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On August 21, Obi-Wan Kenobi signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Honor.The two sides will further deepen collaboration in the field of robotics and pave the way for the efficient transformation from underlying sensing technologies to end-scenes applications through the co-creation of joint laboratories, innovation centers and joint delivery centers.
On August 21, the organizing committee of the World Games of Human Robots officially announced that Huawei Tech will be the exclusive power control technical support unit for the Games.
On August 20, the Seventh-Axis Manufacturing Center for Rotary Robots announced the signing of 100 orders, of which China has signed 50 and is planning to sign 50.
On August 19, AT&T reached a strategic partnership with Newtonian Robots, where the two sides will jointly leverage the advantages of laser radar space perception and mobile brain research to build intelligent systems capable of understanding the world, autonomous mobile navigation and mission execution in a real human environment.
On August 19, Black Sesame Intel and its wholly-owned American subsidiary U.S. Enterprise formally signed a framework agreement on cooperation with chip suppliers. The two sides reached a framework agreement on the supply of domestic chips and industrial applications, focusing on deepening cooperation in the robotic pathway, while covering the chip needs of the home appliance sector, jointly promoting the scale application and technological transformation of domestic chips, and laying the foundation for subsequent specific business cooperation.
On August 18, the two sides formally entered into a strategic partnership with Obi-Wan Keno-Light to open a closed loop of "Visual perception and agility in the operation of chip data feedback", reduce the hand-eye collaboration development deployment thresholds, and jointly launch the hand-eye collaboration smart metrics product.
On August 18, Jiangsu City's Wuyi District signed a cooperation agreement with its Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang, which is expected to invest a total of RMB 1 billion in its robotics research and development and manufacturing base. It is Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang's first large-scale mass production center.
On 18 August, WeiJing Smart officially signed a strategic partnership agreement with Shenzhen, focusing on deep collaboration around the two main product lines of humanoid robots and industrial 3D cameras.
On August 17, Company Nine released its earnings for the first half of 2026, with revenues of USD 14,358 million, an increase of 22% over the previous year; of these, its lawnmower robotics subsidiaries had a net profit of USD 268 million in the first half of 2026, exceeding the full-year size of 2025.
On 15 August, Receiver's Intelligent China Regional Headquarters and Intelligent Robotics Core Parts R&D Base were established in Dongguan, with a total investment of about RMB 500 million. The project is expected to support annual output of RMB 35-40 billion after investment in 2028.
On August 13, Guangzhou Robotics officially signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with 58 cities. The two sides will focus on life-service scenarios, real-world data sharing, robotic application locations and the development of industry talent.
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On August 19, Huawei Technologies released the HIIBEX outdoor bone robot brand, which is designed for outdoor sports such as cycling, mountaineering, running, and more than 80% of the structural framework uses carbon fiber composite materials, weighs less than 2.1 kg, has a duration of more than 6 hours, and uses Huawei's self-developed high-torque motor and adaptive sports model, which can predict human posture and movement intentions in advance by 5 milliseconds, improving the synchronization efficiency of human machines.
On August 18, Purdue Robot released the AI-native small-scale washing robot PUDU ET1, which is freely available through narrow passages less than 50 cm wide and less than 60 cm high, mainly covering 100-800 square meters of scenery such as convenience stores, pharmacies, chain restaurants, commercial and economic hotels, office space, etc.
On August 19, the WRC was unveiled with the D50 heavy-duty four-wheel-drive robot, designed for long-range, high-load, high-load, and maximum operating scenarios, with a continuous load capacity of 100 kg and an instant load capacity of 200 kg.
On 19 August, the WRC debuted the new industrial-grade human-powered control arm of the FARO robot ART series, comprising 3-14 kg loaded force control arms, upper human-powered control arms, standardized human joint modules, human integrated reference design schemes, etc. On site, FARO robots and partners demonstrated various industrial applications such as transportation, cardboard packaging, etc.
On August 18, F1 Vision officially unveiled the AperData software hardware integration and intelligent data base at the Physical AI Magnificent Blueprint 2030 conference, and Huawei Creative Science and Joint Visions have reached a deep collaboration on the project.
On August 19, Rakuten Robot officially released the MOS2, along with its robotic skills evolution engine Lumos NexCore. The MOS2 has a body height of about 1.65 meters, an area of about 0.5 square meters, a channel demand of about 0.8 meters, and one of its core capabilities is a 50 kg arm load capacity and support for rapid switching of end-to-end hardware.
