https://en.tysem.cn/ai-robot-news/ Curated robotics industry reporting covering humanoid robots, embodied AI, industrial robots, core components, funding, safety standards, research and policy. en Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:52:29 +0000 https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-home-cable-robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-home-cable-robot This week's IEEE Spectrum Video Friday features a room-scale cable-driven home robot tidying up, alongside other robot videos including JPL's 90th anniversary. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/academic/3fdO5oKaYZHXYOxI.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/academic/3fdO5oKaYZHXYOxI.html Leiphone traces CoRL's growth over six years: accepted papers rose from roughly 200 a year to about 4.5 times that this year, with a shifting mix of Chinese and US universities and Chinese institutions rising fast. CoRL 2026 runs November 9-12 in Austin. — Source: 雷锋网 Research Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:09:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/weiwu/UDrzYpgEJMY4zajC.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/weiwu/UDrzYpgEJMY4zajC.html Leiphone reports Miaodong is raising a new round at a target valuation of $1.2 billion, up from about $700 million. Its first product Beni is a wheeled autonomous-follow camera robot with 4K imaging, a top speed of 28.8 km/h and the ability to clear 10-inch obstacles; it raised more than $4.6 million on Kickstarter from over 7,300 backers. The team has DJI and Tesla backgrounds. — Source: 雷锋网 Funding & Startups Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:17:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/DUZcuKBxESiGrXWu.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/DUZcuKBxESiGrXWu.html On November 5 Cainiao launched an AI and embodied-intelligence partnership plan at its Hong Kong smart port: it will open its global warehouse network to partners to build what it calls the world's largest real-world logistics training cluster, and introduced a 'tech going global in three days' service covering prototype testing, scaled delivery and overseas operations. Several leading companies joined the first batch. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:57:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/serve-robotics-launches-new-business-to-become-the-aws-for-robots/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/serve-robotics-launches-new-business-to-become-the-aws-for-robots/ Alongside its third-quarter earnings, Serve Robotics announced a new business line called Physical AI Services, offering customers its connectivity and data tools with the aim of becoming a robotics infrastructure provider. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Embodied AI Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:15:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/agility-is-the-first-pure-humanoid-robot-company-on-the-stock-market-are-you-buying/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/agility-is-the-first-pure-humanoid-robot-company-on-the-stock-market-are-you-buying/ TechCrunch reports Agility went public on Nasdaq through a reverse merger, raising $465 million and becoming the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company. The piece notes that a year earlier Figure's CEO had predicted Agility would be bankrupt within 12 months. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Funding & Startups Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/30nTa8g0yzQmZGys.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/30nTa8g0yzQmZGys.html Tactile sensing startup Inspiration Robotics closed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel round backed by Lihe Capital, Hefei Innovation Investment and others, with Zhizhen Advisory as financial adviser. Founder Zhang Yazhan holds a robotics PhD from HKUST and was a senior AI researcher at Tencent. The company's dense force-field approach extracts contact geometry plus force, deformation, slip and pose from a single image; its Lux vision-based tactile sensors are already shipping at scale. — Source: 雷锋网 Core Components Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:38:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/507586.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/507586.html The Lion Hill AI Lab under China Merchants' advanced technology institute released Lion-ER-35B-A3B, an embodied reasoning vision-language model built on a mixture-of-experts architecture: about 35B total parameters with roughly 3B active per token. It reports gains on all ten mainstream embodied benchmarks. Its data pipeline is capability-driven: 8 top-level domains and 39 sub-capabilities are defined first, then training tasks are compiled against that blueprint and gaps closed by evaluation. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:08:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiTEFVX3lxTE1KczVHTTJ1anVZWjQ2T3M4VFRhMUVGVzZJS0c1S3RxQ29DSGg3Q0FzMWFVMk9vYjA0QUhzWnBPZTlJWmNXcFcxSVRCc18?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiTEFVX3lxTE1KczVHTTJ1anVZWjQ2T3M4VFRhMUVGVzZJS0c1S3RxQ29DSGg3Q0FzMWFVMk9vYjA0QUhzWnBPZTlJWmNXcFcxSVRCc18?oc=5 XPeng Group, Peking University, the University of Hong Kong and other teams released GroundingPI, an embodied perception pretraining model; XPeng says its perception module scores above GPT-6 Astra. — Source: 凤凰网科技 Embodied AI Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/507507.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/507507.html Geek+ announced a 24/7 autonomous warehouse plan that aims to let AI take over whole-warehouse scheduling and run continuously. Its technical base is the in-house Gravity unified embodied intelligence framework and Gravity 4D embodied world model, rolled out in three steps: end-to-end process coverage, an intelligent closed loop, and scaled deployment. — Source: 量子位 Industrial Robots Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:57:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE5sRWxjU0xDYkhBN0ZvYWY0WHRCSmI2SXUxWFpFanBpb2RZSmNGdGpzeGNMaXZGV3hPcXMtclo3bFBocWlYQW9jdHNWYV9zV1EzcDduTW1YdnRHNjN6Q1pyeWlTVGFQMTI2TnVSbFYxcmZJUkIx?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE5sRWxjU0xDYkhBN0ZvYWY0WHRCSmI2SXUxWFpFanBpb2RZSmNGdGpzeGNMaXZGV3hPcXMtclo3bFBocWlYQW9jdHNWYV9zV1EzcDduTW1YdnRHNjN6Q1pyeWlTVGFQMTI2TnVSbFYxcmZJUkIx?oc=5 At the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen summit, Xiaomi Group received an outstanding contribution award and its embodied foundation model took a leading-technology award; the company also disclosed eight hours of stable operation at its robot factory. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/d2myOaWdKKFW23lm.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/d2myOaWdKKFW23lm.html Leiphone unpacks Agibot's launch event: against GPT-6's embodied-control demos, Agibot responded with 20,000 units shipped and a Worken compute ledger to answer whether robot companies still matter. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/GqrJT2vlPFBxElDY.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/GqrJT2vlPFBxElDY.html RoboScience closed a Series A2 worth several hundred million yuan, co-led by Amber Capital, Hongruida Investment and Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment, with 360 Strategic Investment, Shuang Capital, Guolian Minsheng Capital and Jinding Capital participating. Founded in March 2025, it has now raised five rounds. — Source: 雷锋网 Funding & Startups Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/1mfsMzxNwaTmqZ7e.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/1mfsMzxNwaTmqZ7e.html A Leiphone profile of Dong Hao: a Peking University professor at 29, now chief scientist at Qiyuan Robotics leading home embodied AI. It recounts a failed startup before his PhD and his early role at Agibot. — Source: 雷锋网 Humanoid Robots Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/021/292.