IPLUSMOBOT to Showcase EMMA 600K Heavy-Load AMR and COBOT Collaborative Robot at Smart Factory + Automation World 2026
IPLUSMOBOT will hold live demonstrations at Booth C704 at Smart Factory + Automation World 2026, March 4-6 at Coex in Seoul.
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普华资本FeaturedAI score6060 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.
Mentee Robotics · YouTubeAI score2424 Mentee Robotics Teases Mentee Bot V3.1 Humanoid Robot
Mentee Robotics has released a teaser for the Mentee Bot V3.1 humanoid robot, disclosing full specifications: 175 cm tall, 70 kg in weight, 1.5 m/s speed, up to 25 kg payload, and 40 degrees of freedom.
WandercraftAI score4343 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.
若创科技AI score5151 Strutt launches Strutt ev¹ smart everyday vehicle at CES 2026
Singapore robotics company Strutt officially launched the Strutt ev¹ smart everyday vehicle at CES 2026; the product previously won a CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award. The ev¹ features the evSense sensing system, which combines LiDAR, cameras, time-of-flight and ultrasonic sensors for 360-degree environmental perception, and supports Co-Pilot/Co-Pilot+ assist modes, Pathfinder autonomous navigation, and Waypoints natural-language command navigation based on a large language model.
若创科技AI score3131 Strutt holds Strutt Day, giving media their first hands-on experience with the STRUTT ev¹
Strutt held the Strutt Day technology showcase, giving media and partners their first hands-on experience with the STRUTT ev¹ and building momentum for its official debut at CES 2026.
若创科技AI score3333 Strutt ev¹ wins CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award
Strutt's first product, the ev¹ smart personal mobility vehicle, won the Best of Innovation Award in the CES 2026 Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility category. Strutt says it is the youngest company to win in this category, and the award coincides with its 2025 Red Dot: Luminary design award.
若创科技AI score3838 Strutt ev¹ wins two top Red Dot design honors and sets up factory in Singapore
Strutt Inc.'s personal mobility product Strutt ev¹ has received both the Best of the Best and Luminary honors from the Red Dot Design Concept Award; the Luminary is awarded to only one project each year.
若创科技AI score2222 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.
若创科技AI score1515 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.
若创科技AI score1818 Strutt to debut smart mobility product Strutt ev¹ at CES 2025
Strutt announced that it will globally debut its first smart mobility product, Strutt ev¹, at CES 2025. Strutt is a team of smart product experts focused on advanced sensing, autonomous driving, and hardware design, aiming to address population aging and urban environment adaptation issues and to save users time and effort.
Fauna RoboticsFeaturedAI score6363 Fauna Robotics exits stealth mode to launch Sprout humanoid robot platform
Fauna Robotics has released Sprout, its first humanoid robot platform, shipping the same day in a Creator Edition aimed at developers, researchers, and creators building embodied intelligence applications.
Why it matters: The company has released an official lightweight humanoid platform for developers, detailing its safety design approach, configuration list, and SDK capabilities, which can help readers assess its usability in shared-space scenarios.
Fauna RoboticsAI score5050 Fauna Robotics launches Sprout humanoid robot platform for human-robot coexistence scenarios
On January 27, 2026, Fauna Robotics launched Sprout, a humanoid robot platform positioned for human living spaces such as homes, schools, and offices, rather than factory environments. Sprout is 3.5 feet tall, lightweight, soft to the touch, and moves quietly, with no pinch points or sharp edges. It has an expressive face that can convey intent, with a focus on physical safety and social approachability.
SharpaAI score4949 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.
线性资本AI score5555 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.
矩阵超智 · YouTubeAI score1212 Matrix Robotics launches next-generation humanoid robot MATRIX-3
Matrix Robotics has launched its next-generation humanoid robot, MATRIX-3. This announcement did not disclose specific specifications such as payload, degrees of freedom, or battery life; the company says updates can be followed via its X account and website subscriptions.
RealMan/睿尔曼AI score2121 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.
RealMan/睿尔曼AI score3232 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.
WIRoboticsAI score2727 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).
SharpaAI score4242 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.
线性资本AI score5858 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.
Hcfa/禾川科技AI score2727 HCFA Technology's SV 730W Multi-Axis Integrated Servo Drive Wins CMCD 2025 Motion Control Innovation Product Award
On December 18, HCFA Technology won the "CMCD 2025 Motion Control Innovation Product" award at the CIAA25 Motion Control/Direct Drive Technology Industry Development Summit Forum in Shenzhen for its SV 730W multi-axis integrated high-end AC servo drive. The product supports a minimum of 2 axes and a maximum of 4 axes, reduces volume by 60% compared with single-axis products, cuts power wiring and communication cables to one set, uses solder-free European-standard IO quick terminals for tool-free installation, and can control 4 axes simultaneously through one main control chip with one commissioning program, facilitating high-precision gantry synchronization.
