Robotics

Bangqi bets on industrial AI agents, not just robots, to wire factories into one nervous system

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Bangqi, a Shenzhen firm, has staked its strategy on building a factory-wide intelligent system rather than selling single devices. Using its own industrial vertical AI model, it pairs an LDS production-coordination system and an ADS multi-brand scheduling system with self-built AGV, AMR and embodied-robot hardware, pushing plants from local automation toward global autonomous decisions. From … Read more

Yuanli Wuxian closes nearly RMB 1 billion round, chases embodied-intelligence ‘evolution speed’

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Yuanli Wuxian, an embodied-brain company, completed Series A and A+ funding of nearly RMB 1 billion on 14 August. The round was led by Dunhong Asset and a leading state-owned platform, with Zhejiang University’s sci-tech group, Yandu state control and Lishui state capital among the industrial and institutional backers, and earlier investor CCV adding more. … Read more

Guangdong mobile-base pioneer Jiateng Robots raises tens of millions, bets on industrial embodied intelligence

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Jiateng Robots, a veteran Chinese mobile-robot company, said it has closed a strategic funding round worth tens of millions of yuan, 12 years after its last major raise. The round was led by H&T Intelligent Control, with Daohe Fund and Jinmu Capital following. An industrial round, not a financial one The investor line-up is built … Read more

Unitree debuts on the STAR Market at a 400 billion yuan valuation as shares open 629 per cent up

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On 19 August, Unitree Technology (688836.SH) listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market, becoming the first pure-play humanoid-robot stock on the A-share market. Priced at 150.80 yuan per share, it opened at 1,100 yuan, pushing its market capitalisation above 400 billion yuan. At that open, a single winning IPO lot could be worth up … Read more

CNPC’s Kunlun Capital lists a slice of deep-sea robot maker Shandong Future at a 3.15 billion yuan valuation

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The Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange recently disclosed a listing: CNPC Kunlun Capital is transferring 0.6349 per cent of Shandong Future Robot, equal to 234,372 shares, at a reserve price of 20 million yuan. The pure state-industry investor has deep ties to the company. In May 2025 the two signed an investment deal spanning … Read more

Chery backs agri-robot maker Zhongke Yuandongli in a several-hundred-million-yuan B2 round

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Beijing Zhongke Yuandongli Technology recently closed a several-hundred-million-yuan B2 round led by Chery Smart Technology, an arm of Chery Holdings. The proceeds will fund R&D on new-energy smart agricultural machinery and embodied-AI agricultural robots, scaled delivery and faster overseas expansion. Tianyancha records show the company has completed eight funding rounds, backed by a mix of … Read more

Acorn Robot closes angel round and unveils a tactile ‘instinct model’ that skips pretraining

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Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Acorn Robot, an embodied-manipulation company, recently closed an angel round led by China Merchants Venture Capital and NIO Capital, with the Tsinghua alumni seed fund following on. Only four months after a nearly 100 million yuan seed round in March, the two rounds together have raised several hundred million … Read more

A San Francisco startup runs Unitree robots as cleaners at US$30 an hour, and loses money to buy data

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In late July, San Francisco startup Tau Robotics launched a humanoid home-cleaning service at US$30 an hour, about RMB 200. It is invite-only, covering the city’s Mission and Noe Valley neighbourhoods. Tau runs three robots named Chelsea, Elon and Tony, in black uniforms with assigned roles. Chelsea tackles kitchen counters and mirror water marks. Tony … Read more

Dyna-2: embodied AI’s ‘GPT-3 moment’ has finally arrived

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In August 2026, Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, its new robot foundation model. Pretraining used over 1 million hours of first-person human video, roughly 170 years of continuous awake experience. Across seven benchmarks, the WAM architecture reached 1.55 times the success rate of the previous VLA models. High-precision manufacturing task success jumped from Dyna-1’s 20 per … Read more

Galbot and NVIDIA just punctured the biggest lie in humanoid robotics

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Open any tech outlet and humanoid funding looks like a flood. 2026 was crowned the first year of embodied intelligence, capital queuing to pay. Step into an embodied-AI lab and you see something else. No sci-fi autonomy. No elegant conversation. An operator wears a VR headset, motion-capture suit and handheld controller, repeatedly driving an arm … Read more