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Sep 14Mon
  1. Pudu Robotics/普渡科技31

    Pudu Robotics Deepens European Presence After IFA 2026, PUDU D7 Makes European Debut

    Pudu Robotics is accelerating its expansion into the European market after IFA Berlin 2026, where it showcased its full product line spanning service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial logistics and embodied AI, and PUDU D7 was also exhibited in Europe for the first time. Pudu's robots are already deployed in everyday settings including retail, hotels, food and beverage, healthcare, real estate and property management, industrial facilities and transportation, as the company advances a scaled and localized European growth strategy.

  2. Atom Robotic/阿童木机器人13

    Atom Robots Supports Tianjin University MBA Orientation and Receives Outstanding Partner Honor

    On September 12, Tianjin University's 2026 MBA and EMBA orientation event was held. Alumni company Atom Robots participated in supporting the event and was awarded the Outstanding Partner honor by the university. Company founders Liu Songtao and Song Tao are alumni of Tianjin University's Class of 2013 in Mechanical Automation. The company's business covers two major tracks: high-speed industrial robots and embodied intelligent robots. Its parallel robots have ranked first in domestic market share for five consecutive years since 2020, and in 2023 it became first among all brands.

Sep 13Sun
  1. Elite Robots/艾利特机器人27

    Elite Robots attends 2026 CIOE forum to discuss embodied intelligence deployment in optical communications

    Dr. Wu Min, CTO of Elite Robots, delivered a keynote speech titled "Optically Connected Intelligence: Large-Scale Deployment of Embodied Intelligent Robots in the Optical Communications Industry" at the Embodied Intelligent Robot Integrated Applications Forum of the 27th China International Optoelectronic Exposition, which opened on September 10.

Sep 11Fri
  1. UniX AI/优理奇 · YouTube18

    UniX AI at IFA 2026: What can humanoid robots actually do in the real world?

    At IFA 2026, UniX AI presented two humanoid robot service scenarios: whether a humanoid robot can autonomously restock a micro-fulfillment center, and whether it can prepare and tidy a hotel room for the next guest. The company says it is answering these questions through real-world deployment rather than demos alone, and met industry peers, customers, and partners in Berlin, calling this just the beginning of its European journey.

  2. 仙工智能49

    Seer Robotics releases coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy to advance EU CRA compliance

    Seer Robotics has released its Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) Policy v1.0, opening vulnerability reporting channels to security researchers, customers, and the public, covering products such as the SRC series robot controllers, in-house AMRs and mobile robots, charging stations, and scheduling systems.

  3. RealSense33

    How Tennant X4 ROVR and X6 ROVR autonomous floor-cleaning robots perceive their environment with RealSense depth cameras

    Tennant's X4 ROVR and X6 ROVR autonomous floor-cleaning robots use RealSense depth cameras as their core perception component, achieving millimeter-level depth accuracy and real-time 3D perception for obstacle detection, recognition of people and moving objects, environment mapping, and safe navigation.

Sep 10Thu
  2. TetraBOT/天创机器人52

    Tianchuang Robotics signs with Jiangshan Zhilian Property; China's first RaaS fire control room duty robot project lands in Hexi

    On August 27, Tianchuang Robotics and Hexi Group's Jiangshan Zhilian Property signed a Party-building co-construction and strategic cooperation agreement, and the first nationwide RaaS service project under Tianchuang Robotics' "Million Robots on Duty Plan" landed in Hexi. Three projects—Danruo Garden, Qiaoke Plaza, and the Southern Municipal Complex—will take the lead in deploying T4-B fire control room duty robots, adopting a human-machine collaboration model of "T4-B robot + 1 certified person per shift" to handle full-process duty functions including 24-hour autonomous inspection, smoke and fire identification, alarm confirmation, false alarm filtering, and fire control host operation.

  3. Robotphoenix/翼菲科技33

    RoboTechnik appears at 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference, Li Xiangming shares paths for industrial robot breakthrough

    Li Xiangming, general manager of RoboTechnik's Embodied Intelligence Business Unit, gave a keynote titled "How Industrial Robots Can Break Through in the AI Era" at the 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference held in Liaoning, proposing four breakthrough paths: reliability, ease of use, full-category plus embodied intelligence, and going global.

