The Compliance Detail Becomes Commercially Material
FCC guidance clarifies coverage, authorization consequences and treatment of humanoid and quadruped devices.
Semiconductor Domain: MCUs
Embodied Reasoning Expands to Longer Tasks
Google separated higher-level planning from physical control while broadening multi-step task execution.
RoboCup 2026 reinforces Korea’s talent and research pipeline
Korea hosted RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, using the competition to connect robotics research, students, and industrial policy.
China’s Robot Supply Chain Is Assessed as Deep but Still Compute-Dependent
MERICS assessed China’s broad robot manufacturing base while noting continuing dependence on foreign AI compute and software ecosystems.
Beijing Showcases a Full Embodied-AI Industry Chain
Beijing reported nearly 30 local embodied-AI companies at WAIC across complete robots, components, dexterous hands and operating systems.
