Technology areas
Safety and reliability
Functional safety, collision protection, fall prevention, fault detection and recovery, durability and reliability testing, and robot system security. Merely avoiding falls in a routine control experiment does not make it safety research. General chatbot alignment is outside robot technology areas.
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3D视觉工坊 · 微信公众号 ·
SenseTime and joint team evaluate GPT-6-Astra embodied capabilities, open-source SenseNova-RoboRSI framework and 27B model
A joint team including SenseTime and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) released the report "Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?", systematically evaluating GPT-6-Astra's embodied capabilities across 12 benchmarks, and simultaneously open-sourced the SenseNova-RoboRSI evaluation framework and a 27B embodied model.
NVIDIA ·
NVIDIA releases OpenShell reference architecture for building governed AI agents
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that the OpenShell reference architecture is now available for building, isolating, observing, and governing secure AI agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号 ·
Interpretation of the first six national standards for humanoid robots: quantified metrics, recommended status, and implementation gaps
China's first six national standards for humanoid robots have been approved and released, all taking effect on April 1, 2027. They include GB/T 48316—2026, Technical specification for humanoid robot simulation test platforms, and GB/T 48317.1 to 48317.5, Technical requirements for humanoid robots, in five parts (general provisions, environmental perception, decision planning, motion control, and task operation). The standards are administered by the National Technical Committee 591 on Robots of Standardization Administration of China (TC591).
RealSense ·
RealSense D585 Pro On-Device Human Detection: Ranging Principles and Safety Architecture Usage
RealSense explains D585 Pro on-device human detection: the detection model runs on its Gen5 Vision SoC and outputs JSON metadata at 30 fps with class, confidence, pixel box, and millimeter-level distance, without needing a host GPU.
CMU Robotics Institute ·
CMU and Siemens Partner to Propose PRISM, a Safety-Stop Monitoring Method for Humanoid Robots
CMU and Siemens partnered to develop a method for evaluating the "safe stoppability" of humanoid robots, and used simulation to define the conditions under which a robot can be safely stopped. The result is PRISM (Proactive Refinement of Importance-sampled Stoppability Monitor).
Leiphone Robotics ·
AgiBot's 20,000th embodied robot delivered to Chimelong, with over 300 robots to be stationed at the park in the first phase
On September 24, AgiBot's 20,000th embodied intelligent robot, the Expedition A3 Ultra, rolled off the production line and was delivered to Chimelong Group. In the first phase, over 300 AgiBot robots will be introduced at Hengqin Chimelong Spaceship Park, deployed across more than 100 interactive experience points and covering seven major scenarios including entertainment performances, guided tours, retail, and hotels. The collaboration also includes the implementation of a 5G-A embodied intelligence innovation application, a one-stop operations and maintenance management platform, and a security solution covering six major dimensions. The Expedition series offers up to 10 hours of battery life, and the robots support 360-degree omnidirectional perception and compliant control. The overall deployment scale is expected to reach several thousand units.
AgiBot ·
AgiBot and Chimelong launch large-scale deployment of over 300 robots, deliver 20,000th humanoid robot
AgiBot and Chimelong Group launched their first large-scale embodied intelligence deployment at Chimelong Universe Park, with over 300 robots connected across seven scenarios: entertainment, science education, guided tours, retail, AI companionship, hotel services, and sports competition. The deployment includes a dedicated 5G-A network supported by China Telecom and China Mobile, multi-robot coordination, and safety operations support. The 20,000th robot to roll off the AgiBot production line was also delivered, and the two parties announced a joint institute for embodied intelligence in cultural tourism.
Wandercraft ·
Wandercraft's self-balancing personal exoskeleton Eve officially launches commercially in the US
Wandercraft announced the official US commercial launch of its personal exoskeleton Eve, calling it the first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton that does not restrict the neurological level of spinal cord injury, allowing users to stand and perform daily activities hands-free without crutches. The access process includes clinical evaluation, a physician's prescription, individualized customization, and training; Medicare covers it under HCPCS code K1007, NSM supports delivery through more than 180 locations, and it is backed by a 16-participant training study published in JoVE.
