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In the first half of 2026, China’s artificial-intelligence start-ups raised more than 300 billion yuan, a sum that already exceeds the sector’s full-year 2025 total in just six months, according to IT Juzi. The figure spans embodied intelligence, chips and every ticket above and below the 100 million yuan line, and marks a clear acceleration … Read more
Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Milesun Robotics has closed a new strategic round of nearly RMB 100 million, led by CSC Financial, the state-backed securities arm. The raise accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach from hospital and community into the last mile of home-based care. … Read more
🇲🇾 Malaysia, 2026-08: Chinese brands took 7.5% of the market (7.5% excl MG). Perodua and Proton still own 59%, but the China bench is stacking up fast.
Wanson Technology, a flexible embodied-intelligence specialist, has released NOVA2.0, the second generation of its flexible embodied brain and what it calls the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-AI architecture. Wanson launched NOVA2.0, its open-world commercial-grade embodied AI brain. (Source: LeiPhone) The architecture grew out of more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real … Read more
On 10 September, Unitree Technology’s shares fell below the 500 yuan level for the first time, touching 498.7 yuan intraday, a sharp comedown from its blockbuster debut. Unitree’s shares slipped below 500 yuan, erasing more than RMB 240 billion in market value. (Source: Gasgoo) By the late morning the stock stood at 500.49 yuan with … Read more
Kinetix AI, also known as Chaowei Dynamics, has closed a series of angel-plus rounds above RMB 500 million, led by Vertex Ventures under Temasek, with Fangguang Capital and Wanshi Capital adding funds, to speed its data-model-entity iteration and productise embodied intelligence. Kinetix AI closed a RMB 500 million-plus angel round for its embodied-intelligence stack. (Source: … Read more
JD.com has launched its Physical AI Acceleration Plan alongside a Super AI Supply Chain, aiming to build what it calls the world’s largest physical-world operations centre and link data, models, hardware and industry scenarios end to end. JD.com plans 80 robot industry bases and a 10 million-hour embodied-data centre. (Source: Gasgoo) On data, JD Cloud … Read more
Five days after Tesla put its production Cybercab into public Robotaxi service, early riders in Austin are split between awe and annoyance. Tesla’s wheel-less, pedal-less Cybercab has joined its Robotaxi fleet for public trials. (Source: CheDongXi) The Cybercab, revealed on 4 September, drops the steering wheel, pedals and mirrors entirely and relies on Tesla’s Full … Read more
China has published its 15th Five-Year Plan for the intelligent-connected new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, laying out the concrete targets that will define the country’s car sector through 2030. China’s newly published roadmap sets 2030 targets for its intelligent-connected NEV industry. (Source: CheDongXi) The plan, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and … Read more
When notable investor Zhu Xiaohu stepped back from humanoid bets and turned to Harbin Engineering-linked Shihang, the deep-sea robot track drew fresh attention. A different Harbin Engineering spinout, DeepSea Intelligence, is taking the industrial deep-sea route, and it is moving to commercial scale faster. A RMB 500 million vote On 13 August, DeepSea Intelligence announced … Read more