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At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, China’s embodied-AI zone was full of robots making coffee, taking photos and dancing. Sudo Tech’s booth drew crowds for the opposite reason: its robots quietly did unglamorous things — grasping objects, wrapping items in cloth with two hands, inserting parts into matching holes — with conspicuous stability, success rates and … Read more
After 12 years and roughly $3.2 billion in cumulative funding (per Tracxn data), Faraday Future has delivered fewer than 20 vehicles. Now the Jia Yueting-led company is abandoning the EV label altogether: an August shareholder meeting will vote on a renaming that rebrands FF as a “physical AI ecosystem company,” with humanoid and embodied-AI robots … Read more
In 2025, capital chased complete humanoid robots — a walking, talking demo unit could raise hundreds of millions. In 2026, the money has pivoted to a single component: the dexterous hand, what the industry calls the “last millimetre” of robot-world interaction. The numbers are stark. According to IT Juzi data cited by OFweek, China’s dexterous-hand … Read more
A year ago, the world’s first robot “6S store” opened in Shenzhen’s Longgang district with only a handful of machines on the floor. On July 28, it celebrated its first anniversary by announcing nine commercialised application scenarios, a multi-channel digital sales system — and a national footprint of more than 20 stores. The 6S concept … Read more
The Shenzhen Natural History Museum — the largest comprehensive natural history museum in South China — opened its doors on July 28, displaying 7,461 rare specimens across eight themed halls that trace 4.6 billion years of life on Earth. But the exhibits everyone talked about on opening day weren’t fossils. Among thousands of static displays, … Read more
When NVIDIA unveiled its Isaac GR00T reference humanoid at GTC Taipei during ICRA 2026, the industry noted the obvious choices: a Unitree H2 Plus body, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and the open-source Isaac GR00T model as the brain. But the component that drew the sharpest questions was the one few had heard of: the hands. … Read more
A bionic robot developed by a Shanghai startup has ignited a fierce debate on overseas social media — not because it failed, but because it looked too human. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17, Shouxing Tech unveiled OriginF1: a desktop-scale bionic android with 26 degrees of freedom across … Read more
On June 24th, Shenzhen-based embodied-AI startup RoboScience (机器科学) hosted its official launch event in Shenzhen, unveiling Visics: a general-purpose embodied foundation model built around a novel architecture called VLOA (Vision-Language-Object-Action). The company’s founding team carries unusual credentials. CEO Tian Ye (田野) previously served as Apple’s AI Platform technical lead, where he built infrastructure described internally … Read more
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Shenzhen-based service robot leader Keenon (擎朗智能) unveiled something more ambitious than a product demo: an “embodied community” spanning four real-world service scenarios, all running on humanoid robots with zero human teleoperation. What ‘Zero Teleoperation’ Actually Means The industry default for robot showcases is still remote piloting — a human operator … Read more
Futuring Robot’s F2 home robot, a full-stack domestic humanoid currently deployed in paid household trials across China. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Home robots remain the most stubborn corner of embodied AI, but one Chinese startup is betting the path runs through real living rooms rather than factory floors. Futuring Robot (未来不远), founded in Shanghai in 2022 … Read more