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
Shenzhen-based Opticalix has launched a vision-perception suite built specifically for embodied AI, betting that the bottleneck for robots leaving the lab is no longer brains but eyes. The package centres on AI-driven binocular stereo vision and two modules, Libra 1000 and Libra 3000, that the company says stabilise depth recovery in exactly the scenes where … Read more
The hardest part of automating a warehouse has rarely been the robots. It is the bill: buy the hardware, absorb the depr
Shenzhen’s Pingshan district has landed a national endorsement for something distinctly local: a test ground where cars,
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Shenzhen has released version 3.0 of its 20+8 strategic emerging-industry and future-industry plan, laying out where the city’s manufacturing economy is headed through 2030. The plan sets a headline target: by 2030, strategic emerging industries should reach 2.3 trillion yuan in added value and account for 45 per cent of GDP. The 20 covers ten … Read more