Robotics

InTime Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong and Fudan open-sourced HandEdit, a dexterous-hand editing benchmark

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InTime Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong and Fudan open-sourced HandEdit, a dexterous-hand editing benchmark Training a robot hand used to mean owning the robot, and that bottleneck is exactly why progress stalled. InTime Robotics, with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has now open-sourced HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark that turns ordinary first-person videos of … Read more

Samsung and BYD both backed PaXini, and its tactile-sensor war chest just passed USD 560 million

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Samsung and BYD both backed PaXini, and its tactile-sensor war chest just passed USD 560 million Two of Asia’s most controlling manufacturers just bought the same bet on a robot’s sense of touch, and neither is known for impulse. On 16 September, PaXini, a Shenzhen firm building tactile sensors and perception for humanoid robots, completed … Read more

A humanoid played real tennis against a Grand Slam champion, and the breakthrough was the data

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On 22 August at the Ice Ribbon arena in Beijing, as the second World Humanoid Robot Games opened, CCTV cut to a real tennis court. A humanoid stood on the baseline. A ball came at more than 50 kilometres per hour. In milliseconds it judged the landing point, moved its feet, turned its body and … Read more

A humanoid rents for USD 280 a day at home and USD 2,800 in the Gulf, and that gap is the business

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While China’s robot market debates overcapacity and price wars, a group of domestic robot rental and sales operators has taken the business overseas. Demand for overseas event and ceremony work is rising, with an operator reporting that a single Unitree U2 humanoid can command more than RMB 20,000 a day abroad, several times the domestic … Read more

Unitree’s 57 per cent slide and a quiet IPO crackdown mark the humanoid reset

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The humanoid robot trade is losing its illusion. Unitree listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August as the A-share market’s first humanoid robot stock, but the first-day high quickly turned into a slide in price and market value, and a full moon became a crescent. Unitree’s market value has fallen roughly 57 per cent … Read more

Li Auto’s former AI chief raises again for home robots seven months after founding

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Hangzhou-based Xieyue Intelligent, or Leap Intelligence, has closed a nine-figure angel-plus round, with Linear Capital, Junshan Capital, Hongyi Capital and Hidden Hill Capital participating. The money will fund embodied foundation-model training, compute and data infrastructure, team expansion, and home-robot hardware development with scenario validation. Leap Intelligence is building a home robot on an embodied foundation … Read more

UBTECH’s super factory builds robots with robots, one unit every ten minutes

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UBTECH’s industrial humanoid-robot super factory began production on 12 September in Liuzhou’s northern eco-industrial new area in Guangxi. The plant, the first humanoid-robot smart-manufacturing benchmark built for ten-thousand-unit capacity, runs on industrial simulation planning and a digital scheduling brain, putting the “robots building robots” model into practice. It marks the shift of China’s humanoid industry … Read more

Shangwei’s 23-fold rerating shows how a wind-resin maker became the A-share face of humanoids

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Shangwei New Material listed on the STAR Market in September 2020 and became one of its most undervalued names. Institutions low-balled the IPO, raising only RMB 70 million, a record low, at the RMB 1 billion market-cap floor. For years it sat near RMB 24 billion, about RMB 78 a share, with no coverage and … Read more

Hai Robotics restarts its Hong Kong IPO with RMB 4.1 billion of orders and a loss to price away

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Warehouse automation leader Hai Robotics refreshed its listing application on 13 September, restarting its Hong Kong IPO and positioning itself as a candidate for the first automated case-handling robot listing on the exchange, following an initial filing in February 2026. Hai Robotics targets case-handling automation in high-density warehouses. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Before … Read more

Yaskawa-backed welding-robot maker Keda posts 1,095 per cent profit jump as in-house arms scale

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Keda released its 2026 interim report: revenue RMB 425 million, up 34.73 per cent; net profit RMB 28.27 million, up 1,095.30 per cent; deductible profit turned to profit at over 980 per cent; gross margin 19.38 per cent, up 10.65 points. Operating cash was a RMB 5.63 million outflow. From a Wenzhou workshop, Keda is … Read more