, direct drive, and only a single actuator type. The design drops the pinky finger to reduce cost and complexity, is equipped with fingertip and palm pressure tactile sensors, supports pinch grasping, three-finger grasping, and pressing tool triggers, and was optimized for high-fidelity simulation for sim-to-real transfer and reinforcement learning, with preliminary sim-to-real results on dynamic tasks already available.
Wandercraft ·
Wandercraft Acquires Ekso Bionics to Form Medical Exoskeleton Company
Wandercraft announced the acquisition of Ekso Bionics from a subsidiary of ChronoScale Holdings; the deal was signed and closed simultaneously, with financial terms undisclosed.
Singularity Hub ·
KAIST quadruped robot RAIBO2 completes marathon without battery swap, ~40 miles per charge
KAIST's quadruped robot RAIBO2 finished the Persimmon Marathon in Sangju, South Korea, in 4 hours 19 minutes 52 seconds, slightly faster than the human average, without swapping or recharging its battery, and still had 34% charge at the finish; the team described the work in a Nature paper last week.
松山湖国际机器人研究院 · 微信公众号 ·
Benmo Technology Lists on HKEX, Becoming XbotPark's Third Listed Company in Ten Months
On September 29, XbotPark-incubated company Benmo Technology (stock code 06731.HK) began trading on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Described as the first direct-drive stock in Hong Kong, it is the third listed company from the XbotPark system, after CiDi and Woan Robotics.
珞石机器人 ·
ROKAE's 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm rolls off the line and is delivered
ROKAE's 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm officially rolled off the line and was delivered on September 29 at its smart manufacturing future factory. The company says it has partnered with more than 80 leading industry partners, and that its force-controlled arms continue to enter real application scenarios. Its humanoid force-controlled product line includes the Xuanji HSA series force-controlled joints with built-in high-precision torque sensors; the Taibai AR series humanoid force-controlled arms, which cover a payload range of 3-20 kg and adopt a humanoid seven-degree-of-freedom and cross-wrist configuration; and the Xuanhe iNex control system, which integrates force control with WBC whole-body motion control.
Skydio ·
Skydio launches its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, along with MegaDock hangar and two command software platforms
At Ascend 2026, Skydio launched its first fixed-wing drone, F10 Lightrunner, the accompanying MegaDock hangar, the Controller 2 remote controller, and two software platforms, Asset Command and Security Command.
Agility Robotics ·
Agility Robotics Releases Next-Generation Humanoid Robot Digit 5
Agility Robotics has released Digit 5, a next-generation general-purpose humanoid robot built around a safety architecture that allows it to work in close proximity to people without traditional physical safety fencing. It uses an independent safety controller, AI-based human detection, and audiovisual cues, and is the first launch partner for the NVIDIA Halos for Robotics platform, built on NVIDIA IGX Thor.