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On November 5, Toyota Motor officially established a dedicated robotics division, integrating previously scattered robotics research and development resources within the company to further promote the practical application and commercialization of robotics technology.
On 5 November, the two sides announced a strategic partnership with U.S. Technology. The two sides will work together to combine U.S. Technology's infrastructure capabilities in data, assessment and deployment with U.S. Technology's technological advantages in robotic body, motion control, sensing systems, power control, agility and state of the art, around model training, robotic capability verification and real-world applications.
On 5 November, Spirit Founders announced the signing of a strategic agreement with Quanzhou. The two sides will make full use of their respective technical capabilities to integrate and deeply integrate the native adaptation and integration of mechanical arm and integrated joint modules, carry out joint definitions, joint verification, capacity collaboration and ecological co-operation, and jointly promote human robots, collaborative arms and other scenarios in industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting, and physical retail.
On November 4, the AI Service Robot Enterprise Legend Global announced that it will work with the Chinese Commercial Robot Enterprise No. 9 to advance the establishment of a domestic joint venture company in South Korea.
On 4 November, the Beijing City Market Supervision Authority announced that China Petroleum Group's Kunming Manufacturing Limited will form a new joint venture with operators such as Yuri Technology Shares Limited. The joint venture intends to engage in industrial-grade intelligent robot solutions business.
On November 4, Wang Xing, the founder of Yuke's technology, said that next year is likely to be the turning point for the robotics industry or robot models.
On November 4, Chairman of the Technology Committee of the JD Group, Cao Wei, revealed that over the next five years, JD Logistics plans to purchase 3 million robots, 1 million unmanned vehicles and 100,000 drones, pushing AI and robots deeply into the entire supply chain.
On November 4, Handsui Innovation announced the successful acquisition of Ego Touch Recruitment and Supplemental Equipment by Hubei Changjiang General Intellectual Property Robotics Technology Limited.
On 3 November, Linclap Robotics and Linclap Tech formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides will collaborate deeply around the joint research and development of visual cameras, environmental visual perception systems and agile applications, promoting the integration of robotic perception and execution technologies and innovation.
On 3 November, the company formally signed a strategic partnership agreement with South Korea's EVERYBOT Inc. The two companies will work in-depth collaboration around South Korean market distribution, localization and smart product collaboration to promote the scale-up of South Korean and global market deployment of its robotics products.
On 3 November, the National Office for Market Supervision and Administration, the National Standardization Management Board, approved the publication of the Technical Specification for the simulation testing platform for humanoid robots (GB/T 48316-2026), which will be officially implemented on 1 April 2027.
On 3 November, Polly Development Holdings and Galaxy General Robotics reached a strategic partnership. The two sides will leverage their respective strengths in urban space operations and in the field of intelligent technology to promote a deep integration of intelligent with residential communities, commercial space and urban services, and jointly explore new avenues of intelligent urban development and high-quality living in the future.
On 3 November, Xiaomi simultaneously unveiled two new robot breakthroughs to the outside world: a new generation of Xiaomi humanoid robot landing car factory, completing eight hours of continuous operation, preliminary verification of the production line-level operational capability; the Xiaomi body-based model opens for pilot operation in the Xiaomi Youth Apartment, running smoothly across rooms, long time sequence complex task chain.
On 3 November, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially announced the eighth national list of specialized small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which have been successfully selected due to the accumulation of core technologies and industrial landings in the field of artificial intelligence.
On 2 November, the Institute for Special Equipment Safety Supervision and Inspection in Nanjing City issued a procurement announcement for the acquisition of special robotic 3D Dynamic Dynamics Simulation Testing System and Special Robotic Performance Integrated Testing System, with a total project budget of 1.59 million yuan.
On 2 November, the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province issued a public tender announcement for the acquisition of DaFinch surgical robot maintenance services with a two-year term of service with a budget of 3 million yuan.
On November 2, the Samsung Intelligent High-End Welding Equipment and Industrial Robot Project was inaugurated in Xi'an City, Jiangsu Province. The project plans to invest 130 million yuan, mainly to produce high-end intelligent equipment and accessories such as resistors and dedicated welding equipment, semi-automatic and fully automated complete welding production lines. The project is expected to enter production in August 2027, with an annual production capacity of 2,000 units.
On November 2, the Shandong Transformation and Reconstruction Demonstration District Management Committee signed an agreement with China Construction International Investment Group to officially land the robot-manufacturing lithium-ion base project in the Dongguan Electronics and Equipment Manufacturing Park, with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan.
