After drones, robots are becoming Shenzhen’s next industry with a real cluster effect, and the trade data now backs it up. In the first seven months of 2026 the city’s total imports and exports reached 3.42 trillion yuan, up 32.8 per cent, with exports of 1.77 trillion and imports of 1.65 trillion, the latter up … Read more
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
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
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
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
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