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Jul 6Mon
  1. Zeroth/元点智能67

    Zeroth completes nearly 500 million yuan Pre-A round, total funding reaches 1 billion yuan

    Zeroth (Yuandian Intelligence) announced the completion of nearly 500 million yuan in Pre-A financing, bringing its cumulative funding to 1 billion yuan. The round was led by Ant Group, with Gili Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment, and China Growth Capital participating, while existing shareholder Monolith increased its stake. Founded a year and a half ago, the company has received orders for more than 30,000 robots, and its revenue in the first half of 2026 grew 600% year on year. It also launched the full-size humanoid robot Jupiter and the collaborative robot N1, while the M1 small humanoid robot and the W1 tracked robot have entered scenarios such as early childhood education and smart homes.

    Why it matters: The original article provides verifiable facts such as the financing amount, investor composition, and order scale, allowing readers to understand the commercialization progress of this home embodied intelligence company.

  2. Union Square Ventures35

    Union Square Ventures invests in alqem: using AI to find strong magnetic materials without rare earths

    alqem uses AI to design strong magnetic materials that do not rely on rare earths, and Union Square Ventures has announced an investment to support it. The spread of electric transportation and the growth of robotics have driven up demand for motors and actuators, and making powerful magnets from cheap and abundant elements is seen as a key breakthrough. Before starting this mission, the team built the largest open materials dataset, and it accumulates proprietary data through a closed loop in which the model proposes candidate materials, the team synthesizes them, and measured results flow back to make the next round of predictions more accurate, forming a compounding advantage as the model improves. alqem is hiring.

  3. Lavender Hill Capital Partners67

    Westwell delivers third batch of autonomous trucks to Port of Felixstowe, fleet grows to 100 units

    Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has confirmed a third batch order for autonomous trucks from Shanghai's Westwell Technology, increasing its fleet to 100 units and continuing the earlier deployment of autonomous trucks in mixed-traffic container terminal operations (which the port says is the first of its kind in Europe).

    Why it matters: This order moves autonomous trucks from pilot projects to normalized mixed-traffic operations at the hundred-unit level, and the accompanying battery-swapping and private-network solutions offer useful reference value for port deployments.

  4. 线性资本39

    Yiru Technology completes over 100 million yuan Series A financing | Linear Voice

    Yiru Technology announced the completion of over 100 million yuan in Series A financing, jointly led by Ordos Group and Heda Financial Services, with participation from Chaosing Capital; Linear Capital, the lead investor in the angel round, continues to follow on. The company uses microbial fermentation to produce bio-based resin and turns it into roll-form leather. The annual production capacity of its production line, a joint venture with a listed company, has exceeded 16 million square meters, with carbon emissions more than 80% lower than conventional routes. Its materials have entered scenarios including Anta stores and the soft furnishings of Atour and Kempinski hotels, and the company has set up a wholly owned subsidiary, SYNMETABIO, in France, accumulating nearly 100 million yuan in orders from the European market.

  5. X Square Robot/自变量机器人67

    X Square Robot completes four financing rounds, valuation exceeds 20 billion yuan

    Shenzhen embodied intelligence company X Square Robot has completed four consecutive financing rounds from Series B through Series C, all fully closed, with a valuation exceeding 20 billion yuan, making it the first embodied intelligence company in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to surpass a 20 billion yuan valuation with the rounds closed. There are more than 30 investors, including the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Sequoia China, and Xiaomi Strategic Investment. The company released its embodied large model WALL-B in April 2026, partnered with 58 Daojia to provide robot home housekeeping services to nearly 1,000 households in Shenzhen, and partnered with SF Express on flexible intelligent sorting and parcel feeding.

    Why it matters: The report details how all four financing rounds were fully closed and the deployment scenarios, giving readers a sense of how substantive the company's financing progress really is.

