Chery backs agricultural robot maker in a nine-figure B2 round
Chery Holding leads a nine-figure B2 round into Zhongke Yuandongli, an agricultural robot maker with L4 autonomous farming tech backed by CAS.
Robotics
A 1.2 billion yuan robotics base breaks ground in Suzhou, targeting semiconductor AMRs
Jielo Intelligent breaks ground on a 1.2 billion yuan AMR manufacturing base in Suzhou, targeting semiconductor fabs with 2,000 units annual capacity.
A Tsinghua professor walked away from a 20 billion yuan unicorn to build a home robot
Xu Huazhe left Xinghaitu at its 20 billion yuan peak to found PokeBot, a home robot startup that has raised a Pre-A round above $100 million in five months.
Humanoid robots in 2026: output frenzy, deployment doubt
100,000 units, or a fivefold leap Halfway through 2026, the humanoid industry turned in a glossy scorecard. At July’s WAIC press conference, MIIT vice-minister Gan Xiaobin said full-year output could exceed 100,000 units. From about 20,000 in 2025 to 100,000 is a fivefold jump any sector would envy. Fellow vice-minister Ke Jixin called it a … Read more
Luming Robot co-CTO Ding Yan leaves for Fudan
A short tenure ends Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Ding Yan, co-CTO of Luming Robot, has formally left. His social profile now reads researcher at Fudan University’s Zuquan Institute, confirming the career turn. From joining in November 2025 to leaving, his time at Luming was under 280 days. Ding Yan, a pioneer of the UMI … Read more
Vbot picks Japan as first global stop with Future Robotics
Japan is the first stop Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Vbot (Wei Ta Dong Li) has formally begun its global layout, with Japan as the first overseas market. Vbot signed a strategic cooperation deal with Japanese robot solutions provider Future Robotics to expand the Japan market over three years, with an initial order of 1 … Read more
AgiBot’s Luo Jianlan leaves as it chases Hong Kong IPO
The IPO that finally surfaced AgiBot (Zhiyuan Innovation), the humanoid star that repeatedly denied Hong Kong IPO rumours, finally confirmed in late July that it had started the listing process. Good news followed: its self-developed WITA-Omni Preview model topped Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia with an 85.21 score, and it launched the world’s first robot … Read more
Unitree’s 60% margin looks like a price-war signal
The 60.13 percent question On 6 August, Unitree set its issue price at 150.80 yuan per share, dropping book-building. The prospectus shows 40.45 million new shares, 10 percent of the post-issue total, raising about 4.20 billion yuan at a 42 billion yuan valuation. Post-issue, Unitree (688836.SH) is worth about 61 billion yuan at a stunning … Read more
CNPC Kunlun trims Future Robot deep-sea stake
A state giant tests the exit window Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange recently disclosed a listing: CNPC Kunlun Capital is offering 0.6349 percent of Shandong Future Robot, or 234,372 shares, at a floor price of 20 million yuan. As a pure state-industrial investor, Kunlun’s ties to the company run deep. In May 2025, CNPC … Read more
DeepSeek buys into Unitree IPO at 61bn yuan valuation
Unitree prices its IPO above expectations On 6 August, Unitree Technology fixed its IPO issue price at 150.80 yuan per share. On a post-issue share count, that implies a market value of about 60.99 billion yuan, comfortably above the 42 billion yuan valuation the market had broadly expected. As founder, Wang Xingxing held 23.82 percent … Read more