China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) ruled on 20 October that any vehicle without a Level 3 or higher autonomous driving system is forbidden from fitting ADS marker lights. The familiar blue “little blue light” that L2 assisted-driving cars have been flashing to signal their status is now officially banned. Illustration of an … Read more
Oak Fruit Robotics builds a touch-first manipulation model for flexible production (Source: Zhidx) An angel round for a non-consensus route Oak Fruit Robotics has announced an angel round led by China Merchants Venture and NIO Capital, with a Tsinghua alumni seed fund following. Four months after a near-RMB 100 million seed in March, the company … Read more
A financing that reschedules the listing AgiBot’s latest round is reported at RMB 1-1.5 billion, nearing completion, at a post-money valuation of about RMB 50 billion. Then the next line: it will not list this year. On 13 October, Caijing reported exclusively that AgiBot had launched a new financing at a roughly RMB 50 billion … Read more
China’s humanoid-robot sector rallied as national standards and output data landed (Source: OFweek Robotics) A sector-wide surge On 19 and 20 October 2026, the A-share humanoid-robot sector rose sharply again. As the sector’s clear leader, Unitree (688836.SH) jumped 16.15 per cent on the 19th and touched an intraday RMB 508.99, then extended gains on the … Read more
Pongbot’s serving robot has thrown more than two billion balls and built a sports data moat (Source: OFweek Robotics) A Series B for the sports large model AI sports-hardware company Pongbot has announced a several-hundred-million-yuan Series B. The round was led by the Shanghai Guotou Xiandao fund, with Yuanhe Puhua and Pudong Venture following and … Read more
Euler Everything founder Zhou Shunbo left Huawei to build a trainable home robot (Source: OFweek Robotics) Four rounds in seven months Euler Everything is moving at a speed that breaks the industry’s habits. On 12 October, the company confirmed it had closed a several-hundred-million-yuan angel-plus round with Chengyuanxiang Fund, Xineng Ventures, Xizhou International, Topband and … Read more
China’s humanoid-robot pipeline is moving from prototype to volume faster than the headline numbers suggest. At a State Council Information Office briefing on 19 October, Wei Wei, director of the science and technology department at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said the country had more than 400 whole-machine humanoid-robot products in the … Read more
In 1934 the Red 25th Army marched into Shiyan, in Hubei, and seeded a revolutionary base. In the 1960s builders trekked into those mountains to found the Second Auto Works, opening Hubei’s auto industry. More than fifty years on, that industry tops one trillion yuan, yet its weakest link was always the parts it could … Read more
On 22 August, inside Beijing’s National Speed Skating Hall, the Ice Ribbon, the opening of the second World Humanoid Robot Games cut to a real tennis court. A humanoid stood at the baseline, and against serves topping 50 km/h it judged the landing, moved, turned and swung, the ball clipping the net tape and dropping … Read more
A founder from the first cohort of Tsinghua University’s Institute for AI Industry Research has launched his own embodied-AI company, and a top Chinese venture firm is leading the round. Benshu AI’s action-native embodied model concept. (Source: Leiphone) Li Jianxiong, the first doctoral graduate of Tsinghua AIR, founded Benshu AI, with 5Yuan Capital, formerly Matrix … Read more