Shenzhen’s Dobot Sees H1 Revenue Top 300M Yuan as Profitable Core Funds Embodied-AI Push

Dobot expects first-half 2026 revenue of roughly 300 to 330 million yuan, up 94.65 to 114.12 percent year on year, with gross profit of 140 to 170 million yuan, up 84.73 to 124.31 percent, the company said in a recent profit alert. On top of its scaling collaborative-robot business, Dobot’s embodied-AI business is moving from … Read more

Shenzhen’s AI Squared Unveils World-First Brain-Inspired VLA Model to Scale Robot Deployment at WAIC

At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai on July 17, Shenzhen company AI Squared showcased its upgraded in-house brain-inspired large model NeuroVLA, the open-source AlphaBrain Platform, and AlphaBot 2 running the latest robot brain — demonstrating real productivity in industrial manufacturing and new retail. Often called China’s most “Tesla-like” robotics firm, AI Squared drew a constant crowd … Read more

Shenzhen’s LimX Dynamics Closes $200M Pre-IPO Round, $400M Raised in Six Months at ~$2B Valuation

General-purpose humanoid robot company LimX Dynamics, headquartered in Shenzhen, has closed a near-200 million dollar Pre-IPO financing round at a post-money valuation of 15 billion yuan (about 2 billion dollars), joining the ranks of China’s super unicorns, the company said recently. It has raised 400 million dollars in total over the past six months, laying … Read more

Shenzhen’s Ubtech Books 13,361 Orders for Consumer Humanoid ‘U1’ as It Pivots to the Home

On June 30, Ubtech held its 2026 global launch in Shenzhen, unveiling its “human-robot symbiosis” strategy for the next decade and the full-size ultra-bionic humanoid series “YouWorld U1” — a half-body U1 Lite, a high-spec full-body U1 Pro, and a high-dynamics full-body U1 Ultra. Pricing: U1 Lite at 119,800 yuan; U1 Pro at 169,800 yuan; … Read more

Shenzhen’s Dobot Begins Global Mass Delivery of Humanoid Robots to Industrial Sites

Shenzhen-based Dobot has begun deploying large batches of its humanoid robots across industrial sites worldwide, the company told Shenzhen News on July 24. The machines are running live validation and production tasks — loading and unloading, high-precision sorting, fine assembly, and finished-goods recycling — inside real manufacturing environments. The move sends a clear signal: humanoid … Read more