1 funding item: over RMB 4.5 billion for Sharpa. 1 other news item. 3 talks and interviews briefed. Dated only to August 2026: 4 items, 4 of them funding, the largest stated amount over $900M for XPENG.
These items are dated only to the month, so they are not placed in a specific week.
51:26Joseph Amigo, a second-year PhD student, and Ruhollah, a fourth-year PhD student at NYU, discuss their paper on robot reinforcement learning with RoboPapers hosts.
1:41X-Man, Keenon Robotics’ virtual guide, presents the company’s humanoid robots at WAIC 2026, including demonstrations created with Nowa Coffee and modeled on Park Inn by Radisson hotel operations.
1:15A Crystal field report from the World AI Conference in Shanghai covers Keenon Robotics’ humanoid laundry robot and the company’s overseas markets.
