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  1. 人形大讲堂 · 微信公众号58

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology closes tens-of-millions-yuan seed round four months after founding, building bionic faces for humanoid robots

    Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. The seed round was backed by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, while the seed+ round included Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. Founded four months ago, the company's flagship product, FaceSoul Agent, uses a cable-driven design to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed on-device expression-generation model. It has launched four product series: Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng. The funds will go toward product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion.

  2. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号58

    Tiejin Technology's 2.5 billion yuan micro bearing and humanoid robot component project breaks ground in Suzhou

    Suzhou Tiejin Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd.'s micro precision bearing and humanoid robot core component project has broken ground in Wujiang District, with total investment expected to reach 2.5 billion yuan. Once completed, it plans an annual output of 1 billion sets of micro precision bearings and 1 million sets of humanoid robot core components, focusing on R&D of ultra-micro cycloidal reducers and actuators.

  3. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号60

    Shenmou Intelligent's "Dragon Claw" drone wins State Grid power aerial operations project

    Shenmou Intelligent's "Dragon Claw" aerial-operations drone has won State Grid Power's "High-Stability UAV for Aerial Operations" project, using a drone-plus-robotic-arm-plus-dexterous-hand configuration to address foreign-object hazards on overhead transmission lines. The system identifies foreign objects such as bird nests through inspection, then uses the robotic arm and dexterous hand to carry out integrated detection, handling, and verification. Shenmou says its self-developed technologies include the drone and robotic arm bodies, a multi-redundant flight control system, target grasping control, dynamic visual guidance, and piezoelectric six-axis force sensors.

  4. 维科网机器人 · 微信公众号47

    MOONS' headquarters and R&D center project tops out, expected to be operational in 2028, with focus on embodied intelligence

    The main structure of the MOONS' headquarters and R&D center project has topped out. The project covers 17,800 square meters with a total investment of 1.009 billion yuan and is expected to be operational in 2028. Its R&D directions cover embodied intelligence, data center liquid cooling, semiconductors, and high-end equipment. MOONS' already has volume supply capability for dexterous hands, upper-limb joints, and wheel-hub/wheel-side modules for wheeled chassis. In the first half of 2026, revenue from robot-related application areas grew about 58% year on year, but accounted for about 9% of operating revenue.

  5. Agility Robotics68

    GXO and Agility Robotics expand partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at North Carolina and Tennessee sites

    GXO and Agility Robotics are expanding their partnership to deploy Digit humanoid robots at sites in Statesville, North Carolina, and Lebanon, Tennessee, handling repetitive material-handling tasks in e-commerce fulfillment. Deployment of Digit 4 is expected to begin in early 2027, with a migration once Digit 5 is commercially available.

    Why it matters: After Digit cumulatively moved more than 100,000 totes in GXO warehouses, the partnership has expanded from a single-site pilot to multiple sites, offering a way to observe the pace of commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

  6. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence42

    SWANCOR: Consumer-grade embodied intelligent robot business in scale-up production ramp and commercialization validation stage

    SWANCOR announced that its consumer-grade embodied intelligent robot business is in the stage of scale-up production ramp and commercialization validation. Related products have been launched and sold, but its capabilities for scale production, delivery, and commercialization remain uncertain, and the company cannot yet predict the impact on its 2026 revenue and profitability. The company's related robot and model development products remain in the R&D stage, and their technical routes, R&D progress, performance, and commercial applications all require continued validation.

  8. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence22

    Dolun Technology, up 3 straight sessions: not involved in R&D or production of core humanoid robot bodies

    Dolun Technology issued a risk warning announcement stating that the company is not involved in the R&D or production of core humanoid robot bodies; its robotics business mainly consists of scenario applications for traffic management robots and custom production of coffee robots. The company said revenue and profit from this business account for a very small share and are not expected to have a material impact on its operating results for 2026.

  9. Robohub27

    September 2026 robotics society, business, and culture roundup: Global industrial robot stock tops 5 million units, Toyota plans to invest 1 trillion yen, ETH Zurich achieves humanoid hand walking

    The International Federation of Robotics' "World Robotics 2026" report shows that more than 5 million industrial robots are now in operation in factories worldwide; in 2025, more than 600,000 units were newly installed, up 11% year on year, with China accounting for 354,000 units, or 59% of the global total.

