Robotics Automation

Neuss – October 30, 2026 -- Pudu Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Neuss, Germany, consolidating sales, demonstrations, training, warehousing and after-sales service after 11 European markets each recorded annual business growth above 60% over the past two years.

Eleven markets post growth above 60% a year

The growth markets are Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland. Pudu's business now spans more than 20 European countries and 16 industries, including retail, food and beverage, hospitality, healthcare, transportation and education.

Named European customers include EDEKA, Albert Heijn, Carrefour, Marriott, Van der Valk, Pizza Hut, Intermarché, Denner and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Singapore – October 29, 2026 -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) is targeting US$20 million in revenue from its Malaysian operations in fiscal 2027, roughly 100% above management's expectation of about US$10 million for FY2026.

The target follows new service agreements signed by the Malaysian subsidiary with international hotel operators, alongside continuing commercial service robotics deployments. The company stresses that the figure is a management objective, not revenue secured under signed contracts.

Delivery depends on execution, retention and working capital

YYForce lists contract implementation, customer service volumes, retention and renewals, additional business development, and the availability of personnel, equipment and working capital as conditions for reaching the target. The FY2026 base is a current expectation rather than a completed full-year result and remains subject to finalization.

Shanghai – October 29, 2026 -- AGIBOT introduced Worken, a proposed framework that measures robots by the productive work they perform rather than by units built or delivered, at its Innovation Day 2026 event. The company also unveiled its AHA3 hardware platform, the GO-3 Preview foundation model and the G2 Max industrial robot.

Worken multiplies active robots, autonomous hours and output efficiency

AGIBOT defines Worken as "Effective Intelligent Work Hours": Number of Active Robots × Autonomous Working Hours × Output Efficiency Ratio. The first factor counts only robots performing tasks in real environments, excluding units in inventory. The second counts autonomous working time rather than total powered-on time. The third benchmarks output against a reference task, such as acceptable work completed by a human worker under established operating standards.

Shenzhen – October 13, 2026 -- Pudu Robotics' PUDU BG1 Series, which drew pre-orders above RMB 100 million within its first month on the market, has won two ISSA awards in South Korea and Australia.

The series took the Robotics Award category of the ISSA ASIA AWARDS 2026 at ISSA SHOW ASIA in South Korea. It also won the People's Choice Award at the 2026 ISSA Excellence Awards during the ISSA Cleaning & Hygiene Expo in Australia.

BG1 Series reached the market in March 2026 as an AI-native large-scale cleaner

Pudu launched the BG1 Series in March 2026. The robots are designed to move beyond fixed routes and predefined cleaning routines toward adaptive, context-aware operation.

The AI-driven functions identify different types of dirt and floor conditions, target detected messes and adjust cleaning parameters automatically. Target environments include retail complexes, warehouses and industrial facilities.

Pittsburgh – September 30, 2026 -- Daimon Robotics demonstrated its full tactile intelligence infrastructure at IROS 2026, running the first in-person public showcase of its Daimon-TWM world model since its August 2026 launch.

Daimon-TWM performs two live autonomous manipulation tasks under real-time tactile feedback

In one demo, a robot strung engraved beads onto a flexible cord for a friendship bracelet, a task requiring small-scale precision and continuous adjustment to changing contact conditions. In a second, a robot autonomously executed canvas tote heat-transfer printing, sequencing sticker placement, film removal, hot stamping and curing while adapting each step to the physical state of the task.

Pittsburgh – September 22, 2026 -- Viam will debut BoxBot, a robot arm that opens taped cardboard boxes, at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, running September 27 through October 3. The system was trained on just 125 teleoperated demonstrations collected in roughly five hours over four days, using a fine-tuned open-source vision-language-action model with no custom architecture required.

BoxBot combines visual servoing with a fine-tuned SmolVLA model on one data path

The robot uses image-based visual servoing to guide a cutting tip along tape seams typically 1 to 2mm wide, since no two sealed boxes present identical geometry. A fine-tuned SmolVLA model then handles the contact-rich task of peeling open and adjusting four box flaps. Both systems run as native services on the same machine, with the VLA policy inferring locally on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano through Viam's ML model service.