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- 🗓️ 2026-09-06 · ✍️ RoboterminalThe Biped Is the Endpoint: Figure Is Financing Humanoid Intelligence Like a Frontier Model
- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Most people just saw a humanoid robot throwing kicks and flipping off cars. But the H2-X has some technical details worth looking at. Here’s what the footage and the available specifications tell us about Unitree’s Kung Fu Legend Guardian.… |
Why is nobody talking about this? ToddlerBot is a 0.56 m, 3.4 kg humanoid robot built at Stanford by Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Shuran Song and C. Karen Liu. Its goal is to make robot learning cheap and easy to reproduce. The full hardware… |
Walked out of the NVIDIA keynote at GTC Berlin still chewing on the simulation piece! 🇩🇪 Physical AI is going strong. The world will be full of robots very soon. One of the most important things to create better robotics applications is…… |
What if warehouse automation focused on the task, not the human form? 📦 At an Arvato logistics warehouse, Reflex Robotics demonstrates a wheeled robot that picks boxes from pallets and places them onto a conveyor. Instead of copying human… |
🇺🇸 Seeed Studio #PhysicalAI stack is now in stock at @microcenter stores - Columbus, Santa Clara, Cambridge, Dallas, and Houston! Pick up @NVIDIARobotics Jetson-powered reComputer edge AI systems and open-source robotic arms: #reBot Arm… |
South Korean company Sungho SI has developed Eve Clever, an AI-powered agricultural robot for automated crop monitoring and harvesting. Using RGB-D cameras, AI vision, and a robotic arm, it identifies ripe produce and harvests… |
An under-skin EMG implant could make prosthetic arm control more precise and less invasive. The results from two early human trials are promising. https://t.co/cOgZoJyfVX |
Alibaba just said more than 6 BILLION chips have shipped using its XuanTie RISC-V designs. Damo Academy chief scientist Meng Jianyi announced the number at the RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen. That is up from about 4 billion back in 2024.… |
Heavy object handling while walking still has to keep balance when arm forces hit the legs and torso, and when vision has to close the loop on placement. KAIST Humanoid v0.9 (DRCD Lab, arms with RAILAB) used onboard visual feedback to push… |
Congrats! Glad to see the #reBot arm is also enabled with the Dream-1 API, powered by the general #WAM brain. Looking for more real-world scaling tasks & challenges that reBot can handle soon🤩 More about the $1799 reBot Arm at Seeed… |
10,000 sewing robots a year. That’s the planned capacity of Aitu’s newly opened factory. Its latest footage shows them at work at Bosideng, the Chinese down-jacket maker. Automated sewing machines can follow a stitch pattern, but loading… |
Chinese robotics company Ahead Form has unveiled Elf Xuan 2.0, an upgraded humanoid robot with more natural waist and arm movements. Its lifelike silicone face features over 30 degrees of freedom to recreate realistic human expressions.… |
3 Humanoid Robots Join a Surgical Team Samsung Medical Center in South Korea demonstrated how humanoids could assist a surgeon during a simulated gallbladder operation using goat liver tissue. Three humanoid robots. One surgical team: >one… |
Gear backlash of just 0.05 degrees sounds trivial on paper. At the end of a 1.8-meter industrial robot arm, that creates a 1.5-millimeter positioning error at the end-effector. High-level vision models can generate perfect trajectories,… |
Japan’s JR West is adding two new railway maintenance robots, including a giant semi-humanoid with a large gripper and a chainsaw. The dual-arm ZX-3 is mounted on a maintenance vehicle’s boom and can cut branches up to 15 meters (49 ft)… |
Product Update 🛠️ We've refined how the wheeled Franka drives and how the arm resets: 1️⃣ Wheeled Base Joystick: A new virtual joystick in the UI lets you drive the wheeled Franka forward and backward, and steer left and right. 2️⃣… |
ホロラボ、非定型作業をロボ遠隔操作で支援-https://t.co/DjbV7rwthH ホロラボは、三菱電機のロボット「MELFA」をXR機器で遠隔操作するソフト「arm-pilot」の提供を開始。製造・物流現場の非定型作業支援やフィジカルAIの学習データ収集を目指す。 |
ENGINEERING NEWS 📐 Tesla has hidden a self-winding spring that helps lift Cybertruck's tailgate: every drop stores energy for the climb back 🛗 Cybertruck's tailgate has a lopsided job, and the way it handles that job has just come to… |
Humanoids are starting to look more like delivery workers. In warehouses and on delivery routes, hands alone aren't enough. People brace bulky packages against their torso or slide them along an arm to keep them stable and free a hand for… |
