Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company’s Robotics Experience business promotion office in Seocho, Seoul on 27 October, reviewing the state of humanoid development and how ready the technology is to be sold. The date was not incidental. It marked four years since he took the chairman’s role, and the tour functions as a … Read more
Xpeng disclosed on 28 October that the solid-state battery built specifically for its IRON humanoid has completed small-batch production, and that the robot itself has reached the final stage before formal mass production. The detail came from group vice-president Gu Jie, speaking at the embodied intelligent robot conference held alongside the annual meeting of the … Read more
Juqiao Industrial has closed a RMB 100 million Series A led by Ant Group, with existing shareholders Zero-One Ventures, Weihai Gangrong and Qingdao Hexin increasing their positions. Multi-Dimension Capital acted as sole financial adviser. The money goes into production capacity for electronic skin, into tactile and multimodal research, and into applications in robotics, home products … Read more
AgiBot used its innovation day on 29 October to disclose a number that few Chinese robot companies publish. First-half 2026 revenue came in at close to RMB 2 billion, a figure above what Unitree and UBTech reported for the same six months, and comparable to Unitree’s performance across a full nine months. The trajectory behind … Read more
On 23 October Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Beijing robot company Songyan Dynamics had filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering aiming to raise several hundred million US dollars. A listing could come as early as next year. Discussions are continuing and size and timing may change. The company … Read more
Two things happened on the same day in different places, and read together they explain more than either does alone. On 23 October JPMorgan published a note titled Tesla Optimus ramp more gradual, selective on humanoid supply chain. Its read on production at the Fremont plant was blunt. Guidance is for 10,000 to 20,000 units. … Read more
Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robotics, which sells under the CASBOT brand, has completed an A++ round worth several hundred million yuan. The round was joined by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi and Luning Investment. Proceeds go to volume delivery, embodied brain research for key scenarios, and market expansion. It is the … Read more
On 22 October, the 2026 World Physical AI Conference and Unitree’s partner ecosystem event opened in Hangzhou. Wang Xingxing, Unitree’s founder, used his keynote to make an argument that cuts against most of the industry’s current enthusiasm. Wang Xingxing, Unitree’s founder, speaking at the World Physical AI Conference in Hangzhou on 22 October. (Source: OFweek) … Read more
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia and Agile Robots jointly launched Agile ONE SN, a humanoid built for research rather than for a factory floor. The significance is not the machine. It is who is standing next to it. Nvidia and Agile Robots launched Agile ONE SN at GTC Berlin, shipping with Isaac GR00T preinstalled (Source: Gasgoo) … Read more
Embodied intelligence has no shortage of technical routes. It has a shortage of commercial ones, and investors have started paying for the difference. INFIFORCE keeps several body forms as validation platforms for its embodied brain (Source: Gasgoo) Zhejiang Venture Capital Group has completed an investment of close to RMB 100 million in INFIFORCE, a Hangzhou … Read more