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From ‘no humanoids’ to 61 billion yuan: Wang Xingxing’s three years of robotic candour

10 August 2026 by The Belt

As Unitree lists at a near 61 billion yuan valuation, Wang Xingxing’s three years of public candour, from ‘we do not do humanoids’ to G1’s price bomb, read as the prospectus of China’s first humanoid stock.

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Oaknut Robotics closes a nine-figure angel round led by China Merchants Venture and NIO Capital

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Oaknut Robotics closed an angel round led by China Merchants Venture and NIO Capital, betting on instinct-driven, touch-first manipulation rather than the dominant VLA data-driven path.

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Chery backs agricultural-robot maker Zhongke Yuandongli in a nine-figure B2 round

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Zhongke Yuandongli, a national little-giant in agricultural robots, closed a nine-figure B2 round led by Chery, linking car-grade engineering to L4 autonomous farm machinery.

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Jieluo Intelligent breaks ground on a 1.2 billion yuan AMR base in Suzhou, 2,000 units a year

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Jieluo Intelligent broke ground on a 1.2 billion yuan Suzhou base to make 2,000 trackless-navigation AMRs a year, serving about 70 per cent of the world’s top chip makers.

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Deep Robotics files for STAR Market IPO, seeking 2.5 billion yuan with half earmarked for humanoids

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Deep Robotics filed its STAR Market IPO reply, seeking 2.502 billion yuan even though its profit comes from quadruped dogs and its humanoid sold just 4 units in two years.

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Estun buys loss-making unit for 487 million yuan at a 9x premium to round out its robot range

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Estun will pay 487 million yuan for 100 per cent of loss-making Cuzhuo at a 901 per cent premium, betting on collaborative and humanoid robots to complete its range.

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PaXini tops 3.5 billion yuan in total funding as tactile-sensing race draws sovereign capital

10 August 2026 by The Belt

PaXini has raised a new 1 billion yuan strategic round, taking total funding to 3.5 billion yuan, with a trillion-yuan semiconductor giant and sovereign funds now on the cap table.

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A 22-year Huawei veteran bets on LPU chips as Yuanchuan Micro closes a nine-figure round

10 August 2026 by The Belt

Yuanchuan Micro, founded by a 22-year Huawei veteran, has closed a nine-figure yuan Pre-A round led by IDG Capital to build LPU-class inference chips for the Agent era.

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A Former Xiaomi Executive Is Betting 100,000 Robot Coffee Shops Can Outflank Luckin

10 August 2026 by The Belt

XBOT founder Tang Mu, formerly of Xiaomi and Tencent, expects at least 100,000 robot coffee kiosks in China within three years, twice the combined store count of Luckin and Cotti.

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Eight of Every Ten Smart Robots Sold Worldwide Are Built in China

9 August 2026 by The Belt

China’s planning agency confirmed that eight of every ten humanoid and quadruped robots sold globally are made in China. Unitree filed for a domestic listing on first-half revenue of more than 1.05 billion yuan.

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