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/021/292.htm Three Gorges Group confirmed China's first robotic welding system dedicated to ultra-deep shaft pressure pipes entered service at the Songyang pumped-storage station in Zhejiang. It pairs an outer-seam welding robot with an inner-seam automatic welder, plus 5G control, laser seam tracking and a welding expert database; the shaft is 637 meters deep. — Source: IT之家 Industrial Robots Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/it/2026-11-02/doc-inixiynu7157431.shtml https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/it/2026-11-02/doc-inixiynu7157431.shtml The race from Red Gate to Mid-Heaven Gate — 3,100 steps and 600 meters of elevation — concluded with Unitree's teams taking one gold and two silvers. The event put legged robots on a real mountain course. — Source: 新浪财经 Embodied AI Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/020/820.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/020/820.htm China's market regulator published three national standards covering smart scrap-steel plant design, digital twin requirements for steel plants, and multi-site manufacturing resource coordination. They target inconsistent design conventions, duplicated system development, poor data interoperability and hard-to-coordinate cross-site resources, using a layered, decoupled architecture. — Source: IT之家 Industry Policy Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:57:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/020/773.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/020/773.htm The first CMG Mount Tai robot race opens on November 2 in Tai'an, Shandong, on the ancient path from Red Gate to Mid-Heaven Gate: 3,100 steps with 600 meters of elevation gain. Quadruped and bipedal robots must first map the full route, then handle steps of varying height and width plus cobblestone sections. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:23:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/506990.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/11/506990.html Hongqi Chain announced a robot-run unmanned vending system in March 2025, sending its shares limit-up the next day. In July 2026 it terminated the project after 16 months, citing failure to meet large-scale commercialization standards, and pivoted to 24-hour remote staffing. People close to the matter say condensation on chilled glass bottles made robots drop and break them, complex packaging was unstable to grasp, and aisles were narrow with customers and staff nearby. Hongqi's 2025 R&D spend was about RMB 2.87 million. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:50:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/020/637.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/020/637.htm At the opening of Guangdong's 2,000th 7-ELEVEN store on October 29, a WeChat Pay smart retail robot worked its first shift, using Tencent Hunyuan's multi-turn dialogue and agent capabilities for greeting, product and bundle recommendations, and ordering, with Tencent's Tianlai audio stack for noisy store environments. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:16:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/020/636.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/020/636.htm The Information reported that Meta worked with Chinese robot maker Fourier on a humanoid prototype called Max, built in three months at about 1.5 meters tall and 48 kilograms with an Nvidia Thor chip. Zuckerberg describes it as the physical embodiment of Meta's Muse model; work on a Max 2 began in September, with no launch or sales plans disclosed. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:12:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/020/598.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/020/598.htm Wujie Dynamics signed a strategic agreement with JD.com. In the first retail project, K15 robots are now working at two 7Fresh Coffee stores alongside automated production lines, handling the flow from order to finished drink. The partners plan to replicate this across more than 1,000 7Fresh stores and expand into JD MALL, JD RoboBase and overseas markets. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:13:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-whole-body-manipulation https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-whole-body-manipulation This week's IEEE Spectrum Video Friday features Boston Dynamics' Spot demonstrating whole-body manipulation, alongside other robot videos of the week. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:30:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE1NNUk4QWo5dFBXVzdPNlljRWV5c0U5cklsRmFLS3I5dExKV3hmaUFCU1dWRDBtX2dfYzlPQmNTNmh3MmRqaXpmcmwwMlAzZF9PbFlFLVJwdTVlLWJLbmM1R1ZDSXo2MFIwTXRzRU5iUQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE1NNUk4QWo5dFBXVzdPNlljRWV5c0U5cklsRmFLS3I5dExKV3hmaUFCU1dWRDBtX2dfYzlPQmNTNmh3MmRqaXpmcmwwMlAzZF9PbFlFLVJwdTVlLWJLbmM1R1ZDSXo2MFIwTXRzRU5iUQ?oc=5 Leiphone reports that Yingsu opened China's first embodied simulation data-collection center in Hangzhou, arguing simulation can mass-produce training data and compress two years of industry collection into about one month. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE10em9xQmRhRm84aVFKSEo3eHZFWkxQQzJGazVOZURiMm8zOG9jakhibW1uc2lsZ2xnb1daQk5vLVR4Nzh4UWM0UkV4ZE1EVFZiOFYzWGRDTjNya0NFSDVXOUhrQXBZSG9JMmxUcXI4aw?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE10em9xQmRhRm84aVFKSEo3eHZFWkxQQzJGazVOZURiMm8zOG9jakhibW1uc2lsZ2xnb1daQk5vLVR4Nzh4UWM0UkV4ZE1EVFZiOFYzWGRDTjNya0NFSDVXOUhrQXBZSG9JMmxUcXI4aw?oc=5 A Leiphone profile traces Li Fei-Fei's three major bets — ImageNet, visual understanding and now spatial intelligence — and asks how she plans to close the spatial-intelligence gap. — Source: 雷锋网 Research Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/019/806.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/019/806.htm Agibot released GO-3 Preview, built on an embodied-native WRAM (World Reasoning Action Model) architecture that links task reasoning, future prediction and action generation across pre-training, post-training and post-deployment learning. The company says it tops RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum, with full open-sourcing planned by end-2026. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:22:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOendIdEY0N0ZpbkpRZFpOU0ZWWWxNZG9lVXEyZWdHVi1VUEVhZHZQekl6WVNOVENjbnQtVmhCWFBfVUVDRGpVTEY2OEZyYThCN3RpdExCa1ZHdnhHT2ZCQ2w0bDZrT3ZrS1M1M1BWdnJ1dHhpUm9hUGNlU2dlRmtBeEwxR0RDWjJZT0s2Vy13?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOendIdEY0N0ZpbkpRZFpOU0ZWWWxNZG9lVXEyZWdHVi1VUEVhZHZQekl6WVNOVENjbnQtVmhCWFBfVUVDRGpVTEY2OEZyYThCN3RpdExCa1ZHdnhHT2ZCQ2w0bDZrT3ZrS1M1M1BWdnJ1dHhpUm9hUGNlU2dlRmtBeEwxR0RDWjJZT0s2Vy13?oc=5 Bleu Robotics raised a €5 million pre-seed co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and investor Charlie Songhurst participating. Its abductive learning model learns a new task from about ten operator demonstrations while keeping the explainability and 99%+ accuracy production lines require. — Source: Engineer Live Funding & Startups Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:32:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506273.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506273.html MCC's National Steel Structure Quality Inspection and Testing Center and Xiaoyu Zhizao opened a joint lab for industrial embodied welding and inspection. The company disclosed its first customer case: 12 robots working daily at Beipao Light Steel, with August 2026 monthly capacity up 30%, overall cost down 49% at equal weld quality, and about 90 meters of equivalent fillet weld per robot per day. — Source: 量子位 Industrial Robots Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/019/144.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/019/144.htm Unitree reported first-three-quarter 2026 revenue of RMB 1.817 billion, up 55.71% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 387 million, up 270.54%. Non-recurring-adjusted net profit fell 18.78% and operating cash flow dropped 54.69%, while third-quarter net profit slid 17.37% year on year. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:44:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/D4SlkV6zQ4ill9MG.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/D4SlkV6zQ4ill9MG.html Leiphone analyzes the technical report behind LimX Dynamics' open-source FluxVLA Engine, arguing that embodied AI's bottleneck has shifted from model scores to data formats, training and evaluation pipelines, sim-to-real transfer and cross-embodiment adaptation. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:17:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506063.