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Mar 16Mon
  1. RoboForce72

    RoboForce closes $52 million funding round, bringing total funding to $67 million

    RoboForce announced an oversubscribed $52 million funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from Jerry Yang. The new capital will be used to accelerate next-generation robot foundation models, scale general-purpose Physical AI robots, and advance manufacturing readiness for commercial deployment.

    Why it matters: The funding announcement also explains the use of funds and the technology stack partnership with NVIDIA, which readers can use to understand the company's path to deployment in its next stage.

  2. 线性资本65

    D-Robotics completes $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital continuing to invest

    D-Robotics announced on March 16 that it recently completed a $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital, an initial-round investor, continuing to invest in subsequent rounds. Following its $100 million Series A round completed in 2025, the two rounds total $220 million. Investors include industrial capital such as Synstellation Capital, DiDi, and Meituan Longzhu, as well as strategic investment institutions such as Bairui Capital and JiuKun Venture Capital, while existing shareholders including Hillhouse Venture Capital, Vertex Growth, and Linear Capital oversubscribed in the follow-on investment.

    Why it matters: It lays out the investor composition and the total of the two funding rounds, which can be used to assess D-Robotics' funding sources and industrial resource landscape.

Mar 12Thu
  1. 普罗宇宙19

    Pro-Robotics' Dabai Robot Demonstrates Intangible Cultural Heritage Sugar Painting at AWE 2026

    Pro-Robotics brought its embodied-intelligence Dabai robot to AWE 2026 for a live intangible cultural heritage sugar-painting show, exhibiting at Booth W1-1C31 of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre under the theme "Smart New Journey, Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing." Using AI algorithms, the Dabai robot went from outlining contours to pouring sugar into a finished painting, reproducing smooth, flowing sugar-painting brushstrokes and drawing crowds of onlookers as well as inquiries from several industry clients. The exhibition runs until March 15, and the booth offers an interactive experience.

  2. Sunday Robotics69

    Sunday Robotics closes $165 million Series B to advance real-world deployment of home robot Memo

    Sunday Robotics has closed an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a valuation of $1.15 billion, led by Coatue, with Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company will stop giving demos and focus on real-world deployment of its robot Memo, with a beta program opening to users this fall. Its engineering team has grown 3x, research 4x, and data operations 5x, and the company says it has a full stack from its Skill Capture Glove and in-house hardware to manufacturing, along with data advantages.

    Why it matters: The company announced the funding and disclosed the beta program timeline and the scale of team expansion, giving readers a basis for understanding the pace of its shift to real-world deployment.

Mar 6Fri
  1. 富唯智能14

    Huangpu District CPPCC Leaders Visit Fuwei Intelligent to Support Embodied Intelligence Industry Development

    On March 4, Huangpu District CPPCC Chairman Wen Zhiwen led a delegation to visit Guangzhou Fuwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. for research, accompanied by Ren Yutong, Executive President of the Guangdong Robotics Association. Fuwei Intelligent General Manager Wang Wei received the delegation and delivered a special report. The research team learned on site about Fuwei Intelligent's technology layout, core product R&D and iteration, and scenario application implementation in embodied intelligence industrial robots. Wen Zhiwen affirmed the company's phased achievements in robot technology R&D, product innovation, and industrial application, and guided the enterprise to build on Huangpu's industrial foundation to enhance its capabilities in achievement transformation and scenario implementation.

Mar 5Thu
  1. 上河动量49

    Shanghe Momentum Makes Two Consecutive Strategic Investments in Realman Intelligent, Deepening Focus on Core Embodied Intelligence Track

    Recently, Shanghe Momentum completed two consecutive rounds of strategic investment in Realman Intelligent and helped it bring in two strategic investors, Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor (002249.SZ) and Tianjin Jinrong Tianyu Precision Machinery (300988.SZ). Realman Intelligent's self-developed robotic arms have achieved 50,000 hours of fault-free operation, annual production capacity of its integrated joint modules has exceeded 100,000 units, and its GLN remote operation network enables transoceanic human-machine collaborative operations. Its Beijing humanoid robot data training center has accumulated tens of millions of real-machine data entries and open-sourced a top-tier industry dataset, serving more than 8,000 enterprise users worldwide.

