Zhongjian Tech was fined 3.9 million yuan in mid August for fabricating a signing with Huawei’s embodied AI centre and false disclosure, yet the garden equipment veteran has not slowed its robot push. It and its subsidiary Shanghai Huazhijian signed an intelligent robot industrialisation deal with the Yongkang government worth about 1.2 billion yuan, to … Read more
Guangyang, a precision bearing supplier to China’s carmakers, is pushing into humanoid and industrial robots, and its first half robot revenue reached 9.9941 million yuan, still at a negative 22.56 per cent gross margin as the business starts up. The company’s Anhui Huangshan base took land in 2025 with a total investment of 1 billion … Read more
Inshi Robot, with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has open sourced HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark for first person human to robot dexterous hand image editing. The task keeps the original scene, object, viewpoint and interaction, but swaps the human hand or arm for a specified robot configuration, giving methods paired data, a … Read more
Hangcha Group said it plans to issue convertible bonds of up to 2.259 billion yuan to non specific investors. After fees, the money goes to a forklift robot smart factory, a new energy forklift expansion, forklift and logistics robot R and D, and working capital. The split shows where the bet sits. About 759 million … Read more
Lingfang Robotics’ ZERITH Z1 carries 27 degrees of freedom (Source: OFweek Robotics) Six rounds in nineteen months Lingfang Robotics, registered in Hefei’s Bahe district in January 2025, has announced a new A round backed by the Wuxi Guolian Xizhou Fund, Qingke Industrial Investment, Cowin Capital and Hefei Industrial Investment Capital. Across the nineteen months since … Read more
Tesla’s Optimus has scaled output tenfold but remains constrained by its hand (Source: OFweek Robotics) When a product’s output climbs tenfold in a few months, it looks like a breakout is near. But that tenfold started at a few dozen units a week, ends at a few hundred, and targets 1,000 a week by year … Read more
BMW is deploying humanoid robots across its global factories, starting with the Spartanburg plant (Source: OFweek Robotics) A serious push into physical AI At its Capital Markets Day on 30 September, BMW used the physical-AI forum to show humanoid robots, autonomous guided vehicles and robotic arms working together, with the aim of turning that flexible … Read more
Hao Dong, an associate professor at Peking University and chief scientist at Shangwei Qiyuan, argues that the dominant training recipes of imitation learning and reinforcement learning each have hard limits, and the industry needs a different frame. A Peking University Researcher Says Data Alone Will Not Teac (Source: LeiPhone) He splits today’s embodied training into … Read more
During the National Day holiday, a batch of workers that do not take breaks showed up on the job, some as mascots and some as real labour. Humanoid robots now appear at DQ ice-cream stores, FamilyMart and Chagee outlets, and at the showrooms of BYD, XPeng and Li Auto. China’s First Batch of Robot Shop … Read more
Shutu Technology has closed a Pre-A round of nearly RMB 100 million, led jointly by CDH Investments’ BaiFu arm and the Kunpeng Fund, a national big-data vehicle, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital joining and existing backer Trend Investment following on. It is the company’s third financing in one month. Shutu Robotics Closes a … Read more