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Feb 14Sat
  1. 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. 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 10Tue
  1. 云启资本48

    Yunqi Research Report | Embodied Intelligence in Industrial Scenarios: An In-Depth Analysis of Capabilities and Applications

    Yunqi Capital released a research report analyzing the capability gains and deployment boundaries of embodied intelligence in manufacturing and logistics scenarios relative to traditional industrial robots. Traditional industrial robots can reach 80–150 cycles per minute, while current VLA end-to-end execution remains at the 10–15 cycles per minute level, making it difficult to meet sub-millimeter precision requirements. Among deployment directions, inspection is one of the most practically feasible, material handling has the greatest potential for scale, and precision assembly has the highest barrier; the viable form is Agent architecture scheduling plus vertical-domain operation model execution.

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 5Thu
  1. Wandercraft43

    Wandercraft CEO's view: How human-like should a humanoid robot be?

    Wandercraft co-founder and CEO Matthieu Masselin argues in an article that humanoid robots should aim for "human-machine compatibility" rather than "looking like humans." The company's robots kept a headless design when deployed at the Renault factory, with cameras initially located on the lower abdomen and now moved between the shoulders; the company is developing end effectors and manipulation capabilities for its next-generation product. He believes de-anthropomorphizing can reduce psychological friction and speed up deployment.

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.

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 22Thu
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技22

    Proxima Technology Selected for Hunan SME Digital Transformation Typical Cases (2025)

    Proxima Technology was selected for the Hunan SME Digital Transformation Typical Cases (2025) list announced by the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, with its "'Dual Middle Platform - Multi-Application' Empowering Advanced Computing Enterprises' Digital Transformation Project," appearing as a representative enterprise in the electronic information industry. The company says the architecture connects data links and integrates security capabilities into operational processes, improving the efficiency of robot product R&D and production and protecting key data; it will explore the application of agent technology in multiple areas in the future.

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 16Fri
  1. 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 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 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 6Tue
  1. 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.

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. 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 4Thu
  2. Dobot/越疆机器人36

    Dobot appears at IROS 2025, launches embodied intelligence robot platform combining humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms

    At IROS 2025, Dobot exhibited the world's first embodied intelligence robot platform integrating humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms, using a brain-cerebellum dual-system architecture. Its humanoid robot passed high-temperature and heavy-load aging tests, with precision reaching ±0.05mm; the X-Trainer dual-arm teleoperation AI training platform shortens the training cycle for new tasks by 70%, to about 2 hours. Dobot also cooperated with Tencent's Tairos platform, and the multi-legged robot Hexplorer achieved fully autonomous operation with high-precision 3D mapping and dynamic obstacle-avoidance guided tours.

Nov 27Thu
  1. 线性资本65

    Founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robot dog company RIVR discusses last-mile delivery commercialization

    Entrepreneurship Weekly interviewed Marko Bjelonic, founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robotics company RIVR, and Gus Leung, head of supply chain for China, about the progress of its robot dogs in last-mile delivery. In August this year, RIVR signed Just Eat Takeaway, Europe's largest food delivery platform; in the same period, it added Swiss Post and online supermarket Migros as customers, extending its business into fresh grocery delivery. It currently operates in Zurich, Leeds, Austin, and Boston, partnering with Evri, Veho, and others for door-to-door delivery.

    Why it matters: Through a founder interview, it presents the commercialization path and key operational data of wheeled-legged robot dogs in last-mile delivery, offering a reference for assessing the pace of deployment.

Nov 20Thu
  1. Intrinsic61

    Foxconn and Intrinsic Form Joint Venture to Build Smart Factories for Electronics Assembly

    Foxconn and Intrinsic announced at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 the formation of a US-headquartered joint venture aimed at moving electronics assembly from product-specific automation to more general-purpose intelligent robotics, with the goal of gradually achieving full-factory automation.

    Why it matters: The source is an official release from both partners, explaining the joint venture's goals, deployment scenarios, and the platform used, so readers can understand the specific path by which AI robotics is entering electronics assembly.

Nov 19Wed
Nov 12Wed
  1. Wandercraft53

    Wandercraft and Italy's SAPA Reach Calvin-40 Industrial Deployment Partnership Agreement

    Wandercraft and Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier SAPA announced a deployment partnership agreement to implement and scale its autonomous heavy-duty humanoid robot Calvin-40 in SAPA's industrial operations. The first phase focuses on high-precision, repetitive handling of large heavy components; Wandercraft previously reached a strategic partnership with Renault Group, and this collaboration extends its humanoid robot footprint to both OEM and Tier 1 levels, with plans to deploy in two countries.

Oct 30Thu
  1. Zeroth/元点智能15

    Zeroth appears at Bridge Summit 2025, with consumer robot W1 in the spotlight

    Zeroth showcased its core products at Bridge Summit 2025 in Abu Dhabi, where its consumer robot W1 drew large crowds to its booth to try it out. Founder Renjie Guo took part as a speaker in a key roundtable discussion, saying the robotics industry should not focus only on iterating technical specifications but should also address real social needs such as emotional companionship and daily-life assistance. Brand updates and partnership information will continue to be posted on the official website.