Mar 4Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼61

    Realman Intelligent announces nearly 500 million yuan in funding to build AUTRON production line super factory

    Realman Intelligent announced it has completed nearly 500 million yuan in funding, jointly and strategically invested by industrial parties from multiple listed companies. The funds will go toward product R&D, construction of the AUTRON production line super factory, and global ecosystem development. The article states that its integrated joint modules exceeded an annual production capacity of 100,000 units in 2025, that its robotic arms passed CR L3 certification and achieved a mean time between failures of 50,000 hours, and that the GLN remote operation network and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center have accumulated tens of millions of real-machine trajectory segments. The company serves more than 8,000 enterprise users worldwide.

    Why it matters: The company describes its own progress on funding, production capacity, certification, and its remote operation network, giving readers a basis to understand how its hardware-plus-data strategy is actually advancing.

Mar 3Tue
  1. 线性资本62

    Dajie Robotics completes hundreds of millions of yuan in Series D funding to step up industrial embodied intelligence

    Dajie Robotics announced the completion of a Series D funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, led jointly by the Liangxi Digital Industry Fund managed by Bohua Capital and a fund under CICC Capital, with follow-on investment from the Beijing Shunyi Science and Technology Innovation Group Fund and the Houshayu Zhonghe Runda Industrial Investment Fund; Linear Capital was the Series A investor and increased its investment in subsequent rounds.

    Why it matters: The original text explains the use of funds and the technology roadmap, which lets readers assess the implementation path of industrial embodied intelligence vendors and the direction of their humanoid robot efforts.

Feb 27Fri
Feb 25Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼62

    Realman provides real-world data for Ant Lingbo's open-source embodied model LingBot-VLA

    Ant Lingbo has released and open-sourced LingBot-VLA, an embodied intelligence foundation model. Its pretraining used about 20,000 hours of real-world data covering 9 dual-arm robot configurations, and it outperformed Pi0.5 overall in real-robot evaluations across more than 100 tasks. Realman's wholly owned subsidiary Ruiyuan Robotics provides high-precision multimodal real-world data for the RS-01 and RS-02 robots. The technical report shows that model success rates continued to improve without saturating as pretraining data expanded from 3,000 hours to 20,000 hours.

    Why it matters: From a partner's perspective, it explains how real-world data was specifically supplied for LingBot-VLA training and the capability for large-scale data collection, helping readers understand how the data infrastructure actually operates.

  2. 若创科技28

    Strutt ev¹ early-bird pre-orders exceed expectations, first deliveries set for Q2 2026

    Singapore robotics company Strutt announced that early-bird pre-orders for its flagship personal mobility vehicle ev¹ exceeded the company's initial expectations within one month, with a test-drive conversion rate of about 75%. The first customers will receive the Co-Designer Edition and a certificate, with OTA updates supported. The company is accelerating production capacity and supply chain expansion, expects first deliveries to begin in Q2 2026, and has added more allocation and reopened pre-orders until the end of February.

  3. 普华资本62

    Boundless Dynamics completes over 200 million yuan Angel+ round, third round nearing completion

    General-purpose embodied intelligence robotics company Boundless Dynamics announced the completion of an over 200 million yuan Angel+ funding round, jointly invested by Puhua Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Innovation Works, Junshan Capital, and Yari Capital, with existing shareholders Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital increasing their investments. The third round of financing is nearing completion, and cumulative funding will reach 800 million yuan.

    Why it matters: The original article disclosed the funding scale, technology roadmap, and deployment stage, allowing readers to judge this embodied intelligence company's commercialization progress and R&D direction.

  4. Intrinsic58

    Intrinsic joins Google to accelerate physical AI development

    Intrinsic announced it is joining Google, saying it will bring breakthrough AI to more companies in industries such as manufacturing and logistics. Intrinsic offers an Android-like cross-robot development platform; its web-based development environment Flowstate includes built-in reusable skill modules, and its customers include Foxconn and others.

Feb 24Tue
Feb 20Fri
Feb 19Thu
  1. Maxtronics Robotics SAS27

    NAO goes into hospital children's wards

    Maxtronics has partnered with the "Dessine Moi la High Tech" association to bring the NAO robot into a pediatric oncology ward, where it regularly takes part in ward interaction activities. While accompanying the children, NAO also brings parents warm and relaxed moments. Maxtronics said it hopes to support the association at its own scale and create more meaningful moments of interaction for children in hospitals.

  2. Skild AI37

    Skild AI opens Bengaluru office, its first expansion outside the US

    Skild AI announced the official opening of an office in Bengaluru, India, its first international expansion beyond California and Pennsylvania in the US. The company aims to build an "omni-bodied" general-purpose brain that lets any robot perform any task; it chose Bengaluru to recruit robotics engineers and AI scientists and to strengthen the infrastructure for large-scale real-world deployment.