  11. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence18

    Institutions buy 17 stocks including Unitree Robotics today, sell 137 million yuan of Huayi Technology

    In the October 26 dragon-tiger list, institutions appeared in 47 stocks, with net buying in 17 and net selling in 30. The top three net institutional buys were CanSemi, Unitree Robotics, and SWANCOR, at 249 million yuan, 249 million yuan, and 93.98 million yuan respectively; the top three net sells were Huayi Technology, Ultrasonic Electronic, and Raynen Technology, at 137 million yuan, 134 million yuan, and 111 million yuan respectively.

  12. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence22

    Unitree Robotics: Physical AI moving from lab demos to large-scale real-world deployment still faces multiple challenges

    Unitree Robotics announced that its stock's closing price rose by a cumulative deviation of more than 30% over three consecutive trading days, constituting abnormal trading volatility. As of October 26, 2026, its trailing price-to-earnings ratio was 465.22 times, significantly higher than the general equipment manufacturing industry average of 38.54 times. The company noted that the humanoid robot industry is still in the early commercialization stage, and that physical AI moving from lab demonstrations to large-scale real-world deployment faces multiple challenges, including perception accuracy, motion control stability, data accumulation, and software-hardware coordination; it will take time to validate the maturity of the relevant technology paths and business models.

  13. 钛媒体40

    Lopsking to acquire 51% of Mengying Technology for 207 million yuan, expanding into panel and semiconductor automated material handling

    Lopsking plans to acquire a 51% stake in Suzhou Mengying Electronic Technology for 206.55 million yuan in cash. The target supplies automated material handling system (AMHS) equipment and core components to the panel and semiconductor industries. After the deal closes, it will be consolidated into Lopsking's financial statements.

  14. 优宝特 · 微信公众号40

    Why are robots competing in the CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition? Yobotics explains the real-world Mount Tai trial

    The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition is about to begin. The course runs from Hongmen to Zhongtianmen and covers more than 3,100 natural stone steps, with steep slopes and sharp turns that become slippery under the influence of temperature, dew, and precipitation. It is designed to test the autonomous, stable mobility of humanoid and quadruped robots in unstructured mountain terrain. The event features humanoid and legged robot racing, loaded transport and exoskeleton assistance special events, and an all-terrain mobility pathfinding challenge for wheeled, tracked, and wheel-legged composite configurations.

  15. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence25

    AgiBot's registered capital increased to about 96.825 million

    The registered capital of AgiBot Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate of AgiBot, increased from about 91.959 million yuan to about 96.825 million yuan. The company was founded in February 2023, its legal representative is Deng Taihua, and its business scope includes intelligent robot R&D, service consumer robot sales, and intelligent robot sales. It is jointly held by Sangpeng (Shanghai), Guanbao (Shanghai), Xingsu (Shanghai), and other technology partnerships.

  16. 中科慧灵 · 微信公众号72

    CASBOT completes several-hundred-million-yuan A++ round to advance embodied intelligence mass production and delivery

    CASBOT completed an A++ funding round of several hundred million yuan, jointly invested by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, Luning Investment and others. The funds will be used for product mass production and delivery, R&D iteration of embodied brain technology, and market expansion. The company's self-developed CASBOT PA perception-to-action model has been validated at actual workstations in a shoe factory in Putian, achieving a cycle time of 7 seconds per piece for the outsole stamping process and 18 seconds per pair for sole pressing. In 2026, its total orders for embodied shoe-making robots exceeded 400 million yuan, with equipment production scheduling reaching the scale of several thousand units.

    Why it matters: The funding announcement also disclosed shoe-making workstation cycle times and order scale, which can be used to assess the industrial deployment progress of embodied manipulation models.

  17. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号58

    Shenmou Intelligence's Dragon Claw arm-equipped aerial work drone wins State Grid power aerial operations project

    Shenmou Intelligence's Dragon Claw aerial work drone has won State Grid Power's "High-Stability UAV for Aerial Operations" project, using a drone-plus-robotic-arm-plus-dexterous-hand configuration to clear foreign-object hazards on overhead transmission lines. The system identifies foreign objects such as bird nests through inspection, then uses the robotic arm and dexterous hand to carry out removal and verification, forming an integrated discover-handle-verify workflow. Shenmou says it developed the flight control system, robotic arm and dexterous-hand grasping control, dynamic visual guidance, and piezoelectric six-axis force sensors in-house, and cites research estimating annual procurement demand of about 150 million to 200 million yuan per province.

