Shenzhen’s PaXini Opens a Showroom for Robot Touch
A robot’s understanding of the world usually begins with vision. But whether a grasp is stable, a plug is seated, or a p
Robotics
At WAIC, Qiling’s Robots Ran a Shop With No Remote Control
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Qiling did something many robot demos avoid: it let the machines run the shop by themselves.
Why LiDAR Makers Are Racing to Design Their Own Chips
For years the debate over LiDAR was simple: believers called it essential safety redundancy, sceptics led by Tesla calle
Shenzhen’s Bangqi Lets Factories Rent Robots Instead of Buying Them
The hardest part of automating a warehouse has rarely been the robots. It is the bill: buy the hardware, absorb the depr
How a Chinese Lawn-Robot Maker Turned a LiDAR Bet Into Profit
In a park in May 2022, a boundary-free robotic mower prototype ran back and forth on the lawn. It ran well. Qin Ling, who had just joined the team, took the mower as his first project. The team formed in late 2021, core members in place by early 2022, and in about five months built … Read more
China’s Estun Ships 10,000 Robots in a Single Quarter, Profit Jumps Over 2,000%
Estun has topped China’s industrial-robot shipment rankings again, and this time crossed a threshold no domestic brand had reached: more than 10,000 robots delivered in a single quarter. According to MIR DATABANK, in the first half of 2026 Estun again led all brands in China’s industrial-robot shipments. In the second quarter it became the first … Read more
China’s Weiyi Bets on Profitable Industrial Embodied-AI Robots Ahead of Hong Kong IPO
At WAIC on 17 July, Weiyi showed up with a range of industrial embodied-AI robots, and the pitch was that these machines are already in volume production, running in top-tier factories for over a year. No lab demos. The financials make the case. Per the prospectus, revenue rose from 221 million yuan in 2022 to … Read more
China’s AgiBot Files for Hong Kong IPO as the Humanoid Race Hits the Capital Markets
The humanoid-robot sector has entered its capital-realisation phase. AgiBot has confirmed it has launched the process for a Hong Kong listing, and it timed the announcement to land on the very day the exchange’s new listing rules took effect. The message was not a surprise. Rumours of an IPO have circulated for half a year. … Read more
China’s Topstar Closes the Data Loop Behind Embodied-Robot Scale-Up
Industrial embodied intelligence just cleared a practical hurdle. Topstar, a Dongguan-based smart-manufacturing equipment maker, has built a complete industrial data-iteration loop with Wuwen Zhike, a physical-AI data-platform company — letting embodied robots iterate quickly, reuse standardized components and deploy at batch scale. Wuwen Zhike was among the first in the sector to ship a physical-AI … Read more
Hikrobot’s Half-Year Revenue Tops 4 Billion Yuan as China’s Robot Makers Report
Hikvision’s 2026 interim report, released this week, offered a clean read on where China’s robotics segment is heading. The surveillance giant posted group revenue of 46.82 billion yuan, up 11.97 percent year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 7.90 billion yuan, up 39.57 percent, and gross margin climbing to 49.97 percent. The … Read more