Chinese robotics firm Unitree has introduced a new humanoid robot named 'Superman,' claiming it can jump 2 meters from a standstill and reach a top speed of 12.66 meters per second. The company has not disclosed detailed testing protocols, and the figures remain unverified claims rather than indicators of commercial production.
Noetix Robotics released a video of its E1 robot performing cartwheels, highlighting its ultra-high-stability motion control. The company asks fans what the robot should try next.
Noetix Robotics shared a playful media of its Robot N2 dancing, saying it's 'pretty fun'. The robot is shown moving to music in an interactive demonstration.
LimX Dynamics' TRON 2 robot demonstrates a closed-loop autonomous inspection workflow in a real municipal utility tunnel, covering mapping, navigation, multi-level inspection, anomaly response, and autonomous docking/charging. Equipped with an autonomous mobile manipulation kit, it adapts to complex spatial structures.
Intermittent swimming, inspired by natural bout-and-glide behavior, can significantly improve the energy efficiency of fish-like robots. A new study using the ZBot platform reveals that this gait reduces energy consumption across speeds and offers a validated control strategy for underwater robots.
Unitree Robotics has unveiled a new humanoid robot capable of a 2-meter standing jump and a top speed of 12.66 m/s, breaking previous humanoid records. The company says the machine was developed in just over three months.
Humanoids lead WRC 2026's announced lineup. A complete guide to the biped vs wheeled form-factor war and what it signals for embodied AI.
Booster Robotics posted a single media item on social media, accompanied by the text 'That happened a little too fast'. The post, which features a robot emoji, appears to showcase a robot performing a rapid movement or an unexpected action. The company's social media team shared the clip without additional commentary, sparking curiosity among followers.
LimX Dynamics shared the first episode of its TRON Camp 2026 documentary, showing how participants started with the simple goal of getting hands-on with a real robot and ended up winning. The film details the iterative process from simulation to real hardware, including data collection, position adjustments, and motion refinement.
The second World Humanoid Robot Games will be held from August 22 to 26 at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, featuring 51 events and 1,301 matches, a significant expansion from the inaugural edition.
Researchers have developed ceramic microscrolls inspired by butterfly proboscis that can be unrolled and rolled up using magnetic fields. These smart materials could enable more efficient actuators for micro and soft robotics, with potential for significant economic impact.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed RoboDojo, a unified benchmarking platform for evaluating robotic manipulation across simulated and physical environments. The platform, created with collaborators from nearly 20 universities, including UC Berkeley and Tsinghua, aims to standardize assessment in embodied AI research.
DEEP Robotics shows its DR02 humanoid robot climbing stairs with stable, controlled movement, emphasizing steady steps and consistent forward progress.
DEEP Robotics shares a video of a robot demonstrating steady steps and consistent progress.
Noetix Robotics showcases its small robot N2 running, doing forward flips, performing Yingge dance, and dancing cha-cha-cha, calling it a little robot with a champion's spirit.
LimX Dynamics wrapped up its TRON Camp 2026, a five-day event where participants tackled VLA and locomotion challenges and demonstrated their work on real robots.
DEEP Robotics demonstrated its Lynx M20S quadruped robot navigating rocky and muddy terrain, highlighting agile mobility and robust locomotion in outdoor environments.
Beijing's 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games will feature mostly fully autonomous events, showcasing genuine technical prowess. StarMap's R1 Lite robot is training for the office scenario, highlighting the shift from teleoperation to autonomous long-horizon tasks.
Noetix Robotics demonstrated its E1 robot's enhanced motion control, featuring autonomous terrain perception, obstacle negotiation and stair climbing in real-world environments.
Noetix Robotics showed its humanoid robot Bumi performing a viral dance, and hinted at more dance content.
In a future factory in Ningbo, robot development engineers—dubbed 'robot trainers'—teach industrial robots tasks through hands-on demonstration and correction. This emerging profession is attracting talent with salaries reaching 800,000 RMB annually.
Figure AI's Figure 03 robot demonstrated fully autonomous ladder climbing, a complex task requiring precise hand-foot coordination and balance. This breakthrough, powered by an upgraded AI model with real-time visual input, expands the robot's potential in industrial environments.
This paper introduces a stochastic multiple shooting trajectory optimization method that connects short control sequences via local feedback policies, improving sample efficiency and terminal set convergence, and synthesizes approximate Jacobians from rollouts for black-box dynamics.