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  1. Schaeffler52

    Schaeffler's first nine months of 2026 results: humanoid robot orders rise to about €400 million

    Schaeffler released preliminary results for the first nine months and third quarter of fiscal 2026, with humanoid robot business orders improving to about €400 million and two new Chinese customers won in Greater China. Group revenue for the first nine months was €17.5 billion (€17.7 billion in the prior-year period), and the EBIT margin before special items rose to 4.5%; the E-Mobility division recorded a one-off special charge of about €240 million due to reduced volumes from European automakers' projects in China, of which about €220 million occurred in the third quarter.

  2. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence52

    JL Mag expects net profit of 735-800 million yuan in the first three quarters of 2026, with robotics revenue up about 100% year on year

    JL Mag announced that it expects net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company of 735-800 million yuan for the first three quarters of 2026, up 42.59%-55.20% year on year. The company's operating revenue rose about 40% year on year, with revenue from robotics and industrial servo motors up about 100% year on year. The change in performance is mainly due to continued consolidation of its advantages in new energy and energy conservation and environmental protection and its expansion into emerging markets.

  3. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号36

    ROSCon China 2026 agenda released and registration open

    ROSCon China 2026 will be held in Shenzhen on October 16–18. The Shenzhen Robotics Association has released the full agenda and opened registration. The conference includes 50+ talks, 3 days of lunch, exchanges with 35 exhibitors, and opportunities to connect with 500+ embodied intelligence companies.

  4. 深圳市机器人协会 · 微信公众号34

    Tan Weijia, Full-time Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, Interviewed by Xinhua News Agency's Oriental Outlook Weekly, Shares Shenzhen's New-Profession Talent Evaluation and Talent-Attraction Policy Implementation

    Tan Weijia, Full-time Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency's Oriental Outlook Weekly, describing Shenzhen's practice of incubating new professions such as robotics, the low-altitude economy, and artificial intelligence through the "20+8" strategic emerging industries, as well as the implementation of new-profession talent evaluation and talent-attraction policies.

  5. 云深处科技 · 微信公众号43

    First "robot expedition member" in the Ailao Mountains! DEEP Robotics Lynx M20S wheeled-legged robot joins field scientific research

    The program "Scientific Expedition China," together with the China Scientific Exploration Association, invited DEEP Robotics' Lynx M20S wheeled-legged robot to take part in a scientific expedition in the Ailao Mountains, where it took on tasks including scouting hazardous sections, biological observation, image recording, and supply transport, marking the first field scientific research application of an embodied intelligent robot from China in the Ailao Mountains.

  6. 江苏箸境智能科技有限公司57

    Zhujing Participates in Drafting National Standard "Specification for the Construction of Humanoid Robot Data Training Grounds"; Draft for Public Comment Released

    Recently, the draft for public comment of the national standard "Specification for the Construction of Humanoid Robot Data Training Grounds" (plan number: 20261784-T-604), which Zhujing participated in drafting, was released. The standard is administered by TC591 and executed by TC591SC5, with the China Machinery Industry Federation as the competent authority.

  7. 江苏箸境智能科技有限公司59

    Zhujing Participates in Drafting National Standard "Specification for Construction of Humanoid Robot Data Training Grounds"; Draft for Public Comment Released

    Recently, the draft for public comment of the national standard "Specification for Construction of Humanoid Robot Data Training Grounds" (plan number: 20261784-T-604), in whose drafting Zhujing participated, was released. The national standard is administered by TC591 and executed by TC591SC5, with the China Machinery Industry Federation as the competent authority.

  9. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence23

    NetEase Cloud Music and Unitree Technology Reach Deep Partnership, Launching Robot Natural-Language Song Request Feature

    NetEase Cloud Music and Unitree Technology have reached a deep partnership, launching an industry-first robot natural-language song request experience. The feature already covers models including the Unitree Go2 robot dog and the G1 and R1 general-purpose humanoid robots, allowing users to request songs on the robots via natural language.