  18. 荭杏科技33

    Hongxing Technology's Xiaomei M9 Deployed at Holiday Inn Express Yantai Laishan, Serving On-Site as "AI Concierge Service Specialist"

    At the opening ceremony of Holiday Inn Express Yantai Laishan, Hongxing Technology's Xiaomei M9 was deployed on-site as an "AI Concierge Service Specialist" for greeting and guiding, covering public areas including the main entrance, lobby, front desk, elevator hall, and restrooms, and handling welcome reception, hotel introductions, facility promotion, wayfinding, and guest inquiries. On-site setup and debugging were completed within 1 day, with about 1 hour of centralized employee training; deployment did not require venue modification. After deployment, Xiaomei M9 provides service autonomously through voice interaction without manual intervention.

  19. 数字华夏20

    Digital Huaxia appears at CEIC 2026: the path from technical prototype to large-scale commercial embodied humanoid robots

    At the CEIC 2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Forum, Digital Huaxia shared a three-stage roadmap for humanoid robots moving from technical prototypes to large-scale commercial use, and proposed building an "Agent+Robot" collaborative system based on its self-developed RoboEase scenario platform. Company co-founder Chen Junmin noted that going from prototype to commercial use requires clearing four hurdles: scenario definition, engineering reliability, a closed business model loop, and a data flywheel.

  20. OFweek Robotics62

    Underwater robot orders surge, but why is only half the business case settled?

    The underwater robot sector saw a concentration of financing and orders in 2026: Shihang Intelligent's orders for the year exceeded 1 billion yuan; Shenhai Zhiren signed 8 work-class ROVs in South America and Southeast Asia with total contracts of 300 million yuan; and Ouka Zhibo won two consecutive water-area cleaning projects totaling about 27.17 million yuan. The article uses Shenhai Zhiren, Weilan Shenhai, and Ouka Zhibo to represent three hurdles—selling equipment, completing tasks, and replicating platforms—and notes that scarce underwater data, unproven stable profits, and a shortage of onshore engineering talent remain the parts of the industry that have not been settled.

  21. 川崎重工8

    Kawasaki Heavy Industries releases corporate brand film "Kawasaki: 130 Years and Beyond"

    Kawasaki Heavy Industries has released the corporate brand film "Kawasaki: 130 Years and Beyond," part of its "Changing forward" series, produced to commemorate the 130th anniversary of its founding on October 15, 2026. The film looks back on the 130-year journey the company has taken together with its stakeholders and looks ahead to a future in which hydrogen energy and physical AI play a role. It also presents the company's efforts to use physical AI-driven robots to address labor shortages in the nursing care, welfare, and industrial fields.

  22. 数字华夏18

    Digital China's humanoid robot "Xiaqi" appears at 2026 Chishui River Forum as official guide

    Digital China's general-purpose humanoid robot "Xiaqi" served as the official guide at the 2026 Chishui River Forum, providing exhibition-area tours and explanations for attending guests and interacting with them through its humanlike appearance, fluid movements, and intelligent interaction. The forum was jointly hosted by Xinhua News Agency's Brand Work Office, China Economic Information Service, and China Moutai, and was held in Moutai on October 17. Digital China said this appearance is an active exploration of its push to bring humanoid robots into cultural display, brand communication, and public service scenarios.

  23. 钛媒体18

    Segway-Ninebot concludes second MotechDay: 6 teams in AI application contest finals pitch, AI Innovation Marketplace platform launches

    Segway-Ninebot's second MotechDay concluded in Changzhou. The AI application contest selected 6 teams from 98 to advance to the finals pitch, while another 10 teams received merit awards; judging focused on whether solutions could solve real business problems. The event also launched an AI Innovation Marketplace platform for all employees, offering end-to-end services from idea submission and cross-domain team formation to project incubation and implementation. Segway-Ninebot invested 750 million yuan in R&D in the first half of 2026, up 44% year on year.

  24. OFweek Robotics36

    Is the GPT Moment for Physical AI Approaching?

    General-purpose large models are beginning to take part in robot control. Models such as GPT-6 Astra can already understand complex instructions, recognize objects, and plan operation steps in tests, but fine manipulation still requires coordination with dedicated control systems. Approaches such as HexaShell and WorldScape-RSI explore a division of labor of "large-model decision-making plus specialized-model execution," and tests show some improvement in task performance, though the results mainly come from controlled environments. On data collection, head-mounted operation videos are quoted at about 100 to 300 yuan per hour, while complex real-machine data can reach about 1,000 yuan per hour.

