Huaqiangbei staged a tech-life festival inside a Futian mall, putting robots and exoskeletons in front of everyday shoppers (Source: Shenzhen News) When the electronics street becomes a showroom On 17 October, Shenzhen News reported that Huaqiangbei, the city’s storied electronics district, used a shopping mall to stage its first “Future Shenzhen Happens” technology and lifestyle … Read more
A rope-driven AI robotics company in Shenzhen has crossed the 10 billion yuan valuation line on the back of paid, thousand-unit orders rather than demo reels. On 13 October, Astribot said it had closed its Series B round, completing three financing rounds in 90 days with cumulative proceeds above 1 billion yuan and a valuation … Read more
The first six national standards for humanoid robots have been published, drafted and co-drafted by Shenzhen’s UBTECH, a milestone the city is framing as proof its robotics cluster can set the rules, not just build the machines. The six standards cover general technical requirements, environment perception, and a simulation test platform specification, among others, meant … Read more
A components supplier steps into the robot race On 20 October, Shenzhen-listed Hongfuhan Technology said it will invest about RMB 1.01 billion (USD 140 million) to build a precision metal-components base for robots. The plant will rise in Suzhou, Jiangsu, with a two-year build period. Of the total, RMB 220 million comes from unused proceeds … Read more
EngineAI’s full-size general-purpose humanoid, the T800, recently showed off its martial-arts repertoire at the company’s Shenzhen showroom, replaying the moves that made it a hit at URKL. URKL, launched by EngineAI, is the world’s first industrial-grade humanoid robot fighting competition. Illustrative image generated for this report: EngineAI’s T800 humanoid in a competition stance (Source: Shenzhen … Read more
From 16 to 18 October, the Futian district of Shenzhen staged its first “Future Zhen Happens” science-and-technology lifestyle festival inside the Junshang shopping mall in Huaqiangbei. AI desktop plant pets, outdoor powered exoskeletons and interactive robot dogs filled the halls, as a cluster of tech firms turned a retail centre into a walkable street of … Read more
Walk into Pudu Robotics’ headquarters showroom in Nanshan, Shenzhen, and the lineup tells the story. Commercial cleaning robots, AI-native tray-carry movers, the class-humanoid PUDU D7, and the full-size biped D9 stand side by side. Different shapes, one shared embodied-intelligence brain, and a complete map of the business-grade robotics market. Illustrative image generated for this report: … Read more
Shenzhen-based AI Squared Robotics has placed its AlphaBot 2 general-purpose robot inside Hong Kong’s first international embodied-intelligence application training ground, opened on 15 October by the city’s Productivity Council through its FLAIR research centre. The company was among seven inaugural partners, alongside Unitree and AgiBot. Source: Shenzhen News. The facility is built around real overseas … Read more
Frost & Sullivan has published its 2026 Global Humanoid Robot Market Research Report, and the first-half league table reads like a Shenzhen scoreboard. All five of the world’s top humanoid-robot vendors by revenue in the first half of 2026 are Chinese. Two of them are based in Shenzhen. The ranking Global humanoid sales reached 35,000 … Read more
A state fund joins the cap table Shenzhen Miles Robot has closed a new roughly 100 million yuan strategic round led by CICC, the state-backed investment bank, according to 36Kr. The capital accelerates product iteration, brain-computer-interface work and a hospital-to-community-to-home elderly-care push. Lenovo Capital has now invested in four consecutive rounds, alongside Taiyou Fund, Sihuan … Read more