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Xi’an Jiaotong Spin-out BlueBug Closes Tens of Millions in Angel Round for Wheeled Humanoid Mantis

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On 29 September, BlueBug Embodied closed a tens-of-millions angel round led by Xi’an Hi-tech Venture Capital, to fund production lines, product development, scenario expansion and team growth. BlueBug’s Mantis Standard wheeled humanoid. (Source: Gasgoo) Founded in March 2025 with support from Xi’an Jiaotong University, BlueBug is a full-stack embodied-AI company whose core team pairs XJTU … Read more

China’s First Home-Grown Electronic Architecture Lands in a Humanoid Robot

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On 28 September, LimX Dynamics and Kyland announced China’s first humanoid robot built on a domestic electronic architecture, the first time domestic industrial-grade real-time communications have run end to end through a humanoid’s complex system. LimX humanoid running a domestic electronic architecture. (Source: Gasgoo) The electronic architecture is the machine’s intelligent nervous system, covering the … Read more

The Solid-State Battery Myth Wavers: CAS Drops a Series of Breakthroughs, and 2026 May Reshape the Battery Race

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A nail is pushed slowly into a cell. Everyone watches for smoke. Nothing happens, no fire, no bulge, not even a wisp of white vapour. The battery in that test, however, was not the long-promised all-solid-state cell. It was a sodium-ion battery with liquid electrolyte, built by Hu Yongsheng’s team at the Chinese Academy of … Read more

Richard Yu Speaks Out: Seres Asked to Run AITO Itself, and Huawei Backs It

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On 24 September, Huawei’s Richard Yu, also known as Yu Chengdong, appeared at a Harmony Intelligent Mobility store in Hefei and responded in public for the first time to the reshaping of the AITO cooperation model. Richard Yu at the Hefei Harmony Intelligent Mobility store. (Source: Chedongxi) Addressing the many rumours in the market, Yu … Read more

Six of China’s Top EV Start-ups Slipped in September. BYD and Geely Went Abroad and Surged

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On 1 October, Chedongxi tallied September delivery numbers from ten EV start-up groups, counting ecosystem alliances, alongside three legacy carmakers. The split was sharp. The start-up camp diverged, and the traditional giants that went overseas grew on both axes. Leapmotor’s monthly delivery chart for September 2026. (Source: Chedongxi) Leapmotor delivered 105,700 vehicles globally in September, … Read more

A brain-inspired world model wants to give China’s embodied AI a third pole beyond data and compute

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China’s embodied-AI field is re-examining its own advantages. The supply chain and data edges it once took for granted are being questioned: many suppliers does not mean fit for embodied use, and large data volume does not guarantee intelligence. As one company puts it, distribution matters more than raw volume. What China needs next is … Read more

China ships the first humanoid-class robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture

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On 28 September a launch event in Yichang, Hubei unveiled what its maker calls the world’s first embodied-intelligence robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture. The “intelligent nervous system” of a robot, its electronic architecture sets the ceiling on whole-machine performance and covers the operating system, network, tooling software and AI compute chip. Kyland’s … Read more

Dongfeng’s Boss Flew to Shenzhen to See Ren Zhengfei. Four Carmakers Just Signalled They Are Staying With Huawei

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On 22 September, Dongfeng Motor’s general manager Feng Changjun travelled to Shenzhen to meet Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and senior Huawei representatives. The two sides traded views on strategic joint models, including the Yijing X9, the Mengshi X700 and the Voyah Dreamer 9, and discussed deepening cooperation on future product definition, smart-technology deployment and marketing. … Read more

K-Nuo (NOWIN) raises hundreds of millions more, topping RMB 1 billion in a year

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A humanoid robot from NOWIN, whose GLOW model learns actions from demonstration without coding (Source: Gasgoo) Past RMB 1 billion in twelve months On 29 September Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that NOWIN, also known as K-Nuo, announced another angel-plus-plus financing round of several hundred million renminbi, taking the company’s cumulative fundraising past RMB 1 billion … Read more