Industrial embodied intelligence at scale just passed a key threshold. Drawing on nearly two decades of manufacturing-scene accumulation, Topstar and Wuwen Zhike built a shared data ecosystem and a complete industrial-data iteration loop, enabling fast iteration, standardised reuse and batch deployment of embodied robots. Wuwen Zhike was among the first to launch a physical-AI data-base … Read more
A good name often hides a company’s ambition. Estun takes its English name from EST (Spanish for east) and UN (one), a No. 1 in the East vision that looked bold in the 1990s when overseas robot makers monopolised China’s market. Did that vision come true? Yes. Estun’s 2025 report shows it held the top … Read more
A report from SAG has re-ranked the humanoid-robot race. The numbers are striking: in the first half of 2026, global humanoid robot shipments reached about 19,100 units, up 272 per cent year on year. Chinese makers took more than 97 per cent of the shipment share, and AgiBot (Zhiyuan) topped the world for the first … 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
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that on 14 August, Pateo (02889.HK) and Yunji Technology (02670.HK) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Drawing on their respective strengths in smart vehicles and robotics, the two will build a deep partnership and explore a new paradigm for merging smart manufacturing with the robot industry. Pateo and Yunji Technology combine smart-car … Read more
On 12 August, Manus published an open letter to users announcing it would soon resume operating as an independent company and keep serving its millions of users worldwide. As part of resuming independence and complying with regulatory requirements in certain jurisdictions, data some users generated on or after Meta’s acquisition day of 29 December 2025 … Read more
DeepSeek, once nicknamed the large-model “price butcher”, is sheathing the knife. At 00:00 on 17 August, its new API prices took effect. Founder Liang Wenfeng is walking back the rock-bottom pricing that built DeepSeek’s brand. (Source: Sohu Tech) The adjustment covers V4 Pro and V4 Flash and introduces peak-valley pricing for the V4 series. Beijing … Read more
PChome reported on 17 August that Apple is grappling with a memory shortage that has pushed up production costs and created supply-chain risk. To relieve the crisis Apple wants to bring in Chinese supply and has already been testing memory from ChangXin Memory, also known as CXMT. CXMT’s memory passed Apple’s validation, then Washington stepped … 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