Humanoid Robots

Delta Intelligence has raised close to $70m in six rounds in half a year, betting the humanoid race is won on 3D perception

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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

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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

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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

China’s dexterous-hand ‘new four’ move from demo to volume

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One year ago China’s dexterous-hand field was a pile of demos. Capital was thin, most makers were still validating designs, and annual output sat in the hundreds or low thousands, good for trade shows but not for factories or whole robots. That phase is over. Money moved first. Full-year dexterous-hand funding reached 16.88 billion yuan … Read more

Daxiao Robot launches Kairos-HomeWorld, a world model for home robots

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Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics On 5 June, Daxiao Robot, with CUHK’s Multimedia Lab and the Hetao institute, released Kairos-HomeWorld, the first world-model framework to do full-house generation with object-level interaction. It breaks the industry ceiling where indoor generation covered only single rooms with no global consistency or operability, generating coherent, physically … Read more

Kepler robots takes the M&A path while peers rush to IPO

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Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics In 2026 the robotics capitalisation wave keeps heating up. Unitree cleared the listing in just 73 days, sprinting toward the first A-share humanoid stock. Leju, DeepRobotics and SharkRobot also accelerated. By rough count, robotics firms in the Hong Kong IPO queue have reached 46, over 10 per … Read more