https://eliarobotics.nl/Robotics news, explained in plain words, with the source every time. Short videos first, the story behind them here, the weekly in your inbox.enMon, 09 Nov 2026 16:06:11 +0000https://eliarobotics.nl/news/uc-berkeley-and-nvidia-propose-agentic-robotics-as-an-alternative-to-d/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/uc-berkeley-and-nvidia-propose-agentic-robotics-as-an-alternative-to-d/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:00:00 +0100At the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning, UC Berkeley and NVIDIA presented a way to program robots through AI coding agents instead of huge sets of demonstrations. Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xynova-s-flex-2-robot-hand-mixes-tendons-and-motors-in-a-400-gram-palm/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xynova-s-flex-2-robot-hand-mixes-tendons-and-motors-in-a-400-gram-palm/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:52:00 +0100Hangzhou startup Xynova says its 23-joint Flex 2 hand lifts up to 12 kg at peak while sensing slip and controlling force down to 0.05 N. Source: Fierce Sensors.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ubtech-and-china-telecom-unit-sign-deal-aiming-for-one-million-home-ro/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ubtech-and-china-telecom-unit-sign-deal-aiming-for-one-million-home-ro/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:07:00 +0100UBTECH and Tianyi Telecom Terminal signed a deal on 9 November 2026 to help home companion robots pass one million units within three years, via telecom channels. Source: Unite.AI.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ubtech-and-tianyi-telecom-terminal-aim-to-sell-100-000-humanoid-robots/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ubtech-and-tianyi-telecom-terminal-aim-to-sell-100-000-humanoid-robots/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:25:00 +0100UBTech Robotics and Tianyi Telecom Terminal signed a strategic deal on 9 November 2026 to sell humanoid robots through telecom channels, with large unit targets. Source: BigGo Finance.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/pakistani-engineer-builds-home-made-waitress-robots-for-a-karachi-rest/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/pakistani-engineer-builds-home-made-waitress-robots-for-a-karachi-rest/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:19:00 +0100Engineer Syed Osama Aziz built robots Robia and Jojo mostly from local parts, and they now serve pizza at a Karachi restaurant that has seen more customers. Source: Robotics & Automation News.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/lisbon-web-summit-2026-puts-chinese-humanoid-robots-on-stage-as-offici/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/lisbon-web-summit-2026-puts-chinese-humanoid-robots-on-stage-as-offici/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 10:47:00 +0100Web Summit's tenth edition in Lisbon lets humanoid robots speak on stage for the first time, backed by the largest Chinese delegation the event has hosted. Source: Euronews.com.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agibot-g2-store-trial/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agibot-g2-store-trial/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:36:00 +0100AgiBot put six G2 robots to work in a real convenience store for a full day and night, livestreamed to two million viewers. Four met the bar, two did not. Source: Humanoid Robotics Technology.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/primebot-10000/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/primebot-10000/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 08:51:00 +0100The Chinese personal-robot brand says unit 10,000 left the line on 8 November, two weeks after unit 5,000. It has not said how many are in homes. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agility-nasdaq/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agility-nasdaq/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:50:00 +0100Agility Robotics started trading as AGLT on 5 November with about $465 million in capital and over $300 million in conditional Digit orders. The next milestone is a robot doing contracted work. Source: Humanoid Robotics Review.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xpeng-iron-line/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xpeng-iron-line/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:01:00 +0100XPeng says its humanoid completed assembly on an automated line and walked away on its own. Volume production is planned for the end of 2026, with no throughput figure yet. Source: humanoid.guide.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/figure-fills-its-headquarters-with-figure-03-robots-but-the-workload-s/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/figure-fills-its-headquarters-with-figure-03-robots-but-the-workload-s/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:28:00 +0100CEO Brett Adcock posted two videos of dozens of Figure 03 humanoids around the campus, while the company still gives no count of robots doing paid work. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/midsize-factories-use-cobots-and-robot-cells-to-reach-high-precision-p/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/midsize-factories-use-cobots-and-robot-cells-to-reach-high-precision-p/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:32:00 +0100The Robot Report describes four midsize manufacturers that used robot cells from SCHUNK, Universal Robots and FANUC to ease labor shortages and raise machine use. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/atlas-battery-pack-reportedly-built-from-70-samsung-sdi-cells/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/atlas-battery-pack-reportedly-built-from-70-samsung-sdi-cells/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:43:00 +0100The Elec says each Boston Dynamics Atlas carries about 1.3 kWh from 70 Samsung SDI cells, with LG Energy Solution also chosen as a supplier. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/unitree-still-builds-most-of-its-robots-by-hand-an-investor-s-factory-/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/unitree-still-builds-most-of-its-robots-by-hand-an-investor-s-factory-/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:31:00 +0100Investor Josef Chen says Unitree's Hangzhou plant relies on manual work, and he argues US wages and trade rules make factory automation worth far more in America. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/point-one-navigation-ceo-joins-podcast-ahead-of-its-fuse-2026-physical/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/point-one-navigation-ceo-joins-podcast-ahead-of-its-fuse-2026-physical/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:47:00 +0100Aaron Nathan of Point One Navigation is the guest on Episode 269 of The Robot Report Podcast, and the company's FUSE 2026 event follows on 19 November in San Francisco. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/boston-dynamics-launches-stretch-gen-2-with-81-less-internal-cabling/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/boston-dynamics-launches-stretch-gen-2-with-81-less-internal-cabling/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:34:00 +0100Boston Dynamics unveiled Stretch Gen 2, a truck unloading robot built for uptime, with a new gripper, faster repairs and up to 1,000 cases per hour. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/china-blocks-softbank-s-5-3-billion-purchase-of-abb-robotics-over-data/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/china-blocks-softbank-s-5-3-billion-purchase-of-abb-robotics-over-data/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:41:00 +0100Chinese regulators stopped SoftBank's $5.3 billion deal for ABB Robotics, fearing AI training data could leave the country, The Robot Report writes. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/cable-driven-home-robot-stringman-is-priced-at-795/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/cable-driven-home-robot-stringman-is-priced-at-795/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0100IEEE Spectrum's 6 November roundup lists the cable-driven Stringman tidying robot at US $795 and says Agility Robotics now trades publicly as AGLT. Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/physicl-raises-10m-seed-round-to-build-simulations-that-robots-can-lea/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/physicl-raises-10m-seed-round-to-build-simulations-that-robots-can-lea/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:00:00 +0100Physicl, founded by Alex de Vigan, raised $10 million led by Inovia Capital and launched Studio, a tool for making synthetic training data for robot AI. Source: TechCrunch Robotics.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/swiss-startup-embodied-ai-shows-air-a-cage-free-wheeled-robot-for-fact/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/swiss-startup-embodied-ai-shows-air-a-cage-free-wheeled-robot-for-fact/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:59:00 +0100EPFL spin-out Embodied AI unveiled AIR, a two-armed wheeled robot for shared factory work, citing 95% task success in paid pilots but no price or delivery date. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/university-of-tokyo-prints-robot-leg-muscles-and-tendons-from-one-plas/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/university-of-tokyo-prints-robot-leg-muscles-and-tendons-from-one-plas/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:48:00 +0100University of Tokyo researchers built life-size robot legs from one printed flexible plastic, but the prototype only steps while held up by an external support. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/serve-robotics-will-sell-its-robot-software-to-other-companies-buildin/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/serve-robotics-will-sell-its-robot-software-to-other-companies-buildin/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:15:00 +0100Serve Robotics, known for sidewalk delivery robots, announced a Physical AI Services unit offering connectivity and data tools to other robot makers, with Bedrock as a customer. Source: TechCrunch Robotics.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ambi-robotics-adds-eight-sites-and-spare-parts-to-prepare-for-peak-sea/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/ambi-robotics-adds-eight-sites-and-spare-parts-to-prepare-for-peak-sea/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:50:00 +0100Ambi Robotics expects customer volume to rise 9% to 10% this peak season and is installing eight new systems, pre-placing spares and adding operator training. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/china-blocks-softbank-s-5-4-billion-purchase-of-abb-robotics/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/china-blocks-softbank-s-5-4-billion-purchase-of-abb-robotics/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:25:00 +0100Chinese regulators have prohibited SoftBank's $5.375 billion deal for ABB Robotics, citing worries about robot data going abroad to train AI models. Source: The Robot Report.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/nabtesco-adds-a-flux-inductive-encoder-to-its-new-rds-c-link-gearbox/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/nabtesco-adds-a-flux-inductive-encoder-to-its-new-rds-c-link-gearbox/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:19:00 +0100Nabtesco Precision Europe and FLUX GmbH built an encoder into the RDS-C Link cycloidal gearbox to read absolute position at the output, with a debut at SPS in Nuremberg. Source: Humanoid Robotics Technology.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/apple-s-halo-humanoid-handles-unseen-rooms-using-simulated-training-da/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/apple-s-halo-humanoid-handles-unseen-rooms-using-simulated-training-da/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:47:00 +0100Apple researchers got a Unitree G1 to finish 91% of 360 real-world tasks in unmapped rooms, learning mostly from generated motion rather than teleoperation. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/carnegie-mellon-shows-pixel-a-two-armed-robot-with-a-sub-15-000-build-/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/carnegie-mellon-shows-pixel-a-two-armed-robot-with-a-sub-15-000-build-/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:42:00 +0100Carnegie Mellon researchers built Pixel, a wheeled two-armed robot that learns from human demonstrations, with a reported build cost under $15,000. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/neura-e-on-and-enviam-plan-humanoid-robots-for-power-grid-work/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/neura-e-on-and-enviam-plan-humanoid-robots-for-power-grid-work/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:04:00 +0100NEURA Robotics, E.ON and enviaM will train humanoids for grid inspections and monitoring, with first practical experience at pilot partner MITNETZ STROM in 2027. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xpeng-backs-a-vision-model-that-helps-robots-learn-with-fewer-demonstr/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/xpeng-backs-a-vision-model-that-helps-robots-learn-with-fewer-demonstr/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:50:00 +0100XPENG highlighted GroundingPI, a four-billion-parameter vision model that beat rivals in a simulated humanoid test while using less demonstration data. Source: Humanoids Daily.https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agility-lists-on-nasdaq-as-aglt-after-a-smaller-spac-raise-than-planne/https://eliarobotics.nl/news/agility-lists-on-nasdaq-as-aglt-after-a-smaller-spac-raise-than-planne/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:27:00 +0100Agility, maker of the Digit robot, began Nasdaq trading on 5 November 2026 after its SPAC merger raised about $465 million, down from over $600 million planned. Source: Humanoids Daily.