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  1. RoboSpeak — WeChat72

    A Gradient Grid Structure Enables a Flexible Tactile Sensor to Overcome the 'Impossible Triangle' in Touch Sensing

    A team from the University of Science and Technology of China, in collaboration with several international universities, has developed a flexible tactile sensor called GriFIPS that addresses the 'impossible triangle' challenge in touch sensing. The sensor uses a gradient grid structure and a liquid metal composite electrode to achieve high sensitivity, wide linear range, and stable performance. It is capable of detecting pressures from 2.1 Pa to 360 kPa, covering the full range of human touch perception. The sensor is integrated into a dexterous robotic hand for tasks such as object recognition, texture classification, and force sensing, demonstrating its potential for real-world applications.

2026-10-30Fri
  1. Robotics & Automation News82

    Bleu Robotics Raises €5 Million to Scale Humanoid Robot Deployment in Factories

    Bleu Robotics, a Paris-based startup, has raised €5 million in a pre-seed round to scale its software solution for industrial humanoid robots. The company aims to reduce the full deployment process to under an hour by using abductive learning, which enables robots to learn new tasks from as few as ten operator demonstrations. This approach eliminates the need for large datasets and long training cycles, allowing for cost-effective and scalable deployment in manufacturing settings.

  2. Robotics — Robot learning news discovery72

    KRAFTON Develops Socially Intelligent AI for Robots to Better Understand People

    KRAFTON, the company behind the global gaming phenomenon PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, is advancing research into socially intelligent robots through its subsidiary Ludo Robotics. The company has developed Ludi 0.2, an updated robotic intelligence system that enhances a robot's ability to interpret human intent, respond to feedback, and adapt to changing environments. The system integrates vision-language models, navigation, and manipulation capabilities, with a focus on social intelligence, memory, gesture interpretation, and physical movement. Ludo Robotics aims to bring conversation, reasoning, and physical action together to enable more natural human-robot collaboration.

  3. Tech Xplore — Robotics78

    Armored caterpillars offer robot designers lessons in crossing slippery glass

    Researchers from the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Palermo studied how caterpillars move across various surfaces, including glass, and developed a mathematical model to simulate their locomotion. By adding artificial armor and weights, they improved the caterpillars' ability to crawl on smooth surfaces, offering insights for the design of bio-inspired soft robots.

  4. Tech Xplore — Robotics82

    Robot Moth Grows UV Sensor Using Artificial Circulatory System

    Researchers from the University of Tartu and the Italian Institute of Technology developed a moth-shaped robot that uses an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks and grow a light sensor where UV light strikes. The robot's body is 3D-printed with microchannels that allow fluid to flow, enabling the synthesis of a conductive polymer sensor. This approach allows the robot to create new hardware on-site, enhancing its adaptability to unpredictable environments.

  5. IEEE Spectrum — Robotics72

    Video Friday: Spot Demonstrates Whole-Body Manipulation

    IEEE Spectrum's Video Friday highlights Spot's whole-body manipulation capabilities, along with other robotics projects such as humanoid mobility, robotic hands, and specialized industrial robots. The video also includes demonstrations of AI-driven drone racing and energy-efficient amphibious robots, showcasing the breadth of current robotics innovation.

  9. Robotics — Web news discovery72

    AI Robotics May Need 10 Million Hours of Interaction Data to Reach Production-Level Capabilities

    A Goldman Sachs report highlights that general-purpose AI robotics may require approximately 10 million hours of high-quality, multimodal interaction data to achieve production-level capabilities. The report identifies key challenges in physical interaction data, spatial perception, and real-time execution, suggesting that advances in AI models alone may not be sufficient for commercial viability without improvements in physical precision and reliability.

  10. arXiv Robotics — research abstracts82

    Kinematic-Tactile Aligned Dexterous Retargeting with Contact Wrench Space Alignment

    This research presents a three-stage framework for dexterous retargeting that aligns human and robot hand kinematics and tactile information through contact wrench space. The method achieves 96.7% replay success in real robot experiments, demonstrating effective transfer of physical interaction data for manipulation tasks.

