Leapmotor’s Zhu Jiangming: no concept-chasing, we already built our own robot At Leapmotor’s 2026 technical launch on the evening of 16 September, founder, chairman and CEO Zhu Jiangming confirmed that Leapmotor has made a small but real investment in embodied intelligence and has built a fully self-developed robot. The firm is exploring an application scenario … Read more
Agility’s Digit 5 removes the safety cage and takes USD 300 million of orders Agility Robotics has released the Digit 5, and the claim it makes is a specific one. The company says it is the first humanoid robot able to work closely alongside people without a physical safety fence. A Digit humanoid at work … Read more
Xspark AI’s Ding Wenbo: touch cannot replace vision, but robots need their own ‘spinal cord’ Embodied intelligence has entered its “tactile era,” and Ding Wenbo proposes a “spinal cord” architecture to fix the physical-interaction gap in robots. Ding is hard to pin down with one word: communications PhD, materials postdoc, machine-tactility scholar. In 2025 he … Read more
Jijia Vision’s joint-stock revamp puts a ‘world model’ IPO on the near horizon Gasgoo’s Embodied Intelligence desk reports that Beijing Jijia Vision Technology has completed its joint-stock restructuring, changing its name to Beijing Jijia Vision Technology Co., Ltd and converting from a limited liability company to a joint-stock company. The commercial-registration change has been publicised. … Read more
Turi AI closes first funding round to build its embodied-robotics ODM stack Gasgoo’s Embodied Intelligence desk reports that Hangzhou Turi Intelligent Equipment (Turi AI) has closed its first round of financing in the tens of millions of yuan. The round was led by Dongli Future Tech and Tongli Tech, joined by industrial investors Huang Yuexian … Read more
From Xiaolingtong to hotel robots: a UTStarcom old guard takes Wuxi firm past HK$15.5bn On 9 September, Youdao Robotics surged as much as 176 per cent on its first trading day, with its market value briefly crossing HK$15.5bn. History had not vanished. It merely returned in a new posture, as a founding team that grew … Read more
A Shenzhen hazardous-industry robotics startup took a tens-of-millions A1 round, and the bet is on dirty work Investors are putting real money into robots that do the dirty, dangerous work humans avoid, not the ones that pose for cameras. Xuanchuang Robotics, a Shenzhen firm focused on embodied intelligence for hazardous and chemical-industrial settings, has closed … Read more
Shenzhen just gave its street-cleaning robots a digital ID, and a regulator can now watch them work Shenzhen’s street-cleaning robots just got licence plates, and a regulator can now watch each one work. On 16 September the city issued its first batch of identifiers for AI sanitation robots. A machine printed with the code SS·xxxxx … Read more
More than 40 robotics firms showed up to actually work, and the hard part is just starting The wind in robotics is shifting in a way that matters more than any new demo. At the recently closed 2026 Bund Conference, more than 40 embodied-AI vendors appeared together, but the detail worth noting was not whether … Read more
A once-hyped Chinese robot unicorn just went into liquidation, and the lesson is about showrooms A Chinese robot unicorn that once filled exhibition halls has just been pulled into liquidation, and the filing reads like an industry warning. DeepBlue Robotics, the core robotics subsidiary of DeepBlue Technology, is in bankruptcy liquidation after the Pudong People’s … Read more