RoboBusiness 2026 will be held October 20-21 in Santa Clara, California, where a roundtable will discuss how to use policies such as tariffs and FCC import restrictions to encourage manufacturers and robot suppliers to reshore or expand in the US.
GreyOrange acquired AI digital twin company Site Bionics last week; the transaction amount was not disclosed. Site Bionics was founded in 2023 by Adam Blair, former founding CTO of RADAR, and Don Gillett, former chief architect at Amazon Go.
After Rhoda AI's robot learned in the lab to fold containers with intact latches, it encountered containers damaged from repeated use and rusty rotating platforms in the factory, and its approach changed accordingly. CEO Jagdeep Singh said the team used about three hours of additional data collected at the factory to adapt the robot to the real environment.
Maxvision Technology issued an announcement on abnormal stock trading fluctuations, responding that its humanoid robot business is progressing in an orderly manner, with revenue from this business accounting for no more than 2% of the company's revenue in the first half of 2026 and not constituting a material impact on operating performance. The company also stated that its intelligent computing business is newly launched and that uncertainty exists as to whether it can sustain rapid growth.
At the 12th China Robot Summit Forum at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Chen Tongqing, co-founder and chief architect of Tashi Intelligence, explained the company's embodied intelligence industrialization path from foundation models to large-scale deployment.
Astribot recently completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion at a valuation of RMB 15 billion, led by Toushe Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with participation from Hongtai Fund, Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund, and Shanheng Capital, and follow-on investment from existing shareholder Xianmu. This is its fourth funding round in the past six months; since March 2026 it has completed a Series A+, Series A++, Series B, and this round, with its valuation rising from RMB 10 billion to RMB 15 billion within three months.
Why it matters: It lays out the pace of Astribot's four funding rounds in six months and details of its full-stack architecture, helping readers understand the commercial and technical basis behind its rapid valuation rise.
On the afternoon of October 14, the Keywords Studios board and shareholder delegation visited the Shenzhen Robotics Association to exchange views on the development of embodied intelligence and humanoid robots in Shenzhen, as well as investment and internationalization topics. Delegation members included shareholder representatives from EQT, CPP Investments, and Temasek. Four Shenzhen companies—Grid Field Intelligent Computing (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (GridAI), Juewu Technology, Lingtai Technology, and Jiutian Chuangzhi—shared their technology directions and commercialization progress.
Aitu Technology announced that its sewing robot manufacturing base in Taizhou, Zhejiang, has officially begun production, with planned annual capacity of up to 10,000 units; it is described as the world's first specialized manufacturing plant for sewing robots. Its AI sewing robot carries a self-developed sewing VLA vertical-domain large model and can complete the full process of cut-piece separation, grasping, placement, and alignment; in some scenarios the pass rate reaches the level of 100% of human workers, and efficiency reaches more than 50% of human workers. Aitu's garment manufacturing workstations have already been deployed at leading garment enterprises in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Brazil, and other countries, and a global launch event for the Aini sewing robot will also be held at the end of October.
Di'er Boge, a heavy-industry embodied intelligence robot company, has completed a hundred-million-yuan Pre-A+ funding round, with investment from institutions including Fosun Ruizheng, Qingshi Asset Management, Zhengxi Capital, Xigaotou, Bozhong Precision, and Suchuangtou. The funds will be used for R&D of core general embodied technologies for heavy industry, product iteration, and market expansion.
According to Jiazi Guangnian, Astribot has completed a new funding round, its 4th in the past half year. Since March this year, Astribot has successively completed a Series A+, Series A++, Series B, and this round; the Series B funding completed in June totaled over 1 billion yuan, with its valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan for the first time, and three months later the valuation reached 15 billion yuan.
Ant Lingbo recently entered deep strategic partnerships with several smart manufacturing and logistics companies, including Longsheng Technology's controlled subsidiary Longsheng Weirui, Dema Technology, and De'er Xiangwang under De'er Co. The partnerships will build on Ant Lingbo's self-developed embodied native models and cloud toolchain to jointly develop solutions with ecosystem partners for embodied robots in demanding industrial and logistics environments.
