A Qualcomm veteran came home to build robot hands. Zhejiang state capital followed.
Aoyi Technology, founded by a former Qualcomm chip engineer, holds 35% of China’s dexterous hand market with 400M+ yuan raised across eight rounds.
Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots in 2026: output frenzy, deployment doubt
100,000 units, or a fivefold leap Halfway through 2026, the humanoid industry turned in a glossy scorecard. At July’s WAIC press conference, MIIT vice-minister Gan Xiaobin said full-year output could exceed 100,000 units. From about 20,000 in 2025 to 100,000 is a fivefold jump any sector would envy. Fellow vice-minister Ke Jixin called it a … Read more
Luming Robot co-CTO Ding Yan leaves for Fudan
A short tenure ends Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Ding Yan, co-CTO of Luming Robot, has formally left. His social profile now reads researcher at Fudan University’s Zuquan Institute, confirming the career turn. From joining in November 2025 to leaving, his time at Luming was under 280 days. Ding Yan, a pioneer of the UMI … Read more
Vbot picks Japan as first global stop with Future Robotics
Japan is the first stop Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that Vbot (Wei Ta Dong Li) has formally begun its global layout, with Japan as the first overseas market. Vbot signed a strategic cooperation deal with Japanese robot solutions provider Future Robotics to expand the Japan market over three years, with an initial order of 1 … Read more
AgiBot’s Luo Jianlan leaves as it chases Hong Kong IPO
The IPO that finally surfaced AgiBot (Zhiyuan Innovation), the humanoid star that repeatedly denied Hong Kong IPO rumours, finally confirmed in late July that it had started the listing process. Good news followed: its self-developed WITA-Omni Preview model topped Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia with an 85.21 score, and it launched the world’s first robot … Read more
Unitree’s 60% margin looks like a price-war signal
The 60.13 percent question On 6 August, Unitree set its issue price at 150.80 yuan per share, dropping book-building. The prospectus shows 40.45 million new shares, 10 percent of the post-issue total, raising about 4.20 billion yuan at a 42 billion yuan valuation. Post-issue, Unitree (688836.SH) is worth about 61 billion yuan at a stunning … Read more
DeepSeek buys into Unitree IPO at 61bn yuan valuation
Unitree prices its IPO above expectations On 6 August, Unitree Technology fixed its IPO issue price at 150.80 yuan per share. On a post-issue share count, that implies a market value of about 60.99 billion yuan, comfortably above the 42 billion yuan valuation the market had broadly expected. As founder, Wang Xingxing held 23.82 percent … Read more
Delta Intelligence has raised close to $70m in six rounds in half a year, betting the humanoid race is won on 3D perception
Six rounds in half a year Delta Intelligence, a Chinese humanoid foundation-model company founded in January 2026, has closed an angel++ round worth close to 500m yuan, the sixth financing the company has raised in the six months since incorporation. Investors in this round include listed-company strategic backers and tier-one financial institutions. Proceeds will fund … Read more
Tesla, Hyundai and BMW are betting on humanoids, and disagreeing about what they are for
From Optimus to Atlas, and on to the humanoid pilot running inside BMW plants, carmakers have become one of the main forces pushing embodied intelligence towards industrialisation. Behind the different routes they have chosen, a contest over the future of manufacturing has already started. The past decade put the car industry through electrification, intelligence and … Read more
A Shenzhen firm has put six-axis touch under a robot’s foot
PaXini, the Shenzhen company that has spent the past few years trying to give machines a sense of touch, has launched PX-FOOTRIX, which it describes as the world’s first multi-dimensional tactile sensor for the sole of a robot foot. The product is built on a 6D Hall-effect tactile array that the company says is the … Read more