The Belt 
At a trade fair with more than 400 robot exhibitors, the demo that drew a crowd was not a better gripper or a tighter tolerance. It was three machines handing work to each other. Zhongke Diwuji showed a relay at the 26th China International Industry Fair: three Jiling-L1 wheeled dual-arm robots took turns depalletising, pouring … Read more
A Beijing embodied-AI startup has open-sourced a robot world model that runs on RGB alone, and it is topping benchmark tables built by researchers who assumed depth was mandatory. Wujie Dongli published MWA-Phoenix, a fully pretrained 7B parameter latent world model designed for on-device deployment. The company reports leading results across six evaluations covering environment … Read more
The awkward truth about humanoid robots in Chinese factories is that most of them arrive at sites nobody is willing to shut down for a retrofit. AgiBot, the Shanghai embodied-AI company known in Chinese as Zhiyuan, built its newest machine around that constraint. The Genie G2 Max, launched on 26 October under the company’s AI … Read more
An anonymous model spent ten days as the most used model on OpenRouter, and the company behind it only admitted ownership after it had already been benchmarked to death. On 17 October DeepSeek pushed out V4.1 Flash-1017, an update to the model Chinese developers call the big fat fish. Two days later MiniMax launched M3.1 … Read more
The AI infrastructure boom pushed optics into the centre of the buildout, and the optical chip, the component that converts light into electrons and back, is priced as the next hundred-billion-renminbi market. Each step from 10G to 800G and on to 1.6T and 3.2T raises both the value per chip and the size of the … Read more
Chinese robot exports produced a striking scorecard in the first half of 2026. Customs data puts the export value at RMB 24.85 billion, up 359.0 per cent year on year, with half a year already exceeding the total of the previous several years combined. Robots of all categories together reached RMB 11.32 billion. About nine … Read more
MoSense, a company building full-body multimodal tactile systems, said on 26 October that it had closed an angel plus round in the nine figures. CDH Investments and Vitalbridge Capital led, with LimX Dynamics, Loongson Capital, Casstar, WestSummit Capital, Shanghai Pudong Venture Capital and an unnamed leading domestic humanoid manufacturer participating. Houlang Capital served as long-term … Read more
Keda Intelligent Technology has filed an application for the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Huatai International and Guoyuan International as joint sponsors. It is the company’s second attempt this year, after a first filing on 19 January. If it clears, the company, which has traded on ChiNext since May 2011, joins … Read more
How long does it take a company to travel from star unicorn to a queue outside an arbitration hearing? For Wujing Dynamics the answer is eight months. Registered on 11 February 2026. In June it told the market it held close to RMB 1 billion of orders, had received RMB 110 million of funding, and … Read more
Agibot is doing what a company does when the queue stops moving. From 22 October it began publishing seven results across seven consecutive working days, covering datasets, an operations platform, the heavy-load G2 Max, an embodied agent framework called GenieMaster, a simulation platform, a foundation model and a swarm learning method. The backdrop is a … Read more