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Shenzhen’s EngineAI builds the world’s first industrial-grade humanoid fighting league

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EngineAI’s full-size general-purpose humanoid, the T800, recently showed off its martial-arts repertoire at the company’s Shenzhen showroom, replaying the moves that made it a hit at URKL. URKL, launched by EngineAI, is the world’s first industrial-grade humanoid robot fighting competition. Illustrative image generated for this report: EngineAI’s T800 humanoid in a competition stance (Source: Shenzhen … Read more

Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei turns a shopping mall into a live robotics showroom

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From 16 to 18 October, the Futian district of Shenzhen staged its first “Future Zhen Happens” science-and-technology lifestyle festival inside the Junshang shopping mall in Huaqiangbei. AI desktop plant pets, outdoor powered exoskeletons and interactive robot dogs filled the halls, as a cluster of tech firms turned a retail centre into a walkable street of … Read more

Pudu cements its lead as China’s top commercial-robotics exporter, with over 80 per cent of revenue from overseas

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Walk into Pudu Robotics’ headquarters showroom in Nanshan, Shenzhen, and the lineup tells the story. Commercial cleaning robots, AI-native tray-carry movers, the class-humanoid PUDU D7, and the full-size biped D9 stand side by side. Different shapes, one shared embodied-intelligence brain, and a complete map of the business-grade robotics market. Illustrative image generated for this report: … Read more

Shenzhen’s AI Squared Robotics joins Hong Kong’s first embodied-intelligence training ground

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Shenzhen-based AI Squared Robotics has placed its AlphaBot 2 general-purpose robot inside Hong Kong’s first international embodied-intelligence application training ground, opened on 15 October by the city’s Productivity Council through its FLAIR research centre. The company was among seven inaugural partners, alongside Unitree and AgiBot. Source: Shenzhen News. The facility is built around real overseas … Read more

Shenzhen companies take two of five seats in first-half global humanoid revenue ranking

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Frost & Sullivan has published its 2026 Global Humanoid Robot Market Research Report, and the first-half league table reads like a Shenzhen scoreboard. All five of the world’s top humanoid-robot vendors by revenue in the first half of 2026 are Chinese. Two of them are based in Shenzhen. The ranking Global humanoid sales reached 35,000 … Read more

Lenovo backs Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Miles Robot for a fourth round

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A state fund joins the cap table Shenzhen Miles Robot has closed a new roughly 100 million yuan strategic round led by CICC, the state-backed investment bank, according to 36Kr. The capital accelerates product iteration, brain-computer-interface work and a hospital-to-community-to-home elderly-care push. Lenovo Capital has now invested in four consecutive rounds, alongside Taiyou Fund, Sihuan … Read more

UBTECH Closes the Mass-Production Loop With a Three-Front Humanoid Push

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UBTECH’s Walker S1 humanoid robot stood in the company’s Shenzhen headquarters on 13 October, narrating the scene around it in real time, while a Walker S2 unit placed material bins into marked positions with practiced precision. The demonstration, staged for a provincial industry delegation, is the public face of a company now pitching itself as … Read more

UBTECH and Xiamen C&D Form Humanoid-Robot Joint Venture

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Shenzhen-based humanoid-robot maker UBTECH has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xiamen C&D Co., the Chinese supply-chain and real estate conglomerate. The two partners will set up a joint venture to operate the Fujian headquarters of UBTECH Ecosystem Technology Centre. UBTECH industrial humanoid robots handle material-handling tasks on a production line (Source: Gasgoo) Under the … Read more

Shenzhen’s Qiyuan Ships Its First Consumer Robots, Priced at RMB 19,999

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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

A Shenzhen Exoskeleton Maker Closed a Near 100 Million Yuan Round, with Lenovo Now on Its Fourth Bet

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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