On 20 September, Qiyuan Robotics, the consumer embodied-intelligence brand under Shanghai Wison New Materials, held a launch event in Shanghai and began selling two personal robots, the Qiyuan Q1 and T1. The company also laid out its brand, technology, product and ecosystem strategy. Shenzhen’s Qiyuan Ships Its First Consumer Robots, Priced at (Source: Source) Both … Read more
MileBot Robotics, a Shenzhen exoskeleton robot provider, said it has closed a new strategic round near 100 million yuan from state backed CSC Financial. The funds accelerate product iteration and the rollout of brain computer interface and other frontier tech, covering the last mile from hospital to community to home in care scenarios. Earlier backers … Read more
From pilot to scaled landing Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction enterprise, marking its move from “pilot application” to “scaled landing” in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will buy construction robots, smart equipment and related technical services from … Read more
On 20 September, at the 16th quarterly roundtable for small and medium enterprises convened by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and chaired by Minister Li Lecheng, Guo YanDong, founder and chief executive of Shenzhen embodied-intelligence company Zhifang, was among eight invited founders from fields including artificial intelligence, commercial space and quantum technology. … Read more
On 22 September, Shenzhen Fanbote Robotics closed an angel round in the tens of millions of RMB. Incubated at the Yale Innovation Center and based in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, the startup is walking away from the crowded general-purpose humanoid race to bet everything on mental-health coaching robots for students. Why a hard path China carries … Read more
A state-backed round, four times over According to 36Kr, Shenzhen MaiBot Robotics Technology, known as MaiBot, recently completed a new strategic financing round of nearly RMB 100 million, with CSC Financial, a state-backed institution, as the investor. After the round, MaiBot accelerates product iteration and the commercial rollout of frontier directions such as brain-computer interfaces, … Read more
The embodied-intelligence sector has no shortage of robots that can deliver one flawless demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat a task ten thousand times in a real setting and still perform reliably. PaXini says it has just closed a RMB 1 billion strategic round, lifting cumulative funding to nearly RMB 4 billion. The … Read more
Shenzhen Maibu Robot Technology has closed a new strategic financing round worth nearly 100 million yuan, led by the state-owned CITIC Construction Investment. The deal accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach across the last mile of care, from hospital and community to home. … Read more
SHENZHEN, 17 September 2026. The 2026 AI Hetao Cup finals wrapped up on 17 September at Hetao One, the landmark tower in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone. The contest was organised by the zone’s development company and guided by the Futian district investment-promotion and science-and-industry bureaus, with academicians, leading venture funds … Read more
LuoHu launches an AI committee to wire its tech firms into one ecosystem On 15 September, the LuoHu District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) inaugurated its Artificial Intelligence Committee, accompanied by an industry matchmaking event at the LuoHu HarmonyOS Ecosystem Tower. Nearly 90 representatives from universities, industry associations, venture funds, AI … Read more