Realbotix and a European telecom company have launched a pilot project to expand robot capabilities in live demonstrations and events. Public information currently covers only the launch itself; the specific model, deployment scale, and pilot duration have not been disclosed.
SoftBank Robotics Group has invested in Yo-Kai Express to obtain a globally exclusive commercial license for part of its intellectual property, accelerating the deployment of the "STEAMA" cooking robot in overseas markets such as North America, including seeking business partners, evaluating deployment opportunities, and establishing sales channels.
DEEP Robotics' X30 quadruped robot won the China Design Gold Award at the 26th China Patent Award, which is jointly organized by the China National Intellectual Property Administration and the World Intellectual Property Organization; no more than 10 Design Gold Awards are granted each year. The X30 features a wide operating temperature range of -20°C to 55°C, IP67 whole-machine protection, and a 520mm standardized mounting rail, and supports autonomous charging and rapid battery swapping. It was previously the first industry-grade quadruped robot from China to be deployed in an overseas power system in 2024.
ZINOVA, using LimX Dynamics' TRON 2 dual-arm embodied robot, partnered with RIC Robotics to complete a POC demo of a scaled concrete slab construction scenario, covering processes such as formwork frame assembly, and multi-layer rebar laying and tying. In the demo, two TRON 2 robots respectively held a nail gun and wooden boards to collaboratively assemble and secure the concrete formwork frame. TRON 2 supports human-machine collaborative teleoperation, with operators intervening at key points while accumulating data to lay the foundation for future autonomous capabilities and model training.
Shanghe Dongliang posted congratulations to its portfolio company Mech-Mind (Xiongan) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., which officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026, under stock code 09615.HK, and is called the first embodied-intelligence eye-brain-hand stock.
Why it matters: Providing key figures such as the issue price, fundraising size, and the proportion allocated to fundraising projects would help assess the capitalization path and R&D investment direction of this eye-brain-hand component supplier.
BeingBeyond and Shutu Technology recently formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will deepen collaboration around high-quality data construction, model training and validation, and industry data standards, and will explore building an industry-oriented data-sharing ecosystem platform. Shutu Technology had previously served as one of BeingBeyond's core data partners, providing data support for embodied foundation model training. On July 28, BeingBeyond released the embodied foundation model Being-H0.8, which was pretrained on more than 500,000 hours of raw first-person video data.
Geek+ (2590.HK) announced its first-half results for the period ended June 30, with new signed orders up 35.5% year on year to RMB 2.385 billion, revenue up 25.3% year on year to RMB 1.284 billion, gross margin improving to 35.8%, and adjusted net loss narrowing 32.1%. Excluding the impact of embodied intelligence R&D investment, adjusted net loss narrowed 81.9%, bringing the core business close to break-even.
Why it matters: Specific figures are given for orders, revenue, gross margin, and the narrowing loss, making it easy for readers to compare with peers' interim results and profitability pace.
Raspberry Pi Chief Commercial Officer Mike Buffham visited Hiwonder on August 28, 2026, toured its robotics products and R&D capabilities, and exchanged views on Raspberry Pi-based robotics, AI education, and embodied AI applications.
UniX AI sent three robots to the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, and all three won medals, taking one gold, one silver, and one bronze. Panther won gold in the hotel service scenario and successfully defended its title, while the other two robots took silver and bronze in the emergency incident response and emergency fire rescue scenarios, respectively. The Games featured 666 teams and 2,056 robots competing across 21 real-world scenario events.
ROBROS delivers 9 IGRIS-C units simultaneously
Shenyang Sanhua New Energy Vehicle Components Co., Ltd. has been named a 2026 Liaoning Province advanced-level smart factory, with the list publicly announced by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. The company focuses on the R&D and mass production of liquid cooling plates for new energy vehicle power batteries and core components for vehicle thermal management. By introducing intelligent visual inspection, automated performance testing, AGV smart transport, and an MES production management system, it has achieved full automation coverage of key production processes.
