Shenzhen

A Shenzhen Embodied-AI Firm Was the Only Robotics Company at a Top MIIT SME Roundtable

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On 20 September, at the 16th quarterly roundtable for small and medium enterprises convened by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and chaired by Minister Li Lecheng, Guo YanDong, founder and chief executive of Shenzhen embodied-intelligence company Zhifang, was among eight invited founders from fields including artificial intelligence, commercial space and quantum technology. … Read more

Yale-backed Shenzhen startup Fanbote closes angel round to build mental-health coaching robots

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On 22 September, Shenzhen Fanbote Robotics closed an angel round in the tens of millions of RMB. Incubated at the Yale Innovation Center and based in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, the startup is walking away from the crowded general-purpose humanoid race to bet everything on mental-health coaching robots for students. Why a hard path China carries … Read more

Shenzhen exoskeleton maker MaiBot raises near RMB 100 million, with Lenovo in for four rounds

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A state-backed round, four times over According to 36Kr, Shenzhen MaiBot Robotics Technology, known as MaiBot, recently completed a new strategic financing round of nearly RMB 100 million, with CSC Financial, a state-backed institution, as the investor. After the round, MaiBot accelerates product iteration and the commercial rollout of frontier directions such as brain-computer interfaces, … Read more

PaXini nears RMB 4 billion in funding as tactile sensing chases predictable robots

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The embodied-intelligence sector has no shortage of robots that can deliver one flawless demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat a task ten thousand times in a real setting and still perform reliably. PaXini says it has just closed a RMB 1 billion strategic round, lifting cumulative funding to nearly RMB 4 billion. The … Read more

Lenovo-backed Shenzhen exoskeleton maker Maibu closes nearly 100 million yuan round

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Shenzhen Maibu Robot Technology has closed a new strategic financing round worth nearly 100 million yuan, led by the state-owned CITIC Construction Investment. The deal accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach across the last mile of care, from hospital and community to home. … Read more

AI Hetao Cup 2026 Finals Conclude in Shenzhen, Channelling Capital to Embodied-AI Startups

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SHENZHEN, 17 September 2026. The 2026 AI Hetao Cup finals wrapped up on 17 September at Hetao One, the landmark tower in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone. The contest was organised by the zone’s development company and guided by the Futian district investment-promotion and science-and-industry bureaus, with academicians, leading venture funds … Read more

LuoHu launches an AI committee to wire its tech firms into one ecosystem

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LuoHu launches an AI committee to wire its tech firms into one ecosystem On 15 September, the LuoHu District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) inaugurated its Artificial Intelligence Committee, accompanied by an industry matchmaking event at the LuoHu HarmonyOS Ecosystem Tower. Nearly 90 representatives from universities, industry associations, venture funds, AI … Read more

Lenovo’s venture arm just backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker for the fourth time

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Lenovo’s venture arm just backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker for the fourth time Lenovo’s venture arm has now backed a Shenzhen exoskeleton maker four times, and the bet is on ageing, not athletics. MetoRobot, founded in 2016 by a team of returnee PhDs, has closed a roughly RMB 100 million strategic round from CSC, a … Read more

Shenzhen’s embodied-AI ‘little giants’ get a policy backstop to go global

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Shenzhen’s embodied-AI ‘little giants’ get a policy backstop to go global Global demand for embodied intelligence is surging, and Shenzhen’s commercial-robotics firms are racing to claim overseas ground on the strength of hard tech. But longer payment cycles, opaque foreign buyers and the risk of default or bankruptcy still top the list of worries for … Read more

UBTECH’s super factory builds robots with robots, one unit every ten minutes

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UBTECH’s industrial humanoid-robot super factory began production on 12 September in Liuzhou’s northern eco-industrial new area in Guangxi. The plant, the first humanoid-robot smart-manufacturing benchmark built for ten-thousand-unit capacity, runs on industrial simulation planning and a digital scheduling brain, putting the “robots building robots” model into practice. It marks the shift of China’s humanoid industry … Read more