  6. 蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube16

    Ant Lingbo Technology LingBot 2.0 First Preview

    Ant Lingbo Technology presents LingBot 2.0 for the first time, saying the robots shown are driven by its latest models, operating fully autonomously in real environments, interacting with people and handling complex tasks, with zero human intervention throughout. The company teases that starting tomorrow it will reveal one by one the models powering these robots, and calls for subscriptions.

  7. Deep Robotics/云深处科技39

    DEEP Robotics Holds Global Partner Conference to Build a Collaborative and Win-Win New Ecosystem for Embodied Intelligence

    DEEP Robotics held its Global Partner Conference in Hangzhou on June 27, bringing together more than 500 partners and unveiling its "1+X+N" development strategy: one embodied brain, X product series covering quadruped, wheeled-legged, and humanoid robots, and N industry application scenarios.

  8. Keenon Robotics/擎朗智能23

    KEENON Robotics to Showcase Sustainable Intelligence at Interclean Amsterdam 2026

    KEENON Robotics announced it will attend Interclean Amsterdam 2026, presenting cleaning service robot solutions related to sustainable intelligence. The body text on which the summary is based is actually an industry analysis: China is already the world's largest and fastest-growing robotics market, with the service robot market exceeding 28 billion RMB and growing nearly 40% year on year; funding jumped 344% year on year in 2020, and in the first half of 2021 most leading manufacturers were at B/C rounds, with funding mostly between 300 million and 1 billion RMB.

Jul 5Sun
Jul 2Thu
  1. 1X Technologies37

    1X Technologies Appoints Bill Nash as CFO

    1X Technologies announced that Bill Nash has become its new Chief Financial Officer. He previously served as CFO of Ursa Major, and during his tenure as CFO of autonomous driving company Cruise, he took part in large-scale financing, strategic partnerships, and large-scale operational expansion, with financial leadership experience in the autonomous driving, aerospace, and life sciences industries. CEO Bernt Bornich said that Bill's experience will support the production ramp-up and global delivery of the NEO humanoid robot.

  2. Stial/斯帝尔科技44

    STIER wins bid for AI intelligent flexible production line project from leading listed lighting company, achieving one-stop implementation of the full welding and grinding process

    STIER has won the bid for an intelligent manufacturing production line project from a globally renowned lighting company and will build an intelligent flexible production line covering upstream welding and downstream AI flexible grinding. The downstream grinding uses its AI flexible grinding robot, equipped with the self-developed PolishX flexible force control system and the AI brain NextBrain™ Mogu Cloud system. Through hybrid force/position control and real-time gravity compensation, it handles burrs, curved-surface polishing, and edge and corner grinding, while the entire line achieves coordinated linkage of welding, grinding, conveying, dust removal, and inspection.

  3. Robot.com Holdings Inc.30

    Robot.com becomes official robotics partner of LEAP East, with R-ads entering Asia for the first time

    Robot.com has become the official robotics partner of the LEAP East conference in Hong Kong, where it will deploy R-kiwis on site and bring its R-ads advertising platform to Asia for the first time. R-ads has completed more than 100 brand campaigns in 20 countries, executed by 500 robots deployed in the US, Canada, Dubai, and MENA, completing a cumulative 2.5 million tasks. Co-founder and President Judah Longgrear will speak on site with a talk titled "When AI Leaves the Screen."

Jul 1Wed
  1. Boston Dynamics48

    Boston Dynamics Spot robots take part in 2026 World Cup security patrols

    Boston Dynamics' Spot robots are deployed at the Dallas International Broadcast Center and New York/New Jersey stadiums, carrying out perimeter patrols to support asset protection and risk detection for the FIFA 2026 World Cup. Spot 5.1, released this year, supports security missions: when it detects a person, it pauses, activates its AV lights, captures PTZ, panoramic, and thermal images, and triggers an alarm. The robot is positioned as an assistant to security personnel, with patrol findings ultimately reviewed by staff.

