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On 20 September Zhishen Technology closed its Series B. The same day Alibaba took a stake in Moqi Intelligence, Ant invested in Tianji Intelligence, and Qiyuan Robotics connected to Tencent Cloud’s WorkBuddy. Four moves in one day, spanning financing, equity and ecosystem, covering complete machines, embodied brains, core components and consumer products. Zhishen’s round was … Read more
On 20 September Zhishen Technology announced a several-hundred-million-yuan Series B strategic round led by UAE-based Stone Venture, with financial institutions including Hongshan Capital, Yueke Finance, Wuzhong Rongyue and Wuzhong Jinkong, plus industrial investors Neusoft, Hamps Tech, Vision Capital and Riying Electronics. The company said the proceeds will go to robot bodies, embodied brains and task … Read more
Guo Renjie, born in 1997, joined Dreame in 2021 and within four years became its China executive president, managing more than 1,500 people and helping build its robot-vacuum rise. In late 2024 he founded Lexiang Technology, and by July 2026 the company had closed a 500 million yuan Pre-A round led solely by Ant Group. … Read more
XTRON Robotics, a builder of embodied-intelligence systems for hazardous industrial settings, said on 1 September it had closed an A1 funding round worth tens of millions of yuan. The round was backed by Qianhai Ark, Xihu Science and Innovation Investment and Guangyang Co. The proceeds will go to refining its XBOT-AEGIS embodied-intelligence system, developing multi-form … Read more
SHENZHEN, 17 September 2026. The 2026 AI Hetao Cup finals wrapped up on 17 September at Hetao One, the landmark tower in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone. The contest was organised by the zone’s development company and guided by the Futian district investment-promotion and science-and-industry bureaus, with academicians, leading venture funds … Read more
At the 2026 Embodied Perception Fusion and Multimodal LLM seminar on 15 September, Wuwen Zhike solution expert Yan Wei argued that embodied AI is bottlenecked by three things: data that is far harder to gather than for autonomous driving, a missing end-to-end toolchain, and the absence of common standards. Wuwen Zhike’s answer is a closed … Read more
As embodied intelligence matures, its scenes keep multiplying, from logistics and inspection to robot games, and now the robot has moved to the dinner table. Give it a command and it may stir-fry you a meal with real wok heat. The robot in the kitchen is a small sign of a larger shift: embodied AI … Read more
On 17 September, LeJu Robotics released LET2.0, a multi-machine consistency dataset built on its 10,000-unit humanoid line and scaled training ground. It is the first time real data from the same robot model has been merged and reused across machines, moving real-world data from one robot, one use to many robots, shared use. The first … Read more
On 16 September, UBTECH founder, chairman and chief executive Zhou Jian announced that the company’s U1 series of hyper-realistic humanoids has begun delivery. The first batch goes to Shanghai Yongda Group, Beijing Bosch Group and Korea’s Galaxy Robot Park. The U1 line launched on 30 June in three versions: U1 Lite at 119,800 yuan, U1 … Read more
Physical-AI startup ZINOVA, building on LimX Dynamics’ TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot, completed a scaled tilt-up construction demo with RIC Robotics that covers formwork framing, multi-layer rebar laying and tying. The proof of concept shows a general-purpose robot using off-the-shelf tools inside a complex build sequence. ZINOVA’s thesis is tool intelligence: teaching a robot to … Read more