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506063.html WIKA Mobile Control released a high-quality embodied-AI dataset for construction machinery at the 2026 Xuzhou AI Conference, collected from real construction and mining sites, and published it openly on Hugging Face and other data repositories. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:01:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506042.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/506042.html Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise at least $1 billion at a post-money valuation of roughly $20 billion, with Avenir and Lux Capital reportedly set to co-lead and CapitalG, Thrive, Sequoia and Jeff Bezos already invested. The company has no commercial revenue; it was valued at $5.6 billion in its November 2025 round. — Source: 量子位 Funding & Startups Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:55:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/018/971.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/018/971.htm Unitree and Sequoia China launched the 'Shanyu' program to back early-stage embodied AI, robot applications and upstream key technologies, pairing engineering resources with capital under an 'engineer plus investor' model. — Source: IT之家 Funding & Startups Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:40:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/L0riZpWS688dpXnN.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/L0riZpWS688dpXnN.html At a CNCC 2026 tutorial, Tianjin University's Zhang Changqing presented work on generalized multimodal fusion: preserving modality-specific information, using evidence to estimate predictive uncertainty, and building a general forecasting base that adapts to different modality combinations. — Source: 雷锋网 Research Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:58:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robot-safety-cybersecurity-vicone https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robot-safety-cybersecurity-vicone IEEE Spectrum examines a blind spot in robot functional safety: emergency stops and speed limits assume trustworthy sensor input. If camera or lidar data is spoofed or tampered with, protection acts on a false premise. The piece maps the attack surface and verification approaches. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Safety & Standards Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:14:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/505865.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/505865.html RoboParty released the RP1 full-stack open-source humanoid: 135cm tall with 24- and 30-DOF configurations, opening mechanical drawings, electrical systems, its in-house ROMOMO joints (25-160 N·m peak torque, 48V, CAN-FD), low-level control and the simulation-to-deployment toolchain. — Source: 量子位 Humanoid Robots Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:57:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/017/951.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/017/951.htm Agibot has released the G2 Max, a safety-certified heavy-payload embodied robot rated at 20kg per arm and 40kg across both arms, peaking at 50kg with ±0.5mm repeatability, targeting depalletizing, material transfer and production-line feeding. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:27:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/017/937.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/017/937.htm A University of Limerick experiment with 189 knowledge workers found that anthropomorphic AI agents earned more trust and resources, yet the female-presenting agent received significantly less "pay" than its male counterpart. — Source: IT之家 Research Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:46:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-rubiks-cube-robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-rubiks-cube-robot IEEE Spectrum's Video Friday featured a demo from ETH Zurich's Robotics Systems Lab: a quadruped robot autonomously solved a giant Rubik's Cube using only its four feet, showing the platform's potential for fine manipulation and whole-body coordination. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:30:00 +0800 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261022081308.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261022081308.htm MIT engineers built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, letting it swim and steer through water. The advance could lead to tiny, self-healing biological robots that explore fragile environments ordinary machines cannot safely navigate. — Source: ScienceDaily Robotics Research Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/h4vGHMyQ6b8drzy6.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/h4vGHMyQ6b8drzy6.html On October 23, Hikrobot held its 2026 mobile robot launch and CeMAT preview under the theme full-chain evolution, focused on storage, picking and transport. It released upgraded box-based solutions and the Mingzhi family of intelligent single-unit products; in the new mode, STU case robots handle full aisle tasks while T50 shuttle robots only dock at aisle-end buffers, cutting task-chain distance by more than 50%. — Source: 雷锋网 Industrial Robots Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/504905.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/504905.html Alibaba's Amap officially released λ0, its first whole-body foundation model based on open-world behavior, aimed at moving robots from local learning toward whole-body motion alignment. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:40:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi3wFBVV95cUxObVZzbUVzLXdMVnB3dDNseUV3eVJGTlZjQktyMDhfdUVHUFN1QzVaUGE5ZUFiWHJ6QW5jbVhzeHZaZEx0YUgxbFVNdS1RQkJuVmdPSlJOSHJtRXBQY1BqMW9lTjltelRVbl81TUI2aHNMbjFQSEI3blE4VTRDTVdjY1RBTHgyTGc2ZmFDTERiVGhBV1VVY3hoYjBUM3hlb28wcFFQeXdzSEFvSHdyODJUdFdaSVpTUDdpY0twM1JQc0JFc2lTUnVvS1h2VVdVdFlPb2l0LXAxdExORnBQOXZB?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi3wFBVV95cUxObVZzbUVzLXdMVnB3dDNseUV3eVJGTlZjQktyMDhfdUVHUFN1QzVaUGE5ZUFiWHJ6QW5jbVhzeHZaZEx0YUgxbFVNdS1RQkJuVmdPSlJOSHJtRXBQY1BqMW9lTjltelRVbl81TUI2aHNMbjFQSEI3blE4VTRDTVdjY1RBTHgyTGc2ZmFDTERiVGhBV1VVY3hoYjBUM3hlb28wcFFQeXdzSEFvSHdyODJUdFdaSVpTUDdpY0twM1JQc0JFc2lTUnVvS1h2VVdVdFlPb2l0LXAxdExORnBQOXZB?oc=5 Global Sources reports that, driven by Korean government investment, Chinese humanoid robot companies are accelerating commercial trials in Korea, extending product and scenario validation into overseas markets. — Source: Global Sources Humanoid Robots Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:31:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNaU1VMnk4dzJSR2tfU2pCRUZtdVBybkp6cjBYZGp5Y0FXRzJVYjBSTThTRlE1R2dRbVBUdmdRem1Cb1RXRlo1Y1FyY3oxZmlpNGdBSnhSYXczYTRabVBQQkc5RFdTNzJCYnBCVmNCcjZ2ZXlZbWFMRi1rMEJhVnZWNFFrcXpwTUp3SEptY1BYeEdzeG53SHQ2TUwyQQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNaU1VMnk4dzJSR2tfU2pCRUZtdVBybkp6cjBYZGp5Y0FXRzJVYjBSTThTRlE1R2dRbVBUdmdRem1Cb1RXRlo1Y1FyY3oxZmlpNGdBSnhSYXczYTRabVBQQkc5RFdTNzJCYnBCVmNCcjZ2ZXlZbWFMRi1rMEJhVnZWNFFrcXpwTUp3SEptY1BYeEdzeG53SHQ2TUwyQQ?oc=5 A digitimes commentary argues that Unitree's valuation correction is testing the substance of physical AI and asks how long the humanoid robot bubble can last, weighing current high valuations against commercialization progress. — Source: digitimes Humanoid Robots Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/smarthome/iDkOEQuhDC14QfOE.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/smarthome/iDkOEQuhDC14QfOE.html Window-cleaning robots have received their first industry standard. Citing IDC, the article says global window-cleaning robot shipments reached about 847,000 units in Q2 2026, up 59.8% year on year, well above the 21.5% growth of the overall home cleaning robot market; AVC data shows China's market grew from RMB 480 million in 2020 to RMB 1.7 billion in 2025, a 28.6% CAGR. — Source: 雷锋网 Safety & Standards Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:57:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/016/667.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/016/667.htm XPeng's second-generation VLA model gained stronger temporal understanding and future-behavior prediction and has been deployed on-device to its IRON humanoid. IRON can adapt to sudden changes during handshakes and high-fives, re-inferring from the camera every 0.2 seconds and predicting motion changes up to 6 seconds ahead, closing a real-time see-to-act loop. