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BridgeDP Robotics raises a nine-figure round to build the ‘operating system’ for robot movement

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BridgeDP Robotics, a Shenzhen general-purpose robot operating-system developer, has closed a Pre-A-plus-plus round led by China Mobile’s Chain-Length Fund, with existing backers Fosun Capital and Shenzhen Capital Group following on, Zhidx reported. The round is described as a nine-figure RMB sum. Founder Shang Yangxing studied at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen under … Read more

UBTECH and Basic Semiconductor strike a silicon-carbide deal for humanoid robots

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During the 2026 World Robot Conference, UBTECH (9880.HK) and Basic Semiconductor (9971.HK) signed a strategic cooperation agreement, Gasgoo’s embodied-intelligence desk reported. The two Shenzhen-linked firms will combine UBTECH’s strength in humanoid robots with Basic Semi’s silicon-carbide power-device know-how. The deal targets three areas. First, jointly develop low-power, long-endurance embodied robots by applying silicon-carbide power devices … Read more

Shenzhen’s AI2Robots puts AlphaBot 2 to work at WRC 2026, not just on stage

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At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Shenzhen’s AI2Robots brought AlphaBot 2 (Aibao), powered by its newest brain-like embodied model, to make one point: the robot should not just mount the stage, it should clock in for work. On the stand, Aibao makes coffee, ice cream, and cocktails as a genuine on-duty ‘all-round clerk’, … Read more

Guangdong’s ‘Ten Steeds’: how Shenzhen’s supply chain spawned a humanoid-robot cluster

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China now fields more than 400 whole-body humanoid models, over half the global total. In the first half of 2026 alone, 116,000 new companies registered in the humanoid space, up 9.5 per cent year on year. Nowhere is the momentum sharper than in Guangdong, where ten technically distinct humanoid makers have converged into what local … Read more

Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei names cheap power and dense telecom as China’s two AI edges

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On 20 August in Shenzhen, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei sat down with Wen Shugang, chairman of China Huaneng Group, and Zhong Guodong, the state power giant’s general manager. The meeting was framed around national strategy and the front edge of industry, but Ren used it to make a sharper point about where China’s … Read more

Shenzhen AIRSEAI open-source project joins Linux Foundation

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Ahead of the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026), the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRS) announced that AIRSEAI, the embodied-intelligence open-source project it initiated, has formally joined the LF AI & Data Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It will publish its roadmap and community plan at the conference for global developers, research … Read more

Shenzhen humanoid robot sorts 1,200 parcels an hour at a mail centre, and a video of it went global

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A short video posted by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on overseas social platforms turned a homegrown humanoid sorting robot into an unexpected hit. On 12 August, a Shenzhen Evening News reporter visited the Shenzhen land-mail processing centre to see what the machine can actually do. A humanoid that handles a messy sorting line On … Read more

Shenzhen and China Telecom seal a strategic framework spanning compute, satellites and low-altitude economy

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On 18 August, the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and China Telecom Corporation signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Shenzhen Party secretary Jin Lei and deputy secretary and mayor Qin Weizhong met China Telecom chairman Ke Ruiwen and general manager Liu Guiqing and jointly witnessed the signing. Jin and Qin thanked China Telecom for its active … Read more

Shenzhen’s AI industry plants its flag in Kazan as Russia turns to the south

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Shenzhen’s artificial-intelligence sector is pushing hard to go global, and Russia has become one of the association’s priority outward markets. That is what Zhang Zhehao, deputy secretary general for international relations at the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, told Shenzhen Press Group on 17 August, local time in Kazan, where he attended the fourth “Rostok: … Read more

Dobot unveils Lumeng, billed as the world’s first embodied all-habitat humanoid

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On 5 August, Dobot released Lumeng, which it calls the world’s first embodied all-habitat humanoid robot. Built around the idea of embodied all-habitat, the product aims to break the fixed boundaries of space, scene and function that constrain traditional robots, upgrading humanoids from single-purpose voice-command tools into intelligent agents that fit into homes, education and … Read more