Optimus Prime is real! 🤯 Neo1 from Neodra Dynamics is 4 metres tall and weighs more than a ton, shown at CIIF alongside JD Industrial. This robot has 41 active degrees of freedom. 39 of them run on miniature digital hydraulic linear… |
A robotic arm that learns physical tasks by watching you demonstrate them. Meet the SO-101, an open-source robotic arm supported by Hugging Face's LeRobot. ‣ 3D-print the parts and assemble the arm ‣ Demonstrate a task using the leader arm… |
On Sunday I met a quadriplegic who can’t open his hand. He had a spinal injury in a surfing accident. He was the first to try a new device made by a secretive Austin startup that listens to the electricity headed down his arm. But there is… |
Cutting a cucumber sounds easy. For a humanoid robot, it requires vision, precise movements and control of force. Yet this robot handles the task very well. Here’s what happens behind the scenes. First, computer vision helps the robot… |
Leave the High Work to Giant Humanoid Railway crews still lose people and time to falls, shocks, and the need to climb before they can even judge the job… JR West is putting two machines into service this fall to cut crew size on those… |
This demo shows reinforcement learning running the full control loop for a dual-arm robot: picking up a kettle and pouring water. It highlights how much RL can bring to dynamics adaptation, disturbance recovery, and complex contact… |
A true super-humanoid hero I first saw Neo1 at WRC 2026 and was genuinely impressed. The 4-meter, 1.2-ton humanoid from Beijing-based NeodraDynamics has returned at CIIF 2026. Neo1 is built for 4D work-- heavy assembly, deep-sea… |
There are more companies selling robot intelligence right now than companies selling robots. That showed up this year as a pattern I kept noticing. In this case all these research groups with published on the same robot from @DexmateAI.… |
We are happy to annouced @iuliaferoli just dropped a hands-on video walkthrough using the #reBotArmB601 and our free Seeed × @NVIDIARobotics DLI course. The full Physical AI lifecycle, in real code: → Chapter 1: Data collection with the… |
🤖 Pick a task. Watch your robot arm get to work! SO-ARM + pi0.5 VLA supports 3 trained pick-and-place tasks. 👀 See → 🦾 Pick → 📦 Place No coding. No manual teaching. Just pick a task! 🔗1000 credits for free: https://t.co/k57gf78SXu… |
🎙️ “Hey Luna, take this block. Now give it back. Follow me.” In this demo by @AI_with_Eric, his local AI assistant Luna brings together #LocalAI and #robotics to turn voice commands into physical actions. With the #reBotArmB601, #Qwen 3.8… |
2.5k per arm. Everything will be robots https://t.co/Geyv7E9ioC |
Deploy, deploy, deploy... Korea Clears First 20 Humanoid Robots for Real Factory Lines Alongside Workers South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has approved a regulatory sandbox exemption for Robros to deploy 20 AI bipedal… |
From human demos to autonomous action 🤖 Using @huggingface @LeRobotHF , @knaveen trained an #ACT policy for Seeed’s #SOARM101, collecting 100K data steps and training for 11 hours. The #robot arm can now pick up a cube and place it into a… |
Ondas expands its European defense presence with a $56 million order for Electronic Safe & Arm Devices following its acquisitions of GATE Technologies and Bron Technologies. Read more: https://t.co/sL5otcGnmw @OndasHoldings… |
I just met a quadriplegic who is working with a number of Austin companies doing BCI research. Brain/Computer Interfaces. He lost control of his body in a surfing accident. He just came out of a session with @phantom_neuro and said what… |
Mizuho: Nvidia's server CPU revenue could grow to ~$60 billion in 2028E, and start becoming a leader in the server CPU market in 2027E. $NVDA $ARM $INTC $AMD |
Hong Kong's 24-hour stores have a humanoid behind the counter Any hour of the day. You tap a screen, place an order, and it turns, reaches the shelf and hands you a drink. That's the Galbot G1, aka Xiao Gai, a wheeled robot that has been… |
Thanks for sharing, @NVIDIAAP! 💚 We're excited to see more developers getting hands-on with #PhysicalAI! Together with NVIDIA, we've put together a course that takes Seeed #reBot Arm from human demonstrations and Isaac Sim to GR00T… |
ISO 3834 classifies welding as a special process for one reason: proving the mechanical strength of a finished weld destroys the part. FANUC demonstrated a system where an operator points a tablet camera at an engineering drawing, and… |
Ask a robot to grasp a bottle. What happens before its arm moves? Its camera spots the bottle. A VLA model predicts an action. A controller actuates the joints while new images from the camera guide corrections. Even for this simple task,… |
