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2026-10-18Sun441–460 records
  1. Chinese robotics — Company news discovery68

    Doku Robotics Unveils Full Line of Embodied Intelligence Products for Industrial Applications

    Doku Robotics showcased its full range of embodied intelligence products, including joint modules, force-controlled mechanical arms, and humanoid robots, at the 2026 Global Leaders Conference. The company emphasized its focus on industrial deployment, with applications in semiconductor manufacturing, welding, and automotive sectors. The products are designed to meet the specific needs of industrial environments through advanced perception, motion control, and task execution capabilities.

  2. Chinese robotics — Hardware and sensing78

    2026 China International Industrial Fair Robotics Pavilion Preview: Robots Shift from Dancing to Competing for Workspaces

    At the 2026 China International Industrial Fair, robotics exhibits shifted from performance-based demonstrations to practical industrial applications. Robots were shown performing tasks such as package sorting, chip insertion, and assembly line operations, highlighting a move toward real-world deployment and integration in manufacturing and logistics.

  3. QbitAI — Robotics on WeChat82

    Drawing Lines to Control Robots: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Proposes a Sparse Input Strategy Guidance Framework

    RoboPrompt is a robot control framework proposed by a team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which allows users to intuitively guide robot actions through sparse inputs such as points, trajectories, or directional commands. The framework employs a two-stage design, translating human intent into action drafts and then refining their execution through a lower-level policy. Experiments show that RoboPrompt significantly improves the success rate of robot tasks and reduces the need for manual intervention.

  4. RoboSpeak — WeChat82

    Zero-Shot Real-World Deployment. RAI Institute Creates 5-Motor Bicycle Robot: 8 m/s, Half-Second Aerial Flips, 1-Meter Jump Platform

    The RAI Institute's UMV robot, a bicycle-like machine with 5 motors, achieves 8 m/s speed, 1-meter jumps, and half-second aerial flips without specialized balancing hardware. All movement strategies are trained in simulation and directly deployed to the physical robot, demonstrating zero-shot transfer. The robot uses reinforcement learning to manage balance and dynamic maneuvers, with no springs, control moment gyroscopes, or dedicated stability mechanisms.

  5. AI Era — Robotics on WeChat68

    Embodied Memory Benchmark and System for Long-Term Interaction

    Researchers from Zhejiang University propose EmbodiedMemory-Bench (EMem-Bench), a benchmark to evaluate long-term memory in embodied agents, and introduce a memory system (EMem) and model (EMem-8B) to enhance memory management. The work identifies key challenges in retaining and using memory across dynamic environments and demonstrates performance improvements across multiple models.

2026-10-17Sat
  1. Tech Xplore — Robotics82

    Team develops embodied robotic arm 'EmArm' with human-like touch sensing

    A research team at HKUST has developed EmArm, an embodied robotic arm capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulation. By integrating a soft optical tactile skin with a rigid skeleton and real-time decision-making algorithms, EmArm achieves high tactile fidelity and can distinguish between different touch interactions, such as tickling and patting. The system also enables emotional feedback expressions and safe autonomous operation in complex environments.

  2. Surgical robotics — News discovery72

    Robotic Surgery Reaches the Abdomen’s Toughest Corner to Fix Rare Hernias

    A multi-center study reports that robotic-assisted surgery successfully repaired 39 lateral abdominal wall hernias without conversion to open or laparoscopic techniques, with no recurrence at 39 cases and 14 months of follow-up. The technique allows for precise mesh placement in a challenging anatomical region, offering a minimally invasive alternative to traditional open surgery.

  3. RoboSpeak — WeChat85

    Science Robotics Latest Cover: 100 km/h. AI-Controlled Drone Beats Human World Champions

    The MonoRace system, developed by the MAVLab team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, defeated three human FPV racing world champions in the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Drone Racing Championship, achieving the fastest single-lap time of 16.56 seconds. The system, which uses only a monocular camera and IMU, achieved state estimation and control during high-speed flight through reinforcement learning and simulation training, demonstrating robustness under extreme conditions.

  4. QbitAI — Robotics68

    China's Robot Plays Badminton for 1,452 Consecutive Shots. Secures Guinness World Record, Boston Dynamics' Leader 'Hard Controlled'

    The badminton robot developed by Zhejiang Shenchenkaidong Technology Co., Ltd. completed 1,452 consecutive shots in Shaoxing, earning a Guinness World Record certification. The robot, based on a self-developed general-purpose physical motion platform, achieves high-precision real-time perception, trajectory prediction, and coordinated control, showcasing engineering capabilities in dynamic competitive scenarios and demonstrating potential applications in logistics, warehouse automation, and other dynamic environments.