Noetix Robotics won first prize at the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition. The original text only announced this award and disclosed no further details.
Shinhan Investment & Securities and UMI Ventures held the "Korea-Japan Deep Tech Conference" in Tokyo on August 19, with 31 organizations in attendance, including Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, DBJ, KDDI, TEL, SMBC, and Mizuho Bank. The CEO of DeepX presented the company's AI semiconductor strategy, and the CEO of Holiday Robotics presented its physical AI and humanoid robot industry and commercialization strategy. Shinhan plans to leverage UMI's Japanese industry network to support Korean deep tech companies entering Japan and to identify investment and partnership opportunities.
At the second World Humanoid Robot Games, EngineAI's mass-produced small humanoid robot Mini Pi plus competed in nearly ten events, including the 100-meter race, 100-meter obstacle course, high jump, long jump, cheerleading, tai chi, martial arts forms, and street dance, using the same model with no special modifications.
UniX AI's Panther humanoid robot was the first to complete three tasks in the hotel scenario competition at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games: luggage handling, room restocking, and room tidying, taking the gold medal. This is UniX AI's back-to-back win in the hotel scenario competition at the event.
Lingchu Intelligence announced the completion of a new funding round of over $100 million. Investors include Tuopu Group, Ruicheng Fund under Chery Holding, Lens Technology, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Wuhu Municipal Investment Holding Group, and Fosun Chuangfu, while existing shareholder Zhuhai Technology Industry Group made an excess additional investment. The proceeds will focus on embodied world model R&D and commercial deployment in logistics and advanced manufacturing scenarios. The company's self-developed dual-system architecture comprises the Psi-R2 manipulation policy model and the Psi-W0 action-conditioned world model, and it plans to expand the scale of human data collection and accelerate the layout of data collection facilities.
Why it matters: Lingchu Intelligence officially announced the completion of the funding and stated that the funds will go toward world model R&D and commercialization in logistics and manufacturing scenarios, giving readers insight into its industry-finance resource layout.
At the "AI Expo," Donut Robotics's CEO gave a keynote speech, and the company was interviewed by NHK.
On August 15, 2026, Keli Group's 2026 second-half planning conference was held in Beilun, Ningbo. Heads of controlled and affiliated companies reported on first-half operating results and connected on-site for cooperation opportunities. Chairman and President Ke Jiandong deployed six core development goals, including upholding the sensor industry forest strategy and laying out the robotics sensor market in advance (by integrating robotics business resources, deepening robotics investment, and building an industry building and robotics platform to accelerate the second growth curve), and driving the business footprint to expand from the sensor industry forest to the sensor industry forest plus robotics industry ecosystem, achieving steady profit growth in the second half of the year.
On August 21, Tianchuang Robotics, Qingwei Intelligence, and Lingshu AI signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build a full-chain ecosystem spanning hardware terminals, domestic computing power, and scenario services, and signed on site the first batch of 200 special robot RaaS service orders. Lingshu AI will deliver integrated security, firefighting, and emergency-response inspection services for high-risk scenarios such as chemical plants, power plants, and oil and gas parks, while Qingwei Intelligence provides cloud-edge-device collaborative computing support.
On August 26, Nanjing Tianchuang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and CIIC Jiangsu Economic and Technical Cooperation Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly build a robot labor dispatch RaaS (Robotics as a Service) model, delivering robots as dispatchable work units that provide usage rights, operational capabilities, and operations management services, focusing on public safety, emergency safety, fire safety, and industrial energy scenarios. The two parties will use Jiangsu as a pilot to complete product refinement, project validation, and process system development.
Keli Group appeared at the 2026 World Robot Conference together with its equity-invested ecosystem partners, including Beiwei Sensing and Yuansheng Technology, showcasing a robot perception matrix covering force sensing, tactile sensing, inertial sensing, vision, and MEMS.
