China builds 97 per cent of the world’s humanoids, but the hard question is who keeps them working

At the Aggregated Intelligence Industry Conference on 9 September, Jin Bing, former deputy director of the State Post Bureau’s policy office, cited a striking figure: China’s humanoid exports and manufacturing account for 97 per cent of the global total. A Chinese humanoid robot production line at scale. (Source: Gasgoo) Just years ago the industry proved … Read more

A Chinese lab taught a vision model to stop getting lost in 3D, and it beat general AI on robot tracking

Picture a robot watering flowers in order, holding the spout a few centimetres above each bloom. Getting that right is easy for people and hard for general AI, and a Chinese team behind RoboTracer argues the problem is how vision models represent space. Why general models get lost in 3D RoboTracer drops XYZ coordinates in … Read more

PaXini takes its tactile robots from can feel to can act at WRC 2026

If past years of embodied intelligence were a contest of single-point skills, the clear signal from this year’s World Robot Conference is that competition is moving from one breakthrough to the completeness of a system. Sensors, dexterous hands and data still matter, but a robot that enters a factory, warehouse or home meets shifting position, … Read more

XPeng switches on the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid production line

A 9 September Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence roundup of automotive and supply-chain moves led with a milestone for Chinese humanoids: on 8 September, the XPeng group announced the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid automated production line, and the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid completed automated final assembly and walked off the line on its own. That … Read more

Baotong leans on Unitree to build industrial robots, yet its R&D spend fell after going all-in on AI

On 29 August, Baotong Technology, a firm built on games and industrial internet, released its half-year report. With both businesses recovering, revenue and profit rose together, but the longer arc is uneven: gaming is volatile, and Baotong’s two main lines have little in common. Baotong Mine-Rhino (Kuangxi) quadruped inspection robot built on a Unitree base. … Read more

Carmakers are racing to put humanoids on the factory floor, and hitting the wall of battery life, cost and digital readiness

Morgan Stanley expects the humanoid robot market to reach USD 5 trillion by 2050. BMW, Renault, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla are already testing the machines in their factories, and Hyundai, Mitsubishi and XPeng are moving in too. Carmakers move into pilot mode Tesla has stopped production of the Model S and Model X and shifted the … Read more

UBTECH secures over RMB 50 million in overseas humanoid orders as it moves beyond China

Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence reports that UBTECH has recently won overseas orders worth more than RMB 50 million. The order book spans commercial service humanoid Walker C1 and the ultra-realistic humanoid YouWorld U1, with customers across Europe, Japan and South Korea. UBTECH Walker C1 commercial service humanoid robot. (Source: Gasgoo) A wave of global partnerships On … Read more

Siling Zhiqu confirms Tesla-chain primary-supplier status as harmonic reducers enter production

Many readers have asked about Tesla-chain suppliers. With no non-public detail to share, the half-year reports offer a public view. The first three were Sanhua, Tuopu and Rongtai. today it is Siling Zhiqu. On 26 August, Siling Zhiqu published its half-year report: revenue of 421 million yuan, up 7.61 per cent, and attributable net profit … Read more

China’s No.2 harmonic-reducer maker Laifull holds over 400,000 orders as margin jumps 148 per cent

Laifull Harmonic, the ‘first harmonic-reducer share’ on the Hong Kong market, recently disclosed its first half-year report since listing. In the first half of 2026 it posted revenue of 142 million yuan, up 80.1 per cent from 78.97 million yuan a year earlier, and gross profit of 38.83 million yuan, up 148.3 per cent, with … Read more

Midea unit breaks ground on a RMB 2 billion precision-reducer base

On 3 September, the JiYa Precision green smart base for robot-core precision parts held its groundbreaking in Beijiao, Shunde. It is the first project built on Foshan’s ‘lease-then-grant’ industrial land, taking only seventeen days from land acquisition to start. Positioned as a precision-reducer smart-production base, the project covers about 70.71 mu, or 47,138 square metres, … Read more