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Innodata opens a motion-capture lab to feed humanoid training
Innodata opened a motion-capture lab in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, aimed at training data for humanoids. Vicon infrared cameras track motion at sub-millimetre accuracy instead of inferring 3D positions from 2D video.
ANYbotics Shift turns quadruped inspections into work orders
ANYbotics launched Shift, a cloud platform for managing ANYmal quadruped fleets built from the Fleet, Insight, Connect and Maps modules. It runs across 200+ deployments and converts sensor readings into maintenance work orders.
Astribot brings the $18,000 T1 humanoid to North America
Astribot is bringing its T1 humanoid to North America starting at $18,000, debuting at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh. The robot stands 1.55 m, weighs 66 kg, has 23 degrees of freedom and a cable-driven architecture, with orders open for immediate delivery.
UBTECH claims a humanoid every 8 minutes, but no real delivery data
UBTECH's CEO toured the Liuzhou plant, claiming one humanoid every 8–10 minutes and around 1,500 units a month at full capacity. These are theoretical throughput figures — actual output and customer deliveries remain undisclosed.
Singapore opens a humanoid training centre for public safety
On 30 September, Singapore's HTX agency opened the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre — a 29,000 sq ft facility with simulated debris fields and industrial equipment. The goal: humanoids working alongside officers by 2028.
Agility and FORT push Digit 5's safety layer beyond the robot
Agility Robotics and FORT Robotics signed an MoU to build an Offboard Safety Bridge for the Digit 5 humanoid — a safety pendant, on-robot communications and interfaces to facility-wide safety systems. No delivery date and no new certification.
Figure melts down its F.02 fleet. The robots jump in themselves
Figure is retiring its F.02 humanoid fleet. Instead of disassembly, the robots were trained to autonomously jump into an electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland — six melt cycles within 24 hours. US and Mexican foundries refused machines carrying lithium-ion cells.
Atlas's new hand: 13 degrees of freedom and no pinky
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for Atlas — four digits, 13 degrees of freedom up from seven, actuators directly in the joints and dense pressure sensing. The pinky was dropped on purpose to cut cost and failure points.
Qwen-Image-2.1: 7B instead of 20B, and a research-only licence
Alibaba published Qwen-Image-2.1 on Hugging Face — one model for image generation and editing, with RGBA output. The visual core drops to 7B from 20B, and the licence is qwen-research, not Apache 2.0.
OpenClaw Enterprise: an MIT-licensed control plane for AI agents
The OpenClaw Foundation released OpenClaw Enterprise, a free control plane for persistent AI agents. Red Hat is folding it into OpenShift and Nvidia is adding the OpenShell isolation runtime.
Five AI tools, 15 sites, zero WCAG Level A conformance
Five AI tools were given the same brief: build three websites each that meet WCAG Level AA. None of the 15 resulting sites cleared even Level A. The test was written up on 30 September in VentureBeat by a company that sells accessibility remediation tools.
GPT-6.1 Sol: Astra-level work at one-fifth of the price
OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Sol at exactly one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's rates, with benchmark gaps of about two percentage points. The new Ultrafast tier delivers 300 tokens per second at six times the price.