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On August 11, ABB Robot entered into a strategic partnership with Washington Control, officially launching a new generation of collaborative coding workstations jointly built by the two companies, which will develop deep collaborations around AI coding process packaging development, product manufacturing collaboration and global market expansion, with a one-stop solution to open the last kilometer of coding for robot landing applications.
On August 11, the Wuhan Working Group of the Open Atomic OpenLET Smart Open Source Database Community unveiled the official launch of the first nationwide smart open source data collaboration platform in China in Wuhan.
On August 11, Yubi chose to form Guangdong Maoui Robot Limited, a joint venture of Liu He Holdings Limited, which covers sales of intelligent robots, manufacturing of industrial robots, and development of AI application software.
On August 13, Foley New Materials and CCS formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement, in which the two sides will jointly develop new types of touch-sensing gloves with high-precision touch-sensing modules around touch-sensing technology.
On August 11, the 500th Wimail humanoid robot specialty chassis officially went offline at its production site in Honshu. At the same time, the company disclosed that orders for the humanoid chassis had exceeded 1,000 units.
On 11 August, 58 SMEs and Antelope Information signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Hangzhou. The two sides will work together in a comprehensive way around security-enhanced robot products, intelligent security technology and data security, based on their existing business as a cornerstone.
On 9 August, the company unveiled its flagship Beijing City-focused Intelligent Large Model Laboratory in Beijing, which aims to breakthrough full-body, end-to-end, large-body model technology in three years, build a successful city-focused laboratory in six years, and build a nationally and internationally renowned flagship Intelligent Large Model Advanced Research and Industrial Empowerment Center in nine years.
On 12 August, Foley New Materials officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CIO, under which CIO will purchase 200,000 high-performance touch sensors from Foley New Materials to meet the large-scale production needs of 40,000 industry-class skilled hands.
On August 11, Aston announced plans to drive sales of automation core components, industrial robots, and other products to JD East based on the price of the agreement, with a projected transaction volume of 20 million yuan in 2026.
On August 13th, the Sites Intelligent Joint Venture, a subsidiary of Benzhou Technology, and the Beijing University of Technology's Great Bay Area Innovation Institute, formally established the Sites Intelligent Joint Laboratory, simultaneously completing the annual strategic intent order signing ceremony and the Sites Intelligent Automatic Cleaning of Robot Quantum Downline Production ceremony.
On 14 August, Shenzhen Intelligent and Shanghai Transportation University's Fujian Future Institute of Technology held a signing ceremony for the unveiling ceremony in a laboratory equipped with physical intelligence. The two sides will conduct technical collaboration on modeling multi-modal data around factory and commercial environments, demonstrating learning and scenario understanding, and in-depth training and reasoning for world model training for robotic operations tasks.
On August 13, the two sides formally signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Beijing-based startup Intelligent to build a better real-world data infrastructure to build a solid data base for the large-scale deployment of agile operating technologies.
On 14 August, the two sides reached a substantive consensus on the strategic cooperation between China and China on the transformation of physical intelligence and its application to marine robots.
On 12 August, the official signing ceremony for strategic cooperation was held between Intelligent Technology and Intelligent Technology, where the two sides will work together on the deep adaptation of computing and integrated computing, the joint milling of industrial scenarios and the creation of an industrial chain ecosystem.
On 7 August, Qingdao Dynamic Intelligent Robotics Limited was founded with a registered capital of 10 million yuan. Qingdao City subsidiary Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Innovation Center Limited and Qingdao Heining City Development Limited, a state-owned enterprise in the southern part of the city, held 40 percent of the shares, totaling up to 80 percent.
On August 5th, the company was founded by Netaji Group, a start-up of Physical Intelligent Technology, which covers the manufacture of industrial robots, research and development of intelligent robots, and the development of artificial intelligence-based software.
On August 13, Beijing-based CTO Amio Robotics Ltd. registered in Shanghai to form Shanghai Star Zhao Robotics Technology Limited, with core business covering research and development of intelligent robotics, underlying AI software development and import and export technology services.