  11. OFweek Robotics64

    Sita Robotics completes angel funding round with participation from Huawei Hubble and others

    Shenzhen Sita Robotics has completed an angel funding round. Investors include Huawei Hubble Investment, a fund under Shenzhen Capital Group's Shenzhen High-Tech Investment, and Gaoxuan Investment; a fund under Qianfeng had previously invested. The company focuses on flexible photonic crystal tactile sensing. Its self-developed electronic skin can be controlled to a thickness of under 1 mm, with up to 100,000 sensing points per square centimeter. It has received orders for hundreds of data acquisition devices and completed delivery. The team has about 50 people. The funds will be used for product R&D iteration and commercialization, covering embodied intelligence, consumer electronics, and industrial scenarios.

  12. OFweek Robotics54

    Fangqi Technology completes eight-figure angel round led by TUSStar

    Fangqi Technology, a Tsinghua-affiliated robot brain company, has completed an eight-figure angel funding round led by TUSStar, just four months after its registration and establishment. The company does not build hardware bodies; instead, it trains robot skills using ordinary human video footage combined with world models, and claims that overall processing cost is 80% lower than traditional teleoperation, time consumption is reduced to 30%, and action execution success rates are on par with traditional approaches. It has begun joint research and real-world testing with a five-star chain hotel management group in Jiangsu, and is supplying its robot brain system to a robot hardware manufacturer in Shenzhen.

  13. OFweek Robotics58

    Lituo Intelligence Completes Series A Funding, Co-led by Guangtou Capital and Liuzhou Industrial Group

    Guangxi Lituo Intelligence has completed a Series A funding round, co-led by Guangtou Capital and Liuzhou Industrial Group, with the proceeds mainly directed toward product iteration and market expansion. Based in Liuzhou, the company develops Luban-axis flexible grippers and NC servo positioning equipment. It is a core supplier of NC equipment for SAIC-GM-Wuling's leading-level smart island factory, and its products have been supplied to automakers including Geely, BYD, Leapmotor, and Vietnam's Kim Long. The company holds nearly 60 core patents and plans subsequent Series B and C rounds.

  14. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence47

    Shenzhen Shita Robot Completes Angel Round with Hubble Investment and Others Participating

    Shenzhen Shita Robot Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of its angel funding round, with investors including Huawei's Hubble Investment, a fund under Shenzhen High-Tech Investment, and Gaoxuan Investment, among others. Duowei Capital served as exclusive financial advisor. The funding will be focused on product R&D iteration and commercialization, expanding applications across embodied intelligence, consumer electronics, and industrial scenarios.

  15. 国科投资 · 微信公众号56

    Astribot completes RMB 1 billion new funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation, four rounds in six months

    Astribot has completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion at a valuation of RMB 15 billion, led by Shenzhen Investment Holdings' Donghai Investment. The funds are planned for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity buildout. The company claims to be the world's first to achieve mass production of rope-driven AI robots, with capacity raised to the 10,000-unit level; its next-generation humanoid robot T1 began shipping in June 2026, bringing high-precision manipulation robots into the RMB 90,000 price range, and its foundation model Lumo-2, released in July, ranked first among participating models in the combined performance across three dimensions in more than 22 real-robot evaluations.

  16. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号66

    Astribot completes new RMB 1 billion funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation

    Embodied intelligence company Astribot recently completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion at a valuation of RMB 15 billion, led by Toukong Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with participation from Hongtai Fund, Ninghai Xingta ihe Fund, Shanheng Capital and others, and follow-on investment from existing shareholder Xianmu. The funds are planned for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity building.

  17. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence67

    Sankai Electromechanical completes hundreds-of-millions-yuan Series B funding; precision reducers already supplied to multiple leading robotics companies

    Zhejiang Sankai Electromechanical announced the completion of a Series B funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, jointly led by the Industrial Machine Tool Industry Investment Fund and Wuchan Zhongda Investment, with proceeds to be used for R&D of humanoid robot joint reducers, capacity expansion, and domestic substitution. The company entered the robot reducer field in 2022 and launched a planetary joint reducer for humanoid robots in 2024; it has entered the core supply chains of leading enterprises such as the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and is supplying in volume. The Tiangong series robots won 45 medals at the second World Humanoid Robot Games, with their core joint components coming from Sankai Electromechanical.

