Robotics

A UC San Diego team teleoperated a Unitree G1 humanoid through laparoscopic gallbladder removal on two live pigs. Nature published it in July 2026. Surgeons scored clinical readiness at 2.5 out of 5.

Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Apptronik and 1X now cover the full American humanoid stack. A Chinese industry review sorts them into three routes and shows which one is already earning revenue.

Sales, brand and channel rankings in pool robots are settling fast, but the real technical watershed has barely arrived. Wireless models lowered the barrier to entry and unlocked Amazon, big-box and specialist channels. Early movers built shelf and brand advantages. Latecomers now face not just a product gap but a long channel-validation cycle. Wave Future’s … Read more

Unitree, the “first humanoid-robot stock”, set its IPO price at RMB 150.8 per share with a price-to-earnings multiple of 219.23x, far above the 38.56x industry average, throwing more fuel on the embodied-AI boom. Over the past three months, giants on both sides of the Pacific have been heating the sector too. Tesla installs its first-generation … Read more

Aishida, once spoken of in the same breath as Supor as a defining Chinese cookware brand, is at an awkward crossroads. Its legacy cookware business is fading, while a robotics bet it has held for a decade has yet to pay back. On 14 July 2026 Aishida issued a first-half profit warning: net loss attributable … Read more

Magic Atom breaks ground on a 10,000-unit robot production line in Wuxi, as embodied AI shifts from demo videos to manufacturing capacity.

Aoyi Technology, founded by a former Qualcomm chip engineer, holds 35% of China’s dexterous hand market with 400M+ yuan raised across eight rounds.