Westlake Robotics has closed a nearly 100 million yuan Series A round led by Haiyuan Capital, its fourth raise in six months, taking total funding to 500 million yuan. The money backs development of a unified whole-body large model for humanoids and a talent base for embodied intelligence, pushing toward what the company calls an … Read more
IO-AI Tech, a robotics and embodied-intelligence data-infrastructure company, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan funding round. The round was backed by Shunwei Capital, SongHe Capital and Shenzhen Capital Group, with a strategic investment from a leading robot original-equipment manufacturer. The company said the proceeds will go mainly into core product development, building a more diversified team and … Read more
China’s humanoid output could top 100,000 units in 2026, five times 2025, but most machines still land in labs and classrooms, not factories, as capital pivots from bodies to brains.
UBTECH has taken a 10 per cent stake in a new Maoming joint venture with a state-owned partner, extending its humanoids from auto and 3C factories into traditional industries and building a replicable
Japanese engineers have taken apart a Unitree G1 to study China’s humanoid advances, but Japan lacks the commercial scenes, from entertainment to data centres, that turned Chinese robots into a real i
Industrial autonomous-mobile-robot maker Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, with cash of under 50 million yuan and cumulative losses above 400 million yuan, a snapshot of the
At WAIC 2026 the embodied-intelligence zone was again the busiest. Sudu’s booth drew a different crowd: robots stood quietly at a workbench doing plain things, grabbing items, wrapping an object with a cloth using both arms, inserting a part into its hole. No showmanship, but the stability, success rate and generalisation stood out. This is … Read more
As multimodal and VLA models mature, embodied intelligence is racing toward industry. Robots reason better, but in real homes, factories and shops, what decides capability is not only how smart the brain is, but how accurately they perceive the physical world. Navigation, fine grasping and human interaction all rest on reliable three-dimensional vision. Guangxin Technology … Read more
As robots flood factories, homes and public spaces, what decides whether they can actually work is shifting from movement to manipulation. Carrying, inspection and simple pick-and-place are maturing, but on finer dexterous tasks, grasping parts, turning tools, inserting components, robots still struggle. The industry used to rank a hand by parameters, degrees of freedom, load, … Read more
On 11 August, Daimon Robotics announced a several-hundred-million-yuan strategic round led by Ant Group, with existing shareholders oversubscribing. The raise came only about two months after its previous financing: a 100-million-yuan A round in June led by Inovance Industrial Investment and China Telecom. The string of capital injections has built Daimon an investor roster spanning … Read more