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Maibu Robotics, a Shenzhen maker of rehabilitation exoskeletons, has closed a strategic round of close to RMB 100 million from a CITIC Securities investment vehicle, according to 36Kr. The money goes into product iteration, brain-computer interface work and coverage of the last mile from hospital to community to home. Maibu’s exoskeletons hold Class II NMPA … Read more
Hai Robotics updated its Hong Kong listing application on 13 September, seven months after its first filing in February. If it clears the hearing it becomes the first case-handling robot company listed in Hong Kong. The numbers behind the filing are the story. Hai Robotics’ case-handling robots climb the racking face and retrieve single totes … Read more
On 30 September the ChiNext review status of Hikvision Robotics changed to suspended. The trigger was procedural: its financial statements had passed their statutory validity period and needed updating. Dozens of other Shenzhen Stock Exchange applicants entered the same status in the same window, and the review restarts once the papers are refiled. The pause … Read more
DeepSeek is close to completing a new round of about RMB 100 billion, with a pre-money valuation of roughly RMB 500 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Leiphone’s Leidi. DeepSeek’s new round would be the largest private AI financing in China this year (Source: Sohu Tech) The confirmation is not a … Read more
The 26th China International Industry Fair closed at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai with robots working as guides and wheeled humanoids hauling industrial bins. The demonstrations on the stands depend on something less visible: how fast a design revision becomes a physical part. A wheeled humanoid handling industrial bins at the China … Read more
Advanced technology moved into retail space in Shenzhen this month. From 16 to 18 October, Futian district held its first Future in Shenzhen technology and lifestyle festival at the Zhonghangcheng Junshang shopping mall, turning the centre into a street of interactive technology displays. Visitors testing robot products at the Futian technology and lifestyle festival in … Read more
DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, a robotics AI company founded only months ago, at a post-money valuation of about $400 million, or roughly 2.7 billion yuan, Bloomberg reported on 12 October. The round itself is in the tens of millions of dollars. Meituan’s Longzhu fund has committed to follow. DeepSeek … Read more
AgiBot Innovation is closing a new funding round of 1 to 1.5 billion yuan at a post-money valuation of roughly 50 billion yuan, according to an exclusive report by Caijing magazine on 13 October. The same round means the company will not list in Hong Kong this year. AgiBot’s humanoid line, now valued at roughly … Read more
Chinese humanoid robotics shares went vertical on 20 October, and Unitree Technology led the move. The stock touched 549.44 yuan intraday, a gain of more than 10 per cent on the session, and closed three trading days up more than 35 per cent. Its market value passed 220 billion yuan. A Unitree humanoid unit on … Read more
On 20 October, DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its self-developed inference framework, and a detail buried inside the release is reshaping how China’s AI stack talks to silicon. Both Huawei’s Ascend 950 NPU and Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell GPU appear on the officially supported hardware list, pulled from the same code tree, and switching between the two takes … Read more