Stretching for hundreds of kilometers along the eastern edge of the Hengduan Mountains in southwestern China, the Ailao Mountains contain extensive subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests and rich biodiversity. Their dense vegetation and relatively undisturbed habitats offer valuable opportunities for ecological research. But the terrain also makes fieldwork difficult: steep slopes, fallen trees, tangled vines and slippery moss can slow progress and increase risks for researchers. Based on this DEEP Robotics deployed its Lynx M20S wheeled-legged robot in the Ailao Mountains. Working alongside researchers, the robot assisted with route reconnaissance, wildlife observation, visual documentation and supply transport. The deployment offered a practical test of how mobile robotics can support biodiversity research in difficult-to-access environments. Navigating Rapid Weather Changes and Dense Forest...
ACE Robotics and Nanyang Technological University’s S-Lab have released Mundo, a world model for building explorable and interactive environments for robot training and testing. Mundo supports scene reconstruction, free-viewpoint exploration and spatiotemporal simulation similar to Atlas. Mundo can also incorporate physical attributes such as mass and friction into scene programs and use a physics engine to calculate motion, contact and collision. Mundo can call agents to edit objects, attributes and actions in a scene through code, turning a small number of images into a 3D world that can be freely explored, programmed for interaction and used for robot navigation and manipulation training. The model combines 3D scene representation, physics simulation and video generation. Combined with Astra, it creates new spatial...
AGIBOT KuTuo, a quadruped robotics business under Chinese robotics company AGIBOT, showcased upgrades to its Lingyue and Lingtu quadruped robots at AGIBOT INNOVATION DAY 2026 at the Shanghai World Expo Center, focusing on autonomous terrain switching and semantic navigation. The Lingyue all-terrain intelligent motion engine now offers an “automatic gear” capability. By combining reinforcement-learning-based motion control with perception-based motion control, the robot can identify terrain changes and switch gaits automatically. The upgrade is designed to reduce manual or preset mode switching across stairs, platforms, obstacles, and narrow passages, improving travel efficiency in complex environments and lowering barriers to secondary development. The Lingtu all-domain autonomous navigation engine demonstrated vision-language navigation (VLN) capabilities. Combining a visual semantic large model with an embodied...
ANYbotics AG has launched ANYmal X, which it says is the world’s first legged inspection robot certified for explosive environments. The Swiss robotics company said it carried out a full ignition-risk assessment across the robot’s service life and applied safety measures to every potential ignition source, with each component designed to minimize ignition risk. The AI computer and inspection equipment are enclosed in sealed, nitrogen-filled compartments, ANYbotics said. Non-metallic housings insulate metal parts, conductive feet provide grounding, and an automatic cut-off system monitors temperature. All 12 foot actuators and their batteries are protected by fireproof enclosures. Charging and data transfer employ energy barriers so they do not come into contact with hazardous areas. Onboard software monitors the robot’s status before,...
Chinese robot maker AGIBOT, unveiled a new metric for measuring the value of physical AI, alongside new hardware, models and an open-source operating system at its Innovation Day event in Shanghai on Oct. 29. Co-founder, President and CTO Peng Zhihui introduced Worken, or effective intelligent work hours, defined as active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and an output efficiency ratio. The company said the metric aims to measure not only how many robots are produced, but whether they can autonomously and continuously perform valuable work and how much tangible value they actually deliver. AGIBOT said it released the world’s first subcutaneous joint liquid-cooling system, a new lineup of dexterous hands, the MEgo Glove tactile data collection glove, and the...
D-Robotics, a Chinese robotics company, has published the technical report for its world-model simulation platform Uranus and released inference code, an SDK and two versions of model weights, while offering 100 early-access slots to developers and researchers worldwide. The platform is designed to let robot policies run, test and compare actions in a virtual environment. Uranus uses future joint trajectories as conditions and an autoregressive diffusion architecture to generate multi-view observations corresponding to robot actions, forming a closed interaction loop for policy evaluation. D-Robotics said Uranus supports single-arm, dual-arm and mobile manipulation robots under one model by converting different robot bodies into a unified skeleton and spatial representation. Camera inputs are encoded using Plücker ray embeddings, and the model fuses...
Astribot, a Chinese embodied AI and robotics company, held the finals of its Astribot OS (AOS) robotics hackathon in Shenzhen on Oct. 25, as it seeks to lower the barrier for non-specialists to build robot applications. Seventeen teams competed over 36 hours. Sixteen apps moved from simulation to real-robot testing, a real-machine validation rate of 94%, according to the organizer. The event, described by Astribot as China’s largest robotics app hackathon for creators from diverse backgrounds, drew 47 teams across Beijing, Shenzhen and the finals. Participants included students, product managers and independent developers, with the youngest born in 2006. Astribot’s AOS packages perception, mobility, manipulation and interaction into callable “Meta” skill modules. Creators can combine these with large models such...
The National Steel Structure Quality Inspection and Testing Center of MCC Building Research Institute and Beijing XIAOYUBOT Technology Co. Ltd. on Tuesday inaugurated a joint laboratory for industrial embodied intelligent welding and testing. Zeng Bin, president of the China Steel Structure Association and chief scientist at China Minmetals; Wang Haitao, party secretary and general manager of MCC Building Research Institute; Liu Dong, party secretary and chairman of MCC Testing and Certification; and Qiao Zhongliang, founder and CEO of XIAOYUBOT, unveiled the laboratory. Qiao said in remarks that embodied intelligence is developing rapidly, but quality must remain the bottom line. “Every weld concerns engineering safety and human life. Robots can weld faster, but if quality fails, higher efficiency means greater risk,”...
Chinese robotics company SEAHI ROBOTICS has completed government registration for its ocean general-purpose foundation model “CEORION”, which it says is the world’s first such model, marking the latest push by Chinese firms to stake out a lead in frontier artificial intelligence. The model, backed by the company’s proprietary LWAM (Language-World-Action) unified architecture, dynamically fuses multi-dimensional sensing data – vision, acoustics, pressure, fluid and posture – into an end-to-end unified neural network, enabling integrated semantic understanding, environment modeling and action generation. SEAHI says this supports a full closed-loop of autonomous operations, from underwater perception and task assessment to path planning, autonomous execution and emergency response. The registration, filed with China’s Cyberspace Administration, means a Chinese company has for the first time...
AGIBOT has launched the Genie G2 Max, a safety-standard-compliant heavy-duty embodied robot designed to address a long-standing trade-off in industrial handling: heavy-duty equipment struggles with fine tasks, while precision equipment cannot carry large loads. The robot is the third installment in the company’s AI WAVE series, AGIBOT said. The Genie G2 Max has a single-arm payload of 20 kg, a dual-arm rated payload of 40 kg and a peak dual-arm payload of 50 kg. Its arm repeat positioning accuracy is ≤±0.5 mm. AGIBOT said the robot is the industry’s first heavy-duty embodied robot capable of long-range, multi-task operations. “Embodied intelligence is not a demo in the lab; its value must be tested on real production lines,” Yao Maoqing, co-founder, co-president...
