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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In 2026, America’s humanoid robot industry stopped showing off and started defending itself. Against whom? The United States now fields at least six serious robot companies: Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Apptronik, plus Norway-born, US-landed 1X. Six firms, six completely different technical routes. Rankings are easy to fake. What matters is the choices each company … Read more