On November 2nd, at the CMG World Robot Climbing Thailand, the Silver NE01, won by the Sikkim TECHNOLOGY team, won the first of two rounds of the official men's race and the Challenge Trials on the real mountain track, and was awarded the Silver NE01 prize for Sikkim TECHNOLOGY.
On 1 November, the Ministry of Industry and Information officially implemented the YD/T 6771Y2026 standard on the quality requirements and evaluation methodology of the YD/T 6771Y2026 key infrastructure technology.
On October 31, Infinite Power formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jindong, where the two sides will work on multi-layered collaboration on retail scenario applications, commercialization platforms and eco-channels, and industrial resource synergy.
On October 31, the People's Hospital of Jinjiang Autonomous Region issued a second public tender announcement for the purchase of medical equipment under the Jinjiang Public Hospital Reform and High-Quality Development Operational Management Project. The project plans to purchase 37 kits of domestic medical equipment, such as intelligent lower limb rehabilitation training robots, with a total budget of 1.66 million yuan.
On October 30, Shanghai Electric and Ningde Age signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai. It was reported that the two sides will jointly conduct R&D and testing around the next generation of process equipment for Ningde Age hydropower, accelerating the deployment of industrial robots and equipped robots in the battery production line scenario.
On 30 October, the Ministry of Industry and Communications and the Ministry of Finance jointly announced the first government procurement standards for domestic products and publicly requested the opinion of the society. Fixed multi-link industrial robots were selected in the first five categories, becoming the only products included in the first batch of the list.
On October 30, Intel announced the completion of the first small-scale delivery of its two-arm wheeled humanoid robot, the SynDexy C1, to customers in the consumer electronics and electronic components industries for precise assembly processes on the production line. According to the company's disclosures, the SynDexy C1 had a critical mission success rate of more than 98% in previous tests.
On 29 October, Jiangsu Robotics co-founder, President and CTO Liu Xiaobo announced that the company's cumulative downline of general AI robots has surpassed 20,000 units and generated nearly 2 billion yuan in revenue in the first half of 2026.
On 29 October, the company announced the creation of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Ningbo. The new company focuses on key hardware technologies such as connectivity modules, end executors, heat management, and building performance and cost-effective intelligent hardware products.
On 28 October, Xigua Limited, a subsidiary of USM Group, was fully incorporated into Nantong Technology Limited, with a registered capital of US$3 million. The new company covers research and development of intelligent robots, the Internet of Things, the development of AI-based software, and urban end-to-end distribution.
On 28 October, Shanghai Green Union's Intelligent Equipment Industrial Base was established in Yangtze. The base focuses on R&D, manufacturing and delivery, which is expected to be completed in August 2027, and production in December of the same year, with an initial planned annual capacity of 6,000 consumer robots and 2 million calculating power cards.
On October 21, Agile Robots announced a joint project with Audi, Dassault Systems, and Invidia at the NVIDIA GTC Berlin station to explore the use of mobile humanoid robots in the selection and sorting of components at the Audi GOL STAT plant.
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On 4 November, Vee Bit Robot released the W1 twin-legged man-shaped welding robot, with 27 degrees of freedom, 10 kg of arm load, and 30 kg of overall machine load.
On 3 November, Inger Intel demonstrated the Messol-equipped intelligent unloading robot program at CeMAT. As a terminal for the interaction of the Intelligent System with the Physical World, Messol has dual roles of action execution and environmental feedback.
On November 3, at the CeMAT Exhibition, Extremadura launched the RoboPallet trolley minivan program, primarily aimed at the construction of medium-traffic new warehouses and the conversion of existing forklift warehouses, to accommodate the net throughput demand below 13 meters. The program is coordinated by RMS in collaboration with the RP11 high-pitch forklift and the RP2 low-pitch forklift or P-series robots, with high-pitch access parallel to ground transfers, opening the entire chain of trolley storage, supply and workstation selection.
On 3 November, Hyundai Robot first exhibited a new single-channel dual-side STU, cross-channel STU program at the CeMAT exhibition. The single-channel STU dramatically increased the throughput efficiency of the channel, which can be synchronized with the T50 carrier robot, with bicycles throughputing up to 80 boxes/hour; cross-channel STU supports second-level switching, business double redundancy guarantee, 2 seconds to complete the unloading operation.
On November 1, Zero Cloud Control announced that at the recent Industrial Fair, Zero Cloud Control announced the upcoming release of a joint modulation product with a Hammer-powered decelerator. For example, eRob110I uses tightly integrated joint modulation design to address the need for robotic system integration.
On October 31, the semiconductor technology introduced the motion control chip family (CT2001B, CT2001HS, CT1906, CT1906H), based on the single-piece integrated GaN HEMT process, to combine the full three-phase power drive to a 5×5mm LGA ultra-small package, providing a range of domestically produced high-integrated power systems for micro servo joints with a diameter of 14×45mm.
