Xiaomi-backed 3D compute-in-memory AI chip firm Weina Hexin raises RMB 1 billion, nearing mass production

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Zhidx reported on 9 September that Hangzhou three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip firm Weina Hexin has closed a RMB 1 billion C1 round and will soon reach scaled commercialisation and mass production, joining the first group of three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip companies worldwide to do so. Weina Hexin 3D compute-in-memory AI inference chip. (Source: Zhidx) The … Read more

Cell Wall Intelligence skips the humanoid race and raises an angel-plus round for a desktop productivity robot

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Embodied Emergence reports that Jiangsu Cell Wall Intelligence, a Kunshan hard-tech firm, has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan angel-plus round led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with Legend Star and Tianqi Capital following and FlowCapital as long-term adviser. The money funds CyboPal ONE volume delivery and its embodied interaction system. Cell Wall Intelligence CyboPal ONE desktop productivity robot. … Read more

ZINOVA and LimX Dynamics put a dual-arm robot to work on a real construction site

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Physical-AI firm ZINOVA, building on LimX Dynamics’ TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot and with construction-robot company RIC Robotics, completed a scaled demonstration of concrete tilt-up construction, covering formwork framing, multi-layer rebar laying and tying. The proof of concept showed embodied robots can use existing tools to join complex construction flows, and is another original practice … Read more

ModelBest’s 2B MiniCPM5 tops sub-4B open models, beating Google’s 12B Gemma 4 on intelligence density

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Zhidx reported on 8 September that Beijing edge-LLM unicorn ModelBest, together with the OpenBMB open-source community, has open-sourced MiniCPM5-2B, a next-generation edge language base model. The 2-billion-parameter model supports tool calling, deep search and code generation, and shipped day-zero adaptation to Intel, Rockchip and Arm platforms. MiniCPM5-2B benchmark results versus larger open models. (Source: Zhidx) … Read more

Ant Group co-leads Tianji Intelligence B++ round, betting on force-control humanoid arms

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On 8 September, Guangdong Tianji Intelligence said it had closed a B++ strategic round co-led by Ant Group and Sofina Asia Private, with Gaorong Venture Capital and Tencent following on, and Gaohu Capital as sole adviser. Tianji Intelligence force-control humanoid dual-arm robot. (Source: OFweek Robot) The funds go to technology research, scaled production and global … Read more

Wanxun launches NOVA 2.0, a flexible embodied brain trained on more than 10 million real-world operations

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Wanxun Technology, a global leader in flexible embodied intelligence, has released NOVA 2.0 (Neuromorphic Omniversal Versatile Architecture), its second-generation flexible embodied brain and the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-intelligence architecture. It is built from more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real industry scenarios, and its cross-scenario migration and delivery ability have … Read more

WRC 2026 recap: embodied intelligence trades the demo stage for the profit-and-loss sheet

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At the Beijing World Robot Conference in August 2026, the sound in the halls was no longer amazement that a robot could dance like a person. It was founders quietly working out return on investment in their heads, counting the wages a machine could save in a month. Embodied-intelligence exhibits at the World Robot Conference … Read more

Shenzhen has put 30 companies on the public markets in eight months, raising over a trillion yuan

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On 8 September, Shenzhen firm Longsys listed in Hong Kong as the first ‘A+H’ standalone memory maker, taking the city’s 2026 listings to 30. It closed at 233.60 Hong Kong dollars a share. Longsys priced at 236 Hong Kong dollars on 26.08 million shares, raising 6.154 billion Hong Kong dollars, to be spent on AI … Read more

China accounts for 97 per cent of the world’s humanoid robot exports and manufacturing, a senior official says

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On 9 September, at the Agglomeration Intelligent Industry Development Conference 2026, Jin Bing, former first-level inspector and deputy director of the policy and law department at the State Post Bureau, said embodied intelligence is entering an accelerated mass-production phase. Citing the latest data, he said China’s share of global humanoid-robot exports and manufacturing has reached … Read more

Six-axis robot leader Risong posts a 3,349 per cent profit jump in the first half as China robotics demand rebounds

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OFweek Robot reported on 9 September that Risong Technology delivered its strongest first-half results since listing. The six-axis robot system-integration leader used the reporting period to show that China’s industrial robotics demand is swinging from caution back to growth. The numbers behind the rebound For the first half of 2026 Risong posted revenue of 625 … Read more