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In 2026 the business of robot “skin” began to fork. At IROS 2026, Sharpa launched the D01 robot, the W02 dexterous hand and the AE01 exoskeleton data glove at once. The glove logs an operator’s finger-joint motion with 22 encoders and feeds contact back through five fingertip vibration motors, so one device both teleoperates a … Read more
Shutu Tech has closed a Pre-A round of nearly RMB 100 million, its third raise in a single month, led by CDH Investments’ Baifu arm and the Kunpeng Fund, a national-level big-data vehicle, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital joining and existing backer Trend Investment topping up. The money goes straight at the hardest … Read more
On 21 September, word that Tesla’s robot team had flown to Ningbo to audit factories lit another fire under China’s embodied-AI race. The visit was not a courtesy call. Suppliers including Tuopu Group, Sanhua Intelligent and Joyson Electronics had already taken humanoid-robot orders for joint modules, actuators and precision structures, and the audit was a … Read more
A robot company that sells no robots is now valued at USD 10 billion, and the arithmetic is the real story. FieldAI: A Robot ‘Brain’ Maker Worth USD 10 Billion That Shi (Generated editorial image, Robot Belt) FieldAI, a US firm building a general brain for humanoids, drones and industrial arms, is raising USD 700 … Read more
Yesterday OpenAI released 722 AI maths manuscripts. Today it has withdrawn three of them, over a single wrong sign. OpenAI Pulls Three AI Maths Papers Over a Single Wrong Sign (Generated editorial image, Robot Belt) The three retracted papers all touch the Hodge conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems. The fault sits in the … Read more
At a recent media briefing, Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, shared the latest on terminal business and the HarmonyOS ecosystem. Yu said Huawei once followed a global path, cooperating with US, European, Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese firms, but since 2019, to keep the business alive, Huawei joined domestic supply chains to … Read more
The United States has long banned its advanced AI chips from reaching China, fearing Chinese labs would use Nvidia silicon to build frontier AI. But Washington miscalculated one thing: blocking the chips does not block the compute. US Blocked the Chips, Then Watched China’s Data Centre Capac (Source: Sohu) One analysis of global data centres … Read more
LeiPhone WhaleX has learned that Jianxiong Li, the first doctoral graduate of Tsinghua’s Institute for AI Industry (AIR), has founded embodied intelligence company BASAL Intelligence, with a round led by FiveYuan Capital and participation from IVC, Linear Capital and WestSummit Capital. AIR associate professor Xianyuan Zhan serves as chief scientist, with a core team of … Read more
Could a robot build the parts needed to assemble a robot? That is the hardest real world test for embodied intelligence. A robot’s joints, chucks and precision structs are cut by CNC lathes and mills. If a robot can tend those machines, grabbing, loading, inserting and removing workpieces, robot production feeds itself: more robots, lower … Read more
In September, Faraday Future (FFAI) and FFR sold and shipped 265 EAI robot units, a single month record. In the third quarter the robot business moved 575 units, and since late February the cumulative total has reached 817. On 14 October US time, FFAI and FFR plan to launch an education ecosystem brain, Skills products … Read more