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BYD's Xiaodi Humanoid Set for Early August Debut as Company Denies Factory Trial Rumors

BYD's Di Space Zhengzhou venue teased the Xiaodi humanoid for an early-August public debut — a 1.61 m, 58.5 kg showroom robot with 31 DOF — while the company officially denied the 'Yao-Shun-Yu' prototype and mass-deployment rumors.

AMD Launches Kria AI Robotics Developer Platform With Ryzen AI Embedded X100, Challenging NVIDIA Jetson

AMD unveiled Kria AI Solutions at Advancing AI 2026 — an open, turnkey robotics development platform powered by Ryzen AI Embedded X100 with CPU+GPU+NPU+FPGA unified architecture, claiming 3.4x real-time performance over NVIDIA Jetson T5000.

Generative Bionics Unveils Gene.01 Humanoid with Full-Body Tactile Sensing at AMD Advancing AI 2026

Italian deep tech company Generative Bionics has unveiled Gene.01, an industrial-focused humanoid robot combining full-body tactile sensing with physical AI capabilities, introduced at AMD Advancing AI 2026. Built in just six months, Gene.01 features distributed tactile skin across its entire body capable of detecting touch, temperature, proximity, and force — enabling the robot to safely anticipate human presence and adjust interactions in real time. The platform is already heading to its first industrial deployment through a strategic collaboration with global shipbuilder Fincantieri, targeting shipyard welding tasks. Generative Bionics has also open-sourced Gene.01's digital twin across PyPI, conda-forge, and ROS build channels, and is partnering with German actuator specialist Synapticon on an EU-protected actuation stack. Spun out of the Italian Institute of Technology in 2024, the company raised €70 million in late 2025.

Quectel Launches Wheel-Arm Embodied Robot Platform with Self-Developed Dual-Brain Controller

Quectel has unveiled its wheel-arm embodied robot platform at WAIC 2026, featuring a bio-inspired dual-brain architecture that separates high-level reasoning from real-time motion control. The platform integrates omnidirectional mobility, dual-arm manipulation, and end-to-end autonomous task execution — from voice command to physical action.

X-Humanoid Debuts at WAIC 2026 with Embodied AI Solutions for Five '3D' Scenarios

X-Humanoid made its official debut at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, unveiling embodied AI solutions for five '3D' (dirty, dangerous, dull) scenarios, built on its Embodied Tiangong body system and the Huisi Kaiwu large-and-small-brain platform.

Generative Bionics Unveils Gene.01, a Smart-Skin Humanoid Platform Built in Just Six Months

Italian deep tech firm Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a sensorized humanoid built in six months with full-body tactile skin, physics-native AI and an open-sourced digital twin. Its first industrial use case is a welding humanoid for Fincantieri shipyards, backed by an $81M seed round.

OpenBMB Open-Sources MiniCPM-Robot: A 1.5B VLA Model Bringing Embodied AI to Individual Developers

OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-Robot, the first fully open-source 1.5B vision-language-action model series, enabling individual developers to run real robot manipulation and target tracking on physical hardware.

Nvidia and Hugging Face Expand LeRobot with Isaac GR00T 1.7 VLA Model and Open Robotics Tools

Nvidia and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7, an open vision-language-action foundation model for humanoid robots, and the Isaac Teleop framework into LeRobot, creating a standardized open-source pipeline for robotics development. The partnership combines Nvidia's 3 million robotics developers with Hugging Face's 16 million AI developers, with Cosmos 3 world model integration planned next.

RoboSense Launches Second-Gen Solid-State Perception Platform E2 at WAIC 2026

RoboSense launched E2, its second-generation solid-state perception platform at WAIC 2026. Built on the proprietary Peacock SPAD-SoC chip, the platform delivers 3x precision improvement targeting robot perception applications.

Sunday Robotics Previews ACT-2: 99.1% Zero-Shot Laundry Folding Across Unseen Homes

Sunday Robotics has previewed ACT-2, the first robotics model to achieve reliability by unifying broad generalization with high performance. The model achieves 99.1% zero-shot success on laundry folding across 785 autonomous attempts, covering 9 garment types across diverse unseen homes. Key breakthroughs include: single fine-tuning example teaching a new behavior that generalizes, the closing of the generalization gap through scaled pretraining, and a 4.72/5 mean fold quality score. The company plans to deploy Memo robots to families through a Beta Program this fall.

Redick Discloses Humanoid Robot Core Component Portfolio and Customer Collaboration Progress

Redick discloses its strategic humanoid robot component portfolio covering planetary roller screws, micro ball screws, and precision bearings, with multiple customer projects in validation and sampling stages.

Relu Robotics Deploys AI-Powered Photovoltaic Installation Robot in Algeria

Relu Robotics has deployed its Bison Series photovoltaic installation robot in Algeria, bringing embodied intelligence to solar construction with sub-5mm installation accuracy in extreme outdoor conditions.