  18. Kawada Robotics · X10

    Kawada Robotics to hold company information session

    [Company information session] From 14:00 on 2026/10/30 We will hold a company information session at Kawada Robotics headquarters. In addition to a NEXTAGE demonstration, you can tour offices never before shown to the public! There will also be opportunities to talk and discuss with senior employees, so we welcome everyone to sign up. https://opc47.hp.peraichi.com/

  19. Shenyang Institute of Automation CAS21

    Huo Bugang chairs institute-local cooperation symposium at SIAS, Ma Shanshan attends

    On October 12, Huo Bugang, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the municipal party committee, chaired a symposium at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mayor Ma Shanshan attended. The discussion focused on deepening institute-local cooperation and promoting the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. Li Shuo, director of the Shenyang Institute of Automation, and Sun Lei, party secretary, presented the institute's research work. Research teams proposed on-site solutions in three areas—urban operations and maintenance, aviation embodied intelligent equipment, and railway operations—to Shenyang Industrial Investment Group, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, and Shenyang Qihui. Huo Bugang required that the dedicated working group operate as a substantive entity, that a proof-of-concept center and pilot testing base be well established, and that scientific and technological achievements be driven toward industrialization.

  20. 云启资本66

    Stardust Intelligence completes new RMB 1 billion funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation

    Stardust Intelligence recently completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion, reaching a valuation of RMB 15 billion. The round was led by Toushe Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with participation from Hongtai Fund, Ninghai Xingtaaihe Fund, and Shanheng Capital, among others, and existing shareholder Xianmu increased its investment. This is its fourth funding round in the past six months; its Series B valuation first exceeded RMB 10 billion in June 2026 and rose to RMB 15 billion three months later.

    Why it matters: It reviews the pace of the company's four funding rounds in six months and details of its full-stack architecture, which can be used to understand the commercialization progress of the rope-driven approach.

  21. OFweek Robotics72

    Micro Intelligence Manufacturing passes HKEX hearing in bid to become first listed industrial embodied intelligence company; Baidu has cashed out over 100 million yuan cumulatively

    Changzhou Micro Intelligence Manufacturing passed the Main Board listing hearing of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 9, with Orient Securities International as sole sponsor; 2025 revenue was approximately 796 million yuan and net profit 5.07 million yuan, ranking first in China's industrial embodied intelligence robot (EIIR) market with a 20% share.

  22. OFweek Robotics37

    From color-sorting quality inspection to flexible assembly, D-Robotics showcases multiple industrial AI solutions

    D-Robotics is exhibiting for the first time at the 26th China International Industry Fair, showcasing Sunrises intelligent computing chips, the RDK robotics developer kit, and the RoboGo software platform, covering visual inspection, industrial data acquisition, and industrial embodied solutions, with a computing power lineup of 5–560 TOPS.

  23. OFweek Robotics74

    Innova Robotics enters bankruptcy proceedings, burning through over 600 million yuan in funding in 6 years

    Innova Robotics has been announced by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court as entering bankruptcy proceedings, with the first creditors' meeting to be held on October 19. The company was incubated in 2020 under the control of He Jianfeng's Infore Group, with founder Shen Gang, a former vice president of Country Garden; strategic investors included Meituan and ByteDance. It reached a valuation of $500 million 10 months after founding and raised over 600 million yuan in cumulative funding; in 2025 its full-year revenue was only 4.33 million yuan, with a net loss of 67 million yuan.

  24. OFweek Robotics54

    DeepSeek plans to lead seed round in robotics AI company Winverse AI at a valuation of about 2.7 billion yuan

    Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars in Winverse AI, a robotics AI company founded only a few months ago, at a post-money valuation of about $400 million (about 2.7 billion yuan). Meituan Longzhu Capital has committed to participate, and the deal has not yet completed all procedures.

  25. 极客公园51

    Moss Intelligence, founded by Qiu Xipeng, completes over 1 billion yuan Pre-A funding round

    Moss Intelligence announced on October 12 that it completed a Pre-A funding round of over 1 billion yuan, led by Huakong Fund, roughly half a year after its angel round was announced. Founded by Qiu Xipeng, a Distinguished Professor at Fudan University, the company is less than two years old and has released more than 20 models since 2026 across speech, vision, and real-time multimodality, including several open-source models; MOSS-VL-Realtime, open-sourced in July, can already continuously receive video streams and update its judgments as the picture changes.

