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Shenzhen’s Chaowei Dynamics Teams Up With Peking University Medical to Put Robots in Hospitals

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Shenzhen’s Chaowei Dynamics, a full-stack embodied-AI company, has entered a deep partnership with Peking University Medical to bring robots into clinical settings. The two will jointly develop data collection, world models and simulation training for embodied intelligence in medical scenarios — building, in their words, a path from “simulated training” to “scenario validation” to “hospital … Read more

Shenzhen’s Standard Robots Files for Hong Kong IPO — for the Third Time

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Another robotics company has knocked on the door of the Hong Kong stock exchange. Standard Robots, a Shenzhen-based maker of industrial autonomous mobile robots, has submitted a prospectus for a main-board listing. If it gets through, it would become Hong Kong’s first “industrial embodied-AI” listing. By the numbers, the company is no minnow. According to … Read more

China’s Robot Supply Chain Is Suddenly Drowning in Orders

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China’s robot sector is shifting from concept hype to order ramp and profit realisation. Half-year 2026 results show the whole chain — from core parts to whole-machine integration — taking off at once. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says that from January to May, industrial-scale robot enterprises booked revenue above 90 billion yuan, … Read more

BYD Confirms a Humanoid Robot Debut for August

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BYD has officially confirmed it plans to unveil a humanoid robot in August at Di Space, its brand experience hall. The confirmation, carried by Cailian Press on 28 July, follows a teaser poster at Di Space reading: “Early August — a new friend wants to meet you.” BYD executive vice-president Li Ke has said the … Read more

Leju’s Shenzhen-Backed Venture Opens a 10,000-Unit Humanoid Robot Factory

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A joint venture between Shenzhen’s Leju Robotics and Guangdong Dongfang Precision has opened a humanoid-robot mass-production factory in Foshan with an annual capacity of 10,000 units — one of China’s first scaled humanoid lines to move from demo to industrial base. The hard part of mass production is not speed. “It is not about making … Read more

The World’s First Robot 6S Store Turns One — Now There Are 20

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A year ago, the world’s first robot “6S store” opened in Shenzhen’s Longgang district with only a handful of machines on the floor. On July 28, it celebrated its first anniversary by announcing nine commercialised application scenarios, a multi-channel digital sales system — and a national footprint of more than 20 stores. The 6S concept … Read more

Dobot’s ‘Living’ Dinosaurs: Embodied AI Lands in Shenzhen’s New Museum

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The Shenzhen Natural History Museum — the largest comprehensive natural history museum in South China — opened its doors on July 28, displaying 7,461 rare specimens across eight themed halls that trace 4.6 billion years of life on Earth. But the exhibits everyone talked about on opening day weren’t fossils. Among thousands of static displays, … Read more

The Changing of the Guard: How Chinese Marques Conquered 17% of Indonesia’s Car Market in 12 Months

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The Changing of the Guard: How Chinese Marques Conquered 17% of Indonesia’s Car Market in 12 Months The Indonesian automotive landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. If you rewind just twelve months to January 2025, Chinese brands were shifting around 3,000 units, scraping together a mere 5% of the total market . Fast forward to … Read more

China AI & Robotics Top 10 News (Feb 9-15, 2026)

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China’s AI & Robotics Breakthroughs: Top 10 Developments (Feb 9-15, 2026) ByteDance Unveils Seedance 2.0: AI Video Model with Director-Level Capabilities ByteDance launched its next-generation AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0, on February 11, 2026. Classified under AI video generation, the model accepts text, image, audio, and video inputs to produce 15-second, multi-shot videos with … Read more

The week in Chinese tech: Sovereign AI and the humanoid sprint

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The week in Chinese tech: Sovereign AI and the humanoid sprint Science & technology Silicon and Sinew: The Week in Chinese Innovation From sovereign legal models to record-breaking humanoids, China’s tech firms are sprinting toward 2026 Beijing and Shenzhen | February 8th 2026 WHERE DOES the courtroom end and the computer begin? This week saw … Read more