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AI Hetao Cup 2026 Finals Conclude in Shenzhen, Channelling Capital to Embodied-AI Startups

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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

LuoHu launches an AI committee to wire its tech firms into one ecosystem

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LuoHu launches an AI committee to wire its tech firms into one ecosystem On 15 September, the LuoHu District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) inaugurated its Artificial Intelligence Committee, accompanied by an industry matchmaking event at the LuoHu HarmonyOS Ecosystem Tower. Nearly 90 representatives from universities, industry associations, venture funds, AI … Read more

Lenovo’s venture arm just backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker for the fourth time

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Lenovo’s venture arm just backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker for the fourth time Lenovo’s venture arm has now backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker four times, and the bet is on ageing, not athletics. MetoRobot, founded in 2016 by a team of returnee PhDs, has closed a roughly RMB 100 million strategic round from CSC, a … Read more

Shenzhen’s embodied-AI ‘little giants’ get a policy backstop to go global

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Shenzhen’s embodied-AI ‘little giants’ get a policy backstop to go global Global demand for embodied intelligence is surging, and Shenzhen’s commercial-robotics firms are racing to claim overseas ground on the strength of hard tech. But longer payment cycles, opaque foreign buyers and the risk of default or bankruptcy still top the list of worries for … Read more

UBTECH’s super factory builds robots with robots, one unit every ten minutes

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UBTECH’s industrial humanoid-robot super factory began production on 12 September in Liuzhou’s northern eco-industrial new area in Guangxi. The plant, the first humanoid-robot smart-manufacturing benchmark built for ten-thousand-unit capacity, runs on industrial simulation planning and a digital scheduling brain, putting the “robots building robots” model into practice. It marks the shift of China’s humanoid industry … Read more

Shenzhen stages embodied-AI contest as Shangyu courts robotics talent with RMB 15 billion in signed projects

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On 11 September, Shenzhen hosted the embodied-intelligence sub-event of the second Global Technology Innovation Contest, paired with the sixth Shaoxing “Ten-Thousand-Mu, Hundred-Billion” new-industry platform high-level talent entrepreneurship contest (Shenzhen station) at the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). The event set out to use competition as a tool to pull in talent, spur innovation and grow … Read more

Lenovo backed it four times running: Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Milesun closes a near-RMB 100 million round

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Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Milesun Robotics has closed a new strategic round of nearly RMB 100 million, led by CSC Financial, the state-backed securities arm. The raise accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach from hospital and community into the last mile of home-based care. … Read more

UBTECH secures over RMB 50 million in overseas humanoid orders as it moves beyond China

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Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence reports that UBTECH has recently won overseas orders worth more than RMB 50 million. The order book spans commercial service humanoid Walker C1 and the ultra-realistic humanoid YouWorld U1, with customers across Europe, Japan and South Korea. UBTECH Walker C1 commercial service humanoid robot. (Source: Gasgoo) A wave of global partnerships On … Read more

Shenzhen has put 30 companies on the public markets in eight months, raising over a trillion yuan

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On 8 September, Shenzhen firm Longsys listed in Hong Kong as the first ‘A+H’ standalone memory maker, taking the city’s 2026 listings to 30. It closed at 233.60 Hong Kong dollars a share. Longsys priced at 236 Hong Kong dollars on 26.08 million shares, raising 6.154 billion Hong Kong dollars, to be spent on AI … Read more

A Shenzhen electronics factory runs on automation and treats its 60 disabled workers as ordinary staff

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On 9 September, a visit to the Junlian Electronics plant in Longhua, Shenzhen, revealed nothing unusual at first glance. The workshop ran in good order, and workers on the line handled fine connection wires and harnesses that will be used in new-energy vehicles, robots, smart-home devices and even 3D printers. Behind the brands Huawei, DJI, … Read more