Daxiao Robot launches Kairos-HomeWorld, a world model for home robots

Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics On 5 June, Daxiao Robot, with CUHK’s Multimedia Lab and the Hetao institute, released Kairos-HomeWorld, the first world-model framework to do full-house generation with object-level interaction. It breaks the industry ceiling where indoor generation covered only single rooms with no global consistency or operability, generating coherent, physically … Read more

Kepler robots takes the M&A path while peers rush to IPO

Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics In 2026 the robotics capitalisation wave keeps heating up. Unitree cleared the listing in just 73 days, sprinting toward the first A-share humanoid stock. Leju, DeepRobotics and SharkRobot also accelerated. By rough count, robotics firms in the Hong Kong IPO queue have reached 46, over 10 per … Read more

TetraBOT opens a low-cost humanoid dev base from RMB 23,900

The TetraBOT T4-C wheeled humanoid developer edition supports fixed or mobile base, binocular vision, an adjustable lift structure and strong compute. Fully open-stack development reshapes the R&D threshold, so every build has a scene to land in. Price starts at RMB 23,900. The T4-C is built for developers who need a real, modifiable humanoid platform … Read more

PaXini tops RMB 3.5 billion in tactile-sensing funding, the largest ever

Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics PaXini has secured a new RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative funding to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest ever in tactile sensing globally, and leaving it far ahead in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International … Read more

Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics

Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics Two Sudo humanoid robots on display at WAIC 2026. Source: LeiPhone The embodied-intelligence zone at WAIC 2026 is still the most crowded floor in the hall. Robots make coffee, pose for photos and dance. Sudo Technology’s booth draws a … Read more

Beijing’s top orthopaedics centre takes robot-surgery training to a district hospital in Shenzhen

On 1 to 2 August, a national training programme on AI-assisted therapy, orthopaedic surgical robots, was held in Pingshan, Shenzhen. It was hosted by the National Orthopaedics Medical Centre and Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, with seventy-four orthopaedic clinicians and technical staff from across China taking part. It is the first time Jishuitan’s surgical-robot technology has reached … Read more

Humanoid robots are done selling the dream. Now they are fighting for position.

Roland Berger’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, reframes the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble. It is who claims a position first if the industry actually takes off. The trigger was not a flashy demo. It was three variables colliding: vision-language models, generative … Read more

Xiaomi open-sources U0, a unified model for generating robot training data

As the first unified model in the embodied-generation space, U0 has already validated generation quality, data usefulness and engineering efficiency. In the WorldArena benchmark built by Tsinghua, Peking and others, U0 scored first in the world under an anonymous code, and policies trained on its expanded data lifted task completion by 26.3 per cent in … Read more

Central China’s largest robot delivery: 100 inspection quadrupeds roll out

Alongside the delivery, Chengxin launched the industrial-focused Xun 3. Compared with Xun 1, it gains sharply on endurance, climbing and autonomy, carrying a 32-line LiDAR, climbing 25 steps, crawling stable on 35-degree slopes, running four hours instead of one, walking about 20 km, and able to intervene by pressing buttons once it spots risk. A … Read more