A Qualcomm veteran came home to build robot hands. Zhejiang state capital followed.
Aoyi Technology, founded by a former Qualcomm chip engineer, holds 35% of China’s dexterous hand market with 400M+ yuan raised across eight rounds.
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Chery backs agricultural robot maker in a nine-figure B2 round
Chery Holding leads a nine-figure B2 round into Zhongke Yuandongli, an agricultural robot maker with L4 autonomous farming tech backed by CAS.
A 1.2 billion yuan robotics base breaks ground in Suzhou, targeting semiconductor AMRs
Jielo Intelligent breaks ground on a 1.2 billion yuan AMR manufacturing base in Suzhou, targeting semiconductor fabs with 2,000 units annual capacity.
A Tsinghua professor walked away from a 20 billion yuan unicorn to build a home robot
Xu Huazhe left Xinghaitu at its 20 billion yuan peak to found PokeBot, a home robot startup that has raised a Pre-A round above $100 million in five months.
Kunlun’s Matrix-Game 3.5 claims world-model lead
World models take the stage at WAIC World-model fever reached WAIC 2026, where forums, booths and launches treated it as the soul of the event, because the year of embodied deployment demands a model that understands the physical world. On 19 July, Kunlun Wanwei’s forum answered the plain technical question: how does a world model … Read more
Humanoid robots in 2026: output frenzy, deployment doubt
100,000 units, or a fivefold leap Halfway through 2026, the humanoid industry turned in a glossy scorecard. At July’s WAIC press conference, MIIT vice-minister Gan Xiaobin said full-year output could exceed 100,000 units. From about 20,000 in 2025 to 100,000 is a fivefold jump any sector would envy. Fellow vice-minister Ke Jixin called it a … Read more
Why the US FCC came for Chinese robot vacuums
A list that caught a vacuum On 28 July, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its Covered List with two new categories: foreign-made advanced robot devices (including humanoids, quadrupeds and other mobile robots) and networked power inverters. No company is named, but the definition lands squarely on China’s most exportable robot categories. The telling … Read more
Luming Robot co-CTO Ding Yan leaves for Fudan
A short tenure ends Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Ding Yan, co-CTO of Luming Robot, has formally left. His social profile now reads researcher at Fudan University’s Zuquan Institute, confirming the career turn. From joining in November 2025 to leaving, his time at Luming was under 280 days. Ding Yan, a pioneer of the UMI … Read more
Vbot picks Japan as first global stop with Future Robotics
Japan is the first stop Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Vbot (Wei Ta Dong Li) has formally begun its global layout, with Japan as the first overseas market. Vbot signed a strategic cooperation deal with Japanese robot solutions provider Future Robotics to expand the Japan market over three years, with an initial order of 1 … Read more
AgiBot’s Luo Jianlan leaves as it chases Hong Kong IPO
The IPO that finally surfaced AgiBot (Zhiyuan Innovation), the humanoid star that repeatedly denied Hong Kong IPO rumours, finally confirmed in late July that it had started the listing process. Good news followed: its self-developed WITA-Omni Preview model topped Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia with an 85.21 score, and it launched the world’s first robot … Read more