Acemate, a Shenzhen-based startup incubated by smart-home unicorn SwitchBot, has signed a partnership with the 2026 China Open, the highest-level men’s and women’s combined tennis tournament in Asia. The deal, announced on July 22, marks the company’s push from training clubs and shared courts into a professional tournament environment with global television exposure. The Acemate … Read more
Shenzhen-based RoboSense (速腾聚创) shipped 719,200 LiDAR units in the first half of 2026, a 170% year-on-year jump, according to company figures released on July 9. The robot-industry segment led the acceleration: 282,600 units, up 510% from the same period last year. Automotive LiDAR, still the larger business, rose 98% to 436,600 units. In the second … Read more
Dobot’s collaborative robot arm in operation. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Dobot (越疆科技), the world’s top collaborative-robot vendor by sales and a Shenzhen-based company, is closing in on a ChiNext (创业板) listing. Its IPO application was accepted by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange just 17 days after Beijing published a reform opinion supporting innovative firms on the board, … Read more
Bangqi’s embodied-intelligence robot deployed in a smart factory. (Source: OFweek Robotics) As manufacturing competition shifts from single-device contests to full-chain coordination, Shenzhen’s Bangqi (磅旗科技) has set its core strategy as “building whole-factory intelligent system capability.” On its self-developed industrial vertical AI model, Bangqi uses an LDS production-coordination system and an ADS multi-brand scheduling system as … Read more
Bojiang Robotics’ construction robot on a building site. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics (博匠机器人) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction company, marking its move from “pilot use” to “scaled deployment” in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will buy construction robots, … Read more
Autel’s ground robot and drone demonstration at its Shenzhen open day, July 24, 2026. (Source: Shenzhen News (sznews.com)) From demo hall to live railway At an open day in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district on July 24, Autel (道通科技) ran two scenes at once: a drone nest opened, a vehicle ran self-checks and took off to patrol … Read more
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
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
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
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