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Oct 31, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
The Robot Report surveys animal-inspired robots used or proposed for inspection, disaster response, research, and companionship, ranging from beetle-scale soft robots and snake-shaped pipe inspectors to quadrupeds and robotic pets. One cited example is KAIST’s BeetleBot, whose artificial muscles, camera, tactile sensor, and gesture control were reported in Science Advances on August 19, 2026; KAIST describes narrow-space inspection and object retrieval as future applications, not established field deployments. The article is a broad feature mixing research demonstrations, commercial products, historical examples, and speculative uses rather than a single new study or independent performance test.
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Oct 30, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
Percepto has launched Axion, a software-as-a-service platform intended to analyze inspection data from supported third-party drones, fixed and mobile sensors, existing archives, and Percepto's own autonomous systems. The company says Axion organizes findings by asset, relates anomalies to equipment context and inspection history, and lets operators query their data in plain language.
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Oct 30, 2026 · IEEE Spectrum Robotics · consumer
IEEE Spectrum's latest Video Friday is a curated collection of robotics demonstrations rather than a report on one product or research result. The lead video shows the Robotics and AI Institute's Spot system rolling, uprighting, dragging, and recovering a 15-kilogram tire outdoors using coordinated motion from its legs, body, and arm.
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Oct 30, 2026 · The Robot Report · humanoids
Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI now expect about $465 million in gross proceeds from their proposed SPAC transaction and related financing, before transaction expenses. The total comprises about $164 million remaining in Churchill XI's trust, a roughly $201 million PIPE led by Foxconn at $10 per share, and $100 million of equity funding already received after the deal was announced.
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Oct 30, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
The Robot Report’s podcast team recaps RoboBusiness 2026, held October 20–21 in Santa Clara and reported by the organizer to have drawn more than 2,000 attendees. The episode covers keynote panels, the Women in Robotics lunch, sessions on AI in production and robotics-as-a-service, and the expo floor; it is a podcast roundup rather than independent testing of the featured systems. The page says this was the event’s 20th anniversary and final edition under the RoboBusiness name before a planned October 2027 return as Robotics Summit West, and the episode includes a WiBotic sponsor message.
Read article →Oct 30, 2026 · Standards · Draft government procurement standard; public consultation
China’s industry and finance ministries opened comment on a draft domestic-product standard for government purchases of fixed multi-joint industrial robots.
Read article →Oct 30, 2026 · United States · Proclamation 11077 / FR Doc. 2026-22385
Citing a Commerce Department national-security investigation under Section 232, the proclamation calls for negotiations to address import risks and continued monitoring of robotics and machinery imports. It names possible future remedies, including tariffs, duties, quotas and fees, depending on negotiations.
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Oct 29, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
President Donald Trump determined that imports of robotics, industrial machinery, and related components threaten to impair U.S. national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. The October 28 proclamation directs the commerce secretary and U.S. trade representative to negotiate with trading partners and report on progress within 180 days. It does not impose a new robotics tariff now.
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Oct 29, 2026 · The Robot Report · humanoids
The Robot Report's 2026 Robotics Handbook collects previously published and commissioned material on humanoid design, artificial intelligence, dexterous manipulation, construction automation, and engineering components. The public introduction presents it as a free overview of design choices, technical challenges, and market opportunities rather than a single new research study.
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AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 · company press photograph · AGIBOT
Oct 29, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
AGIBOT introduced Worken, a proposed measure of productive robot work, at its October 29 Innovation Day in Shanghai. The company defines the metric as active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and an output-efficiency ratio. The idea is to distinguish robots merely built or powered on from machines completing acceptable work with limited intervention.
Read article →Oct 29, 2026 · Industry · Company hardware launch and proposed measurement framework
At its Shanghai event, AGIBOT introduced the AHA3 humanoid hardware platform and G2 Max industrial robot, alongside a proposed metric for productive robot work.
Read article →Oct 29, 2026 · Standards · CR product certification implementation rule released; no certified humanoid products reported
At an October 28 Shanghai forum, the Shanghai Robotics Industry Technology Research Institute released an implementation rule for whole-humanoid CR product certification.
Read article →Oct 29, 2026 · Carnegie Mellon University · Robot manipulation and system identification
Carnegie Mellon researchers tested a method that briefly wiggles a rope, estimates how it moves and plans a manipulation before attempting the task.
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Oct 28, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
North American companies ordered 10,989 robots worth $723.5 million in the third quarter of 2026, according to the Association for Advancing Automation. That was 24.8% more units and 26.1% more value than a year earlier. Orders for automotive components, semiconductors and electronics, plastics, life sciences, and metals all rose, while food and consumer-goods orders fell.
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Oct 28, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
A Robot Report analysis uses Symbotic's relationship with Walmart to examine the tradeoff in building a robotics company around one anchor customer. Symbotic's filing for the quarter ended June 27 says its largest customer supplied 90.5% of revenue; its annual report identifies Walmart as that customer. Symbotic reported $720.8 million in quarterly revenue and $55 million in net income, but the quarter also included $19.4 million in investment gains and negative non-GAAP free cash flow.
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Oct 28, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
Warp Sciences says it has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding to build a U.S. chemistry research service combining chemists, AI, and robotics. Its first planned offering is lead-optimization analog synthesis: making variations of candidate molecules for drug researchers to compare. The company describes an increasingly automated lab, but has not published customer results showing faster drug discovery.
