NEO may be the most contradictory humanoid on the planet. When 1X Technologies opened pre-orders in October 2025 at USD 20,000 a unit or USD 499 a month, the first year’s capacity sold out in five days and bookings passed 10,000. A year on, in September 2026, no unit is confirmed delivered to a ordinary … Read more
Inspire Robotics, working with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, has open-sourced HandEdit, a dataset and benchmark for first-person human-to-robot dexterous-hand image editing. Inspire’s RH56DFX dexterous hand operating an espresso machine. (Source: OFweek Robotics) What HandEdit actually is The task: take a first-person human-operated video and replace the hand or arm with a specified … Read more
LionBot (Shenzhen) Robotics has closed a tens-of-millions-yuan strategic round led by Shenzhen Lifud, with Yunyue Capital as exclusive adviser, and struck a research partnership with a team at Southern University of Science and Technology. LionBot’s approach to industrial embodied-data capture. (Source: OFweek Robotics) The gap is the middleware The team came from UBTech and Pudu, … Read more
On 31 August, Unitree released an upgraded firefighting and emergency solution with a blunt slogan: robots are made for people, built to serve, to charge into fire and danger. A Unitree quadruped deployed for firefighting and emergency response. (Source: OFweek Robotics) From reconnaissance to water cannon Unitree is not new to the field. In April … Read more
While the industry idolises human-shaped machines, Benmo Technology took the opposite bet in 2020: give a robot wheels and legs, then throw it into the messy places where neither wheels nor feet alone will do. A Benmo wheel-leg robot navigating unstructured outdoor terrain. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Direct drive, no gearbox Founded by Zhang Di, a … Read more
On 1 September, XtronRobot (XTRONROBOT), a specialist in embodied intelligence for hazardous industry, closed a tens-of-millions-yuan A1 round from Qianhai Ark, Xihu Sci-Tech Venture and Guangyang Shares. The money funds its XBOT-AEGIS embodied system, multi-configuration explosion-proof robots, and domestic and overseas expansion. An XtronRobot explosion-proof embodied system for hazardous plants. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Built for … Read more
Mech-Mind listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 1 September, backed by a cornerstone book that reads like a global asset roster: Baillie Gifford, which once held Tesla and Nvidia, led the round, joined by Taikang, Jane Street, BYD’s Golden Link, Invus, Ghisallo, Ruihua, Australia’s NGS Super and EasTone, together subscribing 186 million dollars, … Read more
Hikrobot, the robotics arm of Hangzhou Hikvision, posted 4.03 billion yuan of revenue in the first half of 2026, up 28.3 per cent and 8.6 per cent of the group total, growing faster than Hikvision itself as factory and logistics automation become a steady engine. The parent’s scorecard Hikvision’s half-year revenue rose 12.0 per cent … Read more
Ruison Technology plans a private placement of up to 784 million yuan, with the net proceeds funding a high-precision, high-speed six-axis robot plant, an R&D and headquarters upgrade, and debt repayment. The raise extends a push from system integration toward proprietary robot hardware. From Panasonic partner to own arms Founder Sun Zhiqiang started in 1995 … Read more
Black Sesame Technologies has delivered the first batch of its Aura Devkit to collaborative robot maker AUBO, the two companies said, deepening a tie that now spans project bids, joint research and commercial supply. Black Sesame Aura compute module from the SesameX embodied-AI platform (Source: Gasgoo) A car chip moves into the robot The Aura … Read more