San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics announced the completion of a $600 million Series C funding round, co-led by Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG and Emergence Capital, with participation from Temasek, Nvidia, Bessemer and others. The post-money valuation is $4.1 billion.
The robotics sector continued to climb, with Unitree Robotics up over 10%, while Shenhao Technology, Kaierda, Topstar, Juneng Co., and Jingye Intelligent also rose.
Zeng Guosong, Secretary-General of the International SparkLink Alliance, said after the release of the SparkLink 3.0 standard that SparkLink 3.0 will develop around AI, with the goal of becoming the technical infrastructure of the AI intelligence era. The alliance has established an embodied intelligence working group and plans to use SparkLink modules to reduce cabling in robot joints. Its standard specifies 99.999% reliability and is divided into four communication modes: SLE, SLB, SLP, and SLZ. The alliance currently has nearly 1,260 member units, more than 100 of which are international members, and in April next year it will add an industry promotion group for the smart energy sector.
Bolzoni Group last week at AGV Expo 2026 in Piacenza, Italy, highlighted two electric attachments for AGV automation applications: an AGV-specific electric mast equipped with an electric side-shift fork positioner, and an AGV-specific electric rotating carton clamp for handling cartons and packaged goods.
Hefei Banyitong (MiMA) will exhibit its smart warehousing solutions at CeMAT ASIA 2026, with surprises planned at the booth. Founded in 1994, the company is the sole nationwide designer and manufacturer of MIMA-brand forklifts, offering application solutions from 500 kg to 100,000 kg, with products spanning 12 major categories and more than 50 varieties, including AGVs and unmanned aisle stackers.
IMS Gear (Taicang) Co., Ltd. will present its modular standard planetary gearbox technology solution at the 2026 Asia International Logistics Technology and Transport Systems Exhibition (CeMAT Asia 2026), held from November 3 to November 6 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The planetary gearbox has been in production since 1970 and is used in automotive and industrial applications such as AGV drive wheels, forklift power steering systems, and logistics conveying. Visitors can scan a QR code to register for free admission.
Liandong Attachments Company held its 2026 smart attachment series product launch on October 23, releasing and displaying 8 smart attachment products on site, with more than 70 representatives of smart logistics customers, OEMs, and partners in attendance. The event introduced the company's hydraulic attachment heritage and new electric-drive smart products, and guests also toured the sales showroom and the full production process.
Damon Technology will hold the GPC 2026 Global Partner Conference on November 6-7 at its Damon Science and Innovation headquarters in Huzhou. Live on-site demonstrations will show four warehouse workstation solutions validated through internal POC, including intelligent parcel feeding for cross-belt sorters, feeding for the Flying Shuttle intelligent sorting robot, production line-side handling, and warehouse depalletizing and palletizing handling, with humanoid robots working in coordination with sorting hosts, conveyors, and shelf pallets.
On October 22, MassRobotics led eight robotics startups on a visit to Analog Devices' Emerging Tech Hub in San Jose, covering areas such as tactile sensing, smart materials, and autonomy.
At the 23rd China (Yuhuan) Machine Tool Exhibition, which opened on October 23, RoboCT exhibited its Python series SCARA robots, the Hogene humanoid robot, a wheeled humanoid robot chassis, and its mobile robot product line. At the booth, the Python series SCARA robots gave a high-speed, high-precision operation demonstration, and the Hogene humanoid robot demonstrated meter installation on site. The team spoke with attending customers about scenarios such as machine tool loading and unloading and in-plant logistics handling.
RoboTechnik and Three-Body Universe, the exclusive global copyright holder and operator of the Three-Body IP, have officially announced a partnership, with their co-branded video completing its global premiere on October 24 at the "2026 Three-Body Day · Dehydration and Soaking Carnival" at Beijing's 798 Art District. Set in the year 2224 AD at a Mars base within the Three-Body timeline, the video features RoboTechnik's delta robots, SCARA robots, mobile robots, wafer-handling robots, and humanoid robots taking part in spacesuit production, vegetable cultivation, structural assembly, and equipment transport. The two parties will continue to advance cooperation in joint robot product development, offline experience spaces, and co-branded products.
