A world first. After 16 rounds of talks between the union and management stalled, the long-brewing strike at South Korea’s Hyundai Motor finally erupted in full. Unlike earlier small gestures of leaving two hours early, this was real: an eight-hour full strike, Hyundai’s first since 2016 a decade ago, involving more than 39,000 union members. … Read more
On 21 August, during the 2026 World Robot Conference, news emerged that MoJia Robotics (AiMOGA), under Chery Automobile (09973.HK), had started IPO preparation. Zhang Guibing, who also serves as president of Chery’s international business, said publicly that MoJia is discussing potential listing venues and expects to sharply raise humanoid-robot deliveries next year to join the … Read more
Unitree Technology rang the opening bell and its shares exploded higher at the start. “The first humanoid-robot stock” formally listed on the Shanghai STAR Market. On its first trading day Unitree opened at 1,100 yuan per share, a surge of 629.44 per cent over the 150.80 yuan issue price, and its total market value instantly … Read more
The embodied-AI industry is not short of robots that can deliver one pretty demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat the same task ten thousand times in a real setting and stay reliable. PaXini says it has just crossed that line. The company disclosed a 1 billion yuan strategic round and said cumulative funding … Read more
On 10 August Unitree opened its public offer at 150.8 yuan a share, a market value near 61 billion yuan, and cleared the STAR Market review in 73 days, the fastest tech-board listing this year. Behind it sat a star cast of backers, Meituan, Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi among them. Missing from the winner’s circle … Read more
Ninebot rode high-growth and a robot narrative to a rich valuation, then spent a year testing investor trust. The 2025 full-year numbers still looked strong: revenue of 21.278 billion yuan, up 49.89 per cent and the first year above 20 billion, with net profit of 1.758 billion, up 62.17 per cent. E-bikes reached 11.86 billion … Read more
UBTECH arrived at WRC 2026 with a ‘working crew’ rather than a dance troupe. Walker C1 hosted the booth, more than ten Cruzr Y1 and S2 units ran a copied factory line doing stamping and machining feed, depalletising and e-commerce sorting, and the new UWORLD U1 home humanoid drew the longest queues. The through-line was … Read more
While humanoids packed the WRC floor, a quieter fight played out one level down. Unitree still leads the quadruped market, but its grip is loosening, and a young firm called Vbot (Weita Power) found the gap: the consumer. SAG estimates global quadruped shipments of about 26,000 units in the first half of 2026, with Unitree … Read more
StarBot (Star Agent) came to WRC 2026 with a full family and a claim it has already passed the hardest test in robotics: product-market fit. The headline exhibit was an end-to-end embodied logistics plan, the first in the field to clear PMF, running with SF Express and China Post across more than ten logistics centres … Read more
At WRC 2026, Zhejiang Humanoid Innovation Centre brought its NAVIAI range to booth C-105 and argued for one idea: a single technology base should run every scene, not a different robot per job. The base is SPIRE, a fusion of a world model that reads the environment and predicts change with an embodied model that … Read more