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Oct 15, 2026

MEKAWIRE Daily Brief

Top news

  1. 1Robotics funding from mid-September to mid-October 2026: chips, data and safety took the private money while humanoid makers turned to stock markets
  2. 2Korea clears 20 Robros humanoids to work beside people, and the fence rule it lifts is the bottleneck Figure, Atlas and UBTech face too

Research

  1. 1Active Perception of Upper-Limb Functional Mobility through Human-Robot Handovers
  2. 2MUCO: A Mani-Unit-Structured Manipulation Framework for Compositional Long-Horizon Robot Tasks
  3. 3Complementary Future Token Pruning for World Action Models
  4. 4Why 3D Reconstruction Breaks Down on Under-Ice AUV Video, and How to Predict It
  5. 5MorphAct: Robot Policies Morphing with the Worlds They Act In

Companies in focus

  1. 1Agility Robotics · 2 stories
  2. 2Figure AI · 2 stories
  3. 3Holiday Robotics · 2 stories
  4. 4Humanoid · 2 stories
  5. 5Samsung Electronics · 2 stories

What to watch tomorrow

  1. 1Confirmation pending: Robotics funding from mid-September to mid-October 2026: chips, data and safety took the private money while humanoid makers turned to stock markets
  2. 2Confirmation pending: Korea clears 20 Robros humanoids to work beside people, and the fence rule it lifts is the bottleneck Figure, Atlas and UBTech face too