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:09:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/016/502.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/016/502.htm AgiBot and related companies signed leases across three Lujiazui Group projects totaling over 220,000 square meters, at roughly RMB 350 million in annual rent excluding property fees, setting Shanghai's largest single office lease. Founded in 2023, AgiBot rolled out its 20,000th embodied robot on September 24; Counterpoint data shows it shipped 9,700 humanoid robots in H1 2026, ranking first globally with over 43% share. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:26:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxPWkUteFFvQl9Nck1kcGlLOVJlODJoS2FzVWVwQXkwcEphNjUxNkNBUGNCM2lWMHd3UDBuNURBd0o3eGdnS05lQVg1d3Z3aHYtTGRpdHFMZTh1UTFHdHMyS21RYWdwdldSaWd6Q25iTnFVT3JoXzF1dzFtR3Y3NWkzakFwWVdQN1gtQ2tCeWpVZkpJaUJUS0J5QjZLU2FIMkxuckRrbkQxWnYwQS1LUy1JS00xdFVidUE2ODV6TndlMnhLS0RtU1dPMmc4YS1CRHlrVHNz?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxPWkUteFFvQl9Nck1kcGlLOVJlODJoS2FzVWVwQXkwcEphNjUxNkNBUGNCM2lWMHd3UDBuNURBd0o3eGdnS05lQVg1d3Z3aHYtTGRpdHFMZTh1UTFHdHMyS21RYWdwdldSaWd6Q25iTnFVT3JoXzF1dzFtR3Y3NWkzakFwWVdQN1gtQ2tCeWpVZkpJaUJUS0J5QjZLU2FIMkxuckRrbkQxWnYwQS1LUy1JS00xdFVidUE2ODV6TndlMnhLS0RtU1dPMmc4YS1CRHlrVHNz?oc=5 Stockholm-based 120ft emerged from stealth with €576,000 in angel funding to build autonomous microfactories run by humanoid robots: three 40-foot containers handle component prep, assembly, inspection and packing, combined with AI, virtual line simulation and proprietary orchestration software. The company operates the factories and charges per finished product. — Source: Robotics & Automation News Industrial Robots Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/jvyFCFgqJxJtOvjo.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/jvyFCFgqJxJtOvjo.html IROS 2026 awarded its best paper to LT-Mem, which lets a robot revisit a space and retain the full history of each object's position changes rather than only the latest observation. The article argues general robots must run for hours, days or weeks, and without long-term memory they are just isolated one-shot executors; memory is not just a bigger context window but involves storing, retrieving, correcting and evidencing multimodal data. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:19:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/tesla-stars-optimus-robot-production-in-california-as-profit-falls-43/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/tesla-stars-optimus-robot-production-in-california-as-profit-falls-43/ TechCrunch reports that Tesla has started producing Optimus humanoid robots in California while its quarterly profit fell 43%. Revenue was flat and expenses rose sharply as Tesla increased spending on Optimus, AI and autonomous driving. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Humanoid Robots Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:33:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/016/089.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/016/089.htm Hesai detailed its next-generation 6D full-color LiDAR, built on the Picasso 6D full-color LiDAR chip platform launched in April, aligning high-precision 3D spatial data and RGB color at the pixel level on-chip to output inherently consistent ground-truth data. Hesai says the next step for autonomous driving and embodied AI is a hunger for high-quality, high-confidence ground truth. — Source: IT之家 Core Components Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:49:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/kgEaqVuNRRnvxpfp.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/kgEaqVuNRRnvxpfp.html On October 21, Shengshu Technology's world-model team began a public livestream of the full Motubrain 2.0 training process, planned to run for two weeks and show pre-training, post-training, testing and iteration before the model is open-sourced. The Motubrain series aims to give robots a general-purpose brain that generalizes across tasks, scenes and embodiments. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/uxVZGVMwc8JuD0Px.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/uxVZGVMwc8JuD0Px.html The piece examines live training platforms for embodied AI. Citing CAICT's 2026 embodied-AI training-ground report, training a general embodied model needs at least tens of millions of hours of real interaction data, while only about a million hours of high-quality real-robot data exist worldwide, roughly an order of magnitude short. By end-June 2026, China had over 70 embodied-AI training grounds in operation and 46 more planned; the real bottleneck is not space but a data pipeline that captures, labels, trains and feeds deployment failures back. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:53:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/eka-is-worth-1-45-billion-thanks-to-a-physical-ai-model-that-has-experts-raving/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/eka-is-worth-1-45-billion-thanks-to-a-physical-ai-model-that-has-experts-raving/ Eka Robotics is drawing industry attention for a physical AI model and has reached a $1.45 billion valuation. Its robotic arm is described as stable at picking up a wide range of objects and unusually smooth and human-like, making it one of the few arms genuinely good at general grasping. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Industrial Robots Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/015/529.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/015/529.htm Unitree issued an abnormal trading announcement after its shares rose more than 30% over three sessions. Its trailing P/E reached 388.25x versus the general equipment manufacturing sector's 39.51x average. The company said humanoid robots remain in an early commercialization stage, with uncertainty in technology maturity, downstream demand and supply-chain readiness, and warned of valuation pullback risk if mass commercialization falls short. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:44:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/eSrgjx3nGEGMMePm.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/eSrgjx3nGEGMMePm.html Neolix closed a nearly $400 million Series E led by Boyu Capital and a national fund, with Alibaba, GGV Capital, Temasek's Vertex Growth, GAC Capital and others participating. It is the largest single autonomous-driving funding round in China this year; Neolix has raised over RMB 10 billion in total and leads the autonomous delivery vehicle sector by funding scale. — Source: 雷锋网 Funding & Startups Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:22:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/XgCxObsqu8pc44px.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/XgCxObsqu8pc44px.html A Peking University and Qiyuan Robotics team led by Dong Hao introduced HIL-UMI, targeting the critical error-correction step of embodied post-training without a physical robot. The team argues pre-training raises the floor while post-training sets the ceiling; traditional post-training requires costly real-robot data, while body-free pre-training scales data but lacks correction. HIL-UMI aims to fill that gap. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:06:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/504199.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/504199.html The first Global Embodied AI Application Innovation Challenge and the 2026 China Robot Competition concluded on the afternoon of October 18. The events focused on embodied AI's ability to perform in real scenarios, reflecting the shift from technical demos toward application validation. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:12:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/014/611.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/014/611.htm Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in his Power On newsletter that Apple plans a HomeView smart-home hub with a motorized robotic arm, possibly launching as early as 2027. The device can rotate 360 degrees around its base and turn toward whoever is speaking via voice recognition, is expected to have a 9-inch screen, and is positioned as a higher-end model codenamed J595 that may get a new name or a Max/Ultra suffix. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:44:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/014/433.