Suzhou-based general embodied intelligence company UniX AI announced on November 9 that it has completed a RMB 500 million Pre-A funding round. Existing shareholders Xienuo Investment and Yonghua Investment increased their investment, while Greenland Group, Keli Sensing, Huagong Venture Capital, Xinjing Fuying, Redbird Qihang Fund, and Yulin Industrial Investment joined as new investors.
At 2026 CeMAT ASIA, Bangqi Technology is showcasing a full-stack embodied intelligence logistics solution and a "pay-per-operation-value" RaaS model, combining standardized AMR transport with humanoid robots for end-of-line operations, coordinated by its self-developed ADS scheduling system. The solution has been validated on a production line at a leading vehicle manufacturer, improving material delivery efficiency by 30%; in a warehouse goods-to-person project, equipment achieved 7×24-hour unmanned operation, boosting capacity by 125% with 99.9% accuracy. RaaS is billed by actual workload, and the full model can be deployed in 1-3 months.
At CeMAT ASIA 2026, Zhiwang Weilai, Yuanli Lingji and Geek+ each presented warehouse solutions that move robots from moving boxes to picking goods.
Packsize and Swisslog Logistics have formed a partnership to incorporate packaging automation into overall warehouse automation design, helping customers design, sequence, and implement fulfillment systems. The two companies say the joint solution reduces touches, eliminates waste, and increases throughput, and has already been deployed in multiple global projects, integrating on-demand custom packaging, ASRS, fulfillment systems, and orchestration. Packsize emphasizes that packaging equipment is a strategic control point affecting the ROI of warehouse automation investment, not an end-of-line ancillary investment.
REEMAN completed on-site deployment of the Fly Boat factory delivery robot (AMR) at a large garment factory in Dongguan in about half a day, and configured multiple pickup and drop-off points. The robot has a rated payload of 300kg and actually carries about 200–250kg per trip (including a custom rack of about 80kg). It lifts the rack with a 10cm autonomous lift, navigates via laser SLAM, travels about 150m per loaded trip, and performs 70–90 tasks per day on average. Workers trigger deliveries via a physical one-button call button. Reference price is about USD 5,780, depending on configuration.
Kassow Robots, Joytek, Bosch Rexroth and Reply have jointly developed an automated kitting system for automotive manufacturing that combines a Joytek AMR carrying two Kassow KR1018 seven-axis collaborative robotic arms with a unified control architecture.
Robot integration is enabling mid-sized manufacturers to achieve high-precision production with compact, low-cost solutions, without overhauling the entire production line. Torneria Novoletto uses the SCHUNK R-C2 automation concept, combining gripping components with robot loading and unloading.
At CeMAT ASIA 2026, Hai Robotics is exhibiting the FlashPick system's double-deep solution and the K1200 heavy-duty latent lifting robot. Global signed cooperation for the FlashPick system has exceeded 20,000 units, with the largest single project surpassing 5,000 units. The double-deep solution can store 45,000 totes within 1,000 m² of space, with throughput of 4,000 totes per hour; the K1200 can collaborate with ACRs and supports unified scheduling of up to 6,000 robots on the same site.
Yifei Technology, together with Korean distributor Jookang Robotech, showcased a complete palletizing solution comprising the Elephant collaborative palletizing all-in-one machine and Camel series AGVs at Robot World 2026, with a live demonstration of the full cycle of end-of-line carton palletizing and pallet and material transfer.
Changan Automobile announced that its first painting visual AI adhesive robot has officially gone live at the Liangjiang plant, with risk detection rate and reporting accuracy both exceeding 99.5%. The robot uses a large-model detection system built on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to lock in optimal adhesive application points and standardized operating trajectories, with single-inference response at the millisecond level. After clearing the PVC area bottleneck, line JPH increased by about 8%.
During Double 11, the Cainiao Zengcheng Tmall Supermarket warehouse in Guangzhou deployed 135 ZeeBot climbing robots to complete 28 hours of peak order fulfillment in a storage area with 9-meter-high, 20-tier racks and 42,000 bins, achieving a 99.99% on-time rate for wave outbound orders. The robots accumulated over 140 km of vertical travel, with a peak of 11 km in a single hour and a vertical climbing speed of 1.2 m/s; they attach to racks with dual grippers and require no dedicated tracks. Overall warehouse storage efficiency is about 3 times the original, labor efficiency has risen to about 2.5 times, and output per workstation equals 2 to 3 picking employees.