Yundie Technology announced the completion of a Series B+ financing round totaling several hundred million yuan, jointly invested by institutions and individuals including StellarS Capital, Asia Allied Infrastructure, Changzhe Investment, and Turing Quantum. The funds will be used mainly for iterative development of core embodied intelligence technologies and large-scale deployment in real-world scenarios, with a focus on improving the reliability of continuous robot operation, cross-scenario deployment efficiency, and long-term service capability.
The Mobile Robot Industry Alliance will hold the 2026 Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Industry Forum on November 4, and registration is now open. The original article did not disclose details such as the forum agenda, speakers, venue, or registration fees.
According to statistics from the CMR Industry Alliance and the New Strategy Mobile Robot Industry Research Institute, the global mobile robot industry completed 48 funding rounds in the first three quarters of 2026, totaling about 8.496 billion yuan. Of these, 38 rounds were domestic, totaling about 6.788 billion yuan, and 10 were overseas, totaling about 1.748 billion yuan.
In its reply to the first round of inquiry letters for its ChiNext IPO at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Xinjian Transmission disclosed that the hardware design for the V3 version of a humanoid robot, referred to as Company A, has basically been frozen and finalized, with mass production planned to begin before the end of 2026. The market and brokerages generally interpret Company A as Tesla's humanoid robot business entity.
The article analyzes how financing in the robotics industry is shifting from complete robots to capability layers such as embodied brains, motion control, dexterous hands, and data: in the first half of 2026, financing for core humanoid robot components exceeded 21 billion yuan, up 192% year on year, while financing for complete-robot companies was about 5.6 billion yuan in the same period. It cites financing cases including Moushen Intelligence, Deta Intelligence, and Yaole Technology, as well as deployment data from AgiBot and Figure, and points to three major constraints: insufficient data, shallow scenarios, and unclear technology roadmaps.
Speaking at a roundtable at the Industry Expo, Wang Xingxing said the tipping point for embodied AI could arrive in as soon as one to two years, and he is betting that GPT-7 may break through the embodied AI problem, saying that tests on robots with GPT-6 produced good results. The article also reviews how Unitree's market value has fallen by over RMB 240 billion from its peak of RMB 444.9 billion since listing, the cooling of industry financing, and bankruptcy cases such as DeepBlue Robotics, noting that the scarcity of real-world robot data and insufficient R&D investment are the fundamental bottlenecks.
Unitree Technology released its STAR Market issuance announcement on August 6, 2026, with an issue price of 150.80 yuan per share and 40.4464 million shares issued, a listing market value of approximately 60.993 billion yuan, and an oversubscription of approximately 1.7 billion yuan; the strategic placement list includes DeepSeek and four state-owned capital firms.
Hyundai celebrates the opening of its new Pune plant, expanding its manufacturing footprint in India. Tour this smart manufacturing facility, from automated production lines to AI quality inspection systems.
Solex Technology announced that it expects net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 195 million-210 million for the first three quarters of 2026, up 22.91%-32.37% year on year; the company previously hit the daily limit up twice in three days. The profit growth is mainly due to capacity coming on stream at its Vietnam production base and the continued conversion of new projects.
Beijing Octopus Agile Technology Co., Ltd. completed a business registration change, adding Huangpu River Capital and Xiaomi's Hanxing Venture Capital Co., Ltd. as shareholders, with registered capital increasing from about 2.18 million RMB to about 3.44 million RMB. The company was founded in December 2025, and its business scope includes software development and intelligent robot R&D. It is now jointly held by Du Dalong, Nanjing Horizon Information Technology Co., Ltd., and the new shareholders.
