Robotics

China accounts for 97 per cent of the world’s humanoid robot exports and manufacturing, a senior official says

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On 9 September, at the Agglomeration Intelligent Industry Development Conference 2026, Jin Bing, former first-level inspector and deputy director of the policy and law department at the State Post Bureau, said embodied intelligence is entering an accelerated mass-production phase. Citing the latest data, he said China’s share of global humanoid-robot exports and manufacturing has reached … Read more

Six-axis robot leader Risong posts a 3,349 per cent profit jump in the first half as China robotics demand rebounds

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OFweek Robot reported on 9 September that Risong Technology delivered its strongest first-half results since listing. The six-axis robot system-integration leader used the reporting period to show that China’s industrial robotics demand is swinging from caution back to growth. The numbers behind the rebound For the first half of 2026 Risong posted revenue of 625 … Read more

Xiaomi-backed Suzhou maglev firm Zongwei doubles down on robot joints with a RMB 200 million round

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Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Suzhou maglev company Zongwei Technology has closed a RMB 200 million Pre-C-plus-plus round, led by Matrix Partners China, with Shunwei Capital, BlueRun Ventures and Shengbao Capital following as existing shareholders. Zongwei Technology sTrak intelligent maglev transport platform. (Source: Zhidx) Founded in 2020, Zongwei says it has landed more … Read more

Ex-Baidu autonomous-driving test chief raises a nine-figure Series A for a Physical-AI data base

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Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Beijing Physical-AI data-base company WuWen ZhiKe has closed a Series A of several hundred million yuan. The round was led by Hongtai Fund, with Hongshan Capital, Zhongdian Shurong and Lion City Capital following, and existing shareholders Bridge Capital, Lihe Financial, Lihe Zhongke and Chengkai Lingcheng oversubscribing; Shneng Capital … Read more

August saw 56 embodied-robotics rounds in China, and the money moved from bodies to brains

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Funding heat in embodied intelligence shows no sign of cooling. Gasgoo Embodied counts 56 disclosed financing events in China’s embodied-robotics and core-component space in August. The largest single round came from XPeng’s robot unit at more than US$900 million, a record for a single private equity round in China’s embodied-intelligence sector. Sharpa disclosed its first … Read more

JD unveils six Wolf robots from warehouse to pharmacy at its 2026 technology summit

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Robot Forward reported on 9 September that at the JDD 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, JD pointed the next decade of AI at the physical world. Cao Peng, chairman of JD’s technology committee and president of JD Cloud, said the smart economy will migrate from the digital world to the physical world over the … Read more

Xiaoyu Zhizao closes its third round of 2026 as factories, not funds, lead its cap table

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Xiaoyu Zhizao (Xiaoyu Intelligent) has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan round, its third of 2026, with Blooming Star, Singapore’s Kamet Capital and Guoke Yingfeng Fund among the investors, Gasgoo Embodied has learned. The round follows a several-hundred-million-yuan B round in February led by Huaye Tiancheng and a several-hundred-million-yuan B+ round in May backed by BAIC Capital, Fosun … Read more

Qianjue closes a several-hundred-million-yuan A+ round to build the shared brain for every robot form

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Qianjue Technology has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan A+ round, with Yuanhe Houwang, Xiaoguang Capital, XinNeng Venture, Inno Angel, Jingming Capital and Future Margin among the market and industry backers, Gasgoo Embodied has learned. The company says the round will fund core technology research, engineering build-out and real-world deployment, pushing its robot intelligence into more body types … Read more

XPeng closes a US$900 million robot round and rolls its first humanoid off an in-house line

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XPeng’s robot business has moved a step closer to volume production. On 8 September XPeng’s own line completed automated final assembly of its first high-end general-purpose humanoid, and the machine walked off the line by itself, marking the shift from research build to line manufacturing. XPeng IRON humanoid on the company’s newly opened automated assembly … Read more

SuDu’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten-plus, chasing a scaling path for general-purpose robots

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At WAIC 2026 the embodied-intelligence zone was again among the most crowded. Robots made coffee, took photos and danced. The SuDu Technology booth drew a crowd too, but the mood was different. A few robots stood quietly at workstations doing unglamorous things: picking items, wrapping an object with a cloth using both hands, inserting a … Read more