On 19 August, per a National Business Daily leak, Xiaomi’s next humanoid robot stands about 1.70 metres, weighs 66 kg and carries 66 degrees of freedom, with half of them in the hands. Xiaomi planned to show it to the public for the first time at the 2026 World Robot Conference opening on 19 August, … Read more
At the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on 22 August, a humanoid robot stood on a real tennis court and returned balls travelling faster than 50 km/h, judging the landing point in milliseconds, stepping, twisting and swinging. It served, played forehands and backhands, moved its opponent around the baseline, volleyed at the net, … Read more
Two weeks after debuting as the first humanoid-robot company on China’s A-share market, Unitree has lost more than RMB 230 billion of market value. By the close on 4 September its shares sat at RMB 530.30, giving a market capitalisation of RMB 214.5 billion, roughly half the RMB 444.9 billion peak reached on listing day. … Read more
Humanoid robotics in 2026 is caught in a paradox. The hardware has raced ahead, with full-size robots landing backflips, street-dance combos and martial-arts sequences, yet the industry’s base layer has barely moved. Every maker uses its own body shape, joint configuration, sensing interface and calibration. A grasping policy trained for years on one company’s hardware … Read more
NEO may be the most contradictory humanoid on the planet. When 1X Technologies opened pre-orders in October 2025 at USD 20,000 a unit or USD 499 a month, the first year’s capacity sold out in five days and bookings passed 10,000. A year on, in September 2026, no unit is confirmed delivered to a ordinary … Read more
Inspire Robotics, working with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has open-sourced HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark for first-person human-to-robot dexterous-hand image editing. Inspire’s RH56DFX dexterous hand operating an espresso machine. (Source: OFweek Robotics) What HandEdit actually is The task: take a first-person human-operated video and replace the hand or arm with a specified … Read more
On 31 August, Unitree released an upgraded firefighting and emergency solution with a blunt slogan: robots are made for people, built to serve, to charge into fire and danger. A Unitree quadruped deployed for firefighting and emergency response. (Source: OFweek Robotics) From reconnaissance to water cannon Unitree is not new to the field. In April … Read more
In mid-August, Zhongjian Technology was fined RMB 3.9 million for fabricating a signing with Huawei’s Embodied Intelligence Innovation Centre and false disclosure, mired in controversy. Amid the storm, the veteran garden-equipment maker did not stop expanding in robotics. Recently Zhongjian announced that it and subsidiary Shanghai Huazhijian signed an intelligent-robot industrialisation investment agreement with the … Read more
Founded in 2016, Mech-Mind Robotics is a supplier of core intelligent-robotics components rather than a full robot OEM, providing standardised “eye-brain-hand” modules for robots of different forms. Its Mech-Eye industrial 3D camera captures spatial data; Mech-Vision and Mech-Viz software handle recognition, decision and motion planning; and it is extending into the Mech-GPT multimodal model and … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Naochi Times (Shanghai) Technology, or “Naochi Times”, recently closed a tens-of-millions-yuan seed round led by Yuanhe Puhua. The company said the proceeds will mainly build its first-generation multi-function motor brain-computer interface product “Omni One”, advance self-developed non-invasive high-throughput ultrasound BCI systems and pre-clinical validation, and expand core engineering and … Read more