Skip to content
Only Opinion
Jan 8Thu
  1. 线性资本40

    In conversation with Horizon Robotics' Yu Kai: Buffett and Munger are absolute idols, and entrepreneurship is essentially a form of investment | Linear Talk

    Wang Huai, founder of Linear Capital, held a fireside chat with Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, reviewing Horizon's ten-year entrepreneurial journey and its life-or-death moments. Yu Kai said Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Duan Yongping are his absolute idols, and that entrepreneurship and life decisions are essentially both investments. Horizon follows a risk-averse strategy of "competing where there is no competition" and "not dancing at the edge of a cliff," and at the end of 2019, when it still had more than 3 billion in cash on its books, it cut its headcount by half.

Dec 31Wed
  1. 线性资本38

    Linear Capital's Wang Huai: The future of AI has only two doors, one in the US and one in China | Linear View

    In a keynote article for the AGM conference, Linear Capital founder and CEO Wang Huai argues that before AI's superpower there are only two doors: the US's 0-to-1 innovation and China's 1-to-100 scaling capability. Linear requires its team to subscribe to and use the best AI models from both the US and China (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Kimi, and others), with the company fully reimbursing the cost.

Dec 25Thu
  1. 线性资本30

    Original Aspiration, Patience, and Confidence: Lessons from 10 Years of Smart Glasses Ups and Downs | Linear Voice

    In a "Linear Tech π" sharing session, Zhao Weiqi, head of Rokid's global open ecosystem, broke down the underlying thinking behind Rokid's journey through a ten-year cycle from three dimensions: original aspiration, patience, and confidence. Over ten years, Rokid has accumulated more than 1,000 intellectual property items and 547 domestic and international patents, concentrated in human-computer interaction, optics, acoustics, spatial computing, and OS capabilities; the company uses a "211" work model, with two rounds of iteration per month, once every two weeks, one week for validation and one week for review.

Dec 24Wed
  1. FieldAI21

    FieldAI: Delivering packages with robots to add joy to the holidays

    FieldAI looks back on 2025 with a holiday-themed video: its Field Foundation Models (FFM), safety-first robot foundation models, have achieved long-term production deployments in dirty, dull, and dangerous environments across Asia, Europe, and North America, with major customers signing expansion contracts. FFM requires no prior maps, GPS, pre-planned routes, or external communication, runs entirely at the edge, and a single "brain" can drive multiple robots, tasks, and environments.

Dec 23Tue
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼27

    Realman Founder Zheng Suibing Proposes Building a Remote Workforce Network at Corporate Social Responsibility Forum to Create a Sustainable "Real-Machine Data Engine"

    Zheng Suibing, founder and CEO of Realman, said on December 19 at the 2025 Corporate Social Responsibility Forum that the company is using a "remote workforce network" to let operators direct robots in real time to perform real tasks such as folding towels, utility tunnel inspections, and power control, while accumulating scenario data to feed embodied intelligence. Realman's integrated joint modules have annual production capacity exceeding 100,000 units, its robotic arms have passed CR L3 certification, and their mean time between failures has reached 50,000 hours. The company also co-founded the GPR open-source alliance in February 2023 and released a mobile composite robot development platform in 2024.

  2. Sunday Robotics · X18

    Memo acquires grasping intuition through datasets

    Traditional robots are like player pianos—they can only play the notes they are given. Memo is more like a top chef who has watched hundreds of chefs in various kitchens. Our diverse dataset gives Memo the "intuition" to grasp entirely new objects. This is a small step toward robots that can truly help in any home 🤖👨‍🍳

Dec 13Sat
Dec 4Thu
Nov 19Wed
Nov 13Thu
Nov 4Tue
  1. Holiday Robotics50

    Holiday Robotics' industrial humanoid robot Friday uses self-made tactile sensors costing about 30,000 won, with mass production next year

    Holiday Robotics has unveiled Friday, an industrial humanoid robot whose hands use a 500-gram, 20-DOF hydraulic ultralight design, with about 80% of their surface covered by self-made tactile sensors that can sense a force of 0.01N (about 1g), as well as direction and torque.

Oct 27Mon
  1. SIGRobotics · X7

    Team Gains a Lot from Embodied AI Hackathon

    Hello everyone! We had a wonderful time at the #EmbodiedAIHackathon embodied AI hackathon with @seeedstudio, @NVIDIARobotics, and @huggingface! We ran into many challenges and problems, but we feel we learned a lot and gained more experience in embodied AI.

Oct 24Fri
Sep 15Mon
  1. 线性资本34

    Linear Capital marks 11th anniversary: Wang Huai reviews investment journey, future decade to focus on three major areas of strong AI

    Linear Capital founder and CEO Wang Huai published an article on the firm's 11th anniversary, reviewing its investment journey over the past eleven years and announcing that its core strategy for the next three to five years and even the coming decade will center on "strong AI." It will focus on three major areas: AI plus software/applications, AI plus hardware/robotics (including consumer electronics and embodied intelligence), and AI plus science (AI4S). The article reviews cases such as investments in Horizon Robotics' Yu Kai, Manycore's Huang Xiaohuang, and Agile Robots' Chen Zhaopeng, and also acknowledges the lesson that its investments in the SaaS sector were "almost a complete wipeout."