Feb 14Sat
  1. 线性资本60

    Wujie Dynamics completes over 200 million yuan Angel+ round, cumulative funding to reach 800 million yuan

    General-purpose embodied intelligent robotics company Wujie Dynamics announced the completion of an over 200 million yuan Angel+ funding round, with existing shareholders Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital increasing their investment, and new institutions including Shenzhen Capital Group and Innovation Works joining. A third round is nearing completion, and cumulative funding will reach 800 million yuan.

    Why it matters: The original article disclosed specific progress including the funding scale, shareholder structure, and a self-developed computing platform, which can be used to assess this new company's resources and pace of implementation.

  2. 卡倍亿12

    Kabaiyi President's 2026 Chinese New Year Message: Targets Over 10 Billion Yuan in Core Business Revenue by 2028, Entry into Robotics and Commercial Space

    In a 2026 Chinese New Year message, the president of Kabaiyi announced the company's three-year strategic development plan for 2026-2028, setting a goal of achieving over 10 billion yuan in revenue from core business products by 2028. The company will stabilize core business products such as automotive cables and high-speed copper cables, accelerate expansion into overseas markets including the Americas and Southeast Asia, and leverage the advantages of its Shanghai operations center to strengthen talent management. The company also announced it will quickly enter the two new tracks of robotics and commercial space and break through core technologies. These are all company planning goals that have yet to be realized.

Feb 13Fri
  1. 普华资本58

    Puhua Capital Leads RoboScience's Pre-A Funding Round of Several Hundred Million Yuan

    RoboScience has announced the completion of a Pre-A funding round of several hundred million yuan, led by Puhua Capital, with participation from Fortune Capital, Changshi Capital, Hong Kong Huike Innovation, and Tianqi Capital, while existing shareholders including China Merchants Venture and Zero One Venture continued to increase their investment. The funds will mainly be used to deepen its core VLOA large model technology.

  2. Dobot/越疆机器人38

    Dobot humanoid robot featured in People's Daily: a portrait of Shenzhen's sprint to become the 'first city of humanoid robots'

    People's Daily reported that Dobot Technology's humanoid robot sold popcorn at a cinema in Shenzhen K11 mall, working 14 consecutive hours in a single day, completing over 1,000 cups per day on average with zero errors throughout. The robot carries a self-developed end-to-end model that integrates visual perception, language understanding and motion generation, and can autonomously diagnose deviations and replan its actions. Dobot says the self-development rate of its robot's key components exceeds 90%, and that it has achieved mass-production delivery in multiple complex industrial scenarios.

Feb 11Wed
  2. Apptronik81

    Apptronik completes Series A-X financing, total Series A exceeds $935 million

    Apptronik announced the completion of a $520 million Series A-X extension round; combined with its oversubscribed $415 million initial Series A in 2025, the total exceeds $935 million, bringing cumulative funding to nearly $1 billion.

    Why it matters: The official press release provides first-hand information such as the financing structure and valuation multiples, which readers can use to understand the pace of Apptronik's mass-production expansion and its capital backing.

Feb 10Tue
  1. 普华资本60

    Qiongche Intelligence completes several hundred million yuan Series A funding, with Puhua Capital and multiple institutions investing

    Qiongche Intelligence announced the completion of a Series A funding round of several hundred million yuan. Investors include Puhua Capital, C Capital, Sea Limited, Prosperity7 Ventures, and multiple other overseas industrial parties and domestic institutions. The funds will be used for embodied brain R&D iteration and multi-scenario commercialization.

    Why it matters: The report covers the funding amount, investor composition, and commercialization progress, which can be used to assess the capital and implementation pace of the embodied brain sector.

Feb 7Sat
  1. Dobot/越疆机器人26

    Dobot's multi-form products showcased at APEC science and technology innovation exhibition

    From February 2 to 4, 2026, at the invitation of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, Dobot (DOBOT) appeared at the APEC PPSTI visit and exhibition event at Haixinsha in Guangzhou. On site, it showcased the DOBOT Atom humanoid robot autonomously selling popcorn, the Rover X1 quadruped robot dog, MagicianE6 AI automatic painting, and the CRA collaborative robot safety skin solution. Its robot products have covered more than 100 countries and regions worldwide, with shipments exceeding 100,000 units.

