During ICRA 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) held in Vienna, Austria, ZKCAS (Zhongke Fifth Dimension), in collaboration with Tsinghua University's Professor Sun Fuchun team as the Youth2Real战队, achieved a historic victory by winning the global championship in the Picking in Clutter Track at the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC).
The competition is recognized as one of the most challenging benchmarks in robotic manipulation, testing a robot's ability to grasp objects in cluttered, unstructured environments with visual noise, irregular object shapes, and varying material properties. ZKCAS's 'Embodied Operation Brain' demonstrated exceptional stability and generalization capabilities, outperforming global competitors across multiple evaluation criteria.
ICRA, organized by IEEE, is the flagship global conference in robotics, widely regarded as the industry's 'weather vane' for cutting-edge research. The RGMC competition has been a staple event at ICRA for over a decade, drawing top robotics labs worldwide.
This victory highlights China's growing strength in embodied intelligence and robotic manipulation, particularly in developing robust perception-action loops that can handle real-world uncertainty. ZKCAS is an investee of Leaguer Innovation and represents the new wave of Chinese embodied AI startups pushing the boundaries of robotic dexterity and real-world generalization.
