LimX Dynamics, the Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker, has closed a Pre-IPO round of nearly $200 million, pushing its post-money valuation to 15 billion yuan and into the ranks of China’s super unicorns. Over the past six months the company has raised a cumulative $400 million, building a war chest for its next capital-market move. LimX Dynamics … Read more
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Shenzhen is sending a clear signal to the global robotics community. On the eve of the 2026 World Robot Conference, the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRS) announced that AIRSEAI, its open-source embodied-intelligence project, has formally joined the LF AI & Data Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It is the first technical project … Read more
Tianyancha records show that on 11 August, Guangdong Maoyou Robot was established with registered capital of 10 million yuan, based in Maonan district of Maoming. The shareholder structure is clear: Maoming Binhai Holdings subscribed 9 million yuan for a 90 per cent stake, and Shenzhen UBTECH Technology subscribed 1 million yuan for 10 per cent. … Read more