https://www.tysem.cn/en/ai-robot-news/ Curated robotics industry reporting covering humanoid robots, embodied AI, industrial robots, core components, funding, safety standards, research and policy. en Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:38:31 +0000 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://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://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://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.com/rss/articles/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxOVXF1M3JkTTlRUVFiOFFCM0hKa1hpN0tEVW91RWdCVFBxcHZvMFVvRHYwS1ZFUVBWLWVvSGp6RTU1aEdKQVloMUtyMkFobDc3aGhVWjFWMVpLay03U2NnX2s5dGJHY1VranVQZ05LeXZCaW9rVmNkOFlUdWhrZ2xHMHNqaVBuMnpTbDRpQ2xEVTRNQjJLalBSeW1EZGxEZWRud3hSSWE1Y1B3ZWIyVzd0WmEwS29nVVV1RjJfcENDMGVOQdIBxwFBVV95cUxNbW1ydTBjdE1UNTA5Zi1CYnU1MGgxV0dPQUFLOFFHc0FPUWRSZ2NUenJ4eDNMSDhRVnhLNkJWeVFveExDcDVSZVh3TXQxd1JwTlpqa1hDczY1Y2lqbVQtaUVWZnViMHJrNkpvQXlib1FNQXVubXM4dHcyWk40S2RqRndlTkxHRDBhUHkzMkxBeHJHZmdUSjFtOEJNdWpEWldRUWNxU2wtanZSRHliV2lYQzd0cm9BVklLV1NKZlRPYmx3emtqWGlZ?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/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