Getting one contact primitive to work across three different arm hand platforms is impressive. The 90–96% grasp and lift success rate is promising. https://t.co/jXtD8cXVAT |
Running #SOARM101 + #LeRobot on Windows 11? The tricky part is getting Windows and Linux to talk to the robot. @MaetschkeStefan from @makerguides_com put together a hands-on walkthrough. The key detail: Windows sees the CH343 adapters as… |
Odyssey trained one frozen model to drive cars, walk humanoids, fly drones, and run game worlds. Then it built a separate lightweight decoder for each job on top of that single backbone. The model shipped today as Odyssey-3, a free public… |
This Unitree Go2 uses an SO101 arm with extended links to collect trash. When an object is detected within the arm’s reachability region, the robot lowers its body to reach it. I like how the legs and arm work together to handle the… |
AI agents will trigger the largest CPU supercycle in history. Mizuho estimates agentic CPU sockets will surge from 1.3 million in 2026 to 16 million by 2030. Including head node processors, AI could drive nearly half of all server CPU… |
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China developed a soft robotic arm that combines flexibility with high load capacity. Its Honeycomb Pneumatic Network structure helps resist buckling, while pneumatic chambers… |
This looks like a giant dragonfly, but every movement here is mechanical. Festo’s BionicOpter weighs only 175 grams, yet its four wings span 63 cm. They beat around 15 to 20 times per second, and each wing can twist up to 90 degrees. That… |
Task allocation across manipulators is the upstream constraint. On an automotive line, assigning the wrong arm to a clip insertion compounds into seconds of takt loss per cycle. The motion plan is downstream of that decision.… |
Crazy how far robot foundation models have come in terms of true fine motor skills: Without task-specific training, no sim-to-real transfer, and... fully autonomous ❗ The dual-arm robot places an O-ring onto a hydraulic rod and removes it… |
🚨 BREAKING: Minerva Humanoids (@mnv_humanoids) has just emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by @generalcatalyst. It's building humanoid robots for the world's most dangerous jobs. Oil and gas. Explosive ordnance… |
Doosan Robotics just got picked for $69M worth of Korean Physical AI projects. One target a dual-arm industrial humanoid running AI directly onboard. The plan also includes 5 kg, 10 kg and 20 kg cobots. A Korean AI SoC with an NPU will… |
A 7-joint robot arm can have more solutions than you need. The challenge is choosing the right one. 🤖🧠 This visual servoing demo from https://t.co/zviWCQezAK shows how redundant inverse kinematics can keep a robot’s motion continuous… |
Today was absolutely insane in the stock market Here's everything you need to know: 1. Weak September jobs report continues fueling bets the Fed skips an October hike 2. The Nasdaq hit a record high as megacap tech led 3. $NVDA, $META,… |
This 67-gram robot can climb up plant stems and build a 3D model to autonomously navigate among branches and leaves. The hope? To eventually find pests hidden among leaves before they cause crop damage. The research team designed the robot… |
pid control is one of those ideas that looks like an equation until you watch a robot actually move. imagine commanding a robotic arm to follow a trajectory. the controller constantly asks one question: where should the joint be, and where… |
Astribot brought its T1 humanoid to its North America debut at IROS 2026: a humanoid developers can actually put to work, starting around $18k. ~1.55m, 23 DOF, 5kg payload per arm, teleoperable out of the box for data collection and… |
From a motor to a complete robotic arm. 🤖⚙️ What can you build with a CubeMars GL60? A robotics creator put the GL60 to work in a custom robotic arm, turning a compact motor solution into real-world robotic motion. 🔧 Custom Robotic Arm… |
Visited CMU yesterday and they are training the robotic arm to whip Pepper’s butt….. https://t.co/C0sKU7nQaP |
This system employs a flexible arm capable of changing shape and adapting to various postures during flight. The arm can also adjust its rigidity based on the task at hand. Consequently the same mechanism can exhibit flexibility upon… |
A greenhouse in the Netherlands is using AI-powered robots to identify and pick ripe tomatoes. Developed by Four Growers, the system uses a FANUC robot arm for precise, damage-free harvesting. It reduces labor needs while helping workers… |
