Lenovo’s venture arm just backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker for the fourth time Lenovo’s venture arm has now backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker four times, and the bet is on ageing, not athletics. MetoRobot, founded in 2016 by a team of returnee PhDs, has closed a roughly RMB 100 million strategic round from CSC, a … Read more
Shenzhen’s embodied-AI ‘little giants’ get a policy backstop to go global Global demand for embodied intelligence is surging, and Shenzhen’s commercial-robotics firms are racing to claim overseas ground on the strength of hard tech. But longer payment cycles, opaque foreign buyers and the risk of default or bankruptcy still top the list of worries for … Read more
On 11 September, Shenzhen hosted the embodied-intelligence sub-event of the second Global Technology Innovation Contest, paired with the sixth Shaoxing “Ten-Thousand-Mu, Hundred-Billion” new-industry platform high-level talent entrepreneurship contest (Shenzhen station) at the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). The event set out to use competition as a tool to pull in talent, spur innovation and grow … Read more
Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Milesun Robotics has closed a new strategic round of nearly RMB 100 million, led by CSC Financial, the state-backed securities arm. The raise accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach from hospital and community into the last mile of home-based care. … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence reports that UBTECH has recently won overseas orders worth more than RMB 50 million. The order book spans commercial service humanoid Walker C1 and the ultra-realistic humanoid YouWorld U1, with customers across Europe, Japan and South Korea. UBTECH Walker C1 commercial service humanoid robot. (Source: Gasgoo) A wave of global partnerships On … Read more
On 8 September, Shenzhen firm Longsys listed in Hong Kong as the first ‘A+H’ standalone memory maker, taking the city’s 2026 listings to 30. It closed at 233.60 Hong Kong dollars a share. Longsys priced at 236 Hong Kong dollars on 26.08 million shares, raising 6.154 billion Hong Kong dollars, to be spent on AI … Read more
On 9 September, a visit to the Junlian Electronics plant in Longhua, Shenzhen, revealed nothing unusual at first glance. The workshop ran in good order, and workers on the line handled fine connection wires and harnesses that will be used in new-energy vehicles, robots, smart-home devices and even 3D printers. Behind the brands Huawei, DJI, … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Feimo Yi Technology, operating as PHYMI, has closed a near-US$100 million seed round. The round was led by IDG Capital, with Yunqi Capital, Didi Chuxing, Fosun Ruiheng, Yaotu Capital and the lidar maker Hesai Technology joining as follow-on investors. From autonomous driving to the physical world The company … Read more
From 4 to 8 September, the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 2026 (IFA 2026) was held in Berlin. As one of the three largest consumer-electronics shows in the world, IFA is the core platform where global technology brands launch products and show off results, and a barometer for industry trends. This year’s theme was ‘The Future is … Read more
Jiateng Robotics, a veteran Guangdong mobile-robot firm, has closed a tens-of-millions-yuan strategic round after a twelve-year gap, led by Shenzhen-listed control specialist Hetitec with Daohe Fund and Jinmu Capital following. Oriental Precision first took a strategic stake back in 2014 and still holds about 19.84 per cent as the second-largest shareholder. The cap table is … Read more