Shanghai Yuansheng Wotu Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Deng Taihua as legal representative and registered capital of 10 million RMB. It is wholly owned by AgiBot's affiliate AgiBot Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. Its business scope covers technical services, technical development, technical consulting, technical exchange, technical transfer, and technical promotion, among others.
At booth F008 in Hall 8.1H at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Elite Robots is demonstrating its self-developed embodied large model Yuanqi Primo coordinating composite robots, wheeled humanoid robots, and collaborative robots in collaborative operations. The on-site scenarios include optical module insertion and removal, teaching-free welding, automatic drone battery swapping, and coffee kitchen applications, among which the phone gluing and tightening solution gives metrics such as gluing accuracy <±0.1 mm, repeat positioning ±0.02 mm, and a single-station cycle time <10 s.
Shanghai Yuansheng Wotu Technology Co., Ltd. has been established as a wholly owned subsidiary of AgiBot Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate of AgiBot. It is the sixth subsidiary after Mifeng, Critical Point, Qingtian Zu, Kutuo, and Zhiding. The company has registered capital of 10 million RMB, and its legal representative is Deng Taihua. Its business scope includes technical services, technical development, technical consulting, technical exchange, technical transfer, and technical promotion.
UBTech and Zigong Data have jointly established Zigong Youshu Technology Co., Ltd. The company was founded on October 9, 2026, with registered capital of 5 million yuan. Its business scope includes intelligent robot R&D and the manufacturing of industrial, service consumer, and special-operation robots. Zigong Youbi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. holds 57% and Zigong Data Co., Ltd. holds 43%; the former is a wholly owned subsidiary of UBTech.
The Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, together with 11 departments, officially released a "Robot+" application needs list, collecting a total of 165 real application needs across 10 major fields: agriculture, construction, energy, commerce and logistics, healthcare, elderly care services, education, business services, safety and emergency response, and transportation. The list is open for matching to robot companies and research institutes nationwide. Each need is labeled with the requesting unit, scenario description, technical indicator requirements, and contact information for matching, and can be viewed and downloaded via the original article. The Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology will continue to update the list and organize supply-demand matching activities.
From January to September 2026, China led the development of 220 international standards at the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission, including a top-level framework for smart city data utilization and smart manufacturing guidelines for the steel industry, and newly proposed 318 international standards proposals, including for solid-state batteries and humanoid robot datasets. To date, China has led and published a total of 2,368 international standards and submitted a total of 4,079 international proposals.
Applications for the 2026 Gaogong Humanoid Robot Golden Globe Awards are now open. Click "Read the original article" to register and enter.
The latest list of apps that refuse operation, published by Doubao Phone Assistant, shows that more than 150 apps under Kuaishou, Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, and others explicitly refuse to be operated by the Doubao phone, involving two products: Nubia M153 and Nubia NaviX Ultra.
How far are we from truly general-purpose robots? Kanishka Rao (Director of Robotics at Google DeepMind, @GoogleDeepMind) and Eric Jang (robotics researcher, @ericjang11, former VP of AI at 1X) will answer this question together on stage at the Humanoid Hub Conference. Former colleagues who once worked together at Google now share the stage. October 16, San Francisco.
Yang Zhenxiang, Product Director of Xiaowu Intelligence, will give a keynote titled "The Second Half of Embodied AI: From Humanoid Narrative to System Deployment" at the 2026 Embodied Picking and Loading/Unloading Robotics Industry Forum, held on November 04 at Hall N3 of CeMAT at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The forum is hosted by the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance and the Humanoid Robot Scenario Application Alliance, features two dedicated tracks for picking and loading/unloading, and will hold the global premiere of the 2026 Embodied Loading/Unloading Robotics Market Insight and Industry Trends Report.
Wang Jun, spokesperson for the General Administration of Customs, said at a State Council Information Office press conference that in the first three quarters, China's ship exports exceeded 350 billion yuan, up 24.6%, with 300,000-tonne oil tankers, large liquefied petroleum gas carriers, and liquefied natural gas carriers all achieving multiple-fold growth. Industrial robot exports approached 10 billion yuan, up 16.9%; electronic component exports rose 70%, and electrical equipment such as wires and cables rose 25.3%. Exports of basic organic chemicals rose 24.4%, and plastics in primary forms rose 32.2%.