On August 14, WingFee Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanghai WingShenCity Intelligent Technologies Limited, was founded in Shanghai. Its operations include sales of industrial robots, sales of industrial automated control system devices, sales of communications equipment, etc.
On 11 August, both the two sides signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement (SCAF) with Blueprint Intelligent. The two sides will launch strategic cooperation around the relevant technical routes and application scenarios for the simulation of robotic breasts and high-frequency robotic head components, jointly promoting the mass production of simulation head assemblies, and exploring the commercialization path of simulation robotics.
On 7 August, the Joint Institute of Electronic Technology Standardization of China, Jindong, completed a tripartite cooperation agreement with the Joint Laboratory of Robotic Batteries in Beijing, formally establishing a collaborative platform for the production of research and development in the field of robotic batteries.
On August 14, OriginFlow signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Intelligent Hands. In the future, the two sides will combine the accumulation of Intelligent Hands in Hardware and Robot Operating Data with the exploration of Intelligent Hands in Neural Motion Interfaces, Multimodal Data and Motion Models.
On 6 August, SHANGHAI IEC and SHANGHAI Institute of Physical Intelligence and Robotics signed a strategic partnership to explore an efficient transformation pathway from source technologies to industrial applications, creating a model of innovation cooperation to attract state-owned enterprises and government procurement.
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On August 14, Fao released the ART series of industrial-grade human-power control arms, which include 3-14 kg loaded human-power control arms, upper-body human-power control arms, standardized human joint modules, human integrated reference design schemes, etc.
On 14 August, the robot launched the rear-wheel-drive intelligent robot Lumos MOS2, which has a 50 kg arm load capacity and can be adapted to situations such as rear-wheel-drive, flexible waste and equipment-assisted operation.
On August 11, HexaCercle M11 Pro gesture recognition and touch sensing data gloves, a total of 408 hand-held touch sensors, with a touch capacity of up to 50N, and multi-dimensional touch data can be sensed in the palm of your hand.
On 12 August, PUDU Robot launched the AI-native small cleaner robot PUDU ET1, primarily aimed at automated cleaning of small commercial venues such as convenience stores, pharmacies, and budget hotels.
On 12 August, ZTE launched the RoboShuttle Hyper freighter to human program, adapted to small space, high density, ultra-high throughput scenarios, capable of reaching 6000 boxes/h throughput (every 1000 m2), 800 boxes/h workstation efficiency (Max workstation).
On August 10, Jiang Zemin Intel released a series of body products, including a backpack, two brain body AI controllers, as well as a lightweight physical AI patrol robot C1U and a heavy-duty physical AI patrol robot engine X1U.
On August 13, VLAI Robotics Future Power officially unveiled a new generation of mobile, agile, two-armed humanoid robot K1, priced at 1.980 million yuan, with 25 full body freedoms, a single-armed load of 6kg, and repeatable positioning accuracy of ±0.02mm.
On August 14, Pasini released a new generation of five-finger data collection gloves, the PXCap Pro, featuring multi-dimensional arrayed touch sensors, ultra-wide-angle wrist cameras, and self-developed micro, high-precision angle encoders.
On August 13, Yu-Gi-Oh! officially launched the fitness pre-training platform FabriGym. Based on the FabriX model and enhanced learning capabilities, FabriGym allows specially equipped intelligent robots to complete stage adaptation and skill training before leaving the factory.
On 13 August, HBC launched the wheel-armed intelligent robot Astra Pro2, a single-armed seven-freedom, seven-axis flexible movement, with dual-link brakes, a cross-axis wrist structure, a combined waist ±178° rotation, and multiple tasks such as patrol, transportation, installation and service.
On 14 August, Sony Technology released the Tacknit Glove G1 deep touch data glove, which uses integrated textile molding process, sensing fiber and fabric seamless fusion, abandoning traditional hard-core sensing modules, and adapting to various genres.
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