  2. Yaskawa61

    Yaskawa Electric builds new European Robotics Distribution Center (ERDC) in Slovenia and relocates and expands YASKAWA Ristro

    Yaskawa Electric announced that YASKAWA Europe Robotics d.o.o. will build a new logistics facility, the ERDC (European Robotics Distribution Center), in the city of Kocevje, Slovenia, and will relocate and expand YASKAWA Ristro d.o.o., currently located in the city of Ribnica, to the same site, consolidating development, production, and systems operations.

    Why it matters: The original article provides hard figures such as investment amount, floor area, and monthly production capacity, which can be used to gauge the scale of change in Yaskawa's European logistics and production capacity layout.

  3. 普华资本60

    Puhua Capital Joins Over $100 Million Angel Round in Qiuzhi Technology, Setting Single-Deal Record in Consumer-Grade Embodied Robotics

    Qiuzhi Technology (DISCOVER Robotics) announced the completion of an angel round exceeding $100 million, setting the record for the largest single angel round in the consumer-grade embodied robotics sector. Puhua Capital participated in the investment, alongside other investors including Legend Capital, Xinchang Investment, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Yunbo Capital, Lingang Science and Technology Innovation Investment, Amber Capital, and Gengxin Capital. The funds will mainly be used to accelerate the launch and mass production of consumer-grade embodied robotics products.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the financing size, the record-setting positioning, and the use of funds, allowing readers to judge the current capital enthusiasm and mass-production pace in the consumer-grade embodied robotics sector.

Jun 30Tue
  1. Maxtronics Robotics SAS23

    NAO Challenge in Italy

    The 2026 season of Italy's NAO Challenge attracted more than 35 secondary school teams from across the country, each made up of 7 to 10 students and a supervising teacher. The competition has two parts, a technical challenge and a performance challenge, in which participants program the humanoid robot NAO and stage live performances. The event was first launched in 2015 by Scuola di Robotica and CampuStore, with Maxtronics as sponsor.

  2. Figure AI63

    Figure 03 arrives at BMW Spartanburg plant for sequencing sorting tasks

    Figure AI announced that the Figure 03 humanoid robot has entered Hall 52 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, shifting from the sheet metal loading and unloading work previously done by Figure 02 to a sequencing sorting use case; Figure 02 took part in assembling 30,000 vehicles last year.

    Why it matters: The company has released details of Figure 03's deployment scenario at the BMW plant and of its Helix 02 drive, so readers can learn about progress in bringing humanoid robots from material handling to complex sorting.

  3. 元禾控股14

    Oriza Holdings organizes 2026 second postdoctoral exit defense meeting

    Oriza Holdings recently held its 2026 second postdoctoral exit defense meeting, attended by Wang Kundong, associate professor at the School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, along with Oriza Holdings executives and heads of relevant departments. Dr. Meng reported on research progress and in-station achievements in the fields of "intelligent manufacturing" and "industrial embodied intelligence." The review panel unanimously agreed that the research direction is highly aligned with industry development trends and unanimously approved the exit and project completion. After the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on future cooperation, with the university supervisor hoping to strengthen joint research in areas such as industrial robots and industrial sensors.

  4. Zhejiang University Robotics10

    Public Notice of Proposed Hire for Contract Staff at Yuyao Robotics Research Center

    The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has publicly announced the proposed hiring of Zhao Yucheng as a contract hardware development engineer, with a 3-day public notice period. The notice states that he holds a bachelor's degree, scored 82 in the interview, and passed both the medical examination and background review; objections may be submitted by email.

Jun 29Mon
Jun 27Sat
  1. 灵巧智能21

    Shanghai CPPCC Economic and Financial Committee Visits Lingqiao Intelligent to Explore Embodied AI Industry Development

    On June 26, a research team from the Economic and Financial Committee of the Shanghai CPPCC visited Lingqiao Intelligent for a special research session, touring its core products including dexterous hands and multimodal data collection devices, as well as progress in deploying them across diverse scenarios such as industrial, power, education, and new retail. Lingqiao Intelligent is the lead drafting unit for national dexterous hand and dexterous manipulation standards and has carried out deep cooperation with companies including State Grid and Shanghai Electric. Its industrial segment is undertaken by two platforms, Lingji Zhilian and Lingji Yidong, both joint ventures with Shanghai Mechanical and Electrical Industry.