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Oct 28, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
WorldOracle is a research benchmark that compares a robot world model’s predicted outcome with a recorded real-world attempt starting from the same observation and action sequence. It tests whether the prediction gets physical outcomes, object positions, key interaction details, and multiple camera views right, including when a grasp fails. In experiments with seven models, the researchers found different failure patterns; the paper is a preprint, not proof that any model can safely control a robot.
Read article →Oct 28, 2026 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Medical soft robotics
MIT engineers built a steerable soft enteroscope and reported moving it about six and a half feet through the small intestine in animal studies.
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Oct 27, 2026 · IEEE Spectrum Robotics · humanoids
Sponsored content from VicOne argues that robot safety functions can fail when sensor readings, messages, or model inputs are deliberately manipulated, even if the control logic behaves as designed. The company cites its own lab tests, published adversarial-input research, and a ROS 2/DDS message-injection demonstration; it also notes that an acoustic gyroscope attack was shown on drones, not on a humanoid. This is vendor-sponsored cybersecurity guidance and product positioning, not an independent evaluation of VicOne’s tools or proof that the cited attacks work against every robot.
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ANYmal X at an industrial plant · ANYbotics
Oct 27, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
ANYbotics says it has begun delivering ANYmal X, a four-legged inspection robot designed for potentially explosive oil, gas, and chemical facilities, with Equinor and DSM-Firmenich among the named customers. The company says the robot is built to meet ATEX and IECEx standards and uses thermal, visual, acoustic, and gas sensors while feeding inspection results into plant-maintenance systems. Delivery status, the reported early-access testing across hundreds of missions, and performance benefits are company-reported; the article does not provide independent field results.
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Oct 27, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
Embotech and BMW say Automated Driving In-Plant has moved 1 million newly built vehicles across four factories in Germany and the U.K. The partners report about 3,500 vehicle movements per day and availability above 99.5%, with infrastructure-mounted lidar and offboard planning guiding otherwise unmodified cars. Those operating figures come from the companies; BMW plans a further rollout, including its Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant in 2027.
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Oct 27, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
Xpanner introduced the X1 Piling R6, a tracked system designed to drive posts at utility-scale solar and battery-storage sites under the supervision of one operator. The company lists a 97-kilowatt engine, piles up to 23 feet long, and a maximum driving depth of 15.7 feet, while its software records position, depth, and plumb for each installation. These specifications and productivity benefits are company claims from a product launch, not independently measured field results.
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Oct 26, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
Bedrock Robotics says it raised $600 million in Series C funding at a $4.1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to nearly $1 billion. The company is expanding autonomous excavator deployments and says it aims to have a triple-digit number of machines working across the U.S. in 2027, while exploring trenching and other equipment types. The funding and deployment plans are company-reported; the article does not provide independent performance or return-on-investment measurements.
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OnLogic industrial computing hardware · OnLogic
Oct 26, 2026 · The Robot Report · industry
OMRON agreed to acquire industrial-computer maker OnLogic and its parent, Interlogic, for $675 million. The companies expect the transaction to close around January 2027, subject to regulatory approval, with OnLogic retaining its Vermont headquarters, brand, direct-sales model, and current management. Plans to combine OnLogic’s rugged edge computers with OMRON’s sensing, control, and robotics products describe the companies’ intended strategy, not a completed integration.
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Oct 26, 2026 · The Robot Report · humanoids
Agility Robotics and GXO Logistics plan to expand their use of Digit humanoids beyond their existing Georgia operation. They report that its Georgia robot fleet has carried over 100,000 totes, and they expect to start deploying Digit 4 at additional U.S. sites in early 2027 before moving to Digit 5. GXO has not disclosed the investment or a return-on-investment timeline.
Read article →Oct 26, 2026 · Deployment · Company-reported platform launch and factory-line validation
Shanghai-based AGIBOT launched Genie Studio 2.0, software that combines robot-model development, task workflows and fleet monitoring for workplace deployments.
Read article →Oct 26, 2026 · Federal agencies · NHTSA-2026-1519 / FR Doc. 2026-21794
The proposal would narrow certain requirements for manual turn-signal, hazard-warning and beam-switching controls on vehicles built without manual driving controls. It would also permit optional cyan-colored ADS marker lamps under standardized specifications, and revise some headlamp testing and mounting provisions.
Read article →Oct 26, 2026 · Federal agencies · TREAS-DO-2026-0595 / FR Doc. 2026-21786
The proposal would prohibit certain covered U.S. investments involving foreign persons developing systems within its proposed 'super intelligence' category. Its definition explicitly includes embodied systems, with industrial, humanoid and quadruped robots, autonomous vehicles and unmanned systems as examples when they use such a system.
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Oct 25, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact are pairing Universal Robots arms with Sereact’s Cortex software for variable retail, logistics, and manufacturing tasks. The companies say hundreds of arms are already installed in dual-arm systems at European customer sites, including CEVA Logistics operations that process Zalando returns in Germany and Poland. Those deployment counts and performance descriptions come from the partners, while expansion into North America remains a plan.
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Source article image · Eka Robotics
Oct 24, 2026 · The Robot Report · autonomy
Eka Robotics says it raised $150 million in Series A funding to expand its vision-force-action model and customer deployments. The company trains robots in simulation using reinforcement learning to handle varied objects and tasks, then transfers those skills to physical machines. Its reported speed and ability to generalize are company claims rather than independently verified results in the article.
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