Guangdong Tianji Intelligent Systems recently closed a RMB 1 billion Series B and B-plus round at a post-money valuation near RMB 10 billion. Hillhouse Venture and Meituan’s strategic arm co-led, with Tencent, Gaorong Venture, Photosynthesis Venture and GGV Capital following. Tianji does not make just one kind of robot. Its products span collaborative robots, horizontal … Read more
XiYuan Zhisuan (Shanghai) Technology has been registered, with corporate records showing it is wholly owned by Zhiyuan Innovation (Shanghai) Technology, the core entity behind Agibot Robotics. Its stated business scope covers AI theory and algorithm software, AI foundational software, AI application software and general AI application systems. No data-centre operations category has appeared yet. Agibot … Read more
In 2026 the humanoid-robot race entered an odd paradox. Hardware is racing: full-size humanoids now backflip and street-dance, with Unitree’s G1 on the OmniXtreme framework hitting a 96.36 per cent backflip success rate and sub-10-millisecond end-to-end latency, numbers unimaginable three years ago. A humanoid robot demonstration at a 2026 event. (Source: Leiphone) But the ecosystem’s … Read more
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
This year’s WAIC and WRC showed a shift in embodied intelligence: less showboating, more pragmatism. Last year’s robots danced, fought and walked runways; this year they were dropped into real logistics, industrial and home tasks. That points to a bigger question: how far has embodied intelligence actually come, and how far to real scale? Embodied-intelligence … 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
On 8 September Noetix Robotics formally launched Scalabot, a general embodied-intelligence technology brand, together with HERON-World Model, the first world model under its HERON architecture. The move extends the company beyond robot bodies into full-stack capability that pairs body with embodied brain. Noetix Robotics unveils its Scalabot embodied-intelligence brand. (Source: Gasgoo) Scalabot fuses Scale and … Read more
On 7 September Tesla China abruptly announced price cuts through a limited-time purchase incentive, and a wave of owners who had only just taken delivery found themselves thousands of yuan underwater. Under the policy, valid for orders placed and delivered by 30 September, the entire Model 3 lineup of in-stock cars carries a RMB 5,000 … Read more
China’s smart-car industry is still accelerating. The pace shows up not just in shorter launch cycles but across how consumers adopt new technology, how products are developed, how supply chains cut cost and how companies make decisions. For automotive suppliers, the rules of competition are shifting: products must land faster and cheaper while still meeting … Read more