  11. arXiv Robotics — research abstracts82

    Tactus: Tactile & Pose Sensing Glove for Natural Dexterity Data Collection

    This research paper presents Tactus, a textile-integrated sensing glove that enables accurate contact force and hand pose sensing during natural manipulation. The glove is designed to minimize interference with human movement, featuring a thin 3D-knit form factor, capacitive tactile sensors, and IMU-fused pose tracking. It includes calibration pipelines and standardized benchmarking protocols for tactile force regression and hand pose estimation, achieving a minimum detectable force of 0.59 N and 11.0 mm fingertip keypoint relative error during occlusion.

  12. Robotics — Chinese web discovery68

    Xinyan Robotics Launches Embodied Family Agent 'Bubbo 1'

    Xinyan Robotics officially launched its first embodied family agent, 'Bubbo 1', at a product launch event in Beijing. The robot is designed to serve as a companion for both children and elderly family members, featuring advanced sensors, expressive capabilities, and emotional recognition. It is available for purchase starting at 9,499 RMB.

2026-10-28Wed
  1. MIT — Robotics

    A soft robot could help doctors diagnose and treat disorders of the small intestine

    MIT engineers have developed a soft robotic enteroscope that can navigate the small intestine, perform imaging, deliver drugs, and remove tissue samples. Inspired by snake locomotion and kirigami, the robot uses inflatable actuators and textured coatings to enhance traction and maneuverability, offering a potential alternative to traditional endoscopic procedures.

  3. arXiv Robotics — research abstracts82

    HumiMimic: Mimetic Embodiment Transfer of Human-Humanoid Interaction from In-the-Wild Videos

    This research proposes HumiTransfer, a framework that converts in-the-wild human-human interaction videos into physically plausible human-humanoid interactions. The method reconstructs 3D human motion, transfers participants to target humanoid embodiments using interaction modeling, and produces a dataset of 500,000 frames for two humanoid robots. The approach preserves inter-body relationships and contact accuracy, with real-world deployments confirming the physical executability of transferred motions.

2026-10-27Tue
  1. IEEE Spectrum — Robotics78

    Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?

    VicOne LAB R7 explores how adversarial inputs can alter robot behavior, challenging safety assumptions. The article discusses risks from manipulated sensor data, cyber attacks, and the importance of testing safety systems against deliberate threats. It also outlines five key questions for safety and security teams to ensure robot behavior remains safe under adversarial conditions.

2026-10-26Mon
  1. Chinese robotics — Deployment discovery

    JD Logistics × Zhiyuan Robotics: Embodied Robot G2 Max Applied in Zhi Wang Warehouse

    Zhiyuan Robotics has deployed the G2 Max, an industrial-grade embodied robot, in JD Logistics' Zhi Wang warehouse for inbound handling tasks. The robot can carry up to 50kg with high precision, achieving over 99% operational success rate. This marks a real-world application of embodied intelligence, with JD Logistics emphasizing the importance of industrial scenarios for testing and refining such technologies.

2026-10-24Sat
  1. RoboSpeak — WeChat65

    Neura Robotics Launches Training Infrastructure for Humanoid Robots

    Neura Robotics, a German humanoid robot company, is shifting focus from hardware production to training infrastructure. Their TUM RoboGym and Neuraverse platform aim to systematize the teaching of physical tasks, enabling scalable and reusable skills across different robots and industries. The company emphasizes the importance of real-world data and physical interaction in training robots for industrial applications.

  2. Chinese robotics — Hardware and sensing78

    110 Humanoid Robots Complete Complex Synchronized Actions, Break Guinness World Record

    110 humanoid robots completed complex synchronized actions in 5 minutes and 43 seconds, successfully breaking the Guinness World Record. The system achieved high levels of autonomous operation, including autonomous positioning, dynamic formation, and task scheduling, marking an important step toward the practical application of humanoid robots.

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