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AGIBOT unveils four new robots at WAIC 2026 as it expands industrial embodied AI portfolio

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AGIBOT has unveiled four new robotics products at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 in Shanghai, expanding its portfolio of humanoid robots, industrial automation systems and dexterous robotic hands while highlighting its growing commercial deployments.

The launches include the AGIBOT A3 Ultra humanoid robot, X2 EDU education platform, G2 Max industrial robot and OmniHand 3 Ultra-M dexterous robotic hand.

The company is also deploying more than 30 robots throughout the WAIC exhibition venues, where they are providing visitor guidance, information services and live demonstrations outside the exhibition booth. [Read more…] about AGIBOT unveils four new robots at WAIC 2026 as it expands industrial embodied AI portfolio

Faraday Future highlights robotics expansion and shipment milestone at Automate 2026

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Faraday Future’s AI subsidiary, FFAI, says it is accelerating its expansion into commercial robotics following its debut at Automate 2026 in Chicago, where it showcased its “one brain, multiple forms” robotics platform and announced progress toward its first-half shipment targets.

The company said its June robot shipments are expected to exceed 100 units, bringing total first-half deliveries to more than 220 units, surpassing its original target ahead of schedule.

At the exhibition, FFAI presented a portfolio of robotics products spanning humanoid robots, mobile manipulators and education-focused systems, built around what it describes as a common Embodied AI (EAI) software platform. [Read more…] about Faraday Future highlights robotics expansion and shipment milestone at Automate 2026

Fujitsu partners with Fanuc, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to advance physical AI using Nvidia technology

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Fujitsu has begun working with Japanese robotics manufacturers Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to explore the development and deployment of physical AI across manufacturing, logistics and healthcare.

The initiative will also incorporate Nvidia’s physical AI technologies as the companies seek to develop a collaborative control platform capable of connecting digital systems with robots and other physical equipment.

Fujitsu says the collaboration is intended to accelerate the adoption of physical AI while helping address challenges including labor shortages, an aging workforce and increasing global competition. [Read more…] about Fujitsu partners with Fanuc, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to advance physical AI using Nvidia technology

mimic Robotics unveils full-stack platform for dexterous robot manipulation

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mimic Robotics has introduced a new robotic hand, wearable exoskeleton and software platform that it says are designed to advance general-purpose dexterous manipulation for industrial robots.

The Swiss company unveiled the mimic hand M1, a tendon-driven robotic hand, alongside the mimic wearable U1 exoskeleton and an in-house software infrastructure that together form what it describes as a “vertically integrated physical AI platform”.

The company says the platform has been developed to address one of robotics’ biggest challenges: collecting high-quality training data for AI models capable of performing human-like manipulation tasks. [Read more…] about mimic Robotics unveils full-stack platform for dexterous robot manipulation

Strider Robotics demonstrates 40 kg payload quadruped robot as commercial pilots begin

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Indian robotics startup Strider Robotics says it has successfully demonstrated what it describes as one of the country’s highest-payload quadruped robots, capable of carrying a 40 kg payload while maintaining stability across challenging terrain.

The Bengaluru-based company is now moving from prototype development to commercial deployment, with field pilots under way with a major oil and gas company and an automotive manufacturer.

Strider Robotics develops autonomous quadruped robots alongside an AI-powered software platform for industrial inspection, navigation, mission planning, asset monitoring and analytics. The company says its software is hardware-agnostic and can also operate on third-party quadruped robots. [Read more…] about Strider Robotics demonstrates 40 kg payload quadruped robot as commercial pilots begin

Robbyant unveils LingBot-VLA 2.0 universal AI model for embodied robots

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Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has announced the upgrade and open-source release of LingBot-VLA 2.0.

Building upon the foundation of LingBot-VLA 1.0 released in January 2026, this next-generation vision-language-action (VLA) model delivers significant leaps in morphological generalization, degrees of freedom (DoF) support, and deployment efficiency, bringing a more advanced “universal brain” for scalable real-world robotics.

While the embodied AI industry is witnessing rapid advancements in hardware and control systems, the lack of a truly universal brain remains a primary bottleneck for industrial-scale deployment. [Read more…] about Robbyant unveils LingBot-VLA 2.0 universal AI model for embodied robots

Has AI Agent Autonomy Redefined Robotics Safety and Control?

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Robotics systems are learning to perceive, choose, and change behavior without human direction. Robots can adapt to warehouse, industry, lab, and transit environments. Autonomy improves production and adaptability but impacts safety and control.

Agent governance defines what an autonomous system can accomplish, how its decisions are monitored, and when humans are needed.

Physical barriers, emergency buttons, and designated working zones no longer ensure robot safety as robots take on more complex jobs. [Read more…] about Has AI Agent Autonomy Redefined Robotics Safety and Control?

Opinion: Why robot dogs are leading the pack in factory floor efficiency

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By Andrew Hamilton, head of the Digital Process Manufacturing Centre (DPMC) at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)

Manufacturing facilities today are sprawling, interconnected environments where equipment operates continuously and processes stretch across large physical footprints.

From factory floors and plant rooms to service corridors and external assets, engineering teams need clear visibility across areas that are not always easy, or safe, to access.

Maintaining performance in these conditions depends on accurate, timely information and the ability to respond before issues escalate. [Read more…] about Opinion: Why robot dogs are leading the pack in factory floor efficiency

Lumos Robotics tops global benchmark test for zero-shot embodied AI

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Lumos Robotics says its Prime R0 industrial embodied AI model has achieved the highest overall score on the latest MolmoSpaces leaderboard, outperforming larger models from competitors including Nvidia and research teams from the United States.

The Chinese robotics company said its 2.8-billion-parameter model ranked first across both single-arm fine manipulation and dual-arm collaboration tasks in the benchmark, which measures zero-shot embodied AI performance in previously unseen environments.

According to Lumos, Prime R0 surpassed models including Nvidia’s 16-billion-parameter Cosmos model as well as entries from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University, despite using less than one-sixth as many parameters. [Read more…] about Lumos Robotics tops global benchmark test for zero-shot embodied AI

The Shift from One-Size-Fits-All to Bespoke Systems

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For anyone who has been running a business for years, they know that they were told that standard solutions were the smartest path forward!

Is this the truth, though? Businesses are told to buy the same software that everyone else is using, along with following the same processes, and make sure to fit their operations into a predetermined mold.

On the surface, this approach appears to be practical, easy to manage, and affordable. However, we must remember that industries are continuously evolving and customer expectations are continuously growing. What this means is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. [Read more…] about The Shift from One-Size-Fits-All to Bespoke Systems

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