Shao Lin, founder of RoboScience, spoke at the 2026 World Physical AI Conference and Unitree Partner Ecosystem Conference, presenting a cross-embodiment dexterous manipulation technology path from the ICRA 2025 Best Paper D(R,O) Grasp to the T(R,O) Grasp series and then to the FingerEye visuotactile framework.
On October 28, HongShan announced the launch of the 'ShanYu Venture Program' together with Unitree, focused on discovering and investing in early-stage startups in embodied intelligence, robotics applications, and related upstream and downstream key technologies. The program proposes an 'engineer plus investor' investment methodology, with Unitree providing industry perspective and engineering guidance and HongShan providing capital support and post-investment services, with a focus on young teams. Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing said this is a deep collaboration and natural extension of the two sides' cooperation built on a high degree of mutual trust.
Linear Capital released its quarterly Portfolio review, announcing the financing and product progress of its portfolio companies over the past quarter. Wujie Dynamics completed an angel round of over $200 million, and its MWA™ embodied general-purpose brain topped the global RoboCasa GR1 TableTop leaderboard. Shenpu Intelligence received a Pre-A round of several hundred million yuan led by Didi, and within half a year of its launch, the Diguo Robotics Xuri S600 has reached cooperation with more than 20 leading customers.
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.