In 1848, a shovel in San Francisco cost ten dollars before anyone had proved there was gold in the hills. The people who got rich first were selling the equipment. Deep Robotics is asking the public market to fund shovels on an industrial scale. The Hangzhou company, which built its reputation on industrial quadruped robots … Read more
Robot rental prices have fallen, and they have fallen absurdly far. At the start of 2025, a fully serviced humanoid robot rented for RMB10,000 a day. By October 2026, a Unitree U2 bundled with a technician costs under RMB3,000 a day, a decline of roughly 70 per cent. On 9 October, UBtech signed a strategic … Read more
Humanoid robots are moving into factories and homes with one unresolved flaw: they run out of energy faster than the shift they are meant to cover. Full-size units typically manage two to four hours, and most packs hold less than 2 kilowatt-hours. A machine costing close to RMB 1 million can still need a socket … Read more
Suzhou Limiaoda Intelligent Technology has closed B1 and B2 rounds worth close to RMB 500 million combined, with a B3 round of several hundred million already oversubscribed and in signing. Industrial capital, financial institutions and state-owned strategic investors took part, and existing shareholders followed on. Limiaoda’s composite robots handle material transfer inside class-100 cleanrooms (Source: … Read more
Fulin Precision (300432.SZ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Banqiao Intelligent plan a robot electric-joint plant in Mianyang, Sichuan, with total investment of RMB 500 million. The first phase is designed for 2 million joints and core parts a year. Banqiao Intelligent already produces 113,000 joints a month from existing capacity (Source: OFweek) The subsidiary is … Read more
Hai Robotics updated its Hong Kong listing application on 13 September, seven months after its first filing in February. If it clears the hearing it becomes the first case-handling robot company listed in Hong Kong. The numbers behind the filing are the story. Hai Robotics’ case-handling robots climb the racking face and retrieve single totes … Read more
On 30 September the ChiNext review status of Hikvision Robotics changed to suspended. The trigger was procedural: its financial statements had passed their statutory validity period and needed updating. Dozens of other Shenzhen Stock Exchange applicants entered the same status in the same window, and the review restarts once the papers are refiled. The pause … Read more
The 26th China International Industry Fair closed at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai with robots working as guides and wheeled humanoids hauling industrial bins. The demonstrations on the stands depend on something less visible: how fast a design revision becomes a physical part. A wheeled humanoid handling industrial bins at the China … Read more
AgiBot Innovation is closing a new funding round of 1 to 1.5 billion yuan at a post-money valuation of roughly 50 billion yuan, according to an exclusive report by Caijing magazine on 13 October. The same round means the company will not list in Hong Kong this year. AgiBot’s humanoid line, now valued at roughly … Read more
Chinese humanoid robotics shares went vertical on 20 October, and Unitree Technology led the move. The stock touched 549.44 yuan intraday, a gain of more than 10 per cent on the session, and closed three trading days up more than 35 per cent. Its market value passed 220 billion yuan. A Unitree humanoid unit on … Read more