Drones With Arms Are Learning to Tighten Bolts in Midair, and IROS 2026 Showed the Demo

Embodied intelligence does not only run on the ground. At IROS 2026, researchers showed drones fitted with robotic arms that go up to tighten bolts, a step from walking robots to working ones that happen to fly. A drone mounted manipulator demonstrated at IROS 2026. (Source: Leiphone) The talk, Mobile Manipulation: From Task and Motion … Read more

A 23 Year Old AGV Maker Just Raised Again, Betting Its Chassis Becomes the Base for China’s Embodied Robots

Jiateng Robot, a veteran Chinese mobile robot firm, said it has completed a strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan after a 12 year gap, led by Shenzhen H&T Intelligent Control with Daohe Fund and Jinmu Capital following. In 2014, Oriental Precision first took a strategic stake and remains a long term core shareholder … Read more

HAI ROBOTICS Is Chasing a Hong Kong Listing With 4.1 Billion Yuan of Orders in Hand

After its first Hong Kong filing in February 2026, warehouse automation leader HAI ROBOTICS refreshed its prospectus on 13 September and restarted the IPO process, aiming to become the first ACR stock listed in Hong Kong. Before the listing it had completed 15 rounds of financing, raising about 4.133 billion yuan, with capital conviction high. … Read more

RuSong Technology’s Profit Exploded 3,349 Per Cent. A Panasonic-Bred Robot Maker Found Its Second Act

RuSong Technology posted its strongest results since listing in the first half of 2026. Revenue was 625 million yuan, up 71.67 per cent year on year. Net profit attributable to shareholders was 41.8441 million yuan, up 3,349.46 per cent, swinging to profit. Deducted profit was 39.0224 million yuan, up 1,338.79 per cent. Net operating cash … Read more

A Yaskawa-Backed Welding Robot Maker Just Posted a 1,095 Per Cent Profit Jump

Kaierda, a leading Chinese industrial welding robot maker, published its 2026 half year results. Revenue reached 425 million yuan, up 34.73 per cent year on year. Net profit attributable to shareholders was 28.269 million yuan, up 1,095.30 per cent. Deducted non recurring profit was 24.095 million yuan, swinging from a loss of 2.734 million a … Read more

Standard Robots Filed for Hong Kong Again. Sales Jumped 139 Per Cent and It Still Lost Money

On 27 July, Standard Robots filed a listing application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the third time. The industrial robot company, spun out of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016 by founder Wang Yongkun, is chasing the label of first industrial embodied intelligence stock. The prospectus, updated with financials through the first … Read more

A surgical-robot maker is returning to China’s A-share market eight months after its Hong Kong debut

Back to the A-share market On 22 September, per the CSRC website, Shenzhen Jingfeng Medical Technology signed a tutoring agreement with CITIC Securities to start A-share listing tutoring. On 11 September Jingfeng announced its plan to list A-shares and issue renminbi ordinary shares. The tutoring runs September 2026 to January 2027, covering governance, compliance, financial … Read more

Chery led a nine-figure round into a farm-robot maker built by a CAS academician’s team

Chery buys in, not just funds Beijing Zhongke Yuandongli Technology (Original Power) recently closed a B2 round of several hundred million renminbi led by Chery Holdings’ Chery Smart Technology. The funds go mainly to new-energy smart-agriculture machinery and embodied-intelligence farm-robot R&D, scaled delivery and faster overseas expansion. Per Tianyancha, Zhongke Yuandongli has completed eight rounds, … Read more

A Harbin Engineering spin-out closed over RMB 500 million to build deep-sea robots

From a famous exit to a new bet When well-known investor Zhu Xiaohu exited humanoid projects in bulk and turned to “Harbin Engineering lineage” firm Shihang Intelligence, deep-sea robotics shot back into the venture spotlight. But where Shihang pursues full-ocean-depth, full-freedom operation, another Harbin Engineering alumnus, DeepSea Intelligence, drills the industrial deep-sea track and runs … Read more

Unitree put 22 degrees of freedom in one hand for under RMB 40,000

Unitree’s Dex5-S offers 22 degrees of freedom at RMB 39,900, squeezing the specialist hand makers it once bought from (Source: OFweek Robotics) A spec-to-price strike On the evening of 21 September Unitree launched the Dex5-S, a five-finger dexterous hand with 22 degrees of freedom, sized 1:1 with a human hand, starting at RMB 39,900. Thumb … Read more