# Revision History

## v1.0 - 2026-10-11

- English names, roles, selection rationales and evidence scopes for 390 entries.
- Paired source references and URLs in the CSV, matching the JSON and workbook.
- Linked exact source-URL matches to their existing evidence-registry IDs while preserving public citation references.
- Country and cluster comparisons, with examples of Current 100 and Next 100 classifications.
- Clarified the different contributions recognized by Influence and Ecosystem Builders, and the comparison rules for disputed ranks, selections and group assignments.
- Rewrote 32 evidence scopes to identify the cited research, customer activity and contributor roles directly, replacing editing logs and unrelated verification disclaimers.
- Updated E032 Xiong Rong's educational contribution from Zhejiang University's teaching report and the ZJUNlict team description.
- Reassigned E019, E006, E021, E033 and E034 to Influence, and P010, P015, P009, P006 and P036 to Ecosystem Builders, following the contributions attributed in their supporting publications. Both groups retain 50 people and the same record IDs.
- Added I054 NIOSH for occupational robotics hazard research, replacing I002 A3 in the selected institutions. A3 retains credit for its contribution to joint OSHA guidance.
- Distinguished Shanghai certification from Shenyang/SIA testing in I048's source references; clarified jointly attributed contributions in the remaining revised people and institution records.
- Updated event dates, individual contributions and geographic attribution for country:02, country:12, cluster:03, cluster:09, cluster:17, C048, P050 and I009.

- Added Waymo, UBTECH, DJI and Doosan Robotics following role-matched comparisons with May Mobility, Kepler, Skydio and Dobot.
- Added Toyota/TRI, Torc, Rhoda AI and RIVR following comparisons with Dexmate, Gatik, Mech-Mind and Kiwibot.
- Classified Elephant Robotics, Farm-ng, HaptX, JLG, Nimble, AIDIN Robotics, GelSight and Shadow Robot as Current for adopted capabilities or completed technology transfer. Gecko Robotics and Siemens retain their selected developing applications in Next.
- Added Hello Robot's Stretch AI and Wayve's LINGO-2 research following contribution comparisons with Rainbow Robotics and DeepRoute.ai. Current and Next each retain 100 companies.
- Added direct training-programme references to the Shenzhen-Dongguan and Bay Area profiles, and corrected the UK evidence scope.
- Added dated KAIST control and commercialization records, XbotPark educational and startup records, Stanford's physical research facilities, Swedish doctoral training and Israel's operational computing access. Country and cluster comparison tables now show the strengths and geographic scope of both sides.
- Completed the leading-country and cluster comparisons under Intelligence and Beyond, stating the qualitative tradeoffs behind the reported positions.
- Selected Hugging Face's SmolVLA research for the emerging perception-to-action place. RealSense retains adopted-camera supplier credit under LimX; no company was downgraded to balance the groups.

### Membership Changes

| Retired record | Selected record | Selected contribution and comparison |
| --- | --- | --- |
| N063 RealSense | N113 Hugging Face | Developing SmolVLA model research; RealSense's adopted camera supply remains credited under LimX |
| C059 May Mobility | C102 Waymo | Driverless passenger service; broader documented service footprint |
| N038 Kepler | C103 UBTECH | Humanoid production and delivery linked to factory tasks |
| C089 Skydio | C104 DJI | Documented infrastructure-inspection workflow |
| C031 Dobot | C105 Doosan Robotics | Supplied arm identified in a dated project-author engineering account |
| C028 Dexmate | N107 Toyota/TRI | Joint whole-body manipulation-policy development and evaluation |
| C042 Gatik | N108 Torc Robotics | Highway-system validation alongside retained operating freight coverage |
| C060 Mech-Mind | N109 Rhoda AI | Defined video-pretraining experiment for industrial handling |
| C056 Kiwibot | N110 RIVR | Named-customer delivery experiment on stairs and uneven approaches |
| C077 Rainbow Robotics | N111 Hello Robot | Developing semantic-memory, navigation and manipulation integration |
| C027 DeepRoute.ai | N112 Wayve | LINGO-2 language-conditioned driving research |
| I002 A3 | I054 NIOSH | Empirical worker-harm research; A3 retains joint-guidance credit |

The [selection comparisons](METHODOLOGY.md#selection-comparisons) provide the evidence for both sides and the contribution chosen for each place. These are membership changes within fixed-size lists, not competitive ranks of the organizations.

Existing subjects retain their record IDs. Retired IDs are not reassigned. Category sizes and the country and cluster lists remain unchanged.