Keli Sensing (603662) has completed a strategic investment of tens of millions of yuan in UniX AI, and plans to integrate force-control sensing capabilities such as six-axis force/torque sensors into UniX AI's robotic systems. The base version of UniX AI's Wanda 2.0 wheeled dual-arm robot is priced at 88,000 yuan and has entered volume delivery; the company has an annual capacity of 1,000 units and delivers more than 100 units per month. Keli Sensing's six-axis force/torque sensors have linear accuracy better than 0.3%FS and have been delivered in volume to multiple well-known robot customers in China and abroad.
Agility Robotics announced it will attend multiple investor conferences before the end of the third quarter, including the Citi Global TMT Conference on September 8-10, the Jefferies Global Industrials Conference on September 9-10, and the Evercore ADAS on September 29.
Flagship Aviation Services and SoftBank Robotics America announced the expansion of their autonomous ground-cleaning program at U.S. airports to 25 airports and more than 200 robots. Since the partnership began in 2024, the program has doubled in scale in under two years, operating hours have grown 9-fold, cumulative operating hours have exceeded 100,000, daily cleaning area averages nearly 1 million square feet, and cumulative cleaning volume is approaching 500 million square feet.
At the opening ceremony of the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit on August 26, BeingBeyond stood out from 10,209 participating projects to win the competition's first prize, with founder Lu Zongqing accepting the award on stage. Founded in May 2025, the company focuses on training embodied general foundation models using large-scale human video data. In July 2026, it released the Being-H0.8 general dexterous manipulation model, which unifies vision, touch, action, and future state changes into a single latent space.
A delegation from Shandong Heavy Industry Group visited Rokae Robotics for a tour and research discussion. The two sides exchanged views on typical heavy-industry scenarios such as intelligent welding, force-controlled assembly, flexible grinding, precision adhesive dispensing, and smart charging, and explored paths for integrating "robotics + AI" with real production scenarios. Rokae Robotics presented its full-stack in-house technology spanning core hardware, underlying control, and algorithms, with products already applied to intelligent welding, grinding, and assembly in the automotive, 3C, new energy, and general manufacturing sectors. Rokae had previously reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Shantui Construction Machinery, a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry Group.
Tongji Technology and Fudan University's Academy for Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation held a joint study session of their Party committee theoretical study central groups. Attendees from both sides toured the academy's research achievements, including an adaptive visuotactile AI perception system. Tongji Technology said it will leverage its advantages in application scenario provision, business ecosystem collaboration, and capital operations to work with the academy to identify suitable technologies and high-quality projects. Jiang Yugang proposed that the two sides strengthen technical alignment and help move research outcomes from the laboratory to the industrial front line, and that a regular alignment and collaboration mechanism will be established going forward.
On August 26, Guangzhou LiGong and general-purpose embodied foundation model company BeingBeyond announced a strategic cooperation to jointly build an iterative loop from model training and real-machine deployment to scenario feedback, advancing embodied intelligence toward large-scale application.
In the 2026 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) centralized application cycle, the School of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Innovation at Fudan University had 21 projects approved for funding, with direct funding of 21.29 million yuan. The number of approved projects rose 40% year on year, and funding increased 11.29% year on year. The approved projects include 1 Innovative Research Group project, 1 Key Program project, 1 Young Scientists Fund project (Category B), 7 General Program projects, and 11 Young Scientists Fund projects (Category C).
On August 26, Jiuwei Technology established two laboratories, MicVLC and POWER, and appointed four scholars from Zhejiang University to lead the areas of embodied models and spatial intelligence, agent architecture and underlying systems, mechanical structure and the robot body, and complete-machine R&D and industrialization, respectively.
The intelligent loading system developed by Boshi has been officially completed and commissioned at PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Yulin Branch, marking another implementation of the company in the petrochemical intelligent logistics field. The system integrates 3D vision, LiDAR, and deep learning technologies and can accommodate mainstream transport vehicle models on the market. A complete loading operation for a single vehicle takes about 36 minutes. As of August 23, after two weeks of operation, it had completed a cumulative 5,181 tons of high-density polyethylene product loading and outbound shipment, with all indicators meeting design requirements.