Jul 31Thu
  1. 线性资本28

    Linear Capital's Yang Jun: Young People All Want to Retire Early—I Tried It, and It's Not as Great as You'd Imagine | Linear View

    Yang Jun, a partner at Linear Capital, held a nearly 2-hour live Q&A with nearly 30 students from the University of Pennsylvania, sharing his experience from pursuing a PhD to founding a startup to investing, as well as his views on "early retirement," career choices, judging startup teams, and opportunities in mature markets. He advises that career choices follow passion and growth, and believes early retirement can be boring; Linear Capital focuses on seed to Series A, pays attention to technology-matching issues, judges teams by capability, willingness, and resilience, and cites Agile Robots as an example showing that technology that solves pain points can bring opportunities.

Jun 24Tue
  1. 线性资本36

    Linear Capital's Zheng Can: AI application investment focuses on vertical agents, coding, and voice models; starting ticket size for early-stage projects rises to $3–5 million

    Zheng Can, Managing Director at Linear Capital, said at the WAVES New Wave 2025 roundtable and in an interview that AI application opportunities belong to teams with both obsession and execution capability. Linear is bullish on agents that solve specific vertical problems, coding tools, voice models, and AI plus the silver economy.

Aug 23Tue
  1. OFweek Robotics47

    Robotics boom: humans lose out to dogs — humanoid robots struggle to commercialize, quadruped robot dogs sell only a few thousand units a year

    Industry insiders believe bipedal humanoid robots have no practical value in the short term and are unlikely to be commercialized within ten years: Xiaomi's CyberOne "Tieda" costs about 600,000 to 700,000 yuan per unit and cannot be mass-produced, and Boston Dynamics has never intended to bring Atlas to market. Quadruped robot dogs are commercializing faster: Unitree's industry-grade quadruped robot dog has a payload of 160–200 jin, with annual sales of only a few thousand units; Xiaomi's CyberDog "Tiedan" is priced at 9,999 yuan, with 700 of the first 1,000 units sold in the Xiaomi community. China's robotics market is expected to reach $17.4 billion in 2022.

Jan 19Wed
  1. Morado Ventures31

    Morado Ventures partners on the tech trends they track and their seed-stage investment logic

    Morado Ventures partners Ash and Mike, in a conversation with editor-in-chief Russ Rizzo, share their seed-stage investment logic, saying that falling costs of AI, machine learning, sensors, and edge computing are opening new opportunities, and that for early-stage investing "now" means three to five years out. The two note that rentable GPUs in the cloud have sharply lowered the cost of machine learning at scale, and their portfolio includes autonomous-device and self-driving companies such as Everest Labs, Canvas, and Zipline.

Apr 21Wed
  1. OFweek Robotics19

    How Yunson Intelligent Builds Full-Scenario Intelligent Service Robots

    At the 3rd China International Service Robot Innovation and Development Conference, Shi Wenhua, Vice President of Technology at Yunson Intelligent, presented a full-scenario intelligent service solution centered on AI service robots. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Star Macalline Holding, the company builds smart mall, smart building, and smart community solutions, supported by an integrated scheduling and management platform. It holds more than 100 related invention patents, and its products have been applied in scenarios such as mall shopping guidance, exhibition hall tours, and government services.

Apr 9Fri
  1. OFweek Robotics27

    Rubotics' Qiu Qiang: Using an "intelligent hand-eye unit" combining motion planning and machine vision to address the intelligence and cost pain points of industrial robots

    Qiu Qiang, CTO of Shenzhen Rubotics, said the company uses machine vision and robot motion planning technology to build an intelligent hand-eye unit, targeting the two major pain points of industrial robots: insufficient intelligence and high application costs. Its bathroom polishing unit can use 3D vision to detect the shape of a washbasin and automatically plan the working trajectory, shortening debugging time; the intelligent hand-eye unit can free 1 to 2 workers from hazardous environments. On February 1 this year, Rubotics signed a cooperation agreement with Japan's RBB company, beginning its "going global" push.

Feb 1Mon
  1. OFweek Robotics41

    Why did robotics companies' performance surge collectively in 2020? QKM Technology reveals the truth behind it

    OFweek Robotics interviewed Liang Jintang, Marketing Director of QKM Technology, to explain the reasons behind the collective rise in robotics companies' performance in 2020. He noted that the pandemic prevented workers from returning to their posts and strengthened companies' willingness to undertake automation upgrades, which, combined with overseas orders flowing back to China, left the company's factory with a full order book and supply falling short of demand. QKM Technology positions itself as a manufacturer of lightweight industrial robot bodies and has developed a lineup of 9 major series and 30 models, covering SCARA, Delta, and six-axis robots.

Jan 21Thu
  1. OFweek Robotics44

    Youibot's Zheng Hao: AGV market has great potential, but must overcome two obstacles: cost and scenario universality

    Youibot Deputy General Manager Zheng Hao believes the AGV market still has enormous room for growth: from 2014 to 2019, domestic AGV output rose from 3,200 units to 33,400 units, and sales scale grew from 700 million yuan to 6.175 billion yuan, with high-end manufacturing and deep cultivation of niche industries as the main drivers.