ROS Meetup NYC will be held this Thursday (October 29) at the Google office on Tenth Avenue in New York, for the New York ROS developer community, with food and guest talks.
Intel and SAP have collaborated to connect enterprise IT systems with the operational technology that controls physical devices, and demonstrated physical AI automating warehouse material handling through a proof of concept (PoC). In this PoC, business requests from SAP EWM are sent to autonomous robots equipped with Intel edge AI software and hardware; the robots transport materials and report task status back, forming a closed loop between enterprise workflows and physical execution. The demonstration reduced transport distances and repetitive manual handling.
Toyota is commercializing two decades of robotics R&D, planning to deploy 400,000 robots backed by $6.4 billion a year in investment for factory automation, with a dedicated team coordinated by its chief production officer. In April this year Toyota showcased Cue7, an AI-equipped humanoid robot; in July Walden Robotics, spun off from Toyota's AI robotics business, completed a $300 million funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion, and its general-purpose robots are already deployed at Toyota's North American factories.
Hunan's intelligent robotics industry reached nearly 50 billion yuan in scale in 2025, with more than 300 related enterprises clustered in the province. The provincial intelligent robotics industry development and matchmaking cooperation conference was held on September 20 at the Changsha International Conference Center, with a special exhibition held alongside it. Hunan advocates using real operating conditions in construction machinery, rail transit, mining and power to drive technological breakthroughs, following a "specialized first, general-purpose later" path, and relying on platforms such as Zoomlion's more than 100 training workstations to close the loop from training and testing to pilot production and application. Meihu Intelligent Manufacturing has expanded from automotive oil pumps to robot joint modules, forming an annual capacity of 50,000 sets.
AI company HUMXN has launched a repair cost subsidy program in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami, where residents allow technicians to wear recording devices to capture plumbing, electrical, HVAC, duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning work; the footage is used to train AI and robotic systems. Participating technicians use wearable capture devices to record site inspections, tool selection, and troubleshooting, and the processed data is licensed to AI and robotics research organizations. The company says identifying information in the footage is blurred or removed, and services are scheduled only after resident consent.
AgiBot has launched the safety-certified heavy-duty embodied robot Genie G2 Max, targeting industrial scenarios such as depalletizing and palletizing, material transfer, and production line feeding. It has a 20kg single-arm payload, a 40kg dual-arm rated payload, a 50kg peak payload, and arm repeat positioning accuracy of ≤±0.5mm. The product is already running on multiple production lines, with a task success rate above 99% in e-commerce warehousing scenarios, depalletizing 80 boxes and palletizing 75 boxes per hour. In July this year at WAIC, JD Logistics and AgiBot jointly launched the product and announced it would be deployed in JD Logistics' ZhiLang warehouse.
Counterpoint Research's Global Humanoid Robot Tracker report forecasts that cumulative global shipments of humanoid robot AI accelerators will exceed 1 million units by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 144% from 2026 to 2030.
Chery will hold its 2026 Global Innovation Conference in Wuhu on October 20, unveiling the first large model specific to the automotive industry and giving the world premiere of Mobao, Moja's first consumer-grade family companion humanoid robot, while opening global pre-orders. The conference will also showcase an automotive-grade chip designed for physical AI world models. Moja robots are already routinely on duty in more than 100 scenarios, including education and healthcare.
At a State Council Information Office press conference, it was announced that in the first half of this year China's complete humanoid robot products exceeded 400 models and output surpassed 40,000 units, with full-year output expected to top 100,000 units. MIIT said it is working on key technologies such as motion control, simulation, and tactile sensing, and promoting validation and deployment of products in more than 300 key scenarios including warehousing and logistics, food and retail, and home services. An IDC report shows that exploration of industrial and logistics applications is accelerating, while small humanoid robots for individual consumers have appeared in the Chinese market.
AgiBot has released the safety-certified heavy-duty embodied industrial robot Genie G2 Max, featuring a 20 kg single-arm payload and 40 kg dual-arm payload, with dual-arm peak payload up to 50 kg and repeat positioning accuracy of ≤±0.5 mm, targeting depalletizing and palletizing, material transfer, and production line feeding.
