A report from SAG has re-ranked the humanoid-robot race. The numbers are striking: in the first half of 2026, global humanoid robot shipments reached about 19,100 units, up 272 per cent year on year. Chinese makers took more than 97 per cent of the shipment share, and AgiBot (Zhiyuan) topped the world for the first … Read more
On 5 August, Dobot released Lumeng, which it calls the world’s first embodied all-habitat humanoid robot. Built around the idea of embodied all-habitat, the product aims to break the fixed boundaries of space, scene and function that constrain traditional robots, upgrading humanoids from single-purpose voice-command tools into intelligent agents that fit into homes, education and … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that on 14 August, Pateo (02889.HK) and Yunji Technology (02670.HK) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Drawing on their respective strengths in smart vehicles and robotics, the two will build a deep partnership and explore a new paradigm for merging smart manufacturing with the robot industry. Pateo and Yunji Technology combine smart-car … Read more
On 12 August, Manus published an open letter to users announcing it would soon resume operating as an independent company and keep serving its millions of users worldwide. As part of resuming independence and complying with regulatory requirements in certain jurisdictions, data some users generated on or after Meta’s acquisition day of 29 December 2025 … Read more
DeepSeek, once nicknamed the large-model “price butcher”, is sheathing the knife. At 00:00 on 17 August, its new API prices took effect. Founder Liang Wenfeng is walking back the rock-bottom pricing that built DeepSeek’s brand. (Source: Sohu Tech) The adjustment covers V4 Pro and V4 Flash and introduces peak-valley pricing for the V4 series. Beijing … Read more
PChome reported on 17 August that Apple is grappling with a memory shortage that has pushed up production costs and created supply-chain risk. To relieve the crisis Apple wants to bring in Chinese supply and has already been testing memory from ChangXin Memory, also known as CXMT. CXMT’s memory passed Apple’s validation, then Washington stepped … Read more
Recently, Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) held a groundbreaking for its headquarters project in Wuzhong district. The site covers 42.5 mu, about 2.8 hectares, with roughly 70,000 square metres of floor area and total investment of 1.2 billion yuan. It will build a headquarters base producing 2,000 trackless-navigation robots, known as AMRs, and 500 wafer smart-storage … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Light Origins has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A round. The round was led by Guoke Investment, with CMG Venture Capital and Xianghe Capital joining, and the funds will go to large-scale embodied-model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware-software platform research, and expansion of a high-density talent team. Light Origins, founded … Read more
Realman Intelligent founder and CEO Zheng Suibing recently said something worth sitting with: the first step of embodied-AI landing is creating value even without intelligence. Realman founder and CEO Zheng Suibing argues robots should create value before they get smart. (Source: OFweek Robot) The industry’s loudest debate is when robots get smart. The default premise … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that BluePoint Touch, a domestic robot force-sensor specialist and a leading player in six-axis force sensors, has closed a Series D of several hundred million yuan. BluePoint Touch builds six-axis force sensors that sit inside humanoid robots from AgiBot, Galaxy General, Xiaomi and UBTECH. (Source: Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence) The round … Read more