AgiBot launched a 24-hour convenience store work challenge in which 6 Genie G2 robots took on roles including reception, pickup and delivery, drink preparation, inspection and restocking, and cleaning, completing 1,730 tasks in total; in the end, 4 passed probation and 2 did not. The robots run on the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, which uses Physical RSI to turn success and failure experience from execution into long-term memory and iteratively refine action strategies; capabilities such as judgment for restocking and cleaning come from this prior self-review.
On November 3, Zhijian Dynamics and Hangcha Group completed the deployment of the first robot sorting line for a supermarket front warehouse, connecting the full workflow from AMR merge feeding, robot autonomous planning and dexterous grasping and turning, and scan verification to order distribution. The line uses the iX robot body that Zhijian Dynamics customized for Hangcha, and relies on visual perception and VLA task planning to handle boxed, bagged, bottled, and other product forms without the need to model each SKU separately. Measured single-machine sorting efficiency reaches up to 450 items per hour, with accuracy stable above 98%, and under full load it can support 24-hour continuous fault-free operation.
Why it matters: Readers can learn about the actual deployment conditions of the supermarket front-warehouse sorting line and the single-machine efficiency and accuracy data.
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots completed a 24-hour trial at an operating convenience store in Xuhui District, Shanghai, performing a total of 1,730 tasks, with four of them passing the final assessment.
Why it matters: AGIBOT disclosed the task distribution and assessment results of six G2 robots over 24 hours in a real convenience store, offering a view of how embodied intelligence performs in continuous operation.
The REEMAN X-ant autonomous forklift at a large auto parts factory in Shanghai achieves about 125–140 pallet transport cycles per day, carrying 800–1,000 kg per trip over a full cycle of about 100 meters. The narrowest point of the plant's transport route is only 1.55 meters, and the pickup and drop-off area offers about 2.8 meters of operating space. With a one-button call, the forklift automatically picks up goods, transports them under load, drops them off, and returns to its charging station to stand by. The X-ant JBOT20F is 695 mm wide, has a turning radius of 1,448 mm, and a rated load of 2,000 kg.
German retail group Otto will deploy AI dual-arm robots in phases at a logistics center in Poland to inspect, identify, and sort e-commerce returns. The first phase plans to deploy 10 systems, and whether 15 more will be added later depends on initial operating results. Returned goods are often crumpled, repackaged, or presented in various orientations, so the robots need to combine visual information to decide how to grasp and adjust their actions based on feedback; simulation can model different orientations and packaging to assist training. Currently, the project still lacks enough public data to judge actual efficiency and return on investment.
Ambi Robotics is installing new versions of its AmbiSort sortation system at 8 sites ahead of peak season and expects customer throughput to grow 9% to 10% year over year. The company sends about half its team to sites for inspections while the other half stands by to handle issues; it also pre-positions spare parts at sites in advance and pushes AI system improvements only after controlled-environment A/B testing. Its customer service hotline is answered by the same people responsible for on-site training and repairs, in order to build customer trust.
At CeMAT, Geek+ exhibited the general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, the RoboShuttle Hyper case-to-person system, and the SkyCube pallet-to-person system, and demonstrated a comparison of prediction and execution by its self-developed Gravity embodied model in clearing bins of mixed items and picking unfamiliar items.
Geek+'s wheeled humanoid Gino 1 was released on February 10, featuring 14 degrees of freedom in its dual arms, three-fingered dexterous hands, a Jetson Thor compute platform, and a VLA fast-slow collaborative system; it can perform four types of work: picking, box handling, packing, and inspection. The article compares it with cases such as Agility Robotics' Digit and Robot Era's L7, pointing out that the key to humanoids entering warehouses lies in interfaces, data sources, and the maintenance response radius, rather than the form factor itself. Geek+ says Gino 1 already has mass-production capability and can connect to its own fleet formed by its scheduling system, picking stations, and AMRs for storage, picking, handling, and inspection.
