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China’s AI has posted a run of breakthroughs this year, from DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-V4 series to Moonshot’s Kimi K3, a 3-trillion-parameter open-source model, and Zhipu’s GLM-5.3, whose coding ability approaches top closed models. Behind the models sits compute. Despite US limits on advanced AI chips and semiconductor equipment, domestic compute such as Huawei’s Ascend has broken … Read more
On 19 August, as the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing, Wujie Dynamics unveiled a string of self-developed results: the MWA embodied general brain, the K15 robot body, the AnySense EGO first-person multimodal capture terminal, the Anyverse ADA seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm and the Anyverse ASC central compute platform. With Korea’s KG Group coffee brand … Read more
During the 2026 World Robot Conference, FAW Die Technology (Changchun) showcased a wheel-arm robot, a full-size bipedal humanoid, a small bipedal service humanoid, a heavy-load robot and joint modules, presenting what it called “China’s fully autonomous embodied-intelligence automotive manufacturing scenario.” FAW’s wheel-arm industrial humanoid robot on display at WRC 2026 (Source: Gasgoo) FAW is building … Read more
Moxing AI, the “Token super factory” founded just over two years ago, has closed another funding round. The company announced a Series A led by Yida Capital, with several strategic resource partners joining, existing shareholders adding more, and some over-allocating. The round follows a several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A disclosed in May, only three months earlier. Two rounds … Read more
Ahead of the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026), the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRS) announced that AIRSEAI, the embodied-intelligence open-source project it initiated, has formally joined the LF AI & Data Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It will publish its roadmap and community plan at the conference for global developers, research … Read more
RobotEra, a Tsinghua University spinoff and one of China’s leading embodied-intelligence companies, is preparing to list on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a raise of US$800 million to US$1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The company has begun working with advisers on the listing, … Read more
Chinese consumer-embodied-intelligence firm Vbot said its global strategy has begun, with Japan as the first overseas market. Under a strategic agreement, Japanese robot-solutions firm Future Robotics has bought in Vbot’s flagship quadruped development platform, the Datou EDU edition, and will build local applications around elder-care companionship and village public services. Over three years the two … Read more
Ruisong Technology said it plans a private placement of up to RMB 784 million, with the net proceeds funding a high-precision, high-speed six-axis robot industrialisation project, an headquarters and R&D centre upgrade, and working capital and debt repayment. The aims are more capacity, better process and stronger technology reserves. A long road with Panasonic Founded … Read more
Bangqi, a Shenzhen firm, has staked its strategy on building a factory-wide intelligent system rather than selling single devices. Using its own industrial vertical AI model, it pairs an LDS production-coordination system and an ADS multi-brand scheduling system with self-built AGV, AMR and embodied-robot hardware, pushing plants from local automation toward global autonomous decisions. From … Read more
Yuanli Wuxian, an embodied-brain company, completed Series A and A+ funding of nearly RMB 1 billion on 14 August. The round was led by Dunhong Asset and a leading state-owned platform, with Zhejiang University’s sci-tech group, Yandu state control and Lishui state capital among the industrial and institutional backers, and earlier investor CCV adding more. … Read more