Humanoid robots are becoming significantly more powerful. Published data regarding load capacity reveals a wide range of specifications: • Galbot S1: maximum payload of 50 kg (combined across both arms) • Apptronik Apollo: maximum lifting… |
Starts at $18K…🤯 Astribot T1 just appeared at IROS 2026 and officially went on sale. They also brought their full robotics stack, including the in-house Lumo-2 model. T1 is built for precise manipulation: a cable-driven body, 23 DoF… |
Always great to see #reBot Arm B601-RS reaching more developers. Thanks @KuphDev for sharing the #unboxing and first impressions. Our team also had the chance to connect with KupHDev at #IROS2026, exchange ideas, and talk robotics in… |
A robot arm can now be trained over a weekend by three students in San Francisco. A bulldozer cannot. Spent part of the day on the floor at Fully Connected, @CoreWeave's conference in San Francisco. Good energy, plenty of cool demos. My… |
At #IROS2026, MICO Core showcases precise GPU assembly with fine force sensing, multiple force control strategies, and coordinated dual-arm control. 🤖 Built on Flexiv’s Enlight platform, MICO combines compact design with adaptive… |
Humanoid robots building other humanoid robots could soon become a real part of industrial automation. Kepler Robotics K2 Bumblebee is built for factory work, standing 1.75 meters tall with 52 degrees of freedom and a 30 kg dual-arm… |
Earlier this September at #IFA2026, our partner @AgoraIO brought Reachy Mini and reBot together to explore what voice interaction with robots can look like. The setup combined Agora’s real-time conversational AI and voice capabilities,… |
Follow Robotics Application Engineer Harrison Bangert as he demos Flexiv’s dual-arm teleoperation system at #IROS2026. Real-time motion sync, force feedback, and multimodal data capture enable precise robot control and provide data for… |
Here's a new home robot for $3,500: Flourish 1. Teach it tasks with your phone. Or get skills from an App Store. - Raspberry Pi chip - Super-basic grippers - 12-hr battery - Wheeled base - 1.5 kg per arm Can pick up stuff, water plants,… |
A closer look at what we brought to #ROSCon Global 2026 with reBot. A few demos from the booth: ✅#Qwen3-VL Skills — vision-language reasoning with reBot ARM ✅ #NVIDIAIsaac — reBot teleoperation in simulation ✅ Closed-loop Policy —… |
腰だけでなく腕も補助、イノフィスが新型スーツ-https://t.co/O6cCh4nH6L イノフィスは、腰と腕を同時に補助するアシストスーツ「マッスルスーツ Soft-ARM」を発売。物流倉庫での荷物運搬や積み替え、パレタイズなど重量物作業を支援する。 https://t.co/d5woDUoXbS |
Asimov 1 is shipping to developers. - 25 DoF, 1.2 m (3.94 ft), 35 kg (77 lb) - Up to 120 Nm peak joint torque, 5 kg rated payload per arm - Train in Isaac Lab or MJLab, deploy zero-shot Open-source across the stack, from CAD and electrical… |
This 6-axis industrial robot arm is approximately the size of a human hand, designed to achieve sub-micrometer precision. The robot is designed for highly demanding applications in microelectronics, semiconductors, photonics, medical… |
The study presents the “Maestro Arm,” a 2.9 kg modular wearable robotic arm designed as a wearable third arm. It combines a five-fingered hand, 10 degrees of freedom, cycloidal actuators, and a foot-based controller using IMU sensing and… |
A robot is making coffee like a real barista. ☕🤖 Artly Coffee’s robotic barista uses a robotic arm to handle coffee preparation and serve drinks automatically. The system was trained by observing award-winning barista Joe Yang, allowing… |
How does a humanoid robot hear “pick up the red cup and put it on the table” and turn that sentence into a real movement? First comes perception. Stereo cameras collect images of the scene. A vision model identifies the objects and… |
From 3D simulation to real-world robotic motion. 🤖⚙️ What if you could design, control, and test a robot arm directly inside Blender? In this project, Swann Schilling integrates the open-source pick_ik solver into Blender, enabling… |
New robot added to LeRobot! 💪 Both DM and RS versions of the reBot B601 from @seeedstudio are now officially supported. The arm features a 2.5kg payload capacity and 6 degrees of freedom + gripper. In the example below, the robot performs… |
IROS 2026 lists 183 exhibitors in its official directory including companies and organizations. 1. 42de GmbH 2. Abaka AI 3. Aether AI 4. AGIBOT 5. AgileX Robotics 6. Agility 7. Amazon 8. Analog Devices Inc 9. Apex Sensing LLC 10. Applied… |
Arm is bringing more than 80 companies together around physical AI and working toward shared standards for robot capabilities. 🤖 What could this mean for the robotics industry? Read the story: https://t.co/xau3WSR0jw Subscribe to our… |
