Linghou Robotics, a Suzhou-based supplier of core components for embodied intelligence, has raised a Series C round of more than 100 million yuan. The round was led by Chendao Capital, the industrial investment platform linked to CATL, and joined by the Industrial Machine Tool Investment Fund, a fund backed by Henan Information Industry Investment, a … Read more
In China’s embodied AI sector, 20 billion yuan has become the new threshold for admission to the top tier. At least five companies, ZhiPingFang, ZiBianLiang, XingHaiTu, QianXun Intelligence and Galaxea, have crossed that valuation line. The number is striking because private-market funding across China fell 32.65 per cent in the first half of 2026, and … Read more
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 runs from 15 to 21 August in Bremen, Germany. As the comprehensive top conference in AI, IJCAI has long been the exam hall where the industry’s big labs show what they really achieved in the past year. Who made real progress on which front, which technical routes are consolidating into consensus, the papers … Read more
One of the most star-studded “fusion” papers of the year in video generation and embodied intelligence has just appeared. A few days ago, a paper titled Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling landed on arXiv. It has not yet spread through the academic circuit, but it is about to blow up. The author list … Read more
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
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
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