{"rewrite":{"id":"r_e7dad858ab62bd319e783a2c","clusterId":"c_6a84f611f210fbcbd72c54a1","slug":"prox-industries-engineer-team-takes-second-at-humanoid-ikea-assembly-challenge","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Prox Industries Engineer Team Takes Second At Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge","summary":"Prox Industries engineer Noguchi was part of Team RAMEN, which placed second out of 34 teams in the Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge at IROS 2026. Teams used the Unitree G1 humanoid to autonomously assemble the IKEA children's table UTTER, handling part recognition, attaching four legs, and completing the build. IROS 2026 ran September 27 to October 1 in Pittsburgh. Prox plans to feed the results into its humanoid and Physical AI development.","whyItMatters":"A single industrial engineer entering an academic challenge and taking second out of 34 teams shows how quickly the humanoid manipulation stack is moving from lab demos to a skills contest that a commercial team can enter and place in.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eTeam RAMEN, which included Prox Industries engineer Noguchi, finished second among 34 teams worldwide. The task was not a demo reel: teams had to make the Unitree G1 recognise parts, place the tabletop, drive in four legs, and finish the children\u0026#39;s table UTTER with scoring tied to work time and whether a human had to step in.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganizers included people from Google DeepMind, Unitree, Lightwheel, Frodobots, and the Singapore Institute of Technology. The technical stack involved 3D spatial recognition, bimanual coordination, contact-heavy manipulation, motion control against positional drift, and Sim2Real transfer. Prox says it will put what the team learned back into its own humanoid and Physical AI work.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Team RAMEN placed second of 34 teams at IROS 2026 using the Unitree G1 to assemble IKEA's UTTER table, fitting four legs autonomously. Prox Industries is folding those results into its Physical AI work.","twitterPost":"Prox Industries plans to feed Team RAMEN's second-place IROS 2026 results into its humanoid and Physical AI work.","threadsPost":"Team RAMEN placed second of 34 teams at IROS 2026, using the Unitree G1 to assemble IKEA's UTTER table autonomously, legs included. Prox Industries says it will fold the results into its humanoid and Physical AI development.","newsletterBlurb":"An engineer from Prox Industries was part of Team RAMEN, which placed second out of 34 teams in the Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge held at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh. Teams used the Unitree G1 humanoid to autonomously assemble the IKEA children's table UTTER, scored on each step, work time, and whether humans intervened. Prox says it will feed the results into its humanoid and Physical AI development.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"ASCII.jp\",\"url\":\"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/440/4440063/?rss\",\"title\":\"Prox Industries Engineer Noguchi's Team Wins Second Place Worldwide in Humanoid Furniture Autonomous Assembly Competition at IROS 2026\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4611,"outputTokens":650,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791196162,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T10:23:39.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T10:28:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T10:28:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_6a84f611f210fbcbd72c54a1","canonicalTitle":"Prox Industriesのエンジニア・野口の参加チームが、IROS 2026のヒューマノイド・家具自律組立競技で世界2位を獲得","representativeArticleId":"a_ac986a254b669b4485800058","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Prox Industries\"],\"people\":[\"Noguchi\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-05T04:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-05T04:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T10:28:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"ASCII.jp","url":"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/440/4440063/?rss","title":"Prox Industriesのエンジニア・野口の参加チームが、IROS 2026のヒューマノイド・家具自律組立競技で世界2位を獲得"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Prox Industries"],"people":["Noguchi"],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}