  26. The Humanoid Hub18

    Physical Intelligence co-founder to speak at summit

    "Experiments in building products at Physical Intelligence" — a keynote by Quan Vuong (@QuanVng) at the Humanoid Hub Conference. He co-founded @physical_int and previously helped build the RT-2 and OpenVLA foundation models at Google DeepMind. He will give us an inside look at the work of turning research into real-world value. October 15-16, San Francisco

  27. Xbotics具身智能实验室 · 微信公众号49

    2026 International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition to Be Held in Shanghai on October 23 — Real-Machine Training to Build a National Embodied Intelligence Real-World Combat Demonstration Platform

    The International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition review event will be held in Shanghai from October 23 to 25, with 9 tracks and 23 events including manufacturing, inspection and analysis, and warehousing and logistics, and plans to bring together more than a thousand competing teams. The competition uses a four-module, 100-point assessment framework of "task execution, embodied data collection and feedback, autonomous intelligence, and innovation capability," with differentiated conversion coefficients set by body form such as humanoid, quadruped, and wheeled, and by the two operating modes of autonomous and teleoperation.

  28. OFweek Robotics63

    AI sports hardware company PongBot completes hundreds-of-millions-yuan Series B funding, led by Shanghai Guotou Xiandao Fund

    AI sports hardware company PongBot announced the completion of a Series B round of hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Shanghai Guotou Xiandao Fund, with participation from Yuanhe PuHua and Pudong Venture Capital, and follow-on investment from existing shareholder BlueRun Ventures. The funds will go toward R&D in sports large models, sports vision, and training decision technology, and toward expanding into global markets. The company started with table tennis ball-serving robots and has accumulated more than 300,000 users, over 2 billion device ball serves, and more than 1 million UGC ball trajectories; its Aura all-in-one coaching robot, released in May 2026, raised over $4 million on Kickstarter, and overseas revenue exceeded domestic revenue for the first time in 2025.

  29. OFweek Robotics60

    Home embodied intelligence company Ola Wanxiang completes hundreds-of-millions-yuan angel+ round, its fourth since founding

    Home embodied intelligence company Ola Wanxiang announced the completion of a hundreds-of-millions-yuan angel+ funding round, jointly invested by Chengyuanxiang Fund, Xinneng Venture Capital, Xizhou International, Topband Co., Ltd., and Hony Capital. This is the company's fourth funding round since its founding in March 2026. The company targets home service robot scenarios; its first product, aimed at makers and developers, takes the form of a mobile base plus dual robotic arms. It has built the Real-world R1 system and released interim results from UniWAM, and has also partnered with housekeeping platform Haokang Zaijia to convert standardized demonstrations by housekeepers into training data.

  30. OFweek Robotics63

    Oula Wanxiang Completes Four Funding Rounds in Half a Year as Zhou Shunbo Bets on Home Embodied-Intelligence Robots

    On October 12, 2026, home embodied-intelligence company Oula Wanxiang completed a angel-plus round of several hundred million yuan, jointly invested by Chengyuanxiang Fund, Xinneng Venture Capital, Xizhou International, Topband, Hony Capital, and others. Since its founding in March 2026, the company has completed four consecutive funding rounds. Founder Zhou Shunbo was the first head of Huawei's Embodied Intelligence Innovation Lab. The company has chosen a mobile base plus dual-arm approach, with products focused on being "cultivable"; it is initially serving Maker users, has reserved more than 1,000 seed users, has a team of about 70 people, and plans to advance small-scale validation of its first-generation product in the first quarter of 2027.

  31. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence67

    Astribot completes new RMB 1 billion funding round at RMB 15 billion valuation

    Embodied intelligence company Astribot has completed a new funding round of RMB 1 billion, led by Tongkong Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with participation from state-owned and financial investors including Hongtai Fund and Shanheng Capital, and follow-on investment from existing shareholder Xianmu. The company's valuation reached RMB 15 billion. This is Astribot's fourth funding round in the past six months. The funds are planned for model iteration, talent expansion, commercialization, and production capacity building, as well as continued investment in its trinity full-stack architecture.

  32. New Strategy Robotics28

    SIASUN exhibits at the 26th China International Industry Fair, showcasing DUCO embodied intelligent robots and intelligent manufacturing solutions

    SIASUN is exhibiting intelligent robot products and intelligent manufacturing system solutions at the 26th China International Industry Fair, held in Shanghai from October 12 to 16, at Booth A239 in Hall 7.1H. The embodied intelligence exhibition area features the BR-MR73A full-body wheeled humanoid robot for die-bonding equipment loading and unloading and multi-view vehicle lock inspection, the BR-DR73 half-body humanoid robot coffee latte art workstation, as well as the OneHub multi-robot collaboration system and the Songyi wheeled humanoid robots Agile and Power.

