The first six national standards for humanoid robots have been published, drafted and co-drafted by Shenzhen’s UBTECH, a milestone the city is framing as proof its robotics cluster can set the rules, not just build the machines. The six standards cover general technical requirements, environment perception, and a simulation test platform specification, among others, meant … Read more
Training a robot after it leaves the factory has long meant surrounding it with real hardware. A team at Peking University, working with QiYuan Robotics, says it has found a way to break that dependence. A QiYuan humanoid robot in demonstration. (Source: Leiphone) The result, called HIL-UMI, adds a model brain on top of the … Read more
Shenzhen is turning the last hundred metres of campus delivery into a fully automated chain. Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen and SF Express have opened a smart parcel centre that links intelligent sorting, unmanned shuttles and door-to-door robot delivery, described as the country’s first full-chain smart campus logistics scenario. A sorting robotic arm grabs each … Read more
Inside a palm-sized module sits a chip rated at 560 TOPS, integrating large-model inference, multimodal perception and real-time motion control. That is the flagship Sunrise S600 from Digua Robotics, and it is the computing core the company wants every robot to grow from. “We do not build robots, but we want all robots to grow … Read more
UBTECH says its self-developed unified multimodal world model, Thinker-WM, has taken first place across three embodied world-model benchmarks, a result the company frames as a step toward robots that can predict and plan, not just react. UBTECH’s Thinker-WM unified multimodal world model. (Source: Gasgoo) On the WorldOlympiad benchmark the model scored 0.740 overall and led … Read more
Humanoid robots have started building the very parts that make them move. On 20 October, Schaeffler opened its Embodied Intelligence Robotics smart factory in Taicang, and six humanoids went to work on the joint-module assembly line. Six humanoid robots on Schaeffler’s joint-module assembly line in Taicang. (Source: Gasgoo) The roughly 7,500 square metre plant slots … Read more
Most Western buyers could not name the company, yet they have probably watched its work. Damoda, a Shenzhen-based drone-show specialist, has flown at seven CCTV Spring Festival Galas and turned up repeatedly on the national evening news. What the footage hides is a business that has quietly become one of the most watched bets in … Read more
EngineAI’s full-size general-purpose humanoid, the T800, recently showed off its martial-arts repertoire at the company’s Shenzhen showroom, replaying the moves that made it a hit at URKL. URKL, launched by EngineAI, is the world’s first industrial-grade humanoid robot fighting competition. Illustrative image generated for this report: EngineAI’s T800 humanoid in a competition stance (Source: Shenzhen … Read more
From 16 to 18 October, the Futian district of Shenzhen staged its first “Future Zhen Happens” science-and-technology lifestyle festival inside the Junshang shopping mall in Huaqiangbei. AI desktop plant pets, outdoor powered exoskeletons and interactive robot dogs filled the halls, as a cluster of tech firms turned a retail centre into a walkable street of … Read more
China’s first fully domestic robot ‘nervous system’ On 28 September, a launch event in Yichang, Hubei unveiled what its maker calls the world’s first embodied robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture. The electronic architecture is the ‘intelligent nervous system’ that sets a machine’s performance ceiling, covering the operating system, network, tool software and … Read more