  25. OFweek Robotics58

    Agibot IPO reportedly postponed as humanoid robot capital logic shifts to orders and overseas expansion

    Agibot has reportedly paused its IPO while launching a new funding round, with market rumors putting its valuation at about RMB 50 billion. The article argues that capital evaluation criteria for humanoid robots have shifted from prototypes and concepts to order quality, customer repeat purchases, and the substance of commercialization, against the backdrop of Unitree's STAR Market market cap nearly halving and Mech-Mind's first-day break below its Hong Kong listing price. Agibot plans for overseas sales to account for more than 30% by 2026, with overseas expansion seen as a more realistic second curve than domestic involution.

  26. OFweek Robotics38

    After robots start working, three sets of accounts still need to be settled

    Unitree Technology listed on August 19, becoming the A-share market's "first humanoid robot stock," with its intraday market value briefly reaching 444.9 billion yuan; nearly two months after listing, its total market value once fell to about 170 billion yuan. Using Unitree's valuation swings as a sample, the article argues that the robotics industry needs to settle three sets of accounts: the technology account, the business account, and the replication account. It cites the production-line livestream of eight AgiBot G2 units running continuously for six days at Longcheer Technology's Nanchang factory, completing more than 64,000 operations with a 99.99% success rate, and robots from Robot Era entering more than ten logistics centers including China Post and SF Express for sorting, to show that the industry is shifting from demonstrating capabilities to proving them.

  27. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence30

    K2Lab Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Angel+ Round Led by Kaitai Capital

    K2Lab has completed an angel+ funding round of tens of millions of yuan invested by Kaitai Capital. Within six months, the company has consecutively completed three funding rounds led respectively by Yunshi Capital, Huakong Fund, and Kaitai Capital. The proceeds from this round will be used for overseas business expansion, upgrades to model algorithms and engineering capabilities, building the merchant Agent and merchant alliance ecosystem, and building an AI Native organization.

  28. Robotics & Automation News78

    Dream Labs raises $90 million seed round and launches Dream API and Dream-1 model

    Dream Labs announced it has completed a $90 million seed round led by B Capital, with participation from Kindred Ventures and others. The company also launched Dream API, which can convert robot camera footage and natural-language instructions directly into motor commands, and said its flagship model Dream-1 is trained on videos of everyday human tasks and can zero-shot control any robot with a gripper.

    Why it matters: Dream-1's cross-hardware zero-shot control and the open approach of Dream API provide a concrete reference for judging the transferability of general-purpose robot models.

  30. Robotics & Automation News72

    Schaeffler's Taicang humanoid robot lighthouse factory begins production, with humanoid robots assembling joint modules

    Schaeffler has opened an approximately 7,500-square-meter humanoid robot lighthouse factory in Taicang, China, where six humanoid robots at five workstations handle the loading, sorting, assembly, inspection, labeling, and packaging of key components such as linear and rotary actuators. The factory also includes a training and data acquisition center, a digital twin platform, and a data center, enabling real-time mirroring and optimization of parameters such as assembly precision, work hours, and energy consumption, and offering customers and partners the ability to train and test physical AI systems under real industrial conditions.

  31. 量子位75

    Tesla Fremont factory begins initial Optimus production, plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units first for training at Optimus Academy

    In its third-quarter earnings report, Tesla confirmed that the Optimus humanoid robot production line at its Fremont factory has begun initial production, with the first batch of robots meeting mass-production manufacturing standards rolling off the line; the line is planned for an annual capacity of 1 million units. On the earnings call, Musk said the plan is to first build about 10,000 to 20,000 robots and send them to a training facility called Optimus Academy to practice autonomously, using the resulting data to iterate the next generation of AI models, and he expects deliveries to external companies to begin around the end of 2027.

  32. OFweek Robotics22

    Robot Data Collection: The 10 Fastest-Growing and Most Profitable Companies

    Ranked by growth metrics such as revenue CAGR and CAGR of non-recurring net profit, and profitability metrics such as return on equity and gross margin, the article selects 10 companies in the robot data collection industry chain. Longcheer Technology, Orbbec, and OPT Machine Vision take the top three spots. The list covers segments including embodied data collection hardware ODM, RGB-D depth collection hardware, optical motion capture, professional embodied data services, and data collection center operations. Frontop Digital Creative Technology's revenue CAGR of 72.81% is the highest in the sample. The data is based on historical figures and does not constitute investment advice.

