Faraday Future has signed a cooperation deal with California advanced-air-mobility firm AIBOT to support compliance and manufacturing for its AI robotics business, as Washington tightens control over foreign-made robotic and power hardware. Faraday Future’s EAI robot concept under its Built in USA plan (Source: Gasgoo) A compliance and build partner Announced on 4 September, the … Read more
In mid-August, Zhongjian Technology was fined RMB 3.9 million for fabricating a signing with Huawei’s Embodied Intelligence Innovation Centre and false disclosure, mired in controversy. Amid the storm, the veteran garden-equipment maker did not stop expanding in robotics. Recently Zhongjian announced that it and subsidiary Shanghai Huazhijian signed an intelligent-robot industrialisation investment agreement with the … Read more
Recently, domestic industrial welding-robot leader Kelda Robotics released its 2026 interim report. Revenue reached RMB 425 million, up 34.73 per cent; net profit attributable to shareholders RMB 28.269 million, up 1,095.30 per cent; non-recurring net profit RMB 24.095 million, swinging from a RMB 2.734 million loss to profit, up over 980 per cent; comprehensive gross … Read more
The Hong Kong equity robot track is about to get a new face. On 24 August, Youdi Robotics (Wuxi) Co passed the HKEX main-board listing hearing; on 31 August it opened global bookbuilding, with trading expected on 9 September. The global offer is 45 million H shares at HK$14.45 to 19.55, implying net proceeds of … Read more
Embodied Emergence has learned that Lieon (Shenzhen) Robotics Technology has closed a tens-of-millions-of-yuan strategic round, invested by Shenzhen Lifud Technology, with Yunyue Capital as exclusive financial adviser. At the same time the company reached a cooperation intent with associate professor Zhang Meiying’s team at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Southern University of Science and Technology, … Read more
When prominent investor Zhu Xiaohu exited humanoid-robot projects in bulk and turned to Harbin-Engineering-line Shanghai Hang Intelligent, deep-sea robotics returned to the venture spotlight. But another Harbin-Engineering-line dark horse, DeepOcean Intelligence, has carved a faster commercial path in industrial deep sea through hard tech and delivery. As the cradle of China’s marine-equipment talent, Harbin Engineering … Read more
On 1 September, XTRON Robotics (XTRONROBOT), which focuses on special-industrial embodied intelligence, announced a several-tens-of-million-yuan Series A1 round. Investors include Qianhai Ark, Westlake Sci-tech Innovation Fund and Guangyang Co. The proceeds will go mainly to iterating the XBOT-AEGIS embodied-intelligence system, developing multi-form special-purpose embodied robots, and expanding domestic and overseas markets. XTRON was formally founded … Read more
Embodied Emergence has learned that Locus Robotics, the US warehouse autonomous-mobile-robot (AMR) unicorn, has closed a USD 41.6 million (about RMB 280 million) Series G round. Every dollar in this round came from existing shareholders. The process is not yet closed, and the company has not disclosed its fundraising target, the full investor list, use … Read more
Founded in 2016, Mech-Mind Robotics is a supplier of core intelligent-robotics components rather than a full robot OEM, providing standardised “eye-brain-hand” modules for robots of different forms. Its Mech-Eye industrial 3D camera captures spatial data; Mech-Vision and Mech-Viz software handle recognition, decision and motion planning; and it is extending into the Mech-GPT multimodal model and … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Naochi Times (Shanghai) Technology, or “Naochi Times”, recently closed a tens-of-millions-yuan seed round led by Yuanhe Puhua. The company said the proceeds will mainly build its first-generation multi-function motor brain-computer interface product “Omni One”, advance self-developed non-invasive high-throughput ultrasound BCI systems and pre-clinical validation, and expand core engineering and … Read more