Four kinds of freedom Dobot says ’embodied omni’ rests on four dimensions. Spatial: the robot adapts freely to homes, shopping malls and campuses. Role: it switches identity with the person it meets, becoming a life companion, a sports playmate or a science tutor. Capability: it fuses vision, voice and movement so it moves from passive … Read more
In July 2026, Nature published a breakthrough: a UC San Diego team had doctors teleoperate a Unitree G1 humanoid to perform two laparoscopic gallbladder removals on live pigs — the first time a general-purpose humanoid did the main steps of standard laparoscopic surgery on a living subject. The trigger was Elon Musk. After his April … Read more
At WAIC 2026, Yuanli Lingji drew a crowd with an unusual demo: four desktop arms and two wheeled Apex robots worked 15 hours to assemble a 3.5-metre-by-1.5-metre Great Wall model from nearly 82,000 micro-blocks, some under 1 centimetre, at sub-millimetre precision. The point was not the toy. Founded by Tang Wenbin, co-founder and former CTO … Read more
Roland Berger’s new report, “Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market,” marks a shift in the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble, but who grabs the position if the industry actually takes off. Three variables converged at once. AI capability — vision-language models, generative AI, edge computing, … Read more
How the lead was built The share is the product of a complete high-end equipment chain. The core parts a robot needs, 3D vision, precision reducers, servo motors and control systems, all have mature domestic suppliers with high efficiency, fast iteration and low production cost. On the demand side, an ageing population and rising manufacturing … Read more
Learning the outcome, not the motion HOST, for Human-to-robot One-Shot Skill Acquisition, has the robot watch an average 29-second human video and reproduce a new skill with 62 per cent success. The key design choice is to ignore the exact human movement and instead understand the task’s outcome, the change in the world, then plan … Read more
The brain, not the body Lingbo was founded in December 2024 as a wholly owned Ant Group unit with 100 million yuan of registered capital. Its thesis mirrors that of US firm Physical Intelligence: do not build the hardware, build the general intelligence that any robot can run. In July it released the LingBot 2.0 … Read more
The brain, not the body Lingbo was founded in December 2024 as a wholly owned Ant Group unit with 100 million yuan of registered capital. Its thesis mirrors that of US firm Physical Intelligence: do not build the hardware, build the general intelligence that any robot can run. In July it released the LingBot 2.0 … Read more
Why Kelin picked Kepler The power and electricity track is the most certain, largest humanoid landing spot, and State Grid tenders are concentrated in the tens of billions of yuan, shifting competition toward scenario fit and scaled delivery. Kelin has spent years in the grid and energy system, holding national grid government-enterprise channels, industry access … Read more
Not a border ban Unitree secured CSRC approval for its listing on 2 July, but under the FCC rule its new US-bound products face fresh access questions. It flagged the US market risk in its updated prospectus on 31 July. The US was 18.39, 19.54 and 13.30 per cent of revenue in 2023, 2024 and … Read more