On August 20th, Utrecht Technology released the seven-axis life simulation mechanical arm R1, priced at 9900 yuan, the lightest self-weight of only 5.5 kg, loaded at 2 kg, with a maximum arm span of 650 mm in the state of agility, with power feedback, impact detection, power control interfaces, and the ability to achieve two-arms collaboration, focusing on scientific, industrial, development, and educational scenarios.
The RH524J1 series was launched on 19 August with the first release of the 24 degrees of freedom hybrid-driven RH524J1 series. The new model uses a super-biomotor structure design with 22 fingers and 2 wrists with a total of 24 active-freedoms, using the rope and direct-driven hybrid-driving scheme, while achieving highly human-like mobility, with excellent power output and control accuracy.
On August 19, New Era demonstrated at the WRC the SYNDA R2PRO fixed human robot, with an industrial-grade repositioning accuracy of ±0.05 mm, designed for high-precision fixed workplace operations.
On August 19th, a new robot was launched.PublishedOneHub is a cardboard robot synchronization system.Designed for large-scale applications with physical intelligence, heterogeneous robots build a unified intelligence base that builds brain layers, sub-brain layers and executive three-tier collaborative architectures, with brain layers at the core of multi-modal large models, sub-brain layers responsible for task-level autonomous planning, building for flexible manufacturing, intelligent logistics, intelligent patrol and complex service scenarios.
On August 19, Hyundai Robot released the HSR 25/35/50 series of SCARA robots, with a maximum load of 25/35/50 kg, with a large arm span of 800-1200 mm, with a concealed internal runway design designed to eliminate worn out and inertial disruptive interference, and for the installation, transportation, selection, and detection of medium-sized components in the silicon, photovoltaic, PCB and logistics industries.
On August 19, the company released an explosion-resistant linkage module designed for coal-mining gas and chemical explosive gas environment robots. The explosion-resistant performance of coal-mining I and chemical II scenarios is strictly certified, and the explosion-resistant rating covers Ex db I Mb, Ex db IIB T4 Gb, Ex db IIC T4 Gb, with a temperature range of up to T6, IP65 protection level, and provides high reliability assistance for explosive environmental robots.
On August 19, EFT released a new product called HALO Skills Collection, which combines robots to sort and identify parts along a simulated car line in real-time, and HALO Skills Collection, which allows real-world wear collection, through human activity, and system synchronization of vision, sensation, touch, gesture, and other multidimensional operation data.
On the 19th August, KanopTwo-legged humanoid robotThe official debut of the WRC. The foot-like humanoid robot is about 1.6 meters high, has 31 degrees of freedom, combines bi-foot movement, full-body coordination, arm operation and multi-mode perception capabilities, and can be used in industrial manufacturing, patrol operations, warehouse logistics and public services, further expanding the boundaries of robotics' mobility and operation in complex environments.
On August 19, Vietnamese robotic deer Dobot Lumo unveiled the WRC, which is nearly 1.3 meters tall and is geared towards consumer-grade accompaniment and intelligent teaching development. The product, based on a fully self-developed model of the empty deck, achieves three key breakthroughs in multi-modal emotional perception, three-dimensional understanding and proactive action, autonomous learning and long-term evolution.
On August 19, Schaeffer's lightweight single-wave fusion joint module, Planetary Joint Module, and Linear Joint Module debuted at the WRC. In this, the Planetary Joint Module will integrate the bearings directly into the rotor, reducing the installation space of the joint drivers by about 20%, achieving a weight reduction effect of about 500 grams.
On August 19, Intel released the direct-drive braided braided hand, which took the direct-drive braided technology route, had 15+ degrees of freedom of movement, accurately simulated complex movements of the human hand, and weighed only 1/3 of the traditional braided hand, significantly reducing the weight of the hand at the end of a humanoid robot.
On August 19, Yiwu Technology released a 5KG load-bearing man-powered control arm, a single arm with 7 degrees of freedom, with fully articulated power control technology, and adopted a high-performance PHU-F wave-enhanced power control joint that was self-developed, combined with self-developed power control algorithms to achieve millisecond response.
On August 19, Huawei unveiled a whole new range of products such as the Elephant series touch sensors, no-body imaging schemes. The Elephant series has a minimum accuracy of up to 1% FS; the minimum trigger power of the high-precision model, a measurement resolution of up to 0.01N, is able to detect changes in power values within 1 g, achieving microphone sensing at the level of a feather's touch; touch density of up to 400/cm2, depending on the high-space resolution completeness and the distribution of the original contact force.
