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Acemate, a Shenzhen-based startup incubated by smart-home unicorn SwitchBot, has signed a partnership with the 2026 China Open, the highest-level men’s and women’s combined tennis tournament in Asia. The deal, announced on July 22, marks the company’s push from training clubs and shared courts into a professional tournament environment with global television exposure. The Acemate … Read more
Shenzhen-based RoboSense (速腾聚创) shipped 719,200 LiDAR units in the first half of 2026, a 170% year-on-year jump, according to company figures released on July 9. The robot-industry segment led the acceleration: 282,600 units, up 510% from the same period last year. Automotive LiDAR, still the larger business, rose 98% to 436,600 units. In the second … Read more
Cross-border fast-fashion giant SHEIN has finally reached a critical milestone in its long-awaited Hong Kong IPO journey. On 26 July, SHEIN International Holdings updated its post-hearing prospectus, marking the latest step in a listing process that has stretched over four years and multiple jurisdictions. From USD 100B to USD 30B SHEIN’s valuation trajectory tells the … Read more
Humanoid robots are not yet mass-market consumer products, but China’s leading players are already fighting over physical retail entry points. Two Strategies, One Goal In late April, Unitree opened its first directly operated flagship store in Beijing’s Wangfujing Intime in88 mall. By late May, it followed up with an embodied-AI experience centre on Shanghai’s Nanjing … Read more
China’s domestic DRAM leader Changxin Memory Technology made its debut on the Shanghai STAR Market on 27 July, delivering what may go down as one of the most explosive opening sessions in A-share history. The company priced its IPO at $8.66 per share. At the opening bell, the stock rocketed to $49.50 — an intra-day … Read more
On 27 July, the Nanning Qingxiu District People’s Court opened bidding on Alibaba’s judicial auction platform for the complete set of production machinery at Nezha Auto’s Nanning base — 467 pieces of vehicle manufacturing equipment with an assessed value and starting price of just over $60 million yuan. The equipment belongs to two Nanning project … Read more
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
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
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’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