Humanoid Robots

On 2 September, initiated by LinkerBot and Xingyuanzhi, more than 20 core supply-chain firms including Orbbec, FAORobot, Fulai New Materials, Hesai, Huaweike, Livox, Langyi, Linghou, Rokae, Mailivision, Nuwa Create, Quanzhibo, Senyun, RoboSense, Tashan, Wuwenzhike, the iFlytek robot-brain platform, Xinjingcheng, Quectel, Zhixing Embodied and Zongguanxian formed the China Embodied Intelligence Tier 1 Industry Alliance. LinkerBot’s dexterous-hand … Read more

For a while, Scaling Law ruled embodied intelligence. To make a robot arm handle complex pick, align and assemble tasks, most work pushed vision-language-action (VLA) models to 7 billion or even 8.5 billion parameters. Bigger helped semantics, but long-horizon instability did not disappear. A robot arm executing a long-horizon manipulation task. (Source: Leiphone) Many large … Read more

On 1 June 2026 Sam Altman posted on X: AI should help humans in the physical world; in the short term OpenAI is building robots that assist skilled workers constructing future infrastructure, and in the long term it imagines a personal robot for everyone. The post announced OpenAI Robotics, closing a six-year loop from disbanding … Read more

Robots entering factories is the clearest main line of the embodied-AI industry this year. A factory owner, asked how robots perform, said that for an export business with fast-changing orders, the line must shift constantly. Robots handle fixed tasks, but change the product and much has to be rebuilt. That is the real problem after … Read more

On the morning of 4 September, at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, Yuanshan Zhixing, under the AgiBot Research Institute, launched Xiaoyuan, a smart agile guide dog. It is the world’s first wheel-legged guide robot. AgiBot’s Xiaoyuan is the world’s first wheel-legged guide robot. (Source: OFweek) It is not a robot that dances on … Read more

On 19 August, Unitree listed on the STAR Market. At the post-listing dinner, founder Wang Xingxing first proposed the self-evolution of physical-AI robots, using foundation models to close the loop of paper search, code generation, simulation training, real-machine testing and evaluation feedback, moving robot R&D from heavy human dependence toward continuous self-iteration. Wang Xingxing set … Read more

On 31 August, Unitree released an upgraded firefighting emergency solution, with the slogan robots are made for people, on a mission to serve the public, through fire and water, duty bound. Unitree’s B2 firefighting robot dog carries a water cannon rated for 6 to 7 bar. (Source: OFweek) This is not Unitree’s first move into … Read more

On 22 August, at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, the second World Humanoid Robot Games opened and state television turned its cameras to a real tennis court. A humanoid robot faced incoming balls travelling above 50 km/h, judged the landing point within milliseconds, moved its feet, twisted its torso and swung. The ball … Read more

On 19 August, per a National Business Daily leak, Xiaomi’s next humanoid robot stands about 1.70 metres, weighs 66 kg and carries 66 degrees of freedom, with half of them in the hands. Xiaomi planned to show it to the public for the first time at the 2026 World Robot Conference opening on 19 August, … Read more

At the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on 22 August, a humanoid robot stood on a real tennis court and returned balls travelling faster than 50 km/h, judging the landing point in milliseconds, stepping, twisting and swinging. It served, played forehands and backhands, moved its opponent around the baseline, volleyed at the net, … Read more