  33. New Strategy Robotics25

    Hefei Movexx (MiMA) Shenyang Marketing Service Center Officially Opens, Deepening Its Presence in the Northeast Industrial Market

    On October 11, 2026, Hefei Movexx (MiMA) opened its Shenyang Marketing Service Center in the Jinlian New Economy Industrial Park in Hunnan District, Shenyang, filling a gap in its service network in Northeast China. The event featured displays and live demonstrations of very narrow aisle forklifts, AGV smart forklifts, and omnidirectional forklifts, and the company also launched its "C Plan" strategy and member partnership benefits for Northeast customers. The center will serve Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and eastern Inner Mongolia; MiMA has now established marketing service centers in 21 core cities nationwide.

  35. New Strategy Robotics12

    Case study: Production lines run faster, but material handling can't keep up — Galaxis Technology's intelligent logistics robot solution

    Galaxis Technology focuses on intelligent logistics robots. In 2014, it took the lead in launching the MSR series, and over the following decade it successively introduced AMR robots, the VFR series, and CSR conveyor and sorting systems. Its core strength is R&D in AI and control systems dedicated to logistics, achieving seamless integration of perception, decision-making, execution, and feedback through a closed-loop technical architecture, and providing modular, scalable integrated intelligent logistics solutions for the manufacturing and distribution industries.

  37. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence56

    Sankai Electromechanical completes several hundred million yuan Series B to fund humanoid robot joint reducer R&D

    Sankai Electromechanical announced the completion of a Series B equity financing round of several hundred million yuan, co-led by the Industrial Machine Tool Industry Investment Fund and Wuchan Zhongda Investment, with Caitong Capital and Wenling Haihe Rongzhi participating. The funds will be used to deepen R&D in humanoid robot joint reducers and integrated drive technology, expand precision reducer production capacity, and advance the domestic substitution of high-end transmission components. At the end of last year, the company received an over-100-million-yuan Series A round led by Fortune Capital.

  38. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence39

    Yisheng New Materials Completes Nearly RMB 100 Million Series A3 Financing, Led by Yuanhe PuHua and Changjiang Innovation

    Yisheng New Materials announced the completion of nearly RMB 100 million in Series A3 financing, co-led by Yuanhe PuHua and Changjiang Innovation, with participation from CITIC Construction Investment, Fengyuan Capital and other institutions, and follow-on investment from existing shareholder Xinchuang Fund. The funds will be used primarily for hardware equipment investment and recruiting high-end talent.

  39. 36Kr Embodied Intelligence68

    Moss Intelligence completes over 1 billion yuan Pre-A funding round to advance situational intelligence and MOSS Live full-modal real-time interaction system

    Moss Intelligence recently completed a Pre-A funding round of over 1 billion yuan, led jointly by Huakong Fund, with participation from China Development Bank Science and Technology Innovation, Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, and several other institutions. The company was incubated by Fudan University's Qiu Xipeng team. CEO Li Shimin said the funds will be used for R&D of the full-modal real-time interaction system and global commercialization. Its MOSS Live system targets terminals such as glasses, cars, and robots, with the goal of enabling AI to continuously understand on-site situations and conduct duplex real-time interaction.

  40. 中国机器人网 · 微信公众号48

    Lituo Intelligence completes Series A funding, with Guangtou Capital and Liuzhou Industrial Group jointly investing to accelerate industrial robot flexibility

    Guangxi Lituo Intelligence recently completed its Series A funding signing, receiving joint investment from Guangtou Capital and Liuzhou Industrial Group. The funds will go toward R&D and upgrades of self-developed flexible smart equipment, industry applications, and market promotion. Lituo Intelligence independently developed a fully domestically produced tool changer, pioneered the Luban Axis (flexible gripper) and NC servo positioning robot, and holds nearly 60 core patents (including 14 invention patents). It is a core NC product supplier for SAIC-GM-Wuling's island factory, and its customers include Geely, BYD, SAIC-GM-Wuling, and other domestic and international automakers.