Oct 29Wed
Oct 20Mon
  1. 线性资本31

    Kevin Kelly: In Smart Glasses, I'd Bet on a Chinese Company to Win Over Apple | Linear Portfolio

    At a roundtable dialogue with Rokid founder and CEO Misa Zhu at the Hangzhou Future Life Festival, Kevin Kelly mentioned Rokid twice and said he is bullish on the smart glasses form factor. Rokid glasses raised $3.61 million on Kickstarter, breaking the XR industry crowdfunding record. Linear Capital was Rokid's earliest investor and has increased its stake across multiple rounds.

Sep 18Thu
  1. 线性资本72

    Bot Auto completes first fully driverless truck real-world road test

    Linear Capital portfolio company Bot Auto announced it has completed its first real-world road test in which the truck truly performed all operations on its own, with no one in the driver's seat, the back seat, or at a remote-control terminal, and no escort vehicle. During the test, the truck on a Texas highway handled scenarios including avoidance, detouring, merging, and responding to the appearance of a fire truck. The vehicle is equipped with 15 cameras, 8 lidars, and 3 millimeter-wave radars, with redundancy in perception, computing, actuation, and power supply; after the primary server is shut down it can switch to a backup server, and if the backup is also shut down, the vehicle control unit takes over to pull over and stop.

    Why it matters: The article sorts out the differences between Bot Auto's truly driverless road test and earlier modes with safety drivers, escort vehicles, and remote control, helping readers understand the differences in its technical approach.

Sep 17Wed
  1. Figure AI69

    Figure AI and Brookfield Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Humanoid Robot Pretraining Dataset

    Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield. Brookfield, which manages over 1 trillion USD in assets and owns more than 100,000 residential units, will help Figure build a real-world humanoid robot pretraining dataset, build the AI infrastructure needed to scale Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model), and explore commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

    Why it matters: The official partnership announcement covers three areas: data scale, infrastructure, and deployment, letting readers understand how the data sources support scaling Helix.

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."

Sep 11Thu
  1. Estun Coolbot/埃斯顿酷卓16

    Estun Cubot Selected as a 2025 "Sci-Tech Future Star"

    At the 2025 Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation Matchmaking Conference, which opened on September 11, Estun Cubot was selected for the national list of 80 "Sci-Tech Future Stars" enterprises. Since its founding in 2022, the company has focused on embodied intelligence and within three years completed R&D on two generations of humanoid robots, 17 high-end collaborative robots, 4 composite mobile robots, and multiple workstations for welding, palletizing, and other tasks. It has also participated in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's humanoid robot "open competition" project and the first batch of national humanoid robot standards projects.

  2. MirrorMe Technology/镜识科技30

    Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Wang Hao visits ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center; MirrorMe Technology showcases Black Panther II, BAOBAO, and Apollo

    Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Wang Hao visited the Zhejiang University-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, where MirrorMe Technology demonstrated three robots on site: Black Panther II, BAOBAO, and Apollo.

Sep 6Sat
  1. TeknTrash30

    TeknTrash Featured in Google Cloud Customer Success Story

    TeknTrash Robotics has been included in Google Cloud's official customer success stories. Its humanoid robot sorting system is built on Compute Engine, Cloud Data Fusion, and Cloud Storage, and can automatically sort waste in hazardous and unsanitary environments, with a data collection rate exceeding 6MB per second.

Sep 2Tue
Aug 25Mon
  1. 线性资本64

    RIVR partners with Just Eat Takeaway to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market

    Swiss embodied intelligence company RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile) announced a partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com, Europe's largest food delivery platform, to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market, starting in Zurich, Switzerland, where local restaurants have already begun delivering real orders.

    Why it matters: The original article discloses the wheel-legged design, cargo compartment specifications, and rollout timeline, allowing readers to assess the deployment path for this type of delivery robot in real urban environments.

Aug 23Sat
  1. Zhejiang University Robotics32

    8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition Finals Held in Yuyao, Students' "Answers" Match Enterprises' "Questions"

    The finals of the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition were held in Yuyao from August 21 to 22, with 10,880 teams and nearly 47,000 university students from 752 universities nationwide participating. The competition featured three main tracks—creative, competitive, and combat—and four special events: ROS, legged robots, VEX U, and Sunny Optical's "Future Vision." Unitree Robotics and DEEP Robotics respectively supported the legged robot 2v2 soccer match and the quadruped robot dog inspection, rescue, and grasping events. Yuyao is using the event to promote industry-education integration and attract talent through competitions, aiming to build a robotics industry hub.

  2. Zhejiang University Robotics27

    8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition opens in Yuyao | Yongpai reports on the competition

    On the morning of August 21, the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition opened at the China Plastics International Convention and Exhibition Center in Yuyao, Ningbo. The two-day event is hosted by the Yuyao Municipal People's Government and the Robotics Institute of Zhejiang University. The competition features 3 themed events, 3 special events, and 1 industry-education integration creative event, among which the industry-education integration Sunny Optical "Future Vision" creative event was added for the first time. This edition attracted 752 universities, 10,880 teams, and more than 47,000 students from across the country to participate in the preliminaries, with more than 4,000 students traveling to Yuyao for the finals.