On 19 August, the three-fingered UHD-3-7 robot recharged WRC was unveiled, with a total weight of just 900g, a 50N finger point output, a maximum torque of up to 15 kg, supporting a 0-180° wide side swing, flexible switching to the heart grip, clutch grip, etc.
On August 19, he announced the release of a solution for the collection of multi-modal data for the robotic kindergarten mouse and the visual touch ego. The core logic of the robot kindergarten is to allow robots to grow through the continuous interaction of the body and environment like human infants, from a data age of mouse passively imitated to an age of experience of mouse autonomously evolving make-up.
On August 19, China Dynamics Technology released a nearly 5-metre ZERO giant concept robot, as well as the P1 Industrial Heavy Loading Machine Dog, a four-legged product that includes a patrol version and a fire detection version in two versions, designed for real-world industrial scenarios.
On 19 August, Lenovo introduced the all-in-one Prima 1 with 22 active freedoms, weighing 850 g, 190 mm long, 90.5 mm wide, 44 mm thick, with a drive feature of a full-in-line zero-back slot, opening at a time of 0.08s/s. The five fingers can move independently, while maintaining a lateral movement of the fingers, the back of the hand, and the thumb against the palm.It focuses mainly on high-precision power control operations and physical intelligence research.
On August 19, Intel released three brand new hands, 3 in 7 degrees of freedom, 5 in 7 degrees of freedom, and 5 in 12 degrees of freedom, enriching its line of bio-grabbing hardware products.
On August 19, Receiver Intel released the DH116 series of enhanced handsets, which are available with multi-dimensional touch sensors, directional and directional sensing, 0.05N sensing accuracy, 20N single-finger sensing, and 50N sensing range.
On August 19, the Beijing Human Robotics Innovation Center launched the artificial Omni, a newly created open platform for human-native human-body intelligence missions that can be used to cover multiple scenarios such as algorithm development, data collection, internship teaching, guided interaction and demonstration.
On August 19, Celestial Robot released a new generation of full-size humanoid robot Naïve Z1, the entire body is 1.67 m tall, weighs 45 kg, and has a maximum of 40 degrees of freedom (not including hands), with a structural design with 5 degrees of freedom in the waist, 9 degrees of freedom in the single arm.
On 19 August, Vita Power released Vbot ATOM, a humanoid robot designed for living space, 1.6 meters tall, with 31 full degrees of freedom, matching both home counters and stage heights, and easy to perform tasks such as pick-up and operation.
On August 19, SourceNetTech released Monte02, a new generation of intelligent robots designed for real-world industrial processes that incorporate multi-modal perception, autonomous decision-making, precise operations and continuous learning capabilities that can understand complex environments and autonomously execute multi-device, multi-step tasks.
On 19 August, Supervisory released the generic two-legged humanoid robot Maker L01, which is fully equipped with 31 joint motors.Support for running, jumping, rolling and so onIt has a top speed of 4 m/s and a weight of 42 kg. It is equipped with 518Wh of heat-extracting batteries. It can be used in boxes from scientific research to competitive development.
On August 19, Vanguard released EngineAI Awaken, a human-like five-layered system architecture that draws on the sub-layer mechanisms of the brain, but has continued evolutionary capabilities at the group level, including the S1 instinctive reflection layer, the S2 action planning generation layer, the S3 cognitive reasoning layer, and further extending to the S4+S5 self-growth layer.
On August 19, AOYOTECH released a brand-new self-developed industrial three-clave actuator, designed to be used on the parts of the manufacturing site, fixing the workpiece, sorting the moving scene, and operating steadily under complex conditions such as fluctuations in the size of the workpiece, surface material variability, and on-site dust vibration.
On August 19, Lite was released by Magnetic Intelligence.RBV1、The RBV3 and RMV3 industrial series comprise four wave junction modules. The industrial series modules integrate the brakes and torque sensors natively, using a super-short body design with the same torque output, compressing the axis to space, while maintaining a large space channel, convenient interior cable line-up and simplifying the difficulty of integrating the entire machine.
On August 19, Yiwu Technology released the high-performance general-purpose humanoid robot PHYBOT M1, the main high-performance general-purpose robot, with a 180 cm human-like structure and a total weight of only 70 kg. The M series verified the core capabilities of dynamic balance, van-watt explosive power, full-body precision synchronization, and built-in technology to assist robots in real, complex, high-intensity environments.
