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
In August 2026, Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, its new robot foundation model. Pretraining used over 1 million hours of first-person human video, roughly 170 years of continuous awake experience. Across seven benchmarks, the WAM architecture reached 1.55 times the success rate of the previous VLA models. High-precision manufacturing task success jumped from Dyna-1’s 20 per … 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 good name often hides a company’s ambition. Estun takes its English name from EST (Spanish for east) and UN (one), a No. 1 in the East vision that looked bold in the 1990s when overseas robot makers monopolised China’s market. Did that vision come true? Yes. Estun’s 2025 report shows it held the top … 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
Recently, Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) held a groundbreaking for its headquarters project in Wuzhong district. The site covers 42.5 mu, about 2.8 hectares, with roughly 70,000 square metres of floor area and total investment of 1.2 billion yuan. It will build a headquarters base producing 2,000 trackless-navigation robots, known as AMRs, and 500 wafer smart-storage … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Light Origins has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A round. The round was led by Guoke Investment, with CMG Venture Capital and Xianghe Capital joining, and the funds will go to large-scale embodied-model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware-software platform research, and expansion of a high-density talent team. Light Origins, founded … Read more