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/014/433.htm On the Sources podcast, Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI will build humanoid robots itself, arguing the world is designed for humans: doors, keyboards and tools all follow human form. He said appearance matters far less than building the brain that drives the robot, expects a striking demo by 2027, but said robots on the street are years away, without revealing form factor or partner timelines. — Source: IT之家 Humanoid Robots Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:11:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/014/419.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/014/419.htm Micron is developing Edge Inference Memory (EIM), a dedicated memory chip for physical AI that stacks low-power LPDDR on top of a logic die and sits beside the main AI chip to cut data-processing latency and raise system bandwidth. At SEDEX 2026 it said autonomous driving, humanoids and AR/VR are rising fast, that it is working with key customers, and that it plans to integrate EIM into LPDDR6. — Source: IT之家 Core Components Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:26:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/014/380.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/014/380.htm Unitree's showcase center has opened in Tianjin's TEDA Science and Technology Development Center. Its 1,189 sqm first-floor hall pairs a static exhibit of humanoid and quadruped robots plus servo joints and dexterous hands with six experience zones covering obstacle climbing, smart home, humanoid boxing, industrial sorting, power-grid inspection and robot comedy performances. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:21:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/podcast/physical-ai-is-more-than-robots-says-the-nvidia-veteran-now-investing-in-it/ https://techcrunch.com/podcast/physical-ai-is-more-than-robots-says-the-nvidia-veteran-now-investing-in-it/ Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms for seven years before becoming a VC, argues robotics is still in its Lego era: actuators, robotic hands, software and safety standards are all still being rebuilt. That runs counter to the view that a general foundation model will soon give robotics its ChatGPT moment; she also stresses physical AI extends beyond robots. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Embodied AI Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:30:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503865.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503865.html A QbitAI piece separates the roles of world models and VLA: VLA handles the can-do, turning perception into action, while world models handle think-before-acting, predicting and planning before execution. Combined, they take robots from understanding the world to rehearsing the next move, forming a fuller embodied brain. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:12:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503843.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503843.html UBTech's Thinker-WM took first place on all three widely recognized embodied world-model benchmarks, using a unified multimodal representation to deliver six capabilities with a single model, marking progress by a Chinese vendor in embodied world models. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503782.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503782.html Sichuan Embodied Technology has raised more than RMB 100 million, prices its product from RMB 98,000 and aims for 10,000-unit output, pitching emotional value into home scenarios. It reflects embodied-AI firms trying to enter the consumer market with lower prices and volume. — Source: 量子位 Funding & Startups Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:17:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503756.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503756.html A Chinese robot rallied 1,452 consecutive badminton shots to set a Guinness World Record, drawing attention from peers including Boston Dynamics. Behind it is a general physical motion platform emphasizing high-speed perception, trajectory prediction and real-time control. — Source: 量子位 Research Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:47:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/013/610.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/013/610.htm Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told a London Build a Claw event that OpenClaw is “the first truly trustworthy agent runtime”, likening it to an LLM for exoskeletons that gives large language models a real-time execution framework. He argues motors, joints, wheels and arms are just tools ultimately driven by agents, and that OpenClaw will especially advance robotics, while stressing that permission controls must come first. — Source: IT之家 Embodied AI Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/ep1fzlxxZTkWwo67.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/ep1fzlxxZTkWwo67.html At the 2026 Hong Kong Autumn Electronics Show, Wan Na Robotics launched NOVA21, a dexterous hand measuring 195x105x71 mm and close to human-hand size, with 21 active degrees of freedom all driven by direct-drive rotary actuators (thumb 5 DoF, the other four fingers 4 each). It offers >=20 N fingertip force, >=200 N four-finger grip force, 520 deg/s no-load finger speed, +/-0.2 mm repeat positioning, plus force control and back-drivability. — Source: 雷锋网 Core Components Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:26:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/HYxX8W4aXp8UgmIO.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/HYxX8W4aXp8UgmIO.html Poxiao Intelligence and Tinno launched SeePhys Hub, a full-body multimodal data-capture system made of a four-eye headband, two wristbands, three waist/leg motion trackers and a haptic glove. It synchronously captures first-person 360-degree vision, full-modal hand data and full-body motion, and its companion platform turns human data into multimodal training data for robot learning; it is the first engineered product on the team's EgoTouch/TouchAnything/TouchWorld line. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:08:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503294.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/503294.html Under the theme “embodied AI into real scenes”, this roundup highlights the 2026 Global Developer Pioneer Conference and International Embodied AI Skills Contest, tracking how embodied systems perform on real tasks and where the industry is heading. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:41:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/012/976.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/012/976.htm Hesai launched Kosmo One, billed as the first 8K AI spatial camera, with a 1-inch CMOS, 360-degree coverage and 100sqm reconstruction in 15 minutes, turning real scenes into physical-AI training data. It ships with the Kosmo World cloud platform and an initial 1,000-site pilot with Amap. — Source: IT之家 Core Components Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:21:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/sDAmOLZ58Kpz8ZlD.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/sDAmOLZ58Kpz8ZlD.html Ant Group's embodied-AI unit Ant Lingbo has signed cooperation deals with Longsheng Weirui, Damon Technology, De'erbang and other manufacturing and logistics firms, applying its embodied-native models and cloud toolchain to industrial loading/unloading, automotive workshops and high-speed flexible sorting. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/x6DMLw9up0rlycKH.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/x6DMLw9up0rlycKH.html At IROS 2026, a UPenn/MIT/Stanford team presented the RAPID closed-loop framework, which generalizes to multiple non-grasping tasks from a single human demonstration, and introduced the TR metric to diagnose the “vision gets it, the hand does not” breakdown. With TR-based adaptive guidance, dual-arm robots reached 83% real-world generalization on complex composite tasks. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:35:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/industrial-next-wants-factory-robots-to-switch-tasks-in-minutes-not-weeks/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/industrial-next-wants-factory-robots-to-switch-tasks-in-minutes-not-weeks/ Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor, aiming to cut factory robot task switching from weeks to minutes and improve flexibility for high-mix, low-volume production. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Industrial Robots Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/rivians-startup-mind-robotics-hires-former-ford-ev-chief-doug-field/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/rivians-startup-mind-robotics-hires-former-ford-ev-chief-doug-field/ Mind Robotics, the robotics startup incubated by Rivian, has hired Doug Field, who worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3. The move is seen as a signal of talent flowing from legacy automakers into robotics startups. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Funding & Startups Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:30:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/laplace-intelligence-red-teams-robots-and-self-driving-cars-before-they-hit-the-real-world/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/laplace-intelligence-red-teams-robots-and-self-driving-cars-before-they-hit-the-real-world/ University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Safety & Standards Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:30:00 +0800 https://www.ithome.com/1/011/376.htm https://www.ithome.com/1/011/376.htm Beijing proposes broader supply of next-generation intelligent terminals, explicitly including intelligent robots alongside AI PCs, wearables and other devices. — Source: IT之家 Industry Policy Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:08:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/A0uKolgD2esWoUfT.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/A0uKolgD2esWoUfT.html JEPA and spatial-intelligence approaches meet in an IROS 2026 benchmark focused on state prediction, policy training and real robot task completion rather than visual generation alone. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/4I8YKksz9V10Ih1R.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/4I8YKksz9V10Ih1R.html IROS 2026 shows embodied AI shifting from model concepts and flashy demos toward data, dexterous manipulation, benchmarks and engineering delivery. — Source: 雷锋网 Embodied AI Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:40:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/1evshSdPUrUacuRC.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/private/1evshSdPUrUacuRC.html New IROS 2026 work argues that blindly scaling data can degrade policies. Information density matters more than raw volume for drones, multi-robot communication and end-to-end control. — Source: 雷锋网 Research Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:28:00 +0800 https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/Pz34omTBnW9Y0LhO.html https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/Pz34omTBnW9Y0LhO.html Columbia researchers open-source FlexiTac, a piezoresistive tactile sensor designed to balance flexibility, cost, consistency and manufacturability. — Source: 雷锋网 Core Components Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:25:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/danu-robotics-fight-to-build-a-better-recycling-robot/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/danu-robotics-fight-to-build-a-better-recycling-robot/ Danu Robotics is working through complex material streams, recognition difficulty and labor dependency to turn a recycling robot into a reliable industrial system. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Industrial Robots Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502411.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502411.html The report focuses on causal intelligence in real systems, where the critical questions are control latency, state changes and whether replanning can meet production cycle requirements. — Source: 量子位 Industrial Robots Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:47:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502330.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502330.html Sharpa is expanding tactile coverage beyond fingertips to address contact force, slip and in-hand pose estimation during precise manipulation. — Source: 量子位 Core Components Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:15:00 +0800 https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502125.html https://www.qbitai.com/2026/10/502125.html A Tsinghua embodied model ranks first on a public benchmark while reportedly avoiding external model wrappers and extra data, highlighting efficiency in model architecture and methods. — Source: 量子位 Embodied AI Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:52:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/walking-robotic-hand https://spectrum.ieee.org/walking-robotic-hand IEEE Spectrum profiles a mobile robotic hand and revisits whether robots must be fully humanoid when localized manipulation can complete the task. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Core Components Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/robot-data-startup-mecka-ai-nabs-60m-from-sequoia/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/robot-data-startup-mecka-ai-nabs-60m-from-sequoia/ Mecka AI has raised $60 million for robot data, as investors increasingly treat training data as an infrastructure layer for robotics. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Funding & Startups Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:36:00 +0800 https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/hiphi-a-large-scale-benchmark-for-high-precision-human-motion-and-object-interaction/ https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/hiphi-a-large-scale-benchmark-for-high-precision-human-motion-and-object-interaction/ HiPHI aims to benchmark high-precision human motion and object interaction, providing a finer reference for robot imitation learning and dexterous manipulation. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:49:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigAFBVV95cUxPN2cxNEtMTnZoQlhCcWJra2ZNZWctczhkUXRHdWw1UVNOWURJdExyZWtkREZGamhDYjhxb0ZRX2dqa2V3NTV3VzAzRjhPRjFjOE0zcm5NNjdtNXB1cWJNR01SbVZJUDJvaGtwTXdXNnJpNVdVeTJsdTNhSmRNUjZxMQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigAFBVV95cUxPN2cxNEtMTnZoQlhCcWJra2ZNZWctczhkUXRHdWw1UVNOWURJdExyZWtkREZGamhDYjhxb0ZRX2dqa2V3NTV3VzAzRjhPRjFjOE0zcm5NNjdtNXB1cWJNR01SbVZJUDJvaGtwTXdXNnJpNVdVeTJsdTNhSmRNUjZxMQ?oc=5 The Next Web reports that San Francisco humanoid startup Minerva Humanoids raised $10 million, with robots aimed at dangerous industrial tasks such as bomb disposal and rig work. — Source: The Next Web Funding & Startups Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/can-safeworld-convince-people-that-gen-ai-robots-wont-hurt-them/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/can-safeworld-convince-people-that-gen-ai-robots-wont-hurt-them/ Safeworld is trying to make the safety boundaries of generative-AI robots easier to verify, especially when behavior in open environments is difficult to predict. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Safety & Standards Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiowFBVV95cUxPdlB3WE40MnpRb2RsaUFaV0tjekEyM2dMNFFWZTc0LWJEa3ZpUEFVVFZWTUtwR3lyY1JRRjFmTlVldHRWbHdZTks4TnR6aFJ3NXVwYXdRdFNKaFR0R241UUNQQVEtZ2hQb0F2WWZyUjNvWmpfNnBjUC1oUzhVdktrdXhFd2t3a2dRRzAtQS1TREZvM011MUlvVGVWaFBLYjlRdFpz?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiowFBVV95cUxPdlB3WE40MnpRb2RsaUFaV0tjekEyM2dMNFFWZTc0LWJEa3ZpUEFVVFZWTUtwR3lyY1JRRjFmTlVldHRWbHdZTks4TnR6aFJ3NXVwYXdRdFNKaFR0R241UUNQQVEtZ2hQb0F2WWZyUjNvWmpfNnBjUC1oUzhVdktrdXhFd2t3a2dRRzAtQS1TREZvM011MUlvVGVWaFBLYjlRdFpz?oc=5 FieldAI, founded in 2023, has signed a term sheet to raise $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, roughly five times its $2 billion mark just over a year ago. It previously raised more than $400 million from investors including Bezos' family office, Emerson Collective and Khosla Ventures. The company positions itself as a cross-embodiment general-purpose robot brain. — Source: Business Insider Funding & Startups Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/robust-robot-hand https://spectrum.ieee.org/robust-robot-hand Atlas's new hand prioritizes durability, grasping reliability and real industrial tasks rather than appearance-driven humanlike design. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Humanoid Robots Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:40:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxPZnV5OHlKc1pHb3lsSWtwanUzSTFOVnphbTlwVGNFOGQ2Rk56NFN5LVRtNXZ2b2tmXzBEZWVrc2tLLXFMeHUxdkI3TUJwTU9nb0JBQ2lRNkRrd0NCenVIeHdlek5TWUFHZGFSZlY0UWVUU3dMcjJEZ2VuR0JibW1iQWRPOXI1MjZwZGE1QkRqU2JQMWJSR051S1BRUFRESlVPZkxxY1ZkV0JEbzBvMnBmOS1FUU5FZWFXUmtsdFpLMUtKRVU?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxPZnV5OHlKc1pHb3lsSWtwanUzSTFOVnphbTlwVGNFOGQ2Rk56NFN5LVRtNXZ2b2tmXzBEZWVrc2tLLXFMeHUxdkI3TUJwTU9nb0JBQ2lRNkRrd0NCenVIeHdlek5TWUFHZGFSZlY0UWVUU3dMcjJEZ2VuR0JibW1iQWRPOXI1MjZwZGE1QkRqU2JQMWJSR051S1BRUFRESlVPZkxxY1ZkV0JEbzBvMnBmOS1FUU5FZWFXUmtsdFpLMUtKRVU?oc=5 The Standard (Hong Kong), citing CNBC, reports that China has raised the bar for humanoid robot companies seeking IPOs in an effort to cool the overheated sector. — Source: The Standard (HK) Industry Policy Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxNUnNveThPbDVwUWdxWi1YM2NXWW1yaFpMZ05US0NnQlRUSU54MFFZd2xfY0sxdkhOQklnakp0UklGUGFKeU1TSkt5dE14OUd1Yy1NNUhUeWx3VjlHNU5yZ1h6YjdDdmNrQkFhYkdUWTNfbjR2UXFHc2dJLUxLOTVjYllfd09SQXl4V240RVhJZlFOQTVuUEtyUUp5cVg0VEdRVUNHSXdUUVlVeDZsdTB6aEZZXzZTNWp3RnhETmo1YndiT3M?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxNUnNveThPbDVwUWdxWi1YM2NXWW1yaFpMZ05US0NnQlRUSU54MFFZd2xfY0sxdkhOQklnakp0UklGUGFKeU1TSkt5dE14OUd1Yy1NNUhUeWx3VjlHNU5yZ1h6YjdDdmNrQkFhYkdUWTNfbjR2UXFHc2dJLUxLOTVjYllfd09SQXl4V240RVhJZlFOQTVuUEtyUUp5cVg0VEdRVUNHSXdUUVlVeDZsdTB6aEZZXzZTNWp3RnhETmo1YndiT3M?oc=5 A3 (Association for Advancing Automation) reports that U.S. humanoid robot company Apptronik has raised nearly $1 billion, one of the largest funding rounds in the humanoid robot sector. — Source: A3 Association for Advancing Automation Funding & Startups Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:43:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/meet-feather-the-startup-building-the-android-of-robotics-for-developers/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/meet-feather-the-startup-building-the-android-of-robotics-for-developers/ Feather is building a unified software platform to lower robotics development barriers and let different hardware and applications share deployment and ecosystem capabilities. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Funding & Startups Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:52:00 +0800 https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/pitpros-first-tire-changing-robot-goes-live-in-canada/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/pitpros-first-tire-changing-robot-goes-live-in-canada/ PitPro has deployed its first tire-changing robot in Canada, showing fixed-station automation extending into a high-frequency service task. — Source: TechCrunch Robotics Industrial Robots Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/physical-ai-robot-cybersecurity-vicone https://spectrum.ieee.org/physical-ai-robot-cybersecurity-vicone The article examines cyber and behavioral risks in physical AI and argues that robot safety must cover connectivity, perception and autonomous decision-making. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Safety & Standards Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:51:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-safety https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-safety IEEE Spectrum examines Digit 5's safety boundaries in human-robot collaboration and the verification needed before humanoids enter real worker environments. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Humanoid Robots Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:22:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixwFBVV95cUxPUG9xNjNSb3NaNnQtX1dBNzV0WmJFTFdCRS1uLXkzQUt3OTJFTmxzWUZ0c2l2RFUxZGU1R1lKcHgydDBURVozRmlZTU41aXZvVTBuQmFfM2RUSFJFVmRnY2w4Qm1fWEFUdnpoVVFCd3o5RFRncjhaNGN3NHNVaHNqUFhFMnBJanJHM1lCSHlmTzN3dFJqT2RKY3N0TG9keUo3al94SEJCSGlnT3drTjU0UF85Rkt3YU14U21TTXZqcURKY09XUF9V?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixwFBVV95cUxPUG9xNjNSb3NaNnQtX1dBNzV0WmJFTFdCRS1uLXkzQUt3OTJFTmxzWUZ0c2l2RFUxZGU1R1lKcHgydDBURVozRmlZTU41aXZvVTBuQmFfM2RUSFJFVmRnY2w4Qm1fWEFUdnpoVVFCd3o5RFRncjhaNGN3NHNVaHNqUFhFMnBJanJHM1lCSHlmTzN3dFJqT2RKY3N0TG9keUo3al94SEJCSGlnT3drTjU0UF85Rkt3YU14U21TTXZqcURKY09XUF9V?oc=5 In an exclusive report, Reuters says a Boston Dynamics executive indicated that an IPO for the humanoid robot maker in 2027 is unlikely. — Source: Reuters Funding & Startups Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/tactile-data-robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/tactile-data-robots Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers to robots handling everyday tasks, and touch is seen as key, yet quality tactile data has long been lacking. As vision-language-action models improve, academic labs and startups are racing to build new tactile datasets and techniques that turn feel into trainable data. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Core Components Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:22:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxOTEpBVFlyZnczeEV1ekJtUmQ2M0d6Vk9yT0cwMXRFbFRVaG5yQUgtZTh2bkpNODgwbm9aOFYtOEkwcTdYTmNzTjVqV2FseVAzbFFhNGhfRXZHT1F3b0JvUTY4a1N3dGNRU0d4MHlYNjJJM2owMHVQUTNBRWtfQ2xMRmVrbExUMXVSVnVuc3FqVFEwcWE2S2wxVThKM1JUaUh1Tm9vUGdEY25nWlBoLWNFRVktaVF3OU5FNjEwcm1wcEtrb3BoNWxFMQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxOTEpBVFlyZnczeEV1ekJtUmQ2M0d6Vk9yT0cwMXRFbFRVaG5yQUgtZTh2bkpNODgwbm9aOFYtOEkwcTdYTmNzTjVqV2FseVAzbFFhNGhfRXZHT1F3b0JvUTY4a1N3dGNRU0d4MHlYNjJJM2owMHVQUTNBRWtfQ2xMRmVrbExUMXVSVnVuc3FqVFEwcWE2S2wxVThKM1JUaUh1Tm9vUGdEY25nWlBoLWNFRVktaVF3OU5FNjEwcm1wcEtrb3BoNWxFMQ?oc=5 Benzinga reports that U.S. humanoid robot company Apptronik saw its private secondary-market share surge 3,600% amid sector hype, reflecting strong investor appetite for humanoid robot names. — Source: Benzinga Funding & Startups Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/blood-draw-robot-vitestro-aletta https://spectrum.ieee.org/blood-draw-robot-vitestro-aletta A patient places an arm in a cradle and presses a button, and the machine takes over: near-infrared light scans the inner elbow for veins, alcohol is applied, an ultrasound probe maps vessel depth and curvature, Doppler checks flow direction to rule out the artery, then a cuff tightens and the needle draws blood into collection tubes. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNallKUzktNHBLcnV4YW9sZ3liNGpfVVBQdDZHWUY4UTUwVnZGZXhDUWJ2MExhTWN5M2xGdVFzWkRwT2drMlQ5TmRNeWdCaHdKcW5uQ2ZYSko1WTBFTW56ZnRPR0lXdVlhVmdfWnF5QU9uLVJDZVF2b2RobUViU2F3VEUtQ0NzcHlJU1hIT0NYVUtpeWRtY1E?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNallKUzktNHBLcnV4YW9sZ3liNGpfVVBQdDZHWUY4UTUwVnZGZXhDUWJ2MExhTWN5M2xGdVFzWkRwT2drMlQ5TmRNeWdCaHdKcW5uQ2ZYSko1WTBFTW56ZnRPR0lXdVlhVmdfWnF5QU9uLVJDZVF2b2RobUViU2F3VEUtQ0NzcHlJU1hIT0NYVUtpeWRtY1E?oc=5 The Robot Report says U.S. humanoid robot company Agility Robotics disclosed about $1.8 million in revenue ahead of its SPAC merger, giving observers a direct reference for its commercialization progress. — Source: The Robot Report Funding & Startups Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/industrial-robot-cable-carrier-protection https://spectrum.ieee.org/industrial-robot-cable-carrier-protection The article focuses on wear, dust, chips and high-speed motion protection for dynamic industrial robot cable carriers, showing that cable-system life depends on structure and motion boundaries. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Industrial Robots Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:18:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-ball-robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-ball-robot A Texas A&M team built a 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot that rolls over rocks, gravel and wet clay. The team envisions it exploring lunar craters and other difficult terrain, where a rolling inflatable body may handle loose, steep ground better than wheeled or legged designs. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Research Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxPLWhsUDJBT2FqMUpmRXVMLU9sVWJ3ZDVxX0VFSThyRU5VWVFHMlY5RmFzcW9SdkNCaXp5RUFiem0yVUJwNzFNS09mWXdBTEJ2YkpyME00M0ZReTVvbktNd0dhOVBnZkxLYWh0aFM5QVVLYng5c2lxSHpZRTFDM0NsUWRwUlFmOFNqTC0zUFhNT1p6V3lObmItbFJ2YXV0RVItaF90aG5kWlBlUQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxPLWhsUDJBT2FqMUpmRXVMLU9sVWJ3ZDVxX0VFSThyRU5VWVFHMlY5RmFzcW9SdkNCaXp5RUFiem0yVUJwNzFNS09mWXdBTEJ2YkpyME00M0ZReTVvbktNd0dhOVBnZkxLYWh0aFM5QVVLYng5c2lxSHpZRTFDM0NsUWRwUlFmOFNqTC0zUFhNT1p6V3lObmItbFJ2YXV0RVItaF90aG5kWlBlUQ?oc=5 Moomoo reports that Goldman Sachs has quadrupled its forecast for the humanoid robot market size, expecting e-commerce warehouses and automotive production lines to be the earliest adopters. — Source: Moomoo Humanoid Robots Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE9uYjIyeHRTZm1OMjBjcHRPX1J2NGE4QjBzTWlfUHEtcmpIdW8xSDJXOG43XzhRWGlCby0wbElwOU9IUFpOaHlnd0xpbmRYSW5CYzJ2QVowVGppRlVjRVlhZ0w5cG1mcEVKbVlMbTZuQ0dhVzdLZXc?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE9uYjIyeHRTZm1OMjBjcHRPX1J2NGE4QjBzTWlfUHEtcmpIdW8xSDJXOG43XzhRWGlCby0wbElwOU9IUFpOaHlnd0xpbmRYSW5CYzJ2QVowVGppRlVjRVlhZ0w5cG1mcEVKbVlMbTZuQ0dhVzdLZXc?oc=5 SoftBank Group is in talks to acquire a majority stake in humanoid maker 1X Technologies at a valuation of roughly $6 billion. 1X had sought $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation last fall but raised less than half; its soft-bodied home humanoid Neo is priced at $20,000 with more than 10,000 pre-orders and no units delivered yet. — Source: BigGo Finance Funding & Startups Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizgFBVV95cUxQVjJyTVlrdHN2TkdoNFNSYmFUVy1Gd2JSSlZUMEVUbUFTUjlsUm5sN2kwRC1hM0NLcUctRkxZMXZqU1RWQllOa2JtSWp2NG8xbW9hRVkwYm5jM2ZyZ0JxTm85MDF5TVFQWXRXMVV4MG1iMXlxM04yUDlMTWJybzlZbkNaUnJyOWtUNmw2NFk4WXU1VjlQTzdUY2pQSzExVk84WHFtRHBNNVNlSThPbUlOWUpQcjQ4a2VpMkd1bUQ3UmlqYzhUeEVWMUl1T1NpQQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizgFBVV95cUxQVjJyTVlrdHN2TkdoNFNSYmFUVy1Gd2JSSlZUMEVUbUFTUjlsUm5sN2kwRC1hM0NLcUctRkxZMXZqU1RWQllOa2JtSWp2NG8xbW9hRVkwYm5jM2ZyZ0JxTm85MDF5TVFQWXRXMVV4MG1iMXlxM04yUDlMTWJybzlZbkNaUnJyOWtUNmw2NFk4WXU1VjlQTzdUY2pQSzExVk84WHFtRHBNNVNlSThPbUlOWUpQcjQ4a2VpMkd1bUQ3UmlqYzhUeEVWMUl1T1NpQQ?oc=5 NEC's Orchestrating Future Fund made an undisclosed investment in US robotics startup Dexmate. Its wheeled humanoid Vega runs Nvidia Jetson Thor with 128GB of memory and about 2,070 AI TFLOPS; a 4.8 kWh battery provides roughly 20 hours of runtime, or more than 16 hours under full AI compute load. — Source: AI Insider Funding & Startups Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxOWGJpdl9Ua09ocllZQVR4N2RXYmtOSGh5MVJXam1md3ptc2UwTDRZbDdQSjEwendtX002S1pwZFNXUXlTc3doWmx5WVhnNm5ZTHZLdlNmakNrR1g2eXA3NVQ2OS1aYkxKcEZ3SDI2QldBUmJGUHVBTGt3Qm5Ybi00TTJ4MzRpenVmbXByRHJiYnpyOEh5eTBfOGlSaDZiQzhsOHRmWm96bk9aRk9fcmdIeG1GSktWWkdlZmp5azNWcXhheWMtY1Fscw?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxOWGJpdl9Ua09ocllZQVR4N2RXYmtOSGh5MVJXam1md3ptc2UwTDRZbDdQSjEwendtX002S1pwZFNXUXlTc3doWmx5WVhnNm5ZTHZLdlNmakNrR1g2eXA3NVQ2OS1aYkxKcEZ3SDI2QldBUmJGUHVBTGt3Qm5Ybi00TTJ4MzRpenVmbXByRHJiYnpyOEh5eTBfOGlSaDZiQzhsOHRmWm96bk9aRk9fcmdIeG1GSktWWkdlZmp5azNWcXhheWMtY1Fscw?oc=5 Stocktwits reports that XPeng's humanoid robot bet has reached a $6.3 billion valuation while XPEV shares continue to fall, highlighting disagreement over how valuation matches near-term results. — Source: Stocktwits Humanoid Robots Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPWU1keWs2VTY5RnFfVVhKNFh5U0thN0MwVDBjNVBITU1aVkpUblVncF9CS3BBN01RXzNxdkRGSTBMbjR4N1lzQ1lSSmdWdEVMYmNkY0NWcnZIZFkyZWtzSGlLTnJaRWZLeWhaQlRwQUFOS3Q3ZXVkU3hzUFZDeFJsc21uWktVb25MZGMyNlZOaFJ1QQ?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPWU1keWs2VTY5RnFfVVhKNFh5U0thN0MwVDBjNVBITU1aVkpUblVncF9CS3BBN01RXzNxdkRGSTBMbjR4N1lzQ1lSSmdWdEVMYmNkY0NWcnZIZFkyZWtzSGlLTnJaRWZLeWhaQlRwQUFOS3Q3ZXVkU3hzUFZDeFJsc21uWktVb25MZGMyNlZOaFJ1QQ?oc=5 Dexmal founder Tang Wenbin said the company is talking to investors at a valuation of about RMB 20 billion (roughly $3 billion). The Alibaba-backed humanoid maker booked more than 300 orders last year and plans 1,000 robots this year, rising to 10,000 by 2026; Unitree raised about RMB 904 million in Shanghai at an RMB 18.5 billion valuation. — Source: Briefs Finance Funding & Startups Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPNkFIY05HZmlhdVF2dG85cVVfQ21RZlZHdTl3YWM2MWoyOEVJZ3ctcmhGNTZXSkdMeFNjdGltSENxcU9hLU0zNV81a1ltTlJLVTNQRVFCS04zZkh4UUNrOW43eDRnM05Nc0U0Q1RXczUzTVJZX1BydG1zd2hER3R6Y3ZlTnJLSnpIQjE0d0VLYkJkZ0FoMmN0OFdtVktqNTg?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPNkFIY05HZmlhdVF2dG85cVVfQ21RZlZHdTl3YWM2MWoyOEVJZ3ctcmhGNTZXSkdMeFNjdGltSENxcU9hLU0zNV81a1ltTlJLVTNQRVFCS04zZkh4UUNrOW43eDRnM05Nc0U0Q1RXczUzTVJZX1BydG1zd2hER3R6Y3ZlTnJLSnpIQjE0d0VLYkJkZ0FoMmN0OFdtVktqNTg?oc=5 Yahoo Finance reports that Chinese robot maker Unitree raised $905 million in its Shanghai IPO, with shares surging 542% on the first trading day. — Source: Yahoo Finance Funding & Startups Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/persona-ai-humanoid-robot-welding https://spectrum.ieee.org/persona-ai-humanoid-robot-welding Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies focused on getting robots into real jobs rather than YouTube demos. It chose shipyard welding, a task that is economically viable for robots today and was also the job of some of the first industrial robots ever sold; the piece examines the feasibility and engineering challenges. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Humanoid Robots Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:33:00 +0800 https://news.google.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?oc=5 https://news.google.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?oc=5 Pulse 2.0 reports that San Francisco-based Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million to combine humanoid robots, remote human operators and AI autonomy into an 'unlimited workforce' for warehouses and factories. — Source: Pulse 2.0 Funding & Startups Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycling-robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycling-robot With more than 4 million industrial robots in use worldwide and forecasts above 16 million, end-of-life robots are becoming a new problem. Researchers are exploring robots that disassemble broken machines and recover key parts such as motors and reducers to lower remanufacturing costs. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Industrial Robots Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:01:00 +0800 https://spectrum.ieee.org/fcc-covered-list-mobile-robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/fcc-covered-list-mobile-robots The U.S. FCC's Covered List, first published in 2021, added mobile communicating robots weighing more than 2 kg and solar power inverters on July 28, meaning new products in these categories from any foreign country are no longer eligible for import. The Defense Department-driven expansion has the robotics industry assessing supply-chain and overseas-market impact. — Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics Industry Policy Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxOS3dka05CUTRXdFJPOUNXSU9kNlRvRWpaeWp6ZVZQUjY0bGxhWG40eU95MzB6UWhLOWptNnVYbGVyWF9rQ2F4SVY1QnFNWXQ1cmJlOU16anl5cUFMZW4tR0ZkdnZmQmpmWm5vUUtWay1QTTZSY2wxbkVrM1BQX0JkUi1KRTUyaHh4bUNKMXRBc0F0YjR3Q3J0cE42YkFKS0dsQ3NsczF6R053VmdZU1hXM0treEhkRkE?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxOS3dka05CUTRXdFJPOUNXSU9kNlRvRWpaeWp6ZVZQUjY0bGxhWG40eU95MzB6UWhLOWptNnVYbGVyWF9rQ2F4SVY1QnFNWXQ1cmJlOU16anl5cUFMZW4tR0ZkdnZmQmpmWm5vUUtWay1QTTZSY2wxbkVrM1BQX0JkUi1KRTUyaHh4bUNKMXRBc0F0YjR3Q3J0cE42YkFKS0dsQ3NsczF6R053VmdZU1hXM0treEhkRkE?oc=5 DC Velocity reports that British humanoid robot maker Humanoid raised $152 million in venture funding at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. — Source: DC Velocity Funding & Startups Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0800 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE1uemplUXZfbnhPZ2FzdnJMbHM0VW91eHFwRU85VEtDd1JMbXVOdUZiaURuM2E0RVRaZkw4WHdjM1E3cTVoTnlDSGlDSFQ5ekFJMm40TjlFeUxia2ItcUh1bkpyWnNTOEtZS1k5eFhka3M4REVvcHc?oc=5 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE1uemplUXZfbnhPZ2FzdnJMbHM0VW91eHFwRU85VEtDd1JMbXVOdUZiaURuM2E0RVRaZkw4WHdjM1E3cTVoTnlDSGlDSFQ5ekFJMm40TjlFeUxia2ItcUh1bkpyWnNTOEtZS1k5eFhka3M4REVvcHc?oc=5 BigGo Finance reports that Foxconn plans to invest nearly NT$300 million in Churchill Capital XI, the SPAC advancing a merger with U.S. humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics, giving Foxconn a position in the humanoid robot IPO. — Source: BigGo Finance Funding & Startups Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:38:00 +0800