Westlake Robotics has closed a nearly 100 million yuan Series A round led by Haiyuan Capital, its fourth raise in six months, taking total funding to 500 million yuan. The money backs development of a unified whole-body large model for humanoids and a talent base for embodied intelligence, pushing toward what the company calls an … Read more
IO-AI Tech, a robotics and embodied-intelligence data-infrastructure company, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan funding round. The round was backed by Shunwei Capital, SongHe Capital and Shenzhen Capital Group, with a strategic investment from a leading robot original-equipment manufacturer. The company said the proceeds will go mainly into core product development, building a more diversified team and … Read more
Brad Lightcap, the COO who built OpenAI’s enterprise business to 25 billion dollars in annualised revenue, has left weeks before a confidential S-1 and a 7 billion dollar buyback at an 852 billion dol
RISC-V chip-design firm SunZhan and founder Zeng Yi argue AI has shifted architecture power from chip makers to AI firms, and are building tooling to auto-generate custom processors as the semiconduct
Xiaomi is reorganising XiaoAI around its MiMo base model so one shared AI layer can power phones, cars, homes and robots, protecting its service-distribution position as AI agents reshape how users re
Hong Kong’s Transport Department has granted an autonomous-vehicle pilot licence for a trial linking the West Kowloon HSR station and the Airport Express, its ninth such licence covering 69 vehicles.
China’s humanoid output could top 100,000 units in 2026, five times 2025, but most machines still land in labs and classrooms, not factories, as capital pivots from bodies to brains.
UBTECH has taken a 10 per cent stake in a new Maoming joint venture with a state-owned partner, extending its humanoids from auto and 3C factories into traditional industries and building a replicable
Japanese engineers have taken apart a Unitree G1 to study China’s humanoid advances, but Japan lacks the commercial scenes, from entertainment to data centres, that turned Chinese robots into a real i
Industrial autonomous-mobile-robot maker Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, with cash of under 50 million yuan and cumulative losses above 400 million yuan, a snapshot of the