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
Two rounds, state money in Per Chenyuan Capital, Hangzhou Guoxun Robotics Technology has closed two rounds in the past six months totalling tens of millions of renminbi, with Jiuzhao Investment, Yueke Financial Group and Liang Venture investing. Yueke is Guangdong’s largest professional state-owned mother-fund platform and ranks among China’s top five state specialised mother-fund managers, … Read more
A fast track written in policy In June 2025 a State Council opinion on deepening Shenzhen’s comprehensive reform pilot allowed Greater Bay Area enterprises listed in Hong Kong to list on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the rules. That opened a new capital path. Dobot, which landed on the Hong Kong exchange in December 2024, … Read more
MengShi reframes the autonomous mining truck as a transport robot, not a retrofitted self-driving kit (Source: OFweek Robotics) Why a robot route MengShi Tech has closed a Series A+ round above RMB 100 million, with investors including Liding Capital, Hangzhou Heda and Huifu. Hangzhou Heda is a local state-owned investor that came in after the … Read more
AgiBot deployed more than 300 robots across Chimelong’s Spaceship Park in Hengqin, its largest single-site service deployment to date (Source: Leiphone) From a launch event to a shift roster In 2026 one of the hardest questions in embodied intelligence is how to actually land in the real world. AgiBot calls this the “deployment state”: robots … Read more
On 28 September, Nasdaq-listed AIxC disclosed it will merge with FF EAI Robotics. Under the signed term sheet, FFAI contributes 100 per cent of its robotics subsidiary’s equity into AIxC at an estimated US$200 million valuation, in exchange for AIxC shares. After closing, AIxC renames to FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. and changes its ticker … Read more
On 29 September, embodied-AI firm Nuoyin, also styled KNOWIN, announced a further angel-plus-plus funding round of several hundred million yuan, bringing its cumulative raise over the past year above RMB 1 billion. Nuoyin AI Closes a New Nine-Figure Round, Crossing RMB 1 Bil (Source: Gasgoo) The round was led by a JD-linked fund, with co-investors … Read more
A robotics company just six years old has gone bankrupt. In late August, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court published the bankruptcy acceptance and creditor-notice filings for Yinghe (Shenzhen) Robotics and Automation Technology, taking it into formal bankruptcy proceedings. A Robot Start-up Backed by ByteDance and Meituan Just Went B (Source: OFweek Robotics) Yinghe was no … Read more
Less than a month after WAIC in Shanghai, Beijing hosted WRC 2026. Nobody expected a model rewrite in a few weeks, so this field report reads the show against months of company performance to see where the ’embodied brain’ actually stands. WRC 2026: China’s Robot Makers Ditch the Backflip and Start (Source: LeiPhone) The clearest … Read more
The answer to human touch was never the eyes or ears. It was the Pacinian corpuscle, a layered sensor deep under the skin that acts like a natural filter, ignoring gentle strokes and static pressure while responding to impact, sudden pressure change and high-frequency vibration. These receptors cluster in palms and soles, the points where … Read more