At WRC 2026, Galaxea co-founder Gao Jiyang argued that the ultimate business model for embodied AI is selling “physical-world tokens”, the way OpenAI bills developers per text token today. In his telling, robot hardware eventually becomes a negative-margin vehicle whose only job is to put more endpoints into the real world to consume model tokens. … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, JD laid out a robotics service strategy: over five years it will build an after-sales repair network across more than 100 countries and create more than 100,000 robot-repair engineer jobs. JD plans ten training and certification centres in China and aims to train over 100,000 repair engineers covering robots … Read more
Unitree’s listing lifted attention on the robot industry, and 2026 is widely called the year of humanoid mass production. Yet behind the conference glow, most industrial robots are still ‘interns’ on the floor, not reliable ‘full staff’. Deployment sits at single-point tests and showcase pilots, moving boxes, loading parts, and simple patrols, while full-line replacement … Read more
On 10 August, Ninebot released its first-half 2026 results: group revenue of 14.36 billion yuan, up 22 per cent, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.008 billion yuan, down 18.79 per cent, and ex-non-recurring profit of 969 million yuan, down 26 per cent. By segment, e-scooters in China sold 2.842 million units, up 19 … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Schaeffler Embodied Intelligence Robotics (Taicang) showed up for the first time, centring its display on the core parts and subsystems that make a humanoid move. Schaeffler is leaning on decades of automotive and industrial drive know-how. The lineup spans robot high-performance computers, a 48V low-voltage power controller (LVPC), tendon-driven … Read more
On 19 August, as the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing, Wujie Dynamics unveiled a string of self-developed results: the MWA embodied general brain, the K15 robot body, the AnySense EGO first-person multimodal capture terminal, the Anyverse ADA seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm and the Anyverse ASC central compute platform. With Korea’s KG Group coffee brand … Read more
During the 2026 World Robot Conference, FAW Die Technology (Changchun) showcased a wheel-arm robot, a full-size bipedal humanoid, a small bipedal service humanoid, a heavy-load robot and joint modules, presenting what it called “China’s fully autonomous embodied-intelligence automotive manufacturing scenario.” FAW’s wheel-arm industrial humanoid robot on display at WRC 2026 (Source: Gasgoo) FAW is building … Read more
RobotEra, a Tsinghua University spinoff and one of China’s leading embodied-intelligence companies, is preparing to list on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a raise of US$800 million to US$1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The company has begun working with advisers on the listing, … Read more
Chinese consumer-embodied-intelligence firm Vbot said its global strategy has begun, with Japan as the first overseas market. Under a strategic agreement, Japanese robot-solutions firm Future Robotics has bought in Vbot’s flagship quadruped development platform, the Datou EDU edition, and will build local applications around elder-care companionship and village public services. Over three years the two … Read more
Ruisong Technology said it plans a private placement of up to RMB 784 million, with the net proceeds funding a high-precision, high-speed six-axis robot industrialisation project, an headquarters and R&D centre upgrade, and working capital and debt repayment. The aims are more capacity, better process and stronger technology reserves. A long road with Panasonic Founded … Read more