  2. 大象机器人17

    Q2 2026 Highlights: Elephant Robotics Showcases Intelligent Robots and Educational Solutions at Eight Global Events

    In the second quarter of 2026, Elephant Robotics appeared at 8 major global exhibitions, showcasing its intelligent robots and educational solutions for the robotics, AI, and intelligent automation sectors. The events included 2026 IEEE ICRA in Vienna, the 64th China Higher Education Expo (HEEC) in Nanchang, the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, the Global Sources Consumer Electronics Show, FAIR Plus 2026, the 7th Shenzhen Global Artificial Intelligence Expo (GAIE), the 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF), and the 2026 UN Chinese Language Day in Geneva.

Jun 26Fri
  1. 云启资本37

    A deep dive into open-source commercialization: AI is rewriting the logic of value | Yunqi Insights

    The chapter "Trends in Open-Source Commercialization" from the China Open-Source Development Deep Report (2025), written by the Yunqi team, has been officially released. It notes that global open-source commercialization is moving from a service-oriented model into an intelligence- and ecosystem-oriented one. In 2025, global commercial open-source software companies raised about 6 billion USD, of which open-source AI accounted for about 3.8 billion USD and China about 1.1 billion USD. The report adds dedicated observations on the commercialization of open-source AI hardware and embodied intelligence, noting that open-source robotics commercialization unfolds along three main lines: hardware sales, operations and maintenance services, and scenario-based solutions.

Jun 25Thu
  1. 1X Technologies35

    1X Announces Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering

    1X Technologies has appointed Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering. He previously served as Roblox's first Director of Engineering for Avatars, led four engineering teams at Meta Horizon Worlds, and worked on Bungie's Destiny 1 and Pixar films including Finding Nemo and Cars. His experience will be used to scale the capabilities of the NEO humanoid robot and advance 1X's recently announced developer platform.

  2. Enchanted Tools · YouTube20

    Robots Meet People | Mirokaï Humanoid Robots at VivaTech 2026 Recap

    Enchanted Tools' Mirokaï humanoid robots spent four days at VivaTech 2026 interacting with thousands of visitors from around the world. At the event, Mirokaï gave live demonstrations at several partner booths, showcasing real-world use cases in healthcare, logistics, human-robot interaction, and artificial intelligence, including a robot parade, healthcare application demonstrations, and AI discussion sessions. Its partners included Microsoft, Inria, PwC, and Business France.

  3. Yaskawa46

    Yaskawa Electric announces transfer of part of subsidiary iCube Digital shares to YE DIGITAL

    Yaskawa Electric has decided to transfer part of its holdings in subsidiary iCube Digital Co., Ltd. to YE DIGITAL Corporation, reducing its ownership stake from 60.0% to 40.0%, and says the impact on consolidated results will be minor. iCube Digital was established in July 2020 as a joint venture between the two companies (capital of 350 million yen) and develops and sells IoT solutions for factory automation in manufacturing and automation in the logistics industry. Yaskawa Electric says it will continue to support the company's growth through its automation product technology and customer base.

  4. Yaskawa14

    Notice of Yaskawa Electric Girls Day Event

    Yaskawa Electric will hold a Girls Day for female junior high school students at the Yaskawa Electric Miraikan, in cooperation with the University of Kitakyushu's "Science Lab from Kitakyushu." The event is scheduled for July 29, 2026, from 13:00 to 17:00, with a capacity of 16 participants. It will include an introduction to the work of female engineers, a tour of the Miraikan and a factory, assembly and programming of the company's own robot kit, and a discussion session. The application deadline is July 15, 2026, and participants will be selected by lottery if applications exceed capacity.

