#Embodied AI

AIMicbot says a procurement dispute with a Zhejiang customer over four wheeled-quadruped robots has been settled through negotiation, after reports of late P2 deliveries, a balance fault in a Curiosity S01 and a disagreement over secondary-development rights. The buyer, which ordered two P2 units for 580,000 yuan and later two S01 units at 160,000 yuan each, had refused research-only terms for software access. Micbot's October 6 statement said it supports customer secondary development but requires clear authorization and protection of core technology.

AIBASAL Intelligence (本溯智能), founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD graduate Li Jianxiong, has raised funding led by Fifth Source Capital, with Ivy Capital, Linear Capital and WestSummit Capital participating. The company is pursuing an action-native, in-context embodied foundation model that lets robots adapt to new scenes in minutes from a few human demonstrations and self-attempts, rather than retraining.

AIRohit Prasad, a longtime Amazon AI executive, will lead robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics as it prepares to manufacture humanoid robots at scale. The source provides no further details on the appointment or production timeline.

AIThe California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to startup Rek over a September 18 match pitting a human against a humanoid robot piloted remotely. The letter, posted by Rek CEO Cix Liv, calls the fight unsanctioned and demands that Rek stop promoting human-involved contests in California without approval. Rek's next planned match on Friday will feature two weaponized robots fighting each other.

AIUBTECH Robotics and FAW-Volkswagen signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop and test embodied AI robot applications in logistics and build demonstration sites. The partnership builds on UBTECH's Walker S Lite humanoid, already doing vehicle quality-inspection training at FAW-Volkswagen's Qingdao Branch, a national-level smart manufacturing demonstration factory. The companies aim to speed up humanoid deployment in smart manufacturing.

AINVIDIA's technical blog describes how its team taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays, a task that currently requires skilled manual labor in factories. The post also discusses lessons about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and engineering. The source excerpt provides limited detail beyond this.

AIPollen Robotics' Microduck now runs on its first fully custom single-board computer, built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU. The new board adds better memory, WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and improved cooling and boot speed, replacing the earlier Radxa-based prototype stack.

AIParil Jain of The Bot Company and Quan Vuong of Physical Intelligence discussed real-world robot evaluation, field deployment, and where robotics will be in three years at the Runway AI Summit. The panel was described in the post without specific findings or figures.

AIInnate is a seven-person team building capable robots for everyday life, according to Cursor's X post featuring co-founder Vignesh Anand. Anand says the team does the work of 50 people. The post shares a look at what building means to the team.

AIClément Delangue of Hugging Face jokes that the next robot should have arms to help assemble Microducks, and he'd like to see the Microduck production and assembly line. The context is Pollen Robotics' announcement that 10,950 Microducks will ship in weekly batches between December 10 and January 10.

AIAMD is bringing World Labs and Fei-Fei Li into its organization, according to Lisa Su's post, which says the combination will pair World Labs' AI and world-model expertise with AMD's compute leadership. Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue congratulated the team and said he looks forward to what they will build in the coming years.

AIMicrosoft Research Asia – Singapore, opened July 24, 2025 as Microsoft's first Southeast Asian research lab, reports progress after its first year. The lab's work spans next-generation AI models and agentic systems, domain-specific AI for real-world impact, AI-native research practices, and ecosystem and talent development. Its healthcare collaborations on multimodal and agentic AI for clinical decision-making are being deployed through partnerships across Singapore's healthcare ecosystem.

AIWorld Labs is joining AMD, according to a post from AMD and World Labs' own announcement. World Labs says it aims to scale its efforts and reach while getting closer to hardware in pursuit of spatial and physical intelligence.

AILiveKit and Dimensional are hosting a Robotics and Physical AI happy hour for developers, researchers, and hobbyists in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 6 at 5:30pm. The event during SF Tech Week aims to bring together people discussing the latest developments in the field. RSVP details are provided via a Partiful link.

AIFei-Fei Li announced that World Labs is recruiting robot learning researchers and engineers. A follow-up post from Yunzhu Li says the team aims to define and scale next-generation world models for robot learning.

AIThe 2026 Global Developers Pioneer Conference (GDPS) and International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition has opened global calls for scenario challenges, teams, and experts ahead of its October 23–25 event at Shanghai Zhangjiang Science Hall.

AIWeave Robotics has opened preorders for a robot priced at $8,000 that folds laundry and makes beds. Deliveries are slated for this fall.

AIFei-Fei Li announced that SceniX is joining World Labs. She framed spatial intelligence as more than perceiving and generating worlds, emphasizing interaction with them.

AIA Chinese company has revealed an autonomous robot toilet that drives itself to users when summoned by voice command or remote control. The post provides no further technical details, pricing, or availability.

AINitroGen, an embodied agent project, received a CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention, marking progress toward general-purpose agents that master real-world physics and a range of simulated physics. The post also notes that MineDojo, the team's earlier Minecraft agent, won a NeurIPS Best Paper award four years ago.

AIThe 8th BAAI Conference will be held June 12–13 at the Zhongguancun Innovation Center in Beijing, with Turing Award laureates and China's large-model leaders attending. Core focuses include world models and agents, plus two new flagship sessions on AI-native education and the token economy. The event will feature 25 forums, over 200 speeches, and a first-ever on-site AI agent conference companion for real-time listening and summarization.

AINVIDIA highlighted the developers who won the Cosmos Cookoff and how they used Cosmos Reason 2 to build projects spanning disaster-response drones, explainable visual AI, and intelligent security systems. The post links to a YouTube showcase and a LinkedIn recap of the event.