Dobot Heads to ChiNext, Chasing ‘China’s First Collaborative-Robot Listing’

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Dobot’s collaborative robot arm in operation. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Dobot (越疆科技), the world’s top collaborative-robot vendor by sales and a Shenzhen-based company, is closing in on a ChiNext (创业板) listing. Its IPO application was accepted by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange just 17 days after Beijing published a reform opinion supporting innovative firms on the board, … Read more

Shenzhen’s Bangqi Builds the ‘Nervous System’ for AI-Run Factories

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Bangqi’s embodied-intelligence robot deployed in a smart factory. (Source: OFweek Robotics) As manufacturing competition shifts from single-device contests to full-chain coordination, Shenzhen’s Bangqi (磅旗科技) has set its core strategy as “building whole-factory intelligent system capability.” On its self-developed industrial vertical AI model, Bangqi uses an LDS production-coordination system and an ADS multi-brand scheduling system as … Read more

Shenzhen’s Bojiang Robotics Wins RMB 200M+ Hong Kong Construction-Robot Order

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Bojiang Robotics’ construction robot on a building site. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics (博匠机器人) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction company, marking its move from “pilot use” to “scaled deployment” in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will buy construction robots, … Read more

Autel Sends Embodied AI to Work on China’s Railways

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Autel’s ground robot and drone demonstration at its Shenzhen open day, July 24, 2026. (Source: Shenzhen News (sznews.com)) From demo hall to live railway At an open day in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district on July 24, Autel (道通科技) ran two scenes at once: a drone nest opened, a vehicle ran self-checks and took off to patrol … Read more

Cheap at Home, Premium Abroad: China’s EV Export Playbook

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BYD Explorer No.1, a dedicated car-carrier vessel BYD uses to ship vehicles to overseas markets. Chinese cars cost far more abroad than at home. Take the Xpeng MONA L03, launched in Munich on July 16. Its pure-electric version starts at 35,600 euros in Germany (about 276,000 yuan); the extended-range version starts at 38,600 euros (about … Read more

Zhipu vs MiniMax: China’s AI Unicorns Bet on Opposite Futures

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Date Round Amount Key Investors Aug 13, 2019 Strategic Tens of millions RMB CAS Star, Tsinghua University Asset Management, Fortune Capital, Huakong Fund, Jiangmen VC, Turing Ventures Sep 14, 2021 Series A Hundreds of millions RMB Luster LightVision, Xinglian Capital (Z Fund), Beijing Dafan, Tongzhi Investment, Xingtang Tongzhi, Rongpin Investment Sep 26, 2022 Series B … Read more

Kimi K3: The Chinese Model That Split Silicon Valley

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Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin presenting Kimi Chat’s long-context model capabilities. After DeepSeek, another Chinese model has rattled the United States. On July 22, four things happened in a single day. Michael Kratsios, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly accused Moonshot AI on X of “large-scale distillation” of American … Read more

Humanoid Robots’ Weak Link: Some Dexterous Hands Break After 50 Grabs

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Figure Robotics’ F02 humanoid robot featuring a high-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand.Illustration: humanoid robot dexterous-hand durability concerns. (Source: Sohu IT) China’s humanoid robots are being tested by reality, and reality is winning. A manager at one robotics firm, whom we will call Wang Hao, told Chinese business outlet Yicai that the dexterous hand his company sources from … Read more

Shenzhen’s Dobot Sees H1 Revenue Top 300M Yuan as Profitable Core Funds Embodied-AI Push

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Dobot expects first-half 2026 revenue of roughly 300 to 330 million yuan, up 94.65 to 114.12 percent year on year, with gross profit of 140 to 170 million yuan, up 84.73 to 124.31 percent, the company said in a recent profit alert. On top of its scaling collaborative-robot business, Dobot’s embodied-AI business is moving from … Read more

Shenzhen’s AI Squared Unveils World-First Brain-Inspired VLA Model to Scale Robot Deployment at WAIC

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At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai on July 17, Shenzhen company AI Squared showcased its upgraded in-house brain-inspired large model NeuroVLA, the open-source AlphaBrain Platform, and AlphaBot 2 running the latest robot brain — demonstrating real productivity in industrial manufacturing and new retail. Often called China’s most “Tesla-like” robotics firm, AI Squared drew a constant crowd … Read more