China’s dexterous-hand funding hit 25 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, past all of 2025, with shipments set to climb from over 20,000 units to 70,200, as InTime, Lingxin, Turning Point and Brai
Unitree Technology has set the terms of its STAR Market debut, raising 4.202 billion yuan with 80 per cent going to R&D, after 2025 revenue of 1.708 billion yuan jumped 335 per cent and net profit top
Hikvision’s 2026 interim report shows a company compounding quietly. First-half revenue reached 46.82 billion yuan, up 11.97 per cent, with net profit attributable to shareholders at 7.90 billion, up 39.57 per cent, and non-recurring net profit at 7.71 billion, up 40.50 per cent. Gross margin rose to 49.97 per cent, up 4.78 percentage points, widening … Read more
On 21 April 2026, RoboSense held its Tech Day in Shenzhen and for the first time laid out a systematic chip roadmap. Two flagship SPAD-SoCs on its new “Genesis” digital architecture debuted: the Phoenix line for monolithic native ultra-high line count, and the Peacock line for all-solid-state high-resolution arrays. Both reach mass production in 2026. … Read more
No more showboating. At the ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference, which opened in Shanghai on 17 July, humanoid robots stopped performing and started working. Past shows leaned on backflips and boxing; this year robots served as both product and staff, guiding visitors and minding unmanned retail points, the first time full-size humanoids were deployed at … Read more
A year ago China’s dexterous-hand sector was a demo-dominated infancy. Capital interest was thin, most makers were still validating concepts, and industry shipments sat at the hundred-to-thousand-unit level, with products suited to trade-show displays rather than stable industrial use or full humanoid integration. In a single year the picture flipped. Hot money rushed in, new … Read more
Tactile sensing is becoming a foundational capability for the next generation of embodied intelligence. For two years the robotics industry poured resources into bodies, large models, dexterous hands and vision. As those capabilities advanced quickly, the bottleneck narrowed to the contact layer: a robot must not only locate an object, but feel force, friction, slip … Read more
On 12 August, Tianjin’s industry, development and science bureaus issued the Tianjin Smart Robot Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan for 2026 to 2028. By the end of 2028 the city targets core output above 20 billion yuan, average annual growth beyond 15 per cent and a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional supply rate above 60 per cent. … Read more
The first half of 2026 reshuffled the humanoid rankings. AgiBot shipped more than Unitree for the first time, taking the global lead. According to a 9 August report from Smart Analytics Global, a California research firm, global humanoid shipments reached about 19,100 units in the first half, nearly triple the 5,100 a year earlier. Full-year … Read more
Before Unitree had even started trading, the market had already priced its IPO at about 61 billion yuan. With 2025 revenue near 1.699 billion yuan and net profit around 278 million yuan, that implies a static price-to-earnings multiple of roughly 219 times. The natural first reaction: why would a maker of robot dogs and humanoids … Read more