The bottleneck everyone argues about The hand is the most visible choke point of embodied intelligence. As early as 2018 OpenAI admitted that contact, friction and damping are hard to simulate accurately, and Musk has said the forearm and hand are harder to build than the rest of the robot combined. Every gain in degrees … Read more
Why Chinese homes needed their own dataset Embodied intelligence ultimately has to enter homes, but home environments are complex and personal, demanding training across hugely varied real scenarios. The new dataset holds 300,000 structured real floor plans, 5,000 complete home simulation scenes and 50,000 physically simulated interactive object assets, filling a gap in large-scale, high-fidelity, … Read more
Eight years at the top In 2025 ESTUN first reached number one in China across all brands, local and foreign, with a 10.6 per cent share and 25 per cent annual shipment growth, lifting domestic penetration of the industrial-robot market above 56 per cent. It has now led domestic-brand shipments for eight consecutive years and … Read more
Galaxy General’s Galbot S1 has run 7×24 in CATL’s battery-pack lines for over 90 days, fully autonomous. The demo-to-production leap China’s humanoid race has been promising.
The first-half 2026 funding numbers for embodied AI are genuinely startling. IT Juzi counts 93.47 billion yuan deployed, up fivefold year on year, across 322 rounds, a 137% increase. Include overseas via GG Robot and the figure is 132.5 billion, up 428%. Same trend: a tide of capital rushing in. Where the money went The … Read more
The speed of ‘first’ now outruns the speed of robot iteration. A model can go from launch to chart-topper in a week, and the charts refresh faster than products ship. When ‘first’ multiplies, the industry slides into a collective confusion about ranking inflation, and a fair question: who is actually manufacturing these titles? A manufactured … Read more
AgiBot has confirmed it is launching a Hong Kong listing, and it chose its timing with intent: the filing landed on the same day the Hong Kong exchange’s revised listing rules took effect. For a three-year-old humanoid maker, the move marks the shift from building product to cashing out capital. From zero to one in … Read more
The lead is durable. Estun first took the national crown in 2025 with a 10.6 per cent share and 25 per cent annual shipment growth, lifting local brands’ combined share above 56 per cent. It has now led domestic shipments for eight consecutive years and six consecutive quarters. The moat is vertical. While peers lean … Read more
Lu’s company, BeingBeyond, just released Being-H0.8, an implicit tactile world-action model trained on 500,000 hours of first-person human video, the largest such corpus among embodied models globally. Its progression tells the story: H0 at 3,000 hours in July 2025, H0.5 at 35,000 hours supporting 30 robot types in January, H0.7 at 200,000 hours in April, … Read more
What ‘model-ready’ means Jianzhi Robotics calls the data it sells ‘Model-Ready Data’, data you can feed straight to a model without rework. It needs three traits at once: high precision, multimodality and diversity. Hand-tracking error of 2-3cm, the industry norm, means the model sees a finger a full digit off, so it grabs through cup … Read more