BYD has officially confirmed it plans to unveil a humanoid robot in August at Di Space, its brand experience hall. The confirmation, carried by Cailian Press on 28 July, follows a teaser poster at Di Space reading: “Early August — a new friend wants to meet you.” BYD executive vice-president Li Ke has said the … Read more
A joint venture between Shenzhen’s Leju Robotics and Guangdong Dongfang Precision has opened a humanoid-robot mass-production factory in Foshan with an annual capacity of 10,000 units — one of China’s first scaled humanoid lines to move from demo to industrial base. The hard part of mass production is not speed. “It is not about making … Read more
After 12 years and roughly $3.2 billion in cumulative funding (per Tracxn data), Faraday Future has delivered fewer than 20 vehicles. Now the Jia Yueting-led company is abandoning the EV label altogether: an August shareholder meeting will vote on a renaming that rebrands FF as a “physical AI ecosystem company,” with humanoid and embodied-AI robots … Read more
In 2025, capital chased complete humanoid robots — a walking, talking demo unit could raise hundreds of millions. In 2026, the money has pivoted to a single component: the dexterous hand, what the industry calls the “last millimetre” of robot-world interaction. The numbers are stark. According to IT Juzi data cited by OFweek, China’s dexterous-hand … Read more
When NVIDIA unveiled its Isaac GR00T reference humanoid at GTC Taipei during ICRA 2026, the industry noted the obvious choices: a Unitree H2 Plus body, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and the open-source Isaac GR00T model as the brain. But the component that drew the sharpest questions was the one few had heard of: the hands. … Read more
A bionic robot developed by a Shanghai startup has ignited a fierce debate on overseas social media — not because it failed, but because it looked too human. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17, Shouxing Tech unveiled OriginF1: a desktop-scale bionic android with 26 degrees of freedom across … Read more
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Shenzhen-based service robot leader Keenon (擎朗智能) unveiled something more ambitious than a product demo: an “embodied community” spanning four real-world service scenarios, all running on humanoid robots with zero human teleoperation. What ‘Zero Teleoperation’ Actually Means The industry default for robot showcases is still remote piloting — a human operator … Read more
Futuring Robot’s F2 home robot, a full-stack domestic humanoid currently deployed in paid household trials across China. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Home robots remain the most stubborn corner of embodied AI, but one Chinese startup is betting the path runs through real living rooms rather than factory floors. Futuring Robot (未来不远), founded in Shanghai in 2022 … Read more
Humanoid robots are not yet mass-market consumer products, but China’s leading players are already fighting over physical retail entry points. Two Strategies, One Goal In late April, Unitree opened its first directly operated flagship store in Beijing’s Wangfujing Intime in88 mall. By late May, it followed up with an embodied-AI experience centre on Shanghai’s Nanjing … Read more
Dobot’s collaborative robot arm in operation. (Source: OFweek Robotics) Dobot (越疆科技), the world’s top collaborative-robot vendor by sales and a Shenzhen-based company, is closing in on a ChiNext (创业板) listing. Its IPO application was accepted by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange just 17 days after Beijing published a reform opinion supporting innovative firms on the board, … Read more