SharpaFeaturedAI score6363 Sharpa announces mass production of SharpaWave dexterous hand, to exhibit at CES 2026
Sharpa announced that mass production of its flagship dexterous hand, SharpaWave, has begun, with early customers including global technology companies and research universities.
Why it matters: The manufacturer announced that the dexterous hand has entered mass production and provided technical details such as degrees of freedom, tactile precision, and simulation platform compatibility, which readers can use to assess its research usability.
LimX DynamicsFeaturedAI score7070 LimX Dynamics launches multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, open for pre-order from 49,800 yuan
LimX Dynamics has launched the multi-form embodied robot TRON 2, whose single body can quickly switch between three configurations: dual-arm, bipedal, and dual-wheel-legged. It is priced from 49,800 yuan and is open for pre-order starting today. The dual-arm configuration is a 7-DoF humanoid design with a 70 cm arm span and a 10 kg dual-arm payload, and the body has a maximum load capacity of 60 kg. In bipedal form it has a 4-hour battery life and a maximum payload of 30 kg, and it can perceive its surroundings and climb stairs.
Why it matters: The original text provides the one-body, three-form configurations, the dual-arm specifications, and the pre-order price, which readers can use to assess its suitability for VLA and mobile manipulation development.
线性资本AI score5959 White Rhino completes new funding round, cumulative 2025 financing exceeds $100 million
L4 autonomous driving company White Rhino announced on December 18 that it has completed a new funding round, jointly invested by Jiukun Venture Capital, Qifu Capital, Yuanhe Houwang, Zhengjing Capital and others. This is its third funding round in 2025, with cumulative financing for the year exceeding $100 million.
普华资本AI score5858 Inxee Completes Nearly 200 Million Yuan Series A Funding with Participation from Puhua Capital and Others
Nanjing Inxee Intelligent Technology announced the completion of a nearly 200 million yuan Series A funding round, with investors including Puhua Capital, Huakong Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, Oasis Capital, and Jinqiu Capital. This is the company's third funding round this year. The funds will be used for capacity expansion, technology R&D, and product line expansion, accelerating the construction of a million-unit production line and iterating on core technologies such as joint modules. Inxee's joint module shipments have exceeded 100,000 units this year. Its product matrix covers integrated joints, dexterous hands, communication modules, and battery systems. Its dexterous hands use an original independent ultra-small joint module design and are about to enter mass production.
Blue Robin · YouTubeAI score1515 Blue Robin's first humanoid robot P-73
Blue Robin has launched its first humanoid robot, P-73, which uses torque-based whole-body control. It has increased computing power and integrated on-device AI, along with a robotic hand that offers strong grasping capability and durability.
WIRoboticsAI score3030 WIRobotics to showcase wearable walking-assist robot WIM S at CES 2026 Unveiled
WIRobotics announced it will showcase its wearable walking-assist robot WIM S on January 4 at CES 2026 Unveiled in Las Vegas, and will offer attendees a hands-on walking experience wearing the device. WIM S debuted in South Korea in 2025 and supports four walking modes: Air, Hiking, Care, and Aqua. The WIM series has won CES Innovation Awards for three consecutive years and covers markets including South Korea, mainland China, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Dobot/越疆机器人AI score2424 Dobot Revives Sinosauropteryx with Embodied Intelligence
Dobot has used robotics technology, bionic structures, and a multimodal embodied intelligence core to "revive" the primitive Sinosauropteryx, enabling it to perceive its environment through vision and touch and to control its body movements autonomously. The team used a hard-shell component skeleton, compliant joints, and bionic tendon-bone coordinated transmission, with the outer skin made of silicone flocked skin implanted by hand. This is the first deployment of its robotic entertainment solution, aimed at high-end cultural tourism, science education, and film special effects, with plans to build a business model of hardware sales plus rental operations, content subscriptions, and offline experiences.
Dobot/越疆机器人AI score3636 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.
Dobot/越疆机器人AI score3232 Dobot Robotics appears at Geely Auto technology exhibition, embodied intelligent robots empower efficient flexible intelligent manufacturing in automotive
Dobot Robotics recently exhibited at the forward-looking lean manufacturing technology exhibition hosted by Geely Automobile Research Institute, demonstrating on site the application in automotive manufacturing of a six-axis collaborative robot (equipped with the self-developed VX500 vision camera), the ATOM humanoid robot (the world's first full-size embodied intelligent robot with "dexterous manipulation + straight-knee walking"), and the Hexplorer six-legged robot dog.
