The 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing’s Yizhuang district filled nearly 50,000 square metres with more than 300 robotics firms and over 3,000 exhibits. Jessica Huang, daughter of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, was among the visitors walking the booths. Behind the crowd, the mood shifted. Flashy backflips and dance routines gave way to robots doing actual … Read more
Xiaomi’s next-generation humanoid robot has leaked via the National Business Daily: about 1.70 metres tall, 66 kilograms, with 66 degrees of freedom, half of them in the hands. The machine is set for its first public showing at the 2026 World Robot Conference, which opens on 19 August, before travelling to Europe. Lei Jun has … Read more
A quiet migration is reshaping Chinese robotics. By one tally, nearly 40 core autonomous-driving executives and technical leads have moved into embodied AI. The names leaving Li Auto alone lost eight senior people in half a year, most to robotics. Former autonomous-driving president Lang Xianpeng founded Kunlun Robotics, raising three rounds in 90 days to … Read more
Unitree’s listing lifted attention on the robot industry, and 2026 is widely called the year of humanoid mass production. Yet behind the conference glow, most industrial robots are still ‘interns’ on the floor, not reliable ‘full staff’. Deployment sits at single-point tests and showcase pilots, moving boxes, loading parts, and simple patrols, while full-line replacement … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Schaeffler Embodied Intelligence Robotics (Taicang) showed up for the first time, centring its display on the core parts and subsystems that make a humanoid move. Schaeffler is leaning on decades of automotive and industrial drive know-how. The lineup spans robot high-performance computers, a 48V low-voltage power controller (LVPC), tendon-driven … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Shenzhen’s AI2Robots brought AlphaBot 2 (Aibao), powered by its newest brain-like embodied model, to make one point: the robot should not just mount the stage, it should clock in for work. On the stand, Aibao makes coffee, ice cream, and cocktails as a genuine on-duty ‘all-round clerk’, … Read more
China now fields more than 400 whole-body humanoid models, over half the global total. In the first half of 2026 alone, 116,000 new companies registered in the humanoid space, up 9.5 per cent year on year. Nowhere is the momentum sharper than in Guangdong, where ten technically distinct humanoid makers have converged into what local … Read more
On 19 August, as the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing, Wujie Dynamics unveiled a string of self-developed results: the MWA embodied general brain, the K15 robot body, the AnySense EGO first-person multimodal capture terminal, the Anyverse ADA seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm and the Anyverse ASC central compute platform. With Korea’s KG Group coffee brand … Read more
During the 2026 World Robot Conference, FAW Die Technology (Changchun) showcased a wheel-arm robot, a full-size bipedal humanoid, a small bipedal service humanoid, a heavy-load robot and joint modules, presenting what it called “China’s fully autonomous embodied-intelligence automotive manufacturing scenario.” FAW’s wheel-arm industrial humanoid robot on display at WRC 2026 (Source: Gasgoo) FAW is building … Read more
RobotEra, a Tsinghua University spinoff and one of China’s leading embodied-intelligence companies, is preparing to list on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a raise of US$800 million to US$1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The company has begun working with advisers on the listing, … Read more