Standard Robots, founded by Harbin Institute of Technology alumni, filed its prospectus to the Hong Kong exchange for a third time on 27 July, chasing a main-board listing through the 18C channel for pre-profit specialist-tech firms. Two earlier filings, in June 2025 and January 2026, lapsed when review windows closed. The refiling came days after … Read more
Surgerii Robotics, one of China’s four leading domestic surgical-robot firms, has had its STAR Market IPO accepted, its second run at the market after a 2023 attempt stalled. It is filing under the exchange’s fifth listing standard, which asks for a projected value above 4 billion yuan rather than revenue or profit, and plans to … Read more
Zhongke Yuandongli, a Beijing agricultural-robotics firm incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Microelectronics, has closed a B2 round of several hundred million yuan led by Chery Holdings’ Chery Intelligent Technology. The money funds core research, scaled delivery of new-energy smart farm machines and embodied-intelligence agricultural robots, and faster overseas expansion. Chery brings … Read more
As Unitree completed its STAR Market subscription in August 2026 at a post-issue value of 60.99 billion yuan, the race for the next humanoid listing intensified. Galaxy General, a Beijing embodied-large-model humanoid firm, carried out a sweeping management overhaul, ten out and nine in, with former chairman Guo Xiaoliang and nine others leaving and nine … Read more
DeepSea Robots, a Guangzhou private firm, has closed a Series A of over 500 million yuan. New backers include Guanghe Venture, Dachen Caizhi, GGV, Yida Capital, Zhongbao Investment and CETC Investment, plus a Total Energy-backed fund managed by Cathay, while old shareholders such as Zhengxuan, Yunze and Gaojie raised their stakes sharply. A single A … Read more
Digital Huaxia has closed a hundreds-of-millions-yuan Pre-A strategic round with several deep-pocketed industrial investors joining and existing shareholder Cowin Capital adding to its stake. The capital arrives with concrete commercial orders and deployment scenes, binding money to business rather than to a promise. The round funds mass production of the bionic-intelligence product line and the … Read more
MiFeng Technology, which runs a one-stop physical-AI data service platform, has closed a new round of several hundred million yuan. The round was led by China Telecom, with Zhangjiang Group following and Sequoia China and Yuanqi Innovation topping up their earlier stakes. The money will scale production of the MEgo series of bodiless capture products, … Read more
Unitree released a new humanoid, “Superman”, on 17 August, with a 2-metre standing vertical jump and a top speed of 12.66 metres per second on 0.85-metre legs, past the standing-high-jump and running-speed records for any human. The company said the whole machine took just over three months to develop and has room to improve in … Read more
Global humanoid shipments are climbing fast. IDC puts 2025 worldwide volume above 18,000 units, up around 508 per cent year on year, with Chinese makers dominant, and Morgan Stanley has raised its 2026 China forecast from 28,000 to 50,000 units. As the race moves from basic mobility to stable multi-task work in messy environments, tactile … Read more
On 17 August, RoboScience released REX G1, a wheeled humanoid general-purpose manipulation robot and its first commercial product, pitched as a next-generation embodied-intelligence productivity partner. Built on the company’s self-developed VLOA general embodied model, Visics, the robot targets logistics, factories, retail and home settings, and is designed to close the full loop from task understanding … Read more