At the Beijing World Robot Conference in August 2026, the sound in the halls was no longer amazement that a robot could dance like a person. It was founders quietly working out return on investment in their heads, counting the wages a machine could save in a month. Embodied-intelligence exhibits at the World Robot Conference … Read more
On 9 September, at the Agglomeration Intelligent Industry Development Conference 2026, Jin Bing, former first-level inspector and deputy director of the policy and law department at the State Post Bureau, said embodied intelligence is entering an accelerated mass-production phase. Citing the latest data, he said China’s share of global humanoid-robot exports and manufacturing has reached … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Suzhou maglev company Zongwei Technology has closed a RMB 200 million Pre-C-plus-plus round, led by Matrix Partners China, with Shunwei Capital, BlueRun Ventures and Shengbao Capital following as existing shareholders. Zongwei Technology sTrak intelligent maglev transport platform. (Source: Zhidx) Founded in 2020, Zongwei says it has landed more … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Beijing Physical-AI data-base company WuWen ZhiKe has closed a Series A of several hundred million yuan. The round was led by Hongtai Fund, with Hongshan Capital, Zhongdian Shurong and Lion City Capital following, and existing shareholders Bridge Capital, Lihe Financial, Lihe Zhongke and Chengkai Lingcheng oversubscribing; Shneng Capital … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that at the JDD 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, JD pointed the next decade of AI at the physical world. Cao Peng, chairman of JD’s technology committee and president of JD Cloud, said the smart economy will migrate from the digital world to the physical world over the … Read more
XPeng’s robot business has moved a step closer to volume production. On 8 September XPeng’s own line completed automated final assembly of its first high-end general-purpose humanoid, and the machine walked off the line by itself, marking the shift from research build to line manufacturing. XPeng IRON humanoid on the company’s newly opened automated assembly … Read more
At WAIC 2026 the embodied-intelligence zone was again among the most crowded. Robots made coffee, took photos and danced. The SuDu Technology booth drew a crowd too, but the mood was different. A few robots stood quietly at workstations doing unglamorous things: picking items, wrapping an object with a cloth using both hands, inserting a … Read more
PaXini has closed another RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative financing to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest cumulative total in global tactile sensing and a clear, gap-leading position in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International Investment, the Kunpeng Fund (a national big-data fund) … Read more
HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark built by Inspire-Robots together with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has been open-sourced. The project tackles first-person human-to-robot dexterous-hand image editing: replacing the human hand or arm in a frame with a specified robot configuration while preserving the original scene, object, viewpoint and interaction as much as possible. … Read more
Guangdong Tianji Intelligent Systems recently closed a RMB 1 billion Series B and B-plus round at a post-money valuation near RMB 10 billion. Hillhouse Venture and Meituan’s strategic arm co-led, with Tencent, Gaorong Venture, Photosynthesis Venture and GGV Capital following. Tianji does not make just one kind of robot. Its products span collaborative robots, horizontal … Read more