ROBOTICS FIELD NOTESREVIEW EDITION / 8 October 2026
CHANGE LOG

Follow what changed.

Publication dates stay fixed. New evidence and corrections receive their own dated entry.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

World Humanoid Robot Games 2025

Added selected running and handling placements and the district report’s Tiangong control description.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

World Humanoid Robot Games 2026

Compared the announced race deadlines and scenario-event counts across the two editions.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

World Robot Conference 2025

Replaced general exhibition advice with named robots, opening coverage and the dates of the separate August events.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

World Robot Conference 2026

Updated the application programme from an advance announcement to its reported launch and annual selection target.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

Beijing humanoid half marathon 2025

Separated the early rules notice from the actual race date and added the reported navigation method.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

Beijing humanoid half marathon 2026

Identified Lightning’s team and maker, labelled the net time and added course and timing-system details.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

How to read a robot video

Added an OpenVLA playback-speed example and a calculation separating video duration from recorded movement.

Events / REVIEW EDITION

Humanoid research at IROS 2025

Added two identifiable conference papers with programme entries, hardware and publication-date context.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

What Unitree R1 and G1 robots cost

Narrowed the guide to R1 and G1 and calculated the G1 hardware-plus-shipping subtotal before tax and selected extras.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

Before pre-ordering a NEO home robot

Narrowed the title to NEO and clarified the proposed laundry trial and unpublished home-recording retention terms.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

Are humanoid robots autonomous?

Identified the Atlas engine-cover example and reported the 1X research video-planning and action-extraction timings.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

Robot programming for beginners

Explained the target, simulated joint angle and position and velocity gains used by the runnable one-joint exercise.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

How Do Humanoid Robots Walk Without Falling?

Clarified recovery without stepping, explained forward foot placement and separated collision-avoidance trials from fall-resistance measurements.

Guides / REVIEW EDITION

Physical AI and embodied AI

Compared how NVIDIA, Microsoft Research and Ai2 use the terms, and shortened the repeated evidence checklist.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

How Humanoid Robot Fighting Actually Works

Separated motor torque from joint output and hand-load torque from other loads. Scoped the WRL table to standard one-on-one bouts.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

How Do Humanoid Robots Pick Up Objects?

Explained inverse kinematics and joint feedback, added direct depth-based grasp planning and compared two H1 hand grips from Open-TeleVision.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

Boston Dynamics Atlas Humanoid Robot Explained

Clarified January deployment commitments, research camera hardware and action rate. Corrected the applications source and shortened repeated payload and battery caveats.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

Real-to-Sim-to-Real in Robotics

Added a sourced engineering guide with version-specific references, practical resources and explicit evidence limits.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

MuJoCo for Humanoid Robotics

Added a sourced engineering guide with version-specific references, practical resources and explicit evidence limits.

Articles / REVIEW EDITION

Robotics Simulation Software Compared

Added a sourced engineering guide with version-specific references, practical resources and explicit evidence limits.

Robots / REVIEW EDITION

Unitree G1

Added base-model compute, sensors, actuator and battery details, the USD 13,500 listing and the store’s development-access restriction.

Robots / REVIEW EDITION

Unitree R1

Added the USD 5,900 standard-model listing and included hardware. Replaced the access unknown with the store’s EDU-only development statement.

Robots / REVIEW EDITION

Unitree H1

Confirmed 19 basic body joints from Unitree’s model README and added computers and the qualified store price display.

Companies / REVIEW EDITION

Unitree

Added the August exchange notice, product introduction dates and prospectus page references.

Robot Types / REVIEW EDITION

How humanoid robots work

Mark NASA hardware as a dated engineering example. Give a complete action before the four navigation links. Name the seven-joint example and explain combined control without treating fields as exclusive modes.