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...
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...
