Jieluo Intelligent breaks ground on 1.2 billion yuan AMR base in Suzhou, targeting 2,000 robots a year

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Recently, Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) held a groundbreaking for its headquarters project in Wuzhong district. The site covers 42.5 mu, about 2.8 hectares, with roughly 70,000 square metres of floor area and total investment of 1.2 billion yuan. It will build a headquarters base producing 2,000 trackless-navigation robots, known as AMRs, and 500 wafer smart-storage … Read more

Ex-OpenAI researcher’s Light Origins closes several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A for embodied foundation models

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Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Light Origins has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A round. The round was led by Guoke Investment, with CMG Venture Capital and Xianghe Capital joining, and the funds will go to large-scale embodied-model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware-software platform research, and expansion of a high-density talent team. Light Origins, founded … Read more

Realman starts IPO tutoring as its ‘real work’ thesis turns a profit

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Realman Intelligent founder and CEO Zheng Suibing recently said something worth sitting with: the first step of embodied-AI landing is creating value even without intelligence. Realman founder and CEO Zheng Suibing argues robots should create value before they get smart. (Source: OFweek Robot) The industry’s loudest debate is when robots get smart. The default premise … Read more

BluePoint Touch closes several-hundred-million-yuan Series D as GAC Capital leads, powering China’s humanoid force sensors

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Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that BluePoint Touch, a domestic robot force-sensor specialist and a leading player in six-axis force sensors, has closed a Series D of several hundred million yuan. BluePoint Touch builds six-axis force sensors that sit inside humanoid robots from AgiBot, Galaxy General, Xiaomi and UBTECH. (Source: Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence) The round … Read more

Force Infinity closes nearly 1 billion yuan in Series A and A+ funding, ex-Alibaba VP bets on causal world models

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On 14 August 2026, embodied-intelligence company Force Infinity announced it had closed Series A and A+ rounds totalling close to 1 billion yuan. The round was led by Dunhong Asset and a top state-owned investment platform, with Zhejiang University Sci-Tech Innovation Group, Yandu State-owned Capital and the Lishui municipal state-owned company following on, while existing … Read more

Standard Robots refiles Hong Kong IPO

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Standard Robots, founded by Harbin Institute of Technology alumni, filed its prospectus to the Hong Kong exchange for a third time on 27 July, chasing a main-board listing through the 18C channel for pre-profit specialist-tech firms. Two earlier filings, in June 2025 and January 2026, lapsed when review windows closed. The refiling came days after … Read more

Chery backs Zhongke Yuandongli farm robots

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Zhongke Yuandongli, a Beijing agricultural-robotics firm incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Microelectronics, has closed a B2 round of several hundred million yuan led by Chery Holdings’ Chery Intelligent Technology. The money funds core research, scaled delivery of new-energy smart farm machines and embodied-intelligence agricultural robots, and faster overseas expansion. Chery brings … Read more

Galaxy General reshuffles board pre-IPO

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As Unitree completed its STAR Market subscription in August 2026 at a post-issue value of 60.99 billion yuan, the race for the next humanoid listing intensified. Galaxy General, a Beijing embodied-large-model humanoid firm, carried out a sweeping management overhaul, ten out and nine in, with former chairman Guo Xiaoliang and nine others leaving and nine … Read more