One year ago China’s dexterous-hand field was a pile of demos. Capital was thin, most makers were still validating designs, and annual output sat in the hundreds or low thousands, good for trade shows but not for factories or whole robots. That phase is over. Money moved first. Full-year dexterous-hand funding reached 16.88 billion yuan … Read more
On 28 July BYD confirmed to Chinese media that its humanoid robot product will officially go to work in August, marking the company’s shift from a carmaker into a broader ecosystem technology group. The same day, the 2026 Fortune Global 500 list landed. BYD displaced Tesla as the world’s top electric vehicle seller and became … Read more
On 30 July, Unitree published its STAR-market prospectus and set a listing date. Within days its closest rival, AgiBot, confirmed it has started the Hong Kong IPO process, though it has not yet named sponsors, filing time or raise size. The two have spent months sparring across shipments, production and now the public market. A … Read more
On 5 August, Bloomberg reported that AISquared, a Shenzhen embodied-AI startup, is weighing a Hong Kong IPO and has hired banks for early preparations, with a listing possibly opening as soon as 2027. The company has not commented officially, and the talks remain fluid. The report lands as China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector hits a … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics On 5 June, Daxiao Robot, with CUHK’s Multimedia Lab and the Hetao institute, released Kairos-HomeWorld, the first world-model framework to do full-house generation with object-level interaction. It breaks the industry ceiling where indoor generation covered only single rooms with no global consistency or operability, generating coherent, physically … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics In 2026 the robotics capitalisation wave keeps heating up. Unitree cleared the listing in just 73 days, sprinting toward the first A-share humanoid stock. Leju, DeepRobotics and SharkRobot also accelerated. By rough count, robotics firms in the Hong Kong IPO queue have reached 46, over 10 per … Read more
The TetraBOT T4-C wheeled humanoid developer edition supports fixed or mobile base, binocular vision, an adjustable lift structure and strong compute. Fully open-stack development reshapes the R&D threshold, so every build has a scene to land in. Price starts at RMB 23,900. The T4-C is built for developers who need a real, modifiable humanoid platform … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics PaXini has secured a new RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative funding to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest ever in tactile sensing globally, and leaving it far ahead in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International … Read more
Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics Two Sudo humanoid robots on display at WAIC 2026. Source: LeiPhone The embodied-intelligence zone at WAIC 2026 is still the most crowded floor in the hall. Robots make coffee, pose for photos and dance. Sudo Technology’s booth draws a … Read more
Roland Berger’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, reframes the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble. It is who claims a position first if the industry actually takes off. The trigger was not a flashy demo. It was three variables colliding: vision-language models, generative … Read more