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Robotics · AI HARDWARESmart Glasses Sales Doubled in the First Nine Months, Yet Manufacturers Are Still Losing Money
Ahead of the Double 11 shopping festival, the smart glasses sector reported strong growth: Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica recorded EUR 486 million in third-quarter wearable revenue, while China's Ministry of Commerce noted a 1.1-fold year-on-year increase in domestic smart glasses sales during the first nine months.
Robotics · INTERVIEWSNature Will Debuts Natura-1, a 50B-Parameter Embodied Foundation Model Trained on One Million Hours of Human Experience
On October 13, Nature Will—founded by Ding Ning, assistant professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering—released Natura-1, its first general-purpose embodied foundation model, along with a technical report. The 50-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model was pretrained on more than one million hours of first-person human video and can drive a 20-DOF dexterous hand within a 100-millisecond control loop.
Robotics · ARTICLEAgiBot Launches AGIBOT G2 Max, a Safety-Certified Heavy-Duty Embodied Robot Combining High Payload and Precision
On October 26, AgiBot launched the AGIBOT G2 Max, a safety-certified heavy-duty embodied robot designed for depalletizing, material transport, and production line feeding. The robot features 7-DOF force-controlled dual arms with a 20 kg single-arm and 40 kg dual-arm rated payload, a 50 kg peak payload, and a ±0.5 mm repeat positioning accuracy for tasks requiring both heavy lifting and precise placement.
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