Physical AI capital moves — 12–18 October 2026 - 2026-10-18 - Article - Funding, acquisitions, strategic investments and public-market milestones across robotics, autonomous systems and the technologies that enable them.
Astribot is the latest Chinese unicorn - 2026-06-03 - Article - Astribot completed a Series B after unveiling T1, a lower-cost robot starting at RMB 89,900.
Robotics developments — 23–30 May 2026 - 2026-05-30 - Article - Company developments across robotics, humanoid production, deployments, supply chains and robot learning.
Research
BiDex-100: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Across 100+ Simulation Tasks - 2026-10-18 - Research Publication - BiDex-100 is a simulation benchmark with 106 bimanual dexterous tasks across five capability axes. It supplies8,080 validated teleoperated demonstrations across dual-Franka and Astribot S1 simulation embodiments. - source: arxiv.org
MobiAgent: Dual-Loop Recursive Policy Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation - 2026-10-02 - Research Publication - MobiAgent combines dynamic skill planning and visual reflection with offline recycling of deployment trajectories. It evaluates four physical Astribot S1 tasks, separate simulated mobile-manipulation benchmarks, and an… - source: arxiv.org
ActiveArena: Benchmarking and Understanding Active Perception in Robotic Manipulation - 2026-09-21 - Research Publication - ActiveArena studies active perception and memory with 35 simulated manipulation tasks and eight physical tasks on Astribot S1. It releases simulator and evaluation source plus LeRobot-format simulated demonstrations… - source: arxiv.org
MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions - 2026-09-21 - Research Publication - MIRA coordinates streaming dialogue, discrete social behaviors and generated co-speech motion on a physical Astribot S1. It combines CORTEX turn management with ROSCO motion generation and a robot-side execution bridge… - source: arxiv.org
SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning with Asynchronous Robot Execution - 2026-08-30 - Research Publication - SmoothRL aligns policy updates with the action frames that physically executed, despite inference delay and discarded action chunks. - source: arxiv.org
RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model - 2026-07-20 - Research Publication - The authors present RynnBrain 1.1, a family of embodied foundation models spanning 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B scales. - source: arxiv.org
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots - 2026-07-13 - Research Publication - The authors introduce PHILIA, a multi-robot agent built around a robot gateway abstraction. - source: arxiv.org
Mind to Hand: Purposeful Robotic Control via Embodied Reasoning - 2025-12-09 - Research Publication - Mind to Hand proposes embodied reasoning for purposeful robotic control, connecting high-level task intent with manipulation actions in Astribot S1 and related humanoid platform context. - source: arxiv.org
FiveAges robot_usds simulation asset library - Research Publication - A shared library of robot USD assets for ROS 2 control and Isaac Sim development, with configurable robot and end-effector models. - source: github.com