  4. TetraBOT/天创机器人23

    Tianchuang Robot Wins China Securities Journal "2025 New Quality Enterprise Golden Bull Award"

    Tianchuang Robot recently won the artificial intelligence category of the China Securities Journal's "2025 New Quality Enterprise Golden Bull Award." In August, the company released its first general industrial embodied intelligence fusion model for pan-industrial operations and maintenance and emergency safety rescue scenarios, based on trusted security policies; its paper on the multimodal safety evaluation dataset InspecSafe, jointly researched with Tsinghua University, DAMO Academy, and Southeast University, was accepted by Scientific Data. The company is focusing on building a RaaS (Robot as a Service) business model.

  5. TetraBOT/天创机器人53

    Tianchuang Robotics and Daimon Robotics sign 100-million-yuan strategic cooperation framework agreement

    Nanjing Tianchuang Intelligent and Daimon Robotics have formed a strategic partnership and signed a 100-million-yuan cooperation framework agreement to jointly upgrade next-generation embodied intelligent robots for special scenarios including firefighting, national defense, power grids, mining, and explosion-proof chemical applications. The two parties will establish a joint R&D team for tactile intelligence in special robots, closing the loop from tactile hardware supply, multimodal data collection, tactile model training, and full-robot adaptation and optimization to real-world scenario testing and validation and large-scale industrialization.

  6. 豪鹏科技30

    Highpower Technology invests again, continues to increase investment in Zhishen Technology

    Highpower Technology recently participated again in a new funding round for Zhishen Technology, increasing its capital investment on top of its previous strategic investment; the two sides' cooperation will extend to product definition, joint technology research, and scenario validation. Highpower Technology is already a core battery system supplier to leading robotics companies such as AgiBot, Qiyuan, UBTECH, Disney, and Yunji. Zhishen Technology focuses on the R&D and industrialization of quadruped robots, humanoid robots, and related intelligent equipment, with products aimed at scenarios including security inspection, power operation and maintenance, firefighting and emergency response, scientific research and education, and commercial services.

  7. Fudan Multimodal Embodied Intelligence18

    Fudan University Micro-Nano Manufacturing and Micro-Nano Robotics Team Wins 2026 "Zhong Yang-Style" Research Team Award

    The Fudan University micro-nano manufacturing and micro-nano robotics research team, led by Professor Mei Yongfeng, received the 2026 "Zhong Yang-Style" Research Team award. The team focuses on four areas: flexible thin-film materials, three-dimensional micro-nano assembly, optoelectronic detection, and micro-nano robotics. It has published more than 300 SCI papers in total, including more than 120 papers in top journals such as Nature and Science Robotics over the past five years, and has been granted more than 30 national invention patents. The team also works with Zhongshan Hospital and Huashan Hospital to develop flexible electrodes and brain-computer interface systems, and has trained more than 70 master's and doctoral students.

  8. Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics15

    Central South University Party Secretary An Shi and delegation visit Harbin Institute of Technology's State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems

    On September 7, Central South University Party Secretary An Shi and a delegation visited Harbin Institute of Technology and held a discussion with President Han Jiecai on medical-engineering interdisciplinary cooperation. The two sides plan to deepen collaborative innovation and talent cultivation in fields such as smart healthcare, medical equipment, medical materials, and brain-computer interfaces. During the visit, the Central South University delegation conducted on-site research at the Harbin Institute of Technology Museum, the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, and laboratories affiliated with the Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, and matched cooperation needs.

  9. Skild AI79

    Skild AI annual recurring revenue tops $100 million, outlines deployment-first robotics strategy

    Skild AI announced that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has surpassed $100 million, of which $50 million was confirmed within 10 months of starting deployments. It has more than 60 paying customers, covering material handling, delivery, inspection, security, food service, and warehouse, factory, and data center scenarios; about 90% of revenue comes from manipulation tasks, with mobility accounting for 10% (of which AMR solutions account for 4%).

    Why it matters: Beyond the company's self-reported revenue milestone, it also offers concrete lessons on how deployment in turn shapes model research, which is useful for understanding the relationship between real-world deployment and research.

