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Jan 22Thu
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技16

    Proxima Technology Co-organizes Forum on Integrated Innovation in IoT and Embodied Intelligence, Exploring New Paths for AI+Robotics Talent Development

    On January 11, the "Forum on Integrated Innovation in IoT and Embodied Intelligence" was held in Jiangmen, Guangdong, with Proxima Technology serving as a co-organizer. The forum was one of the sub-forums of the 2025 Guangdong Computer Society & CCF Guangzhou Chapter Academic Annual Conference. General Manager Zhang Hanle delivered a keynote presentation titled "AI+Robotics Talent Development and Practice in the Wave of Embodied Intelligence," outlining the challenges and opportunities of industry-education integration and sharing the company's achievements in robot product development, training laboratory setup, curriculum system development, and school-enterprise collaborative education.

  2. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技16

    Proxima Technology Visits Universities for Embodied Intelligence Lecture Tour

    Dr. Zhou Bowen, founder of Proxima Technology, was recently invited to visit Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, and other universities for a lecture tour themed "The 'Body' and 'Mind' of Embodied Intelligence: The Leap from Perceptual Intelligence to Action Intelligence." In his talks, he explained AI's leap from perception to action and how large models, embodied intelligence, and humanoid robotics technologies can enable this process, sharing application potential through case studies in industrial, educational, and service scenarios. The company hopes to bring frontline industry experience into campuses through industry-academia collaboration and support AI talent development.

  3. TeknTrash23

    TeknTrash wins third prize at Huzhou Global Entrepreneurship Competition

    TeknTrash Robotics won third prize at the Global Entrepreneurship Competition in Huzhou, China, making it the only international company among 12 high-tech teams to win an award. Its ALPHA humanoid robot project was recognized for its technical maturity and industrial scalability. The competition was hosted by the Wuxing District government. The company said it will use this as a milestone to continue advancing ALPHA into real operating environments.

Jan 21Wed
  1. Diligent61

    Serve Robotics completes acquisition of Diligent Robotics, bringing Moxi hospital robot into its autonomy platform

    Serve Robotics announced it has completed its acquisition of Diligent Robotics, the maker of the autonomous hospital robot assistant Moxi. Moxi has been deployed at more than 25 hospital facilities across the US and has completed over 1.25 million autonomous deliveries, handling routine deliveries such as supplies, lab samples, and medications to give nurses more time to care for patients.

    Why it matters: The article states that Moxi has been deployed at more than 25 US hospitals and has completed 1.25 million autonomous deliveries, which provides a basis for assessing the deployment foundation of this acquisition.

  2. Diligent71

    Serve Robotics to acquire Diligent Robotics, expanding autonomous robotics platform to indoor hospital settings

    Serve Robotics announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Diligent Robotics, with consideration consisting of $29 million in the company's common stock paid to Diligent shareholders (subject to adjustments such as net debt), plus up to $5.3 million in milestone earnouts. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, and Diligent will continue to operate as a Serve subsidiary under the leadership of Andrea Thomaz.

    Why it matters: The materials lay out Moxi's deployment scale and the per-hospital annual sales range, making it easier to assess the acquisition's actual weight for Serve's revenue mix and platform expansion.

Jan 20Tue
  1. 普华资本55

    Uniubi completes RMB 513 million Pre-IPO+ round

    Uniubi announced the completion of a Pre-IPO+ funding round equivalent to RMB 513 million, jointly invested by Wenzhou Cangnan County Shanhai Industrial Group and Malaysia's Crewstone International (CSI), with Bojiang Capital increasing its investment and Puhua Capital having invested in its Series A in 2018.

Jan 19Mon
  1. Sharpa49

    Sharpa showcases fine-manipulation autonomous live demos at CES 2026 with CraftNet VTLA model and North robot

    At CES 2026, Sharpa debuted North, a full-body robot driven by the CraftNet end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model, running live autonomous demos for eight hours a day over four consecutive days: taking photos, table tennis rallies, windmill assembly, and card dealing, all without scripts.

Jan 16Fri
  2. Addverb Technologies11

    13 Major Advantages of Warehouse Automation in 2026

    The article lists 13 benefits of warehouse automation, covering the use of technologies such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), automated storage and retrieval systems, pick-to-light picking, RFID tags, and computer vision in material handling, sorting, picking, and inventory management.