Feb 6Fri
  1. FieldAI51

    FieldAI and Boston Dynamics deploy autonomous robot inspections on construction sites

    FieldAI describes the autonomous deployment of its Field Foundation Models (FFMs) with Boston Dynamics' quadruped robot Spot on construction sites, requiring no GPS, cloud connection, prior maps, or pre-planned routes, and able to carry out inspection, mapping, and monitoring tasks around the clock. The article states that over the past two years this has covered construction sites in Asia, Europe, and North America, cutting customers' inspection and documentation time by more than 90%, with data able to flow into BIM and digital twin systems, and several pilots having expanded into fleet-level deployments.

Feb 4Wed
  1. 线性资本34

    Linear Capital Linear Quarterly: Portfolio Quarterly Progress Review

    Linear Capital released Linear Quarterly, reviewing the progress of portfolio companies over the past quarter in financing, products, partnerships, and industry recognition. On financing, Wujie Dynamics completed a 300 million yuan angel round, Digu Robotics completed a B round of several hundred million US dollars, and White Rhino's cumulative financing for the full year of 2025 exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Feb 3Tue
  4. 若创科技22

    Strutt featured by CGTN America at CES 2025, founder Tony Hong introduces Strutt ev¹

    Strutt founder Tony Hong was interviewed by CGTN America at CES 2025, introducing the personal mobility product Strutt ev¹. The product is equipped with two LiDAR units at the front, enabling 360-degree environmental perception, building a map of the surroundings and detecting obstacles and cliffs to avoid or navigate around them.

  5. 若创科技15

    Strutt to appear on Channel News Asia on December 10

    Strutt will appear on Channel News Asia (CNA) on December 10. Ahead of this, a CNA film crew visited its Singapore headquarters, where founder Tony shared the mission to build the smartest, safest, and easiest-to-use personal mobility products. The team demonstrated an early engineering prototype of the Strutt ev¹ on site, showcasing the core platform technologies Quad-drive System and evSense intelligent driving.

Feb 2Mon
  1. LimX Dynamics73

    LimX Dynamics completes $200 million Series B funding

    LimX Dynamics announced the completion of a $200 million Series B funding round. Investors include Stone Venture, Oriental Fortune Capital and other institutions, as well as strategic industry investors such as JD.com and Zhongding Group, while existing shareholders including Shangqi Capital and NIO Capital continued to increase their investment. The company said it will increase R&D and market investment, focusing on three major capabilities: body hardware, cerebellum foundation models, and an embodied Agentic OS, and mentioned the TRON 2 multi-form embodied robot and the LimX COSA embodied intelligent agent OS system released in the past two months.

    Why it matters: The funding was officially announced by the company itself, with specific investors listed and the three major technology directions the funds will be invested in as well as recent product background explained, making the information complete and verifiable.

Jan 29Thu
  1. Minerva Humanoids38

    MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids reach strategic partnership to develop humanoid robots for the energy sector

    MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids announced a two-year strategic research partnership framework to develop next-generation humanoid robots for safety-critical scenarios in the energy sector, with the goal of reducing the need for personnel to enter high-risk areas such as refineries. Research directions include multimodal perception foundation models, computer vision and reinforcement learning, and digital twin simulation for pre-deployment validation; robot autonomy spans from teleoperation to fully autonomous execution. MBZUAI students will join the joint project team to take part in R&D and testing.

  2. RobCo66

    RobCo closes $100 million Series C to advance Physical AI roadmap and expand in the US market

    RobCo announced the close of a $100 million Series C round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Exor's Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital and others.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the use of funds, business model, and background on key customers, giving readers a basis to understand this industrial robotics company's expansion path.

Jan 28Wed
  1. Wandercraft36

    Wandercraft Appoints Permobil CEO Chuck Witkowski to Board of Directors, Entering a New Phase of Global Commercialization

    Wandercraft announced the appointment of Permobil CEO Chuck Witkowski to its board of directors as the company shifts from technological innovation to global commercialization. Witkowski has more than 20 years of leadership experience at medical device companies and has led Investor AB-backed Permobil since 2019, managing a global team of 2,000 people.

Jan 27Tue
Jan 22Thu
  2. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技26

    Laboratory jointly applied for by Proxima Technology and Changsha Institute of Technology approved

    The Hunan Provincial Department of Education recently announced its 2025 project approval list, and the "Optoelectronic Perception and Intelligent Agent Collaborative Control Laboratory," led by Changsha Institute of Technology and jointly applied for by Proxima Technology, was approved. The laboratory focuses on three directions: high-performance optoelectronic semiconductor devices and testing, perception and target recognition in complex environments, and collaborative control of mobile robots. Proxima Technology will provide technical validation and scenario application support to help move results from the laboratory to industry.