Sep 9Wed
  2. 小鹏机器人61

    XPeng Robotics production line begins operation; first high-order general-purpose humanoid robot completes automated final assembly and rolls off line

    XPeng Robotics' production line has officially begun operation, with the world's first high-order general-purpose humanoid robot completing automated final assembly and walking off the line autonomously. The line's core process automation rate exceeds 80%. The robot has 76 degrees of freedom across its body and 21 degrees of freedom per hand, is equipped with 3 Turing AI chips with 2,250 TOPS of effective computing power, and runs a physical AI large model deployed on-device, enabling it to autonomously complete complex work tasks without teleoperation.

    Why it matters: The production line's automation rate and key robot specifications were disclosed together, providing a basis for assessing the actual progress of humanoid robots from R&D prototyping toward mass production.

  3. Shenyang Institute of Automation CAS36

    National Robot Quality Inspection Center (Liaoning) passes CNAS laboratory accreditation and CMA qualification assessment

    From September 4 to 6, the National Robot Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Liaoning) passed a combined CNAS and CMA reassessment, scope expansion, and change review, covering both its main site in Shenyang, Liaoning, and its branch site in Nansha, Guangzhou. Experts confirmed the center's expanded capabilities in robotics, electromagnetic compatibility, electrical safety, environmental testing, software testing, and other fields, with more than 300 testing standards, and its technical capabilities further extended to AI large-model and embodied intelligence evaluation. The center is affiliated with the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is a national-level third-party robot testing and certification body.

  4. 君联资本62

    Legend Capital portfolio company UDI Robot lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (03231.HK)

    On September 9, UDI Robot (03231.HK), a commercial service robot company backed by Legend Capital, successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. According to a Frost & Sullivan report, based on 2025 revenue, UDI Robot is the third-largest supplier in China's commercial service robot products and solutions market, with a market share of 8.9%, and its business covers more than 20 countries and regions worldwide.

    Why it matters: The original article provides UDI Robot's market share, patent count, and technology framework, which can help readers assess the capitalization progress and competitive landscape of the commercial service robot sector.

Sep 8Tue
  1. 经纬创投18

    Matrix Partners China Selected Among Qimingpian's 66 Investment Institutions Worth Partnering With in the Brain-Computer Interface Sector

    Qimingpian recently released its "Innovative Pioneer Investment Institutions | 66 Investment Institutions Worth Partnering With in the Brain-Computer Interface Sector" list, and Matrix Partners China was selected, with representative projects including XinSheng Vision, HuaChao ShenKong, and Ningju Technology. The list was screened based on dimensions such as the number of brain-computer interface projects an institution has invested in previously, representative projects, continued follow-on investment, coverage of investment stages, and industrial resource synergy; multiple rounds of investment by the same institution in the same company are counted as only one project.

  2. 豪鹏科技32

    Strategic Restructuring of Highpower Technology: Breakthroughs Across AI Edge, AIDC, and Robotics

    Highpower Technology has completed a strategic restructuring, positioning itself in AI edge batteries plus solid-state. Interim revenue grew 15% and net profit rose 27% year on year; excluding share-based payment expenses, net profit grew 60%. Energy storage revenue grew 66% year on year, with the share of cells sold externally exceeding 70%. AIDC energy storage R&D began in 2025, advancing on both lithium and sodium battery lines and currently in the sample submission and certification stage. Robot batteries have entered the supply chains of AgiBot, Zhishen, and UBTECH, and the company expects related revenue of nearly 100 million yuan in 2026.

  3. XSTO 小神童创新23

    XSTO Shines at 2026 Japan Logistics Expo

    XSTO is showcasing a range of material-handling products at the 2026 Japan International Logistics Exhibition (LTT EXPO), which opened in Tokyo on September 8, including the Magic Block King Kong, an AI+ handling robot, an electric portable stair-climbing cart, and a motion-sensing logistics vehicle. The Magic Block King Kong uses a modular architecture to achieve multiple functions in one machine with on-demand quick swaps, covering scenarios such as flat ground, stair climbing, and loading and unloading; the AI+ handling robot and the electric portable stair-climbing cart target stair scenarios, while the motion-sensing logistics vehicle serves warehouse freight handling with motion-sensing control.

