Global humanoid shipments are climbing fast. IDC puts 2025 worldwide volume above 18,000 units, up around 508 per cent year on year, with Chinese makers dominant, and Morgan Stanley has raised its 2026 China forecast from 28,000 to 50,000 units. As the race moves from basic mobility to stable multi-task work in messy environments, tactile … Read more
On 17 August, RoboScience released REX G1, a wheeled humanoid general-purpose manipulation robot and its first commercial product, pitched as a next-generation embodied-intelligence productivity partner. Built on the company’s self-developed VLOA general embodied model, Visics, the robot targets logistics, factories, retail and home settings, and is designed to close the full loop from task understanding … Read more
Unitree Technology has set the terms of its STAR Market debut, raising 4.202 billion yuan with 80 per cent going to R&D, after 2025 revenue of 1.708 billion yuan jumped 335 per cent and net profit top
No more showboating. At the ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference, which opened in Shanghai on 17 July, humanoid robots stopped performing and started working. Past shows leaned on backflips and boxing; this year robots served as both product and staff, guiding visitors and minding unmanned retail points, the first time full-size humanoids were deployed at … Read more
On 28 July, BYD confirmed to media that its humanoid robot product will officially debut and “go on duty” in August, signalling a move from a pure carmaker toward an ecosystem technology group. The same day, the 2026 Fortune Global 500 listed 35 vehicle and parts firms; BYD replaced Tesla as the electric-vehicle sales champion … Read more
A year ago China’s dexterous-hand sector was a demo-dominated infancy. Capital interest was thin, most makers were still validating concepts, and industry shipments sat at the hundred-to-thousand-unit level, with products suited to trade-show displays rather than stable industrial use or full humanoid integration. In a single year the picture flipped. Hot money rushed in, new … Read more
The first half of 2026 reshuffled the humanoid rankings. AgiBot shipped more than Unitree for the first time, taking the global lead. According to a 9 August report from Smart Analytics Global, a California research firm, global humanoid shipments reached about 19,100 units in the first half, nearly triple the 5,100 a year earlier. Full-year … Read more
Guangdong Huilun Technology, the embodied-AI subsidiary GAC Group spun out to industrialise humanoids, has closed a 100 million yuan funding round. The capital will fund vertical-model optimisation, expansion into automotive production-line and service scenarios, core-product iteration, team building and the scaled rollout of humanoid whole machines and core components. Huilun Robotics’ GoMate Mini wheel-leg humanoid … Read more
Westlake Robotics has closed a nearly 100 million yuan Series A round led by Haiyuan Capital, its fourth raise in six months, taking total funding to 500 million yuan. The money backs development of a unified whole-body large model for humanoids and a talent base for embodied intelligence, pushing toward what the company calls an … Read more
IO-AI Tech, a robotics and embodied-intelligence data-infrastructure company, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan funding round. The round was backed by Shunwei Capital, SongHe Capital and Shenzhen Capital Group, with a strategic investment from a leading robot original-equipment manufacturer. The company said the proceeds will go mainly into core product development, building a more diversified team and … Read more