Author: leewper
SHENZHEN, China, April 22, 2026 — Walking the floor at FAIR plus 2026, it was hard to miss the crowd gathered around booth 9-W01. There, Rokae Robotics took the wraps off its latest embodied intelligence hardware, headlined by the first public appearance of the AR3 humanoid force-control arm, and reinforced its bet that whole-body manipulation is moving rapidly from lab curiosity to commercial reality. AR3 Humanoid Force-Control Arm: Purpose-Built for Embodied Intelligence The star of the showcase, the AR3, has been designed specifically for what Rokae calls the “embodied intelligence era.” As a standardized, high-performance, scalable AI hardware platform, the…
On March 28, 2026, AgiBot’s co-founder Peng Zhihui announced a milestone that would reshape the industry’s understanding of what was possible: AgiBot’s 10,000th general-purpose embodied robot, the Expedition A3, had officially rolled off the production line. In just 15 months, AgiBot had scaled production from 1,000 to 10,000 units—a tenfold increase. The acceleration was equally remarkable: it took the company 11 months to go from 1,000 to 5,000 units, but only three months to add another 5,000—a fourfold increase in production velocity. For AgiBot, founded only three years ago, the journey from concept to mass production has been compressed into…
On April 19, 2026, at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon & Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the “Flash” robot, developed by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., Ltd. (the Qitian Dasheng Team), won the championship with a net time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds — nearly seven minutes faster than the 57 minutes and 20 seconds set by Ugandan star runner Jacob Kiplimo this past March. This achievement marks a new milestone in human-robot racing history. It is not only a special athletic competition but also an extreme test that drives industrial development. Global teams will accumulate valuable data…