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    HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES

    CH=
    INA CURBS HUMANOID IPOS AFTER UNITREE'S VOLATILE DEBUT (3 MINUTE
    READ) [4=
    ]=20

    Chinese regulators are tightening approval for humanoid robotics=

    startups seeking to go public, following a volatile trading debut from=

    sector leader Unitree Robotics, as they try to cool a sector described=

    as sizzling but rife with copycats and little real technological
    break=
    through. The China Securities Regulatory Commission's tighter
    posture is =
    expected to affect other humanoid IPO hopefuls, reportedly
    including name=
    s such as AGIBOT and Galbot.=20

    CALL FOR OPEN-SOURCE ROBOTICS BENCHMARK=
    S (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20

    Robocurve, a public benefit company backed by =
    YC, has opened a
    community bounty program to build reproducible open-sour=
    ce evaluation
    benchmarks for physical AI and autonomous robot systems. To=
    make these
    benchmarks happen, it is giving away $20,000 and a pair of I2=
    RT ABC
    Box robot arms to 25 teams who propose the best research benchmark=
    s.
    Robocurve hopes to accelerate the development of Physical AI by
    incr=
    easing the number and diversity of dexterous robotics benchmarks.=20

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    ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS

    BENCHMARKING LIDAR SL=
    AM ON LIVOX MID-360 DATASETS (3 MINUTE READ) [6]


    This open-source =
    repository presents a comparative benchmark
    evaluating four popular LiDAR=
    odometry and SLAM algorithms=E2=80=94KISS-ICP,
    DLIO, FAST-LIO2, and GLIM=
    =E2=80=94on live aerial drone flight data collected
    with a Livox Mid-360 =
    LiDAR and Pixhawk flight controller. Running
    directly on a Jetson Orin NX=
    embedded computing platform, the project
    compares trajectory accuracy an=
    d map reconstruction quality against
    millimeter-grade VICON ground-truth =
    data. These empirical findings
    provide developers and perception engineer=
    s with actionable
    performance data to choose and tune state estimation al=
    gorithms for
    compute-constrained autonomous platforms.=20

    XIAOMI 18 F=
    OLD BEATS APPLE'S IPHONE FOLD TO MARKET BY A DAY, PACKING
    A TELEPHOTO LEN=
    S APPLE REPORTEDLY SKIPS (3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20

    Xiaomi's 18 Fold launch=
    ed in China a full 24 hours ahead of Apple's
    rumored iPhone Fold, packing=
    a wide-style, passport-sized chassis with
    a 5.38-inch outer OLED and 7.5=
    8-inch inner display, both hitting 4,000
    nits peak brightness with a 1-12=
    0Hz LTPO refresh rate and, notably, an
    RGB sub-pixel structure that's a f=
    irst for any foldable. Xiaomi
    prioritized battery over thinness, fitting =
    a 6,000mAh cell (with 67W
    wired charging) into a 5.02mm-unfolded body tha=
    t's still slightly
    thicker than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8.=20

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    RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES

    ROBOTOK: AN INTERNET-SCALE=
    DATA ENGINE FOR HUMAN DEMONSTRATION VIDEO
    RETRIEVAL AND DEXTEROUS MANIPU=
    LATION LEARNING (5 MINUTE READ) [8]=20

    Data collection for Physical AI =
    is an expensive problem blocking the
    development of more advanced models.=
    To get around this bottleneck,
    researchers at Rice University have devel=
    oped RoboTok, an automated
    data engine that indexes, filters, and process=
    es large-scale human
    demonstration videos from the internet to train mani=
    pulation policies.
    By extracting hand trajectories and object interaction=
    s directly from
    uncurated web video, the system learns complex, multi-sta=
    ge
    manipulation skills without requiring physical teleoperation. This
    a=
    pproach showcases how massive online video datasets can be converted
    into=
    scalable training data to overcome physical data collection
    bottlenecks.=
    =20