  33. OFweek Robotics58

    Xinjian Transmission responds to SZSE first-round inquiry, plans to raise 2.519 billion yuan for 1 million-unit screw capacity

    Hangzhou Xinjian Electromechanical Transmission Co., Ltd. responded to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's first-round inquiry on October 12, 2026, as it pushes toward an IPO. Its prospectus shows 2025 revenue of 383 million yuan and net profit attributable to shareholders of 62 million yuan. The fundraising projects have a total investment of 2.812 billion yuan, of which 2.519 billion yuan is planned for an industrialization project with annual capacity of 1 million planetary roller screws for humanoid robots and automobiles.

  34. OFweek Robotics38

    Unitree's new robot "Kung Fu Legend" loses a leg on landing after side flip at conference performance

    Unitree's new robot "Kung Fu Legend" was billed in a promo video as able to lift a car bare-handed, but on October 22 at its own conference it performed a side flip and failed to stick the landing, with one mechanical leg detaching on the spot and flying off. The next day Unitree Technology hit the daily limit up on the STAR Market, with market value surpassing 250 billion. The article also cites Musk saying that although Tesla's Optimus is already in production, about 10,000 details still need tuning, and external deliveries will be pushed to the end of 2027.

  36. 量子位58

    DeepMirror unveils full-stack physical AI inspection solution for steel industry at Unitree ecosystem conference

    DeepMirror released a full-stack physical AI solution for the steel industry at the 2026 Unitree Technology Partner Ecosystem Conference held in Hangzhou on October 22. Using Unitree quadruped robot dogs as the carrier and paired with its self-developed Insight series spatial intelligence cameras, the Navcore spatial intelligence brain, and a task management platform, the solution enables a complete inspection chain covering pure vision positioning, autonomous navigation, dynamic obstacle avoidance, equipment detection, and data archiving. The solution has been deployed at multiple steel enterprises including Xiangtan Iron and Steel and Jinnan Iron and Steel, has entered a phase of regular on-site operation, and is planned for reuse in scenarios such as power cable tunnels and chemical industrial parks.

  37. 智东西42

    Unitree's Wang Xingxing: Physical AI Nearing a Tipping Point, GPT-6 Already Deployed to Unitree Robots With Zero Training

    Speaking at the 2026 World Physical AI Conference, Unitree Technology founder Wang Xingxing said physical AI is showing signs of an imminent breakthrough, likely within the next one to two years, and that GPT-6 has been deployed to Unitree robots with completely zero training, enabling tasks such as drawing on its own, playing board games, and finding kitchen tools.

  38. OFweek Robotics58

    Songyan Dynamics reportedly files confidentially with Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 10,000-yuan-class Bumi races toward 10,000-unit delivery

    Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Beijing robotics company Songyan Dynamics has confidentially filed a Hong Kong IPO application, planning to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially list as early as next year; the company did not respond to the rumors. Songyan Dynamics has built a product matrix including the N-series and E-series bipedal robots, the bionic humanoid head Xiaonuo, and the 10,000-yuan-class Bumi. Founder Jiang Zheyuan set a 10,000-unit delivery target for Bumi in 2026; as of September 2026, cumulative deliveries exceeded 5,000 units, with B-end orders approaching 2,000 units.

  39. OFweek Robotics60

    Robot dog company Wujing Dynamics, valued at 1 billion yuan, halts operations after eight months with nearly 8 million yuan in unpaid wages

    Founded in February 2026, Wujing Dynamics claimed to hold nearly 1 billion yuan in orders, 110 million yuan in received financing, and a valuation of 1 billion yuan. In October, it was reported to owe nearly 8 million yuan in unpaid wages, to have stopped paying social insurance and housing fund contributions, and to have halted work after its actual controller became unreachable; employees have entered labor arbitration.

  40. OFweek Robotics62

    Nanjing Wujing Dynamics reportedly owes nearly 8 million yuan in unpaid wages; had previously announced nearly 1 billion yuan in orders

    Nanjing Wujing Dynamics, founded only 8 months ago, has been accused by employees of owing wages to 30 to 40 people totaling nearly 8 million yuan, and the company has been hit by a work stoppage. In June the company announced that 110 million yuan in financing had been secured, and that it had signed framework orders worth nearly 500 million yuan with several central state-owned enterprises, plus another nearly 500 million yuan in reserve orders; however, framework and reserve orders are still some distance from formal procurement and delivery. Employees reported that the wage arrears began in August, that housing fund contributions stopped in September, and that social insurance contributions stopped in October; some employees have already applied for labor arbitration.