RoboSignal Daily · 2026-10-23 · Friday
ROBOSIGNAL
One Small Leap for a Muscle, One Giant Step for Robotics
ETH Zurich researchers have created biohybrid robots with living muscle tissue and soft artificial scaffolds, enabling visible and powerful movements such as jumping, swimming, walking, and grasping. The integration of muscle and scaffold design allows for a range of motion up to eleven times greater than earlier systems, though long-term deployment remains a challenge.
Research
ETH Zurich — Robotics research newsFirst-partyOne Small Leap for a Muscle, One Giant Step for Robotics
ETH Zurich researchers have created biohybrid robots with living muscle tissue and soft artificial scaffolds, enabling visible and powerful movements such as jumping, swimming, walking, and grasping. The integration of muscle and scaffold design allows for a range of motion up to eleven times greater than earlier systems, though long-term deployment remains a challenge.
Universal Robots — Official announcementsFirst-partyTeradyne Robotics and Sereact Partner to Scale Physical AI Solutions for Retail and Logistics
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact have announced a partnership to deploy AI-powered physical solutions in retail and logistics, using Universal Robots' arms with Sereact's Cortex platform. The collaboration includes live deployments at Zalando's fulfillment centers, demonstrating the ability to handle unstructured tasks like returns processing. The solution runs on NVIDIA technologies, including Isaac Sim and Jetson Thor, and is being scaled globally.
MuJoCo — ReleasesFirst-partyMuJoCo 3.17.0 Release: Batch API, Flex Improvements, and Texture Handling Enhancements
MuJoCo 3.17.0 introduces a batch API for parallel simulation, improved flex modeling with bending elasticity, and enhanced memory management for texture handling, supporting more efficient and scalable physics-based simulations in robotics and embodied AI.
NVIDIA Open Sources Robot Data Engine Flora, Annotation Cost is 1/125 of GPT-6 Astra
NVIDIA has released and open-sourced the robot data engine Flora, which transforms large volumes of robot video into high-quality training data through the collaboration of three models. Flora performs exceptionally well in multiple benchmark tests, achieving an annotation quality score of 57.1% and an estimated cost of $0.72 per hour of source video, which is only 1/125 of GPT-6 Astra's cost.
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact Collaborate on Industrial Physical AI Deployment
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact have announced a partnership to accelerate industrial AI deployments in retail, logistics, and manufacturing. Sereact's Cortex platform runs on Universal Robots' arms, enabling automation of unstructured tasks like returns handling and piece-picking. The solution is already deployed at live customer sites in Europe, with NVIDIA technologies underpinning the simulation and deployment pipeline.
96 Robots Evolve Together, Success Rate Surpasses Humans, Tsinghua, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Wuwen Xinqiong Propose 'Collective Experience Learning'
Tsinghua University, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Wuwen Xinqiong jointly propose the Collective Experience Learning (CEL) framework, which uses a method called Failure-Driven Experience Retrieval and Tuning (FERT) to enable robot swarms to share execution experiences and collaboratively improve strategies. In five real-world tasks, FERT increases task success rates to 93.3%-99.2% without relying on expert data. The study also builds a Fault-Tolerant Asynchronous Training System (FATS) to ensure continuous learning even when robots fail.
NVIDIA Advances Isaac Platform for General-Purpose Robotics With New Reference Humanoid Frameworks, Simulation Pipelines and Data
NVIDIA announced a major expansion of the Isaac open robotics development platform, adding a reference humanoid, datasets, and runtime, along with updates to its robot learning framework. The Agile ONE SN humanoid, built on Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor, is designed for research and development with integrated safety systems. The new technologies aim to accelerate the path from data to deployment for general-purpose robots.
NEURA Robotics — NewsFirst-partyA Powerhouse for Physical AI: NEURA Robotics and TUM Open RoboGym in Munich
NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened the TUM RoboGym, a joint research and training center for robotics and Physical AI. The event includes the launch of the 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid robot, designed for serial production and powered by Neuron AI. The center combines real-world data, human demonstrations, and simulation to train robots for industrial tasks, with participation from over ten industries.
Surgical robotics — News discoveryChina's Voice: Domestic Neurointerventional Robotic System PANVIS STAR® Completes Validation of Five Major Neurointerventional Procedures in Preclinical Animal Study
A preclinical animal study conducted by Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Biomedical Robot Co., Ltd. in collaboration with Professor Jianmin Liu's team at Shanghai Changhai Hospital has validated the capabilities of the neurointerventional robotic system PANVIS STAR®. The system successfully completed five major procedures, including cerebral angiography, aneurysm coil embolization, flow diverter deployment, vertebral artery stenting, and carotid artery stenting, with no device-related complications or vascular injury. The study, published in the Journal of Robotic Surgery, marks a significant step toward treatment-capable robotic systems in neurointerventional procedures.
Deployments
Global First Robot Elevator Standard, Wanglong Delivers First Implementation
Wanglong has delivered the first implementation of the global standard for robot elevator interoperability, SS713, in Singapore's Altez apartment. The solution supports safe, efficient, and scalable robot elevator operations, with deployments in Vietnam, Thailand, and other regions. It enables large-scale robot clusters to operate safely and efficiently, reducing congestion and enhancing safety through intelligent coordination.
NVIDIA Upgrades Isaac General Robotics Platform: Introduces New Humanoid Robot Reference Unit, Simulation Pipeline, Etc
NVIDIA announced a major expansion of its open-source robotics development platform, NVIDIA Isaac™, adding a new humanoid robot reference unit, accompanying dataset, and runtime, along with upgrades to the robotics learning framework. The platform integrates simulation, training, and deployment tools, shortening the cycle from development to real-world application.
Industry
Bear Robotics Launches KINO-2 with NVIDIA Collaboration for Robot Learning
Bear Robotics has launched KINO-2, a robot-learning platform that transforms task demonstrations into deployable manipulation skills for its KR1 humanoid robot. The platform integrates with NVIDIA Isaac OS and leverages foundation models to improve on-device inference speed, supporting both in-house and external models. KINO-2 is being introduced at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, demonstrating its capabilities in warehouse management tasks.
Briefs
- In 2027, Not Letting General Models Control Robots Isn't Cutting-Edge AIChinese robotics — Research news discovery
- NVIDIA upgrades Isaac general-purpose robot platform: launches new humanoid robot reference platform, simulation pipeline, etcChinese robotics — Deployment discovery
- Maxinsights Launches MaxLoop and MaxGlove to Enhance Physical AI Data CollectionRobotics 24/7 — Industry reporting
- ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Scaled Velocity FeedforwardarXiv Robotics — research abstracts
- AgiBot World Colosseo: A Large-scale Manipulation Platform for Scalable and Intelligent Embodied SystemsarXiv Robotics — research abstracts
- Qianjue Technology Releases Predictive World Model Polibrain, Enabling Cross-Entity Intelligent ReuseQbitAI — Robotics
- Google DeepMind uses Gemini 4 Argon to teach Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid new skills from videoRobotics & Automation News
- The Multiform Layout of Embodied Intelligence: How Pudu Robotics Builds a Cross-Form Capability SystemRoboSpeak — WeChat
- NVIDIA and Agile Robots Launch Agile ONE SN Humanoid Robot Platform for 2027 DeploymentChinese robotics — Hardware and sensing
- Conduit 3 sneak peek: drive robots and move arms from your iPhoneROS Discourse — Community updates