On 19 August, Unitree Technology (688836.SH) listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market, becoming the first pure-play humanoid-robot stock on the A-share market. Priced at 150.80 yuan per share, it opened at 1,100 yuan, pushing its market capitalisation above 400 billion yuan. At that open, a single winning IPO lot could be worth up … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Acorn Robot, an embodied-manipulation company, recently closed an angel round led by China Merchants Venture Capital and NIO Capital, with the Tsinghua alumni seed fund following on. Only four months after a nearly 100 million yuan seed round in March, the two rounds together have raised several hundred million … Read more
In late July, San Francisco startup Tau Robotics launched a humanoid home-cleaning service at US$30 an hour, about RMB 200. It is invite-only, covering the city’s Mission and Noe Valley neighbourhoods. Tau runs three robots named Chelsea, Elon and Tony, in black uniforms with assigned roles. Chelsea tackles kitchen counters and mirror water marks. Tony … Read more
Open any tech outlet and humanoid funding looks like a flood. 2026 was crowned the first year of embodied intelligence, capital queuing to pay. Step into an embodied-AI lab and you see something else. No sci-fi autonomy. No elegant conversation. An operator wears a VR headset, motion-capture suit and handheld controller, repeatedly driving an arm … Read more
In 2026, America’s humanoid robot industry stopped showing off and started defending itself. Against whom? The United States now fields at least six serious robot companies: Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Apptronik, plus Norway-born, US-landed 1X. Six firms, six completely different technical routes. Rankings are easy to fake. What matters is the choices each company … Read more
The embodied-intelligence industry does not lack robots that perform one beautiful demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat the same task ten thousand times in real scenes and stay stable and reliable. Running stably is not one single technology but a complete system covering perception, data, model and execution. PaXini recently disclosed a 1 … Read more
Industrial embodied intelligence at scale just passed a key threshold. Drawing on nearly two decades of manufacturing-scene accumulation, Topstar and Wuwen Zhike built a shared data ecosystem and a complete industrial-data iteration loop, enabling fast iteration, standardised reuse and batch deployment of embodied robots. Wuwen Zhike was among the first to launch a physical-AI data-base … Read more
A report from SAG has re-ranked the humanoid-robot race. The numbers are striking: in the first half of 2026, global humanoid robot shipments reached about 19,100 units, up 272 per cent year on year. Chinese makers took more than 97 per cent of the shipment share, and AgiBot (Zhiyuan) topped the world for the first … Read more
On 5 August, Dobot released Lumeng, which it calls the world’s first embodied all-habitat humanoid robot. Built around the idea of embodied all-habitat, the product aims to break the fixed boundaries of space, scene and function that constrain traditional robots, upgrading humanoids from single-purpose voice-command tools into intelligent agents that fit into homes, education and … Read more
Realman Intelligent founder and CEO Zheng Suibing recently said something worth sitting with: the first step of embodied-AI landing is creating value even without intelligence. Realman founder and CEO Zheng Suibing argues robots should create value before they get smart. (Source: OFweek Robot) The industry’s loudest debate is when robots get smart. The default premise … Read more