BlackBerry CEO John Giamatteo said in a CNBC interview that robotics has become the fastest-growing segment of the QNX software division, and QNX's patent royalty backlog has surpassed $1.2 billion, growing by more than $250 million in two quarters. Nvidia has adopted QNX as the preferred platform for its Halos safety stack; QNX is currently deployed in more than 275 million vehicles worldwide and is certified to ISO 26262 ASIL-D. BlackBerry shares rose 142% in 2026, and its market capitalization recovered to about $5.4 billion.
According to the Financial Times, Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots, backed by $6.4 billion a year in factory automation investment, with a dedicated robotics team coordinated by its chief production officer. Walden Robotics, spun off from TRI, has completed a $300 million seed round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion; its wheeled-base, dual-arm robot has been performing production work at Toyota's North American factories since February.
ROBOTECH 2026 Intelligent Robot Expo opened on October 27 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an), with 180,000 square meters of exhibition space. It focuses on three scenarios—industrial, commercial service, and special-purpose robots—and is expected to draw 170,000 professional visitors and more than 3,600 exhibitors.
According to statistics from the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance, as of October 26, 2026, 14 acquisitions or mergers had occurred in the mobile robot sector, covering key technologies, complete machines, software systems, and mature businesses. The article groups these deals into three categories: filling technology gaps, entering new use cases, and completing the warehouse operation chain, and argues that industry competition is shifting from individual product capabilities to key control points within complete systems.
In an interview with Jiazi Guangnian, Force Infinite chief scientist Chen Jiayu judged that general large models such as GPT-6 Astra will completely eat up the task planning (Planner) portion, so the team will no longer continue investing in some high-level memory mechanism research and will instead focus on execution capabilities in the physical world.
From October 21 to 25, the 2026 AI Creators Carnival (ACC 2026) took place at Haidian Park. About 100 "entrepreneurship trainees" brought their ideas and demos to find users, and 21 of the 50 exhibiting companies came from Haidian. Products such as Galbot's embodied robots and ZHI XING SHEN's visuotactile dexterous hands moved out of display cases for the public to try. The event featured five themed tribes—foundation models, AIGC, agents, AI ecosystem, and globalization—and linked with the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center and Zhongguancun Inno Way.
On October 23, an embodied data 'Iron Triangle' seminar, guided by Suzhou International Science Park (SISPARK) and hosted by the Lianjie Innovation Embodied Intelligence Center, was held in Suzhou. It focused on three topics — 'models and data,' 'scenario deployment,' and 'Infra infrastructure' — and was held in closed-door format to foster dialogue between technology suppliers and scenario demanders. The first roundtable discussed balancing the scale and quality of pre-training data as real-machine data demand shifts from the tens of thousands of hours level to the hundreds of thousands of hours level and ego data moves toward the tens of millions of hours level; the other two sessions reviewed secondary-development companies' scenario deployment practices and the computing foundation for data collection, training and deployment.
As of September this year, more than 20 domestic robot body companies have cumulatively invested in over 100 projects externally, and AgiBot has invested in and incubated 15 early-stage supply chain companies. Using the example of Zibianliang Robotics investing on the same day in joint module maker Juxie Intelligent and tactile sensor maker Moxian Technology, the article analyzes that body manufacturers taking stakes in upstream suppliers is aimed at securing supply of core components that are not yet standardized. The article divides such investments into two types: AgiBot-style deep incubation and Zibianliang-style lightweight industrial follow-on investment, and points out that dispersed capital, procurement bias, and insufficient investment research capabilities are the main risks.
On October 26, 2026, Robot Industry Application held a closed-door embodied AI data workshop in Suzhou Industrial Park, with more than 20 frontline decision-makers from models, data, real-world deployment, and chip infrastructure participating. Data vendors believe demand for embodied data is far from saturated, but model vendors argued that startups cannot scale data indefinitely; those on the deployment side emphasized cost reduction, efficiency gains, and the logic of calculating returns, and discussed mass production and standardization of tactile electronic skin.
Anthropic officially filed for a Nasdaq IPO on October 26, with the ticker symbol set as "ANT"; first-half revenue was $16.3 billion and net loss was $80.7 billion. The prospectus discloses that its compute and infrastructure spending commitments with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft extend to 2036, including at least about $114.5 billion in spending to Google. On the same day, XPeng Group was approved for Guangzhou's intelligent connected vehicle application demonstration operation qualification, allowing it to conduct L4 Robotaxi demonstration operations across all of Guangzhou.
