Qingtian Lituo Robotics, a unit of Mingguang Lituo Intelligent Technology, has broken ground on a project in Qingtian, Zhejiang. Planned across 40 mu, the site will be a digital factory for 5,000 smart-logistics robots a year, building AGV transport robots, smart-warehouse systems and software, aimed at the intelligent upgrade of Yangtze River Delta manufacturers. Completion … Read more
On 1 September, XTRONROBOT, a specialist in embodied intelligence for hazardous industrial settings, announced a tens-of-millions yuan A1 round. Investors include Qianhai Ark, Xihu Sci-Tech Venture Capital and Guangyang Co. The proceeds will fund its XBOT-AEGIS embodied system, multi-form explosion-proof robots and domestic and overseas market expansion. XTRONROBOT explosion-proof inspection robot for hazardous industrial sites. … Read more
In August 2026 Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, a robot foundation model pretrained on over 1 million hours of first-person human video, about 170 years of continuous waking experience. Across seven benchmarks the WAM architecture hit 1.55 times the success rate of the prior VLA model. High-precision manufacturing success rose from Dyna-1’s 20 per cent to … Read more
Liong Robotics (Shenzhen) has closed a tens-of-millions yuan strategic round from Lifud, with Yunyue Capital as adviser. The company also signed a research partnership with the AI school of the Southern University of Science and Technology to work on embodied intelligence, spatial perception, world models and high-quality embodied data. Liong Robotics wearable data-capture suit for … Read more
Qingtian Lituo Robotics recently broke ground on its project. The plan covers 40 mu, building a digital factory for 5,000 smart logistics robots a year, making AGV handling robots, smart warehouse systems and software, serving Yangtze delta manufacturers, due in 2027. Qingtian Lituo is a wholly owned unit of Lite Smart (Mingguang Lituo), founded in … Read more
Jiateng Robotics, a long-established Chinese mobile-robot maker, has closed a tens-of-millions yuan strategic round after a 12-year gap, led by Hetero (Shenzhen HET) with Dahe Fund and Jinmu Capital following. Orient International Precision, a core shareholder since 2014, still holds about 19.84 per cent. The investor line is deliberately industrial: Hetero leads in control systems … Read more
Touch is becoming a base capability of the next generation of embodied intelligence. Over two years the field poured resources into bodies, large models, dexterous hands and vision. As those advanced, the bottleneck gathered at contact: a robot must not only find an object but sense force, friction, slip and deformation while gripping, plugging and … Read more
China sits at the pivot from manufacturing giant to smart-manufacturing power, and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid compute and electromagnetic EDA, is the bridge. Domestic industrial software has advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling toward self-reliance, yet in aerospace, chip design and energy exploration it hits one core bottleneck: not enough speed, it runs … Read more
Locus Robotics, a US warehouse autonomous-mobile-robot unicorn, has closed a G round of US$41.6 million (about RMB 280 million), with the entire amount coming from existing shareholders. The round is not yet closed and the company has not disclosed a target, the full investor list, use of proceeds or the latest valuation. Locus Robotics autonomous … Read more
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