Geekplus supported DHL Supply Chain New Zealand in opening a Life Sciences and Healthcare (LSHC) logistics facility on Te Kapua Drive in Auckland, described as the most advanced facility of its kind in New Zealand, with an opening ceremony held. Geekplus (HKEX: 2590) focuses on robotics and intelligent warehousing solutions.
At the 10th anniversary of KDB NextRound's Physical AI event, Holiday Robotics CEO Song Ki-young gave a keynote and live demo of the humanoid robot FRIDAY, showcasing finger joint movement and industrial actions such as operating a power drill. She emphasized that South Korea has 1,220 industrial robots per 10,000 workers, the world's leading robot density, allowing it to commercialize first and then expand to global markets. Four startups—Rideflux, Deaden Robotics, Mubin, and MediInTech—also gave IR pitches at the event.
Philips announced it has received up to $33.7 million in funding from the U.S. ARPA-H Autonomous Interventional and Robotics (AIR) program to advance automation of AI robotic surgery for stroke treatment.
Hang Seng Indexes Company announced that OneRobotics (6600.HK) will be newly added to 16 Hang Seng indexes and will move from the Hang Seng Composite SmallCap Index to the Hang Seng Composite MidCap Index. The changes will be implemented in two batches after market close on September 4 and September 11, taking effect on September 7 and September 14. After the adjustments, its index coverage will expand from AI and robotics themes to broad-based, market-cap-tiered, Stock Connect, and multi-factor strategy indexes.
Legend Capital has achieved 9 IPOs since the start of the year; Zhipu's market value briefly surpassed 1 trillion yuan, and ChangXin Technology's market value briefly surpassed 4 trillion yuan. The Social Security Zhongguancun Special Fund it manages (5 billion yuan in its first phase) has seen its first batch of portfolio companies—Zhipu AI, SJ Semiconductor, and Jingfeng Medical—go public. The fund has leveraged more than 30 billion yuan in social capital cumulatively, a leverage ratio of more than 9x.
Juwei Technology was selected for the "2026 Global Embodied Intelligence Benchmark Enterprises TOP100" initiated by EO Intelligence. The list was unveiled on August 21 at the Embodied Intelligence Commercialization Forum held alongside the World Robot Conference in Beijing. The evaluation is based on the EACI assessment model and covers four dimensions: commercial orders and revenue, mass production and delivery capability, depth of scenario deployment, and capital and market recognition. Juwei Technology has fully self-developed flat-wire motors and liquid-cooled integrated joint modules, as well as the MicVLC industrial embodied brain, and has achieved batch delivery of complete machines in high-risk industrial scenarios, while opening its SDK to ecosystem partners.
Yunqi Capital brought its embodied portfolio companies, including Zibianliang Robotics, Stardust Intelligence, Zhi Ping Fang, Realman, and Keenon Robotics, to the 2026 World Robot Conference. Zibianliang's WALL-B-driven logistics sorting solution reached 1,911 items per hour in testing and has been deployed on real production lines; Stardust's rope-driven body has completed batch deliveries at the thousand-unit level and plans to reach 10,000-unit annual capacity within the year; Zhi Ping Fang open-sourced its brain-inspired VLA model NeuroVLA; and Keenon released its service-industry VLA architecture KOM 3.0.
Yunqi Partners and SEE Fund co-hosted a special event, "The New Wave of Embodied Intelligence: World Models and Intelligent Infrastructure," during the 2026 World Robot Conference, drawing more than 200 attendees from industry, research, and investment.
A project led by Nanjing Tianchuang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., titled "Key Technology R&D for Complete Explosion-Proof Embodied Intelligent Robots for Special Operations," has been selected for the 2026 Jiangsu Provincial Frontier Technology R&D Program. It was jointly applied for with China General Nuclear Intelligent Manufacturing Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Southeast University, and Nanjing Environment Group Co., Ltd.