Dobot/越疆机器人AI score5050 Dobot CRA-Ex Explosion-Proof Collaborative Robot Receives CNEX National Explosion-Proof Certification
Dobot Robotics announced that the bodies and control cabinets of its CRA-Ex series explosion-proof collaborative robots have simultaneously obtained CNEX national explosion-proof certificates, meeting 7 national standards including GB/T3836.1-2021. The company claims it is the industry's first and only explosion-proof collaborative robot to achieve both IP67 full-body protection and T6/T80°C minimum surface temperature control, covering Zone 1 and Zone 2 flammable gas environments and Zone 21 and Zone 22 combustible dust environments, with repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.03mm, targeting high-risk scenarios such as petrochemical, military, painting, pharmaceutical, and grain processing.
Dobot/越疆机器人AI score4848 7,499 yuan! Dobot launches Rover X1, the world's first home embodied-intelligence robot, bringing embodied AI into everyday family life
Dobot has officially launched the Rover X1 home embodied-intelligence robot, priced at 7,499 yuan, calling it the world's first home embodied-intelligence robot. The device features a dual-vision tracking system, an all-terrain wheel-leg structure, and intelligent load-carrying capability. Through its self-developed open platform, it can switch between scenarios such as outdoor adventure, home security, coding education, and emotional companionship, and supports both graphical and code-based programming modes.
Blinx Technology/比邻星科技AI score4646 Proxima Technology's 1,000th robot of 2025 rolls off the line, humanoid robot X1 delivered to Tianjin University
On December 1, Proxima Technology held a ceremony marking the rollout and delivery of its 1,000th robot of 2025. The delivered humanoid robot X1 is headed to Tianjin University for research and teaching in artificial intelligence and robotics. X1's core strengths are dual-arm coordination and hand-eye coordination; it uses self-developed seven-axis arms, a "one-controls-two" control system, and reinforcement learning to achieve dynamic task allocation and collision avoidance, and it incorporates large-model technology to understand complex instructions and autonomously reason through task steps.
线性资本FeaturedAI score6565 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.
绿的谐波AI score2727 Leaderdrive to showcase humanoid and automotive motion control solutions at iREX 2025 in Tokyo
Leaderdrive will exhibit at iREX 2025 in Tokyo from December 3–6 (booth E4-18), showcasing motion control products for humanoid robots and smart vehicles. Planetary roller screws and linear actuators developed by its subsidiary Spin Drive achieve P0-grade precision, maintain stable performance after 10 million cycles, and exceed 87% transmission efficiency, targeting humanoid robot limb actuation.
线性资本FeaturedAI score6060 Agile Robots releases full-size industrial-grade humanoid robot Agile ONE
Agile Robots has officially launched Agile ONE, a full-size industrial-grade humanoid robot built around Physical AI and aimed at human-machine and automation system collaboration in industrial environments.
Why it matters: The original text explains how the humanoid robot fits into the existing full-stack product line, which lets readers judge how its positioning differs from standalone humanoid products.
Blinx Technology/比邻星科技AI score1818 Proxima Technology's humanoid robot X1 and other innovations debut at the 2025 World Computing Conference, praised by Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent
On November 20, Proxima Technology exhibited its humanoid robot X1, a six-axis collaborative robot, and an AI comprehensive experiment kit (Huawei Ascend version) at the innovation achievement exhibition of the 2025 World Computing Conference in Changsha. Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent observed the experiment kit and exchanged with the team on domestic computing power and scenario-based applications, affirming its technical path and innovative practices. The site also drew many government leaders, academicians, and corporate executives.
Figure AIFeaturedAI score7878 Figure 02 completes 11-month run at BMW Spartanburg plant, contributing to over 30,000 X3 vehicles, officially begins retirement
Figure AI released results from Figure 02's 11-month deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg: it ran 10-hour shifts each workday, loaded over 90,000 sheet metal parts, accumulated over 1,250 operating hours, contributed to the production of over 30,000 X3 vehicles, and the robot walked about 1.2 million steps, totaling over 200 miles.
Why it matters: The manufacturer disclosed specific KPIs and hardware failure improvements from the 11-month production line deployment, allowing readers to understand the actual operating conditions of humanoid robots on automotive production lines.
DexterityAI score4646 Dexterity and Beckhoff USA Reach Key Supplier Agreement for Mech Superhumanoid Robot
Dexterity has signed a key supplier agreement with Beckhoff USA to provide automation, kinematics, and safety-related technologies for the Mech superhumanoid robot. Beckhoff's control hardware is compact and suited to constrained installation spaces such as mobile robots, and its U.S. special projects team worked with Dexterity engineers to implement control systems including kinematics, PLC, and machine safety. Dexterity is valued at $1.65 billion and has previously worked with FedEx and Sagawa Express to deploy truck loading and unloading robots.