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Maniformer will hold its largest launch event since its founding in Shanghai on Sept 23, unveiling “Maniformer Pai” globally and formally launching a body-free embodied data crowdsourcing platform for the general public. Maniformer Pai converts everyday human actions into training data for robots, the company said, allowing ordinary people without professional backgrounds to use spare time to participate in embodied intelligence data collection and earn income. The platform is intended to move robot training data collection from specialized work to broader social collaboration, the company 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...

The 2026 Inclusion Bund Summit closed on Friday after a four-day run in Shanghai’s Huangpu World Expo Park, showcasing AI’s accelerated shift from technological iteration to large-scale commercial implementation, industrial empowerment and inclusive public application. Bringing together more than 600 scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs and investors, alongside over 300 global tech exhibitors, the event consolidated industry consensus on AI-driven real economic growth amid evolving industrial and market landscapes. Hosted under the theme “Building the AI Economy Together”, the summit featured a 15,000-square-meter tech exhibition and a full lineup of industrial activities, including thematic forums, Developer Day, Innovators’ Stage, tech competitions, a venture capital meetup, a specialized job fair and the inaugural Inclusion AI Art Festival. Over 50 cutting-edge technologies, products and...

Robots on display at this year’s 2026 Inclusion · Conference on the Bund are not performing flashy stunts. Instead, Ant Lingbo Technology showcased practical deployments: autonomous medicine picking for pharmacies, logistics sorting and industrial loading tasks, highlighting a pivotal shift in the robotics industry. For years, the sector’s most eye-catching demos centred on dynamic robot movements. Yet rolling robots into pharmacies, warehouses and factories demands more than pre-programmed motions. Machines must interpret unstructured environments, understand tasks, adapt to unexpected changes and operate reliably around the clock — the core challenge Ant Lingbo aims to address with its natively embodied general AI brain. The centrepiece exhibit is a replica smart pharmacy, built in partnership with Shanghai Guoda Pharmacy and already live...

UBTECH Robotics has officially opened its super smart factory for industrial humanoid robots in Liuzhou, Guangxi, billed globally as the first benchmark manufacturing facility built to support annual output of up to 10,000 humanoid units. Spanning 14,000 square meters with a height of 13.8 meters, the plant will primarily produce the firm’s Walker S and Cruzr series embodied AI industrial humanoid robots. Under its designed production cycle, one humanoid robot can roll off the assembly line every 10 minutes, with a planned annual capacity exceeding 10,000 units. Powered by intelligent planning via industrial simulation systems and full-domain orchestration through a digital “smart brain”, the facility realises a new quality productive forces model of “robots building robots”. The milestone marks China’s...

Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center Co., Ltd. brought its NAVIAI humanoid robots to the 16th Smart City and Intelligent Economy Expo, which opened in Ningbo on Friday, showcasing real-world applications in apparel manufacturing and smart retail. The company said its robots are moving into real scenarios to perform real tasks, backed by a full-stack, self-developed product system. It is targeting two ends of the market: production sites that demand efficiency, precision, production-line compatibility and stable operation, and consumer settings that require natural interaction, environmental adaptability and flexible service. In apparel manufacturing, Zhejiang Humanoid has focused on flexible production, where soft fabrics are prone to wrinkling, collapsing and unpredictable deformation. Over two years, it said it moved from template-machine operations to...

At the JDDiscovery 2026 main forum, JD.com projected its five-year procurement targets on screen: 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles and 100,000 drones. The audience included more than 100 hardware manufacturers and dozens of investment firms, many expecting humanoid robots to feature on the list. None appeared. On exhibition zones flanking the stage, JD’s Wolf-series machines handled warehouse tasks: Dilang shuttled goods between racks, Canglang picked orders in narrow aisles, and Dulang completed campus deliveries. Not a single bipedal robot was on display. JD unveiled six new Wolf-series robot models at the event. The omission of humanoids was no oversight. With China’s largest fulfillment network, JD’s procurement blueprint signals a clear verdict: humanoid robots are not yet commercially viable...

What happens if robot model training data is expanded from 300 hours to 30,000 hours? Can robotic systems, similar to large language models, continuously gain new capabilities as datasets grow? AGIBOT’s newly released native World Action Model (WAM), GE-Act 2.0, systematically answers that question for the first time. Unlike mainstream approaches that build upon existing video generation models, every parameter of GE-Act 2.0 — including core modules for visual representation, future prediction and action forecasting — is initialized from scratch and trained end-to-end on embodied manipulation data. After pre-training, the model undergoes zero-shot real robot tests on unfamiliar scenes and unseen objects without fine-tuning or demonstration for benchmark tasks. The evaluation covers 100 atomic tasks, 20 skill categories and two...

Chinese robotics company Unitree said it has fully open-sourced an upgraded version of its general-purpose humanoid foundation model, UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, setting new state-of-the-art results on multiple global open-source embodied model benchmarks. The model can perform both tabletop manipulation and whole-body mobile manipulation with a single model, enabling cross-task and cross-end-effector generalization, Unitree said. It achieves a “one-model-driven, whole-body coordination” effect, the company added. Unitree said UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 was trained on large-scale general-purpose multimodal perception and understanding datasets and incorporates interaction-centric world modeling, significantly strengthening spatial perception and scene understanding. It outperformed several open-source competitors in China and overseas on multiple embodied reasoning benchmarks, with some capabilities comparable to mainstream closed-source models, according to the company. In real-robot tests, a single model completed...