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Etched has raised 800 million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation with backing from TSMC, Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li, plus a 1 billion dollar pre-production order for a chip that runs nothing but Transformers.
XBOT founder Tang Mu, formerly of Xiaomi and Tencent, expects at least 100,000 robot coffee kiosks in China within three years, twice the combined store count of Luckin and Cotti.
China’s planning agency confirmed that eight of every ten humanoid and quadruped robots sold globally are made in China. Unitree filed for a domestic listing on first-half revenue of more than 1.05 billion yuan.
A UC San Diego team teleoperated a Unitree G1 humanoid through laparoscopic gallbladder removal on two live pigs. Nature published it in July 2026. Surgeons scored clinical readiness at 2.5 out of 5.
Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Apptronik and 1X now cover the full American humanoid stack. A Chinese industry review sorts them into three routes and shows which one is already earning revenue.
In 2025, Hello (the ride-hailing and bike-sharing platform) formed Zaofu Intelligent with Ant Group and CATL and entered robotaxis with an ambitious target: deploy 10,000 robotaxis by 2027. By then, Pony.ai had already reached single-city profitability, WeRide and Apollo Go were expanding abroad, and Waymo was still growing its fleet. A 2025 entrant looked late. … Read more
FAW Jiefang’s J6E large-customer custom edition has begun rolling off the line and into delivery. The strategic model, already well regarded in express-delivery fleets, was tailored to the pain points of leading logistics operators, and its headline feature is a Level 2-plus trunk combined assisted-driving system fromZhitu Technology. FAW Jiefang J6E large-customer custom edition at … Read more
Sales, brand and channel rankings in pool robots are settling fast, but the real technical watershed has barely arrived. Wireless models lowered the barrier to entry and unlocked Amazon, big-box and specialist channels. Early movers built shelf and brand advantages. Latecomers now face not just a product gap but a long channel-validation cycle. Wave Future’s … Read more
Shenzhen Bojiang Robot, a local construction-robotics developer, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction company, which will procure building robots, intelligent equipment and related technical services worth no less than RMB 200 million. The deal moves Bojiang from pilot use in Hong Kong to scaled deployment. A Bojiang construction robot operating … Read more
For years, Sinian Intelligent Driving was known almost entirely for one thing: autonomous driving in ports. Compared with robotaxis and city NOA, port automation is a quiet corner of the industry, a closed scenario with a limited market and long, fiddly delivery cycles. Easy to dismiss as a niche. Then Sinian closed a RMB 300 … Read more