The WISE2026 Business King Conference will be held November 26–28 at the Tongming Lake Convention and Exhibition Center in Yizhuang, Beijing. Its industry matchmaking segment, "World Café," is now recruiting technology providers in AI applications and embodied intelligence to rotate table-to-table with vetted, real-scenario demand-side participants. The two previous matchmaking sessions drew more than 190 highly interested companies and 153 formal applications, completing over 100 matchmaking rounds. Registration is free, but procurement, pilots, or deals are not guaranteed.
MoSense, a company providing whole-body multimodal fusion tactile solutions, recently completed a hundred-million-yuan Angel+ funding round, led by CDH Investments and Oasis Capital, with participation from LimX Dynamics, Loongson Venture Capital, CAS Star, Huashan Capital, Pudong Venture Capital, and a leading domestic embodied AI manufacturer.
USV announced that it co-led Machenta's $40 million seed round with Creandum, as the company also emerged from stealth. Machenta says its robotics foundation model is trained entirely in simulation, with no real-world data, and can learn a task from a single demonstration without additional training, adapting when the environment changes.
Why it matters: USV, as co-lead investor, explains why Machenta's one-demonstration learning is worth betting on, giving readers insight into the technical claims behind the funding.
Hai Robotics has submitted a prospectus for a Hong Kong IPO. From 2023 to 2025, revenue posted a compound annual growth rate of 58.09%, and in 2025 the company's global ACR market share exceeded 30% by revenue and by shipment volume. As of the end of June 2026, cumulative losses since the company's founding totaled 5.226 billion yuan, with losses of 3.523 billion yuan over the three and a half years of the reporting period; period expenses fell from 114.7% to 62.3% of revenue. Over the same period, redeemable liabilities rose to 5.254 billion yuan; if the IPO does not proceed smoothly, equity redemption obligations could trigger liquidity pressure.
DoorDash is reportedly in talks to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion. If completed, the deal would combine restaurant, grocery, and convenience-store delivery into a larger order network, potentially increasing order volume for autonomous delivery robots. The main challenge for delivery robots is utilization: completing only a small number of deliveries per day makes it hard to cover equipment, maintenance, and operating costs. Grocery and convenience-store orders could help raise utilization outside restaurant delivery peaks.
Embotech and BMW announced that they have completed the movement of 1 million vehicles using autonomous driving technology at four plants in the UK and Germany, averaging about 3,500 moves per day with availability exceeding 99.5%. Their Automated Driving In-Plant solution places perception, including Hesai lidar, on the production line infrastructure side, so vehicles need no additional sensors, and it is paired with a deterministic safety architecture independently certified by TÜV SÜD.
After opening its offering on October 20, Micro Intelligence Manufacturing announced it will postpone its global offering and Main Board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with application monies to be refunded in full; Zhongjian Technology has decided to terminate its issuance of H shares and Main Board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Micro Intelligence Manufacturing's offering range was HK$16.63–21.46, with 37,275,800 H shares planned and a fundraising cap of about HK$800 million; Zhongjian Technology's revenue in the first half of 2026 was 701 million yuan, up 39.50% year on year, with a net loss attributable to shareholders of 7.6147 million yuan.
On October 26, Zhongke Huiling (CASBOT) announced the completion of an A++ funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, jointly funded by six institutions: Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, and Luning Investment. Founder Zhang Zhengtao plans to allocate 60% of the funds to embodied brain R&D and 30% to product mass-production and delivery.
Why it matters: Beyond the funding, the article provides measured cycle times and payback periods for shoe-making workstations as well as progress on the mine demonstration, which can be used to assess the economic model of vertical embodied-intelligence deployment.
MoSense Technology announced on October 26 the completion of a 100-million-yuan angel funding round, led by CDH Investments and Oasis Capital, with participation from LimX Dynamics, Loongson Venture Capital, CAS Star, Huashan Capital, Pudong Venture Capital, and a leading domestic embodied AI manufacturer, following earlier investments from Sequoia China, Gaorong Ventures, and AgiBot.