X Square Robot has open-sourced HOST, a framework that lets a robot watch one short video of a human performing a task and learn to replicate it, without retraining the model. In tests, a single 29-second demonstration video yielded a 62 per cent success rate on novel skills, using only one-fiftieth of the data and … Read more
Four desktop arms and two wheeled robots spent 15 hours assembling a 3.5-metre Great Wall from 82,000 micro building blocks at WAIC 2026. The team behind it, Force Machina, used the demonstration to prove something less visible but more important: a complete system that can run fine manipulation, error recovery and multi-robot coordination continuously for … Read more
Arm China has bet its entire product roadmap on AI. At WAIC 2026 this month, the company unveiled upgrades across all four of its IP lines, NPU, CPU, SPU and VPU, alongside three newly formalised business tracks covering Edge AI, Physical AI and Cloud AI. The strategic pivot was set last year under the “AI … Read more
X Square Robot has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI company, founded in December 2023, has completed 14 funding rounds and reached a post-money valuation above 20 billion yuan after a four-round sprint from Series B to C between April and June this year. X Square develops physics-world-native foundation models … Read more
China’s largest industrial 3D vision company has cleared the regulatory hurdle for a Hong Kong listing. Mech-Mind Robotics, founded by Tsinghua returnees in 2016, received CSRC approval on 7 August to proceed with its IPO. The filing sets out an offer of up to 27.48 million overseas ordinary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. … Read more
Six hundred students applied. Fifty got five days on a full-size humanoid robot in Shenzhen. The LimX Dynamics Developer Camp 2026 closed on 7 August, guided by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and the Shenzhen Qianhai Authority, and run with D-Robotics, Alibaba Cloud, RealSense and PICO. More than 600 students from … Read more
Nearly 200,000 engineers have come through one robotics competition in Shenzhen. Over a thousand of them now work at DJI. RoboMaster 2026 wrapped in Shenzhen on 9 August. Northeastern University’s TDT team took the title. South China Agricultural University’s Taurus finished second, East China University of Science and Technology’s Origin third and Tongji University’s SuperPower … Read more
Two dollars an hour. That is where Roland Berger thinks the running cost of an advanced humanoid robot lands, and it is the number that rewrites where things get made. The consultancy’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, marks a shift in the question the industry is asking. It … Read more
China registered 116,000 new humanoid robot companies in the first half of 2026. Not units. Companies. The figure comes from the State Administration for Market Regulation, published on 8 August. New humanoid robot registrations rose 9.5 per cent year on year to 116,000. Across the eight emerging industries and nine future industries the government tracks, … Read more
Elon Musk wants to put AI data centres in orbit. A Chinese energy company has already put one in the Gobi desert, and it is running on 100 per cent green power today. SpaceX raised 75 billion dollars in its listing, a record for a first round, and by the third trading day it had … Read more