On 6 November, ECO Optics unveiled a new 2.4K near-infrared linear camera, which relies on near-infrared enhancement, high-frequency noise and high-speed scanning to provide all-new sensing hardware for OCT detection systems and industrial detection equipment to help improve the performance of precision detection equipment.
On November 6, Cloud Deep Technologies officially released the X50 quadruped robot, with a load capacity of up to 50KG, aimed at complex terrain re-loading operational scenarios, achieving greater load, stronger passing and more stable posture.
On November 5th, ANKAWA Motor Robot officially launched two new full-size workpiece carrier robots, MOTOMAN-GP700 and GP400L, with a maximum carrying capacity of 700KG. This new release is designed to address the growing demand for large-scale, heavy-duty transportation in industries such as automotive, batteries, building materials, and to provide users with more efficient and flexible automation solutions.
On November 5, the company released the large-scale transport robot YA-HFAKM1F00, with a nominal load of 210 kg and a maximum arm span of 2597 mm. In addition to logistics transport, material handling, grinding, and other applications, the company can also grab the workpiece and connect with the machine to meet the multi-scenario needs of automation and intelligent welding production.
On November 5, Intelligent Technologies officially launched the world's first roller-coaster patrol doggy steel outpost P1. The product will integrate the four core scenarios of wheel-to-wheel integrated core, RoamerX autonomous navigation and deep integration of the five major professional patrol cargoes, targeting park plant areas, residential communities, public spaces and key areas.
On November 5, at the 7th World Media Summit, the world's first bio-human-like robot news broadcaster officially debuted at the Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Modernization.
On November 4th, the new generation of the KUKA KMP L series of vertical-lift autonomous mobile robots was officially launched, covering a load range of 600 kg to 2000 kg and widely used in the trays, shelves, trucking scenes of automotive distribution, general industry, electronics, food and other industries.
On November 4, Satellite Intelligence announced that in a DexPort study conducted by the Amazon FAR team at Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego, Satellite Marvin's man-made control arms played an important role in real robot deployment and verification.
On November 4, the physical world model startup LiberAI officially released Liber-0, a world action model based on over 2.2 million hours of pre-trained human experience data.
On November 4, the Lions Mountain AI Laboratory at the Bureau of Advertising's Advanced Technology Institute released the "PetsTMLion-ER-35B-A3B" model, which uses a MoE hybrid expert model architecture with a total parameter of about 35B, with each token activating only about 3B parameters.
On November 4, a joint research team from universities such as Peking University and the University of Hong Kong published GroundingPI, a body-perceptive baseline model with a comprehensive run time of more than GPT-6 Astra.
On November 3, the company launched a full-frame robotic joint product matrix, which includes a three-joint module of planets, waves, and lines, as well as a human-faced facial joint product, covering the range from lightweight micro-drive to medium-to-large torque joints, to suit the needs of different scenarios.
On November 3, China University and the University of California, Berkeley jointly developed and launched the uni-robot-agent, a cross-environmental unified harness designed for training.
On November 2, the Thinker-Sim smart simulation platform was officially launched. The platform, which uses the Real2Sim2Real technology route, completed real-world scenario reconstruction using the self-developed Thinker-GS algorithm, and combined with SimReady asset automation generation to achieve end-to-end closure from real factory production lines to simulation asset generation.
On 2 November, Microbot (MICBOT) officially unveiled a new generation of four-wheel-drive robot MOVENEW P3S aimed at mines, fossil fuels, electrolytes, fire emergencies, and other high-risk and overload scenarios, with the goal of allowing the robot to take up a full shift while reducing human exposure.
On November 2, Thousand Technologies officially launched ViMo Flow, a video AI intelligence detection and operation platform aimed at production sites. The platform, which is based on video AI, deeply integrates video equipment, AI models, process rules and production data, to further extend industrial visual AI capabilities from product quality testing to production processes, covering the entire process of model training, program construction, video real-time analysis, anomalous alerts and operational analysis.
On 1 November, according to sources familiar with the matter, Meta has partnered with Chinese robotics company Li Li Liye to develop a prototype humanoid robot called Maxxin, both of which are in the process of developing a second generation.
On October 30, the Center for Machine Learning officially released PrimeSim, a world model simulation aimed at robotic manipulation tasks. It is based on a pre-training video generation model, modified in two phases through mid-training and post-training, with the ability to interact with traditional simulators instead.
On October 29, Critical Point released the OmniGlove self-designed remote control glove, with both the standard version and the Pro version starting delivery in November.