  6. QbitAI — Robotics72

    From Understanding the World to Predicting the Next Step: How World Models and VLA Enable True Embodied Intelligence in Robots

    The article discusses the development and deployment of world models and VLA (Vision-Language-Action) in robotics, focusing on their roles in enabling autonomous decision-making and physical interaction. It highlights real-world applications in retail and manufacturing, along with ongoing research and standardization efforts in Shanghai.

2026-10-16Fri
  1. Surgical robotics — News discovery68

    Robotic Surgery, Machine Perfusion and AI Converge at Landmark Liver Transplant Congress

    The 30th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society, held in Singapore, showcased advancements in robotic surgery, machine perfusion, and AI applications in liver transplantation. Key findings included improved outcomes with robotic donor hepatectomy, predictive biomarkers for complications, and AI tools enhancing transplant decision-making and outcomes.

  2. Chinese robotics — Robot learning research82

    GPT-6-Astra's Embodied Intelligence Put to the Test, Traditional Benchmarks Score Perfectly, Real Robots Hit Snags

    This research paper evaluates GPT-6-Astra's embodied intelligence capabilities across 12 simulated benchmarks and 8 real-world robot platforms. While it achieves high scores in structured tasks like LIBERO-Long++ and SIMPLE, real-world execution reveals significant limitations, including safety issues, mechanical load constraints, and failure to handle complex, unstructured tasks. The study highlights the gap between simulation and physical deployment, and proposes improvements through better execution systems and task-specific adaptations.

  3. High-tech Robotics — WeChat68

    After Collaborative Robot Deliveries Surpass 50,000 Units, This Company Brings Embodied Intelligence into Factories

    At the 2026 China International Industrial Robot Expo, ABB Intelligent Robotics showcased its progress in deploying flexible manufacturing solutions, including a complete automotive production line with G-series and iS-series collaborative robots, as well as a new dual-arm robot and standardized welding workstations. The 50,000-unit delivery milestone marks a key step in its industrial deployment strategy.

  4. Chinese robotics — Company news discovery68

    GPT and Claude, Competing for Jobs at Robotics Brain Companies

    MicroFactory uses general-purpose large models to achieve error-free assembly of robotic arms in 1.5 hours, while Poke & Wiggle allows Claude to conduct robot research, reproducing 10 papers and completing over 6,000 real-world tests. These advancements demonstrate the potential of general-purpose large models in robotic task execution and scientific research, marking a shift in the development model for embodied intelligence.

  5. arXiv Robotics — research abstracts85

    Revisiting Embodied Chain-of-Thought for Generalizable Robot Manipulation

    This research explores embodied chain-of-thought (CoT) for robotic control, introducing ERVLA, a vision-language-action model that effectively integrates linguistic reasoning into robot manipulation. ERVLA uses a CoT-dropout strategy during training and predicts actions directly during inference, achieving 86.9% success on LIBERO-Plus and 53.2% on VLABench, with superior performance in out-of-distribution settings.

2026-10-15Thu
  1. Robotics 24/7 — Industry reporting68

    From AI Agents to Robot Action: Building the Edge Architecture for Physical AI

    The article explores the integration of AI agents with robotics through edge computing, emphasizing the use of standardized protocols like MCP and the separation of cognitive and motor functions. It discusses the advantages of edge processing over cloud-based solutions, including reduced latency and cost predictability, and outlines a phased approach for deploying physical AI in industrial settings.

  2. Machine Heart — Robotics on WeChat72

    Should General-Purpose Large Models 'Dimensional Strike' Embodied Intelligence? The First AA-Robotics Ranking is Here

    The AA-Robotics v0.1 evaluation for the first time places general-purpose large models in real robotic tasks, testing their ability to control robotic arms to perform tasks such as pouring water, writing, and building with blocks. Although GPT-6 Astra leads in overall scores, the model still faces challenges in stability, speed, and cost efficiency in physical interactions, highlighting the gap between language understanding and physical execution.

  3. Machine Heart — Robotics on WeChat78

    A General Agent That Can Read Images and Write Code: Can It Perform Robot Operations? CodeActionBench Released

    CodeActionBench is a study that evaluates the performance of general multimodal agents in robot operation tasks, testing the strategy generation and execution capabilities of multiple models through a dual-arm simulation environment. The study highlights Astra's advantages in task success rate and code error rate, and analyzes differences in task coverage, execution trajectories, and completion judgment across different configurations.

  4. RoboSpeak — WeChat72

    Physical AI Enters the Scene. 2026 Industrial Expo: New Stories and Old Accounts in Industrial Robotics

    At the 26th China International Industrial Expo, the term 'Physical AI' has become a central theme, marking a shift from traditional repetitive motion control to AI-driven autonomy in industrial robots. The event showcases advancements in perception, decision-making, and adaptability, with major players like Fanuc, ABB, KUKA, and Yaskawa emphasizing open platforms, cost optimization, and global expansion. However, challenges remain in data collection, return-on-investment timelines, and industrializing prototypes.

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