  4. 珞石机器人9

    ROKAE Robotics September Exhibition News | Going Global to Explore the New Future of the Physical AI Industry

    ROKAE Robotics announced that in September it will appear at multiple professional exhibitions in China and abroad, covering fields such as embodied intelligence, robotics, intelligent welding, humanoid robots, and core components, engaging on site with global customers, partners, and research institutions. The exhibitions will showcase its full-stack capabilities in robot bodies, joints, and core technologies of force control and motion control, jointly exploring opportunities for implementing physical AI and industrial embodied intelligence.

Sep 7Mon
  1. Boshi/博实股份25

    Heilongjiang's only entry | Boshi shares selected for the first batch of national emerging industry development demonstration base creation targets

    The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently published for public comment the preliminary list of the first batch of national emerging industry development demonstration base creation targets. Boshi shares was selected through procedures including application, recommendation, review, and expert evaluation, becoming the only enterprise from Heilongjiang Province to be selected. The list is in the demonstration enterprise category.

  2. 仙工智能11

    SEER Robotics Brings Embodied Intelligence Products to Pinghe School's Third RoboFest Robotics Technology Festival

    On September 5, Pinghe School's 30th anniversary celebration and the third RoboFest robotics technology festival kicked off, where SEER Robotics exhibited a quadruped robot driven by its Robot Brain and a Tower of Hanoi embodied intelligence demonstration in the "Intelligent Transformation" exhibition area.

  3. Pudu Robotics/普渡科技32

    Pudu Robotics Makes IFA Debut, Bringing Full Robot Lineup to Europe

    Pudu Robotics is exhibiting at IFA 2026 in Berlin for the first time, showcasing its full robot portfolio, which also marks the European debut of the PUDU D7 semi-humanoid robot. Visitors can see live demonstrations of the PUDU D7 alongside the PUDU D5, BellaBot Pro, PUDU CC1 Pro, PUDU MT1 Max, and PUDU T600, covering capabilities such as human-robot interaction, autonomous mobility, delivery, commercial cleaning, and industrial delivery.

  4. 仙工智能46

    SEER Robotics (06106.HK) Officially Included in Southbound Stock Connect

    The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges adjusted the Stock Connect list, and SEER Robotics (06106.HK) has been included as an eligible security for southbound trading starting September 7, 2026, allowing qualified mainland investors to buy and sell its shares through Stock Connect. SEER Robotics listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 24, 2026, and is a platform-type embodied intelligence robotics company centered on robot operating system (Robot Brain) technology. The company said the inclusion is expected to expand its mainland investor base and enhance share liquidity and market visibility, and that it will continue to deepen its work in core technologies such as robot operating systems.

  5. Pudu Robotics/普渡科技19

    Pudu Robotics' PUDU D7 Semi-Humanoid Robot Named IFA Innovation Award Honoree

    Pudu Robotics' PUDU D7 semi-humanoid intelligent robot was named an Honoree in the "Best in IFA Next & Emerging Technologies" category of the IFA Innovation Awards. The award recognizes the D7's ability to combine mobile navigation, dexterous manipulation, and intelligent sensing to perform a variety of tasks in real-world industrial and commercial environments.

  6. 北京智在无界科技有限公司36

    BeingBeyond and PaXini AI announce comprehensive partnership

    BeingBeyond and PaXini AI have signed a cooperation agreement, making BeingBeyond an official PaXini Inside ecosystem partner. The two parties will collaborate in depth on embodied foundation model R&D, POC validation for deployment scenarios, and co-building embodied data standards. PaXini will provide key multimodal data for Being-H0.8, the implicit tactile world-action model BeingBeyond released on July 28; the model was pretrained on over 500,000 hours of human video data.

  7. NEURA Robotics56

    NEURA Robotics and SECO Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Compute Modules for the 4NE1 Humanoid Robot

    NEURA Robotics and SECO S.p.A. announced a strategic partnership on September 7, 2026, under which SECO will design, engineer, and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA's cognitive robots, including the 4NE1 humanoid robot; the modules integrate Qualcomm Dragonwing processors.

