A Beijing robotics firm's dexterous hand, featured on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, exemplifies the industry's growth driven by policy support and market demand. Tax authorities visited the company ahead of the World Robot Conference.
Quadrupeds, arms, exoskeletons and vertical robots at WRC 2026: a complete guide to 50+ non-humanoid machines and the industry structure behind them.
PaXini launched the PXCap Pro five-finger data collection glove for embodied AI. It features omni-modal, multi-source sensing fusion with fingertip and palm tactile arrays, 0.1N tactile force sensitivity, 1% FS repeatability, and a 165° wide-FOV wrist camera that captures hand manipulation and hand-object interaction details.
Daimeng Robotics has secured hundreds of millions of yuan in a new funding round led by Ant Group, with existing shareholders increasing their stakes. The company, known for its tactile dexterous hands, is now pivoting to a broader vision-tactile sensor platform and focusing on tactile world models.
LimX Dynamics releases the core stack of its TRON 2 VLA demo for autonomous clothes folding, including an embodied AI data platform, open datasets, and open-source code. Researchers can now focus on algorithms rather than hardware integration.
LumiBot, a dexterous manipulation startup, secured tens of millions in angel funding led by Changyou Technology, marking the first investment from Changyou's robot fund. The company's focus on thermal management for dexterous hands aims to solve the reliability issues that hinder industrial adoption.
Handroid, a 0.33-meter robot with 27 degrees of freedom, can reconfigure between a walking humanoid and a five-fingered dexterous hand. Developed by UNC Chapel Hill and Stanford, it achieves 72% grasp success and works across both forms.
Lingxin Qiaoshou, a leading dexterous hand maker, has registered a new subsidiary in Hangzhou to strengthen its presence in East China. The move aims to tap into local robotics resources and enhance R&D and supply chain capabilities.
Gemini Robotics 2 from Google DeepMind advances physical AI with full-body control, 22-DOF dexterous hands, and multi-robot collaboration. It also introduces the ASIMOV-Agentic safety benchmark and on-device deployment for low-latency industrial use.