Nullmax, a physical AI company, said it has launched Nullmax Physical AI (NPI), a full-stack proprietary general physical AI technology base, and built NPI-Brain, an embodied brain providing perception, understanding, memory, decision-making and motion and manipulation control. The company said the system enables machines to move from “seeing and understanding” to “autonomous interaction with the world.” In a recent test in its “Intelligence Transforms Everything” series, a robot dog named MAX equipped with NPI-Brain carried out long-horizon tasks in indoor, building, campus and street scenarios. It understood natural-language instructions, used memory to plan routes and moved across floors and areas without human intervention, Nullmax said. The company said the system does not require preset segmented tasks and can think autonomously...
Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics rang the Nasdaq opening bell under the ticker “AGLT” after completing its merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp. XI. Founded in 2015, Agility builds humanoid robots for manufacturing, logistics and distribution. Its investors include Nvidia, Amazon, Foxconn and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Its Digit robot has been commercially deployed at Schaeffler, GXO and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, with cumulative operating time exceeding 65,000 hours. In September, Agility launched Digit 5, its first humanoid designed for scalable, collaborative safe operation. Digit 5 weighs 284 pounds (129 kg), stands 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 meters) tall and reaches up to 7.2 feet (2.2 meters). Using cycloidal actuator technology, it can repeatedly lift loads of...
Realbotix said its recently launched flagship humanoid robot platform, Echo, has been renamed Realbotix Series 1. The change affects only the product name; the robot itself, specifications, pricing, production plans, character options and ordering process remain unchanged. The company said the rename is intended to avoid trademark concerns and bring its flagship commercial humanoid robot directly under the Realbotix brand. The platform was launched as Echo on Oct. 26, 2026, so the change renames an existing product line rather than introducing a new robot. The Series 1 line keeps two models. The Tabletop, priced at $11,950, is a desktop companion robot with 17 degrees of freedom, weighing about 25 pounds and measuring 13 x 13 x 32 inches. Its face...
Lightwheel and Unitree Robotics have signed a strategic partnership to combine Lightwheel’s infrastructure capabilities in data, evaluation and deployment with Unitree’s strengths in robot bodies, motion control, perception systems, force-controlled dexterous hands and its developer ecosystem. The companies said they will cooperate on model training, robot capability validation and real-world applications. The partnership links two key links in physical AI: infrastructure and robot hardware. It focuses on the industry’s core challenge of scaling robot deployment. The companies aim to create a model for deep coordination between physical AI infrastructure and robot bodies, connecting data production, training and validation, real-world deployment and continuous iteration to support large-scale robot rollout and accelerate the shift from technology breakthroughs to commercial applications. Under...
At the Seventh World Media Summit’s Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Chinese-Style Modernization, Xinhua News Agency and UBTECH Robotics unveiled the world’s first bionic humanoid robot news anchors, named Xinyan and Xinyu. The robots are 1:1 life-size replicas designed for news broadcasting. They rely on Xinhua’s AI current-affairs information agent “Xinhua Yudian” and UBTECH’s proprietary full-chain technologies, including bionic skin, embodied-intelligence hardware, an operating system, an emotional large model and mass production of complete machines. They are capable of appearing on camera to present news. At the summit, Xinyan and Xinyu delivered the event’s first news report, which the organizers said was also the first news item delivered by robots. Their natural micro-expressions and lip movements and speech aligned with...
GENISOM AI has formally launched the SteelWhistle P1, billed as the world’s first embodied AI device designed from the ground up exclusively for security patrol missions. The SteelWhistle P1 integrates a hybrid wheel-legged robotic chassis, the proprietary RoamerX autonomous navigation system and five professional patrol payloads into a single turnkey system. Targeting five core deployment scenarios—industrial parks, manufacturing campuses, residential compounds, public venues and high-security zones—the product aims to redefine security robotics by shifting the hardware from demonstration exhibits into field-ready standard patrol equipment that can take up duties immediately upon deployment. Six core capabilities enable the robot to complete the full operational cycle: exiting the security post, conducting patrols and closing incident-response loops. Key operational strengths – Hybrid wheel-legged...
Humanoid robot developer Agility Robotics won shareholder approval for its merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI, paving the way for its Nasdaq debut. More than 84% of shareholders backed the deal at a special meeting on Nov 2. The transaction is scheduled to close on Nov 4, with trading under ticker AGLT starting on Nov 5. Churchill’s shares rose nearly 14% on Nov 2. The merger is expected to provide gross proceeds of about $465 million, down from the $620 million forecast when the deal was announced in June. The original transaction valued Agility at $2.5 billion pre-money; existing Agility shareholders will roll their equity into the combined company rather than receive cash. The proceeds comprise about $164 million...
A heavy-payload quadruped developed by LINXAI robotics won the legged-robot load-bearing race at the inaugural CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition on Nov 2. The robot, fielded by LINXAI robotics’s Lingshi team, started from Hongmen Square and carried supplies up the mountain using fully autonomous navigation, according to the company. The load-bearing race had four stages designed to mirror real mountain transport scenarios. “The hardest was the second stage. The supplies and carrying basket weighed 70 kg in total, far above the robot’s rated payload of 50 kg. It was the ultimate test of our capabilities,” Peng Shaowu, product director at LINXAI robotics, said. Peng attributed the win to the company’s in-house technology. He said the robot’s long-leg design...
The 2026 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit opened in Zhejiang province on Nov 3, with Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivering a keynote address. At the opening ceremony, AGIBOT received the WIC Distinguished Contribution Award for what the conference described as systematic technological breakthroughs and industrial deployment in embodied AI. “The endgame of AI lies not in screens and the cloud, but on factory floors and in everyday life,” Zhu Jie, AGIBOT partner and senior vice president, said at the award ceremony. Zhu said competition in embodied AI had moved beyond isolated technology races to a broader contest spanning software-hardware coordination, engineering rollout, industrial organization and governance. AGIBOT would remain pragmatic and work with partners on real-world deployment, Zhu added....
RoboScience unveiled its Visics-Agent desktop embodied agent at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, demonstrating long-horizon planning, persistent memory and proactive interaction. The company said users can instruct robots in natural language to complete extended real-world tasks. At a separate booth, it showed “one brain, multiple hands”: cloud-hosted embodied foundation model Visics controlled dexterous grippers of different configurations, with cross-hardware switching completed in 30 seconds. The demo highlights a shift in embodied manipulation toward agent-based systems. Robots are moving from machines that execute preset motions to agents that can interpret intent and make autonomous decisions, RoboScience said. In the desktop-tidying demonstration, users state requests in everyday language, and the agent identifies objects, plans steps, sorts waste and rearranges items...
