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Xiaomi Unveils 21-DOF Bionic Hand Designed From 1,827 Factory SOPs
On October 27, Xiaomi Technology revealed a 21-degree-of-freedom bionic dexterous hand driven by 26 hybrid motors and equipped with 1,500 high-density tactile points across the palm. Its configuration is derived from 1,827 real-world Standard Operating Procedures at the pilot center of Xiaomi Automobile's Intelligent Manufacturing Department, which the company used to determine the optimal number of degrees of freedom.
Tsinghua University Releases HandsOn Simulation Benchmark for Dexterous Manipulation with 18,000 Demonstrations
Most mainstream robot manipulation benchmarks focus on two-finger grippers, leaving five-finger dexterous hands under-evaluated with inconsistent metrics. To address this, researchers from Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Natural Will, and Peking University have introduced HandsOn, a large-scale simulation benchmark featuring 66 tasks and 18,000 human teleoperation demonstrations.
Shihang Intelligence's CEORION Marine Foundation Model Completes CAC Filing for Underwater Operations
Shihang Intelligence announced that its CEORION marine general foundation model has completed filing with the Cyberspace Administration of China. Built on a Language-World-Action Model architecture, the system integrates multimodal sensor data to enable underwater robots to perceive, plan, and execute tasks within a single framework.
Alibaba DAMO Academy Introduces RynnUnify, a 16B Unified Embodied Model Pairing 8B Reasoning with 8B Video Generation
On October 23, Alibaba DAMO Academy and Hupan Lab published a paper on RynnUnify, a 16-billion-parameter unified embodied model that uses an 8B reasoning module and an 8B video generator to predict future scene changes and guide sequential robotic actions.
Anthropic Files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO Amid Exponential Growth and $500 Billion Compute Commitments
On October 26, Anthropic filed a 338-page S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the Nasdaq, taking the lead in the IPO race among competing U.S. AI companies.
Smart Glasses Sales Doubled in the First Nine Months, Yet Manufacturers Are Still Losing Money
Ahead of the Double 11 shopping festival, the smart glasses sector reported strong growth: Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica recorded EUR 486 million in third-quarter wearable revenue, while China's Ministry of Commerce noted a 1.1-fold year-on-year increase in domestic smart glasses sales during the first nine months.
Nature Will Debuts Natura-1, a 50B-Parameter Embodied Foundation Model Trained on One Million Hours of Human Experience
On October 13, Nature Will—founded by Ding Ning, assistant professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering—released Natura-1, its first general-purpose embodied foundation model, along with a technical report. The 50-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model was pretrained on more than one million hours of first-person human video and can drive a 20-DOF dexterous hand within a 100-millisecond control loop.
AgiBot Launches AGIBOT G2 Max, a Safety-Certified Heavy-Duty Embodied Robot Combining High Payload and Precision
On October 26, AgiBot launched the AGIBOT G2 Max, a safety-certified heavy-duty embodied robot designed for depalletizing, material transport, and production line feeding. The robot features 7-DOF force-controlled dual arms with a 20 kg single-arm and 40 kg dual-arm rated payload, a 50 kg peak payload, and a ±0.5 mm repeat positioning accuracy for tasks requiring both heavy lifting and precise placement.
RoboMIND Open-Source Dataset Surpasses 50 Million Downloads, Latest 10 Million Reached in 18 Days
The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center announced on October 26 that the open-source dataset RoboMIND has exceeded 50 million global downloads. The latest 10 million downloads were achieved in just 18 days, accelerating significantly from the 223 days required for the first 10 million and 39 days for the second.
RoboMIND Downloads Surpass 50 Million, With the Latest 10 Million Achieved in Just 18 Days
The Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics announced that its open-source dataset, RoboMIND, has exceeded 50 million global downloads. The latest 10 million downloads were achieved in just 18 days, reflecting rapid adoption as the dataset expands to over 400,000 trajectories.
Sharpa Open-Sources SharpaDex v1.0 Dataset Featuring Approximately 300 Hours of Real-World Tactile Manipulation Data Across 59 Tasks
On October 22, Sharpa open-sourced the SharpaDex v1.0 dexterous manipulation dataset. The dataset comprises approximately 300 hours of real-robot manipulation data, 28,993 demonstrations, and 32,396,172 frames, covering 59 manipulation tasks.
AgiBot Launches Genie Studio 2.0 to Validate Robot Deployment in New Scenarios in as Few as 7 Days
On October 23, AgiBot released Genie Studio 2.0, an all-in-one embodied AI operations platform and the second installment of its "AI WAVE" series. The platform comprises Flywheel, Agent, and Monitor modules, covering data collection, model training, simulation testing, task orchestration, and multi-robot operations.