Ruisong plans a 784 million yuan private placement to scale its high-speed six-axis robot

Ruisong Technology said it plans a private placement of up to 784 million yuan, with the net proceeds after fees going wholly to a high-speed six-axis robot industrialisation project, an HQ and R&D centre upgrade, and working capital and debt repayment. The issue aims to expand capacity for market demand, lift process and quality, and … Read more

China’s new-energy exports jumped 154.7 per cent in August as Zeekr ships its 200,000th vehicle to Mexico

A sweep of China auto and robotics news on 8 September points to the same direction: Chinese electric mobility and robotics are pushing harder into overseas and embodied-intelligence manufacturing. Several items stand out for international readers. The Zeekr 7X reached its 200,000th mass-produced unit at the Ningbo Meishan smart factory. (Source: Gasgoo) Zeekr 7X rolled … Read more

Xiaomi-backed 3D compute-in-memory AI chip firm Weina Hexin raises RMB 1 billion, nearing mass production

Zhidx reported on 9 September that Hangzhou three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip firm Weina Hexin has closed a RMB 1 billion C1 round and will soon reach scaled commercialisation and mass production, joining the first group of three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip companies worldwide to do so. Weina Hexin 3D compute-in-memory AI inference chip. (Source: Zhidx) The … Read more

Cell Wall Intelligence skips the humanoid race and raises an angel-plus round for a desktop productivity robot

Embodied Emergence reports that Jiangsu Cell Wall Intelligence, a Kunshan hard-tech firm, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan angel-plus round led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with Legend Star and Tianqi Capital following and FlowCapital as long-term adviser. The money funds CyboPal ONE volume delivery and its embodied interaction system. Cell Wall Intelligence CyboPal ONE desktop productivity robot. … Read more

ZINOVA and LimX Dynamics put a dual-arm robot to work on a real construction site

Physical-AI firm ZINOVA, building on LimX Dynamics’ TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot and with construction-robot company RIC Robotics, completed a scaled demonstration of concrete tilt-up construction, covering formwork framing, multi-layer rebar laying and tying. The proof of concept showed embodied robots can use existing tools to join complex construction flows, and is another original practice … Read more

ModelBest’s 2B MiniCPM5 tops sub-4B open models, beating Google’s 12B Gemma 4 on intelligence density

Zhidx reported on 8 September that Beijing edge-LLM unicorn ModelBest, together with the OpenBMB open-source community, has open-sourced MiniCPM5-2B, a next-generation edge language base model. The 2-billion-parameter model supports tool calling, deep search and code generation, and shipped day-zero adaptation to Intel, Rockchip and Arm platforms. MiniCPM5-2B benchmark results versus larger open models. (Source: Zhidx) … Read more

Ant Group co-leads Tianji Intelligence B++ round, betting on force-control humanoid arms

On 8 September, Guangdong Tianji Intelligence said it had closed a B++ strategic round co-led by Ant Group and Sofina Asia Private, with Gaorong Venture Capital and Tencent following on, and Gaohu Capital as sole adviser. Tianji Intelligence force-control humanoid dual-arm robot. (Source: OFweek Robot) The funds go to technology research, scaled production and global … Read more

Wanxun launches NOVA 2.0, a flexible embodied brain trained on more than 10 million real-world operations

Wanxun Technology, a global leader in flexible embodied intelligence, has released NOVA 2.0 (Neuromorphic Omniversal Versatile Architecture), its second-generation flexible embodied brain and the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-intelligence architecture. It is built from more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real industry scenarios, and its cross-scenario migration and delivery ability have … Read more

WRC 2026 recap: embodied intelligence trades the demo stage for the profit-and-loss sheet

At the Beijing World Robot Conference in August 2026, the sound in the halls was no longer amazement that a robot could dance like a person. It was founders quietly working out return on investment in their heads, counting the wages a machine could save in a month. Embodied-intelligence exhibits at the World Robot Conference … Read more

Shenzhen has put 30 companies on the public markets in eight months, raising over a trillion yuan

On 8 September, Shenzhen firm Longsys listed in Hong Kong as the first ‘A+H’ standalone memory maker, taking the city’s 2026 listings to 30. It closed at 233.60 Hong Kong dollars a share. Longsys priced at 236 Hong Kong dollars on 26.08 million shares, raising 6.154 billion Hong Kong dollars, to be spent on AI … Read more