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Six hundred students applied. Fifty got five days on a full-size humanoid robot in Shenzhen. The LimX Dynamics Developer Camp 2026 closed on 7 August, guided by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and the Shenzhen Qianhai Authority, and run with D-Robotics, Alibaba Cloud, RealSense and PICO. More than 600 students from … Read more
Nearly 200,000 engineers have come through one robotics competition in Shenzhen. Over a thousand of them now work at DJI. RoboMaster 2026 wrapped in Shenzhen on 9 August. Northeastern University’s TDT team took the title. South China Agricultural University’s Taurus finished second, East China University of Science and Technology’s Origin third and Tongji University’s SuperPower … Read more
Two dollars an hour. That is where Roland Berger thinks the running cost of an advanced humanoid robot lands, and it is the number that rewrites where things get made. The consultancy’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, marks a shift in the question the industry is asking. It … Read more
China registered 116,000 new humanoid robot companies in the first half of 2026. Not units. Companies. The figure comes from the State Administration for Market Regulation, published on 8 August. New humanoid robot registrations rose 9.5 per cent year on year to 116,000. Across the eight emerging industries and nine future industries the government tracks, … Read more
Elon Musk wants to put AI data centres in orbit. A Chinese energy company has already put one in the Gobi desert, and it is running on 100 per cent green power today. SpaceX raised 75 billion dollars in its listing, a record for a first round, and by the third trading day it had … Read more
Musk approved the third-generation Optimus at the end of June, with a supply target of 1,000 units a week in September and 100,000 sets of parts a year, even as Chinese rivals pull ahead on volume.
A robot ETF jumped 6.68 per cent as Beijing confirmed China makes 8 of every 10 humanoid and quadruped robots sold globally. Unitree’s IPO and surging revenue show the commercial era has arrived.
A new Roland Berger report argues the humanoid debate has shifted from ‘is it a bubble’ to ‘who grabs the position first’, with China’s deploy-first route building scale and real-world data fastest.
Bangqi’s chair Wu Xiaoqian explains why the firm refused to be a robot company: its bet is the factory’s ‘nervous system’, built on a self-developed industrial AI model, LDS and ADS.
Topstar and Wuwen Zhike have built a physical-AI data infrastructure that closes the loop from simulation to real robots, cutting field debug time from months to weeks.