Flexiv showcases force-controlled adaptive robots at IROS 2026


Flexiv, a specialist developer of general-purpose robotics, has participated on the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), which completed yesterday. 

Attendees visited sales space 922 contained in the David L. Lawrence Conference Heart to look at and work together with reside demonstrations of next-generation robotic capabilities.

Powered by high-precision power management and synthetic intelligence, Flexiv’s adaptive robotic showcase offered a glimpse into the way forward for robotics constructed for dynamic, advanced real-world environments.

On Tuesday at 10.15 am, chief expertise officer Xiyang Yeh took to the Tech Speak Stage to ship a presentation titled “Mastering Contact in Actual-World Functions”.

Throughout this session, Yeh shared insights into overcoming advanced power suggestions challenges and attaining ultra-sensitive contact capabilities in unstructured operational environments.


Xiyang Yeh, CTO of Flexiv, says: “Drive management is key if robots are to work together and function in the true world. At IROS 2026, we’re displaying how the distinctive mixture of whole-body power sensing and synthetic intelligence can allow the automation of duties beforehand unimaginable with solely laptop imaginative and prescient enter and place management.

“Our robots are collaborative companions that excel at delicate meeting, distant operations, and protected human interplay. The way forward for robotics calls for a capability to really feel power, and we allow this.”

To showcase these capabilities in motion, Flexiv featured 4 demonstrations on the exhibition ground. Guests to sales space quantity 922 skilled a dual-unit teleoperation demonstration that includes two Rizon 4 arms delivering immediate response and bi-directional power suggestions for distant dealing with purposes.

Powered by Flexiv’s high-transparency Teleoperation Improvement Equipment, the leader-follower system gives ultra-low-latency synchronization, power smoothing that compensates for minor hand tremors, and built-in security options equivalent to contact power limits and emergency disengagement.

Ideally suited towards bodily AI analysis, medical purposes, and unsafe environments, it makes distant operation intuitive and easy.

Marking its inaugural attendance at IROS, Enlight, Flexiv’s newest era of adaptive robotic, demonstrated its outstanding whole-body contact sensitivity and full 720-degree rotation capability on 4 axes.

Outfitted with multi-dimensional power sensors in every of its seven joints, Enlight creates a complete whole-body notion community that permits multi-touch interplay, gesture recognition, and exact power distribution sensing. This distinctive world-first mixture makes it the head of protected human-robot interplay.

Specialised industrial automation duties have been additionally represented on the present ground with a reside demonstration of a MICO robotic putting in a GPU right into a high-density server structure.

Constructed on the Enlight platform, the compact dual-arm MICO Core system makes use of positive power sensing, numerous power methods, and coordinated dual-arm collaboration to carry out exact meeting.

Totally scalable from the industry-focused Core configuration to the hospitality-oriented cell Extremely configuration with inbuilt AMR, force-sensitive wrist joint, and a non-intimidating friendly-looking head that includes laptop imaginative and prescient, the MICO platform delivers industry-leading security for close-proximity human-robot collaboration and seamless adaptation to bodily AI situations.

Alongside MICO, Flexiv’s different humanoid-style robotic, the AICO-2 industry-focused dual-arm cell robotic platform, was readily available to exhibit that an adaptive robotic arm is actually multi-role prepared, whether or not by itself or when mixed with a humanoid-style physique and AMR platform.

Highlighting how superior power suggestions, synthetic intelligence, and adaptableness allow versatile execution of high-precision meeting, delicate dealing with, and dynamic manufacturing challenges, the sales space was an important cease for {industry} consultants and educational leaders.

Flexiv invited researchers, engineers, and {industry} professionals to cease by sales space 922 to expertise the way forward for adaptive robotics firsthand and uncover how force-controlled techniques are redefining what’s doable in clever automation.