100,000 units, or a fivefold leap Halfway through 2026, the humanoid industry turned in a glossy scorecard. At July’s WAIC press conference, MIIT vice-minister Gan Xiaobin said full-year output could exceed 100,000 units. From about 20,000 in 2025 to 100,000 is a fivefold jump any sector would envy. Fellow vice-minister Ke Jixin called it a … Read more
A short tenure ends Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Ding Yan, co-CTO of Luming Robot, has formally left. His social profile now reads researcher at Fudan University’s Zuquan Institute, confirming the career turn. From joining in November 2025 to leaving, his time at Luming was under 280 days. Ding Yan, a pioneer of the UMI … Read more
Japan is the first stop Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Vbot (Wei Ta Dong Li) has formally begun its global layout, with Japan as the first overseas market. Vbot signed a strategic cooperation deal with Japanese robot solutions provider Future Robotics to expand the Japan market over three years, with an initial order of 1 … Read more
The IPO that finally surfaced AgiBot (Zhiyuan Innovation), the humanoid star that repeatedly denied Hong Kong IPO rumours, finally confirmed in late July that it had started the listing process. Good news followed: its self-developed WITA-Omni Preview model topped Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia with an 85.21 score, and it launched the world’s first robot … Read more
The 60.13 percent question On 6 August, Unitree set its issue price at 150.80 yuan per share, dropping book-building. The prospectus shows 40.45 million new shares, 10 percent of the post-issue total, raising about 4.20 billion yuan at a 42 billion yuan valuation. Post-issue, Unitree (688836.SH) is worth about 61 billion yuan at a stunning … Read more
Unitree prices its IPO above expectations On 6 August, Unitree Technology fixed its IPO issue price at 150.80 yuan per share. On a post-issue share count, that implies a market value of about 60.99 billion yuan, comfortably above the 42 billion yuan valuation the market had broadly expected. As founder, Wang Xingxing held 23.82 percent … Read more
Six rounds in half a year Delta Intelligence, a Chinese humanoid foundation-model company founded in January 2026, has closed an angel++ round worth close to 500m yuan, the sixth financing the company has raised in the six months since incorporation. Investors in this round include listed-company strategic backers and tier-one financial institutions. Proceeds will fund … Read more
From Optimus to Atlas, and on to the humanoid pilot running inside BMW plants, carmakers have become one of the main forces pushing embodied intelligence towards industrialisation. Behind the different routes they have chosen, a contest over the future of manufacturing has already started. The past decade put the car industry through electrification, intelligence and … Read more
PaXini, the Shenzhen company that has spent the past few years trying to give machines a sense of touch, has launched PX-FOOTRIX, which it describes as the world’s first multi-dimensional tactile sensor for the sole of a robot foot. The product is built on a 6D Hall-effect tactile array that the company says is the … Read more
Amid a humanoid sector where valuations inflate faster than deployments, one American company is pitched as the most commercially successful of the bunch, and it is taking that claim to the public market. On 24 June Agility Robotics signed a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI to list on Nasdaq at a 2.5 billion dollar … Read more