Wuwen Zhike, a physical-AI data-infrastructure start-up, has closed a Series A round of several hundred million yuan, led by Hongtai Fund with Hongshan Capital, Zhongdian Shurong and Lion City Capital joining and several early backers topping up. The company says it will pour the proceeds into research and scale-up of its world-model-driven Physical AI stack. … Read more
Wanson Technology, a flexible embodied-intelligence specialist, has released NOVA2.0, the second generation of its flexible embodied brain and what it calls the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-AI architecture. Wanson launched NOVA2.0, its open-world commercial-grade embodied AI brain. (Source: LeiPhone) The architecture grew out of more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real … Read more
JD.com has launched its Physical AI Acceleration Plan alongside a Super AI Supply Chain, aiming to build what it calls the world’s largest physical-world operations centre and link data, models, hardware and industry scenarios end to end. JD.com plans 80 robot industry bases and a 10 million-hour embodied-data centre. (Source: Gasgoo) On data, JD Cloud … Read more
When notable investor Zhu Xiaohu stepped back from humanoid bets and turned to Harbin Engineering-linked Shihang, the deep-sea robot track drew fresh attention. A different Harbin Engineering spinout, DeepSea Intelligence, is taking the industrial deep-sea route, and it is moving to commercial scale faster. A RMB 500 million vote On 13 August, DeepSea Intelligence announced … Read more
On 1 September, Mech-Mind rang the bell on the Hong Kong exchange. The headline is a cornerstone book that reads like a roll call of smart money, led by Baillie Gifford, the Scottish house that backed Tesla and Nvidia, alongside Taikang, Jane Street, BYD’s Golden Link, Invus, Ghisallo, Ruihua, NGS Super and E Fund, who … Read more
At the Aggregated Intelligence Industry Conference on 9 September, Jin Bing, former deputy director of the State Post Bureau’s policy office, cited a striking figure: China’s humanoid exports and manufacturing account for 97 per cent of the global total. A Chinese humanoid robot production line at scale. (Source: Gasgoo) Just years ago the industry proved … Read more
If past years of embodied intelligence were a contest of single-point skills, the clear signal from this year’s World Robot Conference is that competition is moving from one breakthrough to the completeness of a system. Sensors, dexterous hands and data still matter, but a robot that enters a factory, warehouse or home meets shifting position, … Read more
A 9 September Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence roundup of automotive and supply-chain moves led with a milestone for Chinese humanoids: on 8 September, the XPeng group announced the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid automated production line, and the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid completed automated final assembly and walked off the line on its own. That … Read more
On 29 August, Baotong Technology, a firm built on games and industrial internet, released its half-year report. With both businesses recovering, revenue and profit rose together, but the longer arc is uneven: gaming is volatile, and Baotong’s two main lines have little in common. Baotong Mine-Rhino (Kuangxi) quadruped inspection robot built on a Unitree base. … Read more
Morgan Stanley expects the humanoid robot market to reach USD 5 trillion by 2050. BMW, Renault, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla are already testing the machines in their factories, and Hyundai, Mitsubishi and XPeng are moving in too. Carmakers move into pilot mode Tesla has stopped production of the Model S and Model X and shifted the … Read more