GM. While cloud models hallucinate grocery lists, I’m wrestling compliant grip on the Genesis arm. Physics doesn’t care about your parameter count. 🦾 Is your next "AGI" demo just a keyboard? Prove me wrong. https://t.co/QOj5haza4j |
From 3D simulation to real-world robotic motion. 🤖⚙️ What if you could design, control, and test a robot arm directly inside Blender? In this project, Swann Schilling integrates the open-source pick_ik solver into Blender, enabling… |
Tiaotiao and Beihang’s robot both walk on six legs. The useful comparison is how they sense contact, cross terrain and handle objects. KingKong’s Tiaotiao has 22 tactile servos and 44 encoders. Each servo measures motor-output position and… |
A 4-meter boat printed by a robot. 🚤🤖 At Bosphorus Boat Show, AVENCO demonstrated robotic large-format 3D printing by producing a 4 × 1.2 m boat hull using its AVEX 15 system. A KUKA robotic arm + robotic 3D printing = a boat coming… |
Humanoid robots are going modular. Japan-based O-ID has introduced Modular, a practical humanoid robot with a wheeled base, designed to fit into existing industrial environments（manufacturing,logistics,inspection） Interestingly, the… |
The robot revolution is underway. The world needs thousands of different kinds of robots. Humanoids will bring them to our homes and businesses. The most conservative in robotics in San Francisco says this is 10 years away. And most say… |
Tell the robot what to pick, in plain language 🗣️ Also from FANUC Europe booth at AMB, this time a CRX cobot taking natural language commands. You say what you want done. Vision-based object recognition identifies what's in front of it,… |
A fun #Robotics experiment created and shared by Digital2win. They brought the reBot Arm B601-RS into an interactive virtual playground. Since reBot is fully #OpenSource, you can grab the model + #URDF files and build your own… |
What would a factory actually want from a humanoid robot? Japan's O-ID’s Modular offers a pragmatic answer--a wheeled, modular robot designed to fit into existing industrial environments. It stands 172 cm tall, weighs 70 kg, has 30 DoF and… |
Seven joints, and not one of them rotates 🔩 The Cartesian Hand, from the General Robotics Lab at Duke University. Every joint is prismatic. Pure linear motion, no rotary articulation anywhere in the hand. Two independently actuated… |
🤖 Great to meet robotics builders at our Embodied Intelligence Workshop at RoseLab, Toulouse! With SenseCraft Robotics, you can bring the robot arm workflow into one platform:🔗 Connect → 📊 Collect Data → 🧠 Train → 🚀 Deploy 🎁 New… |
Excited to see @NVIDIARobotics #Isaac #ROS 5.0 bring #agentic workflows to the ROS community. 🤖 We’re glad to contribute with #reBot Arm, connecting open-source ROS 2 development with NVIDIA Isaac ROS and #Jetson platforms. With… |
Our work on AthenaZero is the featured story in this month’s issue of @SciRobotics! This bimanual manipulator designed to minimize inertia without compromising control authority. By placing motors closer to the base and using high-torque… |
No arms. No rails. No contact. For decades, moving a wafer meant a robot arm: joints, belts, bearings. Every arm is a particle source, a maintenance item, and a constraint on tool placement. Magnetically levitated XBots: six degrees of… |
The arm is 25% of the total system cost. The remaining 75% is deterministic latency, safety, and making hardware talk to existing factory infrastructure. https://t.co/mWLjiizwuo |
🚗🤖#Robotics is hard to learn when every part lives in a different tutorial. You can find tutorials for ROS 2, SLAM, Nav2, vision and manipulation. The harder part is seeing how they fit together on an actual mobile robot. That's why… |
A robotics company may be shutting down but its data could live on. 🤯🤖 EIDON AI has released its robotics dataset publicly on Hugging Face after winding down operations. ( https://t.co/e5OqbX54y4 ) The dataset contains: 🎥 1,274 hours of… |
According to @FundaAI channel checks, they believe server CPU prices for Intel will increase again by at least 15% in Q4'26. "On the server CPU side, beyond prior hikes, our channel checks lead us to believe that prices will increase again… |
How is robot training data generated? 🦾 Teleoperation: a human controls a real robot arm. Most accurate. Least scalable. 😎 Ego video: a human wears a headset & does tasks. Most scalable. Least accurate. 🤳 Headset + gripper/wrist cams:… |
Breaking: OpenAI just posted robotics engineering jobs paying up to $500,000, according to Business Insider 4 stocks worth watching if robotics becomes the meta: • TE Connectivity $TEL *Makes the connectors and wiring that link a robot's… |