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Ant Lingbo Technology said it has open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model designed to give robot “brains” the contact sensing needed for fine manipulation, based on nearly 5,000 hours of real tactile data. The model covers three mainstream sensing principles — magnetic, vision-based and piezoresistive tactile sensing — and converts their different raw signals into a common tactile representation for use across dexterous hands and action models, the company said. The release extends Ant Lingbo’s embodied AI stack from visual perception and task reasoning to fingertip sensing. LingBot-Touch has been integrated with LingBot-VLA, the company’s vision-language-action model, according to Ant Lingbo. Tactile sensing is increasingly seen as a complement to vision in robotic manipulation. In tasks such as unscrewing a...

Astribot, an embodied AI company, said three papers co-authored with universities including the University of Hong Kong and the University of Tokyo have been accepted at the 10th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026), being held in Austin, Texas, from Nov. 9 to 12. The papers address autonomous improvement during real-world deployment, predictive action generation based on latent world models, and perception, memory and dual-arm coordination in long-running online operation — three capabilities the company says general-purpose robots need to work reliably over time. In MobiAgent: Dual-Loop Recursive Policy Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation, Astribot proposes a dual-loop agent framework for long-horizon mobile manipulation. During deployment, a vision-language model handles rolling task planning, skill-specific action experts execute operations, and a...

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...