From Optimus to Atlas, and on to the humanoid pilot running inside BMW plants, carmakers have become one of the main forces pushing embodied intelligence towards industrialisation. Behind the different routes they have chosen, a contest over the future of manufacturing has already started. The past decade put the car industry through electrification, intelligence and … Read more
PaXini, the Shenzhen company that has spent the past few years trying to give machines a sense of touch, has launched PX-FOOTRIX, which it describes as the world’s first multi-dimensional tactile sensor for the sole of a robot foot. The product is built on a 6D Hall-effect tactile array that the company says is the … Read more
On 30 July Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family spanning a vision-language-action model, a reasoning model and an on-device model, and for the first time delivering whole-body control of a humanoid. Google’s play is simple to state: own the robot brain layer. In the phone era it sold few handsets but reached most … Read more
One year ago China’s dexterous-hand field was a pile of demos. Capital was thin, most makers were still validating designs, and annual output sat in the hundreds or low thousands, good for trade shows but not for factories or whole robots. That phase is over. Money moved first. Full-year dexterous-hand funding reached 16.88 billion yuan … Read more
On 17 July a whistleblower letter wiped more than 12 per cent off Dobot’s Hong Kong shares in a single day. Song Tao, who describes himself as a co-founder and former chief operating officer, accused the collaborative-robot maker of hiding a stake dispute in its A-share prospectus. The claim is specific. Song says a January … Read more
On 5 August, Estun, China’s leading industrial-robot maker, said it would buy 100 per cent of Estun Cube for 487 million yuan, about 68 million US dollars, in cash through a subsidiary. The deal is a related-party transaction: Cube’s largest outside shareholder is Estun’s own controlling holder, with 39.07 per cent. What makes investors uneasy … Read more
On 30 July, Unitree published its STAR-market prospectus and set a listing date. Within days its closest rival, AgiBot, confirmed it has started the Hong Kong IPO process, though it has not yet named sponsors, filing time or raise size. The two have spent months sparring across shipments, production and now the public market. A … Read more
On 5 August, Bloomberg reported that AISquared, a Shenzhen embodied-AI startup, is weighing a Hong Kong IPO and has hired banks for early preparations, with a listing possibly opening as soon as 2027. The company has not commented officially, and the talks remain fluid. The report lands as China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector hits a … Read more
Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, and the numbers show why the listing matters so much. The industrial mobile-robot maker had under 50 million yuan of cash at April 2026 and had stacked cumulative losses above 400 million yuan. Its first filing in June 2025 lapsed, as did a … Read more
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