Robotics Award Events

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AwardNC AI

NC AI and LG Electronics selected for Korean on-device humanoid project

Foundation Models

· award · NC AI · Foundation Models

Evidence notes
  • The programme targets an autonomous humanoid that runs its VLA model onboard a Korean-made AI chip.
  • LG Electronics oversees the humanoid system; Mobilint supplies the NPU; Nota leads VLA optimization using quantization, pruning, token compression and knowledge distillation.
  • NC AI’s work covers motion retargeting, training-data generation and digital-twin pipelines for humanoid learning.
Date
Company NC AI
Event type Award
Segment Foundation Models
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AwardAgiBot

AgiBot tops 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games with 46 medals

Humanoid

· award · AgiBot · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • OmniHand reached the finals in all eight dexterous-hand events and won seven gold medals, including block building, powder weighing and bean picking with tweezers.
  • X2 won the 100-metre obstacle race and A3 won the Tai Chi event; AgiBot says X2 competed in its mass-produced configuration without competition-specific hardware changes.
  • G2 contributed to five scenario-event golds across tasks including hotel service, library operation and emergency response.
Date
Company AgiBot
Event type Award
Segment Humanoid
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AwardGalbot

Galbot wins three fully autonomous scenario golds at 2026 Robot Games

Humanoid

· award · Galbot · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The household task ran for up to 30 minutes and required navigation, object storage, clothing handling, door opening and interruption by an unexpected delivery task.
  • Galbot completed the food-service workflow in 6 minutes 55 seconds without an error, including voice-command handling, food pickup, microwave operation, drink preparation and delivery.
  • Its teams swept gold, silver and bronze in the retail event, where item locations, orders and stock conditions changed between runs.
Date
Company Galbot
Event type Award
Segment Humanoid
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AwardX-Humanoid

X-Humanoid Tiangong teams record 45 medals at 2026 Robot Games

Humanoid

· award · X-Humanoid · Tiangong 3.0 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • Tiangong Ultra won the large-robot 100 metres in 8.64 seconds and the large-robot 400 metres in 38.15 seconds.
  • Tiangong also won the small-robot 400 metres in 45.66 seconds, while the platform recorded additional results in jumping, obstacles, weightlifting and scenario events.
  • The five-day Games concluded on August 26 after 1,301 contests involving 2,056 robots from 666 teams.
Date
Company X-Humanoid
Product Tiangong 3.0
Event type Award
Segment Humanoid
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AwardTeledyne FLIR

Teledyne FLIR OEM selected for U.S. Army DUTCH thermal-imaging award

Vision

· award · Teledyne FLIR · Vision

Evidence notes
  • The programme targets improved uncooled thermal-sensor performance and high-volume production readiness.
  • Teledyne links the work to uncrewed aircraft, loitering munitions and other Army sensing priorities.
  • No award value was disclosed; the record is an R&D programme selection, not a quantified procurement contract.
Date
Event type Award
Segment Vision
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AwardMoveEz

ISICO selects MoveEz for all-weather autonomy R&D support

Automotive

· award · MoveEz · Automotive

Evidence notes
  • The project covers sensing that remains usable in rain and snow plus more efficient two-dimensional mapping for autonomous vehicles.
  • The programme can support up to two-thirds of eligible costs, subject to a JPY30 million cap over as many as three years.
  • The JPY30 million figure is a programme ceiling; MoveEz's exact award amount was not disclosed.
Date
Company MoveEz
Event type Award
Segment Automotive
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AwardTIER IV

TIER IV joins JST programme to develop an open autonomous-driving SoC

Automotive

· award · TIER IV · Automotive

Evidence notes
  • The University of Tokyo team led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara is researching use-case-driven physical-AI chip design.
  • TIER IV is designing an Autoware-compatible accelerator for end-to-end inference and plans to open-source its logic, compiler and toolchain.
  • The architecture targets Transformer inference across embedded devices operating at several watts and vehicle ECUs operating at several tens of watts.
Date
Company TIER IV
Event type Award
Segment Automotive
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