One of the most star-studded “fusion” papers of the year in video generation and embodied intelligence has just appeared. A few days ago, a paper titled Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling landed on arXiv. It has not yet spread through the academic circuit, but it is about to blow up. The author list … Read more
As the first unified model in the embodied-generation space, U0 has already validated generation quality, data usefulness and engineering efficiency. In the WorldArena benchmark built by Tsinghua, Peking and others, U0 scored first in the world under an anonymous code, and policies trained on its expanded data lifted task completion by 26.3 per cent in … Read more
The industry has spent two years caught between hype and weak deployment, with launches refreshing motion specs while most firms stayed at hundred-unit pilots. MagicLab argues 2026 is the pivot point where competition shifts from demo effects to hard delivery. Its physical-AI-native approach pairs a self-developed general model with modular products, and this year it … Read more
Dobot plans to raise 1.2 billion yuan, allocating 550 million to multi-legged robot R&D and industrialisation, 250 million to humanoid-robot technology, 100 million to marketing, and 300 million to working capital. With rival Jaka’s Sci-Tech Board IPO terminated in late 2025, Dobot stands to claim the title of A-share cobot first listing, a capstone on … Read more
OakCreek Tech, a Beijing startup building the software foundation for humanoid robots, has closed consecutive angel and angel-plus rounds. The angel round was led by Lingyi Ventures and Cloud Angel Fund, with Linge Ventures following; the angel-plus was strategically backed by three of China’s leading humanoid-robot body makers, Songyan Dynamics, Booster Robotics and Luming Robotics, … Read more
The missing translation interface The paper’s core point is that today’s video models understand physics but cannot issue commands. A model fed the start of a kettle tilting will continue the scene plausibly, water pours into the cup, yet it has never done anything, and faced with a robotic arm told to move a cup … Read more
A price-to-sales multiple near 200 times The other side of the headline matters. Public figures put Qianxun’s 2026 revenue target at about 100m yuan on roughly 200 units. A 20bn yuan valuation against 100m yuan of sales is a price-to-sales ratio close to 200 times. A company just starting to earn revenue is being priced … Read more
From platform to physical world Yu joined Zhongguancun Kejin as president in September 2024 and is credited with productising its large-model platform and capturing the enterprise opportunity of ‘platform plus application plus service’, improving the company’s product capability, business scale and visibility. His departure marks another senior operator stepping from internet platforms and scaled AI … Read more
PaXini says cumulative funding has crossed 3.5 billion yuan, refreshing the global ceiling for tactile-sensing financing, as the company repositions itself from sensor maker to the data infrastructure of the Physical AI era. The round assembles a ‘four-in-one’ capital matrix spanning national financial capital, three regional AI-industry funds, leading market institutions and global industry giants. … Read more
From a 20 billion yuan unicorn to a fresh start The founder is Xu Huazhe, formerly co-founder and chief scientist of StarWeave, the embodied-AI company whose valuation blew past 20 billion yuan with close to 3 billion yuan raised. Xu left at the peak to build something new. His record is rare even in this … Read more