Jan 15Thu
  1. Kepler Robot/开普勒机器人 · YouTube30

    Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" Demonstrates World's First Human-Robot Collaborative High-Altitude Welding

    The Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" humanoid robot completed the world's first human-robot collaborative high-altitude welding operation through full-body VR teleoperation, with operators controlling it safely from a remote location. The demonstration took place in a real industrial setting, with the robot taking on hazardous high-altitude welding tasks and possessing precision welding, high payload, and long-duration operation capabilities. Kepler says this shows that industrial humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations to production-grade applications, and notes that progressing from teleoperation to autonomy is a viable path.

Jan 14Wed
  1. 线性资本55

    Wance completes over 100 million yuan Series A+ funding, with revenue growth exceeding 200% in 2025

    Recently, Wance, a domestic industrial safety sensor company, completed over 100 million yuan in Series A+ funding, invested by Fengyuan Capital, Sanhua Holding Group, Jianzhi Group, Orient Securities Capital, and Wanlian Tianze, with existing shareholder Cowin Capital following on. The funds will be used for new product R&D, construction of a large-scale production base, and overseas business expansion.

  2. Skild AI82

    Skild AI announces completion of $1.4 billion Series C funding, valuation exceeds $14 billion

    Skild AI announced the completion of a $1.4 billion Series C funding round led by SoftBank, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Macquarie Capital, Jeff Bezos, and others, at a valuation exceeding $14 billion.

    Why it matters: The official disclosure of funding size, valuation, and revenue data gives readers insight into the commercialization progress of this general-purpose robotics model company.

Jan 13Tue
  1. 线性资本49

    After CES, what is the answer for AI moving into the physical world? — Linear Capital's AI consumer hardware discussion

    Linear Capital partner Yang Jun spoke with Ling Universe's Gu Jiawei, Ludens AI's Xue Lijun, and Bangtang Technology's Lou Xiaodu about AI consumer hardware, focusing on education, companionship, and health. Ling Universe's Xiaofang device shipped more than 20,000 units early on, validating the payment logic of parents buying an "entry ticket" to the AI era for their children; Bangtang Technology cut the customer acquisition cost of its "AI pastor" software from $1.5–2 to $0.3–0.5 and raised its renewal rate from 70% to 80%–90%, and on that basis decided to make a smart ring to enter mental health and religious scenarios.

Jan 12Mon
  1. Skild AI48

    Skild AI: Enabling robots to learn new skills by watching human videos

    Skild AI proposes overcoming the robot data bottleneck by watching human videos, arguing that teleoperation is limited by environment diversity and real-time collection scale and cannot reach the data volume required by foundation models. Its approach is cross-embodiment learning: with less than 1 hour of robot data for fine-tuning, the model can learn new skills from video demonstrations alone, mapping human "grasping" onto the execution actions of different robot embodiments.

  2. LimX Dynamics58

    LimX Dynamics releases LimX COSA embodied agent system, demonstrated on Oli humanoid robot with mobile manipulation

    LimX Dynamics has officially released LimX COSA (Cognitive OS of Agents), an embodied agentic OS positioned as native to the physical world. The system uses a bottom-up three-layer structure: the bottom layer is a whole-body motion control foundation model, the middle layer is a high-level skill layer integrating large and small models, and the top layer is autonomous cognition and decision-making, involving interaction, memory, and thinking.

Jan 10Sat
Jan 9Fri
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼21

    Zheng Suibing Publishes Article in People's Daily: Innovation Makes Technology More Inclusive and Development Outcomes More Shared

    On January 9, People's Daily published a signed article by Zheng Suibing, founder of RealMan Intelligent, on the innovative development of the humanoid robot industry. RealMan's self-developed integrated joint modules have an annual production capacity of more than 100,000 units, and its "remote labor network" enables real-time remote operation, helping people in central and western China find work and increase their incomes from home. RealMan also co-founded the GPR open-source alliance in February 2023 and jointly released a mobile composite robot development platform in 2024.

