TetraBOT opens a low-cost humanoid dev base from RMB 23,900

The TetraBOT T4-C wheeled humanoid developer edition supports fixed or mobile base, binocular vision, an adjustable lift structure and strong compute. Fully open-stack development reshapes the R&D threshold, so every build has a scene to land in. Price starts at RMB 23,900. The T4-C is built for developers who need a real, modifiable humanoid platform … Read more

Apple Vision Pro VP Paul Meade jumps to OpenAI’s hardware team

Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone Paul Meade, the Apple vice president who led the Vision Pro team, is leaving for OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg. The move follows a reshuffle after Apple’s new CEO took over, which left Meade “effectively demoted.” As John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as Apple’s next CEO, longtime … Read more

PaXini tops RMB 3.5 billion in tactile-sensing funding, the largest ever

Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics PaXini has secured a new RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative funding to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest ever in tactile sensing globally, and leaving it far ahead in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International … Read more

Huawei veteran’s LPU startup YuanChuan Micro closes a new nine-figure round

YuanChuan Micro’s LPU inference chip. Source: LeiPhone Before Groq’s LPU became famous on the back of Nvidia’s spotlight, Yang Bin, founder and CEO of YuanChuan Micro, had already been sketching an inference chip of his own. LeiPhone has learned exclusively that LPU startup YuanChuan Micro has closed a Pre-A round of several hundred million yuan. … Read more

Etched raises $800 million for a chip that runs only Transformers

Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone A single piece of news lit up both the AI and chip worlds yesterday: Silicon Valley startup Etched has closed $800 million in cumulative funding, pushed its valuation to $5 billion, and landed a $1 billion chip order. The company has been quiet. Founded in 2022 by three … Read more

Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics

Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics Two Sudo humanoid robots on display at WAIC 2026. Source: LeiPhone The embodied-intelligence zone at WAIC 2026 is still the most crowded floor in the hall. Robots make coffee, pose for photos and dance. Sudo Technology’s booth draws a … Read more

China’s home market just flipped: a sub-11-year EV brand out-sells Great Wall and Chery domestically

July sales data from China’s carmakers delivered a quiet shock. Leapmotor, founded in 2015, delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July, its first month above 100,000, and about 84,300 of those were domestic. Great Wall sold 108,100 in July, with roughly 46,100 domestic. Chery Group sold 276,800, about 74,300 domestic. The result: in the core home … Read more

Beijing’s top orthopaedics centre takes robot-surgery training to a district hospital in Shenzhen

On 1 to 2 August, a national training programme on AI-assisted therapy, orthopaedic surgical robots, was held in Pingshan, Shenzhen. It was hosted by the National Orthopaedics Medical Centre and Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, with seventy-four orthopaedic clinicians and technical staff from across China taking part. It is the first time Jishuitan’s surgical-robot technology has reached … Read more

Humanoid robots are done selling the dream. Now they are fighting for position.

Roland Berger’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, reframes the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble. It is who claims a position first if the industry actually takes off. The trigger was not a flashy demo. It was three variables colliding: vision-language models, generative … Read more