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.
Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics ·
HIT's Li Tianlong team publishes research in Science Advances on magnetically controlled CD5+ dendritic cell microrobot immunotherapy
Li Tianlong's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) developed an engineered microrobot system based on CD5+ dendritic cells that can achieve precise intravascular navigation through external magnetic field control and activate immune cells in situ; the results were published in Science Advances. Under a conical magnetic field, the system self-assembles into a ribbon-like swarm that migrates downstream; under a rotating magnetic field, it assembles into a chain-like swarm that moves upstream against blood flow; combined with tumor chemotaxis, it achieves targeted enrichment and deep infiltration. In an orthotopic mouse colorectal cancer model, a single injection combined with magnetic navigation reduced the tumor bioluminescence signal by more than 90%. HIT is the first affiliation of the paper.
Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics ·
HIT's Wu Zhiguang team develops adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot swarm platform, achieving navigation in the spinal canal of mice and non-human primates
Professor Wu Zhiguang's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), together with collaborators, developed an adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot platform that can form swarm motion patterns such as vortex, chain, and ribbon under external magnetic field drive, and achieved targeted navigation within the spinal canal in mice and non-human primates. The results were published in Science Advances.
LeadeRobot ·
Mila and Polytechnique Montréal team open-source ~$2,000 robot guide dog Milo, built on Unitree Go2 for autonomous indoor and outdoor navigation
Mila-Quebec AI Institute and a Polytechnique Montréal team have released Milo, an open-source robot guide dog that they say can cut the roughly $50,000 cost of a guide dog to about $2,000. The hardware base is a Unitree Go2 Air/Pro plus an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano; a magnetic-encoder telescoping handle is used to inversely solve the user's 3D position, a bird's-eye-view map is built first and then a navigation policy is run, and the policy is trained in about 10 minutes in GPU-accelerated simulation and deployed zero-shot on the real robot.
LeadeRobot ·
Italy's IIT and INAIL unveil ergoCub humanoid robot; human-robot collaborative lifting can reduce load on the human lumbosacral joint
The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and INAIL proposed a shared embodied intelligence architecture and built the humanoid robot ergoCub; the research was published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
Deep Robotics/云深处科技 ·
DEEP Robotics Lynx S10 prototype completes Arctic Ocean ice-surface and ice-water tests aboard research vessel
DEEP Robotics' small wheeled-legged robot, the Lynx S10 prototype, completed a 76-day, 11,852-nautical-mile Arctic Ocean research test aboard Sun Yat-sen University's Polar Research Vessel Zhongshan, marking the first time a quadruped robot has set foot on Arctic Ocean ice. The unit, weighing under 20 kg including its battery, was fitted with anti-slip bionic feet mimicking polar bear paws in collaboration with Sun Yat-sen University, Westlake University, and Hangzhou Dianzi University, and completed crawling and motion-control tests with crampons; the body uses an IP67 integrated sealed design, and after increasing the surface area of its limbs for paddling, it completed swimming tests in ice water.
Dexterity ·
Dexterity launches Instinct tactile intelligence system
Dexterity announced the launch of Instinct, a tactile intelligence system that reads force at 500–2000 Hz and responds in 0.5–2 ms to perform force-guided bin packing on production lines, with a median placement time of 4.55 seconds and an overall team success rate of 81% (95% CI 75%–86%, sampled from 854 placements). Placements that cannot be completed are quickly identified and handed back to the Foresight world model to retry with a different angle or position; the same skill delivers consistent performance across different robotic arm hardware and generalizes to objects of different materials.
Fauna Robotics ·
Fauna Robotics exits stealth mode to launch Sprout humanoid robot platform
Fauna Robotics has released Sprout, its first humanoid robot platform, shipping the same day in a Creator Edition aimed at developers, researchers, and creators building embodied intelligence applications.
Wandercraft ·
Wandercraft Personal Exoskeleton Launches Pivotal Clinical Trial
Wandercraft announced the launch of a pivotal clinical trial for its Personal Exoskeleton, evaluating the safety and effectiveness of this self-balancing personal exoskeleton in improving walking independence for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).