Jan 8Thu
  1. Kepler Robot/开普勒机器人 · YouTube26

    Kepler K2 "Bumblebee": Slope External Disturbance Rejection Challenge

    The Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" humanoid robot completed three rounds of external push disturbance tests on a slope, staying stable in all of them, and said, "Push all you want — I'll keep walking." This is a real-machine stability test; the company says continuous training is still ongoing, and more real-machine performance results will be released gradually.

  2. 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.

Jan 7Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼32

    Realman Attends CES 2026 for the Third Time: Building Embodied Intelligence Infrastructure with Joint Modules, Humanoid Robotic Arms, and a Remote Operation Network

    Realman is exhibiting at CES 2026 for the third consecutive year, presenting three foundational capabilities: hardware, data, and a remote operation network. It also completed a transoceanic real-time teleoperation demonstration from Beijing to Las Vegas, remotely controlling a RealBOT wheeled folding robot to perform tasks such as delivering items and handing over fruit.

  2. Mentee Robotics · YouTube34

    MenteeBot Executes Tasks via Verbal Instructions (No Teleoperation)

    MenteeBot completed a can-retrieval task based on verbal instructions without teleoperation: it understood the request, identified the correct can, navigated to the counter, grasped it, and brought it back to the person. The demo integrates language understanding, scene perception, navigation, and manipulation into a single coherent behavior. Instructions can be given in any language, and the original text states this lowers the barrier to human-robot collaboration and humanoid robot deployment.

  3. Mentee Robotics · YouTube48

    MenteeBot learns to replace a battery by observing human demonstration (no teleoperation): Observe → Train → Perform (Real2Sim2Real)

    Mentee Robotics demonstrated a MenteeBot learning to replace the battery in another MenteeBot without teleoperation, solely by observing a human demonstration. The learning process has three Real2Sim2Real stages: the robot records a human operation video from its own viewpoint, a foundation model reconstructs the task in simulation and then trains at scale using self-play and reinforcement learning, and finally its proprietary Sim2Real technology transfers the skill to autonomous execution on the real robot.

  4. WIRobotics27

    WIRobotics Unveils WIM S and ALLEX at CES 2026 Unveiled, Drawing Strong Industry Attention

    At CES 2026 Unveiled, WIRobotics showcased WIM S, a wearable walking assistance robot, attracting attention from multiple mainstream media outlets and buyers from North America, Europe, India, and South America. Since 2025, WIM S has expanded from the Korean market to markets in Europe, China, and Japan. The humanoid robot ALLEX will perform live motion and interaction demonstrations at the CES 2026 main show (opening January 6); the company has won CES Innovation Awards for three consecutive years (2024–2026).

  5. Sharpa53

    Sharpa releases CraftNet, a hierarchical VTLA model for fine manipulation

    Sharpa has released CraftNet, an end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (vision-tactile-language-action) model aimed at last-millimeter contact control in fine manipulation. The model consists of three parts: System 2 (about 1 Hz, an open-source VLM responsible for reasoning and task decomposition), System 1 (about 10 Hz, responsible for motion planning and coarse actions), and System 0 (about 100 Hz, performing real-time fine-tuning of hand movements based on tactile feedback), with the three cooperating asynchronously.

  7. Dobot/越疆机器人20

    Dobot Open Day: Collaborative Robots Accompany "Children of the Stars" in Calligraphy and Gift Selection

    Dobot held an open day on December 30, 2025, partnering with the Shenzhen Four-Leaf Clover Autism Parents Support Center and China Life Nianfeng Insurance Shenzhen Branch to let 15 children with special needs experience interactive activities including selecting gifts by voice recognition with the Magician Lite robotic arm, gift distribution, and an AGV car obstacle course. The event design followed the principles of "no rushing, zero pressure, focus on companionship," and Dobot plans to develop such open days into a series of corporate social responsibility projects, exploring applications of collaborative robots in daily assistance, rehabilitation support, and educational integration.

Jan 6Tue
  1. Sharpa42

    Sharpa unveils North, its first full-body autonomous robot, at CES 2026

    At CES 2026, Sharpa unveiled North, its first full-body autonomous robot, and completed four fully autonomous live demonstrations. North has a 0.02-second reaction time in table tennis rallies, takes photos with about 2 mm precision, deals cards through multimodal reasoning, and completes a 30+ step paper pinwheel craft sequence, which the company calls one of the longest continuous autonomous operations publicly demonstrated to date.

