The 26th China International Industry Fair closed at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai with robots working as guides and wheeled humanoids hauling industrial bins. The demonstrations on the stands depend on something less visible: how fast a design revision becomes a physical part. A wheeled humanoid handling industrial bins at the China … Read more
Chinese humanoid robotics shares went vertical on 20 October, and Unitree Technology led the move. The stock touched 549.44 yuan intraday, a gain of more than 10 per cent on the session, and closed three trading days up more than 35 per cent. Its market value passed 220 billion yuan. A Unitree humanoid unit on … Read more
After three design iterations, Tesla’s humanoid Optimus has reached the eve of mass production. This Monday the company’s annual shareholder materials confirmed in writing for the first time that the third-generation Optimus is ready for large-scale production, though Tesla has not yet named a date. Tesla’s third-generation Optimus humanoid robot, now declared ready for mass … Read more
A financing that reschedules the listing AgiBot’s latest round is reported at RMB 1-1.5 billion, nearing completion, at a post-money valuation of about RMB 50 billion. Then the next line: it will not list this year. On 13 October, Caijing reported exclusively that AgiBot had launched a new financing at a roughly RMB 50 billion … Read more
China’s humanoid-robot sector rallied as national standards and output data landed (Source: OFweek Robotics) A sector-wide surge On 19 and 20 October 2026, the A-share humanoid-robot sector rose sharply again. As the sector’s clear leader, Unitree (688836.SH) jumped 16.15 per cent on the 19th and touched an intraday RMB 508.99, then extended gains on the … Read more
Euler Everything founder Zhou Shunbo left Huawei to build a trainable home robot (Source: OFweek Robotics) Four rounds in seven months Euler Everything is moving at a speed that breaks the industry’s habits. On 12 October, the company confirmed it had closed a several-hundred-million-yuan angel-plus round with Chengyuanxiang Fund, Xineng Ventures, Xizhou International, Topband and … Read more
China’s humanoid-robot pipeline is moving from prototype to volume faster than the headline numbers suggest. At a State Council Information Office briefing on 19 October, Wei Wei, director of the science and technology department at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said the country had more than 400 whole-machine humanoid-robot products in the … Read more
On 22 August, inside Beijing’s National Speed Skating Hall, the Ice Ribbon, the opening of the second World Humanoid Robot Games cut to a real tennis court. A humanoid stood at the baseline, and against serves topping 50 km/h it judged the landing, moved, turned and swung, the ball clipping the net tape and dropping … Read more
Training a robot after it leaves the factory has long meant surrounding it with real hardware. A team at Peking University, working with QiYuan Robotics, says it has found a way to break that dependence. A QiYuan humanoid robot in demonstration. (Source: Leiphone) The result, called HIL-UMI, adds a model brain on top of the … Read more
UBTECH says its self-developed unified multimodal world model, Thinker-WM, has taken first place across three embodied world-model benchmarks, a result the company frames as a step toward robots that can predict and plan, not just react. UBTECH’s Thinker-WM unified multimodal world model. (Source: Gasgoo) On the WorldOlympiad benchmark the model scored 0.740 overall and led … Read more