Yingkan Zhiyi, a Shenzhen company building bionic flapping-wing robots, has closed a tens-of-millions-yuan Series A led by Yuanhe Bohua, with Futeng Capital and Houxue Capital participating. The raise is the company’s third in roughly three months, after seed, angel and Pre-A rounds backed by MiraclePlus, Qigao Capital and Yuanhe Origin, a pace that says term … Read more
Four kinds of freedom Dobot says ’embodied omni’ rests on four dimensions. Spatial: the robot adapts freely to homes, shopping malls and campuses. Role: it switches identity with the person it meets, becoming a life companion, a sports playmate or a science tutor. Capability: it fuses vision, voice and movement so it moves from passive … Read more
Four years in the making DJI first started a ground-cleaning robot project in 2020, and reports of an imminent launch have circulated since late 2024. The Romo family is expected to span standard, advanced and flagship tiers with features such as auto water refill, and pre-orders have already opened. DJI’s pitch leans on a simple … Read more
From testing to ecosystem The move marks a shift in how Shenzhen frames autonomous driving. After a city-wide pilot plan in 2024 and a ‘4123’ blueprint in 2025, the 2026 ‘five-party’ model adds a governance-and-operation structure on top of the technology. The city is explicitly moving from a phase of proving the vehicles work to … Read more
From Hong Kong back to Shenzhen Dobot listed in Hong Kong in December 2024, raising a net 681 million Hong Kong dollars for research into intelligent collaborative robots, production capacity and overseas channels. It later completed two H-share placements worth about 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, steering much of that into embodied-AI development. The return-to-A-share … Read more
The path was paved by policy. A June 2025 directive let Greater Bay Area firms listed in Hong Kong list on the Shenzhen exchange. Dobot, which debuted on the HK bourse in December 2024, became the first H-to-A case from the region. Its ChiNext application was accepted just 17 days after a new reform paper … Read more
Founder Wang Yongkun, just 35, started the company in 2016 from a 12-square-metre office with a five-person team and a startup loan. He bet early on laser-SLAM autonomous mobile robots, machines that route, avoid and schedule themselves on the factory floor. A 2018 cash crunch nearly killed it; at 26 he took over as CEO, … Read more
Unitree’s Fordism Unitree’s playbook is pure cost crushing. Its G1 launched at $13,500, a category-redefining price for a 30-plus-degree-of-freedom biped. Where Boston Dynamics’ Atlas costs millions and Tesla’s Optimus keeps slipping on North American supply chains, Unitree leans on a decade of quadruped volume to self-produce core components at scale. The 4.2 billion yuan raise … Read more
Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction firm, marking its move from pilot deployments to scaled adoption in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will purchase construction robots, intelligent equipment and related technical services worth at least 200 million yuan … Read more
The round drew top-tier global capital from China, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Southeast Asia. New investors include IDG Capital, Lens Technology, G.G.G. Group, Redstone VC, Huashan Capital and Hefei Binhu Industrial Development Group. Returning backers such as Nio Capital and Oasis Capital increased their stakes, with UAE’s Stone Venture following on across … Read more