Two rounds, one focus: the places humans hate to enter Hangzhou Guoxun Robotics has closed two funding rounds in roughly six months totalling tens of millions of yuan, with Jiuzhao Investment, Yueke Finance Group and Liang Venture investing. Yueke Finance Group is Guangdong’s largest state-owned professional mother-fund platform, and its backing signals strong capital confidence … Read more
Capacity aimed at the Yangtze River Delta Qingtian Lituo Robot, a unit of Lituo Intelligent, has broken ground on a project that will build a digital factory for smart logistics robots with planned annual output of 5,000 units. The 40 mu site focuses on AGV handling robots, smart warehouse equipment and control software, serving manufacturers … Read more
A ping-pong robot pitches itself as an AI coach AI sports hardware company Pangbot has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Series B. The round was led by the Shanghai Guotou XianDao fund, with Yuanhe Puhua and Pudong Venture Capital joining and early backer BlueRun adding capital, while Gaohu Capital acted as sole adviser. The proceeds go into … Read more
On 28 September in Yichang, Hubei, the world’s first embodied robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture was unveiled. The architecture, its backers argue, is the machine’s “intelligent nervous system”, and building it at home changes who controls the robot’s safety boundary. Illustrative editorial image. (Source context: OFweek) The electronic architecture spans operating system, … Read more
AgiBot, the embodied-intelligence unicorn also known as Zhiyuan, has opened a new financing round of roughly RMB 1.0 billion to 1.5 billion that is close to closing, at a latest valuation near RMB 50 billion, according to Caixin. The raise matters because of what it blocks: a 2026 listing. AgiBot humanoid robot (Source: Sohu) Founded … Read more
By September 2026, an investor’s 2025 memo had been tested daily: a humanoid will not make money in five years, but skip it now and regret it forever. IT Juzi data shows embodied-AI financing jumped from 105 deals and RMB 9.5 billion in 2024 to 333 deals and RMB 40.6 billion in 2025, up 217 … Read more
WorldArena, the benchmark that has become a reference point for world models, opened its 2.0 challenge at IROS 2026 with two new tracks built to test one thing the field dodges: can the model actually drive a robot, or only generate a pretty video? WorldArena 2.0 adds real-robot and reinforcement tracks to test whether world … Read more
From 12 to 16 October, the 26th China International Industry Fair opens in Shanghai, and KUKA will use it to launch “KAI”, short for KUKA Advanced Intelligence, under the theme “AI, embodied”. The pitch is not one smart device but a full factory layer: one brain that spans every product, software and line. KUKA frames … Read more
In 2026 the business of robot “skin” began to fork. At IROS 2026, Sharpa launched the D01 robot, the W02 dexterous hand and the AE01 exoskeleton data glove at once. The glove logs an operator’s finger-joint motion with 22 encoders and feeds contact back through five fingertip vibration motors, so one device both teleoperates a … Read more
Shutu Tech has closed a Pre-A round of nearly RMB 100 million, its third raise in a single month, led by CDH Investments’ Baifu arm and the Kunpeng Fund, a national-level big-data vehicle, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital joining and existing backer Trend Investment topping up. The money goes straight at the hardest … Read more