Jun 24Wed
  1. Stial/斯帝尔科技20

    STIAL defines high-end manufacturing quality with an advanced quality management system, going beyond compliance

    STIAL has passed quality system certification and built an advanced quality management system that covers the entire value chain and runs through the full product lifecycle. Its core includes a dedicated digital quality control platform that integrates grinding process parameters with equipment status data to enable real-time monitoring, visual analysis, and intelligent early warning of quality data across the entire process; it also establishes a preventive quality ecosystem and internal standards that exceed ISO requirements. This system supports STIAL's AI flexible grinding robots in entering multiple high-end application fields and in building long-term cooperation with well-known companies at home and abroad.

  2. Stial/斯帝尔科技22

    STIAL Wins Third Prize in Industrial Robotics Track at the 15th China Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2023

    On September 21-22, the finals of the 15th China Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2023 were held in Nanshan District High-tech Zone, where STIAL won third prize in the industrial robotics track. The competition decided awards through on-site pitch presentations plus offline judging. STIAL said the award demonstrates its core competitiveness in the grinding industry and that it will continue to develop with an IPO as its goal.

  4. Stial/斯帝尔科技21

    STIAL Named to KPMG China Future Unicorn AI List's "Innovation Double 30 Enterprises"

    The KPMG China Future Unicorn AI List (Yangtze River Delta region) award ceremony was held in Shanghai on October 19. STIAL was selected as one of the "Innovation Double 30 Enterprises" for its AI embodied intelligent robot system for grinding scenarios. Its NextBrainAI Mogu Cloud system integrates a cognitive system with force, tactile, visual, and auditory perception, combines intelligent trajectory planning with intelligent process recipe generation, and achieves intelligent grinding based on deep learning and reinforcement learning.

Jun 23Tue
  1. Zhejiang University Robotics4

    Yuyao Robotics Research Center announces proposed non-establishment personnel hire

    The Yuyao Robotics Research Center has announced Hua Zhehao as the proposed hire for its non-establishment recruitment, for the position of AI application R&D engineer, with an interview score of 88 and passing both the medical examination and the review. The public notice period is 3 days, and objections may be raised via the designated email address.

  2. 上纬启元26

    Personal robots are here! Qiyuan Robotics accelerates commercialization

    On June 18, the construction hoarding for the world's first authorized Qiyuan Robotics experience store appeared at Longfeng PRSCO on Huaihai Middle Road in Shanghai, while the brand simultaneously released a "Hello, World" themed brand poster online, announcing its shift from the technology R&D stage to market deployment. Shangwei Qiyuan (PrimeBOT) launched the small-size full-body force-controlled humanoid robot Q1 in December 2025, targeting embodied development, tech collectibles, and family companion scenarios; in the first quarter of 2026, R&D investment reached 45.8516 million yuan, up 504.37% year on year. Experience stores in Shenzhen, Xi'an, and other cities are also being advanced, with opening dates and product pricing to be announced soon.

Jun 22Mon
  1. Intrinsic47

    Intrinsic: Unlocking the value of Physical AI in manufacturing with a software-first approach

    Intrinsic is working with CNC system integrators Trinity Automation and MartinSystems to integrate AI capabilities such as perception, automated motion planning, and grasp insertion into machine tending robot products, so operators can use them without programming, supporting small-batch high-mix production.

Jun 19Fri
Jun 18Thu
  1. 灵巧智能43

    Shanghai AI Research Institute, Lingqiao Intelligence, and HUST jointly establish embodied intelligence inspection and operation robot joint laboratory

    The Embodied Intelligence Inspection and Operation Robot Joint Laboratory, jointly built by Wanwu Lingqiao, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lingqiao Intelligence, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, was officially unveiled on June 16, with the Shanghai AI Research Institute deeply involved in its co-construction. The three parties will focus on embodied intelligence, robotics, dexterous manipulation, and other directions, tackling core technologies for inspection and operation robots in industrial scenarios such as power and intelligent manufacturing and promoting large-scale deployment, forming a collaborative model in which enterprises drive market demand, universities tackle underlying technologies, and the research institute empowers the transformation of achievements.