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Robotics · INDUSTRYHesai Delivers Over 23,000 Robot Power Modules in Q3 as Kosmo Data Engine Begins Generating Revenue
Hesai Technology reported RMB 90.51 million in revenue from its Strategic Growth Business for robotics and physical AI in the third quarter of 2026, more than doubling sequentially. The company delivered 23,405 robot power modules and began recognizing revenue from its Kosmo 3D world data engine.
Robotics · INDUSTRYUniX AI Closes RMB 500 Million Pre-A Round as Greenland Group Joins as Strategic Investor
UniX AI announced on November 9 that it has closed a RMB 500 million Pre-A funding round, bringing in Greenland Group as a strategic investor to transition from a downstream application partner. The round also includes Keli Sensing, HUST Venture Capital, and follow-on backing from Xeno Investment and Yonghua Investment to scale robot deployment across security, hospitality, and healthcare.
Robotics · ROBOTICSVita Dynamics Launches Quadruped Development Platform Under RMB 30,000; DEV Geek Edition Priced at RMB 20,988 for Singles' Day
Vita Dynamics has released the DEV Geek Edition of its quadruped robot, a development platform targeting individual developers and enthusiasts. Priced officially at RMB 22,988, the unit is available for RMB 20,988 during the Singles' Day promotion from November 10 to November 20 through the official WeChat mini-program and JD.com flagship store.
Robotics · RESEARCHPeking University Team Proposes Open-HumanWAM to Train Robot Foundation Models on Pure Human Video Data
On November 5, researchers from Peking University, the National University of Singapore, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California San Diego, and NVIDIA introduced Open-HumanWAM, a framework that transfers manipulation experience from large-scale human videos to robot tasks through a standardized action representation and pre-training recipe.
Robotics · RESEARCHAgents Rapidly Top RoboDojo Leaderboard Over 33 Days as Benchmark Enters Adjustment Phase
Robot-use agents have sequentially overtaken world and vision-language action models on the RoboDojo leaderboard over a 33-day period, prompting the creators of the prominent embodied AI benchmark to announce structural adjustments to maintain evaluation fairness.
Robotics · INDUSTRYPrimeBot Rolls Out 5,000 More Personal Robots in 14 Days, Surpassing 10,000-Unit Milestone
PrimeBot, under Shangwei New Material, has surpassed a combined 10,000 units rolled off the production line for its Q1 and T1 personal robots, with the 10,000th unit delivered to Wu Xiaobo. The leap from 5,000 to 10,000 units took just 14 days, highlighting an accelerating production ramp-up at its Kunshan assembly plant operated by Lens Technology.
Robotics · RESEARCHApple Integrates Humanoid Perception Into Simulation for Zero-Shot Home Deployment With HALO
Apple's robotics research team introduces HALO, an autonomous humanoid control system trained entirely on synthetic simulation data and deployed on a Unitree G1. The framework enables zero-shot execution of complex household tasks in unscanned, unseen real-world environments without relying on real-world training data.
Robotics · ROBOTICSCoowam Debuts at CIIE With Edge-Deployed World Models for Multi-Form Robots
At the 9th China International Import Expo on November 6, Coowam made its debut by showcasing the D0 heavy-duty quadruped and X1 urban service robots. Both machines run on the company's proprietary COOWAM dual-layer agent world model, demonstrating its approach to driving diverse robot form factors with edge-deployed world models.
Robotics · INDUSTRYRobot Data Supply Chain Restructures as Buyers Prioritize Task Complexity Over Volume
Data collection intermediaries report that robot training clients are now evaluating task complexity segment by segment, effectively halving per-hour payouts for mixed-difficulty videos. As model companies shift from bulk purchasing to demanding specific, high-quality task data, the million-hour data supply chain is undergoing a painful restructuring.