Shandong Xinde Technology Co., Ltd. has submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Zhongtai International as the sole sponsor.
Stardust Intelligence announced on October 13 that it completed a new RMB 1 billion funding round led by Shenzhen Investment Holdings' Tongkong Donghai, reaching a post-money valuation of RMB 15 billion; this is the company's fourth funding round in nearly half a year. The funds will be used for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity building. The company uses a cable-driven transmission design and has self-developed an end-to-end full-body VLA foundation model, Lumo. It has received orders for several thousand units, its S and T series have ten-thousand-unit-level production capacity, and the T1 brings the price of high-precision manipulation robots to under RMB 90,000.
Less than two months after its listing, Unitree Technology's share price fell from a high of 1,237 yuan to around 420 yuan, wiping out more than 270 billion yuan in market value, with a maximum drawdown of nearly 70%. Founder Wang Xingxing said on October 12 at the Shanghai International Industry Fair that his biggest mistake over the past decade-plus was not believing in AI enough, and gave a forecast that the robotics era could reach an inflection point in as soon as one to two years. Unitree is building a physical AI self-evolution system. The stock closed up 3.64% the day after his remarks.
Why it matters: The original article traces the sequence behind Unitree's post-listing share price drawdown and the founder's strategic statement, helping readers understand the AI transformation pressure facing the hardware-first approach.
Chaoyong AI analysis finds embodied AI capital is shifting from humanoid robots to underwater, space, aerial, and other scenarios that are hard for humans to reach. Since May 2026, Anhui Xianyin Future has completed three consecutive funding rounds in four months—angel, Pre-A, and A—totaling hundreds of millions of yuan, for rope-driven flexible space robots. Underwater, Shihang Intelligence received over 1 billion yuan in orders in the first half of 2026 and completed an A round of over 1 billion yuan, while Shandong Future, Qianxing Innovation, and others are also raising funds and expanding. The article argues that specialized embodied companies will generate real revenue before general-purpose humanoid robots.
The article analyzes the wave of falling humanoid robot prices: Goldman Sachs forecasts the average unit price will drop from about $41,800 in 2025 to about $21,300 in 2035; Unitree Technology's unit price fell from 593,400 yuan to 166,400 yuan in two years; Songyan Power's products have entered the sub-10,000-yuan range.
Agibot Innovation has launched a new funding round of RMB 1–1.5 billion, nearing completion, at a latest valuation of RMB 50 billion. Because a pre-listing financing after filing must be held for 120 days before listing, its plan to ring the bell in Hong Kong this year, launched in July, is essentially dashed. The article's analysis says that after listing, Unitree and Mech-Mind saw notable share-price pullbacks, and regulatory window guidance has raised the listing threshold for humanoid robot companies; Agibot chose to delay listing via financing in exchange for a more certain valuation anchor.
Wang Jun, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs, said at a State Council Information Office press conference that in the first three quarters, combined imports and exports of products including industrial robots, electronic components, computer parts, and electrical equipment exceeded 10 trillion yuan, up 58.9%, driving overall import and export growth by 11.3 percentage points. Exports of self-owned brands grew 26.7%, accounting for 24.8% of exports, up two percentage points from the same period last year.
On October 12, Beijing CASbot Robot Technology Co., Ltd. and Huzhou Talent Development Group signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. CEO Yang Ping and Yonghua Investment Managing Partner Yang Lihua attended. The two sides will deepen cooperation in areas including subsidiary establishment, fund investment, industry-academia-research collaboration, and scenario applications. Huzhou City Group will open scenarios such as urban operation governance and industrial parks to support demonstration deployment of CASbot's embodied intelligent robot products in Huzhou.