On 27 August, Hugging Face and its French robotics unit Pollen Robotics released Microduck, a bipedal robot duck priced at US$399, 25 centimetres tall, under 800 grams and fitted with 15 motors. Orders passed US$1 million in six hours and US$2.6 million within 24 hours, roughly 6,500 units, at a peak of one sold every … Read more
The domestic collaborative-robot track gained another IPO contender. FAO Robotics of Suzhou recently started A-share listing tutoring with Guotai Junan Haitong as its sponsor. The IPO path has moved steadily this year: the company completed its joint-stock restructuring in March 2026, signed a tutoring agreement with Guotai Junan Haitong in August, and had its tutoring … Read more
On 9 September, Luoyang Bearing Corporation, a Chinese high-end bearing maker with more than seventy years in the field, began trading on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, adding a fresh name to the list of robot-core-component plays on the A-share market. The firm filed for IPO tutoring with Henan regulators in July … Read more
On 4 September, Singapore robotics firm Hivebotics closed a US$6 million Series A round, a modest sum next to the hundreds of millions common in China’s robot sector, yet notable for who wrote the cheque. The round was led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, with Fareast Land Development, the property arm of Taiwan’s … Read more
Ruisong Technology said it plans a private placement of up to 784 million yuan, with the net proceeds after fees going wholly to a high-speed six-axis robot industrialisation project, an HQ and R&D centre upgrade, and working capital and debt repayment. The issue aims to expand capacity for market demand, lift process and quality, and … Read more
Embodied Emergence reports that Jiangsu Cell Wall Intelligence, a Kunshan hard-tech firm, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan angel-plus round led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with Legend Star and Tianqi Capital following and FlowCapital as long-term adviser. The money funds CyboPal ONE volume delivery and its embodied interaction system. Cell Wall Intelligence CyboPal ONE desktop productivity robot. … Read more
Physical-AI firm ZINOVA, building on LimX Dynamics’ TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot and with construction-robot company RIC Robotics, completed a scaled demonstration of concrete tilt-up construction, covering formwork framing, multi-layer rebar laying and tying. The proof of concept showed embodied robots can use existing tools to join complex construction flows, and is another original practice … Read more
On 8 September, Guangdong Tianji Intelligence said it had closed a B++ strategic round co-led by Ant Group and Sofina Asia Private, with Gaorong Venture Capital and Tencent following on, and Gaohu Capital as sole adviser. Tianji Intelligence force-control humanoid dual-arm robot. (Source: OFweek Robot) The funds go to technology research, scaled production and global … Read more
Wanxun Technology, a global leader in flexible embodied intelligence, has released NOVA 2.0 (Neuromorphic Omniversal Versatile Architecture), its second-generation flexible embodied brain and the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-intelligence architecture. It is built from more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real industry scenarios, and its cross-scenario migration and delivery ability have … Read more
At the Beijing World Robot Conference in August 2026, the sound in the halls was no longer amazement that a robot could dance like a person. It was founders quietly working out return on investment in their heads, counting the wages a machine could save in a month. Embodied-intelligence exhibits at the World Robot Conference … Read more