  2. Dobot/越疆机器人50

    Premier Li Qiang visits Guangdong, Dobot founder Liu Peichao presents embodied robotics innovations

    From January 3 to 5, Premier Li Qiang conducted a research visit in Guangdong. At the Shenzhen Robotics Valley, he viewed Dobot's collaborative robots and embodied humanoid robot innovations, with founder Liu Peichao reporting on site. Dobot robots have shipped more than 100,000 units globally. The humanoid robot Atom, based on the self-developed Dobot-VLA model, autonomously completed the full "popcorn vending" task and achieved end-to-end task closed-loop capability in commercial scenarios.

  3. 可以科技31

    Meet LOONA DeskMate: The Desktop AI Companion for Work

    KEYi Technology introduced LOONA DeskMate at CES 2026 (January 6–9, Las Vegas), positioning it as a desktop embodied AI companion. It uses three signals—Intent, State, and Emotion—to achieve wake-word-free audiovisual multimodal perception, claims to eliminate 300–500 ms of silent latency, and connects to workflows such as Gmail, Slack, and Calendly through real-time clipboard and screen awareness.

Jan 5Mon
  1. Pollen Robotics · YouTube45

    Reachy Mini LITE Assembly Guide

    Pollen Robotics has released an assembly guide video for the Reachy Mini LITE, demonstrating the full build process in three sections: foot, body, and head. In the body section, the 6 motors must be wired in sequence, with cables clipped into the base and routed through the head PCB; after checking rotation, the Tricap and head shell are secured. The head section covers installing the fisheye lens, glasses assembly, and antenna motor, then connecting the speaker, motors, power, and USB extension cable to complete the build.

Jan 2Fri
  1. Addverb Technologies18

    Is 2026 the Right Time to Automate Warehouses?

    Addverb Technologies proposes five core indicators—order volume and speed, return on investment, technological progress, competitive landscape, and seasonal fluctuations—to help companies judge the right timing for warehouse automation investment. The article notes that rising labor costs, surging e-commerce orders, and the need for 24/7 operations are pushing companies to adopt automation, and that AI can support real-time data analysis and predictive maintenance. It mentions that DHL's collaboration with Addverb is transforming warehouse operations by improving speed, accuracy, and scalability.

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 30Tue
  1. HOSON/新益昌32

    Xinyichang and Tangyuan Electric Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Embodied-Intelligence Humanoid Robots

    Xinyichang and Chengdu Tangyuan Electric have formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement on embodied-intelligence humanoid robots, combining Tangyuan Electric's accumulated expertise in industry scenario understanding, AI algorithms, and machine vision with Xinyichang's technical strengths in humanoid robot bodies, motion control, and core components. The two parties will advance joint R&D, scenario adaptation, and industrialization across four major tracks: rail transit, intelligent manufacturing, smart emergency response, and health and medical care, including developing humanoid robots dedicated to rail transit, an integrated "embodied intelligence + factory AI Agent" solution, emergency robots, and medical robots.

  2. 线性资本15

    2025 in Linear's WeChat Moments | Linear Voice

    Linear Capital invited portfolio founders and their teams to submit a WeChat Moments post or a private photo from 2025, presenting a group portrait of the invested companies as they are. The content includes White Rhino's six-year evolution from its first-generation unmanned delivery vehicle in 2019 to its 2025 L4 autonomous unmanned delivery vehicle, Tars Intelligent Robotics' robot embroidering its first work, RIVR's robot dog delivering packages in the United States, and real moments such as the Yiru Biology team climbing a mountain after six months without pay.

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.

Dec 22Mon
  1. 线性资本58

    Tashi Intelligence Makes Full-Stack Tech Debut with Autonomous Embroidery Robot and Wiring Harness Manufacturing Solution

    On December 19, Tashi Intelligence, founded just 10 months ago, held a livestreamed full-stack technology debut. The world's first robot to achieve autonomous embroidery was officially unveiled, completing thread pulling, needle lowering, and piercing motions with sub-millimeter precision to embroider the brand logo, while also demonstrating the autonomous implementation of flexible fine manipulation in wiring harness assembly.