Robotics · INDUSTRYMoWorld 2.0 Advances Chinese 4D World Model, Accelerating Deployment on Huawei Ascend
At the World Internet Conference on November 4, Moxin Technology founder and CEO Chen Tianrun, alongside representatives from the national AI application pilot bases for embodied AI, cultural tourism, and spatiotemporal geographic information, officially released MoWorld 2.0, a 4D world model natively built on Huawei Ascend.
Robotics · RESEARCHPeking University Team Succeeds in 27 of 30 Real-Robot Dexterous Task Tests by Optimizing Hand-Object Configurations
A joint team from Peking University, PrimeBot, and the Beijing Institute for General AI has introduced DexHOT, a framework that optimizes hand-object configurations rather than just object poses, achieving a 90% success rate in real-robot dexterous manipulation tasks.
Auto · AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGBaidu's ApolloWorld Trains Apollo Go Robotaxis in a Virtual Environment
Baidu has introduced ApolloWorld, a world model that generates camera and LiDAR imagery and alters traffic environments to train and validate its Apollo Go robotaxis. Wang Liang, chief architect of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), described the model as an "examiner" for verifying autonomous driving safety.
Robotics · ROBOTICSLiberAI Launches Liber-0 to Transfer Human Action Experience to Robots
On November 4, physical world model startup LiberAI released its world action model, Liber-0. The model was pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience data. The team evaluated its zero-shot performance on 60 manipulation tasks proposed by GPT-6, conducting 600 test rounds across three categories of 20 tasks each, with every task repeated 10 times.
Robotics · RESEARCHDreamFree Distills Future Representations for Imagination-Free Robot Control
KAIST researchers introduce DreamFree, a world-action model that distills predictive capabilities from a video diffusion model into a visual encoder. This enables robots to output actions from a single current frame, bypassing the computationally expensive step of generating future video sequences during deployment.
Robotics · INDUSTRYAnt Group’s LingBot Open-Source Robot Brain Surpasses 2.2 Million Downloads at Wuzhen Summit
At the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Ant Group’s embodied AI subsidiary LingBot showcased its fully open-source robot foundation models and a smart pharmacy deployment developed with Guoda Pharmacy.
Robotics · RESEARCHQiyuan Embodied Research Center Unveils PrimeSim, Exploring Video Generation Models for Robot Simulation
On November 4, Qiyuan Embodied Research Center released PrimeSim, a world model simulator for robot manipulation policy training built on a pretrained video generation model. The team plans to open-source the model weights, inference code, and training code on November 6.
Robotics · RESEARCHTsinghua University Researchers Propose Utility-WAM for On-Demand Future Video Generation in Robot Action Planning
Predicting future video frames for action planning offers dynamic foresight for long-horizon tasks in embodied AI, but the mixed effects on action outputs yield negligible net gains in average success rates while incurring full computational costs.
Robotics · RESEARCHTsinghua and UC Berkeley release uni-robot-agent framework for open-source robot control
A joint research team from Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley has released uni-robot-agent, a unified framework for Robot-Use Agents. The open-source model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next achieved a score of 31.39 on the RoboDojo benchmark by directly controlling a robot, surpassing the previously published score of 28.97 by GPT-6 Astra.
Robotics · ROBOTICSUBTECH Launches Thinker-Sim Platform for Embodied AI Simulation, Data Synthesis, and Evaluation
Unveiled on November 2, Thinker-Sim integrates real-to-sim-to-real scene digitization, large-scale data synthesis, and robot capability evaluation into a single system, with a single 8-GPU node synthesizing 390 hours of simulation data daily.
Robotics · RESEARCHShanghai Jiao Tong University and Partners Introduce UniFlowWAM, Elevating 3D Scene Flow to a Core Modality
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Chuangzhi Academy, and Qianzhi Intelligent introduce UniFlowWAM. Over the past six months, research on world-action models has increasingly trended toward extracting physical signals into abstract modalities, feeding them into encoders to train embodied AI models.