Scalabot on September 15 launched HERON-Context Reinforcement Action Model (CRA), the second model built on its HERON technical architecture, which features memory, reinforcement learning for error recovery, dexterous and deformable object manipulation, and cross-embodiment generalization to equip robots with continuously evolving real-world operational capabilities, shifting them from task execution to learning and iterative improvement.
Physical AI infrastructure firm Hesai Technology announced a new strategic partnership with JD Group to conduct in-depth exploration across full physical AI scenarios, leveraging high-precision 3D spatial sensing capabilities including 6D full-color lidar to support continued deployment of JD’s autonomous logistics vehicles and robots, and jointly extend the application boundaries of physical AI in the real world.
Chinese robotics firm D-Robotics and embodied-intelligence company GigaAI have formed a strategic partnership to jointly build a high-performance, deliverable and affordable edge-side integrated software-hardware solution for embodied intelligence, with GigaAI contributing its capabilities in world models, embodied foundation models, robot development and real-world deployment and D-Robotics providing high-performance edge AI computing platforms, algorithm toolchains and robotics ecosystem support, initially targeting deep adaptation of the next-generation embodied foundation model GigaBrain-0.7 with D-Robotics’ large-computing embodied platform Sunrise S600 and integration of GigaWorld world-generation model capabilities, to push world-model-driven embodied intelligence into real-world scenarios spanning home services, industrial manufacturing, commercial services and the developer ecosystem, the companies said.
BlueWorm Embodied Intelligence, a technology commercialization enterprise of Xi’an Jiaotong University, today unveiled its next-generation modular humanoid robot, the Mantis Standard “Xiaobai,” priced from 9,800 yuan. The company said the product is not merely a “humanoid robot,” but an embodied intelligence platform that can transform into various forms. The Mantis Standard “Xiaobai” features standard modules for its chassis, arms, waist and head, with mechanical and electrical connections completed between modules via quick-install interfaces. In terms of specifications, the robot has 22 total degrees of freedom, a single-arm payload of 7kg, an arm span of 663mm and teleoperation latency of less than 10ms; its waist has a lifting range of 550mm, while the chassis supports 3-DOF omnidirectional movement, a forward speed...
Chinese robot maker Unitree has unveiled the G1+, an upgraded version of its G1 humanoid robot, delivering six improvements across motion performance, perception and interaction while retaining the G1’s affordability at 95,000 yuan including tax. The G1+ gains two extra degrees of freedom in the neck, giving a pitch range of -25 to 36 degrees and a yaw range of plus or minus 110 degrees for flexible head movement, the company said. Motors across the robot have been comprehensively upgraded: peak torque of the shoulder and waist motors rose 110%, with heat generation down 72% at the same torque; arm motors saw peak torque up 43% and heat reduced 30%; and thigh motors cut heat generation by 28% at the...
Chinese embodied AI startup Kinetix AI said it had completed a series of angel-plus funding rounds, raising more than 500 million yuan, with participation from Vertex Ventures, a VC firm under Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, Fangguang Capital, Wanshi Capital and others. The proceeds will be used to accelerate “data-model-embodiment” iteration and drive commercialization of embodied AI products.
Sept 13 — Elon Musk said in a social media reply that he is highly confident SpaceX will send Nvidia’s VR NLV72 AI computer into space next year.
UBTECH’s Walker S2, an industrial humanoid robot built for factory and logistics applications, features an autonomous dual-battery swap system enabling power replacement in three minutes, equipped with binocular vision, dynamic balancing, dexterous hands and collaborative agent capabilities to carry payloads up to 15kg within the 0–1.8-metre working range. ⚠️ This information is compiled from publicly available online sources, for reference only.
Hangzhou Xieyue Intelligence Technology has closed a multi-hundred-million-yuan Angel+ financing round backed by Linear Capital, Junshan Capital, Hongyi Capital and Yinshan Capital; founded in February 2026 by former Li Auto AI chief scientist Chen Wei and ex-Li Auto product line president Zhang Xiao, the firm focuses on embodied foundation models for home robots, boasting a core team with cross-domain expertise in large models, AI infrastructure, robot control, product and supply chain, and plans to advance model training, computing and data infrastructure.
At the 2026 Inclusion Bund Summit, crowds gather around Sudu Technology’s booth, where a dual-arm collaborative robot continuously executes uncalibrated grasping of 12 types of heterogeneous objects with no preset trajectories, manual labeling or scene-specific retraining, leveraging its self-developed million-scale physics simulation platform that parameterizes real-world lighting, materials, friction and gravity disturbances to let the model undergo millions of virtual trials before low-cost real-world transfer through a “data-simulation-model-feedback” loop reshaping AI R&D from human instruction to machine self-learning and eventually self-driven evolution.
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