    ORION: A DIY 12-DOF QUADRUPED ROBOT DOG (3 MINUTE READ) [9]=20

    =
    Orion is an open-source, 12-degree-of-freedom quadruped robot
    designed, f=
    abricated, and programmed from scratch using ROS 2, custom
    3D-printed com=
    ponents, and serial bus servos. The repository provides
    complete mechanic=
    al CAD models, kinematic calculations for dynamic
    walking gaits, and step=
    -by-step firmware integration guides. This
    project provides engineering t=
    eams and builders with an accessible
    reference architecture for prototypi=
    ng low-cost legged locomotion
    platforms.=20

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    MISCELL=
    ANEOUS

    MAGIC TRICK PERFORMING ROBOT (3 MINUTE READ) [10]=20

    They =
    say any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
    from magic.=
    Sean Tsai, an engineer at Foxconn, has built an
    interactive robot that p=
    erforms classic sleight-of-hand magic tricks
    for human audiences. It inte=
    grates computer vision to track spectator
    choices and low-latency motor c=
    ontrol to execute precise, synchronized
    mechanical deceptions in real tim=
    e. It illustrates how combining
    high-speed visual tracking with fine moti=
    on planning can significantly
    enhance interactive entertainment and human=
    -machine collaboration.=20

    NASA SPACE ROBOTICIST CHALLENGE (4 MINUTE RE=
    AD) [11]=20

    NASA is sending a seven-axis robot into low-Earth orbit, an=
    d they are
    looking for researchers who would like to test their code in t=
    he
    challenging environment of microgravity. The NASA Fly Foundational
    R=
    obots (FFR) Mission is a competition where teams develop autonomous
    softw=
    are to show off the potential benefits and challenges of space
    robotics. =
    Do you think you have what it takes? The last day to submit
    an applicatio=
    n is September 23.=20

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    QUICK LINKS

    AGILITY ROBOTICS=
    REPORTS $1.8M REVENUE AHEAD OF HUMANOID SPAC (4
    MINUTE READ) [12]=20

    =
    Agility Robotics, one of the early leaders in humanoid robotics,
    reporte=
    d $1.8 million in revenue alongside a net loss of $114.7
    million for 2025=
    as it prepares to go public via a SPAC merger.=20

    IONQ PRICES A BITCOI=
    N-CURVE ATTACK DOWN TO 19,397 IONS AND 26 DAYS
    PER ATTEMPT (5 MINUTE READ=
    ) [13]=20

    IonQ published a 70-page resource estimate concluding that a=

    trapped-ion quantum computer with 19,397 physical qubits, built on its=

    =E2=80=9CWalking Cat=E2=80=9D architecture, could compute a 256-bit elli= ptic-curve
    discrete logarithm on secp256k1, the curve securing Bitcoin an=
    d
    Ethereum, in about 25.7 days per attempt.=20

    CHINA'S HOMEGROWN LITH=
    OGRAPHY MACHINE STILL RELIES ON GERMAN ZEISS
    LENSES (5 MINUTE READ) [14] =


    Huawei has become the de facto coordinator of China's push to build=

    domestic lithography machines.=20

    QUANTINUUM GETS $100M CHIPS ACT FU=
    NDING TO BRING 300MM WAFER
    MANUFACTURING TO TRAPPED-ION HARDWARE (3 MINUT=
    E READ) [15]=20

    Quantinuum secured $100 million in CHIPS and Science Ac=
    t funding, the
    only trapped-ion architecture selected in this funding rou=
    nd, to
    tackle a core scaling problem: the specialized ion traps, control=

    electronics, lasers, and optics behind its quantum processors get
    hard=
    er to manufacture consistently as systems grow larger.=20

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    This open-source repository presents a = comparative benchmark evaluating four popular LiDAR odometry and SLAM algor= ithms=E2=80=94KISS-ICP, DLIO, FAST-LIO2, and GLIM=E2=80=94on live aerial dr= one flight data collected with a Livox Mid-360 LiDAR and Pixhawk flight con= troller. Running directly on a Jetson Orin NX embedded computing platform, = the project compares trajectory accuracy and map reconstruction quality aga= inst millimeter-grade VICON ground-truth data. These empirical findings pro= vide developers and perception engineers with actionable performance data t=
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