US NHTSA has issued an ultimatum to robotaxi operators, demanding remediation plans for emergency-response obstructions by the end of the month. China Mobile is procuring 400 humanoid robots from Zhiyuan and Unitree for 124 million yuan. Galbot secured a substantial 236 million yuan bid for 500 robots at Yibin high-speed rail station, setting a new single-procurement record. ByteDance is reportedly exploring autonomous driving technology, though the company has officially denied any business plans in this area. South Korea's Holiday Robotics has raised a record 155 billion won in Series A funding.Research highlights include B-spline Policy, which parameterizes actions as continuous curves to speed up manipulation policy inference. A new technique improves VLA post-training sample efficiency by five times through hindsight relabeling, reusing failed rollouts. BeyondSight aims to restore "object permanence" to end-to-end autonomous driving systems, maintaining object hypotheses even when occluded. PanoWorld addresses long-horizon memory issues in video world models by exploiting panoramic rotational equivariance.CD-LAM debiases world models, improving action controllability and reducing real-robot adaptation updates. TactiDex is a new benchmark for evaluating dexterous manipulation based on contact, not just motion imitation. Energy profiling of on-device VLMs reveals that model output, not visual input, is the primary energy bottleneck. VLANeXt provides actionable engineering findings for building strong VLA models, with soft connections between VLM and policy modules outperforming other configurations.Open-source developments include Amap's ABot-World Studio for generating walkable 3D worlds locally on a single GPU. DexJoco offers a MuJoCo-based benchmark for dexterous hand manipulation using low-cost motion capture data. The Zhiyuan LinkSoul Community has launched as a visual platform for building robot interaction agents. Ling Cha Yun Kong and Qingyan Precision have secured significant funding rounds to expand their hardware manufacturing capabilities, particularly for humanoid robot components.