A subsidiary of Lituo Intelligent Technology has broken ground on a smart logistics robot plant in Qingtian, Zhejiang province, sized to build 5,000 intelligent logistics robots a year. The 40-mu site will make automated guided vehicles, smart warehouse systems and the software that runs them, aimed squarely at the Yangtze River Delta’s manufacturers as they … Read more
Imagine a task: open the cupboard, find the blocks hidden inside, then build them into a bridge. For a person this is trivial, a few actions flowing together that a nursery-school child completes without effort. For a robot it cuts across completely different abilities: finding the blocks needs visual understanding and language following; opening the … Read more
On 29 September, Hefei Lingfang Robotics disclosed a fresh Series A round, backed by market and industrial investors including the Wuxi Guolian Xizhou fund, Qingke Industrial Investment, Cowin Capital and Hefei Industrial Capital. The company was registered in Hefei’s Bahe district in January 2025, and the new round is its sixth in just nineteen months, … Read more
On 29 September, BlueBug Embodied closed a tens-of-millions angel round led by Xi’an Hi-tech Venture Capital, to fund production lines, product development, scenario expansion and team growth. BlueBug’s Mantis Standard wheeled humanoid. (Source: Gasgoo) Founded in March 2025 with support from Xi’an Jiaotong University, BlueBug is a full-stack embodied-AI company whose core team pairs XJTU … Read more
On 28 September, LimX Dynamics and Kyland announced China’s first humanoid robot built on a domestic electronic architecture, the first time domestic industrial-grade real-time communications have run end to end through a humanoid’s complex system. LimX humanoid running a domestic electronic architecture. (Source: Gasgoo) The electronic architecture is the machine’s intelligent nervous system, covering the … Read more
A recap from IROS 2026 argues that embodied intelligence is done waiting on the ground. The talk, Mobile Manipulation: From Task and Motion Planning to Aerial Collaboration, pushes manipulation onto flying platforms. An aerial manipulator with a robotic arm. (Source: Leiphone) The first step is obvious but hard. A robot that walks must also learn … Read more
Shutu Tech has closed a Pre-A round of nearly RMB 100 million, led by CDH Investments’ Baifu and the Kunpeng Fund, a national big-data vehicle, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital joining and existing investor TrendSci topping up. It is the company’s third raise in a single month. Shutu Tech’s SynaTac tactile data engine. … Read more
On 30 September, MengShi Tech closed a Series A+ round above RMB 100 million. The investors included Liding Capital, Hangzhou Heda and Huifu Capital, with Heda coming in as local state capital after the company moved its base to Hangzhou’s Qiantang district. A Series B is already in progress. MengShi Tech autonomous haul truck in … Read more
On 28 September a launch event in Yichang, Hubei unveiled what its maker calls the world’s first embodied-intelligence robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture. The “intelligent nervous system” of a robot, its electronic architecture sets the ceiling on whole-machine performance and covers the operating system, network, tooling software and AI compute chip. Kyland’s … Read more
A real-world test of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has put a hard number on the gap between a robot that understands the world and one that can feel it. On a task that asked a robotic arm to pick a block and drop it into a bowl, Astra reached a 95 per cent success rate, far … Read more