On August 19, Pasini released the first pedestrian multi-dimensional touch sensor PX-FOOTRIX, the all-new five-finger data-gathering handset PXCap Pro. Based on 6D arrayed touch sensing technology, PX-FOOTRIX enables pedestrian three-dimensional array dynamics and six-dimensional force/force matrix perception across the pedestrian, enabling humanoid robots to understand how to walk.
On August 19, RoboScience made its debut at WRC 2026 with the first all-wheel-drive human-powered robot, the REX G1. The REX G1 has a two-armed configuration with 22 free joints and connective activity on the human body.
On August 19, Lenox Power released four new custom-built humanoid robots at the WRC, based on the X-Head 1 standard kernel, with no need for re-modeling and overlapping software settings to deliver new IPs.
On August 19, Magic Atom unveiled the all-new lightweight industrial quadruped robot MagicDog T1 with the introduction of the WRC, the MagicDog T1 integrated with a lightweight design, with continuous walking load capacity, covering industrial smart patrol, production line system connectivity, multi-node material transfer, and other light industrial scenarios.
On August 19, Tortoise Power officially unveiled and showcased a brain-hand-data simulation technology system that consists of SYNWorld's native world base model, OctoH-Hand's high-frequency life simulation, and OctoSense's next-generation body simulation program.
On August 19, Chiang Kai-shek released the new TR6 general-purpose humanoid robot, featuring a new generation of Chiang Kai-shek's Physical World model, which achieves a full-scale technological leap forward; relies on multi-visual fusion-magnetic sensing systems that can be accurately adapted to a variety of complex operating environments, accurately identifying deformed materials and complex objects.
On August 19, Qingdao Power released a 4-metre liquid-electric mixing-driven superhuman robot, aimed at extreme rescue, deep-sea operations, nuclear biochemical operations and other high-risk scenarios that face extreme challenges such as nuclear radiation, deep-sea high pressure, and strong magnetic fields, as well as ultra-wide-temperature operating scenarios ranging from 40°C to +300°C.
On August 19, Goethe released the Motion Machinery Hoax, which relies on Goethe's accumulated time-space data and centimetre-high precision maps to achieve fully autonomous navigation in an open environment, with no preset script or remote control, covering guides, guides, and multi-scene autonomous operation requirements.
On August 19, Blue Tech released the all-new consumer-grade machine dog BabyAlpha A3, the predecessor to the BabyAlpha series, with cumulative sales of over 25,000 units.
On August 19, Hubei announced the launch of a 43-degree, fully-fledged, autonomous navigation barrier, with a maximum load of 120 kg and a duration of 4 to 8 hours, for fire rescue and electrical patrols.
On August 19, Sichuan Tech released AIQ, a humanoid robot priced at ¥98,000, with a face with 59 facial parameters that can synchronize to drive changes in eyes, eyebrows, mouth shape, and theology, leading the way in commercial landing in the banking navigation scene.
On August 19, Universal Laser released the Dolphin's Eye Ultra WLR-723 torque field of view laser radar. It was the first 100-degree ultra-large vertical field of view non-repeat scanning laser radar capable of simultaneously identifying high-level shelf cargo and low-level obstacles on the ground, eliminating the robot's vertical sensing blind spots, and widely used in storage automation, humanoid robots and quadruped robot dogs.
On August 19, Obi-Wan released the new Gemini 338Le and Gemini 338Lg dual-lens 3D cameras, both with stronger anti-environmental optical interference capabilities and industrial-grade gigabytes Ethernet and GMSL2/FAKRA high-speed connectivity, respectively, to meet the diversified needs of complex operational scenarios such as industry, logistics, and more.
On August 19, Shenzhen Technology released the all-new consumer-grade Shenzhen GoGo-H Pro, a product made of aluminum alloy and carbon fiber composite materials, with a total weight of only 2.2 kg and no wear; built-in 1000W auxiliary motor, peak torque 36Nm, single-cell life of up to 18 km.
On August 19, Tech released the first modifiable prototype humanoid robot T01, T01 with a leg-arm replica design, streamlining the limbs of the traditional two-legged humanoid robot into two replicable limbs, achieving the effect of halving the cost of core parts and materials, enabling multiple forms such as two-legged walking, wheeled high-speed movement, and intelligent alternation.
On 19 August, the new materials of Intelligent Sensing debuted in synchronous touch gloves, with the innovative realization of the sensing array of the glove fully synchronous with the delicate hand sensors, the two sensor areas are distributed, the density of the sensing points, and the shape of the outline one by one. The presentation of the synchronous glove synchronous with the delicate hand synchronous collection of touch data at the exhibition site, allowing exhibitors to feel this highly reliable data collection chain.
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