Why Chinese homes needed their own dataset Embodied intelligence ultimately has to enter homes, but home environments are complex and personal, demanding training across hugely varied real scenarios. The new dataset holds 300,000 structured real floor plans, 5,000 complete home simulation scenes and 50,000 physically simulated interactive object assets, filling a gap in large-scale, high-fidelity, … Read more
From ‘can move’ to ‘can be scheduled’ Scale is the result of long accumulation in technology, product, scenario and standards, not just capacity. Hikrobot’s path runs from early latent, forklift and omnidirectional models to a safety controller with the world’s first SIL3 certificate, China’s first full-directive CE for omnidirectional forklifts, and a fourth-generation ‘smart base’ … Read more
Eight years at the top In 2025 ESTUN first reached number one in China across all brands, local and foreign, with a 10.6 per cent share and 25 per cent annual shipment growth, lifting domestic penetration of the industrial-robot market above 56 per cent. It has now led domestic-brand shipments for eight consecutive years and … Read more
Galaxy General’s Galbot S1 has run 7×24 in CATL’s battery-pack lines for over 90 days, fully autonomous. The demo-to-production leap China’s humanoid race has been promising.
Surgerii, one of China’s surgical-robot ‘four little dragons’, has had its STAR Market IPO accepted, its second run at the capital market after an aborted 2023 attempt. The company is targeting a 700 million yuan raise and intends to list under the exchange’s fifth standard, which requires a market cap above 4 billion yuan but … Read more
After its September 2025 filing lapsed, FJDynamics has refiled for a Hong Kong IPO, joining a queue of nearly 50 robot companies now lined up for the exchange. Where most cluster into industrial and humanoid forms, FJDynamics stands apart by targeting agriculture, animal husbandry, construction and property management. Founded in 2017 by Wu Di, a … Read more
The first-half 2026 funding numbers for embodied AI are genuinely startling. IT Juzi counts 93.47 billion yuan deployed, up fivefold year on year, across 322 rounds, a 137% increase. Include overseas via GG Robot and the figure is 132.5 billion, up 428%. Same trend: a tide of capital rushing in. Where the money went The … Read more
The speed of ‘first’ now outruns the speed of robot iteration. A model can go from launch to chart-topper in a week, and the charts refresh faster than products ship. When ‘first’ multiplies, the industry slides into a collective confusion about ranking inflation, and a fair question: who is actually manufacturing these titles? A manufactured … Read more
Standard Robots has submitted its prospectus to the Hong Kong exchange for the third time. On the industrial autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, track, the Shenzhen company is a genuine dark horse: its client list spans 3C electronics and automotive manufacturing and includes Huawei, Xiaomi, Toyota and NIO. From a 12-square-metre room Founder Wang Yongkun, … Read more
AgiBot has confirmed it is launching a Hong Kong listing, and it chose its timing with intent: the filing landed on the same day the Hong Kong exchange’s revised listing rules took effect. For a three-year-old humanoid maker, the move marks the shift from building product to cashing out capital. From zero to one in … Read more