Sep 6Sun
  1. 上纬启元31

    Qiyuan Robotics Makes IFA 2026 Debut, Qiyuan T1 and Q1 Win Two Innovation Awards

    Qiyuan Robotics made its first appearance at IFA 2026. The transformable personal robot Qiyuan T1 won an IFA Innovation Achievement Award, and the personal robot Qiyuan Q1 received an IFA Innovation Honor Award. The booth also displayed three IFA custom editions of the Qiyuan Q1, including a custom model inspired by the lunar explorer from the 3D-printing maker studio Chengdou Zaowu. Its overseas-related representative said at the IFA forum that personal robots can begin with interactive companionship, autonomous learning, and creative making, then expand to more practical physical assistance capabilities.

Sep 4Fri
  1. 普华资本56

    Weifen Zhifei Completes Several Hundred Million Yuan Series A2 Financing, Led by Puhua Capital

    Weifen Zhifei (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. has completed a Series A2 financing round of several hundred million yuan, led by Puhua Capital, with participation from Honghui Fund, Five Source Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, BV Baidu Ventures, and others. The funds will be used for product R&D and technology iteration, talent recruitment, and expansion of industry application scenarios.

  2. 卧安机器人46

    Greater Bay Area's First JUBAOPEN Officially Opens, OneRobotics Builds an Embodied Intelligence Industry Acceleration Platform

    On September 1, JUBAOPEN, the Greater Bay Area's first embodied intelligence innovation community, officially opened at Kexing Science Park in Qianhai, Shenzhen. It is led by OneRobotics. The community covers a total area of 6,039 square meters and can run up to 100 teleoperation and UMI data collection terminals in parallel, covering 50 to 100 types of task scenarios, using a "1+N" real-world setup. At the launch ceremony, five first-batch innovation projects, including Physen AI, signed to move in.

  3. Wandercraft53

    Wandercraft secures 12 Calvin-40 industrial humanoid robot customers

    Wandercraft announced that its Calvin-40 industrial humanoid robot has secured 12 major customers spanning the automotive, logistics, retail, healthcare, and defense sectors. The company first builds reliability on material-handling tasks such as tires, boxes, and parcels, then expands to panels and carts, and is developing finer operations such as sorting; its partnership with Renault Group plans to deploy 350 humanoid robots over the next 18 months.

Sep 3Thu
  1. Figure AI74

    Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Agreement to Deploy Up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform GPUs

    Figure announced a strategic partnership with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, with initial deployment targeted to begin in Barstow, Texas, in the second half of 2027, an initial compute commitment of $3.5 billion and intent to expand to more than $6 billion.

    Why it matters: The original text provides first-hand information such as the scale of the partnership, the amounts, and the deployment timeline, which readers can use to understand Figure's specific arrangements for acquiring compute to train Helix.

  2. Hcfa/禾川科技21

    Hechuan Technology Completes New Product Launch and National Channel Empowerment Tour

    In August, Hechuan Technology completed its "Gather Momentum, Empower the New Journey" new product launch and national channel empowerment tour, covering six stops across four major regions: South, Southeast, East, and North. The events showcased a product matrix spanning control, motion control, inverters, touch screens, industrial robots, direct drive, linear transmission, and vision products, and presented channel support policies alongside case studies from industries including photovoltaics, lithium batteries, machine tools, textiles, packaging, 3C electronics, and semiconductors.

  3. Shenyang Institute of Automation CAS21

    Hunnan District delegation visits Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS, for working consultation

    On September 1, Yan Zhanfeng, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Hunnan District Party Committee, led a 10-person delegation from Hunnan District to visit the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for a working consultation with Director Li Shuo, Party Secretary Sun Lei, and others. The two sides exchanged views on the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, talent and education support, and the construction of Shenyang Science and Technology City. Hunnan District pledged to use a designated-responsibility mechanism to address the institute's development needs one by one, and the institute said it will continue to strengthen cooperation on joint talent cultivation, technological breakthroughs, and the application of research results.

  4. ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab38

    euROBIN final event showcases 15 AI robots at the European Parliament in Brussels

    The euROBIN project's final event was held in Brussels, where 15 AI robots joined European researchers, industry, and policymakers to showcase Europe's robotics strength and discuss how to turn research leadership into global industrial competitiveness. The ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab team, as a project member, presented its robot Transformer.