Robotics

PaXini closes another RMB 1 billion round, pushing cumulative tactile-sensing funding to RMB 3.5 billion

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PaXini has closed another RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative financing to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest cumulative total in global tactile sensing and a clear, gap-leading position in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International Investment, the Kunpeng Fund (a national big-data fund) … Read more

HandEdit: an open-source dataset that turns first-person human video into robot dexterous-hand training data

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HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark built by Inspire-Robots together with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has been open-sourced. The project tackles first-person human-to-robot dexterous-hand image editing: replacing the human hand or arm in a frame with a specified robot configuration while preserving the original scene, object, viewpoint and interaction as much as possible. … Read more

A RMB 1 billion raise and a 10,000-robot order: who actually cashes in on China’s robot boom?

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Guangdong Tianji Intelligent Systems recently closed a RMB 1 billion Series B and B-plus round at a post-money valuation near RMB 10 billion. Hillhouse Venture and Meituan’s strategic arm co-led, with Tencent, Gaorong Venture, Photosynthesis Venture and GGV Capital following. Tianji does not make just one kind of robot. Its products span collaborative robots, horizontal … Read more

Faro Robotics files for A-share IPO after raising over RMB 2.2 billion at a RMB 7 billion valuation

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China’s collaborative-robot track has a new IPO contender. Faro (Suzhou) Robotics Technology has formally opened its A-share listing tutoring, with Guotai Haitong as the tutoring sponsor. Its IPO path has moved steadily this year. In March 2026 Faro completed its joint-stock restructuring. In August it signed the tutoring agreement with Guotai Haitong Securities. In September … Read more

Agibot stands up its own AI-compute arm as China’s ‘intelligent computing’ land grab accelerates

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XiYuan Zhisuan (Shanghai) Technology has been registered, with corporate records showing it is wholly owned by Zhiyuan Innovation (Shanghai) Technology, the core entity behind Agibot Robotics. Its stated business scope covers AI theory and algorithm software, AI foundational software, AI application software and general AI application systems. No data-centre operations category has appeared yet. Agibot … Read more

A CMU-linked startup is building the Android moment for humanoid robots with a USD 1,500 open hardware kit

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In 2026 the humanoid-robot race entered an odd paradox. Hardware is racing: full-size humanoids now backflip and street-dance, with Unitree’s G1 on the OmniXtreme framework hitting a 96.36 per cent backflip success rate and sub-10-millisecond end-to-end latency, numbers unimaginable three years ago. A humanoid robot demonstration at a 2026 event. (Source: Leiphone) But the ecosystem’s … Read more

LinkerBot pulls together a 20-company Tier 1 alliance to standardise China’s embodied-robotics stack

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On 2 September, initiated by LinkerBot and Xingyuanzhi, more than 20 core supply-chain firms including Orbbec, FAORobot, Fulai New Materials, Hesai, Huaweike, Livox, Langyi, Linghou, Rokae, Mailivision, Nuwa Create, Quanzhibo, Senyun, RoboSense, Tashan, Wuwenzhike, the iFlytek robot-brain platform, Xinjingcheng, Quectel, Zhixing Embodied and Zongguanxian formed the China Embodied Intelligence Tier 1 Industry Alliance. LinkerBot’s dexterous-hand … Read more

A 2-billion-parameter model just beat 8-billion ones at robot-arm control by doing less, not more

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For a while, Scaling Law ruled embodied intelligence. To make a robot arm handle complex pick, align and assemble tasks, most work pushed vision-language-action (VLA) models to 7 billion or even 8.5 billion parameters. Bigger helped semantics, but long-horizon instability did not disappear. A robot arm executing a long-horizon manipulation task. (Source: Leiphone) Many large … Read more

Embodied AI’s hardest 20 per cent is where the cloud finally earns its place

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This year’s WAIC and WRC showed a shift in embodied intelligence: less showboating, more pragmatism. Last year’s robots danced, fought and walked runways; this year they were dropped into real logistics, industrial and home tasks. That points to a bigger question: how far has embodied intelligence actually come, and how far to real scale? Embodied-intelligence … Read more

Tianqi breaks ground on a RMB 1 billion embodied-robotics base aimed at car manufacturing

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Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Tianqi’s embodied-intelligence robot industry project has recently broken ground. Sited in the core area of Wuxi Huishan High-Tech Zone, it carries total investment above RMB 1 billion and covers more than 70 mu, about 47,000 square metres. The project fuses automotive smart manufacturing with embodied intelligence, building an automotive-equipment smart-manufacturing … Read more