Elite Robot and Shanghai Xijia Semiconductor jointly implemented an 8-inch silicon carbide substrate laser lift-off + thinning fully automated production line. The laser unit processes a single wafer in 20–25 minutes, with yield above 99.5%. A composite robot plus automation system handles autonomous wafer transfer and high-precision alignment; combined with laser modification and ultrasonic lift-off processes, it raises overall production efficiency by more than 30%. The solution uses chained automation to eliminate material transfer and positioning losses between process steps, and applies intelligent scheduling to unify process parameters and ensure line-wide consistency.
REEMAN completed the on-site deployment of the Ironhide autonomous forklift in about one day at a lighting manufacturing factory in Zhejiang, for pallet transport between a covered outdoor storage area and an indoor warehouse. In actual operation, the forklift has a maximum payload of about 600 kg, a one-way route of about 100 meters, and performs about 140–180 transport tasks per day; the reference equipment price is about USD 9,900. During deployment, engineers also adjusted the transport route based on the actual situation of temporary inventory occupying the aisle.
SYNCERE announced on November 3, 2026, that it has raised $11 million in pre-seed funding, led by a16z Speedrun, with participation from Draper Associates, Physical World, Sequel, and SeaX Ventures.
During the 2026 World Internet Conference, Xiaomi disclosed two deployment advances in its robotics business: a humanoid robot took on an 8-hour shift for the first time at a center-console side-cover sequencing station, achieving autonomous anomaly correction and system-level coordination with the production line; an Agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model is in trial operation at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing a long-horizon validation of over 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and 50+ tasks.
At the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, Xiaomi disclosed progress in the industrialization of its humanoid robot: it has been deployed at the center console side cover panel sequencing station in Xiaomi's automotive final assembly workshop, completed its first 8-hour uninterrupted full-shift operation, can independently grasp flexible workpieces, adjust posture, and place them neatly, and has autonomous anomaly correction capability.
At CeMAT ASIA, which opened on November 3, Geek+ is exhibiting its general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, the Gravity embodied model, the unmanned picking workstation RAPS, and a full range of robots including RoboShuttle Hyper, SkyCube and RoboPallet, providing on-site evidence for its recently announced 24/7 autonomous intelligent warehouse plan.
PAL Robotics announced the ARAL project, funded by the EU's EIC, to develop a humanoid robot capable of working in existing warehouses based on the bipedal humanoid research platform KANGAROO, with the first phase aiming to advance from TRL 4 to TRL 5.
The project "Key Technologies and Systems for Highly Stable Mobile Manipulator Robots for Semiconductor Manufacturing," led by Youibot, won the first prize of the Technology Invention Award at the 2025 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Awards. The project claims breakthroughs in three areas: material vibration control, wide-range navigation and positioning with end-effector grasping precision, and integrated "hand-eye-foot" safety control. The OW series and ATS series mobile manipulator robots have entered more than ten wafer fabs in China and abroad, integrating into 8-inch and 12-inch wafer and 28nm chip production processes and operating 24/7.
On October 30, Shunheng Intelligence announced that its self-developed dual-arm wheeled humanoid robot, SynDexy C1, has completed its first small-batch delivery. The customers are in the consumer electronics and electronic components sectors, and the robot is used for precision assembly processes on production lines. The robot has 22 degrees of freedom across its body, with motion control latency reduced to the 1-millisecond level. It is equipped with self-developed visuotactile sensors and the SynDexy M1 visuo-tactile-force tri-state fusion manipulation model. The company disclosed that the success rate for key tasks exceeds 98%. The project was initiated in April this year, the first-generation prototype was completed in July, and delivery took place in October. The company was registered in June 2025, and its chief scientist is Fang Bin of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Warehousing and logistics is seen as the scenario closest to real production for embodied intelligence, because it combines high-frequency real demand, a semi-structured environment, and quantifiable business metrics. The article divides the players into three groups: embodied intelligence startups, traditional logistics equipment companies, and end logistics enterprises such as JD Logistics, SF Express, and China Post, which respectively hold technology, systems, and scenario resources.
On November 2, six AgiBot Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24 consecutive hours at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai, covering roles including greeting customers, making coffee, stocking shelves, cashiering and cleaning, with the entire shift livestreamed. The six robots shared task scheduling through AgiBot's embodied Agent framework Genie Master and reported execution results back via the embodied execution protocol EEP, collecting failure cases into an error log and converting them into training data.
Liu Junhui, founder of Zhihui Robotics, said the company's technology route is AI plus spraying robots plus spraying processes. It develops its own explosion-proof spraying robot bodies, sources 3D vision cameras externally, and focuses investment on path and trajectory planning. The company launched 5 explosion-proof spraying robot models in 2023 and put them into mass production; shipments exceeded 100 units in 2025 and are expected to reach 300 units in 2026. It completed an A round of funding in the tens of millions of yuan in April this year and plans to release a seven-degree-of-freedom explosion-proof spraying robot in November.
At CeMAT 2026, Geek+ demonstrated a robotic arm equipped with the Gravity embodied model and its general-purpose humanoid robot Gino 1, completing grasping of unfamiliar objects, picking, and bin handling. Gravity uses a hybrid Transformer (MoT) dual-brain collaborative architecture and a hierarchical memory mechanism, and through natural-language correction it raised the overall success rate of complex manipulation tasks from 17.5% to 87.5%, with a single picking action stable at about 2 seconds.
Starting at 10:00 on November 2, six AgiBot Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24 consecutive hours at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai. They were assessed against store standards including on-duty time, task success rate, and response time. In the end, 4 passed probation, while Lengjie and Juanwang did not yet pass probation due to shortcomings in on-duty initiative and job stability.
Starting November 2, six Genie G2 robots equipped with AgiBot's Genie Master embodied Agent framework worked continuous 24-hour shifts in a real convenience store. In the end, four passed the probation assessment, completing a cumulative 1,730 tasks, including greeting customers 683 times, fetching and delivering 369 items, and making coffee 147 times.
Ruoyu Technology exhibited independently for the first time at ROBOTECH2026, held October 27–29 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. Together with Geely Auto and Zhengxing Technology, it recreated a smart refueling worksite at 1:1 scale, where the Ruoyu Lanyue robot autonomously completed the entire process—taking up the nozzle, opening the fuel tank cap, inserting the nozzle to refuel, and returning the nozzle to its place—without any manual intervention.
Lingchu Intelligence and Hengyan Technology are jointly delivering the Li-Ning East China Smart Logistics Center project. The embodied robot, equipped with Lingchu's self-developed model, has been deployed on site and entered trial operation, taking on routine work and fulfilling commercial orders. The solution targets the bin-picking scenario in footwear and apparel warehousing, where shoeboxes are mixed in storage and item poses are random. The model can autonomously break down multi-step goals and complete recognition, pose estimation, dexterous grasping, product sorting, and pushing full boxes, without requiring large-scale modification of existing infrastructure. During the trial operation, Lingchu will work with Li-Ning's warehouse operations team on stress testing and validation of abnormal conditions, optimizing bin-picking success rates and stability during long periods of continuous operation.
Xiaomi Group received the 2026 World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award, and its "key technologies for a general-purpose robot manipulation foundation model for scaled deployment" received the Leading Technology Award. Xiaomi's humanoid robot took on an 8-hour shift for the first time at the center console side cover sequencing station in an automotive plant, achieving autonomous anomaly correction and system-level coordination with the production line; an Agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model is in trial operation at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing long-horizon task validation of over 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and 50+ tasks.
36Kr has learned that Shenzhen Yicheng Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. (Yicheng Innovation) recently closed a RMB 200 million Series C round. Investors include Yueke Group, Shanda Investment, Anhui Guotou, and Foshan Venture Capital. The funds will be used for factory capacity upgrades, core technology iteration, and commercialization deployment.
Tutor Intelligence announced the completion of a $75 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $117 million. The funds will be used for frontier robotics foundation model training and the manufacturing and deployment of Sonny and Cassie.
Jiben Intelligence announced that it has completed two consecutive funding rounds totaling nearly $10 million (approximately RMB 67 million). The rounds were led by Alphaist Partners and Yaotu Capital respectively, with Jieli Angel and the actual controller of a components industry player participating as follow-on investors.