Siasun-affiliated Dianshi Tech to raise at least RMB 50 million as industrial cleaning robots scale

Dianshi Tech, a subsidiary of Siasun Robotics, plans to raise at least RMB 50 million through a public capital increase on the Beijing exchange, bringing in at least three investors. After the round it will leave Siasun’s consolidated statements; Siasun currently holds 100 per cent through its Shenyang Xinzhi unit. Backed by Siasun, Dianshi focuses … Read more

Lei Jun-backed Surge Robotics wins STAR Market IPO acceptance for single-port surgical robot

Surge Robotics, one of domestic surgical robotics’ so-called four small dragons, has won acceptance for a STAR Market listing, its second attempt after a 2023 CITIC tutoring round was abandoned. It restarted the process in November 2025, filed in December and completed tutoring in June 2026. The firm is using the STAR fifth standard, which … Read more

Tencent-backed FJ Dynamics refiles Hong Kong IPO as adjusted profit turns positive

FJ Dynamics has refiled its Hong Kong prospectus after a September 2025 attempt lapsed. The agricultural and industrial robot maker counts Tencent, Shenzhen Capital, DJI (later exited), VW Transport, Dongfeng Motor and China Post Investment among its backers. Proceeds will widen its product matrix, lift research capability and raise global penetration. Founded in 2017, the … Read more

Standard Robots files Hong Kong prospectus for a third time at a RMB 2.1 billion pre-IPO valuation

Last Friday, Standard Robots and a team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) won the logistics-sorting world title at ICRA 2026, the second global dual-arm robot skills challenge. Days later, on 27 July, the firm filed its third Hong Kong prospectus through the 18C pre-revenue specialist-tech channel, after two earlier applications … Read more

Collaborative-robot leader Dobot heads to ChiNext hearing, chasing the title of first A-share cobot stock

In June 2025 a Shenzhen comprehensive-reform opinion let Greater Bay Area companies listed in Hong Kong return to the Shenzhen exchange under policy rules, opening a fresh capital path. Dobot, which landed on the Hong Kong bourse in December 2024, seized the opening as the first GBA H-share-to-A case, announced a Shenzhen listing in December … Read more

Marine-robotics firm Shihang Intelligent closes record RMB 1 billion Series A as Temasek and GSR double down

Shihang Intelligent, a global marine embodied-robot company, announced on 15 June that it had closed a Series A round of more than RMB 1 billion, the largest single-round raise recorded in the global marine-robotics sector. The round gathered a slate of industrial and mainstream investors: Shanghe Momentum Fund (the industrial arm of Moore Threads and … Read more

A humanoid played full autonomous tennis against a Grand Slam champion, and Galbot calls it its AstraTennis moment

At the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on 22 August, a humanoid robot stood on a real tennis court and returned balls travelling faster than 50 km/h, judging the landing point in milliseconds, stepping, twisting and swinging. It served, played forehands and backhands, moved its opponent around the baseline, volleyed at the net, … Read more

IFA 2026 turns into a Chinese physical-AI show as 1,000-plus mainland firms claim half the floor

The world’s oldest consumer-electronics fair opened in Berlin on 4 September looking less like a gadget show and more like a parade of Chinese physical AI. Of roughly 2,000 exhibitors at IFA 2026, more than 932 came from mainland China, a number that tops 1,000 with Hong Kong and Taiwan firms included, close to half … Read more

Unitree’s stock halves two weeks after listing, yet its margins tell a different story

Two weeks after debuting as the first humanoid-robot company on China’s A-share market, Unitree has lost more than RMB 230 billion of market value. By the close on 4 September its shares sat at RMB 530.30, giving a market capitalisation of RMB 214.5 billion, roughly half the RMB 444.9 billion peak reached on listing day. … Read more

YuanDian opens up humanoid robotics with a USD 1,500 open-source platform and CMU-published designs

Humanoid robotics in 2026 is caught in a paradox. The hardware has raced ahead, with full-size robots landing backflips, street-dance combos and martial-arts sequences, yet the industry’s base layer has barely moved. Every maker uses